MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by littlestymaar | 2025-09-12 15:54:12+00:00
> Unfortunately, no. The industry is moving super quickly, and spinning up new ideas on the backs of old ones at a fast rate.

I don't think it move this fast.

I mean there is very little fundamental differences between GPT-2 and gpt-oss-120b, it's just about incremental improvement that don't change much to the full picture (using a variation of the attention architecture and masking, a different activation function, the positional encoding and changing the NLP layers to a sparse “mixture of expert”), at the end of the day, from Mistral to Deepseek going through llama and Qwen3 it's always the same stack of transformers layers with slight variations between two architectures.

This Qwen3-Next is special though, as it's the first time a major player is releasing something that different (lesser players have made hybrid architecture LLMs for the past two years, but when it comes to language models, IBM really isn't comparable to Alibaba). This is what I expected Llama4 to be.
by maerF0x0 | 2025-09-12 15:54:45+00:00
One major issue with centrally planned healthcare is that the value of health is variable to the individual. Particularly beyond the line between technically dead and technically still alive.

A poor, uninterested, or other valued[1] person would only sacrifice $N to improve their health beyond "still alive". A rich person, or highly interested, or other valued[2] person would sacrifice potentially many multiples of $N.

Take Bryan Johnson[3] for example is willing to spend on many improvements to his life. For example, in Canada he'd be basically unable to do what he wants to do with his own money.

As one such person I am happy to pay more for more. What I really think is needed here is improvements in contracts and transparency. For example, there should be a contractually binding price agreement (of which the prices themselves are publicly available to all including competitors) for any non-emergency non-urgent procedure. (If time is of the essence then we need to prioritize that, naturally)

As an example of being willing to pay more, my insurance isn't willing to pay for the exploratory labs, and software platform, that function health built and provides for $499 a year. I'm willing to pay it, it has benefitted me over the standard annual physical, and to me it was worth $499. It also likely will save my insurance $1000s maybe $10000s over my life time too. (We discovered something concerning...)

[1] - (eg a father who prioritizes spending on their kids) [2] - (eg a father who prioritizes being there for their kids later in their life) [3] - https://youtu.be/pfSFnFWb8X4
by tialaramex | 2025-09-12 15:54:56+00:00
> Don’t worry, when they actually target you, you’ll be caught.

When they target me, which happens, it doesn't work because of WebAuthn.

Buy a Security Key. If you think you might lose it, buy at least two more. For critical sites like GitHub (which was targeted here) set up your Security Keys and get into the habit of relying on them. It's the same philosophy as Rust itself, machines are really good at diligently performing a simple task, so don't leave those tasks to human vigilance, that is a foolish misallocation of resources.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-09-12 15:55:05+00:00
"in-network" is the key phrase here.

You cannot consume as much and whatever type of healthcare. You have to consume from the pre-approved list of doctors that have negotiated rates with your insurer. I also do not believe for a second that if you found a doctor willing to give -for example - daily electrolyte IVs for your post workout recovery, that the insurer would touch that claim. Same thing with cosmetic or elective surgery. Will your insurer cover a facelift? Will they cover Ozempic for vanity reasons? Will they cover the full cost of all name brand drugs after your deductible is spent? And you still have to pay $2k before any of that is in effect.

Mind you, your extreme outlier reality is one that is essentially never experienced by >95% of people, and it still has constraints.
by lenerdenator | 2025-09-12 15:55:10+00:00
It'd be interesting to see how short that range really is.

A lot of assumptions about range were based on the idea of a soldier shooting at another soldier, more-or-less at a horizontal level. You had to design a bullet to accurately hit a target and disperse kinetic energy into biological tissue.

Now, you're aiming at something made of non-biological materials of varying size, but they're usually lightweight and have little in the way of redundant flight systems. There's a real chance that if you send up enough small arms fire, you could hit a drone at up to a mile in the sky and cause it enough damage to be unable to complete its mission.

Helicopters are known to be vulnerable to small arms fire. I don't see why an even smaller drone would be any different.
by ddtaylor | 2025-09-12 15:55:15+00:00
It's been terrible that BitTorrent doesn't work anymore. I can only download 10TB of all the movies and TV shows our family has ever wanted spanning 60 years. It has to run off this massive server in the closest as big as our cat! Sucks our grandma can't access it from across the country via Tailscale and a bit of DNS abuse.
by justin66 | 2025-09-12 15:56:09+00:00
I gather even artesian wells can contain these chemicals, which get pretty much everywhere.

On the other hand, based on the article you linked to, if something like a Berkey filter is sufficient (I have doubts about their testing, but whatever) the cost is probably not prohibitive. Assuming there's something as effective as a Berkey which can handle a more practical flow of water, but at the same cost per volume of water handled.
by olooney | 2025-09-12 15:56:41+00:00
The Greeks were not adverse to studying topics outside of the classic axioms, for example neusis, conic sections, or Archimedes work on quadrature (which presaged calculus):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neusis_construction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conic_section

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrature_(mathematics)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadrature_of_the_Parabola

They just preferred the simpler axioms on grounds of aesthetic parsimony.

As far as I know, the ancient Greeks never thought to fold the paper. It has, however, been studied since the 1980's by modern mathematicians:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huzita%E2%80%93Hatori_axioms

It can be used to trisecting an angle, an impossible construction with straightedge and compass:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL2lYcggGpc&t=185s

It's more powerful than compass and straight-edge constructions, but not by much. It essentially gives you cube roots in addition to square roots. You still need a completely different point of view to make the quantum leap the the real numbers, calculus, and limits:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zermelo%E2%80%93Fraenkel_set_t...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedekind_cut

So ultimately I don't know if it would have changed the course of history that much.
by ceejayoz | 2025-09-12 15:57:18+00:00
You're very fixated on knowing the cost beforehand.

Americans know intimately that doctors visits are going to hit them in the pocketbook. Far more than someone from a single-payer system does, where there's a good chance they will never receive a bill with a dollar amount on it.

Yet, we're the big outlier on medical costs. Knowing "this is gonna cost me, ooof" does not seem to have any impact on the costliness of the system.
by tptacek | 2025-09-12 15:57:21+00:00
To guarantee correctness, you must use the strongly-typed slog.Attr helpers. They make it impossible to create an unbalanced pair by catching errors at compile time

I take their point, but given the typical value of most logging lines, this does not seem worth the tax you pay in readability. This is a gripe I have with oTel too --- it really cruds your code up --- but with oTel you're getting long-term value that logging (which is still my go-to o11y) doesn't.
by tim333 | 2025-09-12 15:57:30+00:00
This article has a little more https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2025/09/11/uk-to-p...

> While Healey didn’t elaborate on the cost of the interceptor drone, the Center for Strategic and International Studies put the estimated cost of a Shahed at $35,000

The Shaheds are large petrol driven things with ~2000 km range and 20 kg warheads. The interceptors are probably battery powered with a fraction of the weight and range.

This kind of thing https://thedefender.media/en/2025/08/dyki-shershni-showcased...

>Sting interceptor hits 315 km/h, shoots down over 200 Shaheds and Gerberas

>Sting costs about $2,500

Not sure what design the UK will make.
by dmix | 2025-09-12 15:57:50+00:00
I used to believe strongly in financial sanctions over war but I'm becoming more skeptical. Markets and industry are a very hard thing to constrain at a global scale. To do it effectively you basically encourage a giant financial surveillance state and need put huge pressure on partner countries - who often don't even implement it meaningfully. You make business harder for everyone and create lucrative black market organize crime business.

Military action is appearing more preferable to that.

For example:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxk454kxz8o

> In the wake of the February 2022 invasion, Ukraine's allies imposed sanctions on Russian hydrocarbons. The US and UK banned Russian oil and gas, while the EU banned Russian seaborne crude imports, but not gas.

> Despite this, by 29 May, Russia had made more than €883bn ($973bn; £740bn) in revenue from fossil fuel exports since the start of the full-scale invasion, including €228bn from the sanctioning countries, according to the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA).

> The lion's share of that amount, €209bn, came from EU member states.

Meaning 3 years into the war Europe is still sending more $$ to Russia for gas than they send Ukraine in aid
by lukeschlather | 2025-09-12 15:57:50+00:00
> 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.

I received an itemized bill with the exact cost and what would be covered listed, then it changed after the fact. It is certainly the case that for some procedures you can't get this, but for procedures where you know the cost will be hundreds you can easily obtain such a bill. Such bills always involve guesswork though. Even absent insurance this would be true, complications happen.
by sollewitt | 2025-09-12 15:58:01+00:00
I buy Gary Stevenson’s diagnosis that the root cause of the rising cost of everything is increasing inequality and industry capture by the wealthy.

There are two sides to this. The first is, hospitals are owned by investors, and have to increase profits. The typical playbook of trying to acquire at least a local monopoly to price-fix is in play everywhere.

The other side is: to achieve high profit margins chase wealthy customers and cater to their preferences. Headhunt star staff with increased salaries. Build shiny new hospitals and prioritize private rooms (HIPAA provided a great excuse here). To woo investors turn administrator into a CEO position with commensurate pay.

None of this incentivizes providing quality health care to non-wealthy people at a fair price. It incentivizes trying to get rid of lower income patients as quickly as possible to make room for high income or well insured patients who can be billed more.

Same as housing, this issue is everywhere in the western world. We can try to tackle it by itself (transparent pricing would probably help a great deal), but the root issue is bigger: the rich are getting what they want on both sides of the equation. They don’t want affordable healthcare.
by larrik | 2025-09-12 15:58:16+00:00
Definitely. I get scammers calling me from a caller id that claims to be my bank asking about suspicious charges, and they know my name and have my account info, but they ask for my full credit card number to "verify" it. Yet, they give different suspicious charges every time you ask.

The worst part is that when I call the bank to see if its legit, they are much less pleasant to deal with than the scammers...
by chaboud | 2025-09-12 15:58:26+00:00
When I interview with problem solving problems, the point is to understand how the candidate thinks, communicates, and decomposes problems. Critically, problem solving questions should have ways to progressively increase and decrease difficulty/complexity, so every candidate "gets a win" and no candidate "dunks the ball".

Interviewers learn nothing from an instant epiphany, and they learn next to nothing from someone being stumped.

Unfortunately, this is why we can't have nice things. Problem solving questions in interviews can be immensely useful tools that, sadly, are rarely usefully used.
by ddtaylor | 2025-09-12 15:58:56+00:00
> The fact is that privacy, especially of financial transactions, is becoming illegal. Any technology that allows you to send or spend money anonymously will be attacked by our governments. They won't be allowed.

It's probably a bit worse than that. It's not specific to transactions or spending.

Eventually any IP talking to another IP without the mandatory metadata to link it to a physical identity will be illegal.

Right now there is a hodge-podge of solutions that piggy-back on the phone networks, wires, etc. that used to give LEO enough actionable information to track some criminals. But most of that has been obsoleted by modern cryptography.
by user34283 | 2025-09-12 15:58:59+00:00
Property rights exist within a legal framework defined by the people, through law.

What you're talking about here with self-ownership and the state "infringing" upon property rights when you're taxed and can't transact privately, it seems less than "reasonable".

It seems like you're trying to paint routine and widely accepted functions of democratic governments as if they were unreasonable, authoritarian overreach.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-09-12 15:59:48+00:00
If someone solves a leetcode hard with a constraint solver and you don't hire them, you are an idiot.

Do you know how few people in this world even know what a constraint solver is, let alone how to correctly define the problem into one?

I used a constraint solver to solve a homework problem once in my CS degree 3rd year. My god just writing the damn constraints was a huge cognitive load!
by pdimitar | 2025-09-12 15:59:58+00:00
I literally almost got an injury from using my iPhone 12 Pro Max while laying on the side on the bed for the last few years -- it's too heavy. I had to do various therapies to stop feeling pain. It's almost 230g and I also have an Urban Armor Gear case that adds a little bit.

iPhone Air is at 165g. I'll get ~72% of the weight and be able to comfortably use the device without getting tired.

Sample size of one and all that apply, of course.
by jameslai | 2025-09-12 16:00:15+00:00
Terrible question for an interview, and further highlights how our interviews are broken.

Greedy algorithms tell you nearly nothing about the candidate's ability to code. What are you going to see? A single loop, some comparison and an equality. Nearly every single solution that can be solved with a greedy algorithm is largely a math problem disguised as programming. The entire question hinges on the candidate finding the right comparison to conduct.

The author himself finds that these are largely math problems:

> Lots of similar interview questions are this kind of mathematical optimization problem

So we're not optimizing to find good coders, we're optimizing to find mathematicians who have 5 minutes of coding experience.

At the risk of self-promotion, I'm fairly opinionated on this subject. I have a podcast episode where I discuss exactly this problem (including discuss greedy algorithms), and make some suggestions where we could go as an industry to avoid these kind of bad-signal interviews:

https://socialengineering.fm/episodes/the-problem-with-techn...
by fluidcruft | 2025-09-12 16:00:17+00:00
I didn't say they wouldn't, I'm more skeptical about whether it's a sustainable business model. I mean sure gas stations and airports have ads, but nobody gives you gas or airfare in exchange for watching ads. It's a fraction of the revenue needed.

My point is that someone starting an airline can't get away with hopes and dreams about making bank on ads.
by arccy | 2025-09-12 16:00:25+00:00
https://pkg.go.dev/log/slog#JSONHandler.Handle

> Values are formatted as with an encoding/json.Encoder with SetEscapeHTML(false), with two exceptions.

> First, an Attr whose Value is of type error is formatted as a string, by calling its Error method. Only errors in Attrs receive this special treatment, not errors embedded in structs, slices, maps or other data structures that are processed by the encoding/json package.

So the json handler more or less works as if you called json.Marshal, which sounds pretty reasonable.
by runako | 2025-09-12 16:00:29+00:00
Absolutely.

The catch is that when voters vote at all levels, they express by their choices that e.g. marijuana legalization is not a high priority. So voters might well vote to legalize if given that standalone choice, but it's not obvious to me that it's a good idea to insulate representatives from their inaction.

> no representative wants to be the guy

So on this, a number of states arrived at some level of legalization exactly this way. Legalization laws were signed by governors as diverse politically as Kay Ivey in Alabama and Tim Walz in Minnesota.

There's no statutory reason that voters in e.g. South Carolina cannot choose representation as amenable to legalization as Beshear in Kentucky or Reeves in Mississippi. Referenda also are subject to faithful implementation by representatives, so attempting to side-step the choice of representatives is not necessarily going to be fruitful.
by jMyles | 2025-09-12 16:00:31+00:00
...so sick of Spotify.

But it's hard to justify not putting my music on it. Sure, I can direct people to Bit Torrent, IPFS, and Bandcamp first, but understandably some people want to stream instead of download, and some people are already deep in the playlist and discovery mechanics of Spotify.

I wish I were able to forego the paltry royalty payments from streaming in exchange for my songs just having premium features even if listeners aren't on paid plans.
by idiotsecant | 2025-09-12 16:00:36+00:00
a bunch of shotguns or service rifles is not going to help.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HESA_Shahed_136

This is what people talk about when they say 'drones' in this context - basically a remote-guided 100 lb bomb flying in a 400lb chassis at 115 mph thousands of meters up.
by fngjdflmdflg | 2025-09-12 16:00:47+00:00
Unreal has plugins to support other AA including DLSS and FSR (which can both be used just for AA IIRC). I tried FSR and it didn't work as well as the default TAA for certain cases, but I'm pretty sure I just had some flickering issue in my project that I was trying to use TAA to solve as a band aid so maybe not a great example of which AA methods are good. I'm not an expert and only use Unreal in my spare time.
by cobbzilla | 2025-09-12 16:01:30+00:00
Here’s my empirical evidence based on several recent “coding session” interviews with a variety of software companies. Background: I have been developing software for over 30 years, I hold a few patents, I’ve had a handful of modestly successful exits. I kind of know a little bit about what I am doing. At this stage in my career, I am no longer interested in the super early stage startup lifestyle, I’m looking at IC/staff engineer type roles.

The mature, state-of-the-art software companies do not give me leetcode problems to solve. They give me interesting & challenging problems that force me to both a) apply best practices of varying kinds and yet b) be creative in some aspects of the solution. And these problems are very amenable to “talking through” what I’m doing, how I’m approaching the solution, etc. Overall, I feel like they are effective and give the company a good sense of how I develop software as an engineer. I have yet to “fail” one of these.

It is the smaller, less mature companies that give me stupid leetcode problems. These companies usually bluntly tell me their monolithic codebase (always in a not-statically-typed language), is a total mess and they are “working on domain boundaries”.

I fail about 50% of these leetcode things because I don’t know the one “trick” to yield the right answer. As a seasoned developer, I often push back on the framing and tell them how I would do a better solution by changing one of the constraints, where the change would actually better match the real world problem they’re modeling.

And they don’t seem to care at all. I wonder if they realize that their bullshit interviewing process has both a false positive and a false negative problem.

The false negatives exclude folks like myself who could actually help to improve their codebase with proper, incremental refactorings.

The false positives are the people who have memorized all the leetcode problems. They are hired and write more shitty monolithic hairball code.

Their interviewing process reinforces the shittiness of their codebase. It’s a spiral they might never get out of.

The next time I get one of these, I think I’m going to YOLO it, pull the ripcord early and politely tell them why they’re fucked.
by begueradj | 2025-09-12 16:01:37+00:00
True. But it's the same trend in every other field: new born babies lecture soon to die people about life.

Example of such lessons: recently, a well known dating coach who gives lessons that costs around 8000 euros per hour about how a man can become a high value man and attract high value women, called Sadia Khan, proved she is in the position to give lessons about how a woman can be of high value: private calls of her were released recently and it is shown she is a side chick of a married man.
by vid | 2025-09-12 16:01:49+00:00
I mean "Linux" (as a user OS) should for the most part be a common experience, so if a very technical or very non technical person wants to do something or someone wants to support someone doing ordinary things using a different distro, they aren't on a whole new arbitrary mini-adventure full of surprises, except at the desktop level.

Mind you even though I've been running Linux for decades, I have lost the enthusiasm for the low level details and am happiest when I can use apt for everything and have the OS manage dependencies and updates. I see a lot of negative comments about Flatpack and my experiences haven't been great, so I don't know if it is comprehensively good and will solve issues like low level drivers (GPUs).
by phtrivier | 2025-09-12 16:02:00+00:00
Well, if you will allow the steelmanning, I can think of a couple of reasons why the authorities of _Italy_, of all countries, would want to follow organized groups conducting illegal activities.

I mean, "organized crime" and "Italy" probably appears in a couple of n-grams in LLMs index, right ? Maybe even if you narrow it down to reviews of movie trilogies from the 70s ?

That being said, I'm sure you will disagree. The whole discussion on those topics is about mistrust:

- law enforcement claims to need tools to prosecute organized crime (which does exists), and claims any opponents is just mafias masquerading as concerned citizens.

- opponents claims the new tool is only meant for surveillance, and claims any opponent is just an autocrat masquerading as concerned parents.

- fun fact 1 : both autocrats and mafias exist

- fun fact 2 : reading some messages mean reading all messages

Which is why we have the debate every few years.

Meanwhile law enforcements use other tools (they have been for years), mafias are still out there, organized crime is still harming lots of people, and encrypted messages are relatively safe - but people use unencrypted FB's messaging because it's easier.