MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by k310 | 2025-05-12 02:00:27+00:00
USNEWS: [0]

> Under the planned order, the federal government would tie what it pays pharmaceutical companies for those drugs to the price paid by a group of other, economically advanced countries — the so-called “most favored nation" approach.

> The proposal will face fierce opposition from the pharmaceutical industry.

> It was a rule that Trump tried to adopt during his first term, but could never get through. He signed a similar executive order in the final weeks of his presidency, but a court order later blocked the rule from going into effect under the Biden administration.

AXIOS [1]

> Worth noting: Trump earlier this year rescinded a similar executive order from former President Biden that also aimed to lower prescription drug costs.

> Zoom out: Trump is expected to impose tariffs on pharmaceuticals produced overseas in the coming weeks. Experts say such a policy could increase drug costs and exacerbate shortages.

[0] https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2025-05-11/...

[1] https://www.axios.com/2025/04/16/trump-drug-pricing-order-co...
by hardwaresofton | 2025-05-12 02:01:37+00:00
> It’s a secured asset, so if you turn 65 and need to go into a nursing home for some , or die, they’re confident they can recoup the balance of the loan from the house when it is auctioned off or sold to another family member.

Thanks for noting this, this was definitely a possibility I hadn't weighed enough, though I'm not sure it's always another family member (I assume you meant another family member or any random bidder)

> Banks do not engage in age discrimination in giving mortgages. You can get one at age 20 or age 60, all else being equal.

I find it hard to believe the suggestion here that as far as 30y loan repayment goes, all else equal, a 60 year old earning 70k a year is similarly risky to a 20 year old earning the same rate? From first principles, this clearly doesn't hold.

Now, I assume you were referring to the illegality of considering age in loans -- it is illegal to consider age, but in this case the "age discrimination" is baked in -- because it's built into credit scores[0][1]. The common sense take prevails here, I think.

Actual results on the ground often differ from what is and isn't legal/right, as anyone who is in an underrepresented class will attest to (I do not mean this in the preachy liberal sense, it's just the best way I can find to say it), I think this might be one of those cases (guess I'll find out when I'm 60?).

[0]: https://www.aarp.org/money/personal-finance/mortgage-rejecti...

[1]: https://www.philadelphiafed.org/-/media/frbp/assets/working-...
by gruez | 2025-05-12 02:02:51+00:00
>This analysis relies on someone to have a mortgage that takes 100% of their salary every month. The general rule was don't buy a house over 3x your annual pre-tax salary. I think it's moved up past that in most places though. Either way, don't buy so much house you can't afford food. I would think that goes without saying.

The problem is that in much of the anglosphere, housing is so scarce that you have to ignore such rules of thumb, or live in the middle of nowhere.

>This analysis is an edge case

>Another crazy edge case

If you ignore edge cases, then you're left with just the median case, and that says that at current price levels, houses aren't worth investing in because they have historically worse returns than stocks, and provide poor diversification.

>Include paying rent in your analysis comparing it with stocks, particularly after you pay it off. You're sinking $X into a rental property with zero return and zero equity gained. I don't have to pay $2000 to the mortgage ever again and I have an asset that has more than doubled in 20 years, and a place to live that is essentially rent/mortgage free for life. That's a lot of dividends comparatively. Also, rents go up, mortgage payments typically don't, so factor inflation in your rent analysis.

This calculator[1] factors everything you listed, and the math doesn't work out for the hottest housing markets. It might work out for Miami or Huston, but not San Francisco or even Albuquerque. Using default assumptions implies a break-even price-to-rent ratio of 14, but most US metros are far above that[2].

The nice thing about the calculator is that if you don't agree with the assumptions, you can plug in your own numbers. I'd like to see what numbers you come up with to make to make the math work out in favor of buying in the top US cities.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/upshot/buy-rent-cal...

[2] https://www.sofi.com/learn/content/price-to-rent-ratio-in-50...

>Housing prices are unrelated to an individual losing their job.

The point isn't that a Bay Area housing market will crash because Google Employee #68908 lost his job, it's that if there was an AI winter/tech crash, that will result in Bay Area housing prices dropping, along with layoffs.
by pbh101 | 2025-05-12 02:02:59+00:00
Fundamentally and writ large, tech makes us more efficient. Efficient means doing more with less labor. Which is good because it is deflationary: things get cheaper over time from tech advances, and without any tech we would all be subsistence farmers.

But it also means that yes, tech intrinsically enables capital to do more with less labor, thereby shifting the balance of power towards capital and empowering those with more capital.

What ‘we decide’ to do with that is another largely unrelated matter.
by rtpg | 2025-05-12 02:03:03+00:00
This is meandering a bit (and I'll once again state that I think Burrito Now Pay Layer is Bad(TM)), but the flow here is (forgive the paraphrasing):

- zug_zug said "we should talk about economics objectively" and claimed "bnpl is one of a dozen services that extracts money from those whose judgment we doubt" , giving examples of other services in that category

- I replied to that claim, saying that I believe their claim that, for example, junk food is a service that extracts money from whose judgement we doubt, is likely to be a subjective analysis and not an objective one.

- I further said that I think you could end up with a believe that it was an objective analysis if you are a person who has reached the conclusion that spending money on leisure is bad

- I am then claiming that I doubt that there's an objective chain of logic that gets you to "spending money on leisure is bad". My reasoning is that I believe that to not be the position held by many people, on top of my belief that generally most people are not extremely smart.

Absent the "spending money on leisure is bad" claim, I don't see a claim to saying that, _objectively_, junk food, sports cars etc is an indicator of people applying bad judgement. And so saying "well BNPL is objectively just yet another stupid tax" is not a well founded argument in my opinion!

"I think Burrito Now Pay Later is bad" is a fine statement, and doesn't try to apply a layer of objectivity that, in my view, crumbles pretty quickly.
by timewizard | 2025-05-12 02:03:28+00:00
> You literally trust your life with medical devices full of software

I do not. A more charitable way to phrase that is "We are all expected to." And yes, well spotted, this problem extends well beyond vehicles. Or are you suggesting that this is somehow indicative that there are no problems? How would we all know if there _was_ an error in a device?

> those that conform to “piece of paper” standards, such as ISO 15708

That standard deals with non destructive testing and has no material that is related to the practice of medicine or the use of medical imaging scanners. It's not even the right piece of paper.
by lucastech | 2025-05-12 02:03:58+00:00
I have to say, Visual Basic 4.0 changed my life when I was introduced to it at the age of 12. I had written Basic before that, but being able to build drag and drop create a GUI on top of my code was what really hooked me on programming. I built and sold my first desktop application at 14 that I wrote by myself in VB6 and used VB6 for all of my jobs through 21 when I had to upgrade a VB6 application to C#.net.

I often harp on how much I wish someone would build a simple GUI for the modern desktop or web environment, instead of spending ages fighting css and javascript for even the most basic layouts. Visual Basic just removed all of the complexity, nothing filled that gap before VB or after VB. Sadly, even VB these days is a mess ever since winforms stopped being the primary target interface.

Thank you for what you built, I've been writing code for 26 years now as a direct result of it.
by owenversteeg | 2025-05-12 02:04:15+00:00
>112 eCall is not a black box. It does not record constantly the position of the vehicle, it records only a few data to determine the position and direction of the vehicle just before the crash and these data are only transmitted to emergency call centers if there is a serious crash.

That statement is factually inconsistent. Either 112 eCall incorporates a time travel device or it must constantly record the position and direction of the vehicle and other data. In theory, that data is then deleted, but you have no way to verify that it is - and it would only require a trivial, unnoticeable software update to modify this.

Thankfully, we're safe. Car software is notoriously high quality and rarely hacked. All governments are fully trustworthy, especially around espionage and privacy, and have a perfect track record of never lying to the public.

Look, the European Commission stated that it cannot be hacked; "hackers cannot take control of it", from ec.europa.eu. They built an unhackable device. I am not sure what you could be worried about. If the government tells you something cannot be hacked, then it cannot be hacked. Furthermore, none of the EU member states have been found using other infrastructure to violate privacy laws.
by Bjartr | 2025-05-12 02:04:23+00:00
> Imagine applying for a job, only to find out that an algorithm powered by artificial intelligence (AI) rejected your resume before a human even saw it

The article says this like it's a new problem. Automated resume screening is a long established practice at this point. That it'll be some LLM doing the screening instead of a keyword matcher doesn't change much. Although, it could be argued that an LLM would better approximate an actual human looking at the resume... including all the biases.

It's not like companies take responsibility for such automated systems today. I think they're used partly for liability cya anyway. The fewer actual employees that look at resumes, the fewer that can screw up and expose the company to a lawsuit. An algorithm can screw up too of course, but it's a lot harder to show intent, which can affect the damages awarded I think. Of course IANAL, so this could be entirely wrong. Interesting to think about though.
by fennecbutt | 2025-05-12 02:05:11+00:00
I use it instead of Google searching now but even I double and triple check the hell out of it. It just bullshits the fuck out of semi complex or unique questions.

Like "can a ps2 game use the ps1 hardware" it gave a noncommital, hallucinated answer. Then when asked to list sources it "searched the Internet" where all the links were from searches like "reddit ps2" etc.
by moduspol | 2025-05-12 02:05:22+00:00
I think the market for base Mavericks is pretty small. At that point it's really not providing much value over an SUV with rear seats that fold down. I agree not everyone wants to spend 40-80k, but that doesn't mean they want to spend $20k for a small no-frills EV in the shape of a truck with not many other similarities.

I like the "starts out cheap, then upgrade it later" premise of Slate, and I like that it's electric, but it'll only really be a toy with the limitations I specified.
by nyarlathotep_ | 2025-05-12 02:05:36+00:00
I can find 1000s of posts or blogs or whatever on every React nuance, Rust thing, LLM trend, or whatever, but nothing even describing what "real" embedded programming looks like in any fashion (I'm not counting blinking an Arduino LED here).

What does writing ABS module software look like? I'd actually love to know--it's not an area where you can "vibe code" your way to a 'working' product.
by roxolotl | 2025-05-12 02:05:56+00:00
Reminds me of the wonderful Onion piece about a Google Opt Out Village. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lMChO0qNbkY

I appreciate the frustration that, if not quite yet, it’ll be near impossible to live a normal life without having exposure to GenAI systems. Of course as others say here, and the date on the Onion piece shows, it’s not sadly not a new concern.
by strogonoff | 2025-05-12 02:06:21+00:00
A garage door is a security concern.

For a game, a solution that simply restarts the container if it’s down solves the issue. You can mount game logs in a volume if you want, and you can see resource usage in container host dashboard. What value do detailed system metrics bring?

Furthermore, you don’t care what software you run to make your garage door system Siri-enabled, as long as it does its job and is not vulnerable; whereas with a game that adds new gameplay features multiple times per month, you do want to update it frequently. Babysitting a snowflake server makes it way more difficult than it should be.
by almostgotcaught | 2025-05-12 02:08:20+00:00
This is almost a myth. Think of it this way: you can either manage 5 people that solve a problem or you can solve a problem yourself that it would've taken 5 people to solve. At the end of the day, it's the scale of the problem that matters (not the technical "hardness"). Are there sometimes problems that one domain expert can solve, effectively and fully, that it would've taken 5 generalists to solve otherwise? Sure. Is it common? Not in "big tech".
by fennecbutt | 2025-05-12 02:08:44+00:00
People were resistant to cell phones, too. To computers, to the Internet, to online articles and news replacing newspapers and TV programs.

Thid I'd why it sucks that glass was shot down when that technology will soar in a few decades.

People need to be more forward looking and open to change imo. It affects society in very negative ways. Imagine if people had planned for social media when it was first becoming a thing. We'd have safety nets, and an actual fucking plan.
by soraminazuki | 2025-05-12 02:08:59+00:00
"It hallucinates, but at a very low rate" is a far cry from quality investigative reporting. In fact, that's not compatible with any of those three words.

Does the new Gemini have feet to go around and investigate? Does it reach out or have contacts to sources with the right knowledge? Does it even have critical thinking skills? Or is it just a robot spitting out plausible sounding word salad?

These things are crucial, especially when it comes to topics like history where there are highly malicious actors with infinite resources and motivation trying to rewrite history.

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." - 1984, George Orwell
by rtpg | 2025-05-12 02:09:08+00:00
I'm just saying I doubt that zug_zug has actually unlocked some chain of reasoning to say that all that stuff is objectively bad. If they did, what's stopping everyone else from doing it? I am expressing doubt.

Like if someone showed up and said "I can predict lottery numbers". Maybe I'm talking to someone who has figured it out. Maybe I'm talking to someone who is wrong. This isn't at the same level but the claim to objectivity feels pretty close to me!

I think zug_zug's claims are based in a worldview, and not derived from some objective truth. That's fine! We are allowed to inject our own preferences into these discussions! It feels intellectually dishonest to pretend that we're working off of some objective truth of how the world "should" be.
by kevmo314 | 2025-05-12 02:10:46+00:00
Doing work on a team isn't really what the article is discussing though. I'm referring to the very research-y skunkworks-style autonomy.

I am well aware that people in companies can work effectively on teams and that people rise to the occasion in that context. If it didn't work, companies wouldn't hire. But that's not what the article is about.
by nyarlathotep_ | 2025-05-12 02:10:46+00:00
> It's not practical to produce a car that never needs updates. That would be a bug-free system, which is impossible. Since they're going to ship updates anyway, a lot of focus is on minimizing the cost and hence OTA.

What was wrong with ECU and ABS etc software prior to the OTA era that we're now apparently entering?

I've had plenty of cars--too many--and outside of a few warranty repairs involving re-flashing ECU/ABS(maybe), this was a very rare occurrence.

(Not counting deliberate tunes or re-flashes for modification purposes)
by jmb99 | 2025-05-12 02:10:56+00:00
Most cars from the mid 90s until the mid 00s (sometimes later) have this: you replace the double-DIN factory head unit with an aftermarket CarPlay-compatible head unit. $200-$1000 (depending on how much you want to cheap out), easy DIY install or pay another couple hundred bucks to a stereo shop to install it for you. You now have a 7-10” central display that boots to CarPlay but can do radio/bluetooth/aux/satellite, and turns on a reverse camera when you shift into reverse. Climate control and everything else is still physical switches, because car manufacturers were still making cars properly.

Won’t be able to control auto locking and stuff like that though because it either didn’t exist or wasn’t controlled by the factory radio, because it was just a radio.
by wqtz | 2025-05-12 02:11:00+00:00
Here is the secret rule to AI for the guys who really want to use AI to replace "outsourcable" positions, "AI is a helper" not an absolute solution to means.

I have an extensive experience with dealing with Chatbots and hang out in places where people tell everyone AI will not take job while knowing fully well it might alteast take away the job of starbucks drinker sitting next to your cubicle.

Here is the truth, a single AI implementation won't replace a 15 person support team out in Philippines/India, AI won't replace a 8 person team in Michigan, but.... You pick 3 people and tell them to use AI to automate their jobs.... Now that is how you get AI to do stuff.

AI is a helper. Period. Do not let anyone else tell you otherwise. I have dealt with enough support teams to know an AI can surely do a better job than $3 dollar an hour fixed contract 8 hour shift offshore support hand telling me let me escalate your question to our north american team who will be back on monday as my reponse to "Hi" and no that is not a chatbot response.

You get three decently smart guys, and you hint at them use AI to automate your job. You pay these guys the salary of 5 US support desk salary which is equal to 10 offshore support desk salary. Then you can implement AI. You need a human to AI to work. You need a guy to snooze at the steering wheel so when a guy wearing all black jumps in front of your car in the dark road who can atleast come out and call 911. Does not even need to be a smart person. Just someone capable of calling 91. Hear that Uber? What your mckinsey consultant friend from the same frat or you ex-sister in law did not tell you that to you?

AI is not going to do well in full autopilot but that does not mean it is bad. You need someone with reasonable cognition ans allow them to be in full sync. That is the future and complaining about AI won't help you keep a job or cut costs for your business.

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Now to follow up. When you have established a reasonable framework of AI driven "task execution", you keep doing incremental layoffs. As usual you want your employees to near-burnout. See where that puts you in the next few years
by r14c | 2025-05-12 02:11:25+00:00
Having some kind of default steward for market developments that get so competitive and fundamental that they reach full market saturation is helpful. Under a market system, at that scale, the need for growth starts to motivate companies to cut corners or squeeze their customer base to keep the numbers going up. You either end up pricing everyone out (fixed supply case) or the profit margins get so slim that only a massive conglomerate can break even (insatiable demand case). This is why making fundamental needs and infrastructure into market commodities doesn't work either.

The problem with social democracy is that it still gives capitalists a seat at the table and doesn't address the fundamental issues of empowering market radicalism. Some balance would be nice, but I don't really see that happening.
by rogerrogerr | 2025-05-12 02:11:36+00:00
My policy renewed a couple weeks ago and went down. I’m a 25yo driving a 500hp car and paying $80/mo. No tickets or history. Full coverage with healthy limits.

It’s about 30% more than when I had a Leaf, which seems more than fair. I wouldn’t insure me in this car for $80/mo.
by tqi | 2025-05-12 02:12:16+00:00
Rinse and repeat across hundreds of components and your team "pays for itself"

"We found $X cost savings" is the easiest path the promotion. It's measurable, cleanly attributable, and immediate, while the downsides are not. Maybe perform is bad bc they skimped on memory, or maybe it's because the software team sucks. Maybe it means future updates are hamstrung, but who cares the bonus checks cleared years ago. Besides, you probably got promoted to a bigger / better role by now, and who can remember who decided what when?
by eru | 2025-05-12 02:13:36+00:00
> Instead, it feels like it's just preventing the affects of a lack of nicotine, i.e. it's inhibiting withdrawal. But it's not giving you the effects of nicotine.

Nope. I never smoked, but tried patches, and I certainly felt the effects. (And I didn't have any withdrawal that I needed to inhibit.) My non-smoking friends who tried had the same experience.
by Leftium | 2025-05-12 02:16:28+00:00
I forked oTranscribe and added some features to solve a similar problem.

- demo: https://otranscribe.netlify.app/?vsl=definedefine

- source code: https://github.com/Leftium/oTranscribe

- CLI tool to generate OTR (oTranscribe) files from (YouTube) SBV/TTML files: https://github.com/Leftium/otrgen

In my case, I wanted to start with the (auto-generated) YouTube transcript and get clickable timestamps. This makes it much faster to search through the content of a video: I can read/search much faster than watching a video, even on 2X speed.

I could also add my own notes to the transcript.

If you add support for loading transcripts like this, it could work cross-browser without the microphone/speech-to-text.
by cj | 2025-05-12 02:16:36+00:00
I feel similarly about overly-agreeable people, or people who bend over backwards to do everything in their power to make sure everyone around them likes them.

For me, it stems from seeing when someone changes their behavior or words in a way that's no longer authentic to themselves. I like when people are real with me.

But being real or authentic also isn't an excuse to be a jerk.
by gopiandcode | 2025-05-12 02:16:53+00:00
Fwiw there's also an Emacs plugin which is what I use and it works really well.

For using Lean as a theorem prover, this book is pretty good: https://github.com/lean-forward/logical_verification_2024

Also, Lean is also remarkably usable as a programming language itself, which might give an easier onboarding ramp: https://lean-lang.org/functional_programming_in_lean/
by layoric | 2025-05-12 02:17:38+00:00
> Waking up the car The native Tesla mobile application wakes the car by sending an SMS to the internal SIM card number. This number is registered in the Tesla database. When using a custom external SIM, you must manually send an SMS (with arbitrary text) to your SIM number. Any SMS will wake up the car, and it will be available via the Tesla mobile app. Don’t forget to unsubscribe your SIM from any newsletters to avoid false wakeups and extra power drain.

Wow..