MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by guywithahat | 2025-09-25 14:51:49+00:00
Is this a thing we want though? The point of studying in the US is for a US education, not to get a job here. There does seem to be a sentiment that once you've studied here you deserve a job in the US, and I'm not sure that's the correct way of looking at things.

Students have the fewest skills, if we are to have a work visa program it should be targeted at high skilled laborers, who have worked in industry for enough time to pick up desirable skills
by bnl_umass | 2025-09-25 14:51:56+00:00
1. I said “extensively” used for csam. What’s my source/evidence for that claim? This list of peer reviewed papers, cases, and government reports: https://csam-bib.github.io.

2. My site shows a mathematical model of security that Tor provides in terms of its design for relays alone. I say on the site I’m not including staff and other costs. In fact bringing someone to court is a further cost. My point in making the site is to quantify solely the costs that the design brings to the table. You can then compare that design to some other anonymous system. Or compare it to a doublespend attack on bitcoin or to brute force decryption. That’s important for users.

Unlike the Tor Project, I’m being transparent by showing assumptions, the math, and the code. Do you have a better model? Great, then publish it. I’m trying to start a formal conversation. The Tor Project should be relying on science, and not strong assertions, to ensure its security.

And while there are costs to, say, bring someone to court for csam, do you believe all adversaries are going to do that? That’s why it’s not part of the costs I model.

Finally, to be more clear, Onion Services in particular are the problem when it comes to CSAM (and ransomeware). Tor Browser is not the issue when it comes to CSAM.
by kotaKat | 2025-09-25 14:52:13+00:00
Yeah, that one actually fucked us over rurally. Local healthcare system wanted to put up a new greenfield hospital facility, was turned down for the CON by a challenge from another hospital 30 miles away. They wrenched demands out of the facility to get the CON approved with modifications that basically took away all of the “hospital” from it and basically made it “fancy block of specialist doctors” instead.
by wat10000 | 2025-09-25 14:52:50+00:00
If we look at "food" more generically, rather than bananas specifically, we are literally in that situation where every person has to have X amount per day or they will die. And competition still works great.

There are two things that set healthcare apart here. One is that sometimes people need unusual treatments to stay alive that are extremely expensive, and our desire not to let people die is at odds with the normal market mechanism where products that cost too much just don't get purchased. The other is that sometimes people have emergencies so urgent they can't really choose their provider.

But the vast majority of healthcare doesn't fall into those categories, and normal market mechanisms work fine for those. Competition would lower prices for most healthcare just like it does for food and everything else.
by miltonlost | 2025-09-25 14:52:55+00:00
I highly highly highly highly highly doubt that website and their data. It also doesn't mention how much was lost in those contracts because they were actually valuable science, health, diplomatic, or medicinal.

For instance, $3 billion saved from cancelling "Increasing Community Access to Testing, Treatment and Response (ICATT). The ICATT program provides access to no-cost COVID-19 testing in U.S. communities to people that are uninsured and no-cost COVID-19 vaccines to people that are underinsured and uninsured."

That is shortsighted, evil, inefficient (better to keep pandemics from not happening), and idiotic to cancel.

Again, anyone supporting DOGE is not a serious thinker or actually cares about what is "waste"
by rcoder | 2025-09-25 14:53:13+00:00
I’m a huge Framework fan: preordered the 13 and Desktop, have done mainboard + LCD upgrades on personal and work machines, etc. Likewise, I’ve used ARM machines as general-purpose Linux workstations, starting with the PineBook Pro up to my current Radxa Orion. It seems like a great combo!

Unfortunately, firmware and OS support are hard for any vendor, especially one as small (compared to, say, Lenovo or HP) and fast-moving as Framework. Spreading that to yet another ISA and driver ecosystem seems like it would drag down quality and pace of updates on every other system, which IMHO would be a bad trade.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-09-25 14:53:40+00:00
That's not new; it's been happening all the way back since AOL. AOL was basically an abstraction layer over the whole internet that we tolerated (remember when every show had both a URL and an AOL keyword?), but it broke like anything can.

For that matter, your maxim also applies to the open internet, and watch what's happening. It's not profitable, so sites are packing up.

In a nutshell, content costs money. People make content anticipating money. Doesn't matter if it's on Discord, on YouTube, or a private blog. No money, no investment.
by mrtksn | 2025-09-25 14:53:48+00:00
There always have been questions on over representation in every single influential position, which was explained by the Ashkenazi Jews who developed reputation to be statistically gifted or the culture that was shaped to seek such professions and positions due to prosecution.

But the straight up committing genocide, then US supporting that despite losing all kind of public support and the support of the allies and then Israel attacking the US allies without consequence to them is what will bring thing together and will make antisemitism mainstream and popular.

Kicking people out, limiting accounts, cutting off finance and services, cancelling people, smearing people won't cut it because this thing is brewing into a perfect storm. Anyone who cares about the Jewish people should make it stop and then make it right. Or maybe this by design to "convince" Jewish minority to move to Israel so that the Israeli political class becomes more powerful?
by jorkadeen | 2025-09-25 14:53:58+00:00
It was a simple example; whether a specific optimization applies is very tricky. We have to look at the details. When can Rust move or eliminate a binder? Does Rust support automatic parallelization? What happens if you use unsafe blocks to lie to their type and ownership system? I think many of the same issues will surface.

To be me, the interesting question is: What happens when you lie to the type (and effect or ownership) system?
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-09-25 14:54:17+00:00
Apple has massive NIH issues. Not just with engineering etc but also their marketing and I wouldn’t be surprised if it extents to their legal/lobbying departments as well.

Apple used to partner with some of the best external ad agencies and released some of the most memorable campaigns ever. But sometime over a decade ago they switched to doing it primarily in house and we haven’t seen a memorable ad campaign since forever.

I suspect they similarly are driving their EU lobbying/legal decisions from California but the EU system is completely different from the U.S. system.

It’s been quite evident, even from the outside looking in, that Apple keeps making arguments and keeps getting surprised by decisions that should be obvious to anyone who has even the slightest inkling of how the EU operates.
by apical_dendrite | 2025-09-25 14:54:22+00:00
You're joking right?

You realize that website has become a national laughing stock because they keep making multibillion dollar errors?

[edit] to explain further - there were lots of different errors, but a big one is that many contracts have high max values because they can't always predict how much they'll need to spend over ten years but they want a contract in place in case they need to spend money quickly (say for spare parts). So in many cases the number DOGE says they cut was just a placeholder, not an actual reflection of money that was ever going to be spent. So if you have a contract for spare parts for MRI machines for VA hospitals with a max value of, say, $1B over ten years, but you actually spend $100M over ten years, then DOGE will say they saved $1B, when actually they will have only saved $100M. That does not include the downstream effects of not having a contract for spare parts for MRI machines. If the MRI machines have more downtime, then the VA has to spend more money sending patients elsewhere, but DOGE has no way to account for that in their wall of receipts.
by scuff3d | 2025-09-25 14:54:22+00:00
> You end up doing work on branches of branches, and end up either having to become a rebase ninja or having tons of conflicts as each PR gets merged underneath you

This shouldn't matter unless you are squashing commits further back in the tree before the PR or other people are also merging to main.

If a lot of people are merging back to main so you're worried about those causing problems, you could create a long life branch off main, branch from that and do smaller PRs back to it as you go, and then merge the whole thing back to main when your done. That merge might 2k lines of code (or whatever) but it's been reviewed along the way.

I don't necessarily disagree with you. Just pointing out that there are ways to manage it.
by RoyTyrell | 2025-09-25 14:54:31+00:00
I agree, I don't think capitalism is inherently at odds with quality healthcare, and technically private equity isn't either but it certainly raises the chances. PE firms tend to be fairly parasitic with their investments - maybe that's fine for a restaurant chain but that sucks when you're dealing with lives (people or animals). I used to be in health insurance and you knew when there were nursing homes and clinics/faciltiies that were owned by PE. PE-owned nursing homes tend to have far more infractions against them, more elder abuse claims, and lower quality of life for the residents. You could say well PE buys up facilities that have room for improvement, which sometimes that's true, but in many times they seem to buy because (imo) they feel they can get by with lower regulatory enforcement so can cut costs and squeeze them. Sometimes they do buy or build higher-end senior living facilities but those are cash cows in their own way that you don't want to cut corners with.
by lordkrandel | 2025-09-25 14:54:43+00:00
> Laws can be wrong.

Sure, but they are the way the people have voted for, and they have not been amended because people thought they were ok. That's democracy, the system you live in. If you're not democratic and you want to sabotage that, you might face the police. I do believe this law is right. And many people do so, and defend it.

>Further, by equating speech to violence you’re allowing them to react with actual violence

This is a total fallacy. You can react with disagreement, that can be non-violent. This is the mind of a violent person who thinks that the only reaction to violence is more violence. It's not like that. You choose yourself and take accountability for how you react.
by mikewarot | 2025-09-25 14:54:54+00:00
This is a combination of things that almost breaks my brain, but it works, and it's brilliant!

First, you need to understand coded masks[1,2]. This is a way to use an LCD or other array to mask off parts of a scene so that very specific parts of it are sampled, but the rest aren't, to get a single, high resolution analog value. Then you switch to other masks, and get more values. You can then work backwards in the math through the known mask shapes, to get the original image with far fewer samples that would be required one at a time.

Think of the above as a 2d visual version of the Fourier transform[3,4]. This transform is used heavily to compress images throwing away most of the bits in an image without losing it's essence.

The analysis they're talking about uses a very specially printed card. It isn't just something generated with a standard 4 ink printer, each "dot" is a separate unique ink with tightly controlled spectral curves, these form a virtual version of the above masks. When you view these through a sample, it can then give an idea of the spectral response of the camera, and the liquid, by using the many different known response curves of the "dots" to work backwards, and generate the 1 dimensional very tight response curve of a hyperspectral imager, by figuring out where each "dot" is in the scene, then averaging that dot's intensity across the RGB values of the picture taken by the camera. Today's cameras have sufficient resolution and bit depth that you get the original bit depth (usually 8 bits) and an additional bit for each doubling of the number of pixels in a given "dot". This is degraded by Bayer pattern filters[5,6], and the nature of cameras, but it's not unrecoverable.

Like with Coded Masks, and Fourier transforms, you then take your high resolution analog values, and work backwards to get the things you want to measure.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ezhdhHNku0

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coded_aperture

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier_transform

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spUNpyF58BY&pp=ygURZm91cmllc...

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWxu4rkZBLw&pp=ygUMYmF5ZXIgZ...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter
by the_af | 2025-09-25 14:55:04+00:00
I'll try to say this as politely as I can: I think this is a bot account.

Not only your two posts above read like word-salad, I went through your comments history and almost every comment of yours reads like this (except maybe a couple).

If so, could you maybe stop your experiment? I wasted time trying to parse your comment as if it was generated by a human.
by lelanthran | 2025-09-25 14:55:48+00:00
> On desktop (multiple Linuxes, Windows 7 and 10, and MacOS) I run into problems which I spend hours trying to fix, until I give up and go back to a Chromium browser. On iPadOS and iOS, it would crash when using arrowkeys to navigate URL history(or something like that, if I remember correctly. Been awhile). I had another issue with it on Android, the details of which I'd forgotten. I don't even use the sync features- these are just independent bugs.

And yet I, and a few hundreds of thousands of others, have used it on all of those platforms. Even at FAANGs.

If it's only breaking for you, and you alone, you can see why the rest of us are skeptical that it really is that broken.
by antonvs | 2025-09-25 14:56:11+00:00
> If you don't think they're capable of listening to the same things as you are, taking into account team guidance, and coming to a reasonable decision, why would you trust them to implement something?

This doesn’t seem realistic to me. Division of labor also implies division of decisions. Mature individuals and teams will acknowledge when there are decisions they’re not able to make, and will refer them to the relevant teams.

An obvious example of this is legal: it hardly ever makes sense to leave a legal decision to a software developer or development team. But similar logic can apply to product management decisions, customer success, security, etc.
by jasonlotito | 2025-09-25 14:56:13+00:00
This doesn't solve the issue presented in the study. PE hospitals exists in states with and without these restrictions. So while CON might be an issue, it doesn't reconcile the issue of PE. In fact, PE priorities is exactly one of the things CON was setup to handle.

Regardless, you have to explain how removing CON solves the PE issue mentioned when states without CON had the same issues.
by samber | 2025-09-25 14:56:29+00:00
`do` builder here

After 2y in beta, I’ve just released v2 of “do”, the dependency injection toolkit for Golang.

This major version introduces a new scope-based architecture, transient services, interface binding, improved dependency tracking, and circular dependency detection.

Error handling and service naming are more consistent, and based on your feedback, a troubleshooting UI has been added.

A new LLM-ready documentation is available, featuring numerous demos you can run in 1 click: https://do.samber.dev/

Read the full changelog here: https://github.com/samber/do/releases/tag/v2.0.0

Migration from v1: https://do.samber.dev/docs/upgrading/from-v1-x-to-v2
by 47282847 | 2025-09-25 14:56:40+00:00
Anyone above a certain karma level can flag articles; it rarely if ever is HN staff. They don’t do the editorializing.

Anything “controversial” will likely be flagged by a sufficient number of users; this doesn’t reflect a particular position, only how heated of a topic it is. Many don’t like political content, and it goes against HN guidelines to a certain degree; then again, it is not applied in any systematic fashion.
by mcsniff | 2025-09-25 14:57:01+00:00
Stop the FUD with those quotes. Bose does not require or "require" an app to be installed to use their headphones and I'm not sure any vendor of BT headphones does; feel free to share if that's not the case...

I do not install vendor apps for BT peripherals, and have been through the QC and 700 series of headphones without using their app. Same for Google and Samsung BT earbuds.

Can you install an app and get updates for bugs or changes to equalizer, noise cancellation, or other features (wanted or unwantes)? Yes, but it is not required nor "required", whatever that means.
by benschulz | 2025-09-25 14:57:17+00:00
This seems like an uncharitable reading of the post.

> They talk about the importance of purity for automatic optimizations but in the real world there’s all sorts of practical reasons for needing to debug production compiled code

I imagine they're talking about their defaults. One can commonly reconfigure how different build profiles work.

> Also blaming the users of your language for your language not being able to meet their needs isn’t a good look.

Isn't that what the whole post is about though? They even say the following.

> Returning to earth: we may be academics, but we are trying to build a real programming language. That means listening to our users and that means we have to support print debugging. The question is how?
by mrtksn | 2025-09-25 14:57:21+00:00
NATO did back Turkey, I don't know why its widespread narrative in Turkey but NATO provided both political support and air defence support. You can check the news from that time.

Do you think that Russia didn't do anything to Turkey because they were afraid of Turkey? Turkey is a powerful country with strong and high quality military but no one is going to defeat Russia without a logistical and military support to match theirs. Ukraine is doing amazing but its thanks to the NATO.
by ArtTimeInvestor | 2025-09-25 14:57:37+00:00
The all time high of the Shiller PE was in December 1999.

If your hypothesis at that time was that the internet would benefit tech companies, it was not a bad time to invest:

Microsoft shares were $58. Now they are $510.

=> 9% annualized ROI.

Amazon was at $4. Now it is at $220.

=> 17% annualized ROI.

QQQ was at $89 and is now at $592

=> 8% annualized ROI.
by scuff3d | 2025-09-25 14:57:56+00:00
The problem that I find myself in is that I almost always run into stuff I didn't expect. Some integration that I thought would be minor turns out to slowly get out of hand, and before I know it I've made way more changes than I meant to. And then it all gets tangled together.

Maybe it's just a me problem, maybe I need to be more disciplined. Not sure but it catches me quite often.
by ilikehurdles | 2025-09-25 14:58:33+00:00
You continue to reply to yourself, double post, etc. I’m not going to follow this mess any longer.

The word violence implies your physical safety is under threat. By using this terminology you have escalated the situation from a debate into one where a party could justifiably violently suppress the other until they stop speaking.

And your own replies here acknowledge this as a valid response. You think yourself too good to use it, but someone else won’t.
by deltarholamda | 2025-09-25 14:58:44+00:00
I'm all for playing the "oh, the children!" card. As a parent it's nice to not have to worry about that sort of thing.

It does ring hollow when the Screen Time controls that Apple includes is such a muddled mess. And, sometimes, it just doesn't seem to work properly at all. Working properly, the browser bypass isn't really a problem, but it's very twitchy and fiddly to set up.
by cogman10 | 2025-09-25 14:59:37+00:00
How could you even compare prices?

If you go in because of a killer stomach ache you could end up needing a CT and emergency surgery. Or you could end up getting some pepto-bismol.

And if you are taken there by an ambulance (which you also have no ability to compare any price to). You'll be sent to the hospital the paramedics decides to drop you off at.

There is an inherent complete lack of information when going in for a medical situation that can't be fixed by the free market. You need (or believe you need) treatment now. There's no way for you to know what that treatment will be.

Even going in for an annual physical can be the exact same. Some dicey numbers on your blood work and you might be looking at some huge unplanned bills that are completely unavoidable.
by mallowdram | 2025-09-25 14:59:48+00:00
Tech is stuck behind the symbolic threshold. We're at the point we use the symbolic, which is arbitrary, for literally everything as a substitute, mimic, representation that's in reality. Eventually the symbolic eats itself alive in arbitrariness and society capitalizing on that arbitrariness. This is basic stuff CS doesn't make itself aware of.

We're at the end of communication in this symbolic era. You can see it in politics, climate policy, fiscal policy, trade policy, media, everything is at an end-point or a breaking point.

So lacking an awareness of the end-game for the symbolic, we retreat to an easier, earlier state, which is nostalgic. But its nostalgia for a system already on the way out.
by kragen | 2025-09-25 14:59:51+00:00
I wouldn't say I'm missing them, Bob.

Maybe you disagree, but I don't think infliximab or even rituximab is close to the same level of importance as things like penicillin, Thorazine, misoprostol, or oral rehydration therapy. Insulin is, and it's technically a biological, but it was pre-01962.

I listed the three antivirals I think were revolutionary rather than evolutionary (all of which were post-01962), and I did list lovastatin, which was the first statin available, and widely applicable, and therefore the revolutionary one.
by sc68cal | 2025-09-25 15:00:16+00:00
> Heroku, Shopify, Basecamp, Github, 37 Signals, and others have spent in terms of money and developer-hours

Companies are legal fictions that we allow to exist. The _people_ are the ones who did the development, management, and all the other things that had to be done.

The companies may have _paid their salaries to do so_ but there are plenty of open source communities that exist without the direct funding of work.
by ajmurmann | 2025-09-25 15:00:24+00:00
They can't just raise the prices because people will bring their business to the competition. I've personally done this for CT scans. In my local market we literally got a scan for 2k where the hospital we'd usually go to wanted 10k.

The same works for non-emergency surgery as well. Take a look at https://surgerycenterok.com/ it's such a breath of fresh air to see the full price for each procedure right there. People travel there from all over the country to get needed procedures. So competition clearly works but the system doesn't really enable it. For example insurers don't want to work with the linked center because they won't give them rebates but charge everyone the same price. More details: https://www.econtalk.org/keith-smith-on-free-market-health-c...