MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 9rx | 2025-10-02 16:13:18+00:00
Keep in mind for what reason? The content doesn't change based on this knowledge. It either stands up for what it is or it doesn't. It wouldn't somehow be better if it were written by a random Joe user instead: It would be the exact same work. Attributing qualities of the author onto the work is a logical fallacy.

Use that precious mind space for understanding basic logic instead.
by geocrasher | 2025-10-02 16:13:20+00:00
Exactly. I left high school over abuse. Another student spent the whole period sitting next to me staring at me muttering about how he was going to tie me up in the middle of the desert, and all the things he was going to shove up my ass, serious serial killer vibes, and the teacher just acted helpless, despite seeing everything. When they started stalking me after school, and it started getting physical, and the school did nothing, I left.

Thankfully that level of toxicity did not follow into the workplace, but I did have a car vandalized by a coworker.

Truth be told I was a bit of a punk, and had a knack for pissing off the wrong people. We all have our flaws, but nobody deserved what I went through. I'm a man now, not the insecure boy who tried to act like he was better than others to compensate, and I reject toxicity immediately. No room for it. Hard lessons to learn when you grew up with abuse.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-10-02 16:14:13+00:00
The sad reality is that if Americans stopped paying inflated prices the 40% of drugs discovered here would shrink to about 10% and world wide drug discovery would be massively reduced.

You literally have to get fucked or the world get fucked harder and drags you down with them. Same reason why NATO and the farm bill are good for America.

The greatest trick from the wealthy is to not just exploit you to get it, but to destroy any possibility of resistance to them. Even trying to resist does nothing but harms the under class even more than if you simply accept it.

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.“ - George Orwell, a communist/socialist

Edit: To the guy who claimed Orwell wasn't a communist, the POUM who he fought for in the Spanish Civil war was communist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POUM) and according to the soviet union was specifically trotskyist. If you fight for them you are a communist, even if and especially if you claim you weren't later in life.
by lupusreal | 2025-10-02 16:14:32+00:00
Maybe so! The way I see it going in the next few years is CLI tools remain valuable because they're useful to these coding agents. At the same time, users increasingly use GUIs which have been custom made or modified for them personally. We might even eventually get to the point where user-facing software becomes ephemeral, created on on the fly to meet the user's immediate needs.
by andy99 | 2025-10-02 16:14:34+00:00
> Even more concerning, often the malicious people will hide behind stupidity.

yeah a lot of people that get ahead seem to be intentionally ignorant (to the point of fooling themselves) to provide a kind of plausible deniability. It's obviously put on because you see they are shrewd political operators and and "errors" are always in their favor. But there's this game of who can appear the most aloof and thus impossible to ascribe any malice to.
by mothballed | 2025-10-02 16:14:43+00:00
No, he's right. Insurance profits are legally capped, and this keeps them from representing an outsized fraction of spending even in cases when they might partially be the driver behind it. They have to spend N% of their income on actual health care benefits. They're not absurdly high, you could look them up, but I don't think it's possible to exceed something like 10% profit.

This means the only way for insurance companies to increase profits is to increase the price of healthcare, and they have zero incentive to try and lower the amount of money they pay out for healthcare which might otherwise have been split between profits and lower premiums.
by incrudible | 2025-10-02 16:14:57+00:00
Israel is doing neither, as far as I am concerned. Israel allowed in more than the required amount of food. Collateral damage within the context of war is not murder. Internal food distribution difficulties are not systematic starvation. If truly there was a famine, propagandists would not need to use photos of cancer patients (and similar) as false evidence for starvation.

Fair enough, what are sanctions, if not collective punishment? There is a concentrated campaign to isolate the entire country and its citizens, from the same type of people that say Hamas does not represent Palestinians. Either there is a double standard here, or collective punishment is fair game. Choose one.
by myrmidon | 2025-10-02 16:15:22+00:00
It seems clear to me that something needs to be done if we want to avoid growing wealth/income inequality pretty much globally.

Wealth tax is just one approach, but even top income tax rates used to be much higher in the US, and you could argue that politicians since LBJ and Reagan have failed the median citizen completely in that regard (nice visualization: https://mystack.wyman.us/p/tax-brackets-and-rates-1913-2024).

Wealth tax seems a step in the right direction.
by elicash | 2025-10-02 16:16:18+00:00
And then there's more, via 404:

“Since RedHat doesn't want to answer to us,” the hackers wrote in a channel on Telegram viewed by 404 Media, suggesting they have attempted to contact Red Hat. [...]

“We have given them too much time already to answer lol instead of just starting a discussion they kept ignoring the emails,” the message added. In another message, the group said it had “gained access to some of their clients' infrastructure as well, already warned them but yeah they preferred ignoring us.”

https://www.404media.co/red-hat-investigating-breach-impacti...
by beerandt | 2025-10-02 16:16:21+00:00
Overgrazing can be a problem, but undergrazing can be just as big of one.

Healthy pasture requires a certain rhythm/ amount of hoof traffic to stay healthy.

It's why land restoration in the (US) Midwest/West tends to do much better if it includes a reintroduced (managed) grazing component.

And why even wild pasture in Africa typically has a cycle of trample and/or natural burn as part of it's life cycle.

This may or may not apply to previously forested land, depending on what's in-situ, but grazing should be seen just as much as a positive requirement, as overgrazing is seen as a detriment/negative.

Now if your goal is reforestation instead of just healthy pasture or other sustainable ecotype, that's different .

But don't assume just because land can sustain forest, that forest is the 'natural' ecosystem. See: the US history of pasture vs forest. There's more forest now than there was pre-euro settlement.
by N70Phone | 2025-10-02 16:16:49+00:00
> Now, go away, or I shall taunt you a second time-a!

That is the implication. The point of the first fine isn't to actually hurt Meta. It's to signal that there will be consequences, that the excuse of "but we thought it was legal" is gone now and give them one final chance to get their act together.

It's to pre-emptively clear away any possibility for Meta to appeal to either higher courts or the court of public opinion that they're being treated unfairly. Which they would do if you immediately hit them with a say, €5 billion fine.
by injidup | 2025-10-02 16:17:10+00:00
I have this annoying problem. When not plugged into my car I can say

"Hey google remind me to call in sick tomorrow"

and it will put an entry into the calendar for me.

But if it is plugged into my car the same request will elicit an

"I'm sorry please talk to your system administrator to get this feature enabled"

This has gone on for years with google assistant and workspace accounts. There is always some random interlock in some byzantine permissions table that get's triggered at the most inconvenient moment and you can't do what yesterday you could do.
by Kirby64 | 2025-10-02 16:17:13+00:00
Not quite as seamless, but for anything like that where you’re headed to a destination, you can always send the location to these various UIs. Tesla and Rivian support sending addresses to their cars via their apps (through the share functionality, so it’s basically 2 clicks).

For the calendar point, Tesla actually offers calendar integration and automatic navigation (if you enable it) to events that have locations near your current time. I don’t use it since my calendar isn’t heavily populated, but I could see that being super useful for certain people.
by yardie | 2025-10-02 16:17:22+00:00
As a former resident of France, here are the headlines I observed through the years:

The wealthy abandoned France in 2000 and moved to Switzerland.

They abandoned France in 2009 and moved to... Switzerland.

They abandoned France in 2014 and moved to... Russia.

They abandoned France in 2020 and moved to... USA.

For nearly 2 decades there has been this steady rollout of the news saying the wealthy will abandon there socialist-democratic country for somewhere else. But most of them tend to stick around. A few abandon their dumb project and find their way back even.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-10-02 16:17:45+00:00
Technocracies have a pretty bad record unironically. Places which let lawyers run society do better than places which let engineers run it.

Edit, since I can't make a post right now since HN thinks I've posted too much, here's some examples of technoracies:

"The former government of the Soviet Union has been referred to as a technocracy.[20] Soviet leaders like Leonid Brezhnev often had a technical background. In 1986, 89% of Politburo members were engineers.[20] "

"Many previous leaders of the Chinese Communist Party had backgrounds in engineering and practical sciences. According to surveys of municipal governments of cities with a population of 1 million or more in China, it has been found that over 80% of government personnel had a technical education"

"Since the 1990s, Italy has had several such governments (in Italian, governo tecnico) in times of economic or political crisis,[27][28] including the formation in which economist Mario Monti presided over a cabinet of unelected professionals."

"The term 'technocratic' has been applied to governments where a cabinet of elected professional politicians is led by an unelected prime minister, such as in the cases of the 2011-2012 Greek government led by economist Lucas Papademos and the Czech Republic's 2009–2010 caretaker government presided over by the state's chief statistician, Jan Fischer.[3][31] In December 2013, in the framework of the national dialogue facilitated by the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, political parties in Tunisia agreed to install a technocratic government led by Mehdi Jomaa."

"The Syrian Salvation Government, the predecessor to the Syrian transitional government,[33] was characterized by observers as an authoritarian technocracy"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-10-02 16:17:48+00:00
I have an old laptop that boots Windows 7 and in my opinion, it's peak Windows (having used everything from 98SE onward, including 2K). It feels modern in a way that older entries don't but doesn't have the annoying and user-hostile elements of newer entries. The visual style is slightly dated feeling but it wouldn't take a whole lot of work to fix that.
by georgemcbay | 2025-10-02 16:17:59+00:00
I don't think people should shoot them down, but I do think drone-based delivery will be rejected by consumers if it ever reaches significant scale in non-rural areas which will create a self-limiter on growth of usage.

Its cool if a drone delivers your sandwich. But when the sky is littered with them because they are also delivering random stuff to all of your neighbors it very quickly becomes a lot less cool.

Never mind the fact that its concerning from a safety standpoint that one of the biggest players in the space has just proved (twice) that their drones can't even avoid a very large unmoving object.
by johntb86 | 2025-10-02 16:18:13+00:00
https://www.theverge.com/news/790636/amazon-prime-mk30-drone... gives more information, including that

* No one was injured directly, but someone was treated for smoke inhalation

* The drones "were flying back to back"

* They hit the cable of a crane (including a link to a video showing the crane). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_ZpY6qHcTk
by zamadatix | 2025-10-02 16:18:30+00:00
Lazy browser console hack to speed it up without locking the browser completely or rehosting:

(()=>{for(let l=setInterval(()=>{},0);l;)clearInterval(l--);const c=new MessageChannel;c.port1.onmessage=_=>(draw(),c.port2.postMessage(0));c.port2.postMessage(0)})()

It seems there are a lot of buggy positions which clear themselves given enough time. I managed to make it to 1,000,000 iterations without any permanent lockups (but some lasted a while)
by LargeWu | 2025-10-02 16:18:44+00:00
What does it even mean that an ultrawealthy person would "leave" a city? One not unreasonable interpretation is that they would no longer have standing to promote their own interests there at the expense of the rest of the population. As a non-billionaire myself this sounds like a pretty good idea to me; what's good for billionaires is often not so good for everybody else.
by dboreham | 2025-10-02 16:19:30+00:00
Drug costs are contentious because they're easily visible and often no covered by insurance. The other costs are obfuscated in complex billing and hidden under principle/agent veils.

E.g. my son has a peanut allergy and so we need to buy EpiPens. They were hundreds of dollars, and the vendor played MBA-nonsense games like requiring two to be purchased at a time. Meanwhile I was able to drive to Canada and buy the exact same thing (and as many or as few as I needed) for tens of dollars.
by k310 | 2025-10-02 16:19:32+00:00
When HASN'T hiring been broken? I looked back and found that networking was my main source of interviews, and jobs, if you exclude a certain fruit company, in my career.

Employers just found a new failure mode, and I see no improvement in sight, except some ideas regarding proof of work. Tough on classified work. But there were (U) tasks I bragged about. Oh, and proprietary stuff to talk around. "I built this black box"

Hoping this gets better, but not optimistic.
by craftkiller | 2025-10-02 16:19:42+00:00
> it's also very umconfortable and stressful for the patient.

This is what concerns me. If someone took a blade to my eye, I would be screaming, vomiting, and thrashing until I lose consciousness even though my rational brain knows the surgeons are helping. Are there options for the irrationally mutilation-averse people such as myself (like general anesthesia) or are my options just go blind or re-enact a Saw movie?
by retr0reg | 2025-10-02 16:19:53+00:00
I work in a ML security R&D startup called Pwno, we been working on specifically putting LLMs into memory security for the past year, we've spoken at Black Hat, and we worked with GGML (llama.cpp) on providing a continuous memory security solution by multi-agents LLMs.

Somethings we learnt alone the way, is that when it comes to specifically this field of security what we called low-level security (memory security etc.), validation and debugging had became more important than vulnerability discovery itself because of hallucinations.

From our trial-and-errors (trying validator architecture, security research methodology e.g., reverse taint propagation), it seems like the only way out of this problem is through designing a LLM-native interactive environment for LLMs, validate their findings of themselves through interactions of the environment or the component. The reason why web security oriented companies like XBOW are doing very well, is because how easy it is to validate. I seen XBOW's LLM trace at Black Hat this year, all the tools they used and pretty much need is curl. For web security, abstraction of backend is limited to a certain level that you send a request, it whether works or you easily know why it didn't (XSS, SQLi, IDOR). But for low-level security (memory security), the entropy of dealing with UAF, OOBs is at another level. There are certain things that you just can't tell by looking at the source but need you to look at a particular program state (heap allocation (which depends on glibc version), stack structure, register states...), and this ReACT'ing process with debuggers to construct a PoC/Exploit is what been a pain-in-the-ass. (LLMs and tool callings are specifically bad at these strategic stateful task, see Deepmind's Tree-of thoughts paper discussing this issue) The way I've seen Google Project Zero & Deepmind's Big Sleep mitigating this is through GDB scripts, but that's limited to a certain complexity of program state.

When I was working on our integration with GGML, spending around two weeks on context, tool engineering can already lead us to very impressive findings (OOBs); but that problem of hallucination scales more and more with how many "runs" of our agentic framework; because we're monitoring on llama.cpp's main branch commits, every commits will trigger a internal multi-agent run on our end and each usually takes around 1 hours and hundreds of agent recursions. Sometime at the end of the day we would have 30 really really convincing and in-depth reports on OOBs, UAFs. But because how costly to just validate one (from understanding to debugging, PoC writing...) and hallucinations, (and it is really expensive for each run) we had to stop the project for a bit and focus solving the agentic validation problem first.

I think when the environment gets more and more complex, interactions with the environment, and learning from these interactions will matters more and more.
by nonethewiser | 2025-10-02 16:19:54+00:00
It has the old settings menus right?

I think it was windows 8 or 10 that introduced the new menus which I found somehow both too simplistic and harder to navigate. And then sometimes you get lucky and figure out a way to open the old menus to do what you actually want.

I think Windows 7 was my favorite as well.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-10-02 16:20:02+00:00
> But there's this game of who can appear the most aloof and thus impossible to ascribe any malice to.

The people who are actually hard to ascribe any malice to are often politically very inept, i.e.

- (nearly) "everybody" knows these people are not malicious

- but since people want to be manipulated, such people don't make any career
by EnergyAmy | 2025-10-02 16:20:16+00:00
I don't really know what to tell you, other than that it would help if you stopped being deliberately obtuse.

"Genuine discussion" includes responding to the topic of "trans people existing" by pointing out that "existing" is vague and needs further definition. That is genuine discussion, inviting you to clarify what you mean by "existing". I helpfully included a few other relevant bits of genuine discussion that welcome related tangents, but directly responded to your comment with genuine discussion directly about "trans people existing".

If you're going to no-true-genuine that conversation that's fine I guess, but I don't really understand the point of wasting time on simple rhetorical tricks that don't fool anyone.
by nineplay | 2025-10-02 16:20:36+00:00
I'm intrigued by the premise - I have my own large burden of health care costs and my own suspicions about where it is going - but does anyone else find their charts unreadable? I'm trying to parse the first one and I keep trying to put the pieces together. "Health care services" is 60 out of 101bn ... excess profits?

The second one I can hardly start on, "health care services" is a medium circle ( circle size = combined market capitalization ) with the second highest "Aggregate return on invested capital" and in the middle of "median weighted-average cost of capital".

I know its called "the economist" but they usually make their articles readable by people without a econ degree. If I had a suspicious mind ( I do ) I'd think this was deliberate obfuscation.

Also "health care services ... such as hospitals and the system’s true money-makers: insurers, pharmacy-benefit managers and other middlemen taking advantage of its opacity"

That is a lot of different interests bundled together. How can they say insurers are the true money makers when they are not even broken out?
by jimt1234 | 2025-10-02 16:20:38+00:00
I like the approach Slate has taken - basically, bring your own device, then connect to the vehicle with our app. I'm not super confident that Slate will last as a company, and leaving subscription money on the table might be one reason they don't last. But I like this approach and I wish more companies would do it.

https://www.slate.auto/
by nativeit | 2025-10-02 16:21:16+00:00
My 2012 VW Passat’s system was the most responsive and dead-on accurate GPS I’ve ever used in a car or a phone. The only thing that beats it are handheld dedicated GPS units designed for ships and rescue workers.

That said, the maps got out of date and couldn’t be updated without a $200 SD card, which was annoying.
by unsungNovelty | 2025-10-02 16:21:26+00:00
I don't know if it is of any interest. But I have recommendation framework for beginners of Linux - https://www.unsungnovelty.org/posts/01/2024/a-linux-distro-r...

Check it out if you're curious and pass it along. It's some things I wish I knew when I started as a kid.
by lithocarpus | 2025-10-02 16:21:30+00:00
That's fair, except that sometimes there aren't enough resources (qualified surgeons, facilities, etc) for everyone to get that kind of care. I'd rather cheap care that is 95% good enough than none at all. (For things I really need - I think a majority of what the healthcare industry does is counterproductive but there is also plenty of stuff that's good like cataract surgery for example.)
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-02 16:21:41+00:00
> If it were truly unprofitable to sell drugs in, say, Canada or France, pharmaceutical companies would just not sell their drugs in those countries

You’re confusing capital and operating costs. Once you’ve developed the drug, selling everywhere you can makes sense. When considering whether to develop a drug or invest in something else, America’s biotech market absolutely turns keys. (But not as uniquely as we think. Europe has a thriving R&D market, it’s just directly subsidised.)
by cjbgkagh | 2025-10-02 16:21:46+00:00
I already said I didn't believe it for those reasons and others. It was a cynical lie to boost short term adoption that was clearly going to bite them in the ass later. Imagine if they now say Win11 will be the last version of Windows, no one would believe them and it would have no effect. The lack of trust creates problems in adoption of windows features, UI frameworks, App Stores etc. and this has very very negative consequences for the Windows ecosystem which is in a very sick state - I think maybe terminal. Also internally the internal departments lie to each other as well. Not even other departments will take dependencies and if you have no users for your features you lose the ability to justify funding - the perception becomes reality and a huge amount of effort and opportunity is wasted.
by kingstnap | 2025-10-02 16:21:59+00:00
Will they be cheaper to buy? Yes.

You are effectively just buying compute with AI.

From a simple correlational extrapolation compute has only gotten more cheaper over time. Massively so actually.

From a more reasoned causal extrapolation hardware companies historically compete to bring the price of compute down. For AI this is extremely aggressive I might add. HotChips 2024 and 2025 had so much AI coverage. Nvidia is in an arms race with so many companies.

All over the last few years we have literally only ever seen AI get cheaper for the same level or better. No one is releasing worse and more expensive AI right now.

Literally just a few days ago Deepseek halved the price of V3.2.

AI expenses have grown but that's because human's are extremely cognitively greedy. We value our time far more than compute efficiency.