MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tharkun__ | 2025-08-23 13:52:20+00:00
It was an example. You can make other examples.

Let's take France. Looks like it's 8% you pay:

You’ll pay 8% of your income (that the French government is allowed to tax, after an additional standard deduction of around $11,000 per person). As a ballpark figure, an individual who has income to declare to the French government of $30,000 will pay around $1,520 a year in healthcare.

However, you are also only reimbursed 70-80% of your costs (depending on what it is), similar to the NA system(s), where your employer health plan may only reimburse a percentage as well but where no 'top-up' exists.

In order to make up the remaining amount in excess of the 70% reimbursement (80% for hospital stays), many French residents opt for private, or “top-up,” insurance. Several options exist, and rates vary from $36 to $72, on average, per month

https://internationalliving.com/countries/france/health/
by tsuyoshi_k | 2025-08-23 13:52:28+00:00
Example

If it’s currently 18°C and cloudy in Tokyo at 9am: • Hanaco fetches recent messages from other users where: • weather = Cloudy • temp ≈ 18°C • timeOfDay ≈ 9am • language = ja → The result: You get messages that feel relevant — weather-wise and emotionally.

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Tech Stack • Frontend: Vue 3 (Composition API) • Backend: AWS Amplify (GraphQL + Cognito) • Weather API: OpenWeatherMap • Realtime UI and multilingual support (ja, en, es, zh)
by throwaway22032 | 2025-08-23 13:53:36+00:00
If you're disciplined enough to put something in your calendar and do it over a period of months, without someone breathing down your neck to do so, whether you feel like doing it or not, then you are likely able to apply that effort in other areas of life.

So then it's a bidirectional correlation. You're more likely to be fit if you are wealthy and more likely to be wealthy if you are fit.

Essentially, what you're looking at is that people who engage in self improvement end up better off than those who don't.

It's a priori obvious but some people are uncomfortable with it for some reason - trauma response / coping mechanism, something like that.
by kvnhn | 2025-08-23 13:53:38+00:00
IMO, a key passage that's buried:

"You can ask the agent for advice on ways to improve your application, but be really careful; it loves to “improve” things, and is quick to suggest adding abstraction layers, etc. Every single idea it gives you will seem valid, and most of them will seem like things that you should really consider doing. RESIST THE URGE..."

A thousand times this. LLMs love to over-engineer things. I often wonder how much of this is attributable to the training data...
by jsnell | 2025-08-23 13:53:50+00:00
I know there's a lot of rebuttals to this statement already, but I think there's a simpler way of showing it is incorrect:

Figure 2 in the paper shows the LMArena score of whatever model is used for "median" Gemini query. That score is consistent with Gemini Flash (probably 2.0, given the numbers are from May), not a "tiny model" used for summaries nobody is asking for.
by dns_snek | 2025-08-23 13:54:02+00:00
"No documentation" and "Core devs 'wasting' time on writing high quality documentation" aren't the only two options, that's what a false dichotomy means.

Other options include but are not limited to providing minimal, low effort examples, high-level overview, linking to projects using these features, linking to relevant tests, commits, or source code, setting up an official community wiki and encouraging people to contribute.
by rendaw | 2025-08-23 13:55:03+00:00
I made a process supervisor, probably less simple than nitro but much more simple (and focused) than systemd.

Aside from the overreach, I think there are some legitimate issues with systemd:

- It's really hard to make services reliable. There are all sorts of events in systemd which will cause something to turn off and then just stay off.

- It doesn't really help that the things you tell it to do (start/stop this service) use the same memory bits as when some dependency turns something on.

- All the commands have custom, nonstandard outputs, mostly for human consumption. This makes it really hard to interface with (reliably) if you need to write tooling around systemd. Ini files are not standardized, especially systemd's.

- The two way (requires, requiredby) dependencies make the control graph really hard to get a big picture of

FWIW here's mine, where I wrote a bit more about the issues: https://github.com/andrewbaxter/puteron/
by mothballed | 2025-08-23 13:55:45+00:00
It's just a process server, not cops. It's just the equivalent of a glorified delivery man looking for you. The general counsel, an executive, and the employees in general of ATS (the company that does the traffic cameras in most of AZ and I think much the USA) dodge the process servers when they get caught by their own cameras. The people that understand how the process works don't seem too bothered being a "fugitive" as it's all a nothing-burger and if you get caught all it means is you need to hire a lawyer to make it go away or pay the ticket.
by mikepurvis | 2025-08-23 13:56:31+00:00
As a senior dev I’m also passionate about docs and communication, and actually kind of love the process of agonizing over a bunch of rST files to get the perfect manual that’s both an on-boarding guide and also a reference of all the nooks and crannies.

I think what I’ve come to realize is that when I feel a barrier toward doing that work, it’s a sign that I don’t actually like the underlying API. I don’t want to document it or craft examples or tutorials because in my mind the API sucks, it’s transitional, and documenting it in its current state is going to somehow lock in a bad interface and further increase the effort required to change and fix it up later.
by speedgoose | 2025-08-23 13:57:02+00:00
You may want to find some activities you enjoy while doing them.

I don't know what you tried, but sometimes a small variation is enough to make it fun and rewarding during the exercise. For example, I find slow road running pretty boring. The only value is doing exercise and relaxing my brain. I gave up many times. But replace the roads by challenging technical single tracks, and I'm very happy and havn't gave up in years.
by elevation | 2025-08-23 13:57:10+00:00
B&H is a hidden gem. I came across them because I needed a camera, but they sell lots of other stuff and their sales team consists of actual humans who have physically used the products they sell, and a supply chain they actually control. In the past, I’ve talked to a real human there who:

* verified the un-advertised compatibility between an accessory and the device I was buying it for (hours of googling had not been able to confirm this for me)

* explained their personal experience with both the Sony and Canon cameras I was considering

* nearly price-matched another vendor’s sale on a large purchase of Dell monitors

They have their own warehouses with real physical stock ordered directly from suppliers, (no drop shipping and no third party sellers.) One order I received even came with a hand written note signed by the salesman who’d help me select it. A nice touch, but impossible for an operation at Amazon scale.

These days B&H is my preferred vendor for PCs+components, AV gear, SMB network equipment.
by dahart | 2025-08-23 13:57:53+00:00
> Driving means less time than transit users in every study I’ve seen […] we spend less time commuting and thus have more time

Transit is indeed slower, but there are several big assumptions in there that don’t support your conclusion. In the US, only 15% of trips are commuting to work, the majority of trips are shopping, errands, and leisure. People with cars make more trips than transit users, and go out of their way for shopping, errands, and leisure more often, because they can, because it’s “faster” than transit. Driving commuters tend to drive to lunch, while transit commuters tend to bring one or walk. Transit users can sometimes get things done that can’t be done while driving, which can in some cases more than negate the added travel time. I think that’s a minority of transit users, but I spent a couple years commuting by train and working on the train, and I saved a considerable amount of time compared to driving. Because a lot of people spend this “more time” they saved commuting doing more driving for things other than work, drivers don’t actually have more time in practice.
by johnyzee | 2025-08-23 13:59:42+00:00
For Tesla to even be in the conversation with Waymo is very promising for the concept of low-tech solutions to autonomous vehicles, which in turn is very promising for how scalable this technology can be.

As far as I know, a self-driving Tesla, such as what they are operating in Texas, is almost the same hardware as an off-the-shelf Tesla, whereas each Waymo is a custom built vehicle, with added manufacturing costs (on top of the base vehicle) in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. The significance of the Tesla service being comparable to Waymos cannot be overstated IMHO.
by a2128 | 2025-08-23 13:59:50+00:00
There's a number of developers who get stuck on ROBLOX because they learned their creation tools when they were younger (they're easy to use and easily accessible to any desktop ROBLOX player), spent their formative years mastering their skills, and those skills turn out to be niche and not easily transferable to most other game engines. The choice is between basically restarting as a beginner in Unity, or continue making advanced creations on ROBLOX with all their friends and prestige they've earned in various sub-communities. To be honest I'm surprised it took this long for someone to try making an API-compatible alternative
by Degorath | 2025-08-23 14:00:27+00:00
In my opinion they need to invest a lot more time and money into it for that. The development experience on VSCode was pretty bad (I think the LSP has a memory leak), and some important (for me) libraries aren't tuned very well yet (a Vapor webserver can sit around 100 MiB memory, whereas putting a bunch of load on the grpc implementation balloons the memory usage to >1 GiB).
by QuiEgo | 2025-08-23 14:01:11+00:00
I like the idea of moving away from the big companies, and the privacy it brings, but security is a huge show stopper for me.

e.x. For self hosting photos, am I gonna do something dumb that exposes the NAS on my network? Immich is not encrypted at rest, so what if someone just breaks in and steals my NAS? I could try and set up whole disk encryption, but what if I’m an idiot and end up losing all my photos because I make a mistake?

Philosophically I applaud articles like this, but I find iCloud with Advanced Data Protection to be way less scary than dealing with the weakest link: me (as a sys admin).
by Waterluvian | 2025-08-23 14:01:23+00:00
I’m frustrated by things like Unicode where it’s “good” except… you need to know to exclude some of them. Unicode feels like a wild jungle of complexity. An understandable consequence of trying to formalize so many ways to write language. But it really sucks to have to reason about some characters being special compared to others.

The only sanity I’ve found is to treat Unicode strings as if they’re some proprietary data unit format. You can accept them, store them, render them, and compare them with each other for (data, not semantic) equality. But you just don’t ever try to reason about their content. Heck I’m not even comfortable trying to concatenate them or anything like that.
by MangoToupe | 2025-08-23 14:01:24+00:00
> even they are likely to remain technically functional for more than 5 years

Every plastic laptop I've bought has busted within two years, whether it's mechanical stress or poor heat design. They feel less like reliable tools and more like toys. Looking specifically at you, thinkpads.

Meanwhile, the MacBook Pro I bought for myself for college 17 years ago still boots. The battery is dead, but that's an incredibly long life for any hardware of that complexity.
by zbentley | 2025-08-23 14:01:40+00:00
> this is a solved problem

It really isn't. The addition of an index was an example, and a relatively straightforward/simple one, of general schema migration pain. And even index additions aren't a solved problem: CONCURRENTLY (postgres only) and other affordances don't work in every case, as their documentation abundantly illustrates--what about overlapping indices, foreign key "inherited"/implicit indexes, UNIQUE constraints, and so on? Even in postgres with a DDL expert on hand, things get hairy fast.

In MySQL/maria, that "very brief lock" at the end of index creation can turn out to be anything but, if the table is high-write-volume, since InnoDB locks aren't FIFO--at least, not in the way people expect them to be.

And again, that's a simple case for which mitigations exist! More complex schema migrations hit immense amounts of trouble at even medium sizes of data and query volumes.

Online-schema-change tools that use triggers/cutovers are extremely limited: not only do they take locks to set up and manage their triggers/replication systems internally (meaning that they can cause severe disruption, or fail to migrate, in the face of continuous $thousands/sec of writes to a table), but their underlying mechanism is also often one of duplicating a table entirely, bulk-copying data from old to new, using triggers to stream changes during the migration, and then cut over. That mechanism is flawed for large tables (2x the data might not fit), flawed for high write volumes (2x the update operations is an unacceptable latency cost in plenty of circumstances), and just plain risky (that final cutover/drop/rename to point things at the new table is and probably will always be extremely lock-ful).

To be clear,the availability of advanced database facilities like CREATE INDEX ... CONCURRENTLY, triggers, and online-schema-change tools are all good things! My point is that this is very, very far from a solved or painless problem space--one that starts to become quite painful at even moderate scale.
Show HN: I Made the Hardest Focus App
by Dhikshith12 | 2025-08-23 14:01:53+00:00
my phone secretly robbed all my dreams and i didn’t even knew it got so bad. when i saw my screen time being about 11hrs with ~95 phone pickups per day, i realized how bad it got.

my problem is that i could not avoid social media entirely as i post actively because i’m involved in marketing and branding.

I tried the usual, app blockers & time limits, but i always find myself hitting “one more minute” like a junkie.

i’m not looking for a complete social media absence or deleting everything as these radical solutions don’t fit my lifestyle and needs and i tend to come back needing even more.

the ideal solution for me would be that when i decided to focus on something for specified time i SHOULDN’T reach out to my phone instinctively and needed a wrist slap every time i did so.

three weeks later i put out the first version of the @hardestfocusapp - it’s built on a simple, physical truth: to focus, you must disengage.

the core mechanic of the app is a commitment device.

focus starts not with a button tap, but with a physical act of disengagement with the phone itself that adapts to any situation:

- keep it face down on a desk for deep work.

- put in the pocket while walking or commuting.

- lock the phone for long and uninterrupted focus.

this makes the act of disengagement itself as a trigger for start of focus.

the consequence is just as real.

picking up the phone triggers a 5-second warning siren duel.

failure to put it back will erase all the progress made, using the concept of Loss Aversion - a powerful motivator that makes the fear of losing progress more compelling than any virtual reward.

it’s not just an app blocker, it became my phone blocker.

now when i’m focusing, i’m not on my phone every other minute trying to escape from the thought I could not confront, the warning siren is so loud, it feels like a slap on the wrist and i immediately put the phone away.

now i’m not just running away from the thoughts, I’m confronting them and planning ahead
by throwaway31131 | 2025-08-23 14:02:14+00:00
Defect rate is a probability distribution so some people will get 10 heads in a row and others will get 10 tails, and since it’s the internet, and since it’s kinda amazing we hear about both. But most people get a mixture and post nothing.

Every IT survey I’ve ever seen shows Macs as more reliable. On the other hand the repairs are often more expensive. So there’s a trade off.

For me, my M1 16” is a champ. The computer is almost too good. I’d like to upgrade but honestly there’s no reason to so I just can’t get myself to ditch a perfectly good computer.
by Fricken | 2025-08-23 14:02:41+00:00
The thing is there is any number of cities that would happily roll out the red carpet for a company like Waymo. Waymo wants the Big Apple, in spite of the political resistance.

Otherwise I agree, I think robotaxis would most benefit people living in sprawling car dependant areas with poor transit, where driving is currently the only viable option for getting around.
by Bender | 2025-08-23 14:03:12+00:00
Maybe this will check a box in some OpenStack cluster but it wont work for me personally. Anything sensitive I use physical servers. Once I am on a VM of a physical server that is not mine then my data is their data. It is just turtles all the way down and there will always be a way to obtain data. Whats more this is required for lawful intercept and authorities expect providers today to be able to live copy/clone a VM. There will always be a back door and when authorities can access the back door, so can the providers and malicious actors. Even more unpopular is that to me encryption is just mathematical obfuscation a.k.a. magic math and the devil is in the implementation details remember WEP and DVD encryption? Just like cell phones there will always be some simple "debugging" toggle function that can bypass it.
by adwn | 2025-08-23 14:04:09+00:00
You're losing sight of the full picture: This "optimization" was such a hindrance that they had to rewrite the compiler before they could work on the ecosystem of their new language. From kristoff_it's comment [1]:

> When I first joined the Zig project, Zig was still using the bootstrap compiler written in C++ that would not free memory (it took more than 4GB to compile the Zig compiler). Some people at the time were asking us to prioritize work on the package manager but Andrew rightfully wanted to prioritize rewriting the compiler instead. In hindsight this was the obviously right decision: a package manager implies that one can very easily add an order of magnitude more code to their project, stressing the performance of the compiler. If we had not prioritized core infrastructure over giving people what they wanted faster, today we would have people complaining that adding a single dependency to their project makes the build impossible to complete.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44994886
by simonebrunozzi | 2025-08-23 14:04:09+00:00
What a sloppy article.

Correlation is not causation. All credibility is lost for this guy, in my view.

> We know from one study that people who played tennis a few times per week lived roughly 10 years longer than average. So we'll use that value going forward.

This is the study [0]. The study itself, in the conclusions, states that:

"Conclusion: Various sports are associated with markedly different improvements in life expectancy. Because this is an observational study, it remains uncertain whether this relationship is causal."

Has the author read the study at least?

[0]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30193744/
by brookst | 2025-08-23 14:04:19+00:00
They’re not dissimilar to human devs, who also often feel the need to replat, refactor, over-generalize, etc.

The key thing in both cases, human and AI, is to be super clear about goals. Don’t say “how can this be improved”, say “what can we do to improve maintainability without major architectural changes” or “what changes would be required to scale to 100x volume” or whatever.

Open-ended, poorly-defined asks are bad news in any planning/execution based project.
by baq | 2025-08-23 14:04:26+00:00
There’s a second monitor for those times when it’s an unquestionable benefit. Most of the time having multiple windows open is inefficient use of screen real estate (I either have two or three panes in the IDE - the terminal is also here, a browser with console open, some db query tool with wide tables or corp chat, which I explicitly do not want to see when I’m working on anything of substance.)
by MisterMower | 2025-08-23 14:04:52+00:00
Cyclists travel slower than the prevailing speed of motorists, and they accelerate from a stop much slower. And while they don’t take up much space, the space they consume is not zero. We can argue the magnitude here, but the effect is obvious to anyone who has shared the road with a cyclist.

Road wear is not the main issue. Roads will deteriorate whether they’re used or not. They will deteriorate faster with heavier traffic, sure. But deterioration from temperature cycling, road salt application, and weather happens whether they’re used or not. If cyclists want to use this infrastructure, they should contribute to its upkeep.

If cyclists have a car and contribute by paying these taxes and fees, then let’s build a regulatory regime that exempts these users from cyclist fees and taxes. The point here is to make those using the infrastructure pay for their share of upkeep and their contribution to congestion.

Deer are only a danger to themselves too, right? People never experience damage to their vehicle or personal injury when they hit a deer? The damage and risk is not proportional to both parties, sure. But it is false to say that drivers experience no risk of damage or bodily injury when in an accident with a cyclist who disobeys traffic laws. Cyclists should be insured at whatever rate is necessary to protect against this risk.

Your school children example is not really applicable here. We’re discussing cyclists who want to be treated like motorists but refuse to act like them and obey common traffic rules. That is about as far as you can get from from an innocent group of school children crossing the street with the flashing red stop sign on the school bus activated.
by Ante_max | 2025-08-23 14:05:55+00:00
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by zzzeek | 2025-08-23 14:06:36+00:00
it's still the case today, in 2025, that when I bought a Focusrite 18i20 mixer from Sweetwater that turned out to be defective, I had to spend a week with a lengthy and super-long-delayed conversation with their support department convincing them that the unit was in fact defective, that I was using it correctly, and finally getting the prized RMA to return it. Whereas if I had bought it from Amazon, I would have received the original package more quickly, and when defective, I could have had it in a box and shipped off from any local shipper that same day with no emails/phone calls required with a new one to arrive the next day. Amazon even as the leader in "enshittification" still offers a dramatically better experience for a wide range of products (though certainly not all of them).