MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bettercaust | 2025-06-10 16:36:52+00:00
> For example: most people assume vaccines are tested against an inert placebo like water, and will only be approved as safe if it doesn't cause more problems than the placebo does. This isn't what happens. The "placebo" in vaccine trials is usually another vaccine.

First, please consider from where and whom you received this information. It was probably RFK Jr. or someone on social media or maybe a news article, right? Did you bother to scrutinize that information? Because it's not true. All vaccines (like other medications) are tested against the standard of care. For a first-in-class vaccine, that's going to be a saline placebo because there is no standard of care yet; for subsequent vaccines, it will whatever is the current vaccine. This is completely sensible. The idea that the vaccines on the market now were never tested against saline placebo is mis/disinformation promulgated by a lawyer whose name escapes me; some of those saline placebo-controlled trials for vaccines are listed [here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pUMNBewb0kgTU7g3augmOtPG...).

If you have a passing understanding of common anti-vaxx talking points, RFK Jr.'s arguments are easy to debunk.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-06-10 16:36:54+00:00
The Wikipedia article doesn't make it obvious, but even Munich itself wasn't able to migrate everyone off of the MS stack. One of the linkrotted sources (https://web.archive.org/web/20180516042059/https://www.techr...) says they had about 17% of computers running Windows after the migration "completed" because some required programs couldn't run on their Linux distro. It's not obvious whether the working model was that 17% of staff used Windows exclusively or all staff had to find a Windows box to do some of their work, but either one sounds pretty obnoxious to me.
by arcb | 2025-06-10 16:38:02+00:00
Thanks! From our side, we’re currently focused on specialty and multi-specialty groups. For example, obesity medicine, cardiology, pathology centers, radiology clinics... These groups tend to have repeatable workflows and a lot of operational toil. That makes them a good fit for automation. Even modest time savings let clinicians go deeper on casework, or see more cases. We're also working with smaller and medium-sized groups (think 10 to 100 doctors), since it helps us sit directly with clinicians and get high-quality feedback.

Compared to 3 or 4 years ago, clinicians are much more open to AI. They've heard of ChatGPT or ambient scribes, and they often come to us with specific ideas of what they want AI to solve. Talking to them is one of my favorite parts of the job.

That said, we also hear a lot of of requests from groups that we have to turn down. Sometimes we can't guarantee success, or the product just isn’t ready for that use case. As an example, a ton of clinical interfaces only work on desktops, which we'd like to support but don't yet. We're hoping to grow into those over time.
by tapia | 2025-06-10 16:38:03+00:00
This looks super nice! That is kind of the interface I wish FreeCAD could have. I am more the type of person who likes to use a python interface to create parametric models, but this is really cool!

Anyone knows what is the status of Truck [1] in this regard. Are they going to implement an open-source CAD program with their CAD-kernel? That also looks like a promising project.

[1] https://github.com/ricosjp/truck
by dustanbower | 2025-06-10 16:38:10+00:00
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by apitman | 2025-06-10 16:38:20+00:00
It's awesome that Wasmi is fast enough to run GUI apps. I'm working on an app runtime for making highly portable GUI apps. I'm targeting wasm because it seems to strike a good balance between performance and implementation simplicity. Ideally it would be possible to run apps on a runtime hacked together by a small team or even a single person. The fact that an interpreted (if highly optimized) wasm runtime like Wasmi is clearly capable of running GUI apps is exciting.
by isr | 2025-06-10 16:38:25+00:00
Rebuttal to your counterpoint: I've lived in the US for 25 years, so I'm not unaware of the "supposed differences".

What were saying is that these "supposed differences" are mostly over inconsequential things, designed to mobilise the masses into 1 camp or another, all while LEAVING THE MAJOR ISSUES untouched.

It doesn't matter if team red or team blue is in charge, immigrants get scapegoated and caged (happened under Obama & Biden).Just that team red takes greater visceral delight.

It doesn't matter if team red/blue is in power, the HOLOCAUST is armed, funded & covered for.

It doesn't matter if it's team red or blue, the military budget keeps going up, and the almost pyschopathic need to keep dumping military bases into other peoples backyards, the need to freeze conflicts into eternal points of instability (to then be exploited in the future), the need to keep poking at other people's pressure points to instigate war, the need to continuously "regime change" any sovereign country you like (all the while bemoaning "foreign interference" in your own elections... irony wants its ball back)

And failing all of that, the need to create/arm/fund terrorist groups of any stripe or persuasion to get what you want done. Be they right-wing death squads in Central America, to neo Nazis in Europe, to Daeesh in Syria/Iraq (and we can all drop the pretence now that CNN & the state dept all rushed in to validate the Daesh head honcho in Syria)

Etc, etc, boringly etc.

All of these things did happen, are happening, and will continue to happen - irrespective of team red or blue.

And irrespective of whether the bulk of the American population actually wants these things or not.

But yes, I'll grant you, voting team red or blue will impact the eternal question of who gets to urinate in which public bathroom.

Yay democracy
by bee_rider | 2025-06-10 16:38:43+00:00
This is a dumb question, but seems like as good a place as any to ask it:

I think of these CAD programs as being very old-school native programs that either are a loosely collected group of tools that allow you to manipulate files and pass them around (so, like, a bunch of Linux native programs that spit out files and ingest them, and you go around in the terminal to make sure everything is in the right spot), or a nice GUI around a bunch of those types of tools (it is definitely very possible that I’ve been influenced by only seeing these tools via engineering grad school where everything is open source, the gui’s don’t count, Linux command line is assumed, and 90’s tools are the baseline).

With a web-based system, what do you do? Like, for example if the user wants to pass models to some finite element simulation tool, do they just repeatedly download/simulate/go back to the website/edit/download/simulate, or something like that?

Is there a nice way for browser based apps to pipe to each other?
by 9rx | 2025-06-10 16:39:02+00:00
> Go doesn't even classic type-safe integer-value enums like in C++ or enums.

Sure, but now you're getting into the topic of types. Enums produce values. Besides, Go isn't really even intended to be a statically-typed language in the first place. It was explicitly told when it was released that they wanted it to be like a dynamically-typed language, but with statically-typed performance.

If you want to have an honest conversation, what other dynamically-typed languages support type-safe "enums"?

> But that's not what any language (except for C) has ever meant by "enum".

Except all the others. Why would a enum when used when looping over an array have a completely different definition? It wouldn't, of course. Enums are called what they are in a language because they actually use enums in the implementation, as highlighted in both the Go and Rust codebases above.

Many languages couple enums with sum types to greater effect, but certainly not all. C is one, but even Typescript, arguably the most type-intensive language in common use, also went with "raw" enums like Go.
by bambax | 2025-06-10 16:39:33+00:00
It's surprising how bad most people are at debugging. They make hypotheses but don't test them in isolation, so they can't reach conclusions. I see this everywhere, from IT issues to trying to fix a broken vacuum cleaner.

There should be a specific course on boolean logic in high school, distinct from math. Doesn't need to last a year; but needs to be graded separately from everything else.
by jimt1234 | 2025-06-10 16:39:45+00:00
Same here. I got into Sly after hearing the Beastie Boys "Paul's Boutique" album, where he was heavily sampled - like this gem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_Z7HwDnuNI

Side note: Sampling is/was controversial, but I'll always be grateful to hip hop and sampling for introducing me to so much great music (like Sly) that never would've made its way to the suburbs of Missouri where I grew up. The Beastie Boys "Paul's Boutique" and De La Soul's "Three Feet High" albums triggered me to purchase, probably, 2 dozens other albums because of all the samples - from Sly to The Isley Brothers to The Turtles and so on.
by jrowen | 2025-06-10 16:41:38+00:00
That's kind of Vegas in a nutshell, right? It's first and foremost about superficial glitz and glamour. Nothing wrong with that really, and they sure are good at it.

I saw Eagles at Sphere with my family (part of the fun of that trip was realizing that both of those entities explicitly [perhaps vehemently] do not use an article in the name and thus that is grammatically correct).

I agree that it is a very strange venue that doesn't seem to know what audience it's going for. Band culture, and generally the types of acts that play to a seated crowd, is more about the performance than over-the-top and overwhelming visual stimuli. Dance music culture, the people that love that, prefers a flat open dancefloor. As you mention, it's not really built for moviegoers either. But it is still a really impressive and enjoyable experience and I hope they can figure it out.

(And just be clear, my paraphrase that you quoted was referring to the original article)
by demosthanos | 2025-06-10 16:41:44+00:00
Are we looking at the same account? There's not a lot of data there, as is the nature of a new account, but from where I'm sitting I'd guess they're based in Portugal or if not there specifically then at least on mainland Europe.

Out of 5 comments:

* This one is saying that Europe's biggest AI company isn't keeping up with China.

* Two comments are talking about Europe needing to become more independent from American tech companies.

* A fourth is talking about ElevenLabs's Portuguese support and noting that one of the Portuguese voices has a Spanish accent.

* The fifth is unrelated to geography or language.

I'm not sure where in this you get that they have a US-centric perspective. The only comments they have that mention the US at all are taking the very distinctly 2025-European tack of advocating for increased independence from America. Coupled with this one contrasting with Chinese tech that presents a pretty unified picture of someone who has a lot of interest in Europe having its own strong tech independent from the rest of the world.

The ElevenLabs comment is the most telling for me for pinpointing the geography: in order to know what Portuguese spoken with a Spanish accent sounds like you really have to have spent a significant amount of time in Iberia and most likely speak Portuguese as a native language.
by declan_roberts | 2025-06-10 16:41:45+00:00
If they try and use Open Office I'm going to laugh.

The people who say Open Office is great are the same people who say Linux Desktop is great for non-technical users. They're completely oblivious to the shortcomings. Impossible to get through to them, and they're perpetually clueless why most people will choose things like Gdocs and Microsoft.
by daxfohl | 2025-06-10 16:41:49+00:00
What about oncall? What about fixing bugs, or KLO, or security patches, or devops, or tweaking feature flags, or dealing with customers?

If you're 100% allocated to a greenfield project that's behind closed doors until 2027, sure. But it doesn't seem like most software engineers are in that bucket. If anything, the industry has been consistently moving further away from that, with more agile methods, tighter feedback loops, etc.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-06-10 16:41:50+00:00
That is out of touch for professional users. There is nothing on the planet that competes with Excel. Sure there is spreadsheet software, but nothing that has all of the power and features that experts expect.

It would be like if your manager came in and said, “We are switching away from your expensive jetbrains IDE. You can just use notepad, right?”
by renegat0x0 | 2025-06-10 16:43:20+00:00
I think I will add this to my AIO package. My project allows to crawl pages. Provides a barebones page, and scraping results are passed as JSON.

This is something that was very useful for me not to setup selenium for the x time. I just use one crawling server for my projects.

Link:

https://github.com/rumca-js/crawler-buddy
by dijit | 2025-06-10 16:43:23+00:00
While I agree with you regarding libreoffice.

My tech illiterate mother got on a lot easier with modern desktop linux than she did with modern desktop windows.

Windows enjoys "ease of use" because of inertia, talk to someone who hasn't used Windows since XP and they'll find KDE a hell of a lot easier than whatever the fuck Windows 11 is doing.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-06-10 16:43:46+00:00
> "He incorrectly suggests that the axiom of choice is used for Cantor's diagonal argument"

This alone is a pretty substantial, even foundational, error.

The author of the review, Rudy Rucker, is a sort of cult/underground author of math-heavy science fiction. I don't think he's opposed to framing things in a literary way, so long as it's not misleading or falsely dramatized. Like, e.g., Godel ending his days in some sort of forced confinement, as DFW seems to have suggested?
by jghn | 2025-06-10 16:43:52+00:00
Actual learned people did? Or regular Joe politicians?

I can open a newspaper any day and see a medical headline that's wildly inaccurate for the reason that by the time such information waters down to the average joe, the messaging has been warped. That's just how it works. This is not a reason to lose faith in the biomedical industry and their products, it isn't their fault.

To make an analogy, you know how it's not uncommon here on HN for people to poke fun at government officials for not understanding technology? It's the same thing. We don't go and distrust the tech companies for those statements.

My recollection was that the messaging was quite clear overall: the vaccine was there because it a) greatly reduced the risk of a serious outcome for the individual, b) reduce the risk of infection for the individual, and most important c) reduced the amount of COVID floating around the general population, and thus the overall rate of infection.

I'm sure one can point to individual counterexamples, but anyone claiming the overall message from *actual officials who actually understand the subject matter* was otherwise is being disingenuous.
by bri3d | 2025-06-10 16:44:05+00:00
The most important thing about Denuvo is that it's on a subscription license to the game publishers, so it's almost always removed after some length of time. This is critical in understanding why it isn't cracked as often, because they've shifted the economics to "spend 3 months tediously removing obfuscation methods or wait 1 year and the game is unprotected anyway."

> anything covered by Denuvo is unavailable even years later

I don't think this is true in the general case.

> Either nobody is willing to crack it (unlikely)

That's exactly what's going on - it's a matter of time-benefit, not "possible." What's groundbreaking with Denuvo isn't that the overall technique is incomprehensible but rather that it's insanely tedious to remove and very difficult to automate. They haven't made some groundbreaking theoretical technique, they've applied so many "standard" ways to obfuscate a binary that it becomes more annoying than it's worth to remove.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-06-10 16:44:37+00:00
You have to pay for UBI somehow. You basically have two options: pay for it through taxes, or pay for it by printing money. If you rule out the second option because you don't want hyperinflation, then you have to pay for it through taxes.

Then it's a simple exercise: how much can you increase taxes to pay for UBI? You can't increase taxes above 100%, so UBI has to be less than the average per-person income, and we still need to fund defence and other essentials, so it has to be significantly less.
by bmn__ | 2025-06-10 16:45:07+00:00
> eaaaarly stage […] beta

If your goal is for users to adopt the use of the software, then you can easily increase acceptance by going the proverbial extra mile:

1. Make it installable via `uv tool install patolette` with the optimisations taken care of automatically. 2. Compare its results in the documentation/on the project Web site against the incumbents. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26646035 Find standard test images https://ddg.gg/?q=color+quantization+test+corpus , copy the split-image/slider technique from https://uprootlabs.github.io/poly-flif/

The rationale for this is that each interested user should not have to replicate this work on his own.
by cloverich | 2025-06-10 16:45:18+00:00
Those things matter, but you are falling prey to selection bias. I would suggest looking into tue children, siblings, and perhaps wives / mothers of those founding fathers to get the full picture. Your physical fitness and diet play a crucial role. But without modern medicine and specifically vaccines, we rely on the age old technique of have many children, the strong / lucky ones survive. When people desire a natural state, i think thats fine, so long as they appreciate it means literally more people you know die young, including some of your children. Thats how nature has always worked.
by ifyoubuildit | 2025-06-10 16:45:23+00:00
Op: When Fauci made comments about “get vaccinated and it’s unlikely you’ll transmit Covid”

You: Fauci's statement is true.

Me: How does that square with the fact that approximately everyone got covid? Do you think all of the infections came from unvaccinated people?

You: The vaccine was never advertised to prevent infection 100%, especially after time.

Do you see the logical disconnect here? How what you wrote was not responsive to the question?
by TimPC | 2025-06-10 16:46:36+00:00
It's not clear to me it loses at all on point 4. It seems to me AI is quite far from producing human quality literature or even human quality news content for example so it's hard to see a direct line from OpenAI using book/news content to author's books/articles being worth less. Maybe you can argue AI summaries in search results reduces clicks to the New York Times or something like that but that would be more specific to search.

Point two is also a bit ambiguous because many of the works involved are weaker forms of copyright. Books for example don't generally have copyrighted violated if you write a summary or analysis of that book so if the AI model isn't reproducing content verbatim or only does so for limited purposes (like providing direct quotes) it is probably non-infringing from an output perspective.

Point one by itself isn't a bright line test as well as plenty of commercial uses have been found to be non-infringing.
by rawgabbit | 2025-06-10 16:47:54+00:00
The author confused "constraint" which are rules or boundaries that define a situation or problem. She confused "constraint" With "strategy" which is a meta solution or algorithm to achieve a goal. A strategy doesn't have to be Google Maps giving you turn by turn directions. A better strategy is a set of rules or algorithm to guide you towards your goal; in all situations, situational awareness and common sense trumps any algorithm or strategy. It is like Google Maps telling you to drive straight while your eyes are telling you the bridge isn't there and driving straight will cause yourself to fall into a river.
by kobe_bryant | 2025-06-10 16:48:19+00:00
it's bizarre.

the first sentence is "Announcing Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI — excelling in domain-specific, transparent, and multilingual reasoning." and those should clearly be comma

and this sentence is just flat out wrong "Lack of specialized depth needed for domain-specific problems, limited transparency, and inconsistent reasoning in the desired language — are just some of the known limitations of early thinking models."
by somenameforme | 2025-06-10 16:48:20+00:00
To let you pick what I assume is the lowest hanging fruit, what are the most significant short comings of e.g. Calc vs Excel? I use it casually, but "casually" in a way that would probably be at least equivalent to professional use in most cases, and can't recall ever ending up with a blocking issue. So I'm certainly oblivious to the shortcomings and would love to know!
by ChainOfFools | 2025-06-10 16:48:43+00:00
I'm not convinced that the unprecedented advantages of setting up base camp on the other end of a major global ocean on both sides of the landmass, the almost completely unfettered access to a continent of largely untapped natural resources with virtually no competition from established powers, of being in the right place at the right time to find enormous reserves of oil (and ultra-high grade anthracite coal) so close to the surface that it is possible to discover them by sight alone, and well over a century of widespread exploitation of pre-industrial society's version of market-disrupting robotic labor, AKA slavery, to undercut our competitors on top of all of our other advantages, have been sufficiently controlled for in this "we won because free market economy" analysis. Though I concede that the last one, slavery, is a feature you'd expect to emerge from of a pathologically under-regulated free market economy.
by jstummbillig | 2025-06-10 16:48:46+00:00
1. There is not a mention of "pair programming" in the comment I was addressing. As often happens, the discussion evolves.

2. The point is, that you are training the AI through this process. You can do pair programming afterwards (or not). Aim to instruct it to give you ballpark answers first, and take it from there.
by ModernMech | 2025-06-10 16:48:54+00:00
Ah but that was a sleight of hand! They're doing exactly what they said they'd do.

They said they'd target violent criminals, but they didn't say they wouldn't target non violent criminals as well. People who heard that were wishcasting.

Whether or not they are a "priority" is semantics. If you hear them explain it, they're all defacto criminals for being undocumented, and therefore equally culpable as a murder or a rapist in matters of deportation.

The crime they're concerned about over all others is illegal immigration. According to them, an illegal immigrant who has done nothing else wrong deserves to be deported just as much as rapist illegal immigrant.