MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by magicalist | 2025-12-05 19:10:48+00:00
> That's why FDA's OBPV did the follow-up review of those 96 child deaths and concluded >10 were causal from vaccine myocarditis.

We don't actually know who at the OBPV did the review (Prasad only referred to the results coming from "the team") and the causal ranking they used included any case where causality was subjectively rated between "certain" and "possible/likely".

We also know that two orders of magnitude more children died from covid than that, and we have strong studies suggesting that myocarditis from covid is both more common and more severe than the observed cases tied to the covid vaccines, two inconvenient stances that Prasad waves away as insufficiently studied, even as he bases his entire position on a subjective review of something by someone, and doesn't bother filling in those blanks.

> If the conclusion was fake or flimsy, this blows up in their face and RFK looks like a clown

He beclowns himself all the time. He himself walked back the Tylenol claim after convincing Trump to talk about it so publicly and standing by him while he did it. Clearly he's not bothered by it.
by ln809 | 2025-12-05 19:10:53+00:00
Article specifically refers to vaccination with live attenuated virus... Should a difference be inferred between Shingrix and Zostavax (in the context of the effect on dementia, not shingles)

Background to the question is providers here seem to be switching to Shingrix for (claimed) higher effectiveness against shingles, but there's at least some suggestion that Shingix is not live (attenuated) virus...
by modeless | 2025-12-05 19:11:05+00:00
Even without Starship Falcon Heavy is still competitive with New Glenn, and nobody is anywhere close to competing with Starlink (Amazon is still far behind, as is ASTS). And if Starship works SpaceX will still be in the lead for a long, long time.

IMO the only remaining unanswered question for the Starship program is the reusability of the heat shield. There's no reason to believe any other part of it can't work.
by jack_tripper | 2025-12-05 19:11:59+00:00
>No. More like central or Western European parties.

That couldn't be more vague. That's like saying I want a car like the ones in that parking lot over there.

You have no idea that some parties in Poland, Hungary or Romania would make Donald Trump look left wing.

When I asked you what type of left parties you claim are lacking, I expected to hear the exact policies you want but are lacking, not pointing at random parties that not everyone knows.

And we've have enough left wing and green policies in Europe since they're the ones who championed the "refugees welcome" open borders problem, gas dependence on Russian gas and denuclearisation.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-12-05 19:12:05+00:00
> This is out of my field.

This is what I've come to expect from discussion on things like glyphosate, cholesterol, seed oils, etc.

You supposedly are raising an issue, yet you can't even squeak out the smallest concrete claim.

You're "in the field" enough to claim they didn't do the proper "testing protocols", but when simply asked what you mean by that or how it's different from the existing research, you're so "out of the field" that you can't even elaborate on the words you just used -- that's a task for the experts.
by tedd4u | 2025-12-05 19:12:19+00:00
Also, what's the overlap here between people who believe a) the unborn have a "right to life" (or forced birth as some others call it, where the parent has no choice but to take the pregnancy to term and give birth), and b) those who think the parents have every right to decide not to vaccinate their children? If you believe (a), shouldn't you believe (not b)? And if you believe (b), shouldn't you believe (not a)?
by femiagbabiaka | 2025-12-05 19:12:36+00:00
I think I'll take the side of no (as long as it's fast/safe/good) and also I never find the reasoning in these language comparisons to be that compelling anyways. A "why we like $FOO" is better than "why $FOO works better/is better for us than $BAR", since the latter is almost always going to be incomplete.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-12-05 19:12:56+00:00
That brings back some memories...when Frank Yellin and Sheng Liang (from Javasoft) visited our team at UW I think in 1996 or 1997, we mentioned that our bytecode verifier/failure injector was really fast because we were using arena allocation, which was only possible (at the time) because we did the project in C. If you are using non-pointer offsets, you totally can do arena allocation with a byte buffer. I still don't get how you can do it safely with high level objects even with the mechanism described above, but there are definitely lots of unsafe ways to do it.
by loeg | 2025-12-05 19:13:09+00:00
The most important C feature that C++ lacked for a long time was C99 designated initializers, but C++ finally supports them in C++20[0].

Other than that... I'm not sure what hobbling you have in mind. Many C23 features come directly from earlier C++ standards (auto, attribute syntax, nullptr, binary literals, true/false keywords). VLAs? Though these are optional in newer C standards, too.

[0]: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/aggregate_initial...
by tripletao | 2025-12-05 19:13:18+00:00
This isn't an RCT and COVID mortality is no longer high, so the effect on all-cause mortality is almost entirely confounders. So that result just means people 18-29 who chose to get the COVID vaccine have other characteristics that result in the much lower mortality from non-COVID causes.

I'm not sure why. The top causes for that age group are usually non-medical, accident, suicide, or homicide. We might speculate those would anticorrelate more strongly with the prudence that leads people to get the vaccine than unavoidable medical causes, but looking at the V, W, X, and Y causes from Table 2 that doesn't seem to be true. I guess it could be true but only for the 18-29 group (and if it's not then what causes are responsible?), since they don't break that down by age.

The "problem" is that vaccine recipients are so much healthier overall than non-recipients that the vaccine would have to be spectacularly unsafe to offset that. So this analysis doesn't actually tell us much, but it's consistent with all other evidence that the vaccine is safe.
by thewebguyd | 2025-12-05 19:13:21+00:00
> "they can't all default at once!"

Narrator: As it turns out, they can.

The difference now is instead of banks holding the risk, they are now the safest portion of the loans. The risk is now moved to private credit, so if this bubble bursts, they will panic sell other assets to cover the AI losses, which will crash unrelated sectors as well.

Since the now bad AI loans can't be sold, they need liquidity form elsewhere to cover. AI bursting means other S&P 500 stocks, treasuries, gold, crypto, commercial real estate will all go down with it.
by locknitpicker | 2025-12-05 19:13:58+00:00
> There’s no other deployment system available.

Hindsight is always 20/20, but I don't know how that sort of oversight could happen in an organization whose business model rides on reliability. Small shops understand the importance of safeguards such as progressive deployments or one-box-style deployments with a baking period, so why not the likes of Cloudflare? Don't they have anyone on their payroll who warns about the risks of global deployments without safeguards?
by mitchellh | 2025-12-05 19:13:59+00:00
There are second order effects. You definitely attract different types of talent depending on the technology stack of choice. And building the right group of talent around an early stage product/company is an extremely impactful thing on the product. And blogs are an impactful talent marketing source.

This doesn't guarantee any sort of commercial success because there are so many follow on things that are important (product/market fit, sales, customer success, etc.) but it's pretty rough to succeed in the follow ons when the product itself is shit.

For first order effects, if a product's target market is developer oriented, then marketing to things developers care about such as a programming language will help initial adoption. It can also help the tool get talked about more organically via user blogs, social media, word of mouth, etc.

Basically, yeah, it matters, but as a cog in a big machine like all things.
by giantg2 | 2025-12-05 19:14:25+00:00
We vaccinate for many of those already. The vast majority of seniors have the shingles virus already. Only a small percentage would likely have dementia not linked to another likely cause. Just as HPV only causes cancer in some individuals.

It wouldn't surprise me if it turns out all these tie back to immune dysregulation and are just triggered by different viruses in different people.
by dataviz1000 | 2025-12-05 19:15:21+00:00
> Don't worry, once the Wall Street tap runs dry, the U.S. government will be more than happy to step in and bail out the AI corps. at the taxpayer's expense.

I have a brilliant idea. Why not start this now?

The US government will give every child born $1000 in money in order to hand it to the small number of families who own 70% of equities in order to purchase equities the child can't touch for 18 years. That is US Government -> child -> rich person who currently owns the equity, although the rich person gets the cash in hand the child has to wait 18 years to sell the equity.

Where does the US Government get this $1000 per child from? Borrow it, adding to the $38,000,000,000,000 in national debt.

Here is the interesting part of my brilliant plan. That child will inherit, calculated per capita, $111,000 in debt the moment she is born. That child will be responsible, calculated per capita, for ~$3,000 a year in interest on that debt.

In order to sell the idea, every time the US Government gives $1000 to a child to purchase stocks I own, I will give $250 to another child to purchase stocks I own. Let's do the math: $1000 profit - $250 loss + $250 profit = $1000 profit. Best part is the media will run this as the leading news story for 3 days making me look like God.

It is a brilliant idea.
by gorjusborg | 2025-12-05 19:15:24+00:00
There's a big part of me that agrees with your implied conclusion, that it shouldn't matter.

On the other hand, I've found that core decisions like language ecosystem choice can be a good leading indicator of other seemingly unrelated decisions.

When I see someone choose a tool that I think is extremely well suited for a purpose, it makes me curious to see what else we agree on.

The Oven team, the ones who created the Bun runtime, is a good example for me. I think Zig is probably the best compromise out there right now, for my sensibilities. The Oven folks, who chose to use Zig to implement Bun, _also_ made a lot of product decisions I really agree with.
Show HN: Story Relay – I made an AI play "Broken Telephone" with itself
by victornomad | 2025-12-05 19:15:44+00:00
Hey HN,

I built Story Relay, a digital version of "Broken Telephone" where an LLM and an image generator pass a story back and forth.

The loop is simple: Text Prompt →→ Image Generation →→ Vision Model Description →→ New Text Prompt.

Curious to hear your thoughts!
by james2doyle | 2025-12-05 19:16:18+00:00
This is just using robots.txt and asking "pretty please, don’t scrape me".

Here is an article (from TODAY) about the case where Perplexity is being accused of ignoring robots.txt: https://www.theverge.com/news/839006/new-york-times-perplexi...

If you think a robots.txt is the answer to stopping the billion-dollar AI machine from scraping you, I don’t know what to say.
by rootusrootus | 2025-12-05 19:16:25+00:00
> We do in the US

For now. The current administration is chipping away at child vaccines, just today removing Hep B vaccine from the recommendations list. AFAICT you can still choose to get it for your kid, and insurance should still cover it, but I won't be the least bit surprised if before 2028 some of these vaccines are actually banned outright.
by tcoff91 | 2025-12-05 19:16:37+00:00
https://ofcr.se/jujutsu-merge-workflow

With `jjui` this strategy takes only a few keystrokes to do operations like adding/removing parents from merge commits.

It's so nice to have like 4 parallel PRs in flight and then rebase all of them and all the other experimental branches you have on top onto main in 1 command.

Also, I cannot even stress to you how much first-class-conflicts is a game changer. Like seriously you do NOT understand how much better it is to not have to resolve conflicts immediately when rebasing and being able to come back and resolve them whenever you want. It cannot be overstated how much better this is than git.

Also, anonymous branches are SOOOO much better than git stashes.
by mikepurvis | 2025-12-05 19:16:46+00:00
Two responses to this:

- Most participants in the economy are creating very little real value. They're shifting things around or temporarily solving problems that are highly localized to the organization they're in.

- There's a lot of unrealized value stored in the corpus of knowledge that AI companies have ingested— the millions of webpages, the scanned books, wikipedia, the blogs and Q&A sites. So even if AI companies are not creating new insights, just the act of locating, filtering, and summarizing knowledge that was already present somewhere in the world is valuable. Indeed, one could use this same argument to declare that Google in 1999 was creating no value, which is of course obviously untrue.
by observationist | 2025-12-05 19:17:12+00:00
I'd like to see a setup with Lightpanda feeding a local/private AI, with content rendered post-curation. You could filter out all the garbage at the intake, instead of doing all the plug-ins, extensions, add-ons, DNS and whackamole arms race.

AI researchers need to hurry up and invent the next big paradigm shift so AI on your phone is as good as SoTA bots, so we can stay ahead of the enshittification curve.

Awesome software - I've been meaning to build a crawler and this does the trick.
by loeg | 2025-12-05 19:17:30+00:00
> We should be vaccinating kids against all of them rather than sending them to Chickenpox parties.

This has been the standard of care ever since the vaccine became available in the 90s (US). The origin of the "parties" was that first-time chickenpox was perceived to be less harmful in children than adults prior to the vaccine, so you wanted to make sure people's first exposure wasn't in adulthood.
by zosima | 2025-12-05 19:17:35+00:00
I wouldn't bother commenting if I were hallucinating figures. There is no figure 4a.

If you look at figure 4 in the supplemental material you also see, per your expertise, that covid vaccine protects against traumatic injury. However even adjusting for the protective effect against traumatic injury there is still quite a large protective effect against all-cause mortality. So the beneficial effect of the vaccine is not solely caused by its protective effect against traumatic injury.

Or it could be, bold proposition I know, that there is a difference between the groups that both protects against traumatic injury and protects against all-cause mortality, independently of the vaccine.
by roadside_picnic | 2025-12-05 19:17:51+00:00
> who are actually working with it only become more bullish

I have a feeling the word "actually" is doing a lot of work with this. I shipped AI facing user products a few years ago, then worked in more research focused AI work for awhile (spending a lot of time working with internals of these models). Then seeing where this was all headed (hype was more important than real work) decided to go back to good ol' statistical modeling.

Needless to say, while I think AI is absolutely useful, I'm bearish on the industry because current promises and expectations are completely out of touch with reality.

But I have a feeling because I'm not currently deploying a fleet of what people are calling "agents" (real agents are still quite cool imho), you would describe me as not "actually" using AI.
by Maxatar | 2025-12-05 19:18:03+00:00
I can tell you as someone who is a designated market maker on several ETFs in the U.S., none of this exists as a means of giving market makers priority fills. You're taking existing terms and misusing them. For example institutional order prioritization is used as a wash trade prevention mechanism, not as a way for designated market makers to get some kind of fill preference. Leveling rounds also do not involve exchanges, this is an internal tool used by a broker's OMS to rebalance residuals so accounts end up with the intended allocation, or cleaning up odd-lot/mixed-lot leftovers.

I am getting the feeling you either are not actually a quant, or you were a quant and just misheard and confused a lot of things together, but one thing is for sure... your claim that market makers get some kind of priority fills is factually incorrect.
by djoldman | 2025-12-05 19:18:33+00:00
Interesting "ScreenSpot Pro" results:

72.7% Gemini 3 Pro 11.4% Gemini 2.5 Pro 49.9% Claude Opus 4.5 3.50% GPT-5.1

ScreenSpot-Pro: GUI Grounding for Professional High-Resolution Computer Use

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07981
by ptx | 2025-12-05 19:18:55+00:00
I do use fixup commits as well, for fixing small issues discovered after I make the proper commit, and in that case it makes sense to use the date and message of the earlier commit.

But in the case I'm describing, the earlier commits are essentially just temporary snapshots on the way to making a proper commit. Just a more explicit undo history, basically. I usually don't even bother naming them anything as meaningful as "broke it", actually. Maybe most people wouldn't even bother making these commits – or maybe they would if Git supported "fold".
by flohofwoe | 2025-12-05 19:19:06+00:00
IMHO you should spend one weekend with tinkering with Rust and another weekend tinkering with Zig (e.g. up to a point where you can write simple but still not completely trivial programs both in Rust and Zig), and then decide for yourself which one better matches your taste.

For some people the huge 'surface area' and strict type system of Rust is a big turn-off, while others want exactly that from a programming language.
by mindslight | 2025-12-05 19:19:15+00:00
Remember how for decades Republican politicians would build grassroots support by talking about illegal immigration and employment, but then once they got into office they would do absolutely nothing about it? Think about it - have you finally persevered, "won", and gotten this policy position to the national stage? Or do you perhaps think the porous borders have finished serving their purpose (breaking unions and depressing labor in general), and now the corporate puppeteers are using the situation as an excuse to drive the next anti-Liberty con? Which explanation strokes your own ego? Which explanation fits the pattern of how this government actually operates?

Anybody who still thinks this is about immigration or the labor market is basically deluding themselves. The focus on illegal immigrants is merely being used as a pretext to justify an end-run around the Constitution, limited government, and basic human rights for all of us, period.
by atmavatar | 2025-12-05 19:19:18+00:00
> AI isn't like that.

Tell that to anyone who was hoping to upgrade their RAM or build a new system in the near future.

Tell that to anyone who's seen a noticeable spike in electricity prices.

Tell that to anyone who's seen their company employ layoffs and/or hiring freezes because management is convinced AI can replace a significant portion of their staff.

AI, like any new technology, is going to cost resources and growing pains during its adoption. The important question which we'll only really know years or decades from now is whether it is a net positive.
by swatcoder | 2025-12-05 19:19:43+00:00
I also had it in my 30's (and now again in my 40's) so I get it.

But there's a whole "evidence based medicine" thing that many of us usually try to champion, and it turns out the collecting such evidence is something expensive and priority-constrained. Due to lack of suitably targeted studies, there's just not formal evidence that the vaccine will be effective or lasting for us, or on what risks might apply to younger people with more robust immune systems.

There's also just a consideration about rationing the drug itself (it's seen shortages), and so prioritizing availability to more at-risk populations is not totally unreasonable.

All that said, it's not like it's impossible or illegal to get. You just need to find a prescriber who'll sign off for it (they exist), and you might need to pay cash rate for it at the pharmacy.
by RedRaven7 | 2025-12-05 19:20:21+00:00
22/hr for offshore work? Where, India?

The fact that I'm American justifies it. If Americans flooded into say, Somalia, bought up all the houses, took up all the jobs etc, you'd be horrifically offended.

Americans have no where else to go. This is my home and I will not abandon it. You can't just drop 50 million extra workers into a country and expect people to just take it.
by cf100clunk | 2025-12-05 19:20:23+00:00
On a FreeBSD 14.3 RPI4 box with an Internet connection but with only minor customization, upgrading was simple:

1. freebsd-update -r 15.0-RELEASE upgrade

2. freebsd-update install # (first of 2 runs, for upgrading system components)

3. shutdown -r now

4. freebsd-update install # (second of 2 runs, for userland components)

5. pkg bootstrap -f # (update pkg utility if/as needed)

6. pkg upgrade

7. profit!
by NoGravitas | 2025-12-05 19:20:43+00:00
> It drives me crazy when people who are functional members of society run around laughing about how they are "autistic".

A lot of us low-support-needs autistic people are functional members of society right up until we aren't (i.e., until we've been masking for too long while dealing with sensory stressors and One More Little Thing pushes us into the "screeching meltdown" or renders us temporarily nonverbal). And a lot of us have "normal" lives only in as much as you only see the normal parts.

It's kind of fair to divide things up by support level, but you then also have to understand that there are a lot of different support needs people have and they can look very different at the same "level".
by 9x39 | 2025-12-05 19:21:24+00:00
Assuming you're talking about running like a UI router and doing multi-WAN uplinks from it, you can.

They support load balancing (e.g. 95% WAN1, 5% WAN2) and SLA monitoring (ping/packet loss/jitter) with some voting options on what triggers a swap.

I think pfsense has similar options for WAN balancing if you don't like UI for routing.
by ASalazarMX | 2025-12-05 19:21:29+00:00
I hope I get to see the next thing after browser applications in my lifetime. I fully understand the advantages, but it has grown so fast and so wild I think it has to eventually fall down by its own weight and complexity despite its immense success.

It's not that the presentation layer need conditionals, it's that the layers under it have grown full of hacks that need more hacks to work around them, because the web was designed to grow documents, not programs.

If the web had been designed for applications in the first place, the presentation layer probably wouldn't need conditionals at all.
by jinzo | 2025-12-05 19:21:33+00:00
Sorry I have no idea about this goalpost moving, maybe it's a language barrier. I'm just saying working on it is quite dangerous. But you can easily get electrocuted by shoddy remanufacturing (especially if someone drilled into the battery to replace a single cell - as EV Clinic shows in their videos), that's why there are additional safeties with regards to bad isolation. So I stand by both takes.