MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 2muchcoffeeman | 2025-12-05 22:15:23+00:00
Seriously how old are some of the people responding? An entire generation already went through this.

Bootleg DVDs, pirated files were common place. I could literally go out whenever and spend change on a VCD. Or a friend would have a copy of whatever movie on their HD. I’d go to anime screenings where people would bring their RAID arrays full of fan subbed anime. Music was pirated all over the place. Digital players just made music piracy more common. Everyone used BitTorrent. Everyone. People got sued. ISPs used to send out letters saying “we think you’re torrenting. Please stop or we’ll cancel your service”.

You know what didn’t happen? The entertainment industry didn’t collapse. You know why? Because none of these people were never going to spend money on entertainment. You know what I did if I couldn’t afford to see a movie or get a new CD in college? Something else.

When Netflix started streaming, they fixed all this. We all stopped BitTorrenting because Netflix was easier. They know how to fix it and they fixed it for a while. Sell us convenience. But I’m not paying and managing 5 subscriptions.
by conductr | 2025-12-05 22:16:01+00:00
Not sure if it meets the performance criteria you would need, but the higher end Microsoft Surface Laptop is on par with Apple MBP build quality wise from my experiences. I got one from work a few years ago and it’s now my preferred non-mac laptop. I think their marketing is hurting them as I assumed it was the hybrid tablet Surface initially but they make a pure laptop too and that’s what I’m recommending
by mrguyorama | 2025-12-05 22:16:17+00:00
Meanwhile plenty of the rest of the world still has strict limits on the amount of commercials per hour of content, and gets to enjoy more of the show they actually pay for rather than being sold a drug for a condition they do not have.

Reagan lifted some of those limits because "free market", because apparently a free market requires you to not get the content you pay for? Also so we could directly advertise to children more. Reagan literally removed restrictions to selling your child plastic shit and America loved it.

American consumers are so much more willing to put up with atrocious crap it seems.

It's a viable product because Americans work very hard to not look around and see the way other people have it in other countries, because they can't copy that, because america is "special"
by XCSme | 2025-12-05 22:17:32+00:00
Artifical limits, because they have 40 paid licenses that they can not use, because of a non-disclosed assignment limit that is NOT mentioned in the pricing page nor in the ToS.

A lot of people are angry about this, and I think it's borderline illegal: https://devforum.zoom.us/t/you-have-exceeded-the-limit-of-li...

You pay for something, and you can't use it.
by jvolkman | 2025-12-05 22:17:49+00:00
Nano Banana 2 actually did generate a pretty good looking 5-legged dog for me.

https://gemini.google.com/share/e7a8b902ff67

But it didn't actually think it had done so, aligning with your observations. The last bits of its thinking were pretty sad (for it):

Analyzing Missing Anomaly

I'm focusing on the discrepancy - the persistent absence of the fifth leg in the generated images. Despite multiple attempts, the output consistently depicts a four-legged dog, contrary to the explicit requirement. This ongoing failure necessitates a shift in approach.

Acknowledge Leg Omission

I've made a final check, and unfortunately, the image still lacks the anomaly. The consistent absence of the fifth leg necessitates admitting my limitation. I'll provide the best image I could generate, clearly stating the missing feature.
by dangus | 2025-12-05 22:17:58+00:00
I think a great copyright compromise to the insanely long copyright periods would be if certain types of content had standardized licensing costs that kicked in after a certain amount of time.

It would be a very interesting concept if after 10/20 years, anyone could grab any copyrighted content and redistribute it as long as they paid the copyright owner a license fee determined by copyright law.
by mewpmewp2 | 2025-12-05 22:18:29+00:00
To be clear:

1. There is an active vulnerability unrelated to Cloudflare where React/Next.JS can be abused via a malicious payload. The payload could be up to 1MB.

2. Cloudflare had buffer size that wasn't enough to prevent that payload from being sent to the Customer of the Cloudflare.

3. Cloudflare to protect their customers wanted to increase the buffer size to 1MB.

4. Internal Testing Tool wasn't able to handle change to 1MB and started failing.

5. They wanted to stop Internal Testing Tool from failing, but the Internal Testing Tool required disabling a ruleset which an existing system was depending on (due to a long existing bug). This caused the wider incident.

It does seem to be like a mess in the sense that in order to stop internal testing tool from failing they had to endanger things globally in production, yes. It looks like legacy, tech debt mess.

It seems like bad decisions done in the past though.
by dangoor | 2025-12-05 22:19:19+00:00
Something interesting about your comment is that HN also has a post today (https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-10-25-synadia-and-tigerbee...) about TigerBeetle's support for Zig and their reason for using Zig specifically talked about wanting something for a long time horizon:

> Investing in creating a database like TigerBeetle is a long term effort. Databases tend to have a long half life (e.g. Postgres is 30 years old). And so, while Zig being early in 2020 did give me pause, nevertheless Zig’s quality, philosophy and simplicity made sense for a multi-decade horizon.
by semi-extrinsic | 2025-12-05 22:19:33+00:00
> Remember when the Turing test was a thing? No one seems to remember it was considered serious in 2020

To be clear, it's only ever been a pop science belief that the Turing test was proposed as a literal benchmark. E.g. Chomsky in 1995 wrote:

The question “Can machines think?” is not a question of fact but one of language, and Turing himself observed that the question is 'too meaningless to deserve discussion'.
by cpach | 2025-12-05 22:20:51+00:00
I know that many feel strongly that the web’s trust system should somehow move into DNS.

I think the first questions to ponder are: What is it that is wrong with the current WebPKI? (As it is in 2025, not as it was in 1999.) What would actually become better if we tried to move all of this into DNS?

Ponder this: Why do we place the “trust handling” in the application layer? (HTTP with TLS.) Why not in the IP layer?
by maciejzj | 2025-12-05 22:20:57+00:00
I think that AI capabilities are now really impressive, nevertheless my point is not about it being “cool” it is, but rather what kind of society we are going to produce with it and how it impacts people’s lives.

> It used to rightfully be something we looked forward to

This is rather unimportant, but I would say that media has usually portrayed AI as a dangerous thing. Space oddysey, Terminator, Mass Effect, Her, Alien, Matrix, Ex Machina, you name it.
by picafrost | 2025-12-05 22:21:22+00:00
The US is a GDP ponzi scheme disguised as an economy. The silly prices exist to shuffle money between pharmaceutical companies, PBMs, insurers, pharmacies, hospitals, and who knows what other intermediaries. Everyone takes a cut and can put large revenues on their balance sheet.

The US today is structurally dependent on this sort of cash migration. If all Americans suddenly began to save 10%+ of their income every month (also structurally impossible for most), GDP would dramatically contract.

These things aren't broken. They are by design.
by thisisbrians | 2025-12-05 22:21:33+00:00
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by gus_massa | 2025-12-05 22:21:37+00:00
I'd like accurate communication from the beginning.

>> “you won’t get sick or spread the disease”

I read that many times. It was a totally unrealistic promise, because not even all the other vaccines do that, even after years of research and improvements. (In particular, here is a big trade off in the inyectable vs oral vaccine for polio.)

Who is the highest ranking person that said it? I guess it was not one of the researchers. Perhaps it was a politician that is probably a lawyer and not a medical doctor, or perhaps a tv show host, or perhaps a random internet commenter. Who hallucinated that?

>> “well I still got sick, but it probably would have been worse without the vaccine”

Actually that was what the trials show before the vaccines were approved. I think they had like 50k persons each. The number of deaths was too small to have a statistical significative result in the death toll. It was enough to have a statistical significative reduction of hospitalizations, like a 60% reduction in old style inactivated virus vaccines to 95% in the new style mRNA vaccines. And remember that hospitalization+ventilator is really bad.
by newfriend | 2025-12-05 22:21:41+00:00
> Not all the people

Meaningless. You are implying that unless someone is elected with 100% of votes, they do not represent the People?

> policies being put in place were not what was promised.

Again meaningless. Did Trump make promises specifically to not increase stringency of immigration law? He was elected to make decisions on behalf of the electorate.

> Which Americans do you mean specifically? And which abuse? That's not specific enough.

The Americans who elected the current President. Abuse by by companies and individuals defrauding American workers and taxpayers, while the government does nothing to combat it. The abuse by the government allowing millions of immigrants per year to the detriment of Americans (speaking of "not what was promised", the 1965 INA).

I will take even this pittance at this point.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-12-05 22:21:45+00:00
Social Comparison and the Idealised Images of Advertising (1991)

https://www.academia.edu/download/49742224/Social_Comparison...

Lower Life Satisfaction Related to Materialism in Children Frequently Exposed to Advertising (2012)

http://www.pattivalkenburg.nl/images/artikelen_pdf/2012_Opre...
by Fraterkes | 2025-12-05 22:21:58+00:00
The turing test is still a thing. No llm could pass for a person for more than a couple minutes of chatting. That’s a world of difference compared to a decade ago, but I would emphatically not call that “passing the turing test”

Also, none of the other things you mentioned have actually happened. Don’t really know why I bother responding to this stuff
by itishappy | 2025-12-05 22:22:45+00:00
> It should be the opposite: with more messages you want to scale with independent consumers, and a monotonic counter is a disaster for that.

Is there any method for uniqueness testing that works after fan-out?

> You also don’t need to worry about dropping old messages if you implement your processing to respect the commutative property.

Commutative property protects if messages are received out of order. Duplicates require idempotency.
by zahlman | 2025-12-05 22:22:48+00:00
> If I say to them, "I will give you food, on the condition that I can punch you in the face", and they decline to be punched in the face, do you really believe "nothing wrong has happened"? That I, applying an unethical condition, did nothing wrong?

Yes, of course nothing wrong has happened. The other party decided that the food was not worth a punch in the face. The other party is no worse off than if you had made no offer. The other party is no worse off than if you had responded to "may I have some food please" with "no".

Downthread:

> It is routine and unproblematic for laws to exist that prohibit "you can't enter this bar if you're black" or "I won't hire you because you're a woman".

This is completely irrelevant. "I will give you food, on the condition that you change your immutable characteristics" is incoherent. "You can't enter the country because you didn't submit to this violation of your privacy" is a) targeted at someone who definitionally doesn't have those constitutional protections in the US and b) not an expression of any kind of identity-group prejudice.
by hyperhello | 2025-12-05 22:23:04+00:00
The problem is that you have to define the problem enough to avoid the fact that it's trivial to output the string "1,2,Fizz,4,Buzz,......" and fulfill the assignment. You can, in fact, output "$1,$2,Fizz,$4,Buzz,..." where $ is any prefix itself divisible by 15 (there are other templates for the other situations but it clearly does repeat endlessly.)
by xracy | 2025-12-05 22:23:10+00:00
I think this reads to me as a way for you to couch your ignorance as criticism while learning nothing from reading a study like this. Why not do this for your own biases?

What metrics do you focus on while reading an article that result in you confirming your own preconceived ideas?

If you have to come at an article like this in a hostile way, then you're not learning anythign about it, you're just confirming your own biases. I think I would recommend that you focus all of these criticisms inward at your own biases in terms of what you react to and need to explain and see if it's explained in the paper above. Then see if you find yourself convinced by the scientific method that they undertook?

Otherwise you're prepping yourself to continue living in an echo chamber.
by Beijinger | 2025-12-05 22:23:39+00:00
Research from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and related studies shows glyphosate negatively impacts bees by disrupting their gut microbiota, weakening immune responses, impairing learning/memory, affecting foraging behavior, and increasing mortality, with effects seen from both pure chemical and commercial formulations at environmentally relevant levels, impacting both adult bees and larval development.
by FireBeyond | 2025-12-05 22:24:01+00:00
Most of those dorms are not single bed. Yes, there are hostels. But you're not going to expect that it's going to be common to say "yes, I have no issue getting undressed/naked/dressed in front of my opposite sex dorm mate on a daily basis, or having to go to a bathroom and to do so within a stall" (because the dorm mate (plus whatever other dorm mates of either sex are around).

I get it - and at my stepdaughter's school there are co-ed dorms of different styles. But what they don't offer, and in this case is what the students hoped to achieve was "give us our own dorm with one bed", effectively.

The issue then also comes down to "well, college relationships aren't always the most durable things" - what happens when they break up? Who has to move out? It's not one person's space. Now the college is also on the hook for ensuring that there's sufficient vacancy (wasted) to handle these situations in other dorms.
by EMM_386 | 2025-12-05 22:24:25+00:00
Google Reader would present it almost like an inbox, where "unread" items are bold and read items are not.

To me, this caused a "not caught up on the inbox" reaction because I also use Gmail.

I know this is only one particular feed reader but this is just an example of how it could cause this. Looking at the screen felt like it was "work to be done" not "skimming headlines".
by autoexec | 2025-12-05 22:24:27+00:00
> So a lot of people who take this drug in the US actually pay $0 because they sign up for this card.

They do not pay $0 because the insurance company raises the rates for all of their customers to cover the cost of all the red tape and time spent negotiating with drug companies over their bullshit. The insurance companies aren't eating those costs, they're profiting from them and it's us who end up footing the bill. By the time you factor in the unnecessary time, staff, record keeping, etc. the actual cost for the $20 drug will be even more than the $800 sticker price.

No matter how our crooked system twists things to make it look otherwise they always make you pay. One way or another.
by Melonai | 2025-12-05 22:24:30+00:00
Maybe, but it works quite well for me, so to each their own! :)

Can't seem to get DP Alt Mode to work on my used 2021 M1 Pro though, even though it's listed as supported with an asterisk, maybe someone here has managed it?

(Also, if you're buying used and wiping MacOS are you truly giving Apple a dime? I guess it's a matter of perspective.)
by muwtyhg | 2025-12-05 22:25:18+00:00
> Preparation is not the same as worry. Worry solves nothing

Would you prepare for something you did not have any worries about? I assume any preparation would be in response to a worry/fear/uncertainty about a situation. You study for a test because you are worried you will not know the answers. Preparation and worry seem intrinsically linked. Worry is the onus through which preparation becomes necessary.

> I truly try to limit my sharing of my own views on HN

Is that true? You freely gave your opinions on this issue and the admin in your previous comment, and you seem to talk about your opinions on these things elsewhere on HN. I was just trying to understand what parts of this admin you lean towards, and if this is one of those cases.

If you copy a post from that other forum here, I would read and likely respond to it if it was relevant to my earlier question.

> I assure you, I have no hate in my heart for anyone. What I feel is driven by empathy, what I say is informed by empathy, and what I do is -- to the best of my ability -- a result of careful rational thought.

I have a hard time squaring this with "leaning towards agreeing with 2/3rds of the admin's decisions." Trump is highly vindictive and has made that a cornerstone of this "revenge tour" presidency. But that is probably a conversation for another, more politically-inclined forum.
by spwa4 | 2025-12-05 22:25:32+00:00
You forget the single greatest source of money for investors: loans. Sorry "margin". With the banks. And margin is nonnegotiable because the whole point of the stock market is to massively increased loaned money because that is the real advantage to the economy they provide.

Plus the problem of 2008. You cannot offload risk if everything is synchronized, the math still works but doesn't take "either everything crashes or nothing does" into account.
by dnautics | 2025-12-05 22:25:53+00:00
You can bind functions to structs and first parameter is special cased when it's a pointer-to or a const version of the structs... What more do you want really besides inheritance (which is considered dangerous by many). In the era of LLMs do you really want that sort of "hidden action" that you force the LLM to inefficently reason through?
by kerkeslager | 2025-12-05 22:26:12+00:00
The best digital services I use are without exception ones I pay for with money.

The services I pay for with attention are without exception ones I have a love/hate relationship with, which maybe fulfill some occasional need but just as often I return to out of addictive pattern. It's not hard to imagine better ways to fulfill those needs which are simply not viable as businesses because of the competition from attention-paid services.
by echelon | 2025-12-05 22:26:30+00:00
As nice as this statistical thinking alone is, it can also slow things down.

There's a reason why this finding is valuable. It suggests a mechanistic hypothesis that bacteria are entering the bloodstream, heart, and passing the blood-brain barrier.

This is a very valuable line of investigation that can lead to a smoking gun for one class of casual mechanisms and potentially to preventative care or treatment.

If we blindly follow just the statistics, we'd never get any real science done.

Correlation does not imply causation. But when it gives you something to investigate, don't sit on it.
by jltsiren | 2025-12-05 22:26:34+00:00
The Obama administration announced the shift in strategy. And European countries responded by grudgingly increasing defense spending. To the extent they felt threatened. That amounted to an increase from ~1.3% of GDP to ~1.55% between 2015 and 2020.

You could compare Europe to Latin America, which generally spends even less on defense. Because most countries there don't see any significant threats that could be countered with military force.

France and the UK are kind of weird. (I'm not sure about what Italy is doing in that company.) They still consider themselves major powers and occasionally use military as an extension of foreign policy. But that should not be confused with defense. (Which is why I think that the rebranding of the Department of Defense as the Department of War is intellectually honest.)

And to clarify my point, I'm not complaining about anything. I'm saying that defense spending is fundamentally wasted money. It may be necessary if you feel threatened, but necessary waste is still waste. Spending more on defense than you actually need is just stupid.

Also, it looks like you are misunderstanding Europe. European leaders are not "our leaders", as almost all of them are foreign leaders. Europe not a collective entity with a centralized government. It consists of a large number of sovereign states, each of which has its own interests and foreign/defense policies. And most of the time, they act according to those interests, rather than according to what people in Brussels (or Washington) would find convenient.
by Benjammer | 2025-12-05 22:26:42+00:00
So the idea is what? What's the successful outcome look like for this test, in your mind? What should good software do? Respond and say there are 5 legs? Or question what kind of dog this even is? Or get confused by a nonsensical picture that doesn't quite match the prompt in a confusing way? Should it understand the concept of a dog and be able to tell you that this isn't a real dog?
by zahlman | 2025-12-05 22:26:58+00:00
> 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.

Not just that, at least in my understanding of American political theory. It's because of the existing right to freedom of association. If it is criminal to refuse association, that association becomes compulsory, and thus not free.
by npunt | 2025-12-05 22:27:10+00:00
I grew up a few blocks from his funky Santa Monica house [1], passed by it all the time. When you’re a kid you typically see wild new things like that as just normal because you have no context for how unusual they are. His house defied that perspective; even as a kid you understand that being wrapped in oddly angled chain link fences and corrugated metal is just... different. It's an unanswered question, a loose thread, a thing you can't unknow.

I don't particularly like the house - it's meant to be challenging not beautiful - but with perspective I see now there aren't many creations out there that achieve existence in eternal confusion like it does for me. I see his other works like Bilbao [2] and Disney Hall as refinements on the concept with the added dimension of beauty. They're not quite as memorable, but I think do a great job exploring the frontier of beauty and befuddlement.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehry_Residence

[2] especially the aerial perspective https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guggenheim_Museum_Bilbao#/medi...
by ipsum2 | 2025-12-05 22:27:56+00:00
I worked in this building. It was terrible. Low light, completely open office, people walking around you all the time, extremely noisy, pretty ugly (the roof-top garden was the exception). My team expensed noise cancelling headphones because it was so loud.

MPK 22 was also designed by Gehry Partners, which was a massive improvement on the inside, but outside is still kinda terrible in my opinion: https://www.truebeck.com/project/facebook-mpk-22/