MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by coder543 | 2026-01-02 16:21:39+00:00
The Llama 4 models were instruct models at a time when everyone was hyped about and expecting reasoning models. As instruct models, I agree they seemed fine, and I think Meta mostly dropped the ball by taking the negative community feedback as a signal that they should just give up. They’ve had plenty of time to train and release a Llama-4.5 by now, which could include reasoning variants and even stronger instruct models, and I think the community would have come around. Instead, it sounds like they’re focusing on closed source models that seem destined for obscurity, where Llama was at least widely known.

On the flip side, it also shows how damaging echo chambers can be, where relatively few people even gave the models a chance, just repeating the negativity they heard from other people and downvoting anyone who voiced a different experience.

I think this was exacerbated by the fact that Llama models had previously come in small, dense sizes like 8B that people could run on modest hardware, where even Llama 4 Scout was a large model that a lot of people in the community weren’t prepared to run. Large models seem more socially accepted now than they were when Llama 4 launched.
by stared | 2026-01-02 16:22:29+00:00
The claim I refuted is that there are no test for men (there are). Not sure why you want to get needlessly argumentative here, repeating things I already linked (sic!).

Sure, test from penis has lower specificity and sensitivity that for cervix, but it is not binary "works or not" (as side note, just measuring from urethra is rarely enough [1]). Life is probability, and it is a huge fallacy to believe that things work 100% or 0%, nothing in between (rarely the case in medicine).

Results are actionable on many ways. Most important, screening for female partners, informed risk for partners or your on safety for ones partners (condoms BTW reduce infection rates, but do not fully protect, as HPV can be on other parts of skin).

[1]

> The overall prevalence of HPV was 65.4%. HPV detection was highest at the penile shaft (49.9% for the full cohort and 47.9% for the subcohort of men with complete sampling), followed by the glans penis/coronal sulcus (35.8% and 32.8%) and scrotum (34.2% and 32.8%). Detection was lowest in urethra (10.1% and 10.2%) and semen (5.3% and 4.8%) samples. Exclusion of urethra, semen, and either perianal, scrotal, or anal samples resulted in a <5% reduction in prevalence.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3904649/
by thyristan | 2026-01-02 16:22:36+00:00
> We the People of the United States [, in Order to ...,] do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

That is the literal first paragraph of the US constitution. I cannot imagine a valid legalistic argument that ignores that. When first establishing the constitution, it also didn't appear in a vacuum, the pre-existing states and confederation were already democratic for some time. So all authority/validity/legitimacy the US constitution has comes from the population, back then. And through continuing use, participation and broad acceptance until present.

And of course, as a practical matter in a representative democracy, between elections, the people do have far less of an influence. They can basically only voice their opinions, threaten to vote differently in the next election, or start a revolution. But that doesn't absolve them of their responsibility on election day.
by linolevan | 2026-01-02 16:22:40+00:00
I'm not the OP of the claim (and I love VLC) but maybe they're referring to this early 2018 issue: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/19723 which seems to be being actively worked on.

There's also https://code.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/-/issues/25651 but that's an off by one error so likely not really relevant to video playback for the average user.
by rvba | 2026-01-02 16:22:56+00:00
There are those comedians who talk with people in IT (mostly various types of roasts). People laugh, but it is incredibly sad that for example someone from the Android team does not use an android phone for a daily driver.

Microsoft had a lot of sins, but at least they asked the coders to eat own dogfood.

Also the "2 year coding wizards" that you described usually dont live up to see the results (or rather: disasters) of their decisions + they dont have to maintain their own code.
by zdw | 2026-01-02 16:23:06+00:00
Mostly that VLC has had noticeable issues with displaying some kinds of subtitles made with Advanced SubStation (especially ones taking up much of the frame, or that pan/zoom), which MPV-based players handle better.

If you want a MPV-based player GUI on macOS, https://github.com/iina/iina is quite good.
by AnotherGoodName | 2026-01-02 16:23:20+00:00
+$100k per man vaccinated in effective economic outcomes (less cancer, longer lives, less debilitating conditions) for those who needed to hear this.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2759438/

Want to boost the economy massively at next to no cost? HPV vaccinations are incredible.
by cruffle_duffle | 2026-01-02 16:23:37+00:00
Oh man it extended well past the 90’s. Finding some weird windows video codec in a dodgy .ru domain was a time honored tradition for quite some time.

I remember all the weird repackaged video codec installers that put mystery goo all over them machine.

The article bashes VLC but I tell you what… VLC plays just about everything you feed it without complaint. Even horribly corrupt files it will attempt to handle. It might not be perfect by any means but it does almost always work.
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by xg15 | 2026-01-02 16:24:45+00:00
Not a child, but I have a Switch myself and I held off for a long time getting a membership. Of course you can do it, but the Switch will put up lots of passive aggressive roadblocks where it will let you know that you could use this additional feature in the game now if you just had a membership.

There are also unreasonable restrictions, like not being able to play user-created maps in Mario Maker unless you have a membership.
by dotancohen | 2026-01-02 16:25:19+00:00
Up until just last month I had never had a problem with VLC. But I don't pirate content so maybe I just hadn't encountered the problematic files. However, recording voice notes in Opus format on my phone, it turns out that VLC has a bug playing Opus files at certain bit rates. However for me this is easily worked around by just using MPV.
by ericmay | 2026-01-02 16:25:27+00:00
People like all sorts of dumb things. Temu and these cheap crap products have a lot of problems, and quality is only the tip of th4 iceberg.

> Why?

Are you asking why they’re doing it?

> Why don't they have them do something with positive utility, like sweeping streets or providing elder care, or a myriad of other jobs?

They do, but they need people to be working in manufacturing facilities too, otherwise the gig is up. You can’t have millions or tens of millions of people sweeping streets all day - better to give them the illusion that the future is better by having them build and ship products.
by mingus88 | 2026-01-02 16:25:32+00:00
And if it does, opinions may change. But right now it doesn’t and that’s what we are talking about.

We saw rapid improvements in image and video generation but that’s actually proven to be super threatening to people, if not just embarrassing (see the Star Wars alien animal tech demo).

After three years of this, most genAI is crap, it has made most services worse and people very understandably don’t like it.

Where is the Siri that actually does what Apple announced back in 2024?
by yieldcrv | 2026-01-02 16:25:38+00:00
so far the comments are adding more vectors to understanding the situation, but nothing that fundamentally changes the user experience

I think the most insightful thing is that there are 9 HPV variants some of which someone wouldn't have exposure to so its worthwhile to get the vaccine anyway

but other than that, the situation is the same. for men's age the utility of the vaccine is based on probability alone, as its a waste of resources to even attempt checking for prior/current exposure
by maxglute | 2026-01-02 16:25:40+00:00
The tremendous growth is still happening on sector by sector basis, and arguably west only holds edge in few extreme frontier niches while PRC increasingly dominating rest. Relevant PRC joke:

If China can't make something, it's considered high tech.
Once china makes it, it's no longer high tech.

PRC makes high tech products into low margin commodities. That's what happens when they have roughly oced combined in stem talent and vast industrial base to value engineer. And most of it happened in last 15 years. The point is PRC catches up fast (including extreme frontier), and when they do, they can scale and cut margins, which is more interesting direction than west who seemingly can't. The point is that is obviously the superior dominance recipe vs west who has vanishing frontier lead that will continue to be lost because western margins is PRC opportunity. The point is when PRC makes >50% of global stuff materially but charges <50%, it's exceedingly likely that will take over everything, at PRC speed, and will not leave west any high margin, leading edge niches, unless west can learn to operate with low margins as well.
by evolve2k | 2026-01-02 16:25:41+00:00
I’m pondering on this functionality for static site builders that already say have some sort of Markdown to HTML Page pipeline.

For most SSG (Static site generators) I’ve seen that take a plain text to html conversion, they usually only serve up .html

Wondering out loud if this would be a useful and desirable addition for SSG tools to have the option to serve up say .html and a .md (or .txt or whatever).

Am I missing something? Be a good idea/feature yeah?
by exabrial | 2026-01-02 16:26:01+00:00
Still disabled on all my networks and will be forever. Incoming HN downvotes because I'm not using the coolest latest technology.

ipv4 accidentally provides "casual anonymity" and "one ip does not identify device", which is incredibly important in this age of overbearing surveillance by government and private companies. ipv6, even with the "privacy extensions", is one subpoena away form directly identifying your individual device. ("ISP X: who did you assign this block of ips to on Y date?")

ipv4 has a boatload of issues (the worst of it is probably the unused and 'dangerous' flags), and ipv6 offers a boatload of cool features (The most beautiful is probably the flow state tracking).

However ipv6 was designed in a naive vacuum where no one possibly imagined the internet being abused to destroy an individual's inherit right to anonymity.

Oddly enough, the people most hellbent on spying on you: Facebook, Google, etc are the ones screaming for ipv6 the loudest.
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by weinzierl | 2026-01-02 16:26:28+00:00
The article talks about image comparisons but does not say what the best way to extract an image is.

If I want the best possible quality image at a precisely specified time, what would I do?

Can I increase quality if I have some leeway regarding the time (to use the closest keyframe)?

Is there a way to "undo" motion blur and get a sharp picture?
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by tuetuopay | 2026-01-02 16:26:44+00:00
Replying late, but yes, I have less trouble with older films. It is a mix of more articulate acting (worse on-set mics so actors spoke rather than mutter), and less over-the-top mixing.

For current movies, some of the most legible are "children" oriented movies: I watched the Dragons set and it was trouble-free.
by fragmede | 2026-01-02 16:27:04+00:00
That's a lot of words to analyze the world, but no mention of drugs. Which, if you don't do them, you'd never realize. But we all have heard the rumors by now, that Elon's on Ketamine, the Republicans are all on coke, Hunter S Thompson is worth mentioning, Betty Ford put her names on those clinics for a reason. Rob Ford. Boris Yeltsin was an alcoholic. Margaret Thatcher was on stimulants. I'll avoid Godwin-ing this thread.

The stereotype about German engineering is bolstered by the fact that everyone there is on speed and has 4 extra hours in the day to do nothing but clean and tidy up.
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by dylan604 | 2026-01-02 16:27:28+00:00
> Naturally, we can stick brighter backlights in our monitors to make the difference between light and dark more significant,

It's actually the opposite that makes the biggest difference with the physical monitor. CRTs always had a residual glow that caused blacks to be grays. It was very hard to get true black on a CRT unless it was off and had been for some time. It wasn't until you could actually have no light from a pixel where black was actually black.

Sony did a demo when they released their OLED monitors where they had the top of each monitor type side by side: CRT, LCD, OLED. The CRT was just gray while the OLED was actually black. To the point that I was thinking in my head that surely this is a joke and the OLED wasn't actually on. That's precisely when the narrator said "and just to show that the monitors are all on" as the video switched to a test pattern.

As for the true question you're getting at, TFA mentions things like color matrix, primaries, and transfer settings in the file. Depending on the values, the decoder makes decision on the math used to calculate the values. You can use any of the values on the same video and arrive at different results. Using the wrong ones will make your video look bad, so ensuring your file has the correct values is important.

From TFA: https://gist.github.com/arch1t3cht/b5b9552633567fa7658deee5a...
by netsharc | 2026-01-02 16:27:32+00:00
It's probably worse if it was once reliable and now not, compared to if it's never reliable: if it's never reliable, you've been trained to have a huge safety margin and backup plans, if it's reliable and suddenly it messes up, you're thrown in a new situation and have to think "Shit, what do I do now?". Probably very stressful, and it leads people to avoid the service altogether.

Although apparently NYC subways used to be better too.
by toast0 | 2026-01-02 16:27:52+00:00
IMHO, there's not much hassle anymore, unless you seek it out. The FreeBSD installer will install to zfs just as well as ufs. This article seems to not take the least hassle path.

Backups using zfs snapshots are pretty nice; you can pretty easily do incremental updates. zfs scrub is great to have. FreeBSD UFS also has snapshots, but doesn't have a mechanism to check data integrity: fsck checks for well formed metadata only. I don't think ext4 has snapshots or data integrity checking, but I haven't looked at it much.

There are articles and people claiming you need ECC to run zfs or that you need an unreasonable amount of memory. ECC is nice to have, but running ZFS without ECC isn't worse than running any other filesystem without ECC; and you only really need a large amount of ram if you run with deduplication enabled, but very few use cases benefit from deduplication, so the better advice is to ensure you don't enable dedup. I wouldn't necessarily run zfs on something with actually small memory like a router, but then those usually have a specialized flash filesystem and limited writes anyway.
by mjg2 | 2026-01-02 16:27:59+00:00
This HN post fits into the category of "Pithy blog title with casually anecdotal content."

Software companies will never earnestly attempt to protect children because that action ("acknowledging children are in danger by using our product") acknowledges risk and introduces liability. (VCs hate that shit, especially Silicon Valley VCs.) In the United States, decades ago, laws were introduced to induce accountability of online platforms in regard to IP and child protection laws in the context of user generated content (forums, markets, chatrooms). Basically, these websites/corporations bulked at the weight of accountability ("how are we to monitor every user's action all the time?", "We'll be sued immediately by trolls.", etc.). The parties involved eventually came to a resolution that there's a "notice period" that organizations use to enforce this behavior on its communities.

If I were to write a blog titled "Parent Controls Aren't for Parents", my opening salvo would be "They are minimal-effort guardrails to protect corporations from being sued by negligent parents for post-incident harm."
by hubraumhugo | 2026-01-02 16:28:10+00:00
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by akhnid | 2026-01-02 16:28:14+00:00
Co-founders/ CEO's and specifically non technical individuals are the ones who need this the most:

1- "Did the payments feature ship?" not "Did PR #847 merge?"

2- Non-technical stakeholders are desperate for visibility

3- Want to ask questions, not learn Git syntax

4- AI-powered queries are natural for them, foreign to no one
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by bryanlarsen | 2026-01-02 16:29:23+00:00
It varies by company. The companies that participated in the audit generally got hit with a 17% tariff, the ones that didn't, 34%. (oversimplified).

Either way I phrased my original comment as a question as I'm not sure whether to consider 17% or 34% as "high". It depends on perspective. Both are painful, but neither are high enough to completely kill trade, like 100%+ tariffs do.
by yoyohello13 | 2026-01-02 16:29:38+00:00
I remember when I first started reading HN how disappointed I was to see so many comments shitting on Linux and/or FOSS. I was kind of shocked because this is exactly the group that should be evangelizing this stuff. At the end of the day I realized I’m willing to put up with some inconvenience in exchange for freedom, but most people just aren’t.

The amount of hate spewed at FOSS is astounding really. People are literally giving you shit for free. Chill out.
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