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by _dain_ | 2025-12-05 20:25:58+00:00
is this a regional/country thing? I'm 30 and I never got chickenpox vaxx, and I never heard of anyone getting such a thing growing up. but I also never heard of anyone getting chickenpox either when I was a kid. it just wasn't a thing? I only knew about it from american cartoons.

not an antivaxx community, people got MMR and HPV and tetanus vaxx. this was normalworld suburban britain. I didn't even know there was a chickenpox vaxx until now.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-12-05 20:26:05+00:00
Well

It is the first model to get partial-credit on an LLM image test I have. Which is counting the legs of a dog. Specifically, a dog with 5 legs. This is a wild test, because LLMs get really pushy and insistent that the dog only has 4 legs.

In fact GPT5 wrote an edge detection script to see where "golden dog feet" met "bright green grass" to prove to me that there were only 4 legs. The script found 5, and GPT-5 then said it was a bug, and adjusted the script sensitivity so it only located 4, lol.

Anyway, Gemini 3, while still being unable to count the legs first try, did identify "male anatomy" (it's own words) also visible in the picture. The 5th leg was approximately where you could expect a well endowed dog to have a "5th leg".

That aside though, I still wouldn't call it particularly impressive.

As a note, Meta's image slicer correctly highlighted all 5 legs without a hitch. Maybe not quite a transformer, but interesting that it could properly interpret "dog leg" and ID them. Also the dog with many legs (I have a few of them) all had there extra legs added by nano-banana.
by 9rx | 2025-12-05 20:26:08+00:00
Most seem to agree that NeXTSTEP/macOS/iOS wouldn't have succeeded without Objective-C. So much of the functionality that made it stand out was predicated on Objective-C's somewhat unique programming model.

Of course, it's all just 1s and 0s at the end of the day. You can ultimately accomplish the same in any language. But the design of the language does shape the way developers end up thinking about the problems. If NeXT had used, say, C++ instead, it is unlikely that the people involved would have ever come to recognize the same possibilities.
by hurril | 2025-12-05 20:26:13+00:00
You have a good point there, that is better. But it is still, well honestly, wrong. Two orders ordered at different times are just not the same order, and using a typeclass approach to say that they most definitely are is going to bite you in the back seat.

PartialEq and Eq for PizzaDetails is good. If there is a business function that computes whether or not someone orders the same thing, then that should start by projecting the details.
by Aurornis | 2025-12-05 20:26:21+00:00
> If Apple would make some drivers, even just for Windows, I bet they'd sell more macs.

The incremental bump in sales would be very small.

Even when Apple did provide bootcamp drivers to run Windows on old laptops, very few people used it as their daily driver for a Windows computer. I'm sure Apple has a better estimate of the market for people who bought Macs to use with alternative OSes back when they supported it, but they've calculated that it's not worth the effort.
by xp84 | 2025-12-05 20:26:28+00:00
Disney Channel in the 90s didn't have any ads. And they would show whole Disney movies uninterrupted by anything. For this reason it was a paid add-on to your cable package though, like HBO -- never included in the basic cable package.

In the '00s they still had no real ads, only promo spots for mostly other Disney shows on the channel, and the occasional tie-in with some other Disney property. I think today they have some normal ads but I'm not sure.
by pjmlp | 2025-12-05 20:26:30+00:00
By the way Apple was going on the late 1990's, Xerox would have sold their stocks by then.

My graduation thesis was porting a NeXTSTEP visualisation framework into Windows, because my supervisor wanted to get rid of his Cube.

It might seem great now, but in those days, Apple and NeXT future wasn't looking rosy.
by idatum | 2025-12-05 20:26:39+00:00
Or OpenBSD, in my case a USG-3P. I would have otherwise tossed it but now it's a nice OpenBSD switch.

OpenBSD 7.7 (GENERIC) #339: Sun Apr 13 17:52:27 MDT 2025 deraadt@octeon.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/octeon/compile/GENERIC real mem = 536870912 (512MB) avail mem = 521142272 (497MB)

Only complaint I have with Unifi is so-so IPv6 support. I'd love to see a NAT64/DNS64 option configurable in their UI.
by cb321 | 2025-12-05 20:26:58+00:00
I think the example was chosen only for familiarity and is otherwise not great. Though it was the familiarity itself that probably helped you to so easily criticize it. So, what do I know? :-)

FWIW, the "catenation operator" in the Nim stdlib is ampersand `&`, not `+` which actually makes it better than most PLangs at visually disambiguating things like string (or other dynamic array, `seq[T]` in Nim) concatenation from arithmetic. So, `a&b` means `b` concatenated onto the end of `a` while `a+b` is the more usual commutative operation (i.e. same as `b+a`). Commutativity is not enforced by the basic dispatch on `+`, though such might be add-able as a compiler plugin.

Mostly, it's just a very flexible compiler / system.. like a static Lisp with a standard surface syntax closer to Python with a lot of parentheses made optional (but I think much more flexible and fluid than Python). Nim is far from perfect, but it makes programming feel like so much less boilerplate ceremony than most alternatives and also responds very well to speed/memory optimization effort.
by oldsklgdfth | 2025-12-05 20:27:12+00:00
> The absolute largest change I would expect would be to end birthright citizenship for children whose parents illegally entered into the US and have never had a visa of entry permit of any type whatsoever.

That's the vibe I get.

However, I don't see a definition of jurisdiction in the phrase "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" that would make this workable. How do you see this being resolved?
by dr_kretyn | 2025-12-05 20:27:17+00:00
Extremes are on both ends. Some people want to use a terminal for all, some don't want a terminal at all.

I'm a terminal guy because most UI I use is just unintuitive and requires a lot of mouse clicking - using mouse is just inconvenient to me. And often there are no tools for what I want to do, or rather, I'd need to open many tools to do something simple like change a file on a remote machine.

But I like a nice IDE, I use DB explorers, I use cloud code to write GUI for data processing and reporting visuals. Terminal is just a "killer app" that's useful for almost everything. So, if you're using regardless, why not make the experience better?
by alex989 | 2025-12-05 20:27:17+00:00
The Covid deaths were measured in thousands before they could find a single individual under 18 yrs old who died from it. The only reason to vaccinate kids was to try to prevent them from spreading it to adults. Right from the beginning (eg. With the cruise ship that was infected), it was extremely obvious that the main factor in survivability was age. The younger you were, the safer it was. Weight was also very important but we learned that later
by hackeraccount | 2025-12-05 20:27:32+00:00
The second hypothetical is to me less interesting. Presumably typing in this class is pre-requisite. This to me is much closer to "do my work" then "drive me to work" ; though the work in question isn't the class itself but instead the pre-requisite.

The first is getting right at the nub of thing. I think accommodations should be made but the worst accommodation is one that would advantage anyone not just a person with a condition that could hold someone back.

So - to switch hypotheticals to one that I was thinking about for no reason - you would give Stephen Hawking a speech synthesizer in Physics 101 not more time. Any student would like more time but no one able to communicate would be interested in a speech synthesizer.

That would be my version of fair in any case. Is it possible? I don't know and the incentives involved would (as I think a lot of people would agree) be pushing towards the worst kind of accommodation.
by D13Fd | 2025-12-05 20:28:05+00:00
> We know the current supreme court will end this.

Do we? The language of the 14th Amendment is extraordinarily clear:

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."

I agree it's possible that the Court will just throw it out. But at that point, what meaning does the constitution have? How are any of our rights protected if the Court can just void the plain language of an amendment?

Crazy stuff.
by throwup238 | 2025-12-05 20:28:43+00:00
They’re the most reliable source we’re going to get without being party insiders. There’s still Soviet-style inflation of figures to meet quotas but China has been cracking down on that for the last few decades because they want accurate data for the five year plans. I think it’s more of a problem with outer provinces, less so for the major manufacturing hubs.

Alternative sources to verify are a bit harder to find without knowing the languages (lots of the NRDC and NBS stats are available in English).
by kelnos | 2025-12-05 20:28:45+00:00
Yes, that's a bit odd, perhaps it's a religious or otherwise conservative university?

At my (secular) university, we did have a few single-sex dorms (optional for people who were uncomfortable with a mixed-sex dorm), but all others were co-ed, though some were separated into all-male and all-female hallways where they'd share a single-sex bathroom.

IIRC even the female-only dorms had no rules about overnight stays (though males had to be escorted around the building by their female host). A university not allowing people to stay overnight reeks of puritanical values.
by WorldMaker | 2025-12-05 20:29:01+00:00
I agree, they can be "practical tools for the job", that's where I ended my comment. The disagreement seems to be that "practical tool for the job" is the same as "right tool for the job". A hammer can be a practical tool for the job of screwing a nail into a wall (once, at least) but few would call it the right tool for that job. An LLM can be a practical tool for a text query (at least as a first pass, at least with review and a grain of sand), but if you need reliability or repeatability or the ability to send results directly to a customer without a human in the loop it may not be the right tool for the job.

There's obviously a value in practical tools, deterministic or not. It's just worth making the distinction that a practical tool is not always fit for purpose as the "right" tool if you really are seeking the (most) right tool for the job.
by not-so-darkstar | 2025-12-05 20:29:02+00:00
I didn't understand much of you said but it sounded mathy so I'm going to reply with a counterexample, just look up on youtube Russ Cox solving AoC with Acme and tell me that's not impressive!

By the way, using a GUI doesn't automatically using the mouse for everything, think of GVim or Emacs. the problem with terminal emulators is the emulating part, where they are forced to comply with the idiotic rules from the '70s.
by pksebben | 2025-12-05 20:29:52+00:00
I don't understand the downvotes. If you have this question then so do others and it ought to be part of the discourse. Anyhow...

From what I've seen, the current wave of ID-gating the internet is a wedge for opening the door to much broader censorship. Specifically, some jurisdictions (Wisconsin, Minnnesota, and the UK) are using recently-passed legislation to argue that we need to make VPNs illegal [0 1 2].

0 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/lawmakers-want-ban-vpn...

1 https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/vpn-usage...

2 https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2025-09-15/debates/57714...
by VerifiedReports | 2025-12-05 20:29:54+00:00
"I believe you are speculating on digital mastering and not codec conversion."

That's good, since that's what I said.

"The artist/director preference for grain is already per scene and expressed in the high bitrate/low-compression format they provide to Netflix and competitors. I find it unlikely that any encoder flags would specifically benefit the encoding workflow in the way you suggested it might."

I'm not sure you absorbed the process described in the article. Netflix is analyzing the "preference for grain" as expressed by the grain detected in the footage, and then they're preparing a "grain track," as a stream of metadata that controls a grain "generator" upon delivery to the viewer. So I don't know why you think this pipeline wouldn't benefit from having the creator provide perfectly accurate grain metadata to the delivery network along with already-clean footage up front; this would eliminate the steps of analyzing the footage and (potentially lossily) removing fake grain... only to re-add an approximation of it later.

All I'm proposing is a mastering tool that lets the DIRECTOR (not an automated process) do the "grain analysis" deliberately and provide the result to the distributor.
by Teever | 2025-12-05 20:30:10+00:00
I'm not saying your views came from some professor drinking glyphosate. I'm saying the social and regulatory environment around glyphosate was distorted by decades of industry driven messaging, ghostwritten research, and normalization of reckless demonstrations.

That environment shaped the baseline assumptions many of us including farmers, scientists, regulators, journalists, and yes even minor-celebrity HN commenters such as yourself.

My point is that the issue isn't whether glyphosate is 'safer than alternatives' but whether the entire ecosystem of evidence and perception surrounding it was manipulated. This paper that we're talking about is but one example of that. So the question isn't about your personal motives but how you came to believe what you believe about Monsanto products and who stands to gain from you believing those things and expressing them on social media.
by USMCAThrowAway | 2025-12-05 20:30:35+00:00
I've asked this question in a few places but never gotten an answer.

A TN visa/status holder that applies for a EB Green Card by filing form I-485 is considered to have shown immigrant intent and will no longer be granted TN status in the future.

Is this bar permanent or would an applicant who failed to obtain a Green Card or surrendered it in the future be able to seek TN visa/status provided they could prove strong links to Mexico/Canada?
by tempfile | 2025-12-05 20:30:37+00:00
> Foreign countries have no obligation to admit you within their borders.

That doesn't sound relevant.

Nobody said that they were obliged to admit you, they complained that the reasons for declining admittance were unfair. Unless you think "no obligation to admit" means carte blanche to decline for any reason, and to treat you however they like?

If so, then that is unreasonable. It is a much stronger condition than "I don't have to let you in".
by atoav | 2025-12-05 20:30:58+00:00
I am editing my CSS files predominantly in the browsers inspector this has the benefit showing you what it looks like directly, potentially even with mobile preview.

I also don't need to hunt down CSS files because I rarely ever got more than 5 css files in projects I authored myself usually more like three: style.css for general stuff, fonts.css for fonts and multiple foo.css for page/section-specific stuff that isn't needed elsewhere thus only one of those is ever loaded.

For most "theming"-like stuff I make extensive use of css variables I want all my things to look like the button? Well just add the same styling with the variables in place.

As for the divide between HTML and CSS: to me HTML is 99% semantic. That means I describe the information as it should be described and the rest is done in CSS. Nowadays I rarely ever feel the need to create useless divs or go back and edit the HTML to fix styling issues thanks to grid layouts.

It wasn't always that way, but thst was to a degree the point of the linked article as well.
by notahacker | 2025-12-05 20:31:28+00:00
Injecting a dummy payload into an eccentric helicentric orbit which periodically crosses' Mars' orbit /= a Mars mission. The complexity and relevance to future human presence on Mars isn't close

(Though tbf the choice of launch vehicle isn't that relevant to whether the ESCAPADE mission succeeds, and missions involving Mars flybys like Hera which are lot more serious than the Tesla one have been launched on SpaceX rockets)
by zackmorris | 2025-12-05 20:31:41+00:00
A mechanism for harm could be that glyphosate disrupts the gut lining barrier and flora, which can cause or contribute to leaky gut, a loose term for digestive waste and foreign bodies entering the bloodstream.

Those bodies can cause chronic inflammation and the strange autoimmune disorders we see rising over time. Note that some brands like Cheerios (which don't sell an organic equivalent) can contain 700-800 ppb of glyphosate, well over the 160 ppb limit recommend for children by the Environmental Working Group (EWG).

US wheat and other crops seem to have become harder to digest for some people due to genetic tampering. They contains substances borrowed from other species to reduce pest damage, which the body has little or no experience with, which may trigger various reactions (this has not been studied enough to be proven yet).

All of these effects from gut toxicity could lead to ailments like obesity, malnourishment, cardiovascular disease, maybe even cancer. This is why I worry that GLP-1 agonists may be masking symptoms, rather than healing the underlying causes of metabolic syndrome that have been increasing over time.

Many people have chosen to buy organic non-GMO wheat from other countries for this reason. I believe this is partially why the Trump administration imposed a 107% tariff on Italian wheat for example, to protect US agribusiness.

Before you jump on me for this being a conspiracy theory, note that I got these answers from AI and so will you.

My personal, anecdotal experience with this was living with leaky gut symptoms for 5 years after a severe burnout in 2019 from (work) stress, which may have been triggered by food poisoning. I also had extremely high cortisol which disrupted everything else. So I got to the point where my meals were reduced to stuff like green bananas, trying everything I could to heal my gut but failing, until I finally snapped out of my denial and sought medical attention.

For anyone reading this: if holistic approaches don't fix it within say 6 weeks to 6 months, they aren't going to, and you may need medication for a time to get your body out of dysbiosis. But you can definitely recover and return to a normal life like I did, by the grace of God the universe and everything.
by trts | 2025-12-05 20:31:57+00:00
most of the critics of this particular vaccine are the ones that took it. either the people who got covid anyway or were injured by it.

it was incredibly destructive for trust in the medical establishment to oversell / mandate it and market aggressively as "safe and effective". while most vaccine risks are in the 10s per 100k or 1M, nearly everybody knows somebody else who had an adverse reaction to one of the covid shots.

nearly everybody observed that you still get and spread covid anyway. that is disconnected from the aggressive messaging from the CDC and the fear and shame campaign from the last US administration.

criticism of a specific vaccine or policy does not make someone an anti-vaxxer that moves goalposts. the establishment is responsible for the skepticism it engendered against itself by its hubris
by organsnyder | 2025-12-05 20:32:04+00:00
I have a 2009 Civic that has no noticeable body rust, despite being in Michigan. Two times I've had to get minor body work done (not rust-related), the bodyshop owner commented that he never sees them this clean anymore. I chalk it up to being diligent with car washes, especially in the winter. Purists will cringe at this, but I'm fine with sacrificing some surface appearance (the paint doesn't look too bad, considering how many carwashes it's seen) in exchange for longevity.
by kelnos | 2025-12-05 20:32:11+00:00
Being not comfortable with it is not the same as banning it school-wide. It's perfectly reasonable to have some single-sex spaces that people can choose if they're uncomfortable. But requiring that all dorms be single-sex makes it sound like there is some other religious/conservative nonsense at play.

Regardless, this isn't Victorian England. Men and women mix and live in shared spaces. There are plenty of adult living spaces in the world where people have their own apartment/room, but share bathroom space. That's also common in lower end hotels/hostels for travelers. Requiring that college students live in gender-separated living situations is a bad way to prepare them for the real world.
by alephnerd | 2025-12-05 20:32:38+00:00
Maybe Europe should have listened to us during the Obama admin [0] instead of blowing us off. Now you reap what you sow.

We have been signaling to Europe for decades that we will be pivoting to Asia - that is where most of our troops are [1] and where much of our trade originates [2].

Either European states load share or they can deal with the Russian menace on their own. If Europe can't even help Ukraine independently, then how would they even help us in the Indo-Pacific?

The Europeans have no excuse given that Japan and South Korea have continued to maintain their own defensive capacity while under a US defense shield.

[0] - https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/0...

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_deploym...

[2] - https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/highlights/t...
by kulahan | 2025-12-05 20:32:43+00:00
Major studios haven't made excellent content for a while, so them acquiring WB doesn't matter much. If you want to see the "excellent" films (i.e. I'm assuming you mean well-directed, well-written, well-acted, meaningful, etc.), watch film festivals. They have lots of fantastic stuff, and their movies are getting easier to access.

We've lost nothing with WB except more Joker: Foile a Deux and Wonka garbage.
by afavour | 2025-12-05 20:32:57+00:00
This argument has always confused me. Yes, it's true that a digital copy of a video can be duplicated endlessly in a way a physical item cannot. But... so?

It's an item available for purchase at a price. If you take it without paying that price then the seller is out money they would otherwise have received. If everyone pirated Netflix's output then they would have to shut down, just the same as a grocery store would if everyone stole their produce. The only reason that doesn't happen is because piracy is a minority activity.
by rdtsc | 2025-12-05 20:33:21+00:00
Not op and may not agree with them but the original comment was how I read it "...we ostensibly have rights but the exercising of rights is ...".

We're talking about a non-citizen on a visitor visa and there is just simply no legal right to enter if the port of entry official don't like their answers or behavior. They can't say "you have to let me in, it's my right".
by monerozcash | 2025-12-05 20:33:30+00:00
I don't think you want to try that argument with immigration officials, although it might just keep your incorrect answer from being straight up fraud or willful misrepresentation.

I mean, some US govt immigration forms asking for your social media usernames include pastebin sites like "justpaste.it". See for example: https://static.feber.se/article_images/42/10/92/421092_1280....

Knowing that, it's crystal clear HN falls strictly within that definition of "social media", although it might not be as clear if you don't know what that particular site is.