MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yepitwas | 2025-09-12 18:29:39+00:00
For our kids births, it was typical to still have bills trickling in six months later from some company or another, having no idea which part they were really involved in unless we felt like spending three hours on hold to figure it out.

And always they're like YOU MUST PAY THIS IMMEDIATELY or be sent to collections even though they take their sweet fucking time getting them to you, and also make it a pain in the ass to question any of it (and some of them are serious, in two cases we had trivial-amount ones slip through the cracks of the 50+ billing and EOB and blah blah blah letters we received, and go to collections right at 30 days, not even a follow-up "hey you may have missed this, you're overdue" letter)

I wouldn't be surprised if there are a bunch of scam artists out there sending fraudulent small bills to patients with recent major procedures (guaranteed to have a mountain of confusing bills coming in for months) whose info they got from our massive privatized spy network, and having almost all of them get paid. Like, compared to some other stuff that goes on, that seems like a no-brainer of a scam to run, with likely a very high success rate (am I going to burn potentially half of a day per bill to figure out if one of these fifteen $10-$200 invoices is fraudulent? No, no I am not)
by rizpanjwani | 2025-09-12 18:30:02+00:00
Agree with you on the first point except the conversion was not voluntary if you know Islam’s history in the region. Not only did it wipe out religions but also language and culture. Why can’t Israel have one tiny country for itself in the fraction of the region where the Jewish people have existed for 4000+ years? That’s what this whole thing is about. It’s religious warfare against the Jews disguised as fight for national independence or whatever they want to call it.
by ejstronge | 2025-09-12 18:30:21+00:00
> WSJ and the like just hire for pedigree. You end up with careerists writing generic articles, and injecting political opinion into everything

I think your comment implies that journalism in some previous time did not 'just hire for pedigree' and 'end up with careerists.'

When was this time and who were the specialist writers from that moment? How can one write anything without taking a political stance? We make much of the odd era of doublespeak we endure (when is a 'special military operation' a 'war'?). But it's hard to imagine that there has ever been a time where even the selection of a descriptive phrase carries political weight. My imagination may be limited, I suppose.

Maybe I'm misinterpreting your argument and you mean that content meant for general consumption has always (read since its inception) been 'generic' and with '[injection] of political opinion.'
by bawolff | 2025-09-12 18:30:53+00:00
I've never heard of Eric Weinstein, but he sounds like a crank. I don't think he should be grouped together with Sabine, whose primary message is that she believes science funding priorities are out of whack, and are currently funding things she believes won't be fruitful or are over explored at the expense of things she believes are more promising.

There is a huge gap between - we should change funding priorities vs "Peer review was created by the government, working with Ghislaine Maxwell’s father, to control science". One is a reasonable but potentially controversial viewpoint. The other is batshit insane. These 2 views should not be grouped together.
by tim333 | 2025-09-12 18:31:03+00:00
The situation is a fair bit different with Taiwan.

Firstly "In April 2001, George W. Bush publicly announced the American defense of Taiwan"..."This framework was approved by President Donald Trump in 2018" (wikipedia)

Secondly there's a sea in between China and Taiwan meaning it could largely be defended by a no fly zone. In Ukraine once Russia troops have crossed the border it isn't easy to get rid of them without a lot of messy ground warfare.
by banashark | 2025-09-12 18:31:17+00:00
I've always hoped for something like https://github.com/fordfrog/apgdiff that was comprehensive and maintained.

I want to manage my database items like I manage my code. I get a hierarchical folder structure of items with support for goToDefinition and findReferences, and when I update my code I can run something that generates the diff migration. That way I can see historical context of what has changed and when, rather than looking through migration files grepping for the fields or function names of interest.

The migration log ends up being your changelog, except that it's not a simple diff (create or replace function with the whole definition of the function rather than the diff).
by perrygeo | 2025-09-12 18:31:54+00:00
Unfortunately the homebrew cask is still Intel-only so it requires Rosetta, whereas the conda/mamba version has an osx-arm64 build. There are other workarounds discussed here: https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/46299 and here https://geo.malagis.com/native-qgis-on-apple-silicon-solutio...
by HexDecOctBin | 2025-09-12 18:32:13+00:00
Seeing what a clusterf#ck OpenGL 3 and 4 were (and Vulkan ended up being), and how Direct3D 11 is probably the most usable 3D API right now, both Apple and Microsoft were absolutely right to chase their own APIs. If not for competition from Metal and D3D12, Vulkan would still be forcing render passes and static pipelines.
by ejstronge | 2025-09-12 18:32:24+00:00
> I think it was just yesterday, I saw an article about an ICE raid of the Samsung plant in Georgia. It was a pretty long article, and even the tone of the article was pretty level. That said, there was a critical and very important piece missing from the article altogether... "Why?" As in what law(s) were broken and how/why the raid was used. TBH, I don't know that a raid was necessary over revised negotiations between DoJ/ICE, Samsung, Korea and the people in question... That said, the fact the article clearly didn't even attempt to report the ICE reasoning was pretty damning of the author and the site.

Or maybe this was a rhetorical point? Even today, there are articles that are trying to piece together who informed on the plant and what the basis for an ICE raid was. It seems you and the authors retain a similar understanding of the situation.
by reimertz | 2025-09-12 18:32:36+00:00
Sadly, this is the 3rd time everything is down when we're about to go live.

It's great that pages are still being served - but we are currently blocked by not being able to access our dashboard, configuring / prepping for a launch.

And we are enterprise customers - and I am not finding a way to reach out to customer support since .. the site is down.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-09-12 18:32:44+00:00
> finding and attacking a weak spot and declaring the entire thing flawed.

It's funny because I've come to think of this exact thing as basically the defining characteristic of the HN rhetorical style. It's not unique to here of course but it's where this approach is taken most seriously as honest rigorous debate.

Long time commenters here have internalized it to the point where their writing is large defensive in anticipation of these rhetorical chisels that will try to pry into any minute crack to dismiss the entire issue at hand.
by codazoda | 2025-09-12 18:32:58+00:00
Most of the solutions I've seen, even ones that say they have privacy, store things that can be used to fingerprint a user. I wanted my solution to be extreme in that it would not store anything that could possibly be accused of having an ability to fingerprinting or track a "user".

The result is that you only get impression data and there are a lot of things you can't know about your traffic.

Many of the other solutions say they don't require consent but I think there is a lot of untested ambiguity here. Many of the tools store and display information like "OS", "Location", "Screen Size", and the like. These values, when combined, can be used as a "fingerprint" to identify a user.

I wanted the data in my solution to be so narrowly focused that not even a public log could be used to correlate data and narrow in on a specific user.

I hadn't considered a CLI to the results but I like that idea.
by tibbon | 2025-09-12 18:33:03+00:00
I mean, I get it.

I'm highly capable of building some great things, but at my dayjob I'm filled to brim with things to do and a non-ending list of tasks in front of me.

I've built cool stuff before, and if given a little push and some support could probably come up with something useful - and I can implement much of it myself.

Put me in the room with cool people, throw out some conversation starters, shake it up and I'll come up with something.
by gruez | 2025-09-12 18:33:11+00:00
>I could buy a monitor from Amazon to try it out, and if I don't like it, just return it within the 30 days and buy another one. I assumed it was like this in most of the western world? Maybe I'm a bit naive.

1. While many places have no questions asked return policies, many also have more stringent return conditions, such as not allowing exchange for dissatisfaction. For tech retailers, where the margins are low and the goods value is high, I often find they're worse than with clothes, for instance.

2. I did some cursory searching and it doesn't look like even EU guarantees the right to return for satisfaction reasons. The closest is the 14 day right of withdraw for distance purchases, but that can be waived and doesn't cover in-store purchases.

3. Even when returns are theoretically allowed, there are many ways for retailers to make it a hassle, such as not covering return shipping, which for a monitor could be a sizeable amount of money.
by alephnerd | 2025-09-12 18:33:14+00:00
> investment

To make an investment you need capital.

A $6k a year tuition is double the median household salary for most Vietnamese. And unlike in developed counties, student loans are essentially non-existent for the majority of the population. To get a loan, it means going to a tattooed snaggle tooth guy wearing a flower shirt who exchanges gold and foreign exchange, and getting a double digit monthly loan. Best case, you are lucky and have land you can mortgage or family abroad you can beg for remittances. Additionally, tuition is paid up-front - not monthly payment plans. Additionally, the universities didn't provide half of the materials needed like scalpels or gauze - that came out of pocket at US prices.

Additionally, for someone from the bottom half of society, like my SO's family, social security and public services are non-existent, so they are dependent on their children sending them $150-200/mo while their kids are paying $250/mo in rent and $100-150/mo in incidentals on best case a $700-800/mo salary.

If you are a woman from the bottom half of society, like my SO and her peers - it is almost impossible to afford 8-10 years of no cash flow. If you are an 18 year old woman in the Central Highlands or the Mekong Delta, immediately working in a factory with a subsidized dormitory and food means you can immediately start sending cash to family to help them out. Alternatively, earning $15k-$20k working in the "unregulated vice industry" in Singapore, South Korea, the UAE, and others starts looking extremely lucrative (usually referred to work there by that snaggle tooth guy I mentioned). Best case, you get an arranged marriage with someone in the diaspora in the US or become a "Viet Bu" in Malaysia or Singapore.

My SO was literally the only person from her social class at her medical school (Vietnam's equivalent of Harvard Med) - everyone else were the children of doctors, bureaucrats, diaspora Vietnamese, businessmen, MPS officers, and other crème-a-la-creme of Viet society.

For people in my SO's case who somehow even make it to medical school, they all try to leave to practice in Japan (which my SO did), Taiwan, South Korea, or the US as soon as possible becuase it is the only way they can even recoup the cost. And this is exacerbating the medical health crisis in much of Vietnam, because a rural government doctor in a village like my SO's (if they are lucky enough to even get a doctor) would earn a $100-200/mo government salary that is almost always late.

Like, there are massive issues in the US, but to even compare the that to those faced by the bottom half of a developing country is legitimately out of touch and actually insulting as it trivializes the pains billions of people face across developing countries.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-09-12 18:33:35+00:00
> The internet and many adjacent technologies were all created and iterated on inside the DoD and other wings of government research.

^ This is the secret sauce. For decades the arrangement was exactly that: defense projects would create new technologies, then once those were finished, they were handed to private industry to figure out how to make a $20,000 MIL-spec LCD screen cheap enough and in vast enough quantities that you can buy 3 of them for less than $1,000 while the manufacturer, distributor, and retailer make a solid profit each. That's not an easy thing to do and it's what corporations have historically been good at. And it makes things better for the defense industry too, because they can then apply those lessons to their own hardware where appropriate. Win/win.

But we don't fund research anymore, or at least not that sort of it. Or perhaps there's just not much else to find. I think it's a bit of both. But in any case nothing new is getting made which is why technology feels so dull right now. The most innovative products right now are just thinner, dumber, lighter versions of things we already have, and that's not nothing but it isn't very interesting either.
by tracker1 | 2025-09-12 18:33:35+00:00
Yeah, I tend to do similar to check article subjects from a couple different sources. It's amazing how many times bits of information are straight out missing from one or another that changes the context of things a lot. There's really no excuse for it with online reporting other than twisting/propagandizing events.

On Fox content, yeah I'm more referring to the written news content (not editorial).

All said, I'm probably going to unplug for a couple weeks regarding social media, news and politics... some of the posts on Bluesky and Reddit the past couple days just make me feel a bit ill.
by jacobgkau | 2025-09-12 18:33:46+00:00
Ok, but are you arguing that it's always gotten as many things completely backwards and as completely wrong as often as it does today? If you're not arguing that, then it seems like a little bit of whatabout-ism to say "well they've gotten things wrong before." If you are arguing that, then that's fine, I can see your point and there's a historical case to be made there.
by diggan | 2025-09-12 18:34:09+00:00
The actual weights: https://huggingface.co/google/vaultgemma-1b

> VaultGemma is a variant of the Gemma family of lightweight, state-of-the-art open models from Google. It is pre-trained from the ground up using Differential Privacy (DP). This provides strong, mathematically-backed privacy guarantees for its training data, limiting the extent to which the model's outputs can reveal information about any single training example.

> VaultGemma was trained using Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) hardware TPUv6e. Training large language models with the significant computational overhead of differential privacy requires specialized hardware. TPUs are designed to handle the massive computations involved, offering the performance, memory, and scalability necessary to train models like VaultGemma efficiently and sustainably.

Seems like it requires TPUs to run, as DP has a huge performance impact, so we're unlikely to see this in homelabs and similar environments, as far as I understand.

Edit: On second read, the TPUs were only used for training, but no description if anything specific for the hardware is needed, so assuming it's fine with a regular GPU?
by TheNewsIsHere | 2025-09-12 18:34:15+00:00
The cards and certified birth certificates get mailed out by the relevant agency. The hospitals can provide the data to the parents.

The program that enables hospitals to enroll newborns with the SSA is optional and voluntary. Strictly speaking, if the hospital doesn’t do it, the parents have to do it. If the parents never do that, then the child would need to eventually do that.

And of course there are people who haven’t been issued one before, for various reasons, including people who come to live in the US. And some people aren’t born in hospitals.
by lend000 | 2025-09-12 18:34:16+00:00
Prediction: AI will become commoditized ~15 IQ points higher than the state of the art models today, and with larger context, within 4 years as the incremental improvements in training from synthetic data plateaus (we've already used all the "real" data out there) and open source models are cheaply trained on the outputs of the big money models. Then AI development stagnates until someone invents an effective way to use competitive reinforcement learning to train generalized intelligence (similar to how AlphaGo was trained), removing the need for vast quantities of training data. Then, we get real AGI.
by robotnikman | 2025-09-12 18:34:50+00:00
>It makes no sense to source outside of the US when qualified American workers cannot get jobs.

This. It's getting to a boiling point now with so many people out of work who are more than qualified for these jobs being shunned from them, and now they are fighting back. I'm sure there are many here who work in tech that can relate who have gone through hundreds, possibly thousands, of applications and not hearing anything back.
by JackYoustra | 2025-09-12 18:35:11+00:00
because no one here seems to have said it yet: I actually think experts and academics, by and large and especially in physics, are the most likely to know what they're talking about! Personalized mavericks are rarely right, and the mavericks people hold up as mavericks are usually just conventional (researchers, leaders, etc) who either are right place right time (jack welch, for example: good ceo, but what catapulted him to myth wasn't him, it was being in the spot where law was such that he had the opportunity to make the first real shadow bank before people realized the consequences) or just have charisma so they seem different.
by monknomo | 2025-09-12 18:35:29+00:00
I think the answer is a "yes, and"

Of course the approach works, we can see it work at various scales. I think what prevents it from working is that it works best when it is the only option. I don't think we could support 5 kaiser permanentes. And that feeds into insurance - there are a lot of insurance plans, and each of them would likely only support their specific kaisers

So ideally there is one insurance, with one provider that has vertical integration everywhere and then indies outside the network you can go out of pocket for, and oops I invented single payer
by krapp | 2025-09-12 18:35:49+00:00
I guarantee you all of this is 100% serious to millions of people. You can find people on Hacker News who believe that LLMs are sentient, self-aware beings, or who believe in panpsychism and that, therefore, computers have souls. This sort of belief is not at all uncommon.

Fundamentally this is no different than any other kind of shamanism or divination, just using a computer as an oracle instead of, say, tarot cards or a Ouija board. And the interpretation of TFA is typical end-times Evangelical Christian "Mark of the Beast" extrapolation onto the new scary thing. It just seems weird because it exists outside of the traditional context of religious and spiritual practice which provides it with the veneer of respectability and normality.
by fragmede | 2025-09-12 18:36:22+00:00
Okay, how do you want to implement those technical measures? I propose that we add a checkbox, for employees to click when they have gone rogue, or have been hacked. That way, when the box is checked, we can just reject those requests as being bad/wrong/illegal. Simple as that!

There may be some details with the implementation of this, but once we've got that check box, then things will be secure.

Or maybe trillions of dollars can't change digital physics. I don't care how much money you have, you can't make water not be wet.
by HexDecOctBin | 2025-09-12 18:36:27+00:00
Oh, I agree that OpenGL 3 and 4 were absolute disasters, D3D11 is right there for how to do this mostly correctly, and OpenGL doesn't even stand close by comparison. But by the time 4.5 and 4.6 came out, things were going in the right direction. And then Vulkan killed the momentum.

Imagine a OpenGL which takes inspiration from D3D11 and dares to be even more user-friendly and intuitive. Instead, we got Vulkan, yay.
by quectophoton | 2025-09-12 18:36:48+00:00
This prompted me to check, and seems like KeePassXC supports storing passkeys, at least if you use the browser extension and enable a flag in its config. Until now I had thought it only supported unlocking your database with passkeys, I didn't know about it being able to actually store them.

I guess I'll try setting them up on some unimportant website to see for myself what all the hype is about.
by shmerl | 2025-09-12 18:36:53+00:00
No, they were absolutely wrong. It's like saying it was wrong for the Web to have common standards and everyone should be using ActiveX, Flash, Silverlight and who knows what else. That argument is complete fallacy. It's really good that the Web managed to get rid of those. But I'm sure lock-in proponents will never get tired for arguing that NIH is "the right way to go".
by bluGill | 2025-09-12 18:37:13+00:00
The only part of memorizing fastest algorithm the vast majority needs is whatever name that goes by in your library. Generic reusable code works very well in almost any language for algorithms.

Even if you are an exception either you are writing the library meaning you write that algorithm once for the hundreds of other users, or the algorithm was written once (long ago) and you are just spending months with a profiler trying to squeeze out a few more CPU cycles of optimization.

There are more algorithms than anyone can memorize that are not in your library, but either it is good enough to use a similar one that already is your library, or you will build it once and once again it works so you never go back to it.

Which is to say memorizing how to implement an algorithm is a negative: it means you don't know how to write/use generic reusable code. This lack is costing your company hundreds of thousands of dollars.
by jltsiren | 2025-09-12 18:37:14+00:00
There were essentially no sanctions impacting Russian energy exports to Europe. Those would have hurt Europe much more than Russia. If you can't export something, the damage is proportional to the volume of the exports. But if you don't have enough energy, your entire economy suffers.

The increases in energy prices mostly came from voluntary attempts to find alternatives to Russian energy and from Russia constraining the supply.
by labcomputer | 2025-09-12 18:37:18+00:00
So one problem with a nurse -> MD career track is that they are just fundamentally different roles. It's not (just) number of years of schooling, but what they study. Nurses don't do diagnoses or prescriptions, and don't receive much if any formal training in those areas. So I'm doubtful you can make up that difference with just on the job training (though doctors who were once nurses might be better doctors).

That said, I think that a RN -> NP career track with some kind of "executive NP" program (analogous to "executive MBA"), followed by supervision under an MD and eventually graduating to full autonomy, is an interesting idea.
by gnarlouse | 2025-09-12 18:37:31+00:00
Been working on a calendar scheduling app that uses a constraint solver to auto schedule events based on scheduling constraints (time of day preferences and requirements, recurrence rules), and track goal progress (are you slipping on your desired progress velocity? Get a notification). It’s also a meal planner: from a corpus of thousands of good, healthy recipes, schedule a meal plan that reuses ingredients nearing expiration, models your pantry, estimates grocery prices, meets your nutritional goals. Constraint solvers are black magic.