MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by danaris | 2025-09-12 15:46:40+00:00
Here in the USA, my wife had an infection in the root of a tooth (long story), and was trying to get in to see an oral surgeon to get proper treatment.

Even with an active infection, that could have cost her her jaw or her life if it had been left unchecked, it took months to get anyone to even make an appointment for an initial consultation. We were very fortunate that the oral surgeon we were finally able to talk to was able to fit her in for surgery within a short time after that, due to a cancellation.

People talk dismissively about the "long wait times" you get with some public healthcare systems, but always oh-so-conveniently ignore the fact that there are long wait times here too. Sometimes catastrophically so.

Almost universally, when you dig into it, the "long wait times" that exist in those systems fall into one of two categories: either they are wait times for elective procedures, where your long-term health is not at risk, or they are caused by shortages that are symptoms of unrelated problems.
by LambdaComplex | 2025-09-12 15:47:41+00:00
> Again, that's most frequently called becoming a nurse practitioner.

Personally, I would always rather see a physician due to how much more training/experience they have. A physician who's out of residency will have gotten at least 3 years of on the job training (after medical school). A nurse practitioner may have just gotten their BSN and then gone straight into an NP program without ever working a single day as a nurse.

But yes, you're right, this person is absolutely describing NPs.
by traceroute66 | 2025-09-12 15:47:41+00:00
> Does anybody have any optimistic hopes for the UK?

Not post-Brexit, no.

With Brexit, the UK voted to cut itself off from its:

- nearest trading partner - source of seasonal and low-paid workers

But it also chose to do so in the hardest possible manner thanks to Boris's "deal".

As a result:

- many businesses can't be bothered with the new paperwork that comes from being outside the zone - many businesses struggle because the free-movement labour is no longer available, e.g. farmers need seasonal pickers, restaurants need seasonal front-of-house staff etc.

There was a hope that Labour would change this given all the noises they made during opposition. But sadly they seem to be doubling down and continuing to brown-nose Trump.

Farage also has a seat in parliament, both the major parties are terrified of him, and so they continue trying to out-Farage Farage at varying levels. Which is a terrifyingly dangerous game to play.

Then there's all the usual stories of decades of lack of investment in public services etc.
by renewiltord | 2025-09-12 15:48:19+00:00
We shouldn’t rush to judgment. A few years sounds like a good period of time for things that could affect someone’s life. One could argue it should take a century or more to convict people of such crimes. How can we be sure it’s not politically motivated? Only way is to ensure that we wait for political change and see if the crime is still to be prosecuted.
by yieldcrv | 2025-09-12 15:48:33+00:00
nothing, they won’t

all of our identities are for sale and can be used to open bank, brokerage and crypto accounts and we’ll never be notified of this. can be used to fill out employment documents

and they can pass the private sector leetcode problems better and more relentlessly while crafting a fake resume to more neatly fit the job description, while leveraging Americas biases to physically look like the candidate they want

nobody is getting hit with sanctions violations, but there isn’t a safe harbor added either

the whole structure is stupid
by cousin_it | 2025-09-12 15:48:45+00:00
Btw, there's a pretty well known origami version of the SR-71 by Toshikazu Kawasaki. One square, no cuts, the usual. I folded it as a kid from diagrams in "Origami for the Connoisseur". It's not as detailed as the papercraft version, but I think it symbolizes the real airplane very well.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-09-12 15:48:46+00:00
Yes, the US system works great if your are at the social peak, such as working at a FAANG. Thanks for reminding us of the level of class disparity as we struggle to pay our bills or get our children medical care.

When I was a kid, everyone no matter economic level had pretty much the same pediatric doctor group. Now the working class people around me don't really have a pediatrician, but an overworked 'nurse practitioner'.
by boogieknite | 2025-09-12 15:48:56+00:00
ive experienced this effect on mental health for a day or two after major injury but after a bit i find something else to occupy my attention and effort

in simple terms staying active mentally helps me wait out the recovery. healthy spirit might mean i can accept the injury more quickly and get that day or two down to a few hours

sort of like the article it usually begins by dabbling in some activities i can do with my injury
by snovymgodym | 2025-09-12 15:48:56+00:00
I do think the United States needs to overhaul its firearms laws, however:

There are very few countries that ban firearms outright. The type of weapon used in this attack was a bolt-action hunting rifle. You can buy that sort of weapon on the basic firearm license in Canada, the UK, Australia, Germany, Norway, Sweden, etc.

The entire gun debate in this country which usually revolves around tightening restrictions on handguns and semi-automatics is not really relevant to this case. Virtually nobody running for public office, even among Democrats, is talking about a total ban on private firearms ownership.
Show HN: Vestaboard MCP – Let Cursor agents create art on your board
by ykhli | 2025-09-12 15:48:58+00:00
I built a MCP server for Vestaboard that lets Cursor (or any MCP-enabled agent) post directly to your Vestaboard.

That means you can do things like:

- Have a Cursor agent generate daily art, quotes, or reminders

- Push real-time updates from your repo, builds, or integrations straight onto your Vestaboard

- Treat your board like an output channel for experiments with agent orchestration

Repo: https://github.com/ykhli/mcp-vestaboard And a video demo: https://x.com/stuffyokodraws/status/1966528497075081581

Would love feedback and ideas on fun agent-driven projects people would build with this!
by dnemmers | 2025-09-12 15:49:03+00:00
I read through both of the links posted.

I couldn’t find mention of PFAS or ‘forever chemicals’ anywhere on the first link(it may just be a little out of date concerning the last few years of development.

The second link didn’t show any mention of a beer brewing link, but was specifically addressing ‘forever chemicals’ that are meaningfully on topic.

Unfortunately they also included this caveat:

“Although some of the filters did not achieve 100 percent reduction in PFAS measured in the water samples, they did eliminate 100 percent of PFOA and PFOS, two of the most notorious forever chemicals.”
by WillAdams | 2025-09-12 15:49:15+00:00
As a person who wonders where the paper X-15 model he had vanished to after he joined the service, this resonates with me.

While there are a lot of models available for purchase/download, the classic tool for this sort of thing is

https://pepakura.tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura_designer/

as noted by coldfoundry --- that said, an unlikely tool which has this is PythonSCAD:

https://pythonscad.org/

which allows one to use OpenSCAD or Python to create a 3D model and export it in a number of formats, including "Foldable PS" which automates this process.
by skeezyboy | 2025-09-12 15:49:23+00:00
> I hope you'd agree with the principle through this analogy: an adult who looks at pornography would not want to show their child pornography.

but its nothing like pornography. were talking about "screen time" which is a vague generic idea, just the same as "social media" encompasses pretty much any major tech companies website/app instead of actual mediums for socializing like IRC, forums etc that were around for decades prior just never called that
by x187463 | 2025-09-12 15:50:11+00:00
I agree with this approach. With the exception of testing for specific domain knowledge relevant to the work role, the coding interview should just be about testing the applicant's problem-solving skills and grasp of their language of choice. I would even prefer a take-home style problem that we can review in-person over some high-pressure puzzle. The leetcode interview doesn't seem to correspond to anything a developer actually does day to day.
by ta1243 | 2025-09-12 15:50:12+00:00
> Unless the Sanders Administration had a very favorable or majority Democrat Congress aligned with his progressive wing, many proposals would be outright blocked or heavily compromised

This is a feature, and why Trump's second term is so different to his first, or Bidens, or Obamas, or Bush, or Nixon. You'd probably have to go back to FDR for such sweeping changes to the US state.

Trumps first term was overturning norms in behavior, but not overturning the way the entire governing system works, all four estates.
by oefrha | 2025-09-12 15:50:18+00:00
Your library should just take a *slog.Logger, and using *slog.Logger is an orthogonal choice to zap/zerolog/whatever. Those compete with slog.TextHandler or slog.JSONHandler, and sure, if you’re performance sensitive don’t pick them. In my newer projects I use zap under the hood with an application-facing *slog.Logger through go.uber.org/zap/exp/zapslog just fine (actually further locked down with my own interface so that coworkers can’t go crazy, but that’s beside the point). Your bespoke interface, or that standard interface you want isn’t going to be any more performant than going through slog.Handler interface anyway.
by lenerdenator | 2025-09-12 15:50:22+00:00
I'm not a tactician with any experience, just thinking this through at my keyboard, but I'm not even sure drone v. drone is the answer here.

Depending on how low they are flying and how large they are, you could conceivably set up anti-drone defenses using service rifles or shotguns wired up to a detection and fire control system. I know that someone in Thailand did exactly that with a bunch of M16A1s.

Of course, if they're larger and higher up, you could possibly use more traditional AAA artillery.

Both of those routes use things that are already "cheap" and in the supply chain.
by RodgerTheGreat | 2025-09-12 15:50:34+00:00
UV maps, especially for low-poly models, do not generally have a 1:1 geometric relationship with polygons in the original model. Areas with more significant detail will get more space on the UV map, mirrored or repeating areas will be overlapped, and of course UV maps will never include the tabs you'd need to physically glue parts together.
by TinkersW | 2025-09-12 15:50:40+00:00
MSAA doesn't do anything for shader aliasing, it only handles triangle aliasing, and modern renderers have plenty of shader aliasing so there isn't much reason to use MSAA.

The high triangle count of modern renders might in some cases cause the MSAA to become closer to SSAA in terms of cost and memory usage, all for a rather small AA count relative to a temporal method.

Temporal AA can handle everything, and is relatively cheap, so it has replaced all the other approaches. I haven't used Unreal TAA, does Unreal not support the various vendor AI driven TAA's?
by timr | 2025-09-12 15:50:40+00:00
> Any sort of repair is inherently unpredictable, and healthcare especially so.

There are certainly acute situations that are unpredictable -- go to the ER with a gunshot wound, and nobody can tell you what it's going to cost. That's fine.

But most of the time, you're wrong. Health care moves slowly, and there's lots of time to think and plan. The costs of pretty much any procedure is pre-negotiated by the insurer and the provider, so they actually do know what it's going to cost. They just don't tell you.

There's no fundamental reason you couldn't have been quoted an accurate price in the scenario you described.
by pjc50 | 2025-09-12 15:50:43+00:00
The drones are rather large: https://osmp.ngo/collection/shahed-131-136-uavs-a-visual-gui... and have a flight ceiling of about 4000m. It is probably roughly comparable to WW2 aircraft, given that it's driven by a piston prop engine. That suggests the need for similar technology such as "flak" anti-aircraft shells. However, that requires line of sight and has limited accuracy, while not being all that cheap to deploy. So if these guided interceptors can be built cheaply, with a decent hit rate, they might end up being cheaper than conventional AAA.
by gizmo686 | 2025-09-12 15:51:03+00:00
It is common to use Õ as a variant of O which ignores logorithmic factors.

Another reason to do this is that O(1) is typically a lie. Basic operations like addition are assumed to be constant time, but in practice, even writing down a number, n, is O(log(n)). More commonly thought of as O(b) where b is the bit-length of n.
by ddtaylor | 2025-09-12 15:51:41+00:00
It's a pretty direct response to your claim that "decentralisation sounds nice, but doesn't work in practice". Decentralization has worked in practice many times in many ways.

Also, you can have reputability AND decentralization, that's actually a fundamental component of how any Blockchain system works. When you mine a block you sign it to ensure nobody else can resubmit your work and take credit.
by the_snooze | 2025-09-12 15:51:53+00:00
Absolutely, classes were the magic bullet for me. I found a gym that offers small-ish (~15) classes, approachable instructors who emphasize good form, and a location and schedule that fits my lifestyle. Thanks to that, I've been a regular for the past few years now, going to class 3 or 4 times a week after being a lazy slob during the height of COVID.

Classes also reduce the barrier to start because you don't have to think about what your workout will look like, and you'll push yourself just a little harder when you're exercising with others.
by mtone | 2025-09-12 15:51:55+00:00
Do you really need a H200 for this? Seems like something a consumer GPU could do. Smaller models might be ideal [0] as they don't require extensive world knowledge and are much more cost efficient/faster.

Why can't you build this today?

[0]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.02153 Small Language Models are the Future of Agentic AI (Nvidia)
by sgt101 | 2025-09-12 15:51:58+00:00
Size and range.

Strike drones have to be able to carry a fairly large warhead (or are only good at hitting people and not things) and they have to fly quite a long way to get at things like reserve assets and logistics. So they are quite big, with quite a lot of fuel etc. Big things tend to cost more. In this case I can imagine that an interceptor that has a range of 10k and is 5% of the size of the strike drone would be able to knock it down and would be able to do so well away from its target.

Dunno how anyone can "know" unless they "know" and then they are not talking. But, it seems plausible that something with 10% of the range and 5% of the mass would cost 10% or less.
by epolanski | 2025-09-12 15:52:12+00:00
Whether the government was EU skeptic or not is irrelevant. Plenty of EU countries had similarly EU skeptical governments.

What matters are facts: Poland violated several points of the Treaty of the European Union, the EU Charter and CJEU rulings all stating the same thing: to be part of the European Union rule of law must be respected.

In other words: the judicial branch of power has to be independent. Politicians write laws. Judges and not politicians, rule on whether they are respected or not.

And again, I'm Polish, I know what I'm talking about: the previous government went far in bending the constitution, controlling the press and the judges taking our country step after step towards a dictatorship.
by Hunpeter | 2025-09-12 15:52:19+00:00
A somewhat more depressing take: "There comes a time in everyone's life when you look into the mirror and realize that what you see is all that you'll ever be. And you accept that fact - or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking into mirrors." (Babylon 5, quoted from memory, so probably not 100% correct)

As I'm nearing 30, still in the "I can be anything I want" phase, I wonder when this time will arrive. And whether it is true for everyone - maybe some people possess the ability to reinvent themselves no matter their age. But can you even do that without giving up some contentment?
by tptacek | 2025-09-12 15:52:33+00:00
I'm not sure if the comment you're replying to is ironic, since it's repeating almost word-for-word my own honeybee rant, but Varroa mites drove feral honeybees in the US to extinction in the 1990s.

(There are lots of escaped, unmanaged honeybee colonies in North America, but it's unclear how many true feral colonies there are --- true feral colonies overwinter and reproduce).
by ceejayoz | 2025-09-12 15:52:36+00:00
> Personally, I would always rather see a physician due to how much more training/experience they have.

There's a very good chance, if you're seeing a NP, that the NP has a lot more experience with that sort of condition than the docs. After all, the practice is sending those sorts of issues to the NP. My dad's a radiologist, but they haven't assessed a minor break in decades, because they're very subspecialized.

If it's unusual or complex, the NP is probably the first to say "we'll need to make an appt with Dr. So and So".
by dataflow | 2025-09-12 15:52:46+00:00
My beef with someone using a constraint solver here is that they almost certainly wouldn't be able to guarantee anything about their solution other than that, if it produces an output, it will be correct. They won't be able to guarantee running time, space usage, or (probably for most tools) even a useful progress indicator. The problem isn't merely that they used another tool - the problem is that they abstracted away critical details. Had they provided a handwritten solution from scratch with the same characteristics, it would've exhibited the same problems.

This doesn't mean they can't provide a constraint solver solution, but if they do, they'd better be prepared to address the obvious follow-ups. If they're prepared to give an efficient solution afterward in the time left, then more power to them.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-09-12 15:53:08+00:00
I got an official email from Paypal last week saying that I had a charge for $900 at Kraken, and to call some number if it's suspicious.

What's great about the attack is that it's sent from paypal.com and signed by paypal. And the email contains a legit link to paypal, not some phishing site. But the phone number is the attack.

The attack:

1. Register a paypal business account

2. Add the victim's email address (or one that forwards to them) to the biz account's "secondary users"

3. Add a custom invitation message about how they have a $900 charge that they need to contest by calling a phone number that you control.

4. Paypal shows your custom invitation message inline with their official email with no indication that it was written by someone other than paypal (wtf?)

Here's the email that was of course surrounded by Paypal's own official email chrome:

> New Profile Charge: We have detected a new payment profile with a charge of $910.45 USD at Kraken.com. To dispute, contact PayPal at (805) 500-8413. Otherwise, no action is required. PayPal accept automatic pending bill from this account.Your New PayPal Account added you to the Crypto Wallet account.

I called the number and some guy started asking me for my info starting with my full name. I didn't hang around on the call long enough to see what the attack was.
by timr | 2025-09-12 15:53:10+00:00
> If I get a bill for $300 for a pediatrician appointment, I know what the next one is likely to cost, yes?

No. The next one could be more, it could be less. There could be other fees. You have no idea, because there is no price transparency.

You obviously know this is true, or you wouldn't have used the words "likely to cost". You're just arguing to argue.
by danaris | 2025-09-12 15:53:19+00:00
It doesn't matter what the insurance company margins are.

It matters how much they add to the cost.

Typically, "margins" means the profit they make over and above expenses. For insurance companies, the salaries of all the people they employ, and the rent/mortgage/upkeep on their buildings & grounds, would all be classified as expenses that would not generally be included in their margins.

But in a single-payer system, none of that cost would even exist. We have to pay for all of that through our premiums, and we get nothing out of it.
by pjc50 | 2025-09-12 15:53:30+00:00
> Depending on how low they are flying and how large they are

It's a real problem that "drone" gets used for things that can fit in your hand, all the way up to the same size as single-seater aircraft. These seem to be aimed at the latter. The Shahed is more of a slow cruise missile with wings, or the WW2 V1 pulsejet "flying bombs"

(we've not seen the return of the pulsejet, have we? "V1 with modern guidance" seems like it might fit a niche)
by mcv | 2025-09-12 15:53:32+00:00
I'm immediately thinking about Sapiens, by Harari. One of the big points of that book is that much of our reality is made up. Countries, laws, corporations, property, -isms, marriage, and many other things only exist because we all agree to believe in them. These are part of our shared subjective reality, created by our words and actions, and they will cease to exist the moment everybody stops believing in them.
by mrguyorama | 2025-09-12 15:53:40+00:00
People who protested this horse shit were called unamerican for christs sake. Bush Jr said the literal words "you are either with us, or against us". The right went into utter hysterics about France not wanting to help our BS invasion.

The right loves to say that violent rhetoric is the left's fault, while they wished us harm for not wanting to invade a random country in the middle east that wasn't even related to the terrorist attack.

Meanwhile, all that horseshit with the TSA only ever enriched a couple people connected to the admin.
by arccy | 2025-09-12 15:53:40+00:00
The blessed interface for libraries is to accept a slog.Logger.

The blessed interface for logging backends is slog.Handler.

Applications can then wire that up with a handler they like, for example

zap: https://pkg.go.dev/go.uber.org/zap/exp/zapslog#Handler

charm https://github.com/charmbracelet/log?tab=readme-ov-file#slog...
by phil21 | 2025-09-12 15:54:12+00:00
Educators in general seem especially scared of the liability fairy.

The correct thing to do here is your teachers position is to laugh at the idiot kid telling them about their legal liability.

The school may be taking some on, but if it’s a school policy short of actual gross negligence by the teacher she had none personally.

Even if the school had liability the correct response to such nonsense is to tell the parents to sue them. Most will not, and you defend to the death the few that do so others understand the cost of bringing frivolous lawsuits for silly reasons.

This whole nonsense of entire school systems grinding to a halt and lacking any implementation of common sense due to made up liability fantasies is ridiculous. Let those highly paid admins do their jobs and take on risk.