MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by obviouslynotme | 2025-09-25 16:32:14+00:00
We have already removed so much liability in other licensed professions, either through law or practice. It's almost impossible to obtain a malicious prosecution or SLAPP judgement against attorneys. Malpractice lawsuits have been legally capped all over the USA against doctors. Engineering liability is a joke outside of rare circumstances.

The social will for having real accountability and professional ethics just isn't there. If you license software, large companies will just outsource the stamps to small contractors who will legally assume responsibility while nothing else changes. All real accountability will be so sparse and random that all ethical complaints will be ignored. If this liability becomes large enough to effect anything, all tech companies will band together to bribe politicians to limit legal remedies in the laws themselves.

In the end, the only thing that will happen is that large companies will use these regulations to bludgeon smaller competition like they already do.
by tmiku | 2025-09-25 16:32:16+00:00
What does that look like in a more intensive hospital setting? I've seen the shift to midlevels happening in primary care, but I'm not sure how that translates to inpatient settings - I'm vaguely aware that there are rules around when a PA/NP must consult an MD before making a decision, and I feel like they would encounter those situations way more for an inpatient.
by zamadatix | 2025-09-25 16:32:16+00:00
Can anyone help clean up these sources/verify?

The first one seems to be after Microsoft's claim "and Microsoft has said it is reviewing a report in a British newspaper this month that Israel has used it to facilitate attacks on Palestinian targets".

The second one looks similar "Microsoft late last week said it was tapping a law firm to investigate allegations reported by British newspaper The Guardian".

The 3rd one seems to be a genuine example that Microsoft employees were reporting this specific contract violation concern - but I feel like there are more genuine examples I've heard of than just this one report.

The 4th one is a bit unclear, it seems to be a general complaint about the contract - not about specific violations of it.

Perhaps the more confounding question remaining is "what was so different about the report from The Guardian". It's not like these kinds of claims are new, or in small papers only, but maybe The Guardian was able to put together hard evidence from outside that allowed Microsoft to determine things without themselves going in breach of contract details?
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-09-25 16:32:36+00:00
OK it sounds like the kind of thing I was thinking would happen, if you know these kinds of people. I mean, the wife suggested that he get naked on camera to "counteract his gloom" and then the creative differences over the art of the porn.

I mean sounds pretty boring stuff really.

Although I didn't know he was an incel celeb.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-09-25 16:33:09+00:00
Cutting "burdensome" and "costly" regulations is listed a half dozen times in your link. Do you need exact quotes or can you look for yourself?

> I understood that to actually be the case, even though that wasn't actually included in the platform.

It honestly takes less effort to listen to his speeches and look at his record than to read the official platform document or the one we knew was the actual plan (P2025). I'm happy to hear out anyone that pleads ignorance but they're probably still busy celebrating deportations.

> As such, I think you're painting folks with far too broad a brush. Which is, I imagine, quite satisfying. I hope you got what you wanted out of that.

What a weird thing to be offended by. Voters voted for this. There's no ambiguity here. Even the ones who don't consider deregulation a pet issue decided that it was worthwhile to get what they wanted.
by khazhoux | 2025-09-25 16:33:15+00:00
I think the debate (/question) is whether it is Israel’s goal to eliminate the entirety of the Palestinian people. That does not seem to be the case, which is where the “not genocide” argument comes from.

Now I understand that the UN has specific criteria, etc. But the most famous genocide was the systematic execution of millions in gas chambers. This is not akin to that, is what people are arguing.
by h-bradio | 2025-09-25 16:33:23+00:00
Here's a great piece from Ian Bogost in The Atlantic on this topic (gift link): https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/progr...

(Please focus on his discussion of PE licensure, not on what developers should call themselves)

He says some software can be designed in our usual way: informal, fast, iterative, democratized, agile. But more and more software needs to be designed like a PE designing a public bridge: carefully, to stand strong for 100 years.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-25 16:33:47+00:00
Yup, I also meant the same when I was writing my comment and although I agree about regulation, the thing is, that I don't even trust that aspect...

Also, I know that there are sometimes where cloudflare sits in the middle between your servers and your users for DDOS protection, and so yes theoretically its a point of interception but given how their whole thing is security, I doubt that they would exploit it but yes its a point of concern.

On the other hand, if something like this does happen, migrating can be easier or on the same level if something like this happened on like AWS.

But cloudflare still feels safer than AWS y'know?

That being said, I am all in for some regulations as a public utility but not nationalizing it as the GP comment suggested. Just some regulations would be nice but honestly we are in a bit of tough spot and maybe it was the necessity of the internet to have something like cloudflare to prevent DDOS's.
by RajT88 | 2025-09-25 16:33:48+00:00
Other commenters are right, but I'll point out another fallacy you're pushing here.

The current situation is like somebody commits a murder. Then the community rounds up a posse and goes out to kill the murderer. Then kill the murder's family, their neighbors, the residents of the next neighborhood over, raze the neighborhoods and then take all the land for themselves.

Justice means penalizing the guilty parties, not everyone in their geographical/social group. Your definition of Justice is leaky.
by weijunext | 2025-09-25 16:33:49+00:00
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by komali2 | 2025-09-25 16:34:12+00:00
The op did not say Jews, he said Israelis. Apparently a poll by Haaretz found that 47% of respondents wanted to "kill every man, woman, and child in Gaza." 87% wanted complete expelsure of all Palestinians. So, the op is not quite right to say majority explicitly want to kill children, but regardless, it is frankly gross that you heard a criticism of a nation and immediately jumped to islamophobia.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-05-28/ty-article-ma...
by mtillman | 2025-09-25 16:34:15+00:00
I'm convinced the people suggesting this type of thing are influenced or even compromised by their constituent's enemies and NOT the result of poor education on the topic.

This policy for example would be most helpful to enemies to the EU. It would lower the cost of acquiring the data for China and Russia as it allows them to mass acquire data in transmission without incurring the cost of local operations. The easiest system in the world to hack is that of a policy maker.
by joshlemer | 2025-09-25 16:34:19+00:00
> nobody reads intermediate commit messages one by one on a PR

I think it's fine to have a whole bunch of "WIP" commit messages on intermediate commits while the PR is in a draft stage, but then all of those garbage commits should really be squashed down into one commit and you should at least write a one liner that describes what the whole change is doing. I think it does materially make repo history harder to understand to merge in PR's with 10 garbage commits in them.
by gambiting | 2025-09-25 16:34:25+00:00
There was an article here in HN how nurses and nursing home staff in a lot of US are basically using an "uber for Nursing" app where you get a request and you can accept it or not......but the company that built it has a "desperation" score on every nurse and the more desperate they are estimated to be, the less money they are offered for the job - the logic being that they are not in a position to refuse.

Honestly, the article literally made me want to vomit. I'm not religious but our society has sacrificed everything human in the worship of mammon.
by vkou | 2025-09-25 16:34:35+00:00
> The problem here is that you allude to a vague definition of what is good - "the USA" is an abstract idea.

> Is it the people living in the USA? The citizens? The State? The companies? The US stock market?

Exactly! You're understanding the thrust of my argument, and the main problem of the dichotomy I've presented (net immigration or net emigration of skilled young people, and whether it is good).

It's a question of values, and what you're optimizing for.

> but companies and investors may benefit, true.

And consumers. You've forgotten consumers. Most especially the unproductive class of consumers that does not work - retirees are prominent in this, but there are others.

> However, should a State policy be decided for the interest of companies against the citizens?

Should it be decided for the interest of investors + consumers against current workers?

That's the main thrust of this question. For its entire history, the prevailing values of the United States overwhelmingly bias towards the welfare and prosperity of the first 2 groups at the expense of the third.

Supposing that you believe that we should bias towards the interests of current workers, why are you concerned about immigration, when you should be concerned about AI. Computers on aggregate, will do more work than those 80,000 immigrants/year, while demanding less pay.

If you're looking to optimize the welfare of workers, at the expense of investors and consumers, that's a perfectly reasonable set of values to have. But in that case, you shouldn't be fighting like mad against immigration - you should be fighting like mad against AI automation, because that's a far bigger, far more impactful threat to the former.

If worker welfare is the goal, why doesn't every LLM person-seat-subscription come with a $100,000 head tax? Why are we allowing Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, etc, spin up millions of instances of robot slaves, to take away our work?

If national wealth is the goal, then we should be pursuing both.
by nickpp | 2025-09-25 16:34:44+00:00
We're all greedy. We all want to get the most for our money, time and effort.

Greed and desire push us to spend our energy, otherwise we'd simply conserve it.

It's normal, it's natural and it works. It's human (and animal) nature.

Altruism works fine in individuals and small organizations. But large systems based on altruism uniformly failed to provide the most basic necessities (like food) for their citizens. Can't work against human nature.
by avnfish | 2025-09-25 16:35:05+00:00
I’m very bearish on Accenture for the following reason: the business model is a levered flywheel (high-paid salespeople and aggressive M&A buyouts powered by share price appreciation and low wage outsourcing). This is kicking into reverse due to revenue growth deceleration

Unlike a partnerships model, Accenture taps the public markets for financing to do M&A and pays its star salespeople with stock. Declining revenue growth rerates the stock price lower, which then makes the market more competitive (can’t buyout others) and acts as a disincentive to the salespeople, which then lowers the stock price further. This alone may be survivable, but at the same time, the company has more than half a million staff (!) employed in India/Philippines/etc at exactly the time when the market wants SOTA-level AI work instead of legacy ‘managed services’, and the federal government is cutting many $B of ACN contracts

Tl;dr: these guys aren’t getting IBM’d, they’re getting Xerox’d
by omosubi | 2025-09-25 16:35:12+00:00
I don't know why there's so much negativity. I see this as a big win for students interested in it.

1. it's a short commitment - only 3 months. more time-bound opportunities should be available to kids coming out of school. too many people go straight to big finance/law/tech/etc and get stuck because they don't want to give up the salary or safety.

2. get access to a network that is very difficult to get access to otherwis

3. better status boost than most other things you could be doing. There are likely better status signals about someone's abilities/intellect than YC, but i'm guessing they are few for people in the valley.

4. Get to work on something you are interested in

5. learn a lot very quickly.

6. gives you a lot of optionality

yes, YC is trying to make money but they do seem intent on developing talent and this is a good avenue for that.
by bhouston | 2025-09-25 16:35:13+00:00
> Yes it’s a good thing AND we don’t need to be celebrating companies when they finally do the bare minimum.

I think we should give props here. This is an important step forward. Thank you Microsoft!

I think we should protest when companies do things that are wrong and we should give them kudos when they make good moves. Carrot and stick.

I am not fans of those that say because you did wrong things in the past, I will never recognize when you change and make good moves.

I want to encourage more companies to correct their involvement in this.
by FireBeyond | 2025-09-25 16:35:31+00:00
> The quality of care is garbage... Less than 10% of nursing homes in my area provide the care I'd want for my relatives.

As a paramedic who delivered probably thousands of patients to (and picked up patients from) nursing homes, I'd unfortunately absolutely agree. Not always to the point of filing complaints, but not great.

> Oddly enough, even homes that advertise RNs and a high number of staff still don't provide the care I'd want for me relatives.

As that same paramedic, absolutely, you know why?

Many of those homes have ONE RN as the supervisor for a bunch of LPNs and CNAs. And they have policies/insurance/whatever that say "anything larger than a bandaid, call 911 and have them deal with it", which leads to ridiculous situations where you have two nurses standing around while my partner and I bandage a straightforward laceration.

Those are usually the ones advertising out front "Round the clock nursing care" (and absolutely charging for it).
by daemin | 2025-09-25 16:35:42+00:00
I was just thinking that if something like this ever does get through and become law, then creating open-source alternatives which do not obey these laws would be quite trivial. What would not be trivial would be deciding where to host the servers and source code, and how to actually get this software onto people's devices.

What country would be safe for hosting code that does this that people would also trust in general? Would this be hosted on the dark web or would someone actually be brave enough to host it on their private machines? Would there be DNS that could point to this?

Then how would you install the software? You'd need a way to side-load it, which means you'd want a way to sign it. Which means either adding a new root signing authority or being able to have an existing root authority sell you a signing certificate and not revoke it.

You kind of quickly end up in some weird dystopian cyberpunk setting thinking all of this through.
by blackjack_ | 2025-09-25 16:35:47+00:00
I was charged $6000 for literally walking into the ER of a hospital in 2022 when I had covid and was having trouble breathing. This did not include the 20 mins of tests they ran for me before telling me I was fine and booting me out within the hour, those were billed seperately. Literally just the cost of using the ER was $6000 (this was the adjusted price after insurance), in addition to anything else. As you can tell from this comment, I'm still mad about it.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-09-25 16:35:53+00:00
There are no solutions to that which wouldn't sound absurd. But if you could get past absurdity...

Politicians should agree to to be executed if they lose an election. Only those willing to risk their lives should be allowed to legislate. This also gives the voters the option of punishing those who pass onerous laws at the next election.

If you need extra zing, this would also apply to recall elections, so they could even be punished early.
by eagleislandsong | 2025-09-25 16:35:56+00:00
> The accepted solution is to have a constitution that says otherwise

And the willingness and ability to enforce it. The current iteration of ChatControl is pushed by Denmark, which is at present the President of the Council of the European Union. The Danish Constitution itself enshrines the right to privacy of communication [0], but this is not stopping Denmark from wanting to ratify ChatControl anyway.

[0]: https://danskelove.dk/grundloven/72
by GoatInGrey | 2025-09-25 16:36:12+00:00
Why do we assume that radiologists would have literally 0% involvement in the radiology workflow?

I could see the assumption that one radiologist supervises a group of automated radiology machines (like a worker in an automated factory). Maybe assume that they'd be delegated to an auditing role. But that they'd go completely extinct? There's no evidence of, even historically, a service being consumed that has zero human intervention.
by skinkestek | 2025-09-25 16:36:42+00:00
Let's not ignore the last 60-70 or even 1400 years.

Israelis hit back hard. But they haven't been the ones to declare war on peaceful neighbors.

It wasn't them who stood for thr München massacre or a number of plane hijackings in the 70ies.

It wasn't Israelis who blew up buses in Gaza.

Was it?

We must stop confusing powerful with evil and currently helpless with "innocent".
by DSingularity | 2025-09-25 16:36:52+00:00
Politics is weird. With the Biden administration there was lots of lip service given in opposition to the slaughter in Gaza while at the same time they were shipping unprecedented amounts of weapons to the IDF.

Now with Trump they state that they have max support for Israel while it seems like all of Europe is turning away from unconditional support for Israel and a massive change in the typical rhetoric around media in the US. That’s odd.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-25 16:36:58+00:00
This is a fallacy, as self hosting means you remain at the whims of receiving or interfacing systems. Does you hosting your own email change the concentration of email accounts hosted at Yahoo, Microsoft, and Gmail? It doesn't. Does hosting your own domain or website change Cloudflare's concentration and centralization of internet traffic? It doesn't. You vote with your dollars by picking providers who won't lock you in, you vote with your dollars by picking protocols over platforms that cannot lock you in.

Paying Fastmail, along with others who do so, means Fastmail will remain as a non Big Tech option, for example (they also developed and championed, JMAP, for a more efficient user experience). Paying Kagi means Kagi will remain as a non Big Tech option. Donating to Let's Encrypt means Let's Encrypt will remain as a public good independent of Big Tech. I could go down the list of every service I pay for to de-Google and de-Big Tech, but that's likely unhelpful to further demonstrate the point.

> We are all paying for it, down the line.

Indeed, so establish and fund organizations that provide systems and services for benefit vs profit and control that cannot be captured. Self hosting your own box at home helps you (which is totally fine and reasonable, I run my own on prem infra across two continents at small business enterprise scale for use cases I cannot procure commercially at reasonable cost), but does nothing else, and doesn't scale.

(think in systems)
by lesuorac | 2025-09-25 16:36:59+00:00
Well, the guys on the ground might be useful idiots [1]. But at the top there's no way they thought they were doing anything but dumping stuff into the trash.

Which when the EPA / etc are the only organizations large enough to stand up to you is uh very good for you.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
by zappb | 2025-09-25 16:37:05+00:00
First of all, companies have already outsourced all that they could a couple decades ago. Then when it comes to hiring in different countries, this gets extremely complicated due to taxes and regulations. While some remote-first companies can navigate this complexity (usually through some sort of HR as a service type company), most companies are not structured in such a way to feasibly hire people outside their incorporated area.
by saghm | 2025-09-25 16:37:12+00:00
Looking back, I think I misinterpreted your original comment; I had thought you were saying that the point of doing a Steam Deck build was the useless purity check, but reading the thread back now, I'm realizing you probably were referring to the parent comment you responded to rather than the Steam Deck native version itself. Understanding that now, I think I actually agree with pretty much everything you've said
by roguecoder | 2025-09-25 16:37:14+00:00
I am very glad that has been your experience!

It depends very much on your coworkers, unfortunately. When a team is all pulling in the same direction, and is kind and constructive and rigorous, code reviews can be awesome.

In some companies, especially ones with stack ranking where one person doing better means someone else does worse, it is easy for them to go horribly awry and become an ordeal of a bug hunt. The obvious solution is to not work at horrible companies that pit engineers against each other, but when that describes some of the biggest employers in the industry it's easier said than done.
by andrewla | 2025-09-25 16:37:19+00:00
This (and the underlying text) reads as intensly naive and an attempt to further a modern narrative completely divorced from historical context.

While I don't think that we can make a definitive statement that justice in "Africa" was nonexistent, the very idea of considering "Africa" as a single homogeneous environment or domain of policy is incredibly reductive at best.

Even the specific examples given of "restorative justice" are pretty much identical but less formal than the Roman Law counterparts.

> For instance, in ancient Zimbabwe, if you killed someone, you would pay 109 goats. If you had no goats, you would offer one of your children to the victim’s family. If you did not have a child, an adult from your family would go live with the dead person’s family.

I find this nearly impossible to believe that all of the hundreds of clans spanning tens of ethnicities that resided in what is present day Zimbabwe had "109 goats" encoded in their traditions, much less that oral traditions had sufficient stability over generations that this is even a sensical statement. If we accept the dubious idea that this was codified in a uniform way then the question is how does this differ from other traditions? Restitution for murder to avoid blood feuds was an essential part of both Roman and Germanic law traditions, as is subjugation and slavery (in the non-chattel sense used in the book).