MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by paddleon | 2025-09-25 17:50:54+00:00
> Ultimately, capitalism is not necessarily at odds with providing efficient high quality healthcare.

Um, yes it is?

First off, there is tension between "efficient" and "high quality". High quality in an environment with peaky demand requires over-resourcing during periods of lower demand, which is inefficient. The best way to resource for peaky demand curves is to run at 60-80% usage (i.e. 20-40% idle).

Health care has peaky demand curves. PE is going to optimize on efficiency therefore degrading peak demand performance, which is when quality matters the most.

Second, capitalism optimizes resources to maximize value capture. That's great when value capture is tied closely to value delivery, like you want a hamburger and you get a hamburger.

Not when value capture is diffusely tied to value delivery. You want a stable market economy with rule of law to protect your property and your contracts. While without this, nothing you own has any worth (making it the most valuable thing possible), the value of this is rarely delivered to you in discrete chunks.
by NekkoDroid | 2025-09-25 17:51:01+00:00
I recently saw an article which was talking about a study thatc concluded that if the Autobahn here in Germany had a speedlimit of 120 Kph we would save a grand total of roughtly 58 lives per year.

German article: https://www.spiegel.de/auto/tempolimit-120-koennte-58-mensch...
by bnl_umass | 2025-09-25 17:51:12+00:00
I understand well how it works. I agree this is not possible today’s code base but that limitation is due to a design choice. It’s due to a policy decision that the privacy of children who have been sexually exploited is not as important as the privacy of others (including the privacy of people who sexually exploit children). It’s not a technical limitation. It’s a flaw.

Specifically, it would be easy to add code to hsdir functionality to deny requests for onion sites that are known to be related to csam. Those sites could be announced by the DAs as part of the consensus file, for example. The Tor Project currently lets exit nodes filter by IP address as long as they announce that in their config; this new functionality is of the same kind in the abstract. This change would not be a backdoor. It’s not going to weaken the privacy of anyone using Tor.

The current setup is an extremist position that children who have been abused are not deserving of privacy. It’s a position that all information deserves to be free even if that information is very clearly harmful to others and has no positive benefit to society. One can have that opinion but you won’t find many (outside of this thread) that agree.
by Dilettante_ | 2025-09-25 17:51:19+00:00
The handful of other commenters that brough it up are right: This is gonna be absolutely devastating for the "wireborn spouse", "I disproved physics" and "I am the messiah" crowd's mental health. But:

I personally could see myself getting something like "Hey, you were studying up on SQL the other day, would you like to do a review, or perhaps move on to a lesson about Django?"

Or take AI-assisted "therapy"/skills training, not that I'd particularly endorse that at this time, as another example: Having the 'bot "follow up" on its own initiative would certainly aid people who struggle with consistency.

I don't know if this is a saying in english as well: "Television makes the dumb dumber and the smart smarter." LLMs are shaping up to be yet another obvious case of that same principle.
by leakycap | 2025-09-25 17:51:30+00:00
Apple would still sell a large number of devices, but not have to provide an extra year of EU warranty for free. Or any warranty, actually.

Tariffs also become less of Apple's problem when the phones aren't being sold via official channels. The EU is not a growing market of consideration compared to China or India.

> What would the EU lose?

A very secure smartphone option for consumers.
by rybosome | 2025-09-25 17:51:34+00:00
I see your point, but I’m not sure that I agree.

Consider that when speeding, you might cause an accident. Such an accident would most likely impact a small number of people other than yourself.

When a PE firm engages in extractive hospital management, it provably increases mortality rate, and it does so at scale.

The first choice carries possible risks of lower magnitude, the second choice carries guaranteed risk of higher magnitude.

“Risky behavior” vs “ruthless greed”, the latter feels much closer to violence.
by mothballed | 2025-09-25 17:51:49+00:00
Nah I was just doing as you asked and deferred to the "experts" that outlasted me. Hilariously you indict your own argument and only reveal in it the very fallacies you would damn. And I'm well aware I'm unsuited for healthcare in the USA, because the policies are dominated by people with either a 5 year old's ideological view of reality or with the worst perverse industry interests to do regulatory capture in the USA, having worked in it I've realized it is the most disingenuous violent rent-seeking enterprise in existence here and very little of that has to do with the actual health care providers.

If you want instruction on why people are reluctant to point out the situation publicly, notice people (in a sister thread) start screaming bloody murder about "racism" and "because of my wife with cancer you lose" and it becomes obvious why no one is going to publicly give anything but the most gentle and populist message if they actually work in healthcare with their license on the line. Very few people are going to get fired, possibly have their license revoked, have a bunch of frivolous racism cases all to do the favor of having people understand why ERs are broken but then refuse to believe any of it.
by shuckles | 2025-09-25 17:52:11+00:00
When Apple attempted to anticipate these laws and propose a system which tried to navigate a compromise, the “pro-privacy” faction was so politically dumb they spread FUD about it and actively made sure no reasonable compromise could ever be reached. Now the public with reap what these advocates have sowed, good and hard.

With regards to the FBI incident, Apple said at the beginning of their statement, “This moment calls for public discussion, and we want our customers and people around the country to understand what is at stake.”

The EU is proposing a law. People assure me their laws are democratic and reflect the will of the people. Who is Apple to reject the outcome of public discussion?

The FBI letter was written in a context where an agency was acting without the support of the public. That’s why the framing was all about misuse of the All Writs Act and lack of Congressional blessing for the requested power.
by danielEM | 2025-09-25 17:52:19+00:00
Inconvenient, most of the times freaking expensive or vendor locked, no privacy - these are major reasons why it doesn't work out.

A good VR headset will be most probably a form of wireless screen (not a beafy computer) that is simple, lightweight (at most 200g in front of your face), cheap enough so you'll be able to wear it with you and not worry that something happens to it or be able to afford it for each member of your family without major effort and most of all - it should be replacing computer/laptop screen for daily tasks.

We could do it today, big tech is just holding us back with their vision of products
by mikeyouse | 2025-09-25 17:52:19+00:00
If you know where they’re launching from, you can equally detect ALBMs or ground launched ones - but given that ALBMs have mobile launch ‘pads’ with thousand+ mile ranges, they’re actually much harder to detect. Hence why we’ve just started rolling out the next gen OPIR this year..

You don't need jets to go over the Red Sea either, Houthi cruise missiles can operate over the Red Sea and then change course to hit their targets.

You do if you want ALBMs… the “A” is pretty important for that acronym.

And cruise missiles are not ballistic missiles. Cruise missiles that tracked up the Red Sea and then crossed 1,200km of Saudi Arabia while heading for Qatar would obviously be detected (and likely shot down) by US and Saudi air defenses.
by Liwink | 2025-09-25 17:52:25+00:00
Gemini 2.5 Flash is an impressive model for its price. However, I don't understand why Gemini 2.0 Flash is still popular.

From OpenRouter last week:

* xAI: Grok Code Fast 1: 1.15T

* Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4: 586B

* Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash: 325B

* Sonoma Sky Alpha: 227B

* Google: Gemini 2.0 Flash: 187B

* DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.1 (free): 180B

* xAI: Grok 4 Fast (free): 158B

* OpenAI: GPT-4.1 Mini: 157B

* DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3 0324: 142B
by mikestew | 2025-09-25 17:53:01+00:00
You’re going to base an opinion on a third-hand story? That might not even be true just to illustrate a point?

I know a guy that passed BillG in a hallway and said, “hey, Bill, how’s it hangin’?” (Saw him do it; I was mortified.) Just a bottom-tier IC at the time. 20 years later, he still works there. Still an IC, though, so make of it what you will. :-)

So there, now you have another folksy anecdote to balance things out.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-25 17:54:04+00:00
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Image:_A_Guide_to_Pseudo-e... and also

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/384265096_The_Legac...

for a commentator who thought Jimmy Carter wasn't real, at least in the second half of the administation. He though the first Space Shuttle mission was blown up by the Russians and that it was androids that walked out of a fake Space Shuttle.
by criemen | 2025-09-25 17:54:10+00:00
I agree with you that this shouldn't be 100% hard defaults, but it's a good standard to have, and imo it's valuable to be explain why one is deviating from it.

> - smaller PRs aren’t necessarily easier to review (and this arbitrary obsession almost always leads to PR overload in chunks that don’t make any sense, reducing code quality as a result)

Oh but they sure can be reviewed more easily, because they are shorter? Doing so feels like less effort, and you get a dopamine hit from hitting that "submit review" button faster/more often (improved morale, and PR turnaround time!). Plus, if there's a longer discussion about X, it's great if it's not tangled up with Y and Z at the same time - allowing you to dig into X.

> - nobody reads intermediate commit messages one by one on a PR, period.

Come on, that's intellectually dishonest. 1. VSCode displays commit messages inline as blame for me (and many of my colleagues), so even when we don't read the commit messages one by one _on a PR_, I often read them later in the IDE (we don't squash merge PRs). I spend significantly more time reading code than writing, and commit messages, PR descriptions and linked issues provide extra context that is useful to me especially for complex code. If those messages were entirely unreadable, I'd be annoyed. 2. When someone invests time into telling a good story commit by commit, in my team they write "Review commit-by-commit is encouraged" in the PR description, to tell the reviewers that yes, they should read the individual commits, as that'll make understanding the PR easier. Often as reviewer, I follow that suggestion.

> Wasting your time with this in a branch, as you work towards a solution, is focusing on the wrong thing

It seams you're conflating "working on a feature" with "presenting it as PR to review". That's two very different things, and Edamagit in VSCode makes it so so easy to provide a reasonable commit history that hides some of your missteps, and to fill in commit messages.
by stego-tech | 2025-09-25 17:54:34+00:00
I would argue that a surefire way of guaranteeing the right to privacy is to instead continuously push for absolute-transparency laws for politicians and governments. If they’re going to demand every private citizen’s records are always open for view, then the same should be said for governments - no security clearances, no redactions, no “National Security” excuse.

Is it patently unreasonable? Yes, but cloaked in the “combat corruption” excuse it can be just as effective in a highly-partisan society such as this - just like their “bUt WhAt AbOuT tHe ChIlDrEn” bullshit props up their demands for global surveillance.
by xp84 | 2025-09-25 17:54:35+00:00
Can you share what your antispam strategy is?

I have arrived at the opinion that what I would do if I moved to selfhost would just be to pay some trivial amount for outbound email via a provider like sendgrid as someone else in these comments has also mentioned. Since I send out maybe a half dozen emails a month I don't think this would be a big deal.

But when I relied on selfhosted email several years ago, I was always inundated with spam, which SpamAssassin was wildly undermatched to handle -- that was one of the main reasons I moved to gmail. So I'm curious what people who are happy self-hosting today are using.
by ben_w | 2025-09-25 17:54:35+00:00
Tempting though that is, I think that's the wrong way to resolve it: The people proposing it (law people) are a different culture than us (computer people), and likely have a funamental misunderstanding about the necessary consequences of what they're asking for.

Two cultures: https://benwheatley.github.io/blog/2024/05/25-12.04.31.html
by simonw | 2025-09-25 17:54:35+00:00
Servo is heavily sponsored by Igalia these days, who pay several full-time developers to work on the project.

https://servo.org/blog/2025/01/31/servo-in-2024/ shows that 26% of the PRs in 2024 were made by Igalia.

Here's a good post explaining the relationship in more detail: https://blogs.igalia.com/mrego/servo-revival-2023-2024/

It says "Things changed in 2023, when Igalia got external funding to work on Servo and get the project moving again" but doesn't name the source of the funding. It might be the NLnet Foundation - https://nlnet.nl/project/Servo/ - but I couldn't find information on the amount of that grant.

https://nlnet.nl/project/Servo/
by smj-edison | 2025-09-25 17:54:43+00:00
Huh, I really like this approach. My economics knowledge isn't great, but I do know that healthcare is quite inelastic because people are willing to pay high prices to be healthy. A mixed model would siphon off the most desperate to a good option, and inject local competition.

I advocated against universal healthcare for a long time, since I was worried that it would cause stagnation in health innovation, but now I see a need for universal healthcare for the 80-90% most common procedures (and leave private clinics to innovate). The only downside I can think of is less dependence on insurance, which has the potential to drive up premiums. But, if that means taking care of the poor for the most common ailments, then it's a worthwhile tradeoff.
by catlover76 | 2025-09-25 17:54:48+00:00
There are probably lot of old dudes who are like Trump, they just aren't as prominent. Really, a lot of his personality traits and stuff are present to varying degrees in a lot of toxic old dudes who are still meandering around around in their flabby corpses.

For Musk, there are a lot of people like him too, but probably fewer, and you have to remember that the echelon of success he is in has warped him further.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-09-25 17:55:33+00:00
> Mozilla dropped Servo after realizing that it would take at least 10+ years to make it a viable replacement for Gecko

Source?

It’s the first time I heard that put forward and I followed Servo pretty closely. Mozilla actually dropped Servo at a time when they drastically reduced their efforts in a lot of projects which were considered non critical to their mission.
by thekevan | 2025-09-25 17:55:47+00:00
I wish it had the option to make a pulse weekly or even monthly. I generally don't want my AI to be proactive at a personal level despite it being useful at a business level.

My wants are pretty low level. For example, I give it a list of bands and performers and it checks once a week to tell me if any of them have announced tour dates within an hour or two of me.
by nikkwong | 2025-09-25 17:56:09+00:00
Imagine a future where it becomes easier to commit terrorism because of some technological advancements—like smaller, less traceable bombs, or chemical weapons that are easily accessible and lead to higher casualties—like in the 1,000s or more. Imagine in that scenario, that the likelihood of you or someone you know becoming the victim of a terrorist attack is now non-trivial in your society. In a future where this becomes the norm, it would be interesting to see if individuals are more willing to adopt a level of increased surveillance as it seems like the only reasonable protection against terror.

Right now this debate is oriented mostly around the fact that surveillance today is not a good deal—consumers give up their privacy and get nothing in return. But is there a tipping point? Technology draws us closer, day by day, and the threat matrix will become more sophisticated as time moves forward.

Most individuals on HN are privacy absolutists but one should recognize that tradeoffs exist. That tradeoff is just not compelling today, but that doesn't mean that will always be the case. If you go to China, where everything and everyone is surveilled, I think you'd be surprised to find that many Chinese don't mind. They feel incredibly safe and don't have to worry about being victims of crimes, having their packages stolen, walking around late at night alone, etc. Walking around in China with absolute peace of mind around my own personal safety is a very eye-opening experience as someone coming from the US. I've always advocated for stringent privacy protections; but when giving that up buys you absolute safety in your immediate environment, that's not an experience you forget.

I'm certainly not saying I'm a proponent of living in a surveillance state—I'm simply noting that tradeoffs exist and a sort of re-balancing is constantly occurring, which is just interesting to be aware of.
by Mistletoe | 2025-09-25 17:56:37+00:00
2.5 Flash is the first time I've felt AI has become truly useful to me. I was #1 AI hater but now find myself going to the Gemini app instead of Google search. It's just better in every way and no ads. The info it provides is usually always right and it feels like I have the whole generalized and accurate knowledge of the internet at my fingertips in the app. It's more intimate, less distractions. Just me and the Gemini app alone talking about kale's ideal germination temperature, instead of a bunch of mommy bloggers, bots, and SEO spam.

Now how long can Google keep this going and cannibalizing how they make money is another question...
by drdaeman | 2025-09-25 17:56:42+00:00
Generalized, this looks to me like a question about why humans sometimes get hell-bent about some idea and become blind to the side effects and ignorant when it comes to risk management.

Sometimes it could be malice or personal gains. Sometimes, I think, it could be just a strong bias towards some idea that causes a mental blindness. Such blindness can happen to anyone, at any level of power (or lack thereof), politicians are not unique in this - the only difference is the scope of impact due to the power they have. And we aren't particularly filtering them against such behavior - on the contrary, I feel that many people want politicians to have an agenda and even cheer when they put their agenda above the actual reality, any consequences be damned.
by landl0rd | 2025-09-25 17:56:48+00:00
- The AMA froze the number of med schools for decades even as residency availability increased.

- The majority of states still maintain "certificate of need" laws for new hospitals, ambulance providers, etc.

- The AMA holds a state-enforced monopoly over physicians.

- Many states still limit NPs/PAs, requiring physician supervision for things for which those people were trained.

- Lack of interstate reciprocity in licensing means mobility is constrained and supply can't follow demand.

- Costly medical equipment usually requires first-party repairs; mfgs claim a third-party modification (repair) constitutes remanufacturing under FDA regs.

- Stark law makes e.g. physician/hospital value-based care arrangements very hard. It's quite strict and everyone has to tiptoe around it a bit.

There's also the huge problem of malpractice insurance costs due to insane tort settlements. Awards need to be capped yesterday because it's too easy to talk a jury into bankrupting people over things that legitimately just sometimes happen.

I'm guessing others could give you an even better list. Some of those are a bigger deal than others but it's a huge issue. Insurance net margins just aren't high enough to blame it and drug costs aren't enough of our total healthcare spend to be at fault.

It comes down to humans being too expensive. There remain many areas of care where we can't cut man-hours down without sacrificing safety and quality. As such, we should reduce the insane byzantine co-ordination and compliance overhead.
by ripped_britches | 2025-09-25 17:56:54+00:00
Wow so much hate in this thread

For me I’m looking for an AI tool that can give me morning news curated to my exact interests, but with all garbage filtered out.

It seems like this is the right direction for such a tool.

Everyone saying “they’re out of ideas” clearly doesn’t understand that they have many pans on the fire simultaneously with different teams shipping different things.

This feature is a consumer UX layer thing. It in no way slows down the underlying innovation layer. These teams probably don’t even interface much.

ChatGPT app is merely one of the clients of the underlying intelligence effort.

You also have API customers and enterprise customers who also have their own downstream needs which are unique and unrelated to R&D.
by ripernverse | 2025-09-25 17:56:59+00:00
Great questions!

1) To my knowledge, there isn't a centralized phishing database specifically for Canadian entities, nor are there updated threat feeds available. My primary goal is to create a resource that is openly accessible and free for everyone. While I acknowledge that Microsoft’s threat intelligence is far superior to what I can offer (I used to work a lot with their security products), it comes at a high price and lacks the flexibility for inspection and use.

2) I shared this project on my personal Linkedin to gather feedback, as I haven't registered a company yet. I plan to enhance transparency in the future, but for now, it’s mainly a personal/nerd project. The third-party credited is Whoxy, they allow me to use their WHOIS records for free since my project is non-commercial, and I need to provide appropriate credit for that.

I hope this clarifies things!
by mfkhalil | 2025-09-25 17:57:10+00:00
Thanks for the feedback! From what we've seen it's actually the other way around - once it gets a sense of where this information lives the latter stages of data collection go quicker, especially since it's able to deploy search agents in parallel to get information and doesn't need to do the manual work as much anymore. Having said that, it does sometimes forget to do that, and although we've added the critic agent to remind it to do that it can be inconsistent but usually if you step in and ask it to deploy agents in parallel that fixes it.

We use Gemini 2.5 Flash which is already pretty cheap, so inference costs are actually not as high as they would seem given the number of steps. Our architecture allows for small models like that to operate well enough, and we think those kinds of models will only get cheaper.

Having said all that, we are working on improving latency and allowing for more parallelization wherever possible and hope to include that in future versions, especially for enrichment. We do think that one of the weaknesses of the product is for mass collection - it's better at finding medium sized datasets from siloed sources and less good at getting large comprehensive datasets, but we're also considering approaches that incorporate more traditional scraping tactics for finding these large datasets.