MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by arduanika | 2025-09-25 15:00:53+00:00
One of the more straightforward things you can buy is a "value" index fund, which will tend to be more durable / low beta / lower P/E / a bit more recession-proof. The tradeoff is lower vol and lower* returns -- you'll partly miss out on the rest of this big run-up.

Value funds are widely available (often paired with the opposite "growth" funds), and you can put some money there if it helps you sleep. The concept might already be oversubscribed, idk, but at least it's simple and you're still owning equities at 1x, no weird derivatives. It's not a big fancy ripoff like some sort of "structured product" that you'll get if you ask your question here of a self-interested financial advisor.

If you think you've got too much Mag 7, you could also go for small and midcap funds. Often means higher beta & vol, but less concentrated. But who knows, aggregation theory might still not yet be fully played out, and the giants could keep eating more and more of the pie.

Bond funds have a place, too.

* Or maybe not, see reducesuffering's comment below.
by jakobnissen | 2025-09-25 15:01:16+00:00
It's sad to see how poorly the U.S. has been enforcing (and interpreting) its own anti-trust legislation the last ~40 years. In my view that decline has been one of the contributing factors to the growing business oligarchy in the country.

Funnily, the previous EU commissioner for competition, who has spearheaded these clashes between EU and the U.S. tech giants has stated that the U.S. basically wrote the book on sensible anti-trust legislation back in the day, and that the EU's current laws are greatly inspired by the historical example of the U.S.
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-25 15:01:50+00:00
> Bose, for example, "requires" an app to be installed. For "updates", they tell you. Updates... to headphones...?!

The headphones work without the app, but the app is required for updates (the headphones have onboard software) and also if you want to manage the multipoint connection capability from your phone (which can be more convenient than doing it from the headphones and each device you want to connect to, but is not necessary to use the feature.)
by devilbunny | 2025-09-25 15:01:57+00:00
> (This shows they at least know to lie about it)

Or they just don’t do it? I don’t enjoy gambling at all. I don’t do it in casinos, I don’t do it online, and I don’t even do it with friends where there’s no “house” to pay off. I think the worst night gambling I’ve ever experienced, I lost $20. I still remember it.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-09-25 15:02:09+00:00
To play devil’s advocate a little bit, being required to make every new API publicly available right away can be a real pain in the rear for the first several iterations of these APIs, for both first and third parties.

A common pattern in Apple platforms has been for APIs to be private initially, then made public 2-4 major versions after introduction, once the bulk of the design churn is over with and it can remain relatively stable. Essentially, they focus on making it functional and shaped correctly and then make it public once they’re satisfied. They don’t do this with every API obviously, but have with several.

I think the DMA would be stronger if it had a “beta clause” that allowed that form of development for some stretch of time (a couple of years maybe) after public release before requirements kick in. This way companies don’t have to try to juggle making the APIs functional vs. fit for public consumption.
by palmotea | 2025-09-25 15:02:18+00:00
What we need is a mandate for AI transformation of Radiology: Radiologists must be required to use AI every day on X% of scans, their productivity must double with the use of AI or they'll get fired, etc. To quote CEOs everywhere: AI is a transformative technology unlike any we've ever seen in our careers, and we must embrace it in a desperate FOMO way, anything else is unacceptable.
by codedokode | 2025-09-25 15:02:42+00:00
There might be processes that have high privileges, but don't need high performance, for example: sudo utility, new USB device detection daemon, bluetooth communication daemon.

Also idea described in Apple's article (never reuse allocated addresses for other types) cannot be easily implemented for any allocator. Consider a memory pipe (circular buffer), where one process pushes messages and another reads them. How do you implement Apple-style memory safety here? One of the ideas is of course to map the buffer multiple times, so that every allocation returns a new virtual address, but how many syscalls you will need for that and how badly that would impact performance.
by wilkommen | 2025-09-25 15:02:44+00:00
I think that the Fortune 500 is so invested in AI that AI has potentially become "too big to fail". There are increasing political and financial connections between big tech and the executive branch as well. As long as the Trump administration is willing to backstop any backslide on AI, things will only continue to go up. And there's no guarantee that Democrats would take a significantly different stance.
by dleeftink | 2025-09-25 15:02:44+00:00
The default palette essentially is IBM's Color-blind safe[0], which does provide some 'safe' defaults. IBM's design guidelines provide some sound advice for color use too [1].

[0]: https://davidmathlogic.com/colorblind/#:~:text=Three%20of%20...

[1]: https://www.ibm.com/design/language/color/
by BobaFloutist | 2025-09-25 15:02:56+00:00
>There is a vast gulf between the salaries in the US and even Western Europe in tech.

American companies are welcome to start offering Western European level benefits (and compensate for missing government benefits) at any time. I would happily accept 30-50% less pay for a very solid health insurance plan, pay for my childcare 30 days of paid vacation a year that I'm actually entitled to take, 6 months of paid maternity leave + some paternity leave, a contract that restricts my working hours and makes it meaningfully legally difficult to frivolously fire me and practically impossible to lay me off of the company isn't failing, and an hour paid lunch every day.

Nobody seems to be offering that, for whatever reason. The closest is non-profits, who lack the cash to meet standard salaries but try to make up with benefits (which are, after all, cheaper), but for profit companies seem to prefer to pony up and retain the control at-will employment grants them
by nabla9 | 2025-09-25 15:03:08+00:00
HOSPITALS: “High-markup” hospitals are overwhelmingly for-profit, located in large metropolitan areas and have the worst patient outcomes https://www.uclahealth.org/news/release/high-markup-hospital...

>These “high-markup hospitals” (HMH), which comprised about 10% of the total the researchers examined, charged up to 17 times the true cost of care. By contrast, markups at other hospitals were an average of three times the cost of care.

>They also have significantly worse patient outcomes compared with lower-cost hospitals, new UCLA research finds.

NURSING HOMES: Owner Incentives and Performance in Healthcare: Private Equity in Nursing Homes ( https://www.nber.org/papers/w28474

>After instrumenting for the patient-nursing home match, we recover a local average treatment eﬀect on mortality of 11%. Declines in measures of patient well-being, nurse staﬃng, and compliance with care standards help to explain the mortality eﬀect.
by mallowdram | 2025-09-25 15:03:19+00:00
I'm not a bot, I'm a neurobiologist with a start up that's about replacing the symbolic. and I'm pretty stunned at how inert CS is regarding language. You can find plenty of typos in my posts, and they're not all about this, they're about myth, causality, the symbolic.

To accuse a human of being a bot is really poor manners.

Far from word salads, they are based in deep theories from empirical demonstrations that words are our most fundamental illusions. If you want the deep research we use internally (about 100 citations) start here.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cXtU97SCjxaHCrf8UVeQGYaj...

I suggest that CS has little ability to debates the scientific reality of language if posters are going to complain scientific statements that are defined and defendable are word salads.

That's a warning CS hasn't done its homework.
by simonw | 2025-09-25 15:03:46+00:00
I wouldn't trust a non-radiologist to safely interpret the results of an AI model for radiology, no matter how well that model performs in benchmarks.

Similar to how a model that can do "PhD-level research" is of little use to me if I don't have my own PhD in the topic area it's researching for me, because how am I supposed to analyze a 20 page research report and figure out if it's credible or not?
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-09-25 15:04:20+00:00
Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'

'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.'
by vel0city | 2025-09-25 15:04:20+00:00
Savings isn't inherently a good thing. I can save a lot of money if I stop paying my mortgage. I can save money if I stop buying my meds. I can save money if I stop paying my utility bills. Things won't go well for me in the end though.

If we as a society choose to stop investing in ourselves, we'll have bad outcomes in the end.
by myrmidon | 2025-09-25 15:04:23+00:00
I don't really get it.

If you are arguing that the customer is not paying for inefficient providers, then I strongly disagree.

Customers always end up paying for inefficient supply chains. If you end up with an inefficient allocation of hospitals/doctors (local overprovisioning), it's always gonna be the patients that are gonna pick up the bill for this in the end through higher average prices.

Inefficiencies are doubly bad because you potentially don't just pay the pure cost for the inefficiency (middlemen, waste etc.) you even pay for margins on top.

I think the assumption that such inefficiencies could lead to actual savings for customers (by magically making the providers decrease their profit margins) is highly overoptimistic.
by Fluorescence | 2025-09-25 15:04:32+00:00
> it really only lasted a single summer

"The Summer of Love" literally refers to one summer in 1967 not the whole of 60's counter-culture. Even Woodstock was in '69.

In terms of the various cultural strands then of course they lasted longer with many roots in 50's beatnick culture (bohemianism, poetry, LSD, Buddhism) to today where bands that played Monterey '67 and Woodstock are still touring and a "definitely not a hippy" in San Francisco might live in a polycule, micro-dose psychedelics while using a meditation app before writing a blog about effective altruism.
by miltonlost | 2025-09-25 15:04:50+00:00
While important, this is immaterial to the NBC article. The PE firms CUT the number of employees in ER rooms in this paper, so having more doctors wouldn't actually help out the problem that the NBC article is describing.

"The increased deaths in emergency departments at private equity-owned hospitals are most likely the result of reduced staffing levels after the acquisitions, which the study also measured, said Dr. Zirui Song, a co-author and associate professor of health care policy and medicine at Harvard Medical School."

The issue with American healthcare is the profit-seeking capitalists.
by churchill | 2025-09-25 15:05:08+00:00
I always try to make sense of America's Middle East policy in a way that doesn't veer into antisemitic conspiracy theorist thinking and it just doesn't compute. At all.

For instance, apart from ups and downs here and there, the Arab petro-states have been reliable US allies. Support military actions in the region, notify Western powers of their unruly citizens getting chummy with terrorists, etc. For instance, years before 9/11, Saudi Arabia expelled Bin Laden, voided his citizenship, and notified the US & allies, IIRC.

They have rivers of oil & gas - a cheap, superabundant energy source.

They buy hundreds of billions worth of US weapons. Spend hundreds of billions on Western contractors. Israel, by contrast, buys US weapons with US money. Basically, the US gives it to them for free.

Yet, the US won't even sell their Arab allies top-end stuff. In fact, Congress has a law on the books guaranteeing Israel a Qualitative Military Edge, QME. So, America can't sell the Arabs - some of their best allies - F35s or any of the cool toys, just because Israel says so.

Now, America also seems comfortable with Israel bombing their best allies, destabilizing their entire region, offending the region's Muslim majority, which weakens the legitimacy of all their royal houses.

For what? The chump change AIPAC offers?

What do you think these countries will do when China reaches out and offers them the new J35 stealth fighter? Egypt, which collects lots of US cash to leave Israel alone, is currently trying it out, as I'm sure, many of the other Arab states are.

China's rapid rise means that they can now offer these countries weapons that match top-end Western systems 90-95%, at 30-40% of the cost. And China is a more logical, reliable geopolitical player.

I just don't know. Is this erosion of American power worth it for whatever Israel is offering?
by Anamon | 2025-09-25 15:05:43+00:00
Wasn't the end of Estado novo famously low-violence? It's called the Carnation Revolution because there were a lot more flowers than bullets.

The overall statistics are undeniable, though. I take some comfort in the fact that no two macropolitical situations are ever really identical, and in my naïve belief that overall, humanity still learns a tiny little sliver from the past.
by rexpop | 2025-09-25 15:05:48+00:00
I worked very hard to interrogate and challenge the foundations of the white-supremacist patriarchal "political religion" (do you not know the word "ideology?") into which I was born.

This transition was deliberate, and conscious. I can't imagine how I could have endured all of the social risks and personal discomfort "without even realizing it."

But, more to the point: have you never heard of The Feminine Mystique? Have you never heard of The Vindication of the Rights of Women? It's an undeniable fact that female spouses have endured centuries of unpaid labor and domestic violence—including legalized rape.

This is a serious issue, and it's not "much dumber" to oppose. Frankly, you have to be pretty stupid to think that we're better off through gendered subjugation.
by guywithahat | 2025-09-25 15:05:49+00:00
I've interviewed at a few YC companies, and the issue with really young companies is that they don't know anything about running a company. Experienced people don't want to work for a 27 year old, and so it's a bunch of people who don't know what they're doing, making promises out of ignorance and not delivering.

I'm tempted to think that YC knows better than I do here, but my experience suggests this is a bad idea. The worst managers I've had were inexperienced, and someone who's 22 won't know when they need someone experienced, or how to talk to customers. Many of them may be too nervous to act, and since they can apply under the safety of also applying for jobs they may not be as motivated. I suspect this is just a ploy to get more Stanford grads to apply but I'm not sure it's the best way to go about it.
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-25 15:05:49+00:00
That's like saying "it's ok if I shit in the river, it's a big river". When a million other people do it you've got a water quality problem.

Each and every one of these regulations can in abstract, be justified by some useful idiot looking at only the first and second order inputs and outputs and not looking at the totality of the effects.

Nobody with a brain would defend shitting in the river, but here you are asking for individual turds so that they may be justified on the basis that the individual dropping them was relieved and their individual impact on water quality was minor.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-09-25 15:06:02+00:00
Does the camera actually support tethering? I also have a pen-f, and I don't have such an option when I connect it to a computer. I can only do it via the phone app, and it never worked well. The om1 works better with the app.

Apparently, when connecting to an external AP, it supports WPS, both PIN and button, instead of typing the full password. My AP doesn't support any form of WPS and I mistyped my password. That's five minutes of my life I won't get back...

Interestingly, the transfer from the camera seems slower with OM Capture than with Darktable, but it can configure basically all the camera's settings, including the High-Res, HDR bracketing, etc. It can also tell the camera to not save the files on its card (or configure which format goes on which card).
by frankc | 2025-09-25 15:06:04+00:00
I also feel like what gets lost in this is not everything you are building is a bite size feature in large existing project. Sometimes you are adding an entire subsystem that is large to something relatively greenfield. if you broke that down into features, you will need 20 PRs and if you wait for review, or even don't wait but have to circle back to integrate lots of requested changes, what might be a couple of weeks of work turns into 2 to 3 months of work. That just does not work unless you are in a massive enterprise that is ok with moving like molasses. Do you wind up with something not as high quality? Probably. But that is just the trade-off with shipping faster.
by EvanAnderson | 2025-09-25 15:06:22+00:00
> You're secure if you don't expose SNMP.

Depends what you mean by "expose". Some people could read that as "exposed to the Internet". I'm reading it as "exposed to anything".

This looks like a good fun for doing lateral movement inside a network. I know of lots of environments with SNMPv2 wide open for "internal" networks to access.

Plus SNMP is UDP-based, so likely the exploit will work with a one-way path and spoofed source addresses.
by leakycap | 2025-09-25 15:06:28+00:00
> Flippin' Symbian phones from early 2010's are more capable

As a person who used them then and still have a few working that I turn on now and then, this is nostalgic bunk. Symbian phone hardware & software SDK were a disorganized mess. By 2010, Symbian phones were stagnant and the market was mostly abandoned.

The Symbian OS had promise, but it was not realized. There is a reason the 2007 iPhone totally disrupted PalmPC/PalmOS/webOS/Symbian and wiped them from the landscape.
by Oras | 2025-09-25 15:06:40+00:00
When I read your description, I thought, "This is just like the Exa dataset, no?" but then I gave it a try, and I am genuinely impressed.

Great decision to make it without a login so people can test.

Here is what I liked:

- The agent told me exactly what's happening, which sources it is checking, and the schema.

- The agent correctly identified where to look at, and how to obtain the data.

- Managing expectations: Webhound is extracting data Extraction can take multiple hours. We'll send you an email when it's complete.

Minor point:

- There is no pricing on the main domain, just the HN one https://hn.webhound.ai/pricing

Good luck!
by n4bz0r | 2025-09-25 15:07:09+00:00
That's as shallow as "<anything Russian> is Russian government". Russian government certainly established strong leverage over Yandex (and every other major business for that matter), but they don't exactly own the company.

Such blanket statements really don't bring anything to the table.

PS: I think you might be confusing Yandex with VK. VK are known to be loyal to government and provide users' data to law enforcement at a whim, without proper procedures.
by gnabgib | 2025-09-25 15:07:17+00:00
(2017) Popular in:

2021 (288 points, 57 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29368529

2020 (423 points, 96 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23081924

2019 (206 points, 17 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19084773

2017 (451 points, 106 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15359574
by petercooper | 2025-09-25 15:07:33+00:00
Oracle is in the same boat with Javascript. Technically they own the trademark. But world+dog has been using that trademark freely without them doing anything about it. So, their claims to the trademark are weak at this point.

And, yet, it seems to still be difficult to do anything about it, with Deno now raising $200k to fight it. Ultimately, someone still needs deep enough pockets to push the point even if the legal point seems straightforward.
by ajmurmann | 2025-09-25 15:07:39+00:00
> The problem is that it's an inelastic market. So sellers can basically charge WHATEVER they want, constrained only to the line where people will revolt.

What keeps me from bringing my business too the competition like I do in every other market? The main constraint I see right now is that there are very few, but large hospitals and my insurance only pays for me to go to even fewer of those. However, competition already works (if the patient makes an effort) for some planned procedures like CT scans where you can safe up to 80% in my own experience.
by jasonlotito | 2025-09-25 15:07:51+00:00
1. One accepts only Visa, one only MC, one only Amex, one only cash, and one only accept bitcoin.

2. One offers bananas to walk in visitors, but the others have a minimum wait time of 1 month to a year.

3. One is a mile away. One is an hour away. Still in the same county.

4. None of them offer an easy to understand menu. You can't just order a banana. You ahve to order Banana Services and meet with Banana specialists. You can't take the banana home.

5. You wake up in a banana shop and you didn't get a chance to shop around before being presented with a bill. They don't take your payment of choice, so it's 10 times as expensive.

6. Some won't let you buy a banana. Instead, you have to buy a banana service. Per banana pricing is the lowest here, but the total cost is higher if you just want a banana.

Which banana store do you buy from? A, B, C, D, or E?

I'll take the first choice you make and let you know if you picked correctly. Anything other than the correct choice is a failure.
by err4nt | 2025-09-25 15:07:53+00:00
Back about 20 years ago there was a lightweight Gecko-based web browser called 'Camino' that was a delight compared to Firefox or other 'full' browsers. It was fast, simplified, and still rendered pages well. I didn't always use it, but it was a joy to use.

I downloaded Helium and gave it a spin and my first impression was "Ah, it's like Camino all over again". I can't use this for my job where I need to use stock {Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge} because our customers do - but for personal browsing I'm currently using Arc which is very comfortable but heavy, I might try to use Helium for quick simple things when I want less overhead! Thanks for sharing!
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-25 15:07:56+00:00
US healthcare expenditures are ludicrously high, because the US healthcare “system” is ludicrously inefficient by global standards.

US public healthcare expenditures are similar to what some developed countries with fully public universal healthcare have—and the private expenditures on top are more than the public costs.

People sometimes joke about the US having gaps in healthcare because of defense or other spending, but the fact is the US effectively pays vast amounts of money to create those gaps, rather than having them because of some resource constraints.