MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stego-tech | 2025-07-13 20:19:32+00:00
Now expand this to other treatments: HIV, PreP, depression/anxiety, ADD, ADHD, you name it. We’ve had data for decades that adherence is the key factor in successfully lowering mortality and increasing quality of life, which in turn increases duration of productive life, which in turn lowers costs in the long run as more people live healthier, longer, more productive lives.

The problem continues to be the pharmaceutical and health insurance industries, particularly in the West. Under pressure to deliver infinite growth forever to shareholders on a quarterly basis, companies have a vested interest in making less medication at a higher price, and lobbying the government to prohibit price negotiations while mandating insurance coverage for many of these drugs.

GLP-1s might be the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back, but there’s decades of research - and bodies - saying this over, and over, and over again.

Which reminds me: I need to call my new health insurance company to get them to cover my medication, and hopefully extend it to 90 day supplies. Because god forbid that just be an automatic thing for someone who’s taken the same medication daily in some form for a decade without adherence issues.
by holmesworcester | 2025-07-13 20:20:03+00:00
I'm an experienced activist and if this was my issue area I would be heartened to see this kind of work.

As a non-expert who cares about this issue, the "criminal/other" split is very clear and was the first thing I looked for.

This is very counter to the administration narrative that our country is teeming with foreign gang members, and it is presented in a chill, non-shrill, high credibility way. That's very helpful!

Some more explanation or breakdown on what types of "other" violations dominate (e.g. are these all just overstays?) might be nice, but the point is still well made. I would also like to see what percentage were felony charges/convictions if there's a significant percentage of misdemeanors.

I expect with the recent ICE funding boost and the hiring spree they're about to go on, the "criminal"/"other" ratio going to plummet as ICE climbs the s-curve. It will be very useful to have a live measure of that as it happens.

One meta point: I'm always shocked at how rare it is, for issues that are current and important in the public discourse, that someone makes a technically and visually competent, single-purpose website contributing to the debate. I have seen them to be extremely valuable on campaigns I've worked on, such as the campaign to stop the SOPA/PIPA site-blocking bills in 2011/2012, but it's so rare anyone makes one. Thank you for creating an exception to a generally disappointing rule!
by lanfeust6 | 2025-07-13 20:20:23+00:00
Because its obvious. The margin case of escaping certain and imminent painful death in favour of another kind is not working in your favor. Yes they are responsible for their actions, yes they have agency. It is still suicide but that is a moot point when you are choosing between deaths. Here too, jumping is not something that invariably happens. That doesnt make it a bad thing. That is a value judgment that depends on the circumstance of the alternative being factually and irreparably worse.
by DrillShopper | 2025-07-13 20:20:50+00:00
> I wonder if there is a point at which it is cheaper for health insurance companies to offer subsidized or even free GLP-1s to patients than pay out for other specialized medications

Some do. My insurance requires a prior authorization due to the previous shortage, but it's $12/mo

Medicaid in my state also covers it for $3/mo
by Telemakhos | 2025-07-13 20:21:32+00:00
Even among the scanned books there are tons of untranslated ones. I've collected a few that I'd like to do editions of with commentaries and translations—they're all on the same topic, which up until a few years ago nobody thought existed (in fact, someone's book on a related topic denied that these existed, because the author didn't know about them). I found them all initially through scans on Google Books.
by kibwen | 2025-07-13 20:21:35+00:00
The problem is that I could recommend a hundred wildly different games that you might like, but playing a hundred games just to figure out which one is right for you doesn't sound like a good use of your time. Can you give more information? You like single-player games? Classic card games like solitaire (rec: Zachtronics Solitaire Collection)? Postmodern card games (rec: Balatro)? Deckbuilding roguelikes (rec: Slay The Spire)? Actual roguelikes (rec: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup)? Postmodern roguelikes (rec: Caves of Qud)? There's so much out there, even the cream of the crop is overwhelming to a newcomer. If you're a programmer, maybe look at the best games from Zachtronics (Spacechem, Opus Magnum, Shenzhen I/O, TIS-100, Last Call BBS... they're all pretty good).
by romaaeterna | 2025-07-13 20:21:42+00:00
Anecdotally, the dose required to maintain a stable weight seems to be lower than the dose required to lose weight. Most people tend to regain some weight when going cold turkey.

The safety profile of the drugs with diabetics, and the health benefits that come from the associated weight loss may make permanent use a net benefit for most people. There appears to be little, if any, "course correction" effect from taking it for short periods of time.
by joeduffy | 2025-07-13 20:21:53+00:00
Note that you can now use TF providers "on the fly" from Pulumi: https://www.pulumi.com/blog/any-terraform-provider. No provider bridging/conversion necessary.

I just tried and it seems to have worked (though I haven't tested any specific resources yet):

$ pulumi package add terraform-provider lxc/incus
Ask HN: How much of OpenAI code is written by AI?
by growbell_social | 2025-07-13 20:22:00+00:00
Amidst the nascent concerns of AI replacing software engineers, it seems a proxy for that might be the amount of code written at OpenAI by the various models they have.

If AI is a threat to software engineering, I wouldn't expect many software engineers to actively accelerate that trend. I personally don't view it as a threat, but some people (non engineers?) obviously do.

I'd be curious if any OpenAI engineers can share a rough estimate of their day to day composition of human generated code vs AI generated.
by faizshah | 2025-07-13 20:22:01+00:00
Anything you can do with 1 person these large companies will figure out how to do with 10+ people + a PM + a Director/VP sponsor + 3-6 months of red tape and review and a late game “re-alignment” (rewrite) of the features right before the launch date.

More money is spent at most of these companies coordinating work than actually doing work.
by burnte | 2025-07-13 20:22:36+00:00
True, however the pitch itself is telling. They're not saying "we're expecting AI to boost the productivity of our employees by 20% with no increase in labor costs." They're saying "we're going to spend less on humans" because investors are more ok with spending money on machines than people. That's the problem, they're not looking at how AI enhances people, they're looking at how it can eliminate people.
by polotics | 2025-07-13 20:22:42+00:00
Some serious vacuity in there. The author should really think about the actionable aspect of their thoughts. eg. """ It’s time to completely abandon this meaningless “form anxiety” caused by “scale misalignment.” We should no longer ask: “Does this AI model look like a brain?” We should ask: “Can this AI model effectively achieve the brain’s core computational functions?" """

...on a deeper analysis of the site, this looks like a mass of Claude output...
by latexr | 2025-07-13 20:23:24+00:00
> I don't trust and nor like the refund policies/processes and all kinds of fences they implement

Steam is pretty reasonable. If you bought a game in the past 14 days and played fewer than 2 hours, you can get a refund for any reason. You need only go to your recent purchases, “report a problem”, and with a couple of clicks you’re done.

If works incredibly well and with no hassle, I have done it a number of times for games which ran like crap on my machine or plain weren’t fun.

I’ve heard GOG is even better with their returns, though I have never tried it. And they sell games which are DRM-free, so even better than a pirated version.
by pbronez | 2025-07-13 20:23:47+00:00
Yes. It doesn’t matter exactly how each word in the police report was entered. All that matters is the officer signed off on it. They should be personally & totally responsible for the contents of the report. I don’t care if they use generative AI, speech to text, Dvorak touch typing, QWERTY hunt-and-peck or anything else. An officer must read the final report and sign to assert its accuracy.

If police reports are low quality, it’s an officer performance problem. Obviously performance management in public safety is exceptionally challenging, but that’s the problem domain that matters. You cannot solve law enforcement accountability by tweaking your AI User Interface.

That said, this seems like a missed opportunity to use technology to increase accountability. If you’re running speech to text on body cam footage, great! Everyone involved in the conversation should get a copy of the transcript. There should be a straightforward way to challenge STT errors.

Again though, it’s the same deal as the body cam footage itself. Always-on body cams with default public access are one thing, officer-managed, sue-to-review is quite another. The crucial issues are political, not technical.
by bastawhiz | 2025-07-13 20:23:59+00:00
> The browser, MDN, and certificate trust auditing work need more money than the foundation is getting.

I don't believe this to be based on any facts, and it's certainly ignoring that MoCo makes money that doesn't come from the foundation. In 2023 Mozilla had over $650M in revenue and only $260M was spent on software development expenses.

Having a paid offering doesn't take away from search deals. Nor is it ideologically orthogonal.

Here's the thing: Mozilla is addicted to blowing cash on non-software projects. It's addicted to blowing cash on software that is far outside its core offering. It's a graveyard of projects that it buys or builds in earnest, gets the userbased hyped for (sometimes with resistance) and then kills the damn thing in a few years.

Other than Firefox and its various flavors like Firefox Focus, what actually even still exists? A HIBP front end, Thunderbird (again?), Bugzilla, Firefox Relay, MDN, and Mozilla VPN. No, SeaMonkey doesn't count.

The trail of bodies behind Moz as it lumbers on is worse than Google's discontinued products when you compare based on the size of the org. We joke about Google launching new projects, but Mozilla projects are almost certain to be killed. Possibly the single most valuable thing to come out of Mozilla in 20 years was Rust (and by proxy, Servo) and they've managed to not just let it slip through their fingers, but to yeet it as far away as they could muster.

You don't need an MBA to understand that this isn't how to run a software company. It's not about money! If they picked literally any one thing and whole-assed it and made sure users actually a) cared and b) liked it, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
by vkazanov | 2025-07-13 20:24:26+00:00
I know some serious cases where there were non-habitual problems but... "healthy habits" is nothing to laugh about. People literally are what their habits are. All of our behaviour is habits, and changing behaviour takes time and effort.

The good news is that it is not impossible, and it really is possible to change bit by bit for most people suffering from obesity.

I don't think somebody who walks 10k+ a day, maybe goes to gym a couple of time a week, limits calorie intake to a comfortable and reasonable 2000 kcal per day, would suddenly bounce back to 130kg!
by supermaxman | 2025-07-13 20:24:42+00:00
Really appreciate these kind words, will take them to heart. I actually recently completed my PhD, and my research was in getting this kind of data for public health & building these kinds of dashboards for vaccine hesitancy from social media. I’ve always felt it’s important to present this stuff super clearly, so I’m happy to have a chance to do so on a seriously important topic like this.
by zmxz | 2025-07-13 20:24:52+00:00
European here. You're spot on with your question. Europe is an extremely hostile place to start a business compared to USA.

USA embraced capitalism and is geared towards proving concepts FAST and enabling networking. I love that about USA and I miss that in Europe, when it comes to IT/Tech sector in particular.

I'm not aware if Europe produced anything of significance in the past 30 years, we're lagging heavily behind USA/China and that's a fact. One could argue that Linus Torvalds is European hence Linux === European but I won't resort to such petty claims.

We produced very little value. We're having issues due to language discrepancy. Even though a lot of people speak English, it's often the case that we Europeans aren't able to communicate as well using English as we can in our native tongue. The lack of unified language is visible. The diversity in culture drives people to favor their own, we're bad at teamplay (this is from my personal experience and I am guilty of this).

There's many valuable lessons we could have learned from USA but we failed to apply them. We have various freely available systems that are great at, say, education - but education means nothing when it's difficult to apply it once people are done with it.

I worked with plenty of people from USA and I had huge prejudices towards them, in terms of "they talk a lot" or "they are not as competent, they are really slow when it comes to pumping out code" but I learned I was wrong to the point it's not funny. If anything, USA is really good at starting and pushing projects out that actually work.

Ultimately, do we even have a microchip factory (we might, but I'm unaware of it)?

Sorry for the wall of text, I just wanted to explain my POV and agree with you.

Personally, I'd love to see movement in EU's tech sector. We're 30 years behind USA in tech. I won't touch upon quality of life or similar topics because I'm interested in exploring technology.
by y1n0 | 2025-07-13 20:25:31+00:00
I’m in this category. I have two tiers of games on my wishlist. Those that if they are less than $20 I would buy and those that if they are less than $3 I would buy.

It’s not automatic, sometimes I just don’t feel like buying a game anymore even when it’s on sale, and I’ll drop them when if they go on sale and I don’t want them enough to pay.

But I do end up with a few games in my library I haven’t played yet.
by monkaiju | 2025-07-13 20:26:01+00:00
Love to see people trying to quantify the violence of the state. Like some other comments I agree focusing on the economic impact might be a bit of a distraction, but if it helps put a stop to this then so be it...

In Utah we have a pretty powerful tool for tracking police activity that can also be applied to ICE and focuses much more on identifying cops and linking them with incidents: https://app.copdb.org/
Show HN: Shepherd – Generating Synthetic Data with Claude and MCP
by lamroger | 2025-07-13 20:26:03+00:00
A proof of concept stitching together Claude, MCP, and faker to generate synthetic LLM fine tuning data.

The idea came from Apple Foundation Model's adaptor training example. They provide a toy dataset with data on short script generation. Wanted to see how one might stitch together Claude and MCP with tools to generate data.

A little finic-y but if you really were to try to generate hundreds or thousands of examples, you could throw in a loop or loosen the formatting constraints and post-process into the ideal format.
by another_twist | 2025-07-13 20:26:15+00:00
What amazes me is the vile shit directed towards software engineers. Remember that letter from the dickhead investor to Google demanding to know why engineers were paid 450k. Or just PMs beating the drum about how you don't need engineers ? My reaction to that was hey all the tools you love to throw into engineers faces were devtools. You know the dev part is important. Remember Bubble, their whole schtick was you dont need a technical cofounder and I have yet to see a unicorn Bubble app. Instead of talking about how we all can collaborate, people really are hating on engineers for nothing.
by DrillShopper | 2025-07-13 20:26:17+00:00
I'd be okay with that so long as nobody can have Nicorette, the birth control pill, or Viagra. I don't have a problem refraining from smoking, I've never gotten pregnant, and my dick works, so it must be some innate discipline in me that others must learn, so no meds for them.

See how ridiculous that sounds?
by Jach | 2025-07-13 20:26:22+00:00
I don't think GLP-1s are particularly expensive, so my top preference would be to just see them easily available. While not quite the same, it's a win that Rogaine/Minoxidil were once prescription-only but for a long time now can be bought at any grocery store and taken to the self-checkout. Still, I think the subsidy approach has been done for smoking problems via nicotine products before, and e.g. nicotine gum cost never seemed that high to me (especially compared to cigarettes).

But it's also worth remembering the relative risks involved. Obesity isn't quite the ticking time bomb / public menace it's often made out to be... For smoking, you'll find studies with relative risk numbers for lung cancer over 5 for casual 1-4 times a day smokers, and the number quickly exceeds 20 for heavier smokers. In contrast, with obesity, the most severe relative risks for things like heart disease or diabetes you'll find topping out around 4 to 5 for the most obese, even then often under 3, with milder 1.1 to 2 for the bulk of obese people. (Here, ~31% of the US has BMIs between 30-40, and ~9% have BMIs over 40.) For other harms, like there was a study on dementia a few years back, you'll also find pretty mild (1.1ish) relative risks, but these end up being similar with other factors like "stress", "economic status", or "low educational attainment". Just some thought for people thinking about subsidizing or providing free stuff, the cost tradeoff with paying for other things later might not work out so neatly, and there's reason to not focus solely on obesity but also do the same sort of analysis with other factors and severity of a factor as well.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-07-13 20:26:43+00:00
My experience with web forums has been: everything a poster disagrees with is astroturf and bots, everything a poster agrees with is brave people speaking truth to power. I don't doubt that LLM companies are astroturfing comments just like I don't doubt that anti LLM people are sharing threads in their internal Discords and asking their friends to brigade a thread. Trying to infer conspiracy to invalidate an opinion on the Internet is fraught.
by NoboruWataya | 2025-07-13 20:27:05+00:00
One admittedly rather niche example of buying games through Steam only to play them* outside of Steam is where you download data to use it in some open-source remake that relies on the original assets. OpenMW/Morrowind is the main one that comes to mind for me - I have sunk dozens if not hundreds of hours into OpenMW but needed to download the Morrowind assets from Steam to do so (after I lost my original game CD). There are a few other examples of such games out there, like CorsixTH/Theme Hospital (actually not available on Steam I believe, but available from GOG so same principle).
by thisisit | 2025-07-13 20:27:14+00:00
How long will this "Nothing to see move on. He's just blustering" excuse is going to be used before people realize that this guy will try that even if it is illegal? With the what has happened to immigration and birthright citizen it doesn't seem far fetched. And it is frankly insulting to tell people that they are wasting time when they express real concern.
by jppope | 2025-07-13 20:27:53+00:00
ok. so you can reduce your head count without impact great! Why would you get rid of people? Why would you not reassign those people into other productive or revenue generating activities?

The only logical explanation is that they don't have enough opportunities to utilize those people OR as I previously mentioned... their financials might look bad, and they are trying to make them look better so they don't take a hit in the markets.
by fuzzzerd | 2025-07-13 20:28:35+00:00
Living up to your screen name I see, but in all seriousness, I fully agree. The average person running the laptops in a spare bedroom may have no idea the scope of what they're involved with. Especially if they're being duped as well.

Imagine a non technical person being told they're helping run an "edge data center, close to the users. Running our laptops helps Netflix/facebook/etc (insert big tech name of your choice) run faster for you and your neighbors and well pay you to do it."

Easy to imagine a non technical person buying that lie.
by calf | 2025-07-13 20:28:48+00:00
I skimmed one of the Berkeley Simons AI seminars (on YouTube) where one of the top experts (iirc one of the Canadian academics) who has pivoted his work to AI safety because he genuinely fears for the future of his children.

My objection is that many of these scientists assume the "alignment" framing, which I find disingenuous in a technocratic way: imagine a sci fi movie (like Dune) where the rulers want their AI servants to "align" with their interests. The sheer hubris of this, and yet we have our top experts using these words without any irony or self awareness.
by holmesworcester | 2025-07-13 20:29:18+00:00
One other suggestion would be to include, somewhere, an image or oral account of detention conditions.

You could collect oral accounts and invite people to submit them.

From the grapevine (and this makes sense because they're pushing into new numerical territory, and also don't care at all) the conditions are very crowded / harsh. You could also include accounts from family members about the kafkaesque absence of information, e.g. It's good to make the point that almost every number in this chart is a human, and a family and circle of friends, who harmed no one and is being severely harmed.
by analog31 | 2025-07-13 20:29:50+00:00
It evokes the "real engineers don't use it" reaction, similar to any tool that's perceived as being of primary interest to hobbyists and students.

Some concerns are valid: Arduino doesn't have as much flexibility for digging really deep into things like pin and memory assignments and what happens when a microcontroller starts up. Also, the quality and documentation of Arduino support can vary from one MCU family to another.

There's a concern about the quality of libraries and code.

It doesn't support hardware debugging.

Granted, the embedded community has good reasons for being conservative, especially for critical applications.
by perching_aix | 2025-07-13 20:30:15+00:00
Here you go, from the horse's mouth: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/learning-center/improve...

Note that this is from 2023. Their legal docs, last updated in 2024, claim a bit different: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/microsoft-edge/priva...

> By default, Microsoft Edge provides spelling and grammar checking using Microsoft Editor. When using Microsoft Editor, Microsoft Edge sends your typed text and a service token to a Microsoft cloud service over a secure HTTPS connection. The service token doesn't contain any user-identifiable information. A Microsoft cloud service then processes the text to detect spelling and grammar errors in your text. All your typed text that's sent to Microsoft is deleted immediately after processing occurs. No data is stored for any period of time.
by KerrAvon | 2025-07-13 20:30:40+00:00
But that’s where TFA breaks down: the whole point of this is to claim “hey, C does too have typesafety” —if you use a modern language with actual typesafety, you can just make the underlying representation accessible (probably read-only) and you don’t need a reverse conversion step. You can have type safety, efficiency, and ease of use. Just rip the band-aid off and move to Rust or Swift already.