MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by silon42 | 2025-08-03 19:00:56+00:00
IMO it's not ideal for Rust to have only Rust specific toolkits (at least they need to have other language bindings)

I've tried using Qt (non QML, using rust-qt) last week... initially things were looking fine (despite unsafe everywhere)... but I found quickly that I need unsupported things (deriving from C++ classes), and the project isn't really maintained anymore, so I'll need to so some low level work myself if I want to proceed.
by CobrastanJorji | 2025-08-03 19:01:27+00:00
It was really close. Check out https://fulbright.org/status

Trump's draft 2026 budget in May would have cut its funding by 93%. In June, the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, the whole board, resigned in protest, because the Trump administration was meddling and trying to remove funding for certain foreigners and to add new inspections for scholars who were wrong in some unspecified way. Fortunately, the funding got back into the draft bill in mid-July.
by godelski | 2025-08-03 19:01:29+00:00
> Katalin Karikó was thought to be working in some backwater, on this "mRNA" thing, that could barely get published

There's a ton of examples like this, and it is quite common in Nobel level work. You don't make breakthroughs by maintaining the status quo. Unfortunately that means to do great things you can't just "play it safe"
by conradev | 2025-08-03 19:01:31+00:00
Hack Club, the largest Slack instance I’ve ever been a part of, has a culture of personal channels and it is incredibly organic and fun. It’s largely restricted to students under 18, though!

I feel like it’s a common pattern that organically forms. People want to express themselves, they don’t want to distract group chats, so they make a space to do it.
by elcritch | 2025-08-03 19:01:33+00:00
Next headline: Most Read UN Report Is About UN Reports Not Being Read

If only 1% of us on HN committed to this we could easily achieve this worthwhile goal! Though I personally think it sounds boring and won’t. ;)

In other news, I’ve begun increasingly viewing the UN as next to useless. It’s a great idea and we should have it, but the amount of corruption and bureaucracy seems insane.
by simpaticoder | 2025-08-03 19:01:55+00:00
This is an institutional reflection of the individual tendency to talk about problems rather than solving them. Or, an important variant, where the urge to help those in need is expressed as directing them to "appropriate resources", which are also services that direct those seeking help to other appropriate resources, ad infinitum. The net result is a whole army of people who's expressed goal is to help people but who's effect is to send needy people into a loop of endless communication. We'd all be better off if they all quit and helped out at a soup kitchen, volunteered to visit with house-bound elderly, or something similarly physical and real. (This is in part driven by an individual need to "scale". We praise this desire to "change the world", but we pay no heed to the cost when ONLY world-changing action is praised.)
by esseph | 2025-08-03 19:02:21+00:00
Windows is still enforced and mandated on most corporate Fortune 100/500 companies computers.

Their "cloud lift" consists of putting vms into the cloud to run at 10x the cost. (Nothing else changed from The Old Ways)

And that's still where we are today for most enterprises.

That ecosystem has had them for 30+ years and shows no signs of going away anytime soon. If it doesn't have Active Directory and Office 365 or whatever they decided to call it today, they aren't interested.
by firefax | 2025-08-03 19:02:48+00:00
I don't think we understand the word "lonely" if we think an AI can solve it.

An AI isn't going to throw you a birthday party, or pick you up when the last bus for the night blows past you. (I guess I'm dating myself with that very pre-Uber example).

The ever present knowledge that you are unwelcome and alone cannot be solved with a glorified chatbot, because to be lonely is to accurately perceive oneself is unwelcome in society.

This is often the point folks stan "therapy" -- but in my experience, people say "get therapy" because they want you to learn distress tolerance... and shut up.

What happens when you go to therapy, and unpack that you're unwelcome in your home, and systematic discrimination is going to stop you from leaving?

For some, it seems, they turn to a chatbot to replace the warmth others get from friends.

Or maybe I'm projecting a bit but hey, what is a nym for, if not to speak the truths we wouldn't under our real names?
by brown | 2025-08-03 19:02:54+00:00
It’s true that many providers need a custom solution for their unique workflows, and the one-size-fits-all EHR is often a myth. The problem is that many EHRs try to solve this with customizations, which can be expensive and still feel like a compromise.

On the other hand, when a team tries to build their own tools, they quickly realize they have to build a ton of compliance and interop code they never wanted to touch in the first place. That’s why open source platforms that handle the core infrastructure, like Medplum, HAPI, or OpenEMR, can be such a good starting point. They get the team 90% of the way there, so they can focus on what really matters: building a great UI/UX for their users.

I don’t think providers truly want to go back to pen and paper, but they are looking for a better way. They can see the promise of what the solution could be, but they just haven't experienced it yet.

Disclaimer: I work for Medplum.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-08-03 19:02:55+00:00
Your case sounds more justifiable, but there is definitely a threshold of use below which buying extra utility doesn’t make a lot of sense, and I believe that a large number of Americans in particular sit under this threshold.

I feel that even with my current vehicle, which is an AWD electric compact SUV — it’s a great, highly capable car but in practice I’ve found that I’m practically never coming close to approaching the ceiling of its capabilities, which makes it feel wasted on me. I could get by just fine with something like a Bolt or e-Golf or a fossil fuel counterpart like a Fit and so once my lease is up I’ll probably be “downgrading”.
by nihiven | 2025-08-03 19:03:11+00:00
How is the app triggered? There is a graphic that makes it seem like the app can detect impulse buys:

iPhone 16 Pro Max $1,625 IMPULSE DETECTED

I think this is a good idea I'm just not convinced I would manually interrupt my impulse buys to pull up the app to stop my impulse buys. How does the app introduce friction to the purchase process?
by ednite | 2025-08-03 19:03:12+00:00
I get it. That’s why, over the years, I’ve simplified my own system. I use a paper sheet that is daily breakdown paper template and a quick Excel tracker. At the end of the day, I spend about 15 minutes logging everything in Excel, and later I can filter it by task. I agree that at first, it felt time-consuming. But with a bit of streamlining, it’s become something that actually saves me time and mental energy in the long run.

Thanks for your comment.
by assword | 2025-08-03 19:03:32+00:00
Lmfao. This is pretty comical. Whine about how humanity gets lost in lofty ideals and then finish with you’re own nonsense ideas

> What is needed, is not unrealistic SciFi Visions, but basic measures to raise survive-ability of the species in crisis to come. Decentralize knowledge, create a panopticon by the people for the people, so order can be upheld even when the state collapses. The scenario-tress roots must be hardened, so we dont fall down never to recover.

When the state collapses. The power vacuum will be filled. By those with the most resources at the of collapse.
by Nifty3929 | 2025-08-03 19:03:44+00:00
Sure they do - but maybe past the point of treating people like adults.

I admit I'm not sure about Finland, but in some places they have hot-water stops on faucets that prevent you from turning it up to hot without additional mechanical fiddling, like and extra push or button or something. Or being afraid of normal (to me) pocket knives with 3-4" blades, as though they were a dangerous weapon. That's just too much concern over safety for my taste. I want to be treated like an adult, and I'm not afraid of minor injuries or discomfort.
by baxtr | 2025-08-03 19:04:10+00:00
> If anything, Palombo says it probably makes sense to just do things without any questions. "“I complained a lot at work and I believe this made me a target. The more sensible advice is maybe just to play the game, keep your head down, don’t complain, don’t report your bosses, obey. Those people were all promoted, and of course none were charged in relation to the Libor/Euribor cases. Barclays protected them.”

So that’s his takeaway? Kinda sad but then again who wants to end up in prison for doing what everyone else is doing as well.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-08-03 19:04:49+00:00
Here's where I think the bulk of the US population is:

- They're in favor of giving asylum to those who really deserve it (yeah, I'm sweeping a huge amount under the rug of the word "deserve"), but they're not in favor of "open borders" or large numbers of people coming here not through the legal process.

- They're in favor of equal opportunity and helping those who are downtrodden, but not in favor of "white guilt" or hiring/admission quotas.

- They're in favor of giving someone a break, but not in favor of giving criminals an infinite number of breaks (whether violent criminals or just shoplifters).

When the Democrats won in 2020, they took that victory as an endorsement of everything they believed in. It wasn't. It was a declaration that we didn't believe in where Trump wanted to take us.

When the Republicans won in 2024, they took it as an endorsement of everything Trump stood for, and everything he will decide to stand for in the future. It wasn't. It was a vote against the Democrats implementing everything they wanted to over the last four years.

In fact, it's not just the Republicans who make that mistake. I keep reading "you voted for this". Well, not exactly - there are a bunch of people who voted against open borders, but did not vote for militarized thugs grabbing people off the street based on skin color. (Yes, I know, their vote enabled that. My point is that their intent was not that at all, but only to vote against an open border.)

The bulk of the population doesn't want the Democratic platform or the Republican platform. They want some kind of sanity, avoiding the extremes of both sides.

(You say that the Republicans only have extremes? Not so. They also have "stop doing what the Democrats are doing". In some cases, that's not a bad idea.)
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-03 19:05:06+00:00
Best bet is to find a tape library old enough you can pick it up cheap second hand but new enough it can support the latest LTO standard (or close enough with ability to retrofit to future proof). I don't recommend until you're storing at least a few hundred TB of data, if not your first PB.

(have managed tape in both professional and personal use cases)
by Bender | 2025-08-03 19:05:06+00:00
It is hoarding behavior. I am sometimes guilty of it but I have no regrets. I have DVD's and CD's that either do exist online in a modified and sometimes censored format or got cancelled for reasons that exist now but did not exist when the movie or song was created social constructs, cancel culture, etc... The original versions probably exist in some obscure place but I am happy with them existing in my collection as well for data parity purposes. The same thing occurs with online videos, podcasts, music and movies.

I prefer to preserve the original artistic works of the producers, directors and screen writers. It could be I am alone in this endeavor and perhaps I am just a hoarder in that regard. I like to watch movies or listen to songs in the way the artists originally intended rather than the current ways that society has determined I should. The exception of course is when a movie is re-mastered and they improve lighting, sound, resolution, etc...

I hesitate to even imagine how AI will sloppify these great works in the future or how they will re-imagine podcasts. The original art will be lost to time and many people will never experience the original results of the blood sweat and tears that went into making them.
by simonw | 2025-08-03 19:05:46+00:00
Here's the copy they used on that checkbox:

Make this chat discoverable Allows it to be shown in web searches

"Discoverable" is insider jargon.

What does "web search" mean? Is that about whether I should be able to search for my chats in the app in the future?

That language may seem obvious to those of us with a deep level of technical literacy - the denizens of Hacker News for example - but ChatGPT has over a billion users now.

Try asking the less technical people in your life to describe the difference between a web site and an app, or what a URL is, or get them to describe what "web search" means and name some products in that category. You may be unpleasantly surprised.

Meta AI gave people a "share" option with several levels of click though required to share a post and it was a fiasco: https://futurism.com/meta-ai-embarassing
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-08-03 19:05:48+00:00
> i can assure you this take is braindead

Hacker News Guidelines -> In Comments

Please don't post shallow dismissals, Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names.

ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by Scoundreller | 2025-08-03 19:06:01+00:00
Most of my experience is on the pharmacy side, and tech basically saved pharmacy, from recordkeeping, insurance claims, accounting to inventory.

But it was voluntary (for the organizations, not so much the staff). There was no need for government to shower pharmacies with money to adopt it because it paid for itself.

I'm sure a lot of the staff initially met it with the same hostility. Even in 2010 when I was more in the field, we still had staff where their only computer experience/use was at work and otherwise lived an offline life.

Can't say I saw a pharmacy that didn't have a computer since the early 90s in Canada (and my memory doesn't go before that). And before that, at least they used typewriters. Meanwhile my GP was all-paper well into the 2000s except for some billing stuff. God help anyone that had to read his notes. But sometimes you're reimbursed sufficiently that there is no driver to change workflows even if it would be economic.

Ontario Canada.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-08-03 19:06:03+00:00
Well, it doesn't matter what you or I think of it. It does matter, however, what a doctor thinks of it.

As the other comment pointed out, it's a balance. Simple is not the same as user-friendly, but they live on the same street.

Doctors routinely deal with concepts that would confound me, but they are often quite technophobic, when it comes to computers. I have a friend that's a really skilled anesthesiologist, and is constantly asking me the most basic questions about his iPhone.

Complex interfaces can be trained, but the magic is to have an interface that can be explored. If you train someone on rote, then they go to pieces, when anything changes.

However, if you give them an interface that doesn't penalize them for exploring, and has clear, unambiguous affordances, they can easily adapt to things like updates, and they won't force you to have to maintain an ancient UX.

But designing that kind of UX is quite difficult, which is why so few people do it.
by RussianCow | 2025-08-03 19:06:32+00:00
> but honestly I don’t see why providers don’t compete at all here

Because the types of customers that make them the most money don't care about any of this stuff. They'll happily pay whatever AWS (or other cloud provider) charges them, either because "scale" or because the decision makers don't realize there are better options for them. (And depending on the use case, sometimes there aren't.)
by zer00eyz | 2025-08-03 19:07:23+00:00
So yes this AI thing is finally validating my product idea that the engineers kept saying NO to.

It's not just that it wants to find a solution, it's not just validating, it very rarely says "no". Its not saying no to things that are, for lack of a better term, fucking dumb.

That doesn't mean the tools arent without merit. For code bases I use infrequently that are well documented AI is a boon to me as an engineer.

But "vibe coding" is the new dreamweaver. A lot of us made a lot of money cleaning up after. It's a good thing.
by lurk2 | 2025-08-03 19:07:26+00:00
> I've literally never used HN before

You created your account a year ago. Did your friend suggest that you write this post a year ago?

> Lol last thing I care about is self promotion, we're doing just fine.

At the top of your likes on your LinkedIn profile, you have a post linking to an interview you did on YouTube entitled: How to Grow an Instagram Account in 2025 (Easy Mode) - Avi Patel.

It was uploaded 3 months ago from the time the screenshot was taken and has 162 views. Your entire public profile is like this:

> Founder & CEO of Nitrility which is the world's first music licensing marketplace working with over a billion $ in assets from 80K rightsholders.

> Age 21 as of August, high school diploma (Rutgers Prep), college dropout (UIUC), grew up in Somerset NJ, 2 time founder with 1 exit at age 18, 2400 rated chess player, former top tennis player, Forbes Technology Council.

> Usually you will find me in NYC, LA, or SF.

This kind of thing doesn’t work here. You aren’t Mark Zuckerberg, and we aren’t living in the 2010s anymore.
by hosh | 2025-08-03 19:09:05+00:00
The strategies and outcome for the three-cue system reminds me of how LLMs autocompletes, and even hallucinates.

Maybe for some, vibe reading is good enough. But given our culture wars where people of different beliefs cannot talk to each other without flamewars on social media platforms where people read and write, I think the big societal risk here is that people will infer the meaning they are biased towards, and not actually communicating with each other.
by danenania | 2025-08-03 19:10:05+00:00
I believe the 'personality' aspects of LLMs mainly come out of the RLHF process, so personality will be a function of the people companies hire to do RL, what they like, and what instructions they're given.

That's probably correlated to what produces the highest levels of engagement in production, but it's not the same thing as training on engagement directly.
by ackfoobar | 2025-08-03 19:10:28+00:00
> things that are a net improvement do not preclude other things that are net improvements.

That's a good framework to think about things. Going all-in on renewables implies keeping fossil fuels around, because storage tech is several breakthrough behind. Renewable proponents like to point out that every kWh not produced with CO2 emission is still a win.

Yet deploying renewables means they flood the market with cheap electricity when the weather is good, hurting the profit, thus viability, of (i.e. precluding) stable low-carbon sources (in other words I'm butt hurt about nuclear).

> The vast majority of offsetting schemes are little more than accountability laundering and on-paper games, not translating to any concrete offsetting in the real world.

A case I heard is that they count the carbon captured by planting trees, yet ignore it when the carbon is released back to the atmosphere in a wildfire.
by wkat4242 | 2025-08-03 19:10:53+00:00
Haha yes I know CB radio. I used it for many years and I'm still a ham. It was a lot like social media yes. Never thought of it that way. Also, BBS'es. And the combination thereof which was packet radio.

But I didn't think of this because it's an analog receiver. I thought it would just receive noise in the absence of a signal like its older brethren did.
by skylerwiernik | 2025-08-03 19:11:22+00:00
> In 2023, Microsoft's Bing chatbot famously adopted an alter-ego called "Sydney,” which declared love for users and made threats of blackmail. More recently, xAI’s Grok chatbot would for a brief period sometimes identify as “MechaHitler” and make antisemitic comments. Other personality changes are subtler but still unsettling, like when models start sucking up to users or making up facts.

Funny that they managed to call out all of their competitors without mentioning any of Claude's bad behavior
Quick Commerce, Slow Lies: How Zepto Burned 3 Hours of My Life
by NakedTruths | 2025-08-03 19:11:46+00:00
Zepto just won a shiny award tonight not for India’s fastest growing startup but I’d like to nominate them for another one: The Slowest Quick Commerce Delivery, Ever.

Not once. But twice. In the same evening. With a side of broken promises, bald faced lies, and customer support that felt like a Netflix drama.

Here’s the timeline:

Order #1 Placed: 8:25 PM Promised: 16–20 min Delivered: 9:48 PM (that’s 83 minutes)

Support apologized and assured me it won’t happen again. The issue was “noted” and “escalated internally.”

Exchange Order Placed: 9:59 PM Delivered: 11:54 PM (a whopping 115 minutes)

Now here’s where the real fun begins: Just before the second order was delivered, a support agent confidently claimed:

“We’ve assigned the same delivery partner to keep things smooth.” “He was assigned over an hour ago.”

Both 100% false. I have chat screenshots, timestamps, and a recorded call. They didn’t just delay, they lied and got caught red handed.

The customer support experience? A case study in chaos:

Escalations that led nowhere Every new agent needed the entire backstory Contradicting statements in the same chat

Across both orders, I spent over 3 hours on chat and phone, just to be gaslit, misled, and ultimately ignored.

Meanwhile, Zepto’s raised hundreds of crores from VCs.

I have one question: Where is that money going? Because it’s definitely not going into:

Reliable delivery ops Real-time order tracking Or customer service that respects your time

Zepto, if you can’t deliver quickly, that’s okay. But don’t overpromise. Don’t lie. And definitely don’t gaslight your users while branding yourself as the face of “quick commerce.”
by Scoundreller | 2025-08-03 19:12:25+00:00
University of Toronto used to basically run on a homegrown curriculum management system called CCNet up until ~2006. Basically run by one professor on a CPU under their desk. Course notes, grades, that kinda thing.

I guess for future-proofing, the university moved to Blackboard. For a while, some courses were on Blackboard, others on CCNet.

We had a professor poll the class and ask which they preferred, and all 240 of us in unison said "CCNET!"

I still remember a quiz on Blackboard where the answer was something like "2" and it responded, sorry, the correct answer is 1.9999999999.
by brokencode | 2025-08-03 19:12:31+00:00
It’s not proof that blocking the merger was good, but it does undermine many of the arguments against blocking it.

I’m all for the government getting out of the way of business, but we’ve seen a large amount of consolidation in many software categories.

Adobe’s market share is pretty extreme already in the creative software space, and I think it is reasonable for the government to step in to try to prevent further consolidation.

I agree with you that it’s really unknowable whether blocking or not blocking was a better choice. But if we only made decisions based on knowing the outcome, we’d never do anything.
by dlcarrier | 2025-08-03 19:12:58+00:00
I've often thought about using an accelerometer to automatically cancel the turn signal, similar to how a car can, from the steering wheel position. Adding a light for engine breaking is as great idea that I hadn't even thought about doing manually.

The ultimate motorcycle (and bicycle) accessory would be something that could sense the rf/magnetic field from traffic sensors and transmit something back with whatever phase change is necessary to make it think its sensing a large car.