MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ryao | 2025-10-28 18:05:35+00:00
Are the outcomes in the US worse? Not that long ago (a couple months ago in fact), I looked at public data comparing cancer survival rates, which put the outcomes in the US at least 10% better than those in the UK. That was additive, such that a 20% survival rate in the UK for a type of cancer is at least a 30% survival rate in the US. The 10%+ better outcome in the US applied to all types of cancers for which I found public data.

I believe the reason for higher US success rates was that the US used more aggressive treatments that the UK would not, since neither does the NHS pay for them nor do their doctors offer them. It is easy to complain about the US system, but the reason that the per capita cost of health care in the US is high could be because the US will try expensive things that the UK’s NHS never would have attempted (since spending exorbitant amounts on aggressive treatments with low chances of success to attain US success rates would drive the per capita cost of medicine to what could be US levels). The high US pricing of those treatments could be further amplified by attempts to take advantage of ignorance. Amplification to take advantage of ignorance was clearly the case in the article author’s case.

I feel like the opposite viewpoint in favor of the US system is not well represented in online discourse, which could very well be because those who were not served well by the UK’s NHS are dead. There are anecdotes about people coming to the US for treatments that they could not receive in the UK or Europe, which is consistent with that.

That said, I have only looked at data for cancer survival rates and not other illnesses, but the cancer data alone contradicts what you wrote. Perhaps reality is in the middle where the UK system is better for routine issues (i.e. you avoid sticker shock), but the US system is better for anything that falls outside of that (i.e. you have a better chance to live). There is evidence both systems have plenty of room for improvement.
by overfeed | 2025-10-28 18:05:37+00:00
> Great, and that's followed by > Even now, the newspaper's reporters do so as a matter of routine.

What's the issue with the follow up?

The headline says "WaPo no longer does B". I quoted the bit that says "in the past, WaPo used to resolutely do A and B" to answer your question about whether we should expect B at all, and your riposte is "the NPR article continues to say WaPo still does A". The NPR article is about WaPo stopping B, and now you have a historical baseline for B.

I'm not interested in the pivot to arguing about whether news articles ought to share raw data; the way it works now is via editors, editorial standards and fact-checkers that determine if the facts support the wording. Ultimately, news outfits like NPR and the Washington Post live and die by their reputations.

edit: more thoughts on quantification

"Resolutely" is a stout word, IMO, which to me is a word one might be talked down to using when they mean "always" but do not have the time to prove before the publishing deadline, or need to add linguistic error-bars. If it were an option in a survey, I'd place it higher than "almost always" and just below "always"
by drob518 | 2025-10-28 18:05:39+00:00
The “big name apps” have already moved to Apple Silicon. Rosetta helped them with that process a few years ago. We’re down to the long tail apps now. At some point, Rosetta is only helping a couple people and it won’t make sense to support it. I just looked, and right now on my M1 Air, I have exactly one x86 app running, and I was honestly surprised to find that one (Safari plug-in). Everything else is running ARM. My workload is office, general productivity, and Java software development. I’m sure that if you allow your Mac to report back app usage to Apple, they know if you’re using Rosetta or not, and if so, which apps require it. I suspect that’s why they’re telegraphing that they are about ready to pull the plug.
by Sesse__ | 2025-10-28 18:05:56+00:00
> I certainly don't need or want their rack augmented reality... 'feature'? fad?

I find it mind-boggling that you can hardly buy _RAM_ anymore without programmable RGB LEDs, but that managed switches do not come with a per-port RGB LED to let me mark VLANs or cables that need replacements or whatever. Come on! A nice little square all around the port, please. Instead, we get the QR code plus an app that needs to talk with the cloud.
by t-writescode | 2025-10-28 18:06:32+00:00
Technology and discovery are so cool.

One breakthrough and then a WHOLE BUNCH OF NEW STUFF happens all at once now that this new idea or new pathway is created.

mRNA vaccines break away and now they're testing them in everything. GLP-1 showing signs of use in obesity and now it's being tested for a whole gamut of other things. All very exciting!
by n1xis10t | 2025-10-28 18:06:40+00:00
Thanks. I’ve been thinking about doing something like this for a while, and I was thinking that it could be a program that runs locally, scrapes the search result pages, re-ranks them, and then makes an html page and opens it in a web browser.

I’ve done some small experiments, and some of the search engines take a while to get results from because they block you if you go faster than about 1 page per second, so you might end up waiting a few minutes before getting results.

Waiting a few minutes (possibly as long as 10, probably no shorter than 2) to get better and more complete results that you can go as deep as you want into, with no ads. Is this something you would be interested in?
by timschmidt | 2025-10-28 18:07:35+00:00
All tools have potential use for violence. Hammers are as good at smashing heads as building houses. Even nuclear weapons have been used for constructive purposes. No tool is inherently good or evil, safe or violent. Those are properties of verbs. Everything is in the application and choices of the user.

Blaming a tool does seem like a convenient way to avoid personal responsibility.
by ericmay | 2025-10-28 18:07:37+00:00
> No one is advocating for “communism”

No, there are many progressives who are quite literally calling for communism or to implement economic policies we know are destructive. This is like you trying to tell me MAGA goons don't want a 3rd Trump term. Call a spade a spade.

> Again do you think if the terrorist on Jan 6th had bern minorities there wouldn’t have been overwhelming force? Even if they did manage to get to Pelosi and Pence, they weren’t going to overthrow the entire government.

Some of them were minorities by the way. In fact you can go look at polling and you'll see Trump outperformed his last win across minority groups.

But no, I don't think there would have been overwhelming force. There were/are too many J6 losers and they're not going to just gun them all down on TV. The military certainly wouldn't.
by pixl97 | 2025-10-28 18:07:40+00:00
Maybe we're looking at this wrong. Maybe 'new' stuff just isn’t that interesting to people any more. I mean the amount of 'new' things out there are huge and we are constantly exposed to them lots of them. Then when you couple that with the massive amount of advertising that is everywhere on every surface and site, people start to brain adblock and focus on patterns they recognize.
by r14c | 2025-10-28 18:07:43+00:00
Idk what part of "make society affordable for everyone and ensure that everyone has access to adequate care and social support" sounds like an easy or reductive fix.

Maybe my use of the world "simple" is causing some hangups. This is obviously a prerequisite for curing addiction worldwide. Lacking support, care, and social ties is a strong indicator that an addict will relapse in any case. You can't even start treating the really pathological cases without a comprehensive healthy environment for everyone.
by mothballed | 2025-10-28 18:07:52+00:00
I fought in the Syrian Civil War (with the YPG) and the effects on the ISIS enemy has not bothered me a single day of my life. This is over a decade ago and I've never lost a single second of sleep over it. In fact I often dream about going back and fucking them over even more, as it was one of the happiest moments of my life, even though like 10%+ of the people I was with ended up dead.

The tracer rounds flying at the enemy at night, absolutely exquisite, brings a joy like the 4th of July.
by pessimizer | 2025-10-28 18:07:55+00:00
The goofy thing is to think that you're the first person to have made a "demand" and that anyone cares about your "demand." The reason people are oppressed is not because they have failed to make a request not to be.

Real "let me speak to your manager" activism. You have to have been sheltered in a really extreme way not only to say things like this, but to listen to it without laughing.

Here's some unrequested advice: the way to make simple people follow you is to make them feel like leaders among people they feel superior to, and to make them feel like rebels among people they feel inferior to. Keep this in mind and introspect when you find yourself mindlessly sloganeering.
by jaggederest | 2025-10-28 18:08:17+00:00
My family is in this group. We are poor absorbers of vitamin D, some of my elder relatives need 5 times the "safe upper limit" to have healthy blood levels. As long as you're checking your blood values routinely (and for both D2 and D3, not just one or the other), it's reasonably safe. Sort of like other prescriptions in general.
by roncesvalles | 2025-10-28 18:08:31+00:00
My bullshit meter redlined as well.

> Incidence of ARIs was documented through monthly follow-up visits and self-reported symptom diaries validated by physician assessment.

This is basically impossible to accomplish for 386 participants who aren't in some form of captivity (e.g. incarcerated, institutionalized, in the military, or a boarding school). Nobody cares enough to maintain a "self-reported symptoms diary" and make monthly visits for some study. If they actually ran the study as designed, they would've have zero usable participants even starting from 400.

Saying nothing of the ethics of giving half the Vitamin D deficient patients presenting at your clinic with a placebo.
by GCA10 | 2025-10-28 18:08:51+00:00
It's worth reading former WashPost editor Marty Baron's memoirs for a little more insight about Bezos's priorities. Back when Bezos was married to MacKenzie Scott, she was a surprisingly strong voice about how to do things. (The slogan "Democracy Dies in Darkness" got approved after her blessing.) Lately, my sense is that his new wife, Lauren Sanchez, has more of an interest in the Post than Bezos does.

So he's basically the absentee owner of a property that's more interesting to the women in his life than to him. Current management at the paper is probably eager to make sure that the paper doesn't embarrass (or "complexify") his bigger business priorities. Their desire to mollify may be excessive. I've seen such things happen inside large organizations.
by delusional | 2025-10-28 18:08:55+00:00
The hardware isn't (as far as I'm aware) changing. Please don't move the goalposts for hardware ownership (we just be able to do with our hardware as we please) to also include indefinite support from vendors. That just makes us looks like childish crybabies.

If you were instead asking for hardware documentation, or open-sourcing of Rosetta once sunset, then we're on the same team.
by hansvm | 2025-10-28 18:09:13+00:00
No. It's a common enough term, but the handwavy concept I wanted to get across is that if you have code mixing and matching different syntaxes then there will necessarily be boundaries between those. Code with one syntax (if you can actually mix and match runtimes as the comment author said they want) will behave differently from "adjacent" (commonly a different file or directory, but I could imagine multiple syntaxes within a file too) code with a different syntax.

In common languages, you're usually still targeting the same runtime in different compilation units, but it's a rough description of optimization boundaries (you compile one unit at a time and stitch them together during linking). Some techniques bridge the gap and thus the language crispness (e.g., post-hoc transformations on compiled units, leading to one larger "effective" compilation unit), but you can roughly think of it as equivalent to a whole shared library.
by torginus | 2025-10-28 18:09:21+00:00
Which is what we're seeing right now - middle management, and vestigial organizations not related to the core dev team (Trust & Safety and co.) getting trimmed.

As for LLMs, I am perfectly capable of opening a notepad, taking notes, and converting them into Jira tickets (as I have done in the past) without bleeding edge machine learning models
by zdragnar | 2025-10-28 18:09:27+00:00
The claims and lawsuit are probably based on the internal memo from J&J execs who acknowledged the possible connection:

https://www.financialexpress.com/world-news/us-news/bombshel...

The leaked memos went to DCNF via a law firm with prior suit with Kenvue, so take it with however much salt you want, but there does appear to be internal concern over the data.
by bigfudge | 2025-10-28 18:09:39+00:00
The problem with this argument is that you imply that the left could simply choose to do away with what you call progressivism at no cost. In fact, what you’re calling progressivism and what is rejected by many Trump voters our fundamental rights for women, gay people, other minorities, et cetera. The US is not particularly progressive by the standards of most developed democracies. It’s true the other countries have managed to maintain abroad consensus around minority rights in a way the US has not, but it’s inconceivable to concede much of this ground now. Gay marriage, reproductive rights et cetera. Are not simple things to give up. I find it almost impossible to seriously entertain arguments against them. What you’re asking for is for educated people to fundamentally undermine core principles that are part of a fairly coherent and consistent world view.
by beala | 2025-10-28 18:09:42+00:00
Terminal.shop lets you order coffee over ssh, which is kind of novel and fun. I did it, and the coffee was good! This post reminded me that they've gotten enough questions about security that they've added this to their FAQ:

> is ordering via ssh secure?# you bet it is. arguably more secure than your browser. ssh incorporates encryption and authentication via a process called public key cryptography. if that doesn’t sound secure we don’t know what does. [1]

I think this is wrong though for exactly the reasons described in this post. TLS verifies that the URL matches the cert through the chain of trust, whereas SSH leaves this up to the user to do out-of-band, which of course no one does.

But then the author of this article goes on to say (emphasis mine):

> This result represents good news for both the SSL/TLS PKI camps and the SSH non-PKI camps, since SSH advocates can rejoice over the fact that the expensive PKI-based approach is no better than the SSH one, while PKI advocates can rest assured that their solution is no less secure than the SSH one.

Which feels like it comes out of left field. Certainly the chain of trust adds some security, even if it's imperfect. I know many people just click through the warning, but I certainly don't.

[1] https://www.terminal.shop/faq
by juancarlosh | 2025-10-28 18:10:51+00:00
This is my first game. I built a quick sports game for Apple Watch that uses the Digital Crown for movement instead of cramming touch controls onto the screen.

It's soccer and volleyball with 60 second matches, haptic feedback on every hit. Kept it under 1 MB and fully offline.

Launching at $0.99. Would love any feedback from the community.
by johng | 2025-10-28 18:10:58+00:00
This is a great quote. I wish more people would have cared when the Biden family did it.... them getting away without without even a slap on the wrist has emboldened all politicians. This is wrong on every single level. The Trump family shouldn't be able to do it. The Biden family shouldn't be able to do it. Pelosi, etc... this is all disgusting.

Quote: "These people are not pouring money into coffers of the Trump family business because of the brothers’ acumen. They are doing it because they want freedom from legal constraints and impunity that only the president can deliver."

- Kathleen Clark, law professor at Washington University
by dathinab | 2025-10-28 18:11:04+00:00
> Except even locally time is different for different people.

If you say "9pm local time", everyone knows it's the evening no matter if it's the time you go to bed or stand up because you work the night shift.

If a book says someone slept until 1pm you now they slept until mid day, no mater where the story plays. You don't have to go to the internet and look up if where he lives 1pm is morning, evening, night, etc.
by OkayPhysicist | 2025-10-28 18:11:05+00:00
I disagree. Being exposed to the opposition's views can very easily be a polarizing force in of itself. If it's not carefully curated, in all likelihood one's exposure to the other side is going to be dominated by the more extreme parts of that side. And then it's not an unreasonable leap to go think "if those self-proclaimed moderate people tolerate these more radical elements, then they're all evil".

Which I can't necessarily argue is a wrong thought process to follow. I used to be able to pretend that the average person on the right was merely a brainwashed idiot. Now, with the internet and rise of fascism, I have to contend with the fact that they know they're brainwashed idiots and are happy about it.
by RandallBrown | 2025-10-28 18:11:15+00:00
Google tells me that the AMA made about 468 million last year in revenue. If they made that much from the codes it seems like they wouldn't necessarily pass the IRS Public Support test. (Unless somehow this licensing counts as "public support."

I seem to remember this test is why the Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation exist, but I could be mistaken.

Edit: Seems that the AMA is a 501c6, which is a different kind of non profit.
by whimsicalism | 2025-10-28 18:11:45+00:00
My analogy is not with socialized healthcare but with the medicare scheme. Socialized healthcare works in lots of other countries due to a combination of rationing and (in the case of drug prices) prioritizing accessibility over R&D.

> I suspect that it’s mainly doctors who need to be more responsive to cost incentives as they’re often the ones recommending unnecessary tests or treatments.

Doctors would recommend fewer tests if their patients were more price sensitive, I think. I'm not sure a more direct route to making doctors price sensitive when they are on the provider-side, why would they want you to utilize less? There probably also needs to be malpractice/tort reform in the US.
by dekhn | 2025-10-28 18:11:49+00:00
I had never used SAT before (was familiar with the concept) and recently wanted to avoid thinking, so I asked gemini (after a few test prompts):

"""Create a MiniZinc script to find the optimal E12-series resistor values for the base ($R_B$) and collector ($R_C$) of a PN2222A transistor switch.

Specifications:

Collector Voltage Supply ($V_{CC}$): 12V DC

Base (Input) Voltage ($V_{IN}$): 3.3V DC

Target Collector Current ($I_C$): Maximize, but do not exceed, 1W (1 watt).

The script must correctly model the circuit to ensure the transistor is in saturation and must execute without Gecode solver errors like 'Float::linear: Number out of limits"""

After a few more try-paste exception loops, that generated a lovely and readable MiniZinc script with variables I can adjust for other circuits. It was exciting to see that basically every constraint problem I learned in school ("at what angle should you swim across the river..." is just a matter of encoding the problem and running a solver (I still think people should learn the basics of constraint problems, but after a certain point the problems are just tricky enough that it makes more sense to teach people how solvers work, and how to encode problems for them...")
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-10-28 18:12:04+00:00
>which would (in theory) let the defendant hire an attorney on contigency fees

You'd better have a slam-dunk of a case if you're going to easily find contingency lawyers. The worst thing you can be is just "too rich" to qualify for pro bono representation... but even then, you still need a slam-dunk case.

I am currently in the process of suing somebody (plaintiff), for the first time in my many decades, and am a semi-retired electrician of average savings... and it is expensive and probably not worth my time but (in theory) hopefully worth it on principle.

So ready for this to be over with; the lawyers will certainly get their$.
by Twirrim | 2025-10-28 18:12:14+00:00
They're required to do it by law, some posturing the Texas legislature went through a few years back in the name of "fighting anti-semitism". Virtue signalling stuff.

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/01/31/texas-boycott-israel... as an example of it being considered unconstitutional by federal judges. Not sure whether it has been actually annulled yet.
by metabagel | 2025-10-28 18:12:32+00:00
> The Post has resolutely revealed such entanglements to readers of news coverage or commentary in the past … since 2013, those of Bezos, who founded Amazon and Blue Origin. Even now, the newspaper's reporters do so as a matter of routine.

What this is saying:

- Previously, WaPo disclosed conflicts of interest.

- They still disclose in their news articles (as opposed to in their editorials).

> So at minimum the article disagrees with itself

No.

> Edit 2: To try and be a little clearer here: the article is trying to (but in my opinion doing a really poor job of) make a distinction between the disclosures that the non-editorial WaPo authors do, and the disclosures that the editorial authors do, with the assertion that the editorial authors are worse at it.

Everyone else seems to understand but you. By the way, "non-editorial WaPo authors" are called reporters or journalists.
by rawgabbit | 2025-10-28 18:12:37+00:00
The word choice is strange. The author is listing the decline of risk-taking and experimental life choices like: pregnancies, crime, joining a cult etc. He is talking about people making safer / more conservative life choices. He also noticed that the monetary value assigned to people's lives has risen dramatically (over 12 million USD compared to 4 million USD a few decades ago). It is not the decline of deviance; it is decline of risk taking. That doesn't mean it is good or bad. It is just a fact.
by joecool1029 | 2025-10-28 18:12:48+00:00
Wonder if it's humidity related. Besides the lower pressure, commercial aircraft are usually single digit % humidity due to use of dry bleed air to pressurize the cabin. Besides the effect on sealing, I wonder if there's an effect on acoustics that the ANC has to contend with. It would possibly explain some of the other people facing the same issues at home.
by motorest | 2025-10-28 18:12:57+00:00
> Is there more information on this somewhere.

Yes, everywhere. You just need to look for it. See the following link, which has references to Apollo and MAWS.

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/amazon-notable-systems/

> I thought this sounded crazy, and it would be interesting if Amazon themselves didn’t even have what was being asked of us.

Amazon has multiple incantations of this. As legend would have it, AWS was an offshoot of Amazon's internal cloud infrastructure designed to monetize it to amortize their investment on bare metal infrastructure. They partitioned their networks for security reasons and for a few years their infrastructure evolved independently. Then AWS was a huge success and took a life of its own. Only relatively recently did Amazon started to push to drop their internal infrastructure to put all their eggs on AWS in general but serverless solutions in particular.