MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zdragnar | 2025-10-28 19:08:52+00:00
I think what I was trying to get at is that we see RFK at the podium because he doesn't trust the FDA is regulating industry as it should. Food should contain food, not dyes and other things, etc etc.

> That is a laundered Daily Caller story

I did point that out in my other posts around here on the topic, I missed it on this one. The fact that the article doesn't contain everything is irrelevant; I'm pointing it out under the assumption that there's more than just a PR stunt for the Texas lawsuit. Maybe more will come out in discovery, or maybe it really is just a PR stunt. Time will tell.

> I mean, absent other criticism: it's talking about "studies". Studies get published.

The thing that's wild to me in all of this is that people complain for years that industry shouldn't regulate itself, that it's too involved in studies about itself, and yet here we are, defending an indefensible status quo. Big Tobacco didn't publish their own studies showing how harmful tobacco was, and the extent and years that they knew about it and did nothing were big contributors to the judgments against them.

> this thing you linked is probably fabricated to enable this very freakout.

That would be pretty wild, but I imagine these memos will be part of the discovery in the Texas lawsuit. If it turns out to be nothing, then people will move on like they always do.
by _heimdall | 2025-10-28 19:09:17+00:00
I don't think this has much to do with being a democracy. I, for one, wouldn't trust our federal government to competently run an efficient, most uncorrupted healthcare system for all.

The incentive structures that have built up around US politicians simply doesn't leave any room for it to realistically happen. Until the incentives are changed I'd vote against nearly any major government program.
by tracker1 | 2025-10-28 19:09:22+00:00
Just Pharmaceuticals not even all medicine is literally over half of all advertising spend in the US. And that is just the tip of the iceberg and doesn't go into the incestuous and conflicting interest relationships between pharma, pharmacies, medical providers and insurance companies all inter-invested in each-other to simply grow the pie larger since ACA limited profit percentages.

It's the single most powerful lobbying group as a whole, and nearly every politician is bought and paid for by them. Good luck getting a majority or super majority to work against them.
by taylodl | 2025-10-28 19:09:22+00:00
ALL companies are going to say layoffs are due to AI (if it's remotely possible to do so). Investors think senior leadership is smart and boosts the stock price, and competitors waste their time researching what they're missing out on. It's just more hot air inflating the AI bubble. Thing is, there may be a kernel truth in the statement: maybe a few dozen employees were let go as a result of AI.
by noirscape | 2025-10-28 19:09:24+00:00
At its core, the main drawbacks that need to be solved for them to be a viable option are imo:

* Improving OS flows. Every passkey implementer that's also an OS gets really excited about enrolling you into their proprietary clouds, and using alternate flows to respect the users wish to use their own manager is usually hidden in confusing UI forms that don't feel consistent if you don't already know what you're doing.

* Device loss scenario is already mentioned, although more broadly speaking a lot of the reasons people get leery is because all three major providers (Google, Microsoft, Apple) are notorious for their near black box technical support. Losing access to one of these providers on its own is already enough to heavily disrupt the average person's life. Having your login details stored with them makes this even worse.

* The FIDO Alliance Is Way Too Excited About Device Attestation And I Don't Like It. Basically the FIDO Alliance's behavior around passkeys reeks of security theater and them badgering an open source password manager for daring to let users export their passkeys in the format they preferred, rather than what the FIDO Alliance wanted (which is that passkeys must always be encrypted with a password) is telling. If they are as secure as promised, it's a bad look to start threatening device attestation as a means to get people to comply with your specific idea of security. The only real barrier right now to it outright being a thing is that Apple zeroes out the field and when Apple is the only meaningful halt to that kind of attestation, something has gone very wrong.

I think passkeys are interesting, but I just flat out don't trust the FIDO Alliance with the idea. They're way too invested in big tech being good stewards of the ecosystem, which is becoming increasingly unpalatable as more and more evidence piles up that they're really bad actors on everything else. (So why should we trust them with our credentials?) The idea genuinely has value (it's literally the same kind of mechanism as SSH keys), but the hostility towards user freedom is deeply concerning and a blocker to getting people to use it. Even non-technical people seem leery of them, just because of how aggressively big tech has been pushing it.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-10-28 19:09:35+00:00
You’re still being hand wavy. Saying “we should have government run grocery stores where there are food deserts and wouldn’t be profitable for private corporations” is not “communism”. Do you know what Communism actually is? Give a specific example.

What Democratic candidate is saying we should be a “communist country”?

But your original arguments was that J6 was evidence that a few people with guns could have taken over the entire federal government and that the full force of even local SWAT couldn’t have intervened.
by tonymet | 2025-10-28 19:10:06+00:00
You’re right and there are some provider segments like MRIs that have succeeded with this model.

From our perspective the real blocker is the “lock in” due to timing and the referral process. We’re paying bills to providers like specialized labs that are 2-3 degrees down the chain from our doctor (e.g. radiologist refers pathologist refers lab1 refers lab2 – we only see radiologist) .

Even if there was a “amazon for labs” we wouldn’t be able to order this stuff because the decision is 2 degrees away.
by stonogo | 2025-10-28 19:10:10+00:00
The police decided she was the perpetrator because of the Flock cameras flagging her. The doorbell footage was not conclusive, so the police ran a search against Flock, and it incorrectly reported her car in the area during that time. Flock installations comprise dozens or hundreds of cameras, and the police search for "vehicles at this place during this time" and the Flock servers use AI to report results. In this case, it reported incorrect results. But instead of building any kind of real evidence, the police just took the Flock system's word and charged her with a crime.

So, this story is about Flock peripherally, and a miscarriage of justice using their tools specifically.
by josephcsible | 2025-10-28 19:10:21+00:00
The point of passkeys is to protect against phishing and password reuse. You can't protect against local compromise, even if your passkeys are stored in something like a YubiKey, because once you log in to your bank with your hardware-backed passkey, the malware on your computer could use the session you started to transfer all of your money out of your account.
by renewiltord | 2025-10-28 19:10:41+00:00
The transformation of all news and opinion into a steady stream of Everything Is Bad is something that I think we'll enjoy reading about half a century from now.

My experience is that everything is fine and better than ever. We went to a nice restaurant this last week, we ordered on Door dash for game night, I picked up from a chain (Zareen's) when I went down to the South Bay, and we will go to a restaurant we've been to many times that's across the street this week.

All of these experiences have been good. I know it is traditional in this genre of media to fire up a litany of complaint (the food isn't meant to be X, the delivery drivers aren't paid enough, etc. etc.) but I'm happy with the food I paid for and the delivery drivers are glad they've got the job.

There is a religious chanting aspect to the way people keep talking about things in the world. "Outrage culture in the media is ruining the world" while simultaneously subscribing to that. Take a critical look at yourselves.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-28 19:10:45+00:00
> To the best of my (admittedly limited) knowledge, no court has yet denied the long-standing presumption that, because a program needs to be copied into memory to be used, a license is required.

This was specifically validated by the 9th Circuit in 1993 (and implicitly endorsed by Congress subsequently adopting a narrow exception for software that is run automatically when turning on a computer, copied into memory in the course of turning on the computer as part of computer repair.)
by willio58 | 2025-10-28 19:10:50+00:00
The United States is a democracy, but more specifically, a representative democracy. That means citizens don’t directly vote on most laws or policies—aside from certain state or local measures—but instead elect representatives to make those decisions on our behalf. The idea is that we trust them to act in our best interests.

You can probably see where the problem comes in. Take, for example, a politician who campaigns on Medicare for All or universal healthcare. To win an election, they often need massive campaign funding—much of which comes from wealthy donors, including those in the medical or pharmaceutical industries. And once in office, they’re targeted by powerful lobbying efforts worth billions of dollars from those same industries.

In the end, the issue is that politicians can legally receive millions in donations and support from industries whose interests might directly conflict with the needs of the people they’re supposed to represent.

Ultimately though, it is known by most people irrespective of party affiliation that medical costs are out of control. One recent example of this collective understanding was when the united healthcare exec was killed. Before there was even a suspect, people generally knew why he was assassinated. Most people in the U.S. have either been directly affected by the insanity that is our healthcare system, or one of their loved ones has. Those that haven’t yet, it’s just a matter of time. It’s just so pervasive.
by wrs | 2025-10-28 19:11:29+00:00
Ideologically, just enough voters in the right places believe that unless you’re old, or a military veteran, in which case government healthcare is just fine, your sickness should not be their problem, even if it means they pay more for their own care.

Also, if healthcare wasn’t tied to having a job, then the inherent laziness and moral degeneracy of people without jobs would be encouraged by letting them not be sick. (BTW, being self-employed does not count as “having a job” in this mindset.)
by easton | 2025-10-28 19:11:30+00:00
> For any chore it doesn’t know, you can schedule a 1X Expert to guide it, helping NEO learn while getting the job done.

Is this a humanoid robot that's controlled by someone in a call center remotely doing your laundry?

Putting aside ethical reservations about how much they are probably paying per task, that feels like wash and fold with extra steps.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-10-28 19:11:31+00:00
Sad part is... You probably would be better off joining a gang. We'd all probably be better off. They just keep winning. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't tempted to just give up and become a criminal myself instead of insisting on this upstanding-citizen-in-corrupt-shithole life. My father didn't raise me to be a criminal and sometimes I curse that fact.

Rio de Janeiro is in a state akin to civil war literally right now. Apparently the drug gangs have discovered drones. They're using drones to drop grenades on top of each other and on top of police. Nearly a hundred dead as of right now.

Check out this war zone:

https://www.cnnbrasil.com.br/nacional/sudeste/rj/operacao-no...

I don't even know what to say anymore. I'm just... Tired.
by tuetuopay | 2025-10-28 19:11:35+00:00
It's more for enterprise gear than anything. For example, enterprise Cisco gear will absolutely reject non-cisco optics, but datacenter gear won't. As an example, the Nexus 9000 line accepts non-cisco optics by default. Granted, those are 10k+ boxes so somewhat high-end but nowhere near the ASR line.

The nexus line being more modern in spirit also helps. Catalysts still reject non-cisco optics without a configuration line afaik.

A good rule of thumb is whether the equipment tries to vendor-lock you in.

Another example that comes to mind is at least one generation of Intel NICs (don't remember if it's the 5xx or the 7xx), where even the open-source mainline (!) driver will reject the optic without a driver argument passed to it when modprobe'ing it.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-10-28 19:11:36+00:00
I don't know what I said that is wildly false. Or even false for that matter.

People getting surprise bills that their insurance will not cover is rare, because being in a situation where it's a possibly is rare. Insurance pre-approves or denies care before it is done, so you really need to be in the ER and getting odd-ball care that falls outside standard procedure.

I'm also not defending them system, it is a mess (even I posted a story in this thread), but the fact of the matter is that the system largely works for most people, so things like inflation, wages, housing which have daily reminders of shittyness for huge swaths of people gets political priority.

A better way to think of this is like bad car accidents. They are horrific and most people know someone who knows someone with a story, but we don't put a lot of political capital into improving vehicle safety. Most people go their whole lives with no accident.
by thesuitonym | 2025-10-28 19:11:53+00:00
The US money machine has one of the most sophisticated propaganda networks in the history of the world working to make sure nothing ever gets better for working class people. In George Orwell's vision of a dystopian future, "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." In the US, the party didn't even have to issue the command, they just asked a few thousand talking heads to do it.
by budro | 2025-10-28 19:12:05+00:00
Antithesis talks about some very particular use cases, but they're not the first to explore this. SQLite has something similar in the form of their `testcase` macro. [1]

What's most shocking about their whole website is how it goes to show how unserious the software industry is at large with regards to testing. It's not surprising when a good chunk of the programmers I know are vehemently opposed to "adding too many assertions", let alone something like this.

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html#testcase
by akoboldfrying | 2025-10-28 19:12:08+00:00
> That is literally what my post said

I don't follow that at all. The post of yours that I responded to suggested that the scrapers could "just add an LLM" to get around the protection offered by TFA; my post explained why that would probably be too costly to be effective. I didn't downvote your post, but mine has been upvoted a few times, suggesting that this is how most people have interpreted our two posts.

> it can learn which pages are real and “punish” the site by requesting them more

Scrapers have zero reason to waste their own resources doing this.
by grey-area | 2025-10-28 19:13:02+00:00
Sure ask it to write an interesting novel or a symphony, and present it to humans without editing. The majority of literate humans will easily tell the difference between that and human output. And it’s not allowed to be too derivative.

When AI gets there (and I’m confident it will, though not confident LLMs will), I think that’s convincing evidence of intelligence and creativity.
by rectang | 2025-10-28 19:13:46+00:00
(Not gp but...) I believe it because diversity is not a zero sum game, where every gain for a demographic other than mine means a loss to my demographic which must be fought tooth and nail.

First, we are all enriched by having a variety of experiences and perspectives available to draw upon.

Second, I feel stronger bonds with historically marginalized humans than with humans who happen to belong to my own demographic.

> If you think "all white dudes are/think the same"

Ha, we definitely do not all think alike.
by Ajedi32 | 2025-10-28 19:13:58+00:00
Do you depend on a DNS root server to map your website name to your IP address? That's a third party.

There are ways to remove that dependency, but it's going to involve a decentralized DNS replacement like Namecoin or Handshake, many of which include their own built-in alternatives to the CA system too so if "no third parties" is something you truly care about you can probably kill two birds with one stone here.
by verdverm | 2025-10-28 19:14:00+00:00
They are trying to replicate what happened in Hungary with Orban and to a lesser extent 1991 Russia. The Heritage Foundation is central to architecting and carrying out this vision.

They being the oligarchs, the goal being to privatize public services, consolidate control and power, own the information space, or make it such a mess no one knows the truth anymore, idea popularity trumps facts
by atourgates | 2025-10-28 19:14:28+00:00
I broadly disagree.

Yes - Medicare is typically lower than private insurance plans, but if you can't deliver care for the reimbursement that Medicare offers as a health system/plan/office/provider, you're probably overcharging.

More than that, Medicare is the de facto starting place for most reimbursement negotiations between providers and payers. One of its benefits is that it's transparent and readily available. Blue Cross isn't gonna tell you what it's contracted to pay an individual provider (and that individual provider often won't know what they'll be reimbursed untill after they submit a bill) - but with Medicare the data's out there.

I know a good number of private clinics that'll offer cash pay discounts that effectively mirror Medicare or even slightly below Medicare, since you're saving them the trouble and expense of going through the medical billing process.
by blueg3 | 2025-10-28 19:14:30+00:00
I realize F-droid has an understandably strong opinion here, but this writing is disingenuous.

From the post:

> Regardless, the term “sideload” was coined to insinuate that there is something dark and sinister about the process, as if the user were making an end-run around safeguards that are designed to keep you protected and secure. But if we reluctantly accept that “sideloading” is a term that has wriggled its way into common parlance, then we should at least use a consistent definition for it. Wikipedia’s summary definition is:

> the transfer of apps from web sources that are not vendor-approved

The opening two sentences of the linked-to Wikipedia page on sideloading:

> Sideloading is the process of transferring files between two local devices, in particular between a personal computer and a mobile device such as a mobile phone, smartphone, PDA, tablet, portable media player or e-reader.

> Sideloading typically refers to media file transfer to a mobile device via USB, Bluetooth, WiFi or by writing to a memory card for insertion into the mobile device, but also applies to the transfer of apps from web sources that are not vendor-approved.

The phrase after the "but" in the second sentence isn't the "summary definition". It's the part of the definition that best supports your argument. Cutting the Wikipedia definition down to that part is deceptive.

Also in the post:

> Regardless, the term “sideload” was coined to insinuate that there is something dark and sinister about the process, as if the user were making an end-run around safeguards that are designed to keep you protected and secure.

Immediately later in the same Wikipedia page is a paragraph that is literally about how the word was coined:

> The term "sideload" was coined in the late 1990s by online storage service i-drive as an alternative means of transferring and storing computer files virtually instead of physically. In 2000, i-drive applied for a trademark on the term. Rather than initiating a traditional file "download" from a website or FTP site to their computer, a user could perform a "sideload" and have the file transferred directly into their personal storage area on the service.

That's funny. The history of how the word was coined and the post's claim about how it was coined aren't similar at all. Weird.
by renewiltord | 2025-10-28 19:14:39+00:00
Much of the internet is highly neurotic people thinking their twisted conceptions of reality are shared by others. I'm not a fan of the bad traffic enforcement in SF, but our family walks everyday, we take bikes to the majority of our things, and only take the car rarely when we need to transport a stroller some distance (our child is not old enough for the bicycle).

Everything is all right but it can be much better. It was even better in the recent past so one could argue it's not at it's best but it's not a warzone.
by bri3d | 2025-10-28 19:14:42+00:00
It's more common the more expensive the SFP host equipment, yes. This "compatibility" stuff is generally euphemism for "ridiculously primitive DRM" - lots of higher end network equipment checks the SFP Vendor ID and Serial Number and will reject it if it doesn't match an allow-list of "qualified" hardware. Programmers like these let you clone the VID/Serial from a "qualified" SFP onto a random SFP.
by Rochus | 2025-10-28 19:15:16+00:00
> "It's not just the destination, but the journey for getting there."

You can still enjoy the journey, but still profit of AI; I think AI is extremely useful to discuss concepts; e.g. recently I did extensive research about different versions of L4 microkernels to finally implement my own; it's a completely different world now, where I can ask a seemingly "omniscient" expert everithing from general concepts to the minute details; also services like deepwiki are extremely useful. The best "technical discussion partner ever" from my perspective is Claude Sonnet 4.5 with the "thinking" option.

> "And because it got the easy parts right, I feel compelled to give it another chance.."

I agree that the generated code is often incomplete or pretty strange, but recently I was able to generate some quite complex algorithms from a paper to C++ and Go using Gpt-5 and was very surprised that it not only immediately compiled, but also worked. With Claude Sonnet or Opus debugging and fixing took usually as long as writing from scratch. There are always things that just have to be implemented but I'm glad that I don't have to myself, which enables me to focus on the things I mostly care of, or even dare to do projects which would take much too long if I had to write everything myself.
by jabroni_salad | 2025-10-28 19:15:30+00:00
Perhaps you might worry about hostile IOT doodads snooping on things that arent their business or making insecure public webpages with UPNP. If it is just devices you truly control and you never expose an unhardened device, then a walled garden can be fine.

Also, if WPA2 ever becomes extremely broken. There was a period of 3-5 yrs where WEP was taking forever to die at the same time that https was taking forever to become commonplace and you could easily join networks and steal facebook credentials out of the air. If you lived in an apartment building and had an account get hacked between maybe 2008-2011, you were probably affected by this.