MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DoingIsLearning | 2025-09-25 16:42:48+00:00
This is (mostly) about Tech companies' money, namely:

- Palantir Technologies

- 'not-for-profit' Thorn

> The Commission’s failure to identify the list of experts as falling within the scope of the complainant’s public access request constitutes maladministration. [0]

> ... the complainant contended that the precision rate of technologies like those developed by the organisation are often overestimated. It is therefore essential that any technical claims made by the organisation concerned are made public as this would facilitate the critical assessment of the proposal. [1]

> The Commission presented a proposal on preventing and combating child sexual abuse, looking in particular at detecting child pornography. In this context, it has mentioned that support could be provided by the software of the controversial American company Palantir... [2]

> Is Palantir’s failure to register on the Transparency Register compatible with the Commission’s transparency commitments? [2]

(Palantir only entered the Transparency Registry in March 2025 despite being a multi million vendor for Europol and European Agencies for more than a decade)

> No detailed records exist concerning a January meeting between European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and the CEO of controversial US data analytics firm Palantir [3]

> Kutcher and CEO Julie Cordua held several meetings with EU officials from 2020 to 2023 - before the former stepped down from his role - including European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson, and European Parliament President Roberta Metsola.[4]

> The Ombudsman further concluded that Thorn had indeed influenced the legislative process of the CSAM regulation. “It is clear, for example, from the Commission’s impact assessment that the input provided by Thorn significantly informed the Commission’s decision-making. The public interest in disclosure is thus self-evident. [4]

> EU Ombudsman Emily O’Reilly has announced that she has opened an investigation into the transfer of two former Europol officials to the chat control surveillance tech provider Thorn. [5]

[0] https://www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/decision/en/176658

[1] https://www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/recommendation/en/179395

[2] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2024-00016...

[3] https://www.euractiv.com/news/commission-kept-no-records-on-...

[4] https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/07/18/european-ombudsman-...

[5] https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-control-eu-ombudsman-l...
by sershe | 2025-09-25 16:42:55+00:00
As with alcohol (and I say it as someone with alcoholics in the family), there are the vast majority of users who are doing nothing wrong; sellers who are generally not doing anything wrong (ok, banning sharps is wrong, but that is not core to the service and could be regulated at the cost of higher fees for everyone). And then there are few alcoholics/whales who ruin their lives.

It is bizarre to me personally that what we want to regulate/stigmatize are sellers and even recreational users (50+% of men who have an account or whatever), and not the over users. Instead, we try to protect over users from themselves, and society from them, by making life worse for everyone else doing the pass time. That to me seems deeply immoral. By cracking down on abuse or consequences of abuse we could protect the society, and abusers themselves deserve everything they get - although if we treat them like children "you are demonstrably not responsible so like a 13 year old you don't get to drink/manage your own money anymore" that would also be accomplished.
by thw_9a83c | 2025-09-25 16:43:09+00:00
Mozilla dropped Servo after realizing that it would take at least 10+ years to make it a viable replacement for Gecko. I'm sure that as soon as Servo can do everything the Gecko can, the Firefox will adopt it first.

The Rust is a nice language, but rebuilding huge projects from scratch is usually a commercially suicidal mission.
by eggy | 2025-09-25 16:43:16+00:00
>"According to sources familiar with the huge data transfer outside of the EU country, it occurred in early August. Intelligence sources said Unit 8200 planned to transfer the data to the Amazon Web Services cloud platform. Neither the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) nor Amazon responded to a request for comment."

So was the data moved in August to Amazon (AWS)? I am sure the $3.8bn USD the US gives annually will pay for it anyway. Because it is given as a loan, no accountability is required if it were a grant to Israel, and then the US forgives the loan, so there's not payback or interest for borrowing.
by guywithahat | 2025-09-25 16:43:45+00:00
The OMB has been trying to slowly and thoughtfully cut spending since the 70's, and they've struggled to see success. I think in terms of cutting spending, the slower it happens the less likely anything productive will come from it. It's why companies tend to cut whole departments at once, and the government desperately needs a way to cut funding from things that aren't working to reallocate it where the money is needed.

From what I've seen the DOGE cuts have been incredibly efficient in isolating poorly spent (or corrupt) money. Lots of corrupt foreign programs or government donations into partisan political groups. Most of the time when someone says they shouldn't have cut money, they're talking about an NGO or some research that benefits their particular partisanship at the cost of fairness or scientific rigor; which is exactly what we shouldn't be funding.
by tdeck | 2025-09-25 16:43:48+00:00
Why do you use the term "completely innocent teenagers" only for Israelis? Are Palestinians teenagers guilty because of their ethnicity? Why do you ignore the many, many documented instances of torture in Israeli prisons, and the fact that the man who runs that prison system, Itamar Ben Gvir, idolizes a mass shooter who murdered Palestinians and has been convicted for supporting terrorism?
by ineedasername | 2025-09-25 16:43:49+00:00
>"they struggle to replicate this performance in hospital conditions"

Are there systematic reasons why radiologists in hospitals are inaccurately assessing the AI's output? If the AI models are better than humans in testing novel data then, well, the thing that has changed in a hospital situation compared to the AI-Human testing environment is not the AI, it is the human, under less controlled constraints, additional pressures, workloads, etc. Perhaps the AI's aren't performing as poorly as thought. Perhaps this is why they performed better to begin with. Otherwise, production ML systems are generally not as highly regarded as these models when they perform as significantly below test data sets in production. Some is expected, but "struggle to replicate" implies more.

>"Most tools can only diagnose abnormalities that are common in training data"

Well yes, training on novel examples is one thing. Training on something categorically different is another thing all together. Also there are thresholds of detection. Detecting nothing, or with a a lower confidence, or unknown anomaly, false positive, etc. How much of the inaccuracy isn't wrong, but simply something that is amended or expanded upon when reviewed? Some details here would be useful.

I'm highly skeptical when generalized statements exclude directly relevant information to which an is referring. The few sources provided don't at all cover model accuracy, and the primary factor cited as problematic with AI review, lack of diversity in study composition for women, ethnic variation, children, links to a a meta study that was not at all related to the composition of models and their training data sets.

The article begins as what appears to be a criticism of AI accuracy with the thinness outlined above but then quickly moves on to a "but that's not what radiologists do anyway", and provides a categorical % breakdown of time spent where Personal/Meetings/Meals and some mixture of the others combine to form at least a third that could be categorized as "Time where the human isn't necessary if graphs are being interpreted by models."

I'm not saying there aren't points here, but overall, it simply sounds like the hand-wavy meandering of someone trying to gatekeep a profession whose services could be massively more utilized with more automation, and sure-- perhaps at even higher quality with more radiologists to boot-- but perfect is the enemy of the good etc. on that score, with enormous costs and delays in service in the meantime.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-25 16:43:52+00:00
Hm, you raise good points but I just thought when I was writing that comment, that if there was even a single case of somebody using that MITM then that would just make everyone leave cloudflare and find either other mechanism or something else that's safer for sure.

I think that cloudflare is used by most as DDOS protection and so they still have the servers.

There are also cloudflare workers and pages but even migrating them is somewhat doable as I think that cf workers have a local preview option somewhat available in their node etc., so you could run it locally somehow.

Sure its gonna be a huge huge problem but something that the internet might look past of (I think).

Honestly, I kinda wish that there was a way to have something like how the tor onion links work in the sense that the link has the public key of the person running the server and so uh, no matter if its cloudflare serving the link or something else, its still something that can't be MITM'd for the most part.

Am I right in thinking so? Sure, its gonna make the links longer but maybe sacrifices/compromises must be made?
by shermantanktop | 2025-09-25 16:43:53+00:00
What works for one may not for another. Content on screens just doesn’t tickle my memory mechanisms in the same way. I wish it did.

Part of it, for me, is that “magnitude fewer” is a benefit, not a drawback. Mastering a bounded scope and then intentionally expanding it by hand writing new cards keeps me focused on the rock face that I need to practice and internalize. Having the next 1000 words be two clicks away, and then dozens more decks waiting after that, makes the whole enterprise seem incredibly daunting.

That may not be your experience, of course, and I wish Anki were effective for me.
by saalweachter | 2025-09-25 16:44:20+00:00
One of the most important provisions of the ACA was the caps on the "medical loss ratio", the percent of insurance premiums paid out for medical care. The act required insurance plans to maintain a MLR no lower than (IIRC) 70-80%. Before then, plans (eg, targeting college kids) had MLRs as low as 10%.

(For comparison, Medicare/Medicaid has something like a 95% MLR, because it has low administrative overhead and isn't returning a profit to shareholders.)

17x upcharges, if they were extracted at the insurance level instead of the hospital level, would be the equivalent of a MLR of around 6%.
by mothballed | 2025-09-25 16:44:48+00:00
They didn't encompass a woman with cancer, they encompassed the people that degraded her care. A commenter literally used his cancer-ridden wife as bait to support his false argument, which I find to be way more abhorrent than whatever it is you think I said. Y'all are using the whole cancer excuse, which isn't the flu nor considered an STD, because you know anyone with cancer automatically wins the argument because how can you argue against a spouse of a metastatic cancer patient.

It's the debate equivalent of bringing a bunch of little kids in casts from a school shooting to a gun control debate. If the kid speaks up, it doesn't matter what you say, if you discount their opinion you lose, all you can do is nod and say thank you for sharing your experience.

Welp, we're on the internet here, and I have no "face" to lose. So I'm willing to get banned from HN or face unpopular opinion if it means telling the realities of the situation and not having my opinion shouted down "because of my wife with cancer" trump card. I'm not willing to just nod, I don't give a fuck if he extends the story to 3 kids with leukemia and his arthritic dog.
by quotemstr | 2025-09-25 16:44:51+00:00
Or as someone put it, "People shouldn't fear the government. The government should fear the people."

I feel like we've lost the vocabulary we ought to be using to talk about the legitimacy and role of the state. More people need to read J.S. Mill (and probably Hobbes.) Even today, works by both are surprisingly good reads and embed a lot of thoughtful and timeless wisdom.
by addcommitpush | 2025-09-25 16:45:51+00:00
In that scenario, the "throat to choke" would be the primary care physician. We won't think of it as an "ML radiologist", just as getting some kind of physical test done and bringing it to the doctor for interpretation.

If you're getting a blood test, the pipeline might be primary care physician -> lab with a nurse to draw blood and machines to measure blood stuff -> primary care physician to interpret the test results. There is no blood-test-ologist (hematologist?) step, unlike radiology.

Anyway, "there's going to be radiologists around for insurance reasons only but they don't bring anything else to patient care" is a very different proposition from "there's going to be radiologists around for insurance reasons _and_ because the job is mostly talking to patients and fellow clinicians".
by saghm | 2025-09-25 16:46:45+00:00
It would have been nice for Mozilla to stick with it, but on the other hand, my understanding is that Servo originally was more of a proving ground for feature that would incrementally get ported over to Firefox itself (some of which did land, like webrender and I think the CSS processing). It's disappointing that Mozilla wasn't more interested in investing in their long-term browser improvements, but given the level of concern that seems to be growing in recent years around their direction, maybe in the long run having a new browser come along and utilize it would end up being better for everyone. If we're lucky, maybe in a few decades we'll be having debates about whether to call something "Servo/NewFancyBrowser" or just "NewFancyBrowser" as a fresher alternative to the whole "GNU/Linux" versus "Linux" thing.
by toss1 | 2025-09-25 16:46:46+00:00
>>"We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness"

The institutions supporting three things, Health Care (Life), Prisons and Justice (Liberty), and Education (Pursuit of Happiness), should never be run for a profit if a society wants to be equitable and prosperous.

Capitalism and profit motive are great for some things in a society, but are also counterproductive at many others. Use the right tool or system for the right job.
by mrweasel | 2025-09-25 16:47:11+00:00
I still believe that CloudFlare means well, but that doesn't mean that I agree with the increased centralization. This isn't the fault of CloudFlare, they are just exploiting a business opportunity and as you say: At least they're not selling ads.

It is a legitimate business, from my perspective. I'd just wish we weren't in a situation where CloudFlare isn't exactly struggling to sell their services.
by lkey | 2025-09-25 16:47:24+00:00
While I agree it would be a wonderful thing to stop connecting private equity and profit generally to lifesaving care. It won't be an establishment Democrat that does this. They wanted this current system, and they still want it, just softened. Gesturing at a public option during campaigns is just part of the performance. (Excepting Sanders and perhaps Warren) I'd be so so happy to be wrong about this.
by justlikereddit | 2025-09-25 16:47:24+00:00
>consume a series of medical images while dictating their findings, and then go home.

In the same fashion as construction worker just shows up, "performs a series of construction tasks", then go home. We just need to make a machine that performs "construction tasks" and we can build cities, railways and road networks for nothing but the cost of the materials!

Perhaps this minor degree of oversimplification is why the demise of radiologists have been so frequently predicted?
by throw0101d | 2025-09-25 16:47:28+00:00
> But it sounds like you agree they're savings.

I have no idea if what is posted on the site is actually valid.

But even if it was, you can "save" money by not doing oil changes for your car, but what do you think will happen to your engine? How much will that cost you eventually?

So whether the (alleged) savings will actually end up costing less (over the long term) is something that will have to be determined over time:

* https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/penny_wise_and_pound_foolish
by zovirl | 2025-09-25 16:47:29+00:00
Even in situations where this is true, there's almost certainly a better phrasing than "this new policy sucks," which only communicates an emotion. It is imprecise. Listeners will jump to their own conclusions about why you think it sucks.

You can acknowledge the problems more directly: "I get it, we don't have enough chairs so Wednesday is likely to be a challenge." or "I know mandatory 9-5 is going to disrupt your commute."

A bonus of the more precise approach is you can follow up with "do you have other issues with the new policy that I may not know?"
by WorldMaker | 2025-09-25 16:47:35+00:00
In general a lot has changed for the better since 4.x and mono.

> Though, I chuckle at the idea of companies upgrading such to errors via config-

Depends on the company's code quality standards, of course. A lot of companies in my experience let tools like SonarQube drive towards very strict "linter" configs.

I also almost failed to mention it (but did in a quick edit), but I also think that the cross-platform compatibility issues in this case also especially drive companies to avoid BinaryFormatter "naturally". The .NET team made a series of correct decisions that while they couldn't break backward compatibility (all the way back to the OG .NET Framework 1.0) they could keep cross-machine compatibility broken (it was always broken, unlike Java's Serializable, BinaryFormatter was always primarily for FFI and local single machine use, which anyone trying to use it for distributed serialization almost always found out the hard way eventually) and even expand it to be "more obviously broken". One of the core abilities in .NET 5+ is to be able to build/test locally in Windows or macOS and then push to, say, Docker containers on a Linux server. BinaryFormatter absolutely does not work in such scenarios and makes a loud racket if you try. Additionally, there are even now subtle incompatibilities between say type of Windows machine.

Getting bit by that is easy, and will also naturally cause companies to expedite moving warnings to errors in their configs.

On the carrot side, too, System.Text.Json is now out of the box in every .NET allowing for very easy (and quick/performant) JSON serialization. Not having to install a third/second-party library for a secure, standards-based serializer is a big deal and helps remove a lot of the reasons people would accidentally rely on BinaryFormatter. (Similar to the old days when Python only provided pickling out of the box and it took maybe too long for a json library to move to first party standard library inclusion. It's great that both languages have solved that.)
by phren0logy | 2025-09-25 16:47:40+00:00
It's quite a lot more than a year - in primary care, it's more like four additional years of training for physicians, and 15000 supervised clinical hours for physicians (vs 500 to 1500 hours for NPs). The gap can be wider in other physician specialties, because many have longer residencies than the primary care programs. For example, child psychiatry training is four to five years (depending on the route you take), making it longer than the three years of family practice residency.

Here's a chart looking at training for MDs vs NPs in primary care. It is from a physician organization. https://www.tafp.org/media/advocacy/scope-education.pdf
by quotemstr | 2025-09-25 16:48:03+00:00
How so? My point is that US constitutional protections on firearm ownership have undeniably eroded. The presence of text on the page did not prevent this erosion. I'm using gun rights as an example of a situation in which text granting a right becomes irrelevant if people stop believing in the values behind the text.

People do believe in freedom of speech in the US, thankfully, even if they've stopped defending gun rights in some places.

EU free speech protections are in the same position gun rights are in the US, and for surprisingly similar reasons.
by zamadatix | 2025-09-25 16:48:06+00:00
I'm not familiar with EU law, but reading Title II article 7 and 8 makes me feel this could be an optimistic interpretation of what the Treaty of Lisbon guarantees. I'm sure the supporters of chat control would love to argue something like "ChatControl respects the private communications of an individual by protecting how the data is processed to ensure only the legitimate basis of processing the data is incurred by the law" in court.

I would hope the EU courts would disagree, but I'm not sure if anyone can say until it's tested directly.
by rashkov | 2025-09-25 16:48:21+00:00
The ICC did no such thing, you're probably thinking of the ICJ, which also did no such thing according to one of the judges that ruled on that decision:

“I’m glad I have a chance to address that because the court’s test for deciding whether to impose measures uses the idea of plausibility. But the test is the plausibility of the rights that are asserted by the applicant, in this case South Africa” she told the BBC show HARDtalk.

“The court decided that the Palestinians had a plausible right to be protected from genocide and that South Africa had the right to present that claim in the court,” Donoghue said. “It then looked at the facts as well. But it did not decide—and this is something where I’m correcting what’s often said in the media—it didn’t decide that the claim of genocide was plausible.”

“It did emphasize in the order that there was a risk of irreparable harm to the Palestinian right to be protected from genocide,” she added. “But the shorthand that often appears, which is that there’s a plausible case of genocide, isn’t what the court decided.”

Donoghue’s term on the bench expired a few days after the court delivered its initial ruling on Jan. 26.

https://www.jns.org/former-top-hague-judge-media-wrong-to-re...
by mattkrause | 2025-09-25 16:48:30+00:00
That's not a fair---or accurate---summary of Keynes.

The claim is that the government should act as a stabilizer: spending to drive aggregate demand during downswings (especially ones caused by external shocks) and regulating during up-swings.

In other words, "more" refers to different things and in different proportions in different phases of the business cycle; it's emphatically not a "heads-I-win-tails-you-lose" sort of thing.
by Analemma_ | 2025-09-25 16:48:33+00:00
I canceled Prime about 18 months ago, and now every single time I go to check out on Amazon, before the checkout page there's a splash screen a the gigantic, bright blue CHECK OUT WITH PRIME button, and then under that, in 8pt font with grey-on-white text, a "No thanks, continue without Prime" link. The lack of any subtlety would be hilarious if it wasn't so irritating. Throw the book at them.
by darth_avocado | 2025-09-25 16:48:37+00:00
> manager's job is to apply upper management decision even if you don't fully agree

That is not at all true. The manager’s job is to manage employees in a way that is in the best interests of the company. I’ve met plenty of leaders through my career who are successfully able to shield their employees from an incompetent management. That is part of the job.