MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wrs | 2025-04-20 16:20:44+00:00
That sounds like it might be the staff just being uninformed because nobody has ever wanted to do that before.

But a likely practical problem with that plan is that the cash price is unrelated to the price the insurance company has negotiated with the facility, and the negotiated price is a secret, so if you pay the cash price you won’t be reimbursed for the amount you paid. You’d need to get them to agree to refund the difference if insurance approved later.

For imaging in particular, there are some facilities that can handle direct payment rather than expecting everything to be paid by insurance. Maybe look for one of those if this comes up again.

Yes, this is very messed up. Welcome to the USA!
by nunez | 2025-04-20 16:20:56+00:00
I think we are going to agree to disagree on some things, but I understand that I am a professional weirdo when it comes to the WFH/RTO battle. I'm a child-free late-30s guy who has always loved commuting (traffic and all) and working away from home and treats the airport, airplane cabin and hotel room in some other city as a collective happy place.

> As far as “tech sales”. I’ve lead my share of complex cloud tech projects from discovery, customer acceptance to leading the delivery - all remotely. Yes sometimes I had to travel to the client’s site. But I haven’t needed to be in the office with the people on my team (who were sometimes in another country).

I was a cloud/DevOps consultant/SA as well before I moved into tech presales. It's a different world, even though it doesn't seem like it would be on paper.

Delivery can be (and usually is, these days) done remotely, but I've found that finding new opportunities to expand or sell into new parts of business is easier when done face to face. The human part of the job is difficult to replicate over Zoom, in my experience.

That said, when I was a consultant/SA, I much preferred pairing with clients in person than over Zoom. I enjoyed the travel and found sharing a keyboard to be more engaging than talking at a screen for hours on end. I realize that this was probably a "me" thing and that others are totally fine with remote pairing.

> My coworkers are just that my coworkers. At work, “I’m taking a step back to look at things from the thousand foot few”, “taking things to the parking lot”, and “adding on to what Becky said”. I’m a completely different person at home. At the end of the day, my “friends” at work are not interested in keeping their jobs. I go to work to make money - not friends.

This is where we differ. I'm at my best when I'm working with others in-person towards a common goal. While I'm also motivated by money and am not pining to make lifelong friends in the workplace, I miss going to the bar at the end of a long week and decompressing with others who "get it." My wife has this, and I'm always jealous about it. For me, doing this over Zoom pales in comparison.

However, all of this is why I prefer hybrid arrangements that are mostly remote with budget for monthly team get-togethers. I don't think being on-site every day is effective, but I've found being perma-remote to be really isolating.

> ’ve worked for two companies remotely since 2020 - Amazon and now a much smaller company. They both had excellent onboarding procedures. While AWS wasn’t “remote first”, my department (Professional Services) was as is my current company. Both had “onboarding buddies” and Amazon had a list of people you should set up 1x1’s with an instructions for the relevant internal systems you should use.

These are excellent systems _if you are a self-starter and know what you're doing_. They fall apart if you are junior that develops best in a dedicated environment, or if you prefer a more "social" way of onboarding.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-04-20 16:22:16+00:00
Honestly I kind of have to disagree with your entire premise.

We’re seeing pretty dramatic decreases in emissions across any advanced society that took major regulatory action to decrease emissions. EU emissions in 2023 were 37% lower than in 1990, despite population increases. A good chunk of the early drops were due to fuel substitution, but now increasingly they’re due to the deployment of renewables. In 2024, about 47% of the EU’s total electricity generation for the year came from renewable sources! These are incredible results, especially if you compare them to a decade or two earlier. If you’d told me that in a matter of 15-20 years, the EU’s pro-renewable industrial policy would have achieved these results (say back in the late 2000s) I would have been very surprised. Yet here we are, and the numbers keep jumping every year. So I would not say “regulatory approaches haven’t worked,” I would say “wow, this is one of the most effective regulatory interventions that human beings have ever devised.”

The reason global emissions haven’t dropped is because China’s emissions kept rising during this time. However: now we’re seeing a similar process unfold in China, just at a much larger scale. There the central government is massively subsidizing and encouraging the deployment of renewables. Current estimates are that China’s emissions may have already plateaued and are entering a structural decline. Again, yes, a lot of this is due to technology being available. But the rapid deployment of the tech is a function of strong government intervention.

We are going to reach a point very soon where 90%+ of any modern nation’s energy can be supplied using renewables, nuclear and storage. It’s actually coming very fast. (And that 90% is really only capped by intermittency issues, not because there are major limits on what we can generate.) At that point we’ll be into the very substantial “mop up” phase where we try to work through the remaining high-emissions industries. This will require massive amounts of regulatory intervention, since most of the barriers will be due to the need to replace existing infrastructure on an expedited schedule.
by 999900000999 | 2025-04-20 16:22:23+00:00
Assuming this can match Claude's latest, and full time usage ( as in you have a system that's constantly running code without any user input,) you'd probably save 600 to 700 a month. A 4090 is only 2K and you'll see an ROI within 90 days.

I can imagine this will serve to drive prices for hosted llms lower.

At this level any company that produces even a nominal amount of code should be running LMS on prem( AWS if your on the cloud).
by dr_kiszonka | 2025-04-20 16:23:00+00:00
I agree with you.

To me, a lot of pre-college math education could be summarized as "In this class I will show you a bunch of abstract problems, a bunch of ways to solve them, and I will test if you have learned them." Learning in these classes is often limited to memorizing a sequence of steps.

That's why I would frequently ask "You can do that?" myself when talking to those whom I considered mathematically gifted (math olympiad winners and such). I think they realized that as a problem-solving tool math could be used creatively. I saw it as a largely useless hammer that to work had to be held in a very specific way.

I remember connecting sets in, I think, Pascal to what I had learned in school and realizing that all that math was perhaps not as useless as I had thought : - )
by tavavex | 2025-04-20 16:23:15+00:00
I feel like we're reading two different posts. In my interpretation, the post describes the whole accusation as a logical contradiction. It's not your normal insider trading - it's an accusation based on the fact that the CEO did any stock transactions while knowing classified information that also related to his company. What was he supposed to do to make this right? Tell the general public the classified information? Avoid doing anything with his company's shares indefinitely (or at least, for the decades until said information is declassified)? The defense here goes beyond "everyone does this so this is fine" (though I wouldn't be surprised if others did in fact do this).
by globular-toast | 2025-04-20 16:23:39+00:00
This is like trying to change English or arguing that we should all speak Esperanto. Mathematical notation isn't the way it is to save ink or make it look difficult. It's that way because it works. Notation isn't set by committee, it's just a way of communication that works. If you read cutting edge research you'll find notations being invented all over the place. Most of them will never go anywhere, some will become standard in their field (like big-O) and others will become universally used (like dropping the multiplication symbol and using epsilon for a small number).
by wcfrobert | 2025-04-20 16:23:48+00:00
- Not reporting large cash transactions (over $10,000)

- Using someone else's ID can be interpreted as identity theft (sharing student ID discount, Costco cards, epic passes)

- torrenting copyrighted content (textbooks, music, movies, TV shows, audio books). I'm sure most of my classmates in school torrented some of those $200 textbooks.
by senko | 2025-04-20 16:24:07+00:00
I agree on the underlying premise - current crop of LLMs isn't good enough at coding to completely autonomously achieve a minimum quality level for actually reliable products.

I don't see how peak vibe coding in a few months follows that. Check revenue and growth figures for products like Lovable ($10m+ ARR) or Bolt.new ($30m+ ARR). This doesn't show costs (they might in fact be deep in red) but with story like that I don't see it crashing in 3-4 months.

On the user experience/expectation side, I can see how the overhyped claims of "build complete apps" hit a peak, but that will still leave the tools positioned strong for "quick prototyping and experimentation". IMHO, that alone is enough to prevent a cliff drop.

Even allowing for the peak in tool usage for coding specifically, I don't see how that causes "AI winter", since LLMs are now used in a wide variety of cases and that use is strongly growing (and uncorrelated to the whole "AI coding" market).

Finally, "costs will go up for all sorts of reasons" claim is dubious, since the costs per token are dropping even while the models are getting better (for a quick example, cost of GPT-4.1 is roughly 50% of GPT-4o while being an improvement).

For these reasons, if I could bet against your prediction, I'd immediately take that bet.
by bgnn | 2025-04-20 16:25:12+00:00
I think what is forgotten is the organisms other than plants. Hydroponics is amazing for plants but not sure if you can sustain a wineyard in that fashion for long without having some kind of organism starting to cause issues. A well balanced soil doesn't only support the plants but also provides a healthy microbiome. Now, with the use of pesticides, artificial fertilizers, and tilling it's not less synthetic process than hydrophonics. Soil degradation in presence of these are so well documented and well understood that it's crazy we keep doing it.
by ramoz | 2025-04-20 16:25:43+00:00
It’s a vehicle that can hit the enterprise, broad user base, training data, and gain coverage of a competitor market (I’m sure the primary LLM in windsurf is Claude just like it is in cursor).

Beyond that, these IDEs have a potential path to “vibe coding for everyone” and could possibly represent the next generation of general office tooling. Might as well start with a dedicated product team vs spinning up a new one.
by mitjam | 2025-04-20 16:26:28+00:00
Afaik vllm is for concurrent serving with batched inference for higher throughput, not single-user inference. I doubt inference throughput is higher with single prompts at a time than Ollama. Update: this is a good Intro to continuous batching in llm inference: https://www.anyscale.com/blog/continuous-batching-llm-infere...
by gruez | 2025-04-20 16:26:52+00:00
>- Not reporting large cash transactions (over $10,000)

If you're talking about Currency Transaction Report, only financial institutions have to file those.

>- Using someone else's ID can be interpreted as identity theft (sharing student ID discount, Costco cards, epic passes)

Is "identity theft" actually a distinct crime? Or is it just fraud? If it's the latter, it's not a felony unless you're getting absurdly high amounts of benefit.

>- torrenting copyrighted content (textbooks, music, movies, TV shows, audio books). I'm sure most if not all of my classmates in school torrented some of those $200 textbooks.

Copyright infringement is a civil infraction unless you're doing it commercially (eg. burning bootleg DVDs to sell)
by ryao | 2025-04-20 16:27:00+00:00
Perfect forward secrecy means harvest now, decrypt later does not apply to signature algorithms when ephemeral keys are used and TLSv1.3 mandates ephemeral keys. If the ephemeral keys are cracked, that would be the fault of the key agreement algorithm, not the signature algorithm.

> If we assume cryptographically-relevant quantum computers will one day exist

One day could be 10,000 years in the future, so what meaning is there to such an assumption? You need to assume much more than that such machines will be constructed one day to suggest that there is a need for action. The industry is switching to hybrid key agreement algorithms out of an abundance of caution that it is not just one day that such a machine will be made, but one day in our lifetimes. It is not certain that will actually happen, but if it does, having adopted hybrid key exchange algorithms years in advance is enough. There is no need to switch signature algorithms from ECC until the creation of such a machine is imminent. Thus it is fine to proceed with EdDSA adoption in PKI.
by animal531 | 2025-04-20 16:27:10+00:00
Another take on it came from my time playing StarCraft 2. When the game was in full swing you could probably break it into 10 levels where anyone from the previous level can never beat someone in the next bracket.

When two of my friends started playing I could pretty easily beat both of them while they were playing together with any race setup, BUT at the same time it would have taken 3-5 of myself to even have the slightest chance against a professional level player.
by everforward | 2025-04-20 16:27:12+00:00
How much of that is them being categorically not a felony and how much is prosecutorial discretion? 15 over probably qualifies for a reckless operation charge of some kind. Likewise, I wouldn’t be surprised if a fake sick day is wire fraud even if it never actually gets charged that way.

I would believe you’ve only committed two or three “name-brand” felonies, I’d be surprised if it were really that few under a maximally scoped prosecutor. Never borrowed antibiotics or a painkiller from a friend? Never decided it wasn’t worth the effort to file a tax document for $3 of dividends?

3 a day feels high, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it were double digits a year under an incredibly strict reading of the laws for the average person.
by kace91 | 2025-04-20 16:28:12+00:00
>Can you say more?

My experience is that copilot is basically a better autocomplete, but anything beyond a three liner will deviate from current context making the answer useless - not following the codebase's convention, using packages that aren't present, not seeing the big picture, and so on.

In contrast, cursor is eerily aware of its surroundings, being able to point out that your choice of naming conflicts with somewhere else, that your test is failing because of a weird config in a completely different place leaking to your suite, and so on.

I use cursor without bringing my own keys, so it defaults to claude-3.5-sonnet. I always use it in composer mode. Though I can't tell you with full certainty the reasons for its better performance, I strongly suspect it's related to how it searches the codebase for context to provide the model with.

It gets to the point that I'm frequently starting tasks by dropping a Jira description with some extra info to it directly and watching it work. It won't do the job by itself in one shot, but it will surface entry points, issues and small details in such a way that it's more useful to start there than from a blank slate, which is already a big plus.

It can also be used as a rubber duck colleague asking it whether a design is good, potential for refactorings, bottlenecks, boy scouting and so on.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-04-20 16:28:25+00:00
To be blunt, I think this blog post highlights everything that's wrong with Internet discourse today (and in 2013) :

1. First, make a bold assertion (i.e. that an average person commits three felonies a day) and provide absolutely zero evidence for this, or even an example of what those felonies are. Sure, this blog post references a book that I'm assuming has more info, but given that "vague, overbroad laws" are the central thesis of this blog post, the author should at least give some examples or evidence of what he's referring to. "Lie with citations", where you make a claim, and with a referenced link, but that link only has a tangential relationship with your claim, is all too common online.

2. The post brings up the example of Joseph P Nacchio's prosecution with a telling that is clearly one-sided and doesn't even entertain the possibility that he committed serious crimes. I absolutely believe it was possible he was prosecuted for his decision to push back against the NSA, but I'm certainly not going to believe it from this blog post. The Wikipedia article on Joseph Nacchio states "Nacchio claimed that he was not in a rightful state of mind when he sold his shares because of problems with his son, and the imminent announcement of a number of government contracts." So it seems clear to me he at least admitted that some of his stock sales were improper.

What I think is even more assinine is that the one single example, a CEO who was prosecuted for insider trading, absolutely does not support the assertion that the average person commits 3 felonies a day, or that laws are overbroad. I'm quite sure I've never made any equity transactions that could be considered insider trading, so my empathy for this situation is low.
by markburns | 2025-04-20 16:28:46+00:00
People obeying the speed limit encounter fewer people obeying the speed limit than people speeding and vice versa.

My theory: I think this explains why so many drivers hate other drivers and think they are bad drivers.

People that love to speed think they are good because they can drive faster and react quickly (presumably). They inadvertently see more people that don’t drive in this style.

People who drive carefully encounter more reckless drivers.
by tavavex | 2025-04-20 16:29:50+00:00
This isn't really the point of the post. Even a 10mb compact native desktop app is in the wrong if it forces itself into appdata with no alternatives - it's just that modern web-app-likes seem more likely to do this. Some of them aren't even Electron, but they always manage to somehow take up hundreds of megabytes of space anyways.
by Terretta | 2025-04-20 16:30:04+00:00
We, mere humans, communicate our needs poorly, and undervisualize until we see concrete results. This is the state of us.

Faced with us as a client, the LLM has infinite patience at linear but marginal cost (relative to your thinking/design time cost, and the value of instant iteration as you realize what you meant to picture and say).

With offshoring, telling them they're getting it wrong is not just horrifically slow thanks to comms and comprehension latency, it makes you a problem client, until soon you'll find the do-over cost becomes neither linear nor marginal.

Don't sleep on the power of small fast iterations (not vibes, concrete iterations), with an LLM tool that commits as you go and can roll back both code and mental model when you're down a garden path.
by cpgxiii | 2025-04-20 16:30:42+00:00
f2c produces pretty sketchy C code. It's very easy for reasonable thread-safe Fortran code to go through f2c and end up as C code with globals and other thread-unsafe constructs. You have to be prepared to completely rewrite the generated C code to make it usable, possibly more unpleasantly than just doing the port by hand.
by const_cast | 2025-04-20 16:31:05+00:00
> Teachers and education administrations can be really fucking stupid too.

Yeah, sure, they can be. The difference is that this is their JOB and they're EDUCATED.

If you trust parents "way more" than actual educators, then great! Pull your kids out of school and teach them yourself. That's always been an option. But don't go around proclaiming public school should be specifically engineered to make YOU comfortable.

You? Are nobody. Your opinion does not matter.
by Svip | 2025-04-20 16:31:26+00:00
I don't necessarily think this is a failure of theory in face of practice. Most party members are team members, and are willing to follow party leadership most of the time. Yes, I know the leadership has leverage that ordinary members do not, but I think most of the time, leadership need not exert that leverage. But the list of members who switch party in Denmark between elections suggest that the theory is very much practised, but it needn't be all the time.
by kazinator | 2025-04-20 16:31:43+00:00
I feel you are mixing something up here. Assume that the student ID discount or Costco card, etc, are being borrowed: used with the card holder's blessing. Or borrowing a Netflix password.

It is the institution giving the student ID discount, or Costco or Netflix, who are not happy about it, and call it theft.

But it is not theft of the identity.
by nativeit | 2025-04-20 16:32:03+00:00
I don't know that it was intended to assert or enumerate that as a literal statement? Seems like it was only trying to suggest that our code of laws is such that any individual could be targeted, and it's plausible that they could be found in violation of some statute given sufficient motivation on the part of investigators. This strikes me as intuitively true, and tracks with other signals such as the impact of "Broken Windows Policing"[1], the recent application of Justice Department investigations as political retribution, the ongoing phenomena of false confessions[2], the statistics involved with erroneous convictions[3], etc..

That's a charitable reading of the title and the author's intentions. I don't know that their underlying point is even possible to quantify, but in my opinion that doesn't detract from its basic assertion that no one should feel out-of-reach from the kind of motivated prosecution they describe in the one highlighted example.

I also ran across another comment under one of the more critical reviews of the book, and I found it relevant (as did the author of the critical review, in their reply)[4]:

> Also, I think the book also makes an important point implicitly on ‘rule of law’ arguments as they relate to public policy. It’s common for people to argue, for example, that regardless of the merits of illegal immigration or economic regulations, their violators deserve to be punished simply because, “it’s the law.” We can’t just let the law go unenforced. Except the law (often very trivial laws) goes selectively unenforced – and selectively enforced – all the time, as illustrated in Silverglate’s book. It’s already a foregone conclusion that we pick in choose how many resources (if any at all) to devote to enforcing a particular crime, usually depending on how severe it’s considered by most people.

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1. https://www.simplypsychology.org/broken-windows-theory.html

2. https://www.apa.org/news/podcasts/speaking-of-psychology/fal...

3. https://innocenceproject.org/exonerations-data/

4. https://www.econlib.org/three-felonies-a-day/

Edit: formatting
by OsrsNeedsf2P | 2025-04-20 16:32:24+00:00
Sometimes I wonder why there isn't more enthusiasm around theming. Chicago95[0] is popular, but I also love how Garuda[0] themes KDE. There's some small websites for downloading themes on various DEs, but most of them are a bit jank and it seems built-in support beyond basic things like accents aren't there.

[0] https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95 [1] https://garudalinux.org/editions (screenshots don't do it justice)