MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cogman10 | 2025-12-05 16:07:21+00:00
That's a false dichotomy.

If the results showed that mRNA vaccines had negative health outcomes, then the obvious next question to ask is "are they worse or better than COVID's health outcomes?". If they are better then yeah, I'll still say take the shot. If the negative outcomes only occur in certain demographics, then I'd say they should limit their exposure to the shot.

The most common skeptic position that I've seen (which admittedly isn't all of them) is that the shots should be banned altogether until they can be proven 100% safe for everyone. Very similar to the general vaccine skeptic position. It ends up being a moving goalpost as well.

A truth seeking individual realizes that very few things in the world are black and white. They avoid trying to frame things as a black and white. Nobel and villainous framing. If you are truth seeking, you won't try to turn a non-binary evidence into binary thinking.
by danaris | 2025-12-05 16:07:28+00:00
It sounds like what you're talking about is fairly ordinary political maneuvering of an already-extant official group?

Like, the fact that it's a "council" means that they're already meeting regularly and talking to each other, about these specific things.

When a group like that decides not to advance a proposal because they think it will be voted down, that's not a conspiracy; it may be a highly undesirable behavior, and something we should try to prevent with changes in the structure or rules, but "conspiracy" isn't just a word for every group of people who does things we don't like.
by walr000s | 2025-12-05 16:07:35+00:00
In the mass media days, "elites" were able to pretend that all people more or less wanted to consume similar media. That theory has more or less been debunked by the advent of the internet, and of course the proprietor class wants to go back. Advertising was much easier in the mass media days.

And right now AI snake oil salesmen are pushing every narrative that anyone with money will buy. Going back in time to the mass media paradigm is certainly attractive.
by ariwilson | 2025-12-05 16:07:36+00:00
Compare this car to the Toyota RAV4 PHEV which in some ways is simpler than a gas powered RAV4 (no alternator, no transmission) but maintains the same ease of maintainability and cheap parts availability as the base RAV4 (makes sense, they sold >4M of them).

PHEVs are complicated tech so I figured I would choose one with a proven design (Prius -> Prius Prime -> RAV4 Prime).
by pixl97 | 2025-12-05 16:07:44+00:00
>Because requirements weren't properly clarified before work began

Yea, software is typically way more flexible and fast moving in the real world.

At start of project: "We need software with A, B, and C"

In middle of project: "Our competitor has released with ABCD and E, and if we don't add at least E we might as well cancel the project"

There is also - Our software works 100% fine with what we expected in the field, problem is (new|old) thing showed up and now we have to work around all the bugs in it.

Then there is Chesterton's fence. That 'broken old crap' was actually doing something highly specific that calcified into how the customers systems work. People love ripping crap up and changing stuff, until they figure out it just broke their enterprise clients workflow, and that client pays their salary.
by ctxc | 2025-12-05 16:07:55+00:00
Feedback: Would've been really nice to have an editor on your website. I'm on mobile, so I probably would have added a few feeds -> generated a link with query params -> put it on my slack to pick it up on my laptop later

I know I could just type it or send just the website link over, but it just feels like more work and I'm not invested enough (ie if I'd generated a link now I'd feel like I invested effort and would definitely open it on the laptop. With just a link...not sure)
by ryandrake | 2025-12-05 16:07:55+00:00
I think it's more comforting for people to believe that there are a handful of evil, mustache-twirling villains, sitting in a smokey room, plotting and directing their henchmen to carry out a conspiracy. "There are only a few bad guys, and the rest of us are just doing what we can," they can say to feel good about the world.

It's a lot more scary to admit that there is no evil puppet master running things, and it's simply that the vast majority of people in leadership positions are just awful people, acting independently, but aligned with the rest of the awful people, intent on doing whatever it takes to make line go up and to the right.
by theptip | 2025-12-05 16:07:56+00:00
I’ve seen this result. I wonder if it’s because LLMs are (grok notwithstanding) deliberately middle-of-the-road in their stances, and accurately and patiently report the facts? In which case a hypothetical liar LLM would not be as persuasive.

Or is it because they are super-human already in some persuasion skills, and they can persuade people even of falsehoods?
by ceejayoz | 2025-12-05 16:08:06+00:00
That's a year into its availability in France. Anyone who didn't have their first dose by then probably wasn't getting a dose.

You can see that in this chart (click the 5Y range): https://ycharts.com/indicators/france_coronavirus_full_vacci...

It's the full vaccination rate; as of Dec 1 2021 it was 69.89%. A month later (i.e. those Nov folks are getting their second dose) it's 74%; latest number on the chart is 78.44%.
by BobBagwill | 2025-12-05 16:08:35+00:00
The goal is to eliminate outright vehicle sales, and move everyone to leases and rentals? Just like in software? Safety is important, too (nudge nudge wink wink).

Given that speed and alcohol are the top two causes of traffic deaths, mandatory SAE J3016 Level 4 self-driving would prevent a lot of deaths. But of course, it will make the price of a "safe" automobile many times the annual income of 99% of North American and EU drivers.

Even a FAANG HENRY who would buy a BMW i7 M70 won't be able to afford a "safe" automobile in a "safe" country.

A Waymoid is your future, first-worldians!
by Nifty3929 | 2025-12-05 16:08:37+00:00
I love the idea of the privacy switch, but I want more: I want a hard, electromechanical switch for each of: Mic, camera, GPS, wifi, cell, bluetooth. These can be tiny and aesthetically pleasing, as long as I can easily flip on/off the one I want.

The problem with having a single button, even configurable, is that it's all-or-nothing, and I might want different things at different times.

But thanks so much for taking the first step!
by hrimfaxi | 2025-12-05 16:08:46+00:00
> The answer is for schools to grab their share of this money by selling each of these accommodations directly, or perhaps via some kind of auction. Acceptance to such a school will be the “basic economy” of attendance. If you want to pick your seat, you can pay to upgrade.

I don't think you can charge more for accommodations for the disabled.
by myrmidon | 2025-12-05 16:09:21+00:00
In this case the biggest failure was that ExxonMobil et al were capable of subverting EU lawmaking via external pressure (via US diplomatic channels/trade negotiation) and indirect influence by targetting individual countries.

This seems difficult to systematically prevent to me, and the fact that they went for an approach like that is IMO actually a good sign that its not trivial and cost effective to direct such efforts at EU regulators themselves.

What we actually need to prevent cases like this in my opinion is to hold companies accountable for damages when they sabotage legislation or research in that sector.

A really good historical example is leaded gas: Industry knowingly hobbled research (discredited researchers, paid shills, etc.) and legislation for decades, but there were zero consequences after everything came to light. If there was a credible threat of company leadership going straight to prison and shareholders losing everything in extreme cases like that, companies would be MUCH more circumspect when messing with law/science.
by constantcrying | 2025-12-05 16:09:41+00:00
>I had cooling system problems that required hours of labor to get to just to replace a plastic part that cost $5 where an aluminum one would cost $7.

If the car has 10 places where the manufacturer saves 2 dollars, that is 20 dollars a car. At around 2.5 Million cars shipped each year that is 50 Million Euros each year profit for BMW.

The entire car industry is extremely cost sensitive, especially right now, with so much global competition and little consolidation.

The issue also isn't that the part is cost optimized. The issue is that it fails.
by kace91 | 2025-12-05 16:09:42+00:00
> I think what you are really asking for

I'm not asking for anything, I was merely pointing out the advantages of anonymity. You don't need to consider a decision the best one to see its upsides.

I don't really get the rest of that argument. What other mediums are legally deanonimised? Privacy in mail and telephone was a commonly supported right, Watergate was a scandal for a reason.

>If you are not happy filling in your workplace questionnaire unless it's anonymous, then something needs to change

That's the point I was trying to make, that it is a shortcut, but an improvement. Preaching a 'good option' that doesn't survive the real world is a common failure of justice systems.

Example: 'Anonymous tip off for sexual abuse' is a very flawed system. Tell the victims 'no, see, what you need is proper handling of abuse by authorities'. Is that useful when we know for a fact that alternative never worked?

Shortcuts should only be removed _after_ the proper alternative is in place and working. Otherwise, you're just making people lives worse.

> It's that very tempering that stops non-virtual discourse from turning into a cesspool.

Agreed, anonimity introduces many problems we haven't been able to solve properly yet. It can platform abusers. It can empower legitimately wrong behavior. It can make people less willing to take ownership of their actions, or less empathic.

Those are all legitimate points to consider and balance, I'm just not ok with pretending it's a no-brainer.
by crazygringo | 2025-12-05 16:09:46+00:00
You're misunderstanding.

> if the delivery conduit uses AV1, you can optimize for it

You could, in theory, as I confirmed.

> It's already built, and Netflix is championing this delivery mechanism.

No it's not. AV1 encoding is already built. Not a pipeline where source files come without noise but with noise metadata.

> and provides the best possible image quality?

The difference in quality is not particularly meaningful. Advanced noise-reduction algorithms already average out pixel values across many frames to recover a noise-free version that is quite accurate (including accounting for motion), and when the motion/change is so overwhelming that this doesn't work, it's too fast for the eye to be perceiving that level of detail anyways.

> This scheme loses a major opportunity for new productions unless the director can provide a clean master and an accompanying "grain track."

Right, that's what you're proposing. But it doesn't exist. And it's probably never going to exist, for good reason.

Production houses generally provide digital masters in IMF format (which is basically JPEG2000), or sometimes ProRes. At a technical level, a grain track could be invented. But it basically flies in the face of the idea that the pixel data itself is the final "master". In the same way, color grading and vector graphics aren't provided as metadata either, even though they could be in theory.

Once you get away from the idea that the source pixels are the ultimate source of truth and put additional postprocessing into metadata, it opens up a whole can of worms where different streamers interpret the metadata differently, like some streamers might choose to never add noise and so the shows look different and no longer reflect the creator's intent.

So it's almost less of a technical question and more of a philosophical question about what represents the finished product. And the industry has long decided that the finished product is the pixels themselves, not layers and effects that still need to be composited.

> I wish Netflix could go back and remove the hideous soft-focus filtration from The West Wing, but nope; that's baked into the footage forever.

In case you're not aware, it's not a postproduction filter -- the soft focus was done with diffusion filters on the cameras themselves, as well as choice of film stock. And that was the creative intent at the time. Trying to "remove" it would be like trying to pretend it wasn't the late-90's network drama that it was.
by chemotaxis | 2025-12-05 16:10:17+00:00
> I'm surprised these newsletter gatekeepers haven't implemented a tip jar where you put in $/year and it gets divided based on readership.

I've seen a bunch of publication with a "tip" button, but I suspect it's not worth the effort. Very few people pay in the first place, so a random one-off payment of $1, $10, or even the "unicorn" $100 is not worth standing up the infrastructure and dealing with the tax paperwork.

On the flip side, if you find 100 people who really like your content and are willing to substantially support it on an ongoing basis with a subscription, you end up with recurring revenue that makes it a better deal.
by denysvitali | 2025-12-05 16:10:21+00:00
This is most likely a strong requisite for such a big scale deployment if DDOS protection and detection - which explains their architectural choices (ClickHouse & co) and the need of a super low latency config changes.

Since attackers might rotate IPs more frequently than once per minute, this effectively means that the whole fleet of servers should be able to quickly react depending on the decisions done centrally.
by kotaKat | 2025-12-05 16:10:30+00:00
.... I also didn't add the rest of my environmental conditions like the fact I'm in an absolute rust belt in the winter.

NYS DOT does some good work with the salt and sand up here, heavy on the salt. Mother Earth has some high blood pressure up here as she turns rotors to rust.

My calipers (all around) are also in excellent condition after 150k and I've been told that it's an absolute surprise I didn't destroy them with how low the pads went on the last change...
by wkat4242 | 2025-12-05 16:10:30+00:00
The main reason it hate Excel is that people abuse it as a database. Having whole stretches full of vlookups but some single rows overwritten with manual input data.

It also chokes on sheets with only a few hundred thousand rows on my 16gb work laptop, something a real database can easily do.

I blame it on Microsoft making such a mess of access that people didn't understand it and started using excel as a database.
by joecool1029 | 2025-12-05 16:10:33+00:00
> As an American, I will order this phone as soon as it’s available to me!

It won’t be. From the time of their first phone the company actively made the choice to not support the US market. There’s the obvious spectrum difference and cost to certify, but the real reason they don’t want to touch it is litigation risk on patents and whatnot.
by zosima | 2025-12-05 16:10:46+00:00
The reduction in all-cause mortality was independent of covid deaths.

Which seems to suggest that there was big differences between the groups other than the vaccination.

This of course does not change that the vaccine seems mostly safe, but it definitely calls in to question whether the protection against covid death was vaccine-mediated or due to some other difference between the groups.

Therefore this paper is moderately strong evidence for the vaccine being safe, but quite weak evidence for the vaccine being efficacious.
by afandian | 2025-12-05 16:10:51+00:00
I went down a 1-minute rabbithole. I hate Whatsapp, but it's not optional. So I was curious if it's compatible.

There's a Sailfish help page [0] showing how to get the APK from Aptoide, or downloading directly from Whatsapp.com .

But with Google killing off 'sideloading', is it credible that independent APK sources are going to dry up in future?

[0] https://docs.sailfishos.org/Support/Help_Articles/Whatsapp_S...
by mrsmrtss | 2025-12-05 16:11:01+00:00
For new .NET SDK style projects you hardly ever need to customize the defaults and I know it's used for more stuff than .NET, but I just wanted to give an example where it actually doesn't suck. Also, you may not need to do everything in MSBuild, for some more complex stuff, you can use something like Cake (https://cakebuild.net/) in .NET for example and skip the programming in XML.
by quesera | 2025-12-05 16:11:11+00:00
Peer-reviewed science is the best scale of measurement we have. When that standard is subverted with intent to deceive, there should be severe repercussions for the beneficiaries.

There have also been numerous, extremely confident and impassioned, defenses of Monsanto and glyphosate here on HN over the years. These might deserve some reexamination.
by jandrese | 2025-12-05 16:11:32+00:00
Improperly installed wheels that have fallen off of vehicles in motion have killed not only the occupants of the vehicle but pedestrians and other motorists (especially motorcyclists) in the past. We also allow people to fill vehicles with highly combustible fluids with little to no oversight, which has caused fires and deaths.

There is a certain level of risk that is inevitable with moving multi-ton machines at lethal speeds, and deciding that this particular issue is where we are going to draw the line is dubious.

The point that "allowing this fuse to be replaced affordably is too much of a safety issue" is a cop out is valid.
by WorldMaker | 2025-12-05 16:11:33+00:00
The exact same road that generally leads to the same sort of problematic consolidation?

At best, WBD could have gone bankrupt and a court order could require it to be sold as parts with no one studio getting a significant chunk, scattering WBD's IP moat across many competitors.

But most likely it just means someone like Netflix would have the chance to make a smaller offer for the same kind of deal on a WBD with a worse negotiating position. Same consequences, different day.
by lesuorac | 2025-12-05 16:11:37+00:00
Well, if say the vaccine gave 1/100 fatal lung cancer then a population study would show a decrease in covid deaths and an increase in lung cancer deaths though.

It's only the case if the vaccine gave everybody slightly higher chances of dying from everything that it could hide in the weeds.

So in this specific example we can see from Table 2 that deaths/1 million are just lower for everything in the vaccinated so it's not the case that it lowered one kind of death drastically at the expense of another.
by ghaff | 2025-12-05 16:12:08+00:00
Bundles, where they exist, are a big stickiness factor. Especially during COVID, getting stuff delivered to my door before I'd have gotten around to the hassle of going to the store, was a big factor in making Prime more useful to me than it already was.

Apple is less pronounced but I'm very much in the Apple ecosystem so TV+ isn't really a big adder.

>Though admittedly cable's biggest trick (long term contracts) is maybe thankfully out of reach for most of the streamers.

Yeah. You make too much of an on/off ramp for just a streaming service and that's a hard pass for me.
by hackeraccount | 2025-12-05 16:12:19+00:00
There's a difference in kind not degree to the two sets of questions.

It's the difference between someone giving me a ride to work and someone doing my job for me. If the the point of the Calculus class is - ugh, it's been awhile for me so I might be messing this up - to teach the power rule or the thing being taught in English class is how to write a cogent essay in a set period of time then giving a student a calculator or more time is doing the job for the kid.

If they're incapable of doing the work why are the in class? Maybe there's a different class that's more appropriate for them?
by denysvitali | 2025-12-05 16:12:40+00:00
I have never seen an Ops team being rewarded for avoiding incidents (focusing in tech debt reduction), but instead they get the opposite - blamed when things go wrong.

I think it's human nature (it's hard to realize something is going well until it breaks), but still has a very negative psychological effect. I can barely imagine the stress the team is going through right now.
by rob_c | 2025-12-05 16:13:00+00:00
NB: most people choosing not to take it in France tend to fall into the medically at risk, stubborn, or, "so far down the rabbit hole that you probably can't trust these people to make sensible life choices" groups. (This alone being a good reason why this 'control' group had a slightly higher all cause mortality at 6months)

Remember, France was one of the wonderful countries where you couldn't legally shop or work if you were deemed to be 'not at risk' && 'unvaccinated' and achieved a very high rate as a result biasing the control group. (This is a purely statistical statement)

And for reference, I do think the vax is dangerous in terms of massive populations and we don't have mass graves due to mRNA problems (although several large cancer blips). In the same way in countries with low vaccination rates we don't have mass graves at 10% population or higher. Cv19 was always going to kill and an untested treatment is likely to kill those who were at risk.

(I'm willing to bet in the case of cv19 the ones who were hit hardest would have been hit badly by either vector, virus or mRNA. But we'll pretty much never be able to prove or disprove that...)

I'm sure both extremes will jump to the rallying cry of "2 more weeks..." So yes of course I'm wrong, I only worked on analysing early 'data' and pulling apart the models so what do I know.
by ynx | 2025-12-05 16:13:26+00:00
Speaking as someone who once worked at a company where these were real issues that came up - it's very often the case that intermediate parties in the contracts have dissolved.

Renegotiating the contracts would require lengthy and expensive processes of discovering the proper parties to actually negotiate with in the first place.

Although the contracts that were already executed can be relied upon, it truly is a can of worms to open, because it's not "Renegotiate with Studio X", it's "Renegotiate with the parent company of the defunct parent company of the company who merged with Y and created a new subsidiary Z" and so on and so forth, and then you have to relicense music, and, if need be, translations.

Then repeat that for each different region you need to relicense in because the licenses can be different for different regions.

The cost of negotiation would be greater than the losses to piracy tbh.
by svanwinkle-dev | 2025-12-05 16:13:26+00:00
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by marssaxman | 2025-12-05 16:13:28+00:00
It was not always so. The E30 I used to drive - a 1986 model 325 - was a marvelous little thing, not only a joy to drive but a pleasure to work on. Its engineers had been just as thoughtful about its maintenance as its operation.

The car was 20 years old when I had it, but still ran like a top. I'm sure I'd have been driving it for many more years had my ex not run it into the back of a tow truck.
by shrida_kl | 2025-12-05 16:13:32+00:00
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