MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MisterTea | 2025-09-25 15:51:05+00:00
That means nothing for the community who may need or want to fix and patch issues on their own. Instead we're beholden to Qualcomm to fix major issues on an OS it may or may not care about supporting. It also excludes other open source operating systems such as the BSD's who have to then reverse engineer the undocumented Linux drivers.

A better question: can a small company like Framework or even MNT Research build and support an open laptop around this chip?
by philwelch | 2025-09-25 15:51:14+00:00
> He merely intimated that trans people's lives are less valuable than others and that black people and women are incapable of intellectual equality with whites and males.

False.

> A debate about whether that is an indirect encouragement to violence is a valid one.

Lying about what other people say and mischaracterizing those statements as an incitement to violence is itself an incitement to violence. Stop lying and stop inciting violence!
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-09-25 15:51:58+00:00
This. The problem for H1B advocates is most of us here reached our conclusions AFTER exposure to outsourcing/consulting and what H1-Bs got us/the new people we had to manage. Lots of us were also privy to managements' reasoning (cutting costs/your team is the most expensive and we don't want to pay that) which don't align with 'H1Bs are paid the same'.
by vel0city | 2025-09-25 15:52:05+00:00
As a patient I don't think I've ever even talked to any radiologist that actually analyzed my imaging. Most of the times my family or I have had imaging done the imaging is handled by a tech who just knows how to operate the machines while the actual diagnostic work gets farmed out to remote radiologists who type up an analysis. I don't even think the other doctors I actually see ever directly talk to those radiologists.

Is this uncommon in the rest of the US?
by somenameforme | 2025-09-25 15:52:21+00:00
For the overwhelming majority of things people to go to the hospital for, where you go doesn't really matter, because the treatment and diagnosis is extremely routine. This includes very serious things like cancer. My mother, through a variety of fortuitous events, was able to have her breast cancer treated at one of the top ranked cancer specializing hospitals in the US. She had acquaintances that had theirs treated at the local university/training hospital. They ended up receiving literally the exact same treatments.

Same for my own stuff. The first time one of my children got sick it was terrifying, so I naturally took him to the most premium pediatric healthcare institution. And what did they do? Basic tests to rule out anything particularly nasty, and fever management. The exact same thing the cheapest hospital does, except I got the privilege of paying 10x more for it and feeling like a complete sucker. From that point on - 'oh he's sick? shall we go to the university hospital, or the religious nonprofit?'
by bilbo0s | 2025-09-25 15:53:00+00:00
Nope.

To understand why, you would really need to take a good read of the average PCP's malpractice policy.

The policy for a specialist would be even more strict.

You would need to change insurance policies before your workflow was even possible from a liability perspective.

Basically, the insurer wants, "a throat to choke", so to speak. Handing up a model to them isn't going to cut it anymore than handing up Hitachi's awesome new whiz-bang proton therapy machine would. They want their pound of flesh.
by 18272837023 | 2025-09-25 15:53:01+00:00
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by kube-system | 2025-09-25 15:53:10+00:00
We don't have enough information to determine that, in many cases. Because it depends on what the costs of those cuts will be. DOGE is in many cases cutting things without doing a proper impact analysis.

There are many documented instances of DOGE cutting things that they later realized were needed -- leading to unnecessary switching costs and other consequential costs.

Second: deferring costs in the short term are often a bad choice that can cause higher costs over the long term.

Third: some cuts can exchange monetary costs for non-monetary costs. These will make a number look good but can cause impacts that are bad.
Show HN: Crashed Out – an open library of AI failures
by mathusan_97 | 2025-09-25 15:53:19+00:00
We've been stress-testing AI agents at CrashLabs for months, and one thing is pretty obvious ... every agent breaks in unexpected ways once it meets the real world.

That’s why we built Crashed Out, an open-source library of real AI failures to help builders learn from each other and ship more reliable AI agents.

We’d love feedback from this community:

- What other failures should we add?

- How can we make this most useful to builders?
Show HN: Nexty-directory – fast directory boilerplate
by weijunext | 2025-09-25 15:53:46+00:00
I just finished upgrading Nexty-directory, a high-performance directory boilerplate built with Nexty - my saas boilerplate.

Why it's awesome: - Lightning-fast performance - it opens instantly - Incredibly easy to customize - just update one config file with your site info, and your entire directory is ready to go with your branding

Tech stack: Next.js, Better-auth, Drizzle ORM, Neon Database

If you want a directory that delivers top performance & zero maintenance headaches, Nexty-directory has got you covered!
by thw_9a83c | 2025-09-25 15:54:04+00:00
> Symbian phones from early 2010's are more capable...

I suppose there was no need to mention Symbian. It was a hellish system to develop for, and once smartphones had a little more RAM and CPU power, Symbian had absolutely no future. Nokia's answer to the iPhone was MeeGo [0], which wasn't bad, but Google's Android was, in fact, even better.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeeGo
by dcre | 2025-09-25 15:54:15+00:00
Worth noting in this context that the scarcity of doctors is artificial, due to a low cap on the number of federally funded residencies. We could also let more doctors immigrate. My understanding is we make immigrant doctors go through a lot of hoops to validate their foreign training.

https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/how-congress-created-the...
by glenstein | 2025-09-25 15:54:15+00:00
It is perhaps important, also, for genocide scholarship to survey the ways proponents rotate through various forms of apologetics. Not that I would wish it to be the case but the last few years are rich in case studies for how people debate and communicate about genocide, and it's attempts to muddy definitional waters that make it so important to have strong scholarship and scholarly consensus.

A long way of agreeing with your point, I suppose.
by mempko | 2025-09-25 15:54:27+00:00
I can look at my budget and say, "Wow I spend a lot on coffee, better stop". Are these savings a good or bad thing? You have to remember every transaction has two parties. If I stop buying coffee, maybe it's better for me, but it's not better for the coffee shops, and the coffee producers. Every transaction has two parties. So who are the parties on the receiving end of government spending? Well, it's the private sector. It's you and me.

To decide if it's a good thing you need to see if stopping the spending benefits BOTH parties.
by mtrovo | 2025-09-25 15:54:35+00:00
Kind of off-topic, but it's such a pity that we arrived at email as the local minimum for the best communication protocol for transactional messages. Having to set up an email service just to be able to enable authentication flows on a new website is such a hindrance that I keep wondering if it would be different if sending push notifications to a cell phone was made an open protocol..
by dantillberg | 2025-09-25 15:55:03+00:00
I appreciate the defense of doctors wages for great work; I would agree that many doctors absolutely deserve it and more.

But this "semi-monopolistic trade union" not only inflates their wages (which maybe that's a good thing), but it also harms the lives of the population they purport to serve. Many (most imo) people in the US simply cannot afford the monopoly's prices, and the monopoly has little incentive to innovate. This cartel of doctors actively prevents lower-cost, more efficient alternatives from coming to market.
by crazygringo | 2025-09-25 15:55:07+00:00
The fractional part isn't helping them serve data any faster. To the contrary, it actually reduces the speed from parallelism. E.g. a 5:9 scheme only achieves 1.8x throughput, whereas straight-up triple redundancy would achieve 3x.

It just saves AWS money is all, by achieving greater redundancy with less disk usage.
by 9rx | 2025-09-25 15:55:25+00:00
> An obvious example of this is legal

How is that an example? Legal is just an input. A mature individual is going to heed the advice from legal, most certainly, but legal isn't making the final decision. Legal doesn't know anything about all of the other constraints, like customer need and technical need. If they did, they wouldn't be working as legal council, they'd be doing the job we're talking about.

So, we're right back at the previous comment:

- 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?

- If they're not getting the same inputs to their decisions as you are, why are you hamstringing them?

- And if they're not capable of understanding the inputs to their decisions, why are you keeping them around?
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-09-25 15:55:35+00:00
If your company doesn't need domain experts/doesn't change to the point these people can be remote... you are a zombie company and will be replaced by someone that does utilize domain experts/dynamically changes all the time with conditions. Even with just a factory, when I moved from dev to IT, getting my people to understand our users by going out to the floor and sitting with people we were able to greatly improve efficiency in a way no remote IT could.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-25 15:55:48+00:00
Can't believe if you are joking or not.

I trust a corporation more than I trust the nation you want it nationalized in (America?)

EU maybe. But yes I don't want cloudflare to be part of america after patriotic acts and all the dystopia.

Honestly, cloudflare is not so vital to the internet. Like, The only thing its gonna be a problem if they stop working without giving any way to migrate. Then yes, its gonna be a bit of problem to the internet.
by c420 | 2025-09-25 15:56:32+00:00
It's impossible to prove intent. With the exception of the NHTSA, the following agencies were gutted, each whose jurisdiction covered his business interests. In the case of the NHTSA, about half of the team that oversees autonomous vehicle safely was let go [1].

NHTSA, CFPB, DoT (FAA), DoE

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/21/musk-doge...
by h2zizzle | 2025-09-25 15:56:35+00:00
>When OP searches for Midjourney as a Midjourney user, Google’s algorithm infers he might want to consider an alternative because why would an existing user search for the product they’re already using.

That's insane. Someone searching for something they've searched for in the past is looking for stability of the search results; they're trying to get back to where they've been before. If they wanted different results, they'd change the search query.

Is this the "logic" behind Google and Youtube search results being different each time a query is run?
by slightwinder | 2025-09-25 15:57:06+00:00
It stopped Russia and other conflicts for the last decades... It's still preserving peace in Europe.

But there is no perfect solution. There always will be a maniac doing stupid shit because their personal benefit is more valuable for them than the greater good of everyone else. We are now in such a phase again, where all kind of maniacs have become loose, wasting societies for fun and giggles... We will have what we will make of it.
by AJ007 | 2025-09-25 15:57:19+00:00
Agreed.

One thing I've grown concerned about, after watching the Twitter migration fizzle out, is we can imitate the old internet on a small scale, but on a large scale it just doesn't work. For Twitter specifically, the outcome was even worse, many users just migrated to other more centralized services or existing monopolies (like Instagram.)

Users are too used to being able to instantly stream 4k HDR 60fps. They are too used to limited amounts of spam. They are too used to having most non-agreeable content filtered. All of this stuff that big tech delivered now is replicate-able at the cost of tens of billions of dollars. The only business model that can pay for that is owning a giant ad platform.

Thinking about all of the issues the EU has had enforcing things like GDPR, which big tech companies largely haven't followed for years or straight up lied to their customers about, along with a possible failure of the DMA now due to tariffs.. and yet on the other side of the Atlantic, the US utterly failed to ban or control Tiktok. Endless announcements of upcoming deals that were either lies (Oracle protecting American's data) or postponements.

Meanwhile, all of the spam, hacking, bots, and DDoS attacks persist and grow, along with layer upon layer of (probably intentionally) poorly written and often conflicting legislation across multiple jurisdictions have truly made it impossible for the internet as it was designed and meant to exist to continue. (Sure you can just set up a basic web forum like you could do 20 years ago, not use Cloudflare, not host it at a major datacenter, and ignore all of the GDPR and age verification laws, but good luck. Hell, it doesn't even sound like it's really legal to run a Mastodon server anymore.)

One small hope is that if internet companies follow any pattern we've seen in other industries, when the growth ends, the managers will switch to tearing the conglomerates apart in to pieces and selling them off. One day CloudFlare might be split in to 30 pieces, along with Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon. But it could be a while.
by superkuh | 2025-09-25 15:57:23+00:00
How cloudflare treats web browsers and their proposals for acting as gatekeeping for allowing websites to be spidered re: AI motivated corporations. Also cloudflare's near weekly proposals of unilateral protocol features that should be IETF'd but instead they just do and make others do because they're gatekeepers and they can. I expect them to keep behaving as they have and so posited likely 'cloudflare'-like actions for their announced attack on email.

I get that most people never feel the discimination and exclusion mediated by cloudflare because most people are just using chrome or whatever standard browser on their phones. But just because one doesn't have the lived experience of discrimination doesn't mean it isn't actively happening to lots of people.
by jimt1234 | 2025-09-25 15:57:33+00:00
> ...bureaucratic overhead extracts a few more percent.

Respectfully, my perception contradicts this. My GF has been a psychologist for 25 years. For the first half of her career, funding for her work was provided exclusively by a state program (California), but about 10 years ago, the funding transitioned mostly to private health insurance. And it's been a bureaucratic nightmare every since. She had to hire a skilled/well-paid FTE just to manage the billing with the private health insurance companies. And it's still a nightmare to deal with. So yeah, to downplay the "bureaucratic overhead" of private insurance, is not universally accurate, IMHO. Maybe for big hospitals, it represents a small percentage of overheard, but not for smaller providers.
by mempko | 2025-09-25 15:57:39+00:00
Every transaction has two parties. If I save, you lose income. If you save, I lose income. Well, if the government saves, the private citizens LOSE INCOME. Read about the Accounting Identity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounting_identity

For these savings to be good, they need to be good for everyone. And that's not clear.
by stonemetal12 | 2025-09-25 15:58:16+00:00
>Human radiologists spend a minority of their time on diagnostics and the majority on other activities, like talking to patients and fellow clinicians.

How often do they talk to patients? Every time I have ever had an x-ray, I have never talked to a radiologist. Fellow clinicians? Train the xray tech up a bit more.

If the mote is 'talking to people' that is a mote that doesn't need an MD, or at least not a full specialization MD. ML could kill radiologist MD, radiologist could become the job title of a nurse or x-ray tech specialized in talking to people about the output.
by scuff3d | 2025-09-25 15:58:20+00:00
The head of that Israeli unit met directly with the CEO of MS. I don't buy a second the execs at MS didn't know what was going on. Blaming the local contractors is just MS throwing people under the bus.

I've worked for big corporations for nearly 20 years, I've seen this more times then I can count. Higher ups always happy to turn a blind eye to a bad situation as long as it's making the company money, and then immediately throwing subordinates under the bus when it bites them in the ass.
by SkyBelow | 2025-09-25 15:58:47+00:00
>nobody reads intermediate commit messages one by one on a PR, period.

>Don’t waste your time writing stuff for no one.

I've thought about that as I continue to write them. I think I can justify it by saying they are mostly for me. Can I describe what I'm trying to do with a specific push into a few items. It let's me reflect if I'm waiting too long between commits or if my ideas are getting too spread apart and really should be in two different branches that each have their own PRs. Then there is the rare case on a slower project where an item gets deprioritized and I come back to it weeks or even months later. Having the messages help me catch back up to speed.

As such, I find the 20 seconds or so to type out 1 to 2 sentences to be worthwhile, even if the ones reviewing the eventual PR never check. I'm also not above throwing in a "ditto" or "fixed issue" when a single commit really is that small or insignificant.

>“every commit must compile”

I agree with your take this is overzealous, but to expand upon my previous point, if I know a commit on a branch won't compile (say just had something else come up and need to swap focus for a few days), then I'll try to make sure I call that out in my last message just in case anyone else happens to get put on the project.

If I were to summarize my approach, treat PR messages seriously, but treat branch commit messages like sticky notes that will likely end up in the trash by week's end.
by dragonwriter | 2025-09-25 15:58:57+00:00
Israel, despite its PR, never actually took its foot off Gaza conpletely, continuing regular unprovoked cross-border killings of civilians within Gaza, among other means of exercising control and preventing economic development and activity (though for preventing economic activity specifically, other means were more significant, mainly the intermittent blockade before 2007 and the full blockade from 2007 on.)
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-25 15:59:02+00:00
> 1,566 units in five dozen buildings may represent entire San Francisco portfolio of city’s former No. 1 landlord

https://newspack-missionlocal.s3.amazonaws.com/mission/wp-co...

https://newspack-missionlocal.s3.amazonaws.com/mission/wp-co...

https://www.datawrapper.de/_/hmgcb
by covercash | 2025-09-25 15:59:05+00:00
Weird, pretty sure employees brought this to their attention a few times already…

https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-azure-gaza-palestine-is...

https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-azure-gaza-israel-prote...

https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-build-israel-gaza-prote...

https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-protest-employees-fired...
by quuxplusone | 2025-09-25 15:59:06+00:00
The talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB-bdWKwXsU&t=52m49s

Sadly the 25-line original code isn't presented; the code that is presented is the 5-line replacement using the STL's `find_if` and `rotate`. Bjarne sketches the idea that those five lines can be further condensed into two lines with the non-STL `gather` algorithm:

auto dest = std::find_if(v.begin(), v.end(), contains(p)); stdx::gather(v.begin(), dest, v.end(), [](const auto& elt) { return &elt == &*source; });

But this is overkill — replacing an O(distance(source,dest)) non-allocating rotate with an O(v.size()) potentially-allocating stable_partition — and more importantly it re-complicates the code.

Now, I think part of his point is that `stable_partition` is "simpler" than `gather` only because it's in the STL. If we add `gather` to the STL too and everyone learns what it means, then there's no objection to using `gather` for "simplification" like this: it would be a straightforward simplification in almost the same way that `std::equal_range(first, last, x)` is a straightforward simplification of `std::make_pair(std::lower_bound(first, last, x), std::upper_bound(first, last, x))`.

The "almost" is that actually there is an algorithmic advantage to `std::equal_range`: when you're looking for the upper bound, you don't have to consider any of the elements to the left of the lower bound you already found. You get a (very slight) performance boost by using the combined `equal_range` algorithm. `gather`, on the other hand, has no such advantage; and (as we've seen) has a (very slight) performance disadvantage when compared to the `rotate` that Bjarne's correspondent's code actually required.

We're not talking about replacing 25 lines of bespoke code with 1 line of Boost `gather`; we're talking about replacing 2 lines of STL `stable_partition` with 1 line of Boost `gather`. The former is probably worth it. The latter is not.
by pizzafeelsright | 2025-09-25 15:59:10+00:00
This is good and I am fairly certain email is dead with AI, hopefully soon.

I went from hosting my own pop/imap/smtp email to ignoring it almost completely at work and personal for a variety of reasons.

Text messages and chat or X/message boards are all I use now. I have the same ability to deliver messages, content, forward, save, export, and migrate between platforms. The spam in SMS is tolerable at this point.
by DavidWoof | 2025-09-25 15:59:18+00:00
> “nobody reads intermediate commit messages one by one on a PR”

I clean my history so that intermediate commits make sense. Nobody reads these messages in a pull request, but when I run git blame on a bug six months later I want the commit message to tell me something other than "stopping for lunch".

> pedantically apply DRY to every situation or forcing others to TDD basic app

Sure, pedantically doing or forcing anything is bad, but in my experience, copy-paste coding with long methods and a lack of good testing is a far more common problem.

You may be 100% correct in your particular case, but in general if senior devs are complaining that your code is sloppy and under-tested, maybe they aren't just being pedantic.
by riedel | 2025-09-25 15:59:31+00:00
CDNs always existed IMHO. The world before cloudflare was just much more hidden. In general I find their take at the typical cloud business from a network perspective mostly refreshing.

However, I guess they have become the major player now and certainly try to optimize the world towards their business model.

IMHO it needs other enterprises entering the competition. Maybe it could be new more software defined mobile network providers offering edge compute. Maybe data from IoT could never enter the Internet and we could have some confidential computing power when we need it for our IoT stuff. Maybe we could get a more decentralized Internet again...