MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bilbo0s | 2025-09-25 17:03:17+00:00
Uh, because the original post implied that over regulation was the cause of substandard metrics in PE owned hospitals. It even went so far as to state, "..I'm not surprised by this finding.." after outlining a case for why over regulation was a problem.

Which "finding", presumably, being that PE owned hospitals have substandard metrics.

My question is natural given the context of a discussion that's literally titled:

"Death rates rose in hospital ERs after private equity firms took over"

It's literally the entire subject of the discussion. Why would anyone think it's irrelevant?
by mgfist | 2025-09-25 17:03:31+00:00
> Self-driving EVs are not a solution to most of the externalities of personal automobiles.

Why do you think self-driving cars are meant to solve automobile externalities? I don't view them in that way. I view them as solving personal problems with driving - attention, safety, comfort, utilization rate, cost, etc..

> It’s not even clear as of now whether they have a net positive effect on the society

Why not? Personal automobiles have a utilization rate of around 5%. If Waymo can get that to even 40% that means you can reduce the number of vehicles by 8x (let's be conservative and say 4x to account for potentially higher use of them a la Jevon's Paradox). They're also infinitely safer and it's likely that they'll get to the point where there are no automobile related deaths. They'll replace the likes of Uber and taxis which have been known to be sources of assaults and other crimes. They'll unlock other opportunities too but regardless of how conservative you want to be with their effects, if they roll out to the point where one can forgo buying a personal automobile, it's very very hard to argue it won't be a huge net positive to society.

I bet your reason against it is that you believe something like trains and metros and bikes are better. And to an extent they are, I live in a city and prefer to ride the metro when I can. But it's pure hopium thinking they can ever fully obviate cars.
by Huntsecker | 2025-09-25 17:03:47+00:00
1400 years ? it was a creation of the second world war, but anyway regarding neighbors you mean other than bombing iran, syria, yemen, lebanon I believe in all these cases israel attacked first and thats in the past 12months. I think your point was meant to be more that Israel has a right to defend its self and I think most people and countries would back Israel in that right if the response had been proportionate. instead theyve killed record numbers of journalists(worst in history), 70% of the dead are women and children (tried adding links but doesnt seem to let me), more than a thousand are dead due to starvation directly caused by Israel, this isn't how wars are fought.
by mothballed | 2025-09-25 17:03:47+00:00
When people come in for treatment, they're able to provide a chief complaint. This is usually the first thing you tell the lady at the desk or whoever approaches you.

What you're asking medical care professional to do is dismiss their chief complaint, and assume their motive isn't exactly what they stated. If someone comes in and states "I need a doctors note for flu" or "I slept with someone with chlamydia" then the medical care professional will assume that is their motive for coming in. You act as if it's made up.

What's ironic here is what you're advocating is for doctors to do the exact opposite of what you want. You should be thankful that they don't just assume their motives are what they state and the actual situation, because that's how they catch stuff like cancer.

And yes it is often found that something other than the chief complaint is the underlying cause.

>t's people with racist biases

Lol sounds like you might be the racist. I never mentioned anyone's race. Any race or nationality can be a hoodrat[], but for some reason you jumped straight to you're wife's skin color (and seemingly presumed from that she is a hoodrat, lmao).

Whatever it is you think I've done, I can at least say one thing. I've at least never shamelessly used my wife's medical condition as bait for debates on the internet as a trump card to garner enough sympathy to look over what you've said blatantly doesn't fit the criteria of misuse supplied.

[] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Hood+rat
by vlovich123 | 2025-09-25 17:03:54+00:00
> Does Rust support automatic parallelization

No, and there's no indication that automatic parallelization is at all worth the effort vs having the author explicitly annotate which things need parallelization (e.g. Rayon is drop-in for many tasks where you know you'll need it). Otherwise you're at the mercy of heuristics baked into the language which in practice never work out well and also slow down the non multithreaded use-cases.

> To be me, the interesting question is: What happens when you lie to the type (and effect or ownership) system?

As others have said, just having the print get elided if the operation gets optimized out would be fine. That's what Haskell does. It's a weird choice to look at the challenges of effect systems and conclude the effect system idea is perfect it's the programmers who are wrong and not that the effect system has gaps that can't be addressed and solve it in other less surprising ways.
by gwbas1c | 2025-09-25 17:04:02+00:00
> “every commit must compile” - again, unnecessary overzealousness. Every commit on the MAIN branch definitely should compile. Wasting your time with this in a branch, as you work towards a solution, is focusing on the wrong thing

(With few exceptions,) I generally follow this practice; BUT, I think enforcing this on other developers feels like micromanagement. That being said, with few exceptions, committing code that doesn't compile feels like an incomplete sentence.

(Sometimes on massive refactors I make commits that don't compile. It gives me a place to roll back to. If someone thinks this is poor practice, than I think they're putting principles in place of practicality.)
by 542354234235 | 2025-09-25 17:04:05+00:00
I'm going to assume good faith on your part. OP is using analogy as a rhetorical device, using things in their own life that would be recognizable and transferable to others. When he says its like "speaking English", it is because he speaks English, but it can be understood that any non-English natives would insert their own mother tongue. 88% of European households and 92% of US households own at least one car. Driving, as something that once learned you take for granted since you do it pretty much daily, is something most people can related to. Even those that cant, are probably intimately familiar with those that do. It isn't something exotic and specialized, like airline pilot or submarine crewmember.

If I say "its like finding out someone ate the last of your favorite candy", it is meant to analogize a feeling of disappointment. If you personally don't like candy, I would expect that you have the ability to understand the meaning and intent and not focus on how the analogy doesn't perfectly align with your individual personal experiences and preferences. If you want to complain about how some cultures don't really eat candy, while others focus on collective sharing over individual ownership, I suppose you can.
by lubujackson | 2025-09-25 17:04:13+00:00
Speaking of the "landline" thing for kids that is mentioned at the start of the post, this product is making the rounds amongst my kid's class (3rd grade). Not sure if it will catch on, but seems far too pricey for my taste, though I like the concept: https://tincan.kids/

I think it is good to separate the nostalgia from the actual valuable nugget you want to revive. Nostalgia is great for marketing but parsing the missing nugget is the important part.

I have hundreds of CDs I never got rid of and last Christmas I got my son a cheap CD player. Yes, he could have infinite music through Spotify, but what I wanted to give him was that sense of control over music. The physical element has value, which has been appreciated for a while - a lot of that comes from the purposeful interaction required to select, set up and play the music. To listen to entire albums instead of individual songs. An avenue to explore music you only sort of are interested in but give more time because of switching costs.

But more specifically, I remembered the feeling of being a kid and having my own cassette player, walking around with it and bringing music with me. It was one of the first things I owned that could modify my space and change my mood and affect those around me in a positive way. That is a powerful concept when you are little!

I think the missing element of the "old web" is having that sense of control and influence. Not huge control or huge influence, but self-directed and with some friction. Sometimes, the friction is the most important part!
by SamuelAdams | 2025-09-25 17:04:39+00:00
It’s not about CSA, it’s about illegal content. And laws change all the time.

For example, an individual can generate AI images of Hollywood actors using Stable Diffusion and a decently powerful computer. Said individual had the right to share those images online with a community.

Now however the sharing and distribution of said images is considered illegal in my USA state.

So, are the images said individual created and shared three years ago subject to prosecution? Even if the law went into effect 3 months ago?
by aranelsurion | 2025-09-25 17:05:00+00:00
1. Install Meta app on your Vision

2. Accept every scary permission prompt Apple throws at you

3. ???

4. Meta now has your home scanned.

This is how I see Apple’s argument. I wonder why they let the Browser exist then. It opens you up to so many more dangers, they should’ve let you only visit “apple.com” and maybe a few trusted partners.
by thewebguyd | 2025-09-25 17:05:31+00:00
Of course not, it's just a pretense for passing this law because its political suicide to instead say "We don't want to do any actual police work and instead want to create a massive surveillance state and monitor everything you say and do so we can better control our populations."

CSAM is just the excuse, as it is with any other laws of this nature in the past.
by dark_mode | 2025-09-25 17:05:35+00:00
> The decision has not affected Microsoft’s wider commercial relationship with the IDF, which is a longstanding client and will retain access to other services. The termination will raise questions within Israel about the policy of holding sensitive military data in a third-party cloud hosted overseas.

It's worth noting that even after finding out the "most moral" army is conducting mass surveillance, they're still happy to provide them services.
by mettamage | 2025-09-25 17:05:35+00:00
Perhaps a hot take (to some at least): the invisible hand works. Supply demand, it works [1]. Unfortunately, that also means that your life can be priced out of the market. If one finds that important, then it doesn't work.

Profit motives don't care about humans, it cares about profit. If it has to care about humans because of it, then so be it.

We've never been individualists. We need infrastructure, thus some form of collective action. Without roads, no freedom to comfortably drive a car, without the internet no freedom to comfortably search for information, without healthcare no freedom to comfortably stay healthy when a medical emergency occurs.

Could you imagine if all roads were a for profit road? Could you imagine if TCP/IP was for profit? Well, I think some of you could, as some of you know failed attempts of protocols for money at that deep of a level. I'm curious about the stories.

In any case, that's what's happening here with medical institutions that should have an infrastructure role.

[1] Well, to be fair, there are many caveats, but let's not go into oligopolies, cartel-like formations, etc.
by hnav | 2025-09-25 17:06:05+00:00
Even though the gulf between Waymo and the next runner up is huge, it too isn't quite ready for primetime IMO. Waymos still suffer from erratic behavior at pickup/dropoff, around pedestrians, badly marked roads and generally jam on the brakes at the first sign of any ambiguity. As much as I appreciate the safety-first approach (table stakes really, they'd get their license pulled if they ever caused a fatality) I am frequently frustrated as both a cyclist and driver whenever I have to share a lane with a Waymo. The equivalent of a Waymo radiologist would be a model that has a high false-positive and infinitesimal false-negative rate which would act as a first line of screening and reduce the burden on humans.
by pjdesno | 2025-09-25 17:06:13+00:00
The best story I heard about machine learning and radiology was when folks were racing to try to detect COVID in lung X-rays.

As I recall, one group had fairly good success, but eventually someone figured out that their data set had images from a low-COVID hospital and a high-COVID hospital, and the lettering on the images used different fonts. The ML model was detecting the font, not the COVID.

[a bit of googling later...]

Here's a link to what I think was the debunking study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-021-00338-7

If you're not at a university, try searching for "AI for radiographic COVID-19 detection selects shortcuts over signal" and you'll probably be able to find an open-access copy.
by jfengel | 2025-09-25 17:06:23+00:00
It's only hypocritical if he were previously calling for unrestricted free speech. Not having made a point of it previously is not evidence of hypocrisy.

Indeed, this is where Trump and Musk become the problem. Both were passionate defenders of unrestricted free speech. Now, they are the ones restricting speech.

The points that the article makes have nothing to do with the current situation. The article could have been written a decade ago. We have always known the problems of unrestricted speech on the Internet: we've had to shut down spam since practically the first minute. Flame wars made much of Usenet unusable.

It's a particularly tragic commons: speech can be unlimited, but attention is not, and all of the usual problems apply when you have infinite access to a finite resource.
by rashkov | 2025-09-25 17:06:42+00:00
If you want to redefine genocide to mean "a very bad thing" then go ahead, but doing so would hollow out the term.

There's nothing stopping people from discussing the events in Gaza as a tragedy and a war crime, but activists are intent on attaching the word genocide to this. Referring to it as a genocide has become a litmus test to be considered pro-Palestinian.
by Refreeze5224 | 2025-09-25 17:06:53+00:00
This is an excellent point. We all seem to grasp that private fire and cops would be a an awful idea.

And as I'm sure you know, the answer to why it's a huge leap for healthcare is the obscene profits that healthcare companies make off of the healthy, the sick, and the dying.

Now let's recognize that we live in a system that fully supports this trading of health and lives for money.
by GoatInGrey | 2025-09-25 17:07:05+00:00
AI art is easy to pick out when no effort was made to deviate from the default style that the models use. Where the person put in a basic prompt of the desired contents ("man freezing on a bed") and calls it a day. When some craftsmanship is applied to make it more original, that's when it gets progressively harder to catch it at first glance. Though I'd argue that it's more transformative and thus warrants less criticism than the lazy usage.

As a related aside, I've started seeing businesses clearly using ChatGPT for their logos. You can tell from the style and how much random detail there is contrasted with the fact that it's a small boba tea shop with two employees. I am still trying to organize my thoughts on that one.

Edit:

Example: https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/brookf...
by ivan_icin | 2025-09-25 17:07:18+00:00
I’ve been working on a physics project that unexpectedly led to a new transformer architecture.

*TickBlock* replaces QKᵀ with a learnable banded positional operator (“tensor mode”). On Tiny Shakespeare, it matches GPT-2-small-level performance with only 0.64M parameters (≈0.5% of the size). It trains in ~12 minutes on a Mac laptop — no kernel optimizations yet.

Repo: https://github.com/projectbelgrade/tickblock

The design is motivated by my research in fundamental physics, which reinterprets relativity without tensors. That work (Project Belgrade) models reality as a sequence of discrete publishing events and photons as standing sheets of information: [Structure and Mechanics of Reality: Project Belgrade](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17191747)

Right now the results are small-scale, but the efficiency gains suggest a bigger question:

- With kernel optimization, parameter sweeps, and compression, how far can this scale? - Could we see GPT-4-class assistants running fully on laptops? GPT-3.5-class reasoning on phones? - If that became practical, what would be the most compelling on-device applications?

Curious to hear how the community thinks about the tradeoffs and opportunities.
by Joeboy | 2025-09-25 17:07:50+00:00
“There you are, Mr. Netanyahu! Just who do you think you are, killing thousands and flattening neighborhoods, then wrapping yourself in Judaism like it’s some shield from criticism? You’re making life for Jews miserable, and life for American Jews impossible!” - Jewish character on the latest South Park, a show created and run by two Jewish people.

Also ”It’s not Jews vs. Palestine, it’s Israel vs. Palestine!”
by lanstin | 2025-09-25 17:07:55+00:00
I think in general this lack affects almost all areas of human endeavor. All my speech teaching my kids how to think clearly, to young software engineers about how to build software in a some giant ass bureaucracy, how to debug some tricky problem, none of that sort of discovering truth one step at a time or teaching new stuff is in blogs or anything outside the moment.

When I do write something up, it is usually very finalized at that time; the process of getting to that point is not recorded.

The models maybe need more naturalistic data and more data from working things out.
by twoodfin | 2025-09-25 17:08:08+00:00
This is one of those comments that make me wish hn gave out a daily use “super upvote”.

I’d only extend that point 2 is true for many cutting-edge treatments beyond simply drug development & is tied to point 1: If you pay doctors top-flight salaries, you get a lot of smart, innovative doctors pushing (at great cost) into the future of medicine.

Similar story with admins working to make care more efficient and also humane, data science teams (yes, big research and academic hospitals have these in spades!) …

America is rich and wants to spend that on medicine. It’s not a conspiracy of oligarchs.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-25 17:08:14+00:00
Franklin Township, Indianapolis

Project Flo

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bhOHyNBPi_Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFx8b6y_tfM

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/google-withdraws-...

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/google-confirmed-...

https://www.datacentermap.com/usa/indiana/indianapolis/proje...

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by tedggh | 2025-09-25 17:08:16+00:00
“Even when you don’t agree with decisions the company leadership is making, part of your job is representing and facilitating those decisions with full alignment. When acting “in public” (all-hands, department meetings, the #general channel), this is mandatory, as contradicting the bosses in a broad forum can kill the credibility you have the leadership across the wider team“

Take this advice with a grain of salt. If bad decisions can lead to very bad things and you know it you must push back even if that means getting fired. This is particularly important when the life and wellbeing of others are at stake. Just look at Boeing to see how prioritizing a job over ethics can actually kill people and destroy companies.
by thewebguyd | 2025-09-25 17:08:20+00:00
They'll push the scanning to the OS level, mandate that the OS does it. Hence the seemingly coordinated effort with Google on the sideloading changes, and enforcing play protect, etc.

Like the TPM & Microsoft scare when TPM first started arriving in hardware, and we all thought it would be used to lock out other OSes. Only it's for real this time.
by darth_avocado | 2025-09-25 17:08:28+00:00
> Yes it’s always good to not get into public arguments with the upper management

I already mentioned that running your mouth isn’t an option. Upward management is part of the job and “shut up and fall in line” isn’t upward management. Plenty of leaders manage to shield their teams from incompetent management and it is usually what is in the best interests of the company.

And there’s nothing wrong with looking out for yourself as a manager when you have responsibilities, but characterizing it as “best practices when navigating a difficult time” doesn’t sit well with me.
by mrweasel | 2025-09-25 17:08:36+00:00
20% of websites uses CloudFlare(1, 2), even companies that use AWS, GCP and Azure have their services behind CloudFlare.

1) https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/13/cloudflare_2024_revie...

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudflare
by JCM9 | 2025-09-25 17:09:12+00:00
Generally a fan of Prime. I’ll admit the shipping is pretty addictive. The rest of Prime is pretty meh. It’s a good deal on shipping and then a bunch of second-rate other stuff tacked on.

On both .com and AWS, Amazon is reaching a stage of maturity where they’re running out of new customers. While still a fan of both, they’re both getting annoying as innovation slows and they get more annoying with a focus on doing things to make your use “sticky” vs making you trip over yourself to buy something because it’s great.

Amazon is full of counterfeit or low quality junk that one needs to navigate. AWS is muddling things with far too many random services thrown at the wall vs just being really good at a few core things. In today competitive environment account teams can’t really explain why we should use AWS apart from “we’re AWS” which is again an answer from a company aging into more stagnating maturity.

The fine, while more than a rounding error, is still small. However it will hopefully help cut down on some of Amazon’s more annoying behaviors.