MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by roryirvine | 2025-09-25 15:27:08+00:00
Ha! As I remember, each end had an independent clock and a little bit of buffer to smooth out any variance. And it mostly worked!

The word "plesiochronous" is burned into my brain as a result of the few times that it didn't, though...

My career began in the late 90s telecoms boom, which was a gloriously chaotic period in retrospect. It seemed so very obvious at the time that "ethernet for everything" was what we should be working towards, but the legacy telcos didn't arrive at the same conclusion until well after the crash - so there were lots of opportunities for smaller players to undercut them.
by jasonhong | 2025-09-25 15:27:08+00:00
In May earlier this year, the New York Times had a similar article about AI not replacing radiologists: https://archive.is/cw1Zt

It has similar insights, and good comments from doctors and from Hinton:

“It can augment, assist and quantify, but I am not in a place where I give up interpretive conclusions to the technology.”

“Five years from now, it will be malpractice not to use A.I.,” he said. “But it will be humans and A.I. working together.”

Dr. Hinton agrees. In retrospect, he believes he spoke too broadly in 2016, he said in an email. He didn’t make clear that he was speaking purely about image analysis, and was wrong on timing but not the direction, he added.
Tel HN: GitHub account locked just after launching my startup. Any help?
by pingoo-io | 2025-09-25 15:27:19+00:00
Edit: The situation has been solved! Thank you very much to all the people who reached out and helped to resolve the situation in less than 2 hours!

Hi HN,

I just launched my project on GitHub last week (https://pingoo.io / https://github.com/pingooio/pingoo, the fast, secure and easy-to-use Load Balancer / API Gateway / Reverse Proxy with built-in service discovery, GeoIP, WAF, bot protection and more).

The project seems to have some traction with almost 600 stars in a week, but after doing some maintenance, my account has been automatically blocked, and it seems that my organizations are no longer accessible and their support is not reachable.

This is a very bad situation, so I'm reaching to the community if anyone can help, or has a friend who can help, or has a big audience on X/Twitter and can get a real Human to help.

One of the worst thing is that even Docker images can't be pulled!

You can contact me at: https://pingoo.io/contact

Thank you in advance!
by TheCraiggers | 2025-09-25 15:27:47+00:00
Yeah, it supports tethering. After fiddling with it for a moment (and reading the Darktable docs to discover I have to click the Mount Camera button first), I've got some semblance of tethering working. It's a bit slow and I can't figure out how to focus yet, but it can capture an image. This is pretty awesome.

Thanks for the heads up about this!
by churchill | 2025-09-25 15:27:54+00:00
You were in such a haste to share our opinion that you didn't address any point I made.

If you want to weaken Iran, you need to empower the Arab states since the Sunni-Shia split is one of their points of contention. Instead, America lets Israel bomb them and proves Iran's point that America & Israel are unreliable allies at best, or enemies of Muslims at worst.
by pure_ambition | 2025-09-25 15:28:04+00:00
Speaking from experience, the only people who can afford to live as nursing home staff (typically LPNs) are the poor. In my metro area, only the presence of a large low-income high-crime area allows for a low enough cost of living for its residents to survive on nursing home pay. I think these folks can make more working at McDonalds. The quality of care is garbage... Less than 10% of nursing homes in my area provide the care I'd want for my relatives.

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. The only homes I've been to where the staff are genuinely great are nursing homes out in the boonies, in rural areas at least an hour outside of my city.
by phren0logy | 2025-09-25 15:28:06+00:00
Disclosure: I'm a physician.

One popular approach to saving money is to replace physicians with nurse practitioners and physician assistants, who have less education and training. The article does not discuss this element, and I'd be interested to see if that is a factor in patient outcomes. There's less data on this than you might expect.

ETA: From my post lower down, adding for visibility:

[The training gap is] quite a lot more than a year - in primary care, it's more like four additional years of training for physicians, and 15000 supervised clinical hours for physicians (vs 500 to 1500 hours for NPs). The gap can be wider in other physician specialties, because many have longer residencies than the primary care programs. For example, child psychiatry training is four to five years (depending on the route you take), making it longer than the three years of family practice residency.

Here's a chart looking at training for MDs vs NPs in primary care. It is from a physician organization. https://www.tafp.org/media/advocacy/scope-education.pdf
Show HN: Find if/how people know each other, a research tool (creds in comments)
by mulchbr | 2025-09-25 15:28:07+00:00
Show HN creds: Username: ShowHN Password :ShowHackerNews924 Beta: https://beta.mypathways.io/

How-to videos here if they help: https://www.mypathways.io/resources

We built this to help our nonprofit clients find connections to new major donors. We're now exploring what else it can do. Yes, it uses AI - to pull out proper nouns from text snippets, which LLM's are really good at. I'm proud of it as a practical AI application, not just another chatbot.

To research with it you can copy/paste text into a web ref object, but it's much easier to use the browser extension you can download here: https://www.mypathways.io/trial. Thanks!
by Covzire | 2025-09-25 15:28:12+00:00
What's certainly not going away is that Government waste and bloat is a home-run bipartisan issue where the size of the government has vastly and consistently outgrown the private sector in both times of feast and famine.

Everyone left and right instinctively knows this is, that it's a problem that they're both taxed directly for and (I hope) many people know they're also indirectly paying for it through inflation caused by government borrowing beyond their actual tax income.

DOGE may not be the right answer, but it's the first actual reduction in spending in my lifetime.
by array_key_first | 2025-09-25 15:28:56+00:00
We can absolutely expect Google to be a gatekeeper for advertisements they run on their platform. These aren't just middlemen, they're scams.

We shouldn't just be used to Google being allowed to essentially run infinite scams. Remember, they directly profit off the scams.

Its like if I had a billboard and then let someone put an ad up that said "give me all your money and you'll live forever!"

Am I off the hook? Why, lil ole me? I just run the billboard!

You might then say, well, obviously looking at every ad you accept is far too onerous! Its not like a billboard, because the billboard owner must see all the ads!

Which then I would reply - why is Google entitled to a business model like that? If they can't reasonable run their business in an ethical way... Perhaps they shouldn't run it all.
by bob1029 | 2025-09-25 15:29:15+00:00
> The company also addressed rumors of AI-generated songs getting added to its playlists in order to avoid paying artists. Duboff called the rumors “categorically and absolutely false,” adding that Spotify does not create any music “with AI or without it,” adding that “100% of it is created, owned, uploaded by licensed third parties.”

I don't see how a 3rd party doing the bad thing is somehow better. Spotify could be actively working with these parties to generate a contractually agreed upon amount of AI slop for their platform.
by margalabargala | 2025-09-25 15:29:20+00:00
Considering that every independent estimate puts the money saved at slower to $90M than $200B, yes, running around thinking you have 5 orders of magnitude more effect than you do is a bad thing.

Add to that that most of the things cut, for example weather forecasting, has returns to the economy of several times what is spent on it, and the damage to the economy is much larger than any savings.
by neutered_knot | 2025-09-25 15:29:22+00:00
But you don't need all the hops. You can run a correlation attack (which has been long known):

https://github.com/Attacks-on-Tor/Attacks-on-Tor

and if you can get the guard and exit node for a clearnet connection and the guard, rendezvous point and exit for the onion service that can be enough.
by donnfelker | 2025-09-25 15:29:25+00:00
Oh yes it is. I have worked on projects where highly trained specialized doctors have helped train the models (or trained them themselves) to catch random very difficult to notice conditions via radiology. Some of these systems are deployed at different hospitals and medical facilities around the country. The radiologist still does there job, but some odd, random hard to notice conditions, AI is a literal life saver. For example, pancreas divisum, a abnormality in the way the pancreas ducts fail to fuse/etc can cause all kinds of insane issues. But its not something most people know about or look for. AI can pick that up in a second. It can then alert the radiologist of an abnormality and they can then verify. It's enhacing the capabilties of radiologists.
by cs702 | 2025-09-25 15:29:25+00:00
Missing from his analysis:

* The potential impact of humanoid robots currently in development.[a] What happens in the US, in Europe, in China, and other countries if (when) anyone can buy/lease a humanoid robot that speaks human languages, for less than the price of a cheap car, capable of performing any task performed today by human beings, at a tiny fraction of the annual expense (a few hundred dollars a year per robot)?

* The potential impact of AGI, should it become possible.[b] What happens in the US, in Europe, in China, and other countries if (when) anyone can buy/subscribe to software that speaks human languages, for less than the price of a phone plan, capable of performing any task performed on a computer today by human beings, at a tiny fraction of the annual expense?

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[a] Examples include humanoid robots by Tesla, Agility, 1X, and others. Videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpraXaw7dyc&pp=ygUNb3B0aW11c... , https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mOIxtSSa1NE , https://www.1x.tech/neo .

[b] There's no agreement as to whether AGI is possible, but predictions by people like Hans Moravec, Ray Kurzweil, and Vernor Vinge, going back to the 1980's (half a century ago), so far , are proving... right. We cannot blindly dismiss the possibility of AGI.
by Illniyar | 2025-09-25 15:29:33+00:00
I disagree with practically everything suggested.

Reducing scope and splitting a single task into multiple PRs each small but part of a bigger picture makes it very hard to see the bigger picture.

You should try to make PRs small, but if a PR is big, then you just have to spend more time to review it.

Formatting commits as a story is a huge hurdle for the one making the changes. And unless every PR is meticulously prepared - going over the commits by the reviewer is a waste of time.

I agree you should return PRs you don't understand though. Or don't feel comfortable reviewing for whatever reason.
by pure_ambition | 2025-09-25 15:29:48+00:00
I stand by this: Physicians in the US are some of the only people who are paid what they deserve, in terms of authentic human value delivered. And only in the US are they paid what they deserve. They deserve their semi-monopolistic trade union.

Admin bloat is a far larger problem, and so are the pharmaceutical companies which get to charge the government whatever they want to develop new drugs that often are only marginally effective.
by ry167 | 2025-09-25 15:29:57+00:00
You can't connect to your email or hosting if your DNS with Cloudflare is down.

Plus, Dynadot uses Cloudflare for their site, so you couldn't even change your nameservers if CF is down.

A random scatter won't protect you from a service like CF / AWS / GCP being down, and most users won't benefit from protecting from that sort of unlikely and major scenario anyway...
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-09-25 15:29:58+00:00
> The big story here is that Accenture are losing a TON of work. The AI part of this headline isn't particularly interesting IMO.

And from the article:

> The company said revenues grew 7 per cent to $69.7bn in the year to August, for a net income of $7.83bn, up 6 per cent.

Where's it talk about the TON of work they lost?
by jjice | 2025-09-25 15:30:04+00:00
Anecdotally, my friend's mom was is a nurse at a hospital that got bought up a while ago. During COVID, her pay and the hours were awful. She left shortly after. It blows my mind how little some hospitals can pay a nurse, while others are paying much more, all for the same core work. I believe she has since found a new hospital to work at and is making significantly more.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-09-25 15:30:08+00:00
Growth has stalled since the 2008 financial crisise and debt has skyrocketted both because of the financial crisis and Covid.

Previous governments have not been good at handling this but the current Labour government is especially bad because politically and ideologically they are held by interests that want to increase public spending and "just make the rich pay", which only makes public finances worse and dampen growth further.
by varispeed | 2025-09-25 15:30:12+00:00
Salary isn’t a meter ticking from 9 to 5, and it’s not a line item of “WFH credits” vs. “commute debits.” Salary is simply the number that convinces you to show up and do the work. Whether you sit in an office, in your kitchen, or on the beach is irrelevant - the company pays because they need outcomes, not because of your postcode or chair type.

That’s why all this “WFH as benefit / RTO as cost” chatter is sleight of hand. It nudges you into negotiating around scraps instead of the only thing that matters: total compensation for total output. Companies push that framing precisely because it distracts you from asking for a bigger number.
by DarkNova6 | 2025-09-25 15:30:13+00:00
Left Accenture this year and I don't regret it. Their leadership is non-existant, their management bloated and there is no vision whatsoever. The company just pumps back money into stock-buybacks and nobody can explain why the CEO, July Sweet, is still on top of it (spoiler, her husband works in politics).

Talent is leaving the company left and right because promotions and salary adjustments just are not happening. Your achievements don't matter because they already skipped promotions for 2 years, so there are dozens of people in front of the queue.

Juniors are getting fired if they don't have a project for 3 months, but once a surge of projects come around, there is not enough manpower to do staffing. Meanwhile, people in management are safe and get large severance packages.

Edit: Hi to my formers colleagues. I know you are reading this, feel free to disagree ;-)
by EasyMark | 2025-09-25 15:30:26+00:00
The only real solution to the problem they think they're trying to solve is an absolute number of H1Bs allowed and various regulations added for companies to prove they are hiring for talent and not for price. Annual reports on similar position payouts vs what they're paying the h1b employee. Only by bringing true factors into the light would it "evening out the playing field" like the policy makers are saying but trying to rectify with bad policy.
by thewebguyd | 2025-09-25 15:30:37+00:00
They're reliant on ecosystem lock-in. An iPhone begets AirPods, Mac, iPad, Watch and Services (Apple Music, TV+, etc.).

I use and like my macbooks, but the only reason I remain on iOS is for the integration. Auto switching with airpods, continuity camera, universal control, shared clipboard, etc.

The moment that third party software & hardware can use those APIs and integrate to the same level that Apple's own tech can, Apple no longer as a unique selling point (outside of maybe Advanced Data Protection) vs. any other smartphone.

I'd love to use my macbook, an Android phone, AirPods, and a Pixel watch all together to the level of seamlessness that Apple's own ecosystem integrates.
by troupo | 2025-09-25 15:30:42+00:00
> Plus the EU is only like 7% of Apple's revenue

I doubt that.

E.g. according to these charts, it's at least a quarter of profits: https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/aapl/metrics/revenue-by-geo...

> so I'm also in the camp of "I don't think they are bluffing."

How big is Russian market do you think? They didn't quit even that, and here we are pretending that Apple is going to quit EU.

> They'd still have UK & Norway, both of which have a higher share of iOS than other European nations.

UK and Norway is ~75 million people

EU is 450 million people

> The US & China are much bigger, more important markets for Apple.

So, a wealthy US market with 350 million people is very important. Unlike the wealthy EU market with 450 million people which Apple can just easily abandon.
by brynet | 2025-09-25 15:30:42+00:00
> "The platform is capable of booting kernel at EL2 with kvm-unit tests performed on it for sanity."

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250925-v3_glymur_introduction...

EL2 support is huge, means virtualization will work on non-Windows OSes (e.g: Linux KVM), unlike with previous gen.
by mothballed | 2025-09-25 15:30:44+00:00
There are a lot of hospitals where there is an endless supply people showing up to the ER with non-emergent stuff because it is the only place required to take them, and their number is only limited by wait time due to triage; they'll just leave if it takes too long as their life isn't threatened and they have something else to do.

You could hire a whole army of doctors and they'd still be there, word gets around. If the doctors are cheap enough to cover whatever you can get from debt collection agencies to sell off the debt they'll never pay, then you could hire a lot.
by ajmurmann | 2025-09-25 15:30:52+00:00
I used to believe in the efficiency of publicly funded research, especially for things that have no direct path to economic returns. My canonical example used to be particle physics. It promises incredible breakthroughs but commercial application is faaar down the road and the risk profile is crazy. The Sabine Hossenfelder convinced me otherwise: https://youtu.be/htb_n7ok9AU?si=fJ7B8QALLm3Vy-_W

I don't think we should cut all public funding for research, but we also need private research. While semaglutides were discovered in Gila Monsters a long time ago it was Novo Nordisk that put in many years of leg work to actually turn it into something useful for humans. The more interesting argument might be that Novo is controlled by a non-profit org.
by michaelstewart | 2025-09-25 15:30:52+00:00
That's cool. I'm considering adding a feature like this for images. So you could just link to vb.lk/red-duck-200x300.png And it would generate (then cache) the image. Could be useful for placeholders, a bit like https://placehold.co/

Could even perhaps generate default favicons at vb.lk/favicon.ico and use the referer header (ie. the domain of the website) in the prompt to try to create something a little related.
by CraigJPerry | 2025-09-25 15:30:57+00:00
Pair programming > PR reviews.

I've heard people scoff at the $$ cost of "mob programming". I think that view is totally myopic, for appropriate problems there's just no faster nor higher bandwidth way to transfer code knowledge in a group.

Plenty of people dislike pair programming, i don't dislike it but i do find it mentally intense, tiring. I really really enjoy that it's an accelerator for getting to done - not just i wrote the code but the code is correct - sooner.

Long way to say don't rely on pull requests when you could be doing pairing for the important stuff.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-09-25 15:31:07+00:00
I summarize it with one word after talking to a hospital billing manager. Subsidized costs. If you cant pay someone else will be receive marked up prices. On top of that and bear with me, but the way health insurance works feels like you gotta be in the right “mob family” where each provider is different in leverage in conjunction with which employer you work for. They can just take hospitals out of their “network” if they dont lower costs, so small businesses dont get this level of leverage, but employers with large numbers of employees do. You could have someone with a drastically lower bill just because of where they work, not even related to how much they make mind you.

It all goes back to your healthcare costs being subsidized by those who are left with the crappy end of the stick. I think transparency in hospital billing is drastically necessary. If not for every single surgery out there at least for all the really standard things that arent so complicated.

I am not a doctor. I think healthcare can be fixed without throwing more government money at it, but we need people to understand it better and work out how to bring costs down.

If you are not aware yet, if you think you need to go to the ER think about what you NEED, is your arm broken? This sounds crazy but find a lab that will xray your arm. It will cost way less, and sometimes the insurance will pay the full cost of labs for you since you saved them a fortune. It sounds dumb, but it could save you so much financially. If you are in more urgent needs dont waste any time go get the care you need.
by superkuh | 2025-09-25 15:31:09+00:00
The old web never went away, it never died. It was you who left. You who runs a corporate browser that can't even load HTTP pages anymore. You who only post on massive corporate run social media (like I am with HN). You who host your website on github or behind cloudflare or don't even bother and just have a mastodon or facebook page (both exclusively javascript applications).

The old web is still there, almost invisible under the piles of corporate javascript applications. There's probably more old web now than there was when the old web was new. It's just that in terms of relative ratios it's buried under so much crap and search engines are so bad no few can surf it. Heck, there's even still usenet and people posting there like myself. It's not dead and it's not spammed anymore, and it's a true federated protocol.

But it is easy to be the change. Self host your website from your home computer. Don't use Chrome or Chrome derivatives. Don't put computational paywalls in front of your services like cloudflare or even Anubis. The truth is that for most websites in most situations, all that is not needed. And most importantly, surf the web. That'll require setting up the modern version of webrings: feeds. And sharing feeds with your friends and peers.
by observationist | 2025-09-25 15:31:41+00:00
It's always shocking to me how many people blindly sacrifice the principles that make the things their lives depend on actually worthwhile. The internet isn't just a thing that happened, it was developed and rolled out under specific principles and vision, and violating those principles destroys the system.

The internet doesn't work if Matthew Prince gets to act as global gatekeeper, or if CloudFlare gets conscripted as the new PRISM or NSA censorship and surveillance apparatus whether they want it or not. Given the profit incentives and intense pursuit of control, it's apparent (to me, at least) they're positioning themselves to profit off of the next big horsemen of the infocalypse opportunity.

Centralized control and gatekeeping of the internet, private or otherwise, should be shunned. Sacrificing that for walled garden features is despicable.

Don't shit in the village well, even if the guy selling bottled water says he'll get you a great deal. There are better ways of doing things.