MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-25 17:35:47+00:00
That's the "magic" that underpins all the perverse things modern western societies engage in.

Life is considered valuable in integer quantities but fractional life is considered value-less.

People are free to do, endorse, concoct and peddle all sorts of things that waste people's time (life) or waste people's money on the basis that it "saves lives" because it prevents lives from being lost in whole numbers but the sum total of the little fractions ad up to more.
by dmix | 2025-09-25 17:35:55+00:00
There’s been a couple studies showing that disruptive protests (blocking roads, yelling at people entering buildings, etc) cause public support for their cause to decrease or even increase opposition.

If the ideas are good then support will build through effectively communicating those ideas. Being noisy is fine but there’s an obvious line that selfish activists cross. The sort of people who want their toys now and don’t want to patiently do the hard work of organically building up a critical mass. So they immediately start getting aggressive and violent in small groups. Which is counter productive.
by grumple | 2025-09-25 17:35:56+00:00
> It's a desolate flattened lunarscape. Israel never had any intent of avoiding civilian deaths.

So you think they managed to destroy so many buildings and only killed ~65k people (about half militants) out of 2 million by not avoiding civilian deaths? If half the buildings are destroyed, we would expect a million dead if there were no efforts to avoid civilian deaths.

Do you think Israel makes no efforts to avoid civilian deaths? If you were presented with easily verifiable proof that they do avoid it (via both their own reporting, international reporting, and Palestinians themselves), would you retract your statement? Are there any facts which would change your mind? I ask because these facts are easily accessible, and I'm happy to provide them with many sources, but only if providing them isn't a total waste of time because it's become a pseudo-religious belief.
by varispeed | 2025-09-25 17:36:02+00:00
To me this is simply an act of terrorism. People who are behind those proposals should be charged and face trial.

There is no excuse for this and it is a stain on EU history for even letting this go so far.

Anyone proposing this should not only be sacked but also referred to de-radicalisation / anti-terrorism programme in their country and forever banned from holding any kind of public sector office.

There is no excuse.
by RajT88 | 2025-09-25 17:36:08+00:00
You only believe that because you have chosen to believe it.

Take Facebook end-to-end encrypted messages for example. There are certain links it won't let you send, enough though it is supposedly E2EE. (I've seen it in situations like mentioning the piratebay domain name, which it tries to auto-preview and then fails. Hacking related websites as well I've seen the issue with.)

It likes to pretend it is a mysterious error, but if you immediately send a different link, it sends just fine. I don't use chat apps much these days, so I'm not sure if others see similar behavior, but I'd wager some do. Facebook is about the least trustworthy provider I'm likely to use, FWIW, so I expect a certain amount of smoke and mirrors from them.
by simianparrot | 2025-09-25 17:36:33+00:00
First off I'm not American, just to be clear. But I don't see the US playing the victim. They're involved in a conflict.

Iranians are playing victims, and they are, but they're victims to their own government's actions, being the foremost funder of anti-west terrorism and sentiment.

If they want things to change, I'd look at the closer threat -- their theocratic government.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-25 17:37:09+00:00
My understanding is that they would like to do that but they won't or can't. Jeremy Corbyn would have liked to have soaked the rich but Keir Starmer isn't that type. If Labour raised taxes it could help with the fiscal situation, at least in the short term, although some are going to argue that it would hurt growth in the long term or drive away millionaires although it seems oligarchs from all over the world want Nth homes in London no matter what the cost.

The Economist liked the conservatives back in the Thatcher days but has no love for them as they seemed about as rudderless as Starmer does. It's often though that fiscal problems and the resulting austerity drives the growth of the far right but so far it seems when the far right gets some power in Europe it behaves the same as other parties for the same reasons.
by vel0city | 2025-09-25 17:37:19+00:00
Is anyone else here also see the insane schedules nurses often work as unsustainable? 12 hour shifts seem incredibly common. I get there's risks in patient handoffs, but there are risks in understaffing and overworking people as well.

I personally know of several people who ended up having to leave acute nursing because they just couldn't continue with the schedules while trying to have any kind of sane family life. It seems to me hospitals need to change up schedules to have better options for work.

But I'm a lay person tech bro looking at an industry I only have a small window in. What are the other arguments for and against these kind of long schedules?
by BobbyJo | 2025-09-25 17:37:22+00:00
Lets say you have an api bug where you are allowing clients to ask for data with a very expensive query, and you want to dissallow that behavior. I think it makes more sense to change both the api spec (remove the endpoint) and the backend (dissallow queries of that kind in the future) in one go. That way you can note in the one PR exactly why both changes are made, referencing whatever bug/postmortem. Making two PRs that separately look like fixes to the issue can be confusing later, and don't really buy you any clarity in the PR itself.

Is it possible to break them up? Sure. Is it better to do so? I don't think so.

Also, for clarity, neither myself, nor op, every said couldn't be done.
by h2zizzle | 2025-09-25 17:37:36+00:00
Yes, BS. Because, as I said, regulations have not stopped the establishment and proliferation of the urgent care clinics that would be intended to reduce the load for hospital emergency rooms. Such facilities do not need a CON if affiliated with an existing hospital or practice. They essentially function as extensions of local ERs for non-critical needs - or, they would, if they were forced to see patients regardless of demonstrated ability to pay, as ERs must. To fix that, you need MORE regulations, not fewer.
by ineedasername | 2025-09-25 17:37:45+00:00
On that, I'm not sure. My area of ML & data science practice is, thankfully, not so high-stakes. There's a method of anomaly detection called one-class SVM (Support Vector Machine) that is pretty much this- train on normal, flag on "wtf is this you never training me on this 01010##" <-- Not actual ISO standard ML model output or medical jargon. But I'm not sure if that's what's most effective here. My gut instinct in first approaching the task would be to throw a bunch of models at it, mixed-methods, with one-class SVM as a fall back. But I'm also way out of my depth on medical diagnostics ML so that's just a generalist's guess.
by stackskipton | 2025-09-25 17:37:52+00:00
Apartments will commonly have multiple Zip + 4 for the building so I imagine each apartment gets unique Zip 11.

Open Google Maps, go to Central Park in NYC, search for apartments and randomly pick one. Then go USPS Zip Code lookup (https://tools.usps.com/zip-code-lookup.htm) and punch in the address leaving off any apartment number so it will show all available addresses. I used 225 E 63rd St New York, NY. Appears they have 8 Zip + 4 assigned to the complex.

I tried again with building in Philly and same story. Each floor of 16 apartments got its own Zip + 4.
by Muromec | 2025-09-25 17:37:59+00:00
That's a little bit out there if taken out of context. On my street the limit is 15 KM/h, on most city roads it's 30 (again, KM/h, not MPH), but on the actual highways where only cars are present and where you don't necessarily need to be, the limit is over a 100.

Now I can probably understand how one can take such radical position, when living in a place that doesn't restrict cars as much as they are restricted here. It's like being so much disillusioned with US that USSR propaganda starts to be appealing and belieaveble. I guess?
by unshavedyak | 2025-09-25 17:38:02+00:00
Honestly that's a lot of what i wanted locally. Purely local, of course. My thought is that if something (local! lol) monitored my cams, mics, instant messages, web searching, etc - then it could track context throughout the day. If it has context, i can speak to it more naturally and it can more naturally link stuff together, further enriching the data.

Eg if i search for a site, it can link it to what i was working on at the time, the github branch i was on, areas of files i was working on, etcetc.

Sounds sexy to me, but obviously such a massive breach of trust/security that it would require fullly local execution. Hell it's such a security risk that i debate if it's even worth it at all, since if you store this you now have a honeypot which tracks everything you do, say, search for, etc.

With great power.. i guess.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-25 17:38:12+00:00
I downvoted because this isn’t an interesting comment. It makes a common, unsubstantiated claim and leaves it at that.

> Downvote all you want

“Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by mothballed | 2025-09-25 17:38:13+00:00
Unfortunately my attitude is the only one that will actually help you fix things because I'm bringing you a sober view of what the situation is. And people much "better suited for it" who worked in inner city ER generally had even less rosy thoughts than I did, if you want to defer to "experts" it's hilarious you would think this is unusual takeaway and that my opinion wasn't formed in large part by the experts thinking the very same thing (which of course they are never going to tell to the patients, you're probably not going to hear it unless you actually work in an ER and are close and comfortable enough with doctors for them to risk themselves to tell you what they really think as it's totally unacceptable to say it publicly).
by jmhmd | 2025-09-25 17:38:15+00:00
The issue is that in medicine, much like automobiles, unexpected failure modes may be catastrophic to individual people. “Fixing” failure modes like the above comment is not difficult from a technical standpoint, that’s true, but you can only fix it once you’ve identified it, and at that point you may have a dead person/people. That’s why AI in medicine and self driving cars are so unlike AI for programming or writing and move comparatively at a snails pace.
by thewebguyd | 2025-09-25 17:38:16+00:00
1A doesn't apply to private entities anyway. 1A protects against government prosecution for your speech, and the government may make no laws "abridging the freedom of speech."

But your employer? They can put whatever rules and restrictions they want on your speech, and with at-will employment, can fire you for any reason anyway, at anytime.

You can say whatever you want, but you aren't free from the consequences of that speech.
by thenaturalist | 2025-09-25 17:39:10+00:00
Truly useful?

Personal take, but the usefulness of these tools to me is greatly limited by their knowledge latency and limited modality.

I don't need information overload on what playtime gifts to buy my kitten or some semi-random but probably not very practical "guide" on how to navigate XYZ airport.

Those are not useful tips. It's drinking from an information firehose that'll lead to fatigue, not efficiency.
by fair_enough | 2025-09-25 17:39:28+00:00
"In September 2024, the House of Representatives passed a bill that requires consumers to be notified if they have interacted with a user on a dating app who has been banned for defrauding consumers of money or personal financial information. But the bill stopped short of addressing the issue of sexual assault on the apps, and it died in the Senate."

Freedom to ban a user is freedom of association, but a legal obligation to amplify unsubstantiated accusations subverts due process. This might be unpopular, but I like living in a society with due process.

“It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished.

But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, 'whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection,' and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.”

-John Adams, founding father and father of OG abolitionist John Quincy Adams
Show HN: Img.pro – Image Optimization API built on R2 (zero egress)
by cr1st1an | 2025-09-25 17:39:32+00:00
I’ve been playing with the idea that Cloudflare’s R2 (with zero egress fees) opens the door to a simpler way of handling image optimization. Instead of juggling S3, a CDN, and custom pipelines, what if you could just drop your originals in one place and always get back optimized, cached images at the edge?

That’s what I’m experimenting with at img.pro.

How it works: + Upload an original (JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, AVIF, PSD, etc.) + The API generates optimized variants automatically (S/M/L sizes by default) + Originals are stored in R2 → cheap, no hidden bandwidth costs + Optimized images are delivered through Cloudflare’s edge (300+ PoPs) + Output formats are predictable (JPEG for opaque, WebP for transparency, GIF/SVG preserved)

The idea is: if R2 really makes egress “free,” can an image API scale without the usual CDN/storage tradeoffs?

Right now I’m focused on making the pipeline as simple as possible (no knobs, just sane defaults). Pricing is mostly placeholder ($10 = 1k images, $50 = 10k, etc.), but I’m more interested in whether the developer experience feels right.

To get real feedback, I’m offering free access forever to the Launch plan (1,000 uploads/month) with the code: LAUNCHN

I’d love to hear: + Does the R2-backed model make sense to you? + What’s missing for you to trust this in production? + Are the defaults (sizes/formats) useful, or would you expect more control up front?

Live at https://img.pro.
by sltkr | 2025-09-25 17:39:32+00:00
According to the author that wasn't a design goal:

> While looking all this up, I found Justin Fagnani’s article Composite Map Keys in JavaScript with Bitsets, which is mostly unrelated to what I’m doing here

In fact, the author specifically wants his records to be mutable, which precludes using them as Set or Map keys (at least at the same time).

So immutable bigints seem like sort of the wrong tool for the job: changing any single field requires creating a completely new number (and while in theory a compiler might be able to optimize away the copy, in practice I doubt this happens).
by BeetleB | 2025-09-25 17:39:39+00:00
> And even the cancellation part, it's just two confirmation screens.

Call me a fool, but I fell for this and paid them for several months.

First, I don't think it was just two screens (the article mentions 3).

Second, unless you read really carefully, they made it appear that you had indeed unsubscribed, when you hadn't. I think the messaging was something along the lines of "OK, you have access to it until the end of the month". I was a monthly subscriber, so I took it to mean it would stop at the end of that month. But what they were really saying was something along the lines of "... and maybe you can think about it some more to see if it's worth it for you, and if you still want to cancel, click here". Only it wasn't as obvious as how I wrote it.

> It honestly seems about the same as any other website subscription I've ever had.

Not for me. For all the subscriptions I've canceled, Amazon Prime was the only one I fell for and ended up paying continually. Yes, other sites may have multiple steps, but the verbiage was always much clearer that you still hadn't unsubscribed.
by glenstein | 2025-09-25 17:39:53+00:00
>Google's edge obvious here is the deep integration it already has with calendar, apps, and chats

They did handle the growth from search to email to integrated suite fantastically. And the lack of a broadly adopted ecoystem to integrate into seems to be the major stopping point for emergent challengers, e.g. Zoom.

Maybe the new paradigm is that you have your flashy product, and it goes without saying that it's stapled on to a tightly integrated suite of email, calendar, drive, chat etc. It may be more plausible for OpenAI to do its version of that than to integrate into other ecosystems on terms set by their counterparts.
by paxys | 2025-09-25 17:40:02+00:00
Again, you are assuming that Congress and SCOTUS will stay consistent in their behavior when there's a new President. The exact same Senate and House that exists today will impeach the next Democratic President in seconds should he/she repeat 1% of what Trump has done since taking office. And every executive action of theirs will be blocked by the Supreme Court in a 6-3 vote.
by yesfitz | 2025-09-25 17:40:10+00:00
Yeah, a 5 second clip of the word "Object" being inflected like it's actually speaking.

But also it ends with "...object ject".

When you inspect the network traffic, it's pulling down 6 .mp3 files which contain fragments of the clip.

And it seems like the feature's broken for the whole site. The Lowes[1] press release is particularly good.

Pretty interesting peek behind the curtain.

1: https://openai.com/index/lowes/
by thisislife2 | 2025-09-25 17:41:01+00:00
> The project began after a meeting in 2021 between Microsoft’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, and the unit’s then commander, Yossi Sariel ... In response to the investigation, Microsoft ordered an urgent external inquiry to review its relationship with Unit 8200. Its initial findings have now led the company to cancel the unit’s access to some of its cloud storage and AI services.

"Some" ... Microsoft's chief executive was involved in cementing a collaboration for a secret military / intelligence project with an AI component, to spy on people against whom a genocide is ongoing by their colonial occupiers. This only "ended" when the public became aware of it, for political and (possibly) legal reasons, clearly indicating that they would have continued with "business as usual" if the public hadn't become aware of it. What other Israeli projects are Microsoft hiding and supporting, that possibly aids Israel's genocide, is what concerns me ...
by bluefirebrand | 2025-09-25 17:41:04+00:00
> out of curiosity, what would it look like to take feedback constructively, but not follow it

You need to have good reasons

> their priorities might not overlap completely with those of ICs

Then their ICs are fully reasonable to be pissed off

If a company's desires doesn't align with the desires of the workers, then there is a big problem imo
by mandevil | 2025-09-25 17:41:14+00:00
So, the main reason for the historical separation (in the European tradition) between doctor and pharmacist was profit motive- you didn't want the person prescribing to have a financial stake in their treatment, else they will prescribe very expensive medicine for all cases. And surgeons in particular do have a profit motive- they are paid per service- and it is well known within the broader medical community that surgeons will almost always choose to cut. And we largely gate-keep this with the primary care physician providing a recommendation to the specialist. The PCP says "this may be something worth treating with surgery" when they recommend you go see a specialist rather than prescribing something themselves, and then the surgeon confirms (almost always).

That pharmacists also provide a safety check is a more modern benefit, due to their extensive training and ability to see all of the drugs that you are on (while a specialist only knows what they have prescribed). And surgeons also have a team to double-check them while they are operating, to confirm that they are doing the surgery on the correct side of the body, etc. Because these safety checks are incredibly important, and we don't want to lose them.
by nobody9999 | 2025-09-25 17:41:17+00:00
>Cutting "burdensome" and "costly" regulations

Reread my comment. I expect that at least one of the three (and maybe more, I pointed out three) groups you lumped together don't consider "consumer protections" to be burdensome or costly.

Did I not make that clear? Or are you deliberately missing my point?

>What a weird thing to be offended by.

Who said I was offended? I said I thought you were painting folks with too broad a brush. And the "folks:" to whom I referred didn't include me.

As such, I'm not offended by you. Or at least not WRT the broad brush you used. I can't say for sure, but your patronizing tone appears as to assume I'm not so bright. Which might offend me, except the source is some rando on the inter tubes (that'd be you in case you were confused).

So no. You haven't offended me. In fact, you gave me a chuckle. Thanks!
by lkey | 2025-09-25 17:41:36+00:00
You open your hood to see a 50 mph max speed engine in your vehicle... You notice that roving speed enforcement is no longer necessary except in school zones, freeing up public resources.

You contemplate this new world... Is this... violence? It must be... manufacturing regulations are violence against businesses (people)! You relax a little. You imagine someone 'woke' being angry at your incisiveness, you are calm.
by potato3732842 | 2025-09-25 17:41:40+00:00
I wonder why your opinion is so unpopular around here.

Surely the hapless landscaper is substantially less responsible for any violence, death, etc, etc, he benefits from than say a lobbyist who gets paid to get the laws to favor his employer.

We don't need to figure out an exact formula in order to be able to conclude some parties leverage violence far more than others.
by kube-system | 2025-09-25 17:41:47+00:00
The Clinton admin was successful in the 90s. They cut costs enough to pull the US entirely out of the deficit. They did things slowly and methodically over 5 years, making sure the things they cut were unnecessary before cutting them. They also followed the law, avoiding the legal issues and consequential costs that DOGE is incurring.

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

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

Federal spending is up during this administration, the deficit is at modern-day averages, and the bills recently passed by this administration are going to increase it even further. The slash-and-burn style of cuts that DOGE is sloppy and ineffective. They are Chesterton's fencing themselves -- cutting things that they later find to be important. And on the other hand, not spending the time to actually seek out waste that is hard to find. A tech company works very differently than the government does, and they are slowly starting to discover that the hard way.
by h2zizzle | 2025-09-25 17:42:20+00:00
Rural/urban split. Many cities instead contend with local politicians who want to put a feather in their cap by giving concessions to developers to build new, expensive facilities (instead of, say, driving that money into actual healthcare or the rehab of existing facilities). What will happen is that the taxpayers will give millions to have a greenfield facility built, and around that time, the older local facility (likely to be servicing poorer residents or those without transportation access) will get shut down. Expanding building doesn't fix this dynamic, it makes it worse.