MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bookofjoe | 2025-09-24 13:17:00+00:00
Currently in Britain's NHS, almost all first visits to a GP practice consist of contact ONLY with a PA/RN, who takes a history, performs an examination, and prescribes medication. Seeing a physician is the exception rather than the rule. And referrals to a specialist require a wait of on average 6 months.

>One in three GPs in England do not work in NHS, says BMJ study

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/sep/17/one-in-three...

>Four in 10 GPs see themselves leaving UK general practice within five years

https://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/special-investigations/the...

>Doctors warn hospitals under pressure as NHS waiting lists rise

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3dr52l1j3yo

>The latest monthly data also showed the number facing very long waits to start routine treatment had increased.

>There were 1,429 patients waiting more than 18 months in July, up from 1,103 in June, though down sharply compared to last year.
by watwut | 2025-09-24 13:17:49+00:00
> who merely makes another individual (or, more likely, someone of the social group that individual is a part of with large amounts of social capital) uncomfortable is branded as "mean" or "an asshole"

I am talking about people who are insult others, mean, condescending, refuse to consider very real and practical needs of others as valid. These absolutely exist and they get euphemized away, just like you do it now, as "just being awkward and misunderstood".

You basically refuse to consider such situation, unless the person in question is also charismatic. If someone is not highly charismatic, they can not be jerk, basically.

> The irony is that this comment is meant to elucidate and inspire empathy, but it will itself likely be misinterpreted as condescending.

You are refusing to listen and read what I said, projecting some kind of completely different situations onto the one I described. That wont elucidate empathy, because you are simply not considering what I said in the first place.

> they actually have above average emotional intelligence, but because their attempts to be prosocial are [...] their efforts are misinterpreted as malice, arrogance, apathy

I will stop at "malice". If on ended up doing harm to others unintentionally, his/her emotional and social intelligence is not high. And if it was not unintentional or result of not caring about others, then it is what it is.

Same goes with arrogance. Someone is being overbearing manner to others or operates on the assumption that others are dumb so much, that it is noticeable. When others notice, their conclusion that he is arrogant is correct and valid. It is not awkwardness nor fear nor anything like that.
by AOE9 | 2025-09-24 13:17:57+00:00
> you don't think of Tommy Robinson as fascist? that's surprising to me.

I wouldn't be surprised if a majority of the British public don't think he is either. Which is why I am asking how he is one.

> Ok, so I've grabbed a random definition of fascism[0] (first thing that came up googling).

Yeah that is the same definition I was using.

> now, let's think about tommy robinson and the EDL. > * exalts nation and often race above the individual - check.

Sure I agree.

> * wants a centralised autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader - check.

Where did this come from? I don't think that article said anything about this.

> * by forcible suppression of opposition - I mean... it's the EDL, big check.

I don't know much about the EDL & what they have done so I couldn't comment on this.
by gambiting | 2025-09-24 13:18:00+00:00
If you're a foreigner on a visa(or an EU settled status resident), yes. If you are a British person(or pretending to be one) then you just need to show your employer your British passport(or one of several other acceptable documents), and obviously faking a picture of a passport is pretty trivial. And since employers generally don't have access to the system that can verify passports they take your word on the document being valid.
by abanana | 2025-09-24 13:18:05+00:00
James Dyson drives me nuts.

His modus operandi is to take something that has an inherent compromise, which exists for a specific reason, and to remove that compromise, thereby slightly improving one thing at the larger expense of something else.

The most obvious example is his vacuum cleaners - his big "innovation" was to remove the bag, which exists to make it easy to empty and to stop the dust from clogging up the workings of the machine, at the expense of a very small amount of suction power. Reviews everywhere say the same thing, always - they last no time at all before the suction power drops substantially because of the clogging-up. I've heard so many times about people making money by rescuing and reselling dumped Dyson vacuum cleaners that "just" needed dismantling and thoroughly cleaning.

Another example is hand dryers - basically just increase the power at the expense of (1) deafening noise and (2) blasting damp germ-filled air everywhere, for which they had to be banned from being installed at any NHS site in the UK, notwithstanding their marketing claims about somehow purifying the blasted air.

He's clearly a brilliant businessman - he's made a fortune from selling these items via top-notch marketing. But he's wrongly described as an "inventor", one of those words a certain class of people love to call themselves. At what point does the act of removing a carefully-designed compromise feature (a fix to one issue at the relatively small expense of something else - a net positive) from an existing piece of equipment, become inventing something new?
by willvarfar | 2025-09-24 13:18:21+00:00
Generally, yeah, to use the online government and financial services in Sweden need BankID, which is almost always on your mobile phone. You can also use a PC, although that is fading away.

ID cards are also a thing, and in principle every grownup should always be carrying ID although its not like everybody really does when walking around the park etc.

There are paper and in-person alternatives to the online services, but the ease and prevalence of the online services makes those actually relatively efficient. The times I've had to do something in person has all been slick.

I think underneath the key concept is that everyone has a unique ID number and means to prove it's them. 99% of the time that ends up being Mobile BankID.
by loiseaujc | 2025-09-24 13:18:55+00:00
OP here.

> This is a big red flag. If they have little background in programming, teach good standards of Python.

That is a big issue, I'll admit it. And actually, in my Uni, I am a very strong proponent of making an intro to programming class mandatory before even being able to enroll in any other engineering classes. Unfortunately, I don't see this happening anytime soon mostly because the higher-ups have a distorted view of what programming actually is. And I believe it is the same in many French universities. May-be different elsewhere, I don't know, but in the mean time I have to make do with what I have.

> Otherwise they will get worst patterns, and think that GOTO is the preferred way of coding.

People keep on referring to `goto`. But that is a construct that has been considered bad since the Fortran 1990 standard, 35 years ago. Fair enough, there are plenty of legacy codes using it. Just like there are plenty of C code written 35 years which are just terrible by today standard. Modern Fortran (and by modern I mean anything following 2003 standard and more recent) does not use `goto`. And academics writing Fortran code today do not use `goto`, nor do they teach it.

> If you think why a lot of academic code looks like mess, one of the reason is using archaic tools and techniques as a standard.

Again, I think this is a very distorted view. When you need to run your code on 1000+ CPU, which is what I and my colleagues do, you better make sure your code makes use of all the most recent good practices and use industry-standard tooling not to waste CPU hours because of a stupid bug or what not.
by griffzhowl | 2025-09-24 13:19:01+00:00
Yes, exactly.

I should have added that this result wasn't unexpected or mysterious as it might sound, because it's known from physics that different chemical processes have characteristic photon emissions. Since it's known that different chemical processes occur in living and dead organisms, it was expected that there would be differing emissions in the two cases. As far as I know this research is the first actual detection of these differences
by mbreese | 2025-09-24 13:19:12+00:00
I don't see one yet -- but the main people mentioned in the article have a long publication record on Huntington's. This trial has been going on for a while and this is an interim media report. I don't think they've reached an endpoint yet.

I believe this is the clinical trial they are reporting on: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04120493

This trial also appears be open at UCSF...
by hiphipjorge | 2025-09-24 13:19:17+00:00
I honestly think it's pretty amazing how cheap air travel already is in the USA and Europe. It explains why we're seeing all time highs for air travel.

The air industry seems like a good example of just the right level of regulation: There's tons of competition, different pricing tiers with their corresponding levels of quality, and a lot of dynamism combined with a good set of consumer base regulations (24 hour cancellation period, for example).
by fsckboy | 2025-09-24 13:19:48+00:00
not sure what you mean. the only "knowing" (that we know of) is when a piece of the universe has an incomplete model of some other portion of the universe which it uses to make predictions (and i suppose toward the same goal, remember the past) in any case, the only pieces of the universe (in turn the only universe we know) are computing all the time. atoms, subatomic particles, are not static, they are interacting all the time.
by r3trohack3r | 2025-09-24 13:20:15+00:00
I believe the kind of journalism you’re hinting at is practically dead in what many people are referring to when they say “the news.” It’s hard to determine if I agree with your stance though since you didn’t actually define what you meant by news organizations; mind listing a few of your favorite sources of news and trusted commentators? If they’re quite good, it’ll help people find reliable sources of descriptive accuracy!

But a meta point: Most commercial news rooms have become propoganda arms for The Party that churn out low effort AP ticker derivatives, social media gossip, and literal government propaganda from The Party whispered in their ear by an “anonymous source.” The “news rooms” appear devoid of any real journalistic integrity.

I think we are going to see an increasing trend of “true journalists” leaving the legacy news industry to places where they can build direct relationships with their audience, can own their own content distribution channels, and directly monetize those channels. I.E. Substack, YouTube, X, et. al.
by BlackFly | 2025-09-24 13:20:16+00:00
The author explains it in the next sentence.

> It’s the “Washington Game” of “official leaks”, disseminating propaganda without being held accountable.

In general, you can spot this kind of propaganda by realizing that the anonymous source is actually promoting the government's position and so isn't actually in danger. I.E. they aren't a whistleblower, they have no reason to fear repercussions.
Show HN: Synced.it – A2A group scheduling (10k students using it)
by nickharty | 2025-09-24 13:20:57+00:00
I built Synced.it, an agent-to-agent (A2A) scheduling tool that syncs with Google + Outlook to let calendars “negotiate” the best meeting time across groups.

It’s lightweight, mobile-first, and built for multi-person coordination (study groups, office hours, project teams) where one-to-one scheduling tools don’t work.

Already 10,000+ students are using it — would love HN’s feedback on expanding A2A scheduling beyond campus into broader team and enterprise workflows.
by ionwake | 2025-09-24 13:21:10+00:00
Thank you for this link. This whole over painting thing, it just, I felt like im the only person on the planet shocked by it. The second I arrive in italy I was told yes thats the painting of the last supper. And I was like wtf, it looks freshly painted. I read a placque which said somethign like ( due to the poor damp conditions of the room) the painting needed constant restoration.

I was like wtf so basically non of this shit is original?

Noone else seemed to even consider this.

Im sure poepl ein the art world come to terms with it, but I dont think anyone outside the field even conceives of what a restoration normally is
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-09-24 13:21:14+00:00
Honestly, probably not for long. Like, basically any Western headquartered crypto company will have (at least in theory) KYC/AML checks.

And I'm not sure how you plan to get your crypto into fiat without hitting a bank/financial institution which will have these checks.

Like, this is part of society (for some good and some bad reasons, like a lot of other things).
by gwbas1c | 2025-09-24 13:21:47+00:00
Yeah, I kept scrolling to the top to see if I overlooked something.

Then I realized, "oh, it's hosted on Medium." (I generally find Medium posts to be very low quality.) In this case, the author implies that they are on the .Net team, so I'm continuing to read.

(At least I hope the author actually is on the .Net team and isn't blowing hot air, because it's a Medium post and not something from an official MS blog.)
Ask HN: How would you design a business model that supports plugin-writers?
by aethertap | 2025-09-24 13:22:23+00:00
I use Obsidian heavily on a daily basis, and I love it, but without the plugin ecosystem it would be far less usable. Most of the plugin authors are just doing the work because they have a passion for it, which eventually fades. They have funding links but I think there's too much friction in the process for many people to actually send funds to them. So, I've been trying to come up with a way to make a software product that can meaningfully reward high-quality plugin contributions, but the issue of fairness is hard to sort out.

My best shot at it currently is to have a subscription that allows plugins to be installed, and then just evenly splits each user's subscription fee among the plugins that user has active. There are several ways this could be gamed. For example, you could break what would naturally be a single plugin into several that depend on each other in order to get a bigger slice of the income.

Have you seen or thought of any other models that are really good at this, and hard to game?
by DangitBobby | 2025-09-24 13:22:32+00:00
> If you want to sit together, pay for that privilege.

Agreed. I think they leave too much money on the table. Use of window shades and lavatories could be behind a subscription service as well, with Sky Comfort+ affording you the privilege of multiple lavatory visits for those who have chosen the luxury IBS lifestyle. I'll let you know if I think of anything else those pesky airline passengers take for granted.
by UpsideDownRide | 2025-09-24 13:22:51+00:00
Lack of critical thinking is a bit of a worldwide schooling system failure. Underfunding on one hand and not having an education plan for people to develop those skills leads to what we have. Some are lucky to get those skills from home or from top tier schools.

I imagine that this state of things was somewhat beneficial for the ruling elites but Russia is now showing the whole western world, that dumb population is a huge liability.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-09-24 13:22:58+00:00
As someone who's just got their new British passport, faking the 3 pictures on it, and the whole passport itself, does not look trivial at all...

I think it is much, much, much more common to have dodgy employers/landlords who do not carry out the checks at all because they are fine exploiting illegal immigrants, and no type of ID card would solve that...
by tokai | 2025-09-24 13:23:54+00:00
It works. No need to call it great. Just the other month 35.000 danes lost access to their digital id because their phones are running too old android. There are edge cases where people get locked out of the system without access to public services, and why it is resolvable it can result in missed benefits and inturn missed rent payments.

I myself have experienced being between housing, and wasn't able to access my digital ID without an address, which I could only get if I could access my e-banking and pay deposit for my new place, but I needed digital ID to access the bank. It got resolved. But its a completely avoidable chaos that mainly is an issue for those with the least resources.
by KaiserPro | 2025-09-24 13:24:00+00:00
So there are a number of digital IDs, but the problem is they are not really joined up or all that useful.

In principle, there is nothing really that wrong with a digital ID, as at the moment you have a bunch of UUIDs (mostly) so its not actually that hard to marry you up between departments.

In practice, what they'll do is hire accenture or some other dipshit company, spend _billions_ re-inventing a cross between a passport and oauth2, and it'll fail hard and be horribly insecure.

The better option is to tie everything to your government gateway ID (the thing that lets you renew passports, talk to the HMRC online, and a bunch of other services)
by Twirrim | 2025-09-24 13:24:20+00:00
Amazon biases towards Systems Oriented Architecture approach that is in the middle ground between monolith and microservices.

Biasing away from lots of small services in favour of larger ones that handle more of the work so that as much as possible you avoid the costs and latency of preparing, transmitting, receiving and processing requests.

I know S3 has changed since I was there nearly a decade ago, so this is outdated. Off the top of my head it used to be about a dozen main services at that time. A request to put an object would only touch a couple of services en route to disk, and similar on retrieval. There were a few services that handled fixity and data durability operations, the software on the storage servers themselves, and then stuff that maintained the mapping between object and storage.
by pessimizer | 2025-09-24 13:24:31+00:00
I've been saying this for years: eventually not having your phone on you and powered up at all times will not be a crime, but it will be grounds for questioning and search.

One day, there will be a knock on your door.

"Good morning, this is the police. Is there something wrong with your phone? Is your phone broken? Can we provide you with a charge?"

"No, I must have turned it off accidentally."

"Can we assist you with an upgrade? The newer models don't have power buttons."
by vintermann | 2025-09-24 13:24:32+00:00
So deplatforming works, unless people become so unhinged at the efforts to shape them that they do crazy stuff like buy major media platforms? Guess what, they do!

But at least the Covid dissenter deplatforming worked, right? Or was the problem Musk there again?

One of my mantras is that powerful people believe all the crazy things regular people believe in, they just act differently on them. I think both Musk and Kennedy are great examples that you'd appreciate, as are Xi and Putin with their open mic life extension fantasies.

It's not long ago that Musk and even Trump himself, was aligned with your competent technocrats wielding the "suppression of irresponsible speech" powers.
by charrondev | 2025-09-24 13:24:35+00:00
Is it just me or is this an awful “article”? It mention deregulation but doesn’t point to what specific regulations have been removed. I took a Delta flight 2 weeks ago (one that supposedly had implemented all of these draconian rollbacks) and had the same experience I’ve had for the past 10 years:

- price of the ticket was as advertised - a checked bag was an option at the same price it has always been. - I was able to assign a seat next to my husband without additional fees.

Now while this flight was not cancelled, I’ve had to reschedule some flights with Delta due to illness previously and they just gave me a 100% credit for the cost of the flight that was easy to use.

The only contrast for cancellation I know is the nightmare of Air Canada. In the past I’ve had flights get cancelled and only got “vouchers” that could only be used by calling a specific number that took 1 hour+ and were not applicable for taxes (you know half the cost of a Canadian Airline Ticket), and would be lost of not fully used in one purchases
by bsimpson | 2025-09-24 13:24:47+00:00
I'd be curious to see how the all-in price of airline tickets has evolved in recent decades. It feels like it's now commonplace to have hundreds of dollars in additional fees for things like legroom. That means a cheap ticket is a midrange ticket and a midrange ticket can end up being quite expensive unless you fall for the "we get to strap you behind the bathroom with only the clothes on your back" Saver ticket.

It also means that you're often still out actual money if you use award miles.
by Bender | 2025-09-24 13:24:50+00:00
I hear you. It's about incentives. Any time a teenager can learn a method to get around content restrictions will will become a tool in their toolbox. They might reach for the Discord tool by default but when that is compromised such as recent events and governments start looking into all the DM's and voice-to-text transcripts they may reach for that old tool to prove they can not be censored or monitored. I would not expect teenagers to use it otherwise.
by palmotea | 2025-09-24 13:24:57+00:00
> Also traditionally American cellphone users pay to receive calls, which will blow the mind of a Britisher.

IIRC, we had to pay for any kind of use on a cell phone use (both to make and receive calls), which is probably stemmed from them being considered premium devices when they were introduced, with a lot of expensive fixed infrastructure you'd use no matter the direction of the call.
by gambiting | 2025-09-24 13:25:09+00:00
>>As someone who's just got their new British passport, faking the 3 pictures on it, and the whole passport itself, does not look trivial at all...

A lot of employers just want a photo/scan of a passport. I'm not saying making a whole fake passport is easy, it's obviously not - but modifying a picture of a passport is not exactly rocket science.
by cls59 | 2025-09-24 13:25:24+00:00
> It doesn’t make sense to tax every other passenger for it.

I'd rather pay a monetary tax on my ticket to keep families organized together instead of the discomfort tax of sharing a row with parent+child that has been unexpectedly split up from their partner and is now trying to manage the child's behavior for the duration of the flight without the benefit of teamwork.
by redwall_hp | 2025-09-24 13:25:44+00:00
> Automatic Refunds for Cancellations: Airlines want to remove the requirement to provide automatic refunds when flights are cancelled or significantly altered. Passengers may instead receive only vouchers or no compensation at all, leaving them without recourse in the event of a major flight disruption.

Basically half of flights I've ever booked have had a cancellation. Usually the airline customer service had to rebook a new itinerary for the same purpose, but once in the past year they had to issue a refund because all possible routes went through DFW and they had lightning, which they have all the time.

It's absolutely ridiculous to even suggest that you should be able to take someone's money and not render services. That's a fundamental part of commerce.
by jacobvosmaer | 2025-09-24 13:25:50+00:00
I like ed but I prefer 'sam -d' (the terminal mode of Sam). It has a nice looping construct 'x' and you can open multiple files and do batch edits (with 'X').

There is a Go port of Sam, which is easy to install:

go install 9fans.net/go/cmd/sam@latest

http://sam.cat-v.org/