MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xp84 | 2025-10-29 00:05:33+00:00
Fascinating observation, thanks for challenging my assumptions here. Just seems to further point out how useless health insurers are, even to their shareholders.

My most sincere wish is that all insurers would be nationalized, every last employee summarily fired, and their HQs all imploded and replaced with memorials to all the people whose lives they have cut short over the years. Not a thing of value would be lost IMO. Worse than paying people to dig holes and fill them in again.
by neilv | 2025-10-29 00:06:06+00:00
> 1. If you're threat model is surveillance state, are things like this helpful or harmful?

Good question. I don't know the answer, but I've been operating on the assumption that Tor Browser gives you more privacy from commercial surveillance (e.g., our fellow HNers), but not from many state actors (e.g., US gov't).

I especially wouldn't encourage Tor Browser use by a member of a group being oppressed by a regime that has use of sophisticated surveillance technology. Tor use is very easily detected, and I would fear they would just be drawing attention to themself.

However, if you're not targeted (as a group, or individually), and your threat model is mainly that you don't want a hundred data brokers to know about your totally legal interest in the Tina Fey Matt Damon Fanfic Clubhouse site... then, sure, run Tor Browser. Just be sure to disclose that club membership if ever asked on the form when applying for DoD security clearance, and I'd guess they probably already know.

> 2. If you need a tool like this, what's the best way to obtain/install this anonymously?

Simply using it will flag it to the ISP as Tor traffic. So you could just download it using whatever ISP you will be using to run it, without revealing much more.
by umanwizard | 2025-10-29 00:06:29+00:00
Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear enough, but I'm specifically talking about colloquial Swiss German -- which is, I assume, what you mean by "the dialects" -- and not about Swiss Standard German, which is indeed very similar to German Standard German and can't be considered a different language.

Any literate German can read the NZZ easily, but they cannot have a colloquial conversation with an average person from Zürich, unless the latter switches to standard German (which is a foreign language for them, though one they have to learn from age 6).
by cyberax | 2025-10-29 00:06:36+00:00
Both. They don't have access points supporting 6 GHz wireless or 2.5G Ethernet.

I think they've just given up on that sector, and they're focusing on more specialized outdoors/long-distance wireless.

I don't want to get into the Ubiquity ecosystem because it's typically all-or-nothing plunge. And I distrust complicated managed systems out of general principles.
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-10-29 00:07:01+00:00
Hmmm, I'm somewhat doubtful about cheese from the USA as my experience there (only on holiday, mind) was that most cheese seems to be made of plastic. However, I fully acknowledge my lack of knowledge about good/great american cheeses and I'm sure there are small scale producers of quality products.

Some of the best cheddars that I've tried are Wyke Farms Cheddar (from Somerset, but not quite in Cheddar itself) and my favourite is Davidstow which comes from Cornwall. Quite why you'd be expecting quality Cheddar cheese from France is beyond me - wouldn't they consider it insulting to be making an English style cheese when they have so very many unique types of French cheese?
by jayd16 | 2025-10-29 00:07:43+00:00
Reminds me of the mention of "contiguous zeroes" that used to be in the Apple App Store docs.[1] Which seemed like just a backhanded way to say "we encrypt and then compress so don't expect easy compression."

I suppose this might be asset padding or perhaps these are raw textures with full alpha sections? Still, it seems pretty strange. What game, what asset?

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42478186/app-size-on-app...
by MoltenMan | 2025-10-29 00:07:51+00:00
Ack! There is nothing 'overly sensitive' about being annoyed when you see somebody else get an opportunity because of the color of their skin or gender. It's human nature! In fact I suspect the average person in favor of DEI and / or identity politics would still suffer a decent amount of cognitive dissonance if they were passed up because of something like this. Again, it's just human nature!

Please try to imagine advocating for women's rights 100 years ago and hearing somebody say something like 'overly sensitive women want to vote! Psh!' If you want to argue for DEI please try to present good faith arguments.

Personally, I don't really get butthurt about things, so this isn't a problem for me (although I do think it's a problem in general as it is obviously going to anger people). I do think one of the main problems with DEI is that it attempts to address the symptoms instead of the root cause of the problem. I.e. trying to get girls into stem / coding in highschool or college instead of figuring out why they're less interested in it from a much younger age (and if that's even a problem; classic nature vs nurture problem).
by LandOfMightDev | 2025-10-29 00:08:25+00:00
forgot to mention, it also calculates the video position, to the minute by taking the time the channel was created, calculating the difference between the current time and the time the channel was created and taking the modulus of that and the total duration of all of the videos combined. You then use that to calculate which video should be playing and the difference between current time and the video duration is the position in the video that should sync.
by ynhatex | 2025-10-29 00:08:45+00:00
Full algebraic data types wouldn't have added much here. Product types are already everywhere, and we didn't need sum or exponential types.

Splitting IO and pure code was just routine refactoring, not a full redesign. Our app logic wasn't strictly pure because it generates pseudorandom numbers and logs events, but practically speaking, splitting the IO and shell from the relatively pure app logic made for much cleaner code.

In retrospect, I consider FCIS a good practice that I first learned with Haskell. It's valuable elsewhere, even when used in a less formal way than Haskell mandates.
by gonzobonzo | 2025-10-29 00:08:49+00:00
> For those who don't attend the prestigious universities with large endowments, average in-state state-run University tuition is under $10K, though again a large percentage of students receive some form of aids or grants to bring that number down even further.

This is an extremely important point that keeps getting ignored. People keep comparing _public_ schools in Europe to _private_ schools in America.

To further your point, just about every place has a community college where you can do the first two years of your education for about half the price of the state school. The total tuition for this route (2 years at community college, 2 years at a state school) is going to average just under $30,000 for 4 years. Which is definitely in the "work your way through college" range.

And this is before any financial assistance, which the majority of students receive.

Foreigners talking about how crazy expensive college is in the U.S., but they're likely mislead by people who took out large loans to go to extremely expensive private colleges. There's an easy way to stop this kind of debt - don't allow federal loans for private institutions. But no one is really interested in stopping it.
by theshrike79 | 2025-10-29 00:09:36+00:00
The point wasn't the dose, I just picked a number out of my ass.

The point is that from that N IU the 100 people will absorb anything from 0-N, it's very individual and varied.

The only way to be sure is to test your levels, which costs money every time. There really should be a simple and cheap home test kit for it. You'd sell millions every year just in the Nordics and Canada =)
by nzeid | 2025-10-29 00:10:08+00:00
> If you're threat model is surveillance state, are things like this helpful or harmful?

I think the more vicious oppressive states will give you deep trouble if they simply catch you with this software. But if you're looking to simply obscure traffic from your internet provider or some other malcontent platform, Tor will work.

> If you need a tool like this, what's the best way to obtain/install this anonymously?

Hehe, if you need to hide your DNS query to the Tor project or traffic directly to it, you are probably somewhere where simply possessing this software can get you in a lot of trouble. I wouldn't encourage you to do anything reckless.

Otherwise, just go to the site shamelessly and get it.
by Terr_ | 2025-10-29 00:10:57+00:00
It can't "lose" what it never had. :P A fictional character has a mind to the same extent that it has a gallbladder.

> if the writings of humans who have lost their minds (and dialogue of characters who have lost their minds) were entirely missing from the LLM’s training set, would the LLM still output text like this?

I think should distinguish between concepts like "repetitive outputs" or "lots of low-confidence predictions the lead to more low-confidence predictions" versus "text similar to what humans have written that correlates to those situations."

To answer the question: No. If an LLM was trained on only weather-forecasts or stock-market numbers, it obviously wouldn't contain text of despair.

However, it might still generate "crazed" numeric outputs. Not because a hidden mind is suffering from Kierkegaardian existential anguish, but because the predictive model is cycling through some kind of strange attactor [0] which is neither the intended behavior nor totally random.

So the text we see probably represents the kind of things humans write which fall into a similar band, relative to other human writings.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractor
by collingreen | 2025-10-29 00:11:30+00:00
I love every part of this. Give the LLM a little pep talk and zen life advice every time just to not fall apart doing a simple 2 item vending machine.

HAL 9000 in the current timeline - Im sorry Dave I just can't do that right now because my anxiety is too high and I'm not sure if I'm really alive or if anything even matters anyway :'(

LLM aside this is great advice. Calm words guide calm actions. 10/10
by dawnerd | 2025-10-29 00:11:41+00:00
Of course they would do this. They did this with their top of the line 4k tvs when they first came out. Everything was great, their OS and such worked wonderfully then they started to inject ads for gamefly into notifications and it went downhill from there. Ads in a 200 dollar tv I understand. Ads on a 5 thousand dollar tv? Absolutely unacceptable.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-10-29 00:11:45+00:00
Off-topic-ish: I've got a TCL Smart TV that, by default, runs Google TV (which, to my understanding, is a rebranded newer version of Android TV). The default launcher / interface, which contains ads and has only minimal customisation options, can only be changed by installing an alternative launcher disabling some permissions via adb.

Having followed the instructions to do it, it's much nicer having beautiful background images (rather than ads for crappy TV shows and movies) and a cleaner interface with at least one less click required to get to the apps I want (ie. a better UX).

TCL TVs are not a particularly premium product, so I'm not too annoyed about having to go this little bit of effort to make it nicer. However, a $3,500 fridge seems like a premium-ish price, and so to also have ads on that feels incredibly tacky to the point it cheapens the product and the brand overall.
by protocolture | 2025-10-29 00:12:32+00:00
>So then why not have the same for IT infrastructure instead of outsourcing it to all these parasites?

Not a comment on Atos directly, but I am betting that its an opex/capex thing.

Government departments see ongoing maintenance as internal, opex driven activity and right size their infrastructure teams to handle the ongoing workload.

Government departments see a large implementation project as an opportunity to save money through capex. Rather than increasing their resourcing internally to complete the project, they send it to tender. The tender document will require that the vendor hand over to their internal team for ongoing maintenance and support at the completion of the project. No ongoing impact to department opex budgets or headcounts.

Even if it blows out by like 50%, they probably still save money by not managing the labor costs internally. And they can force the vendor to take a hit on some overruns.
by esseph | 2025-10-29 00:12:43+00:00
Consider that AT&T fiber device to be a literal component of their network in a way that is: adopted into the network management system, configured with appropriate settings for the particular network and network segment, maybe the device is named in a particular way for their billing/CRM solution, there may need to be e911 info configured in the device if they often do VoIP service, etc.

In short, a gpon network is not quite the same as rolling to Walmart or whatever and just grabbing a replacement cable/dsl modem.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-10-29 00:13:38+00:00
Tim's not threatening, but he is saying quite clearly that sites on the internet (Relying Parties) might just not accept Passkeys from KeePassXC:

> The unfortunate piece is that your product choices can have both positive and negative impacts on the ecosystem as a whole. I've already heard rumblings that KeepassXC is likely to be featured in a few industry presentations that highlight security challenges with passkey providers, the need for functional and security certification, and the lack of identifying passkey provider attestation (which would allow RPs to block you, and something that I have previously rallied against but rethinking as of late because of these situations).

Tim's talking the reality of KeePassXC and the reality is that this specification is being built in a way where the user is fundamentally out of control. Where the industry at large has total control over your material, gets to say how you can store your keys, and will refuse you credential managers that they don't like.

The proposed Credential Exchange Protocol draft also does not allow you to backup your key. A credential manager will only Export the key to another credential manager service, across public endpoints on the internet. Never transiting the user's control. So you have to trust your credential manager that they actually will let you export your credentials, to someone you can trust, at a future point in time. There's an issue open for this, but no real hope this ever gets better. https://github.com/fido-alliance/credential-exchange-feedbac...

Passkeys seem designed to never be trustable by users. There's always some online service somewhere holding your materials that governments will be able to legally strongarm the service into getting access to. You won't be able to Export when you need it. The security people seem intent on making sure computers are totally controlled by corporations and governments, in the worst ways. The top post is right. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45737608
by necovek | 2025-10-29 00:14:19+00:00
I said it elsewhere in the thread, but the current model is already falling apart: it has led to random IoT devices becoming parts of widespread botnets, affecting Internet functioning, and putting unwitting consumers at risk.

Fixing that problem might turn out to be cheaper for competitors by making their platforms more open and avoiding the full responsibility as a vendor.

Basically, combine current and future legislation about electronic waste, cybersecurity of IoT and connected devices, and the carve-outs for free software and open source platforms, and suddenly it becomes much cheaper to ship a product that will run for 20 years (say a washing machine) if you as a vendor can guarantee some of this for the warranty period (1-5 years), and open up the platform to consumers and shift the responsibility at that point. Also imagine the case of a vendor going under which needs to be covered too (this would make subscriptions infeasible too).

If legislation demands this (imagine no insecure devices for 20 years), markets will do the rest.
by xp84 | 2025-10-29 00:14:31+00:00
Yes. And a bigger question is, why should I have to? This is a perfectly functional computer, it is more than capable of downloading a file and running it.

It's really sad that Apple and Google (and to some extent MS though they're just behind in this race to the anti-consumer bottom) happened upon this "solution to malware" (note: not a real solution) of "OS vendor vets and controls all software." It's a lazy way, it's an ineffective way, and it has made computers - incredibly flexible, programmable devices - more like cable boxes or telephones from past decades, that you had to rent from a monopolist and had no control over.
by sensanaty | 2025-10-29 00:15:17+00:00
Oh no, not the slower economic growth!

If the choice is between propping up the economy which is built atop a delicate house of cards and is about to implode on us anyways thanks to the AI bros, or knowing that the psychotic C-suite can't fire me because he needs an extra 0.2% of profit margin to look good to investors, I'll take the latter.

Having experienced both worlds here, it's about roughly the same difficulty getting hired, except over here in NL at the end of my 1 month in which they can fire me for any reason, I get a nice little ironclad contract that provides me rights as a worker. Anyone claiming getting laid off unceremoniously is better is just coping
by hexo | 2025-10-29 00:17:01+00:00
This. Parents bought LG OLED TV. It is absolutely lovely, has super nice picture. (not an ad!:D) I insisted they never connect it to network. Probably it would be usable on network cut off from internet, but there is high probability of some mistake. I wasnt sure what happens if it got out for just a tiny bit so decision was clear. We've seen zero ads there (except the standard-ads-iterrupted-by-actual-programming).
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-10-29 00:17:19+00:00
There's plenty of documentation of people taking 50k for a period of time and having no side effects. There's been something like a dozen trials using high doses like this to treat TB, and they're usually successful, with no significant negative symptoms.

Conversely, some studies have shown that 4k IU does contribute to hypercalcemia in a small number of cases (4 per 1000). So actually 4k is deemed "not completely safe" as a limit.

The point is, the amount you take needs to be adjusted by a clinician, as the safe range for you is unknowable otherwise.
by technojunkie | 2025-10-29 00:17:21+00:00
If I'm torn about anything for Tor 15, it's that the cadence didn't align with a minimum of Firefox 144 as base.

Why?

View Transitions support being implemented in 144 is a very big deal and pushes the web forward for native transition animations.

In the next two or three versions before the end of 2025, Anchor Positioning will also be a big deal.

So, congrats on Tor 15, but Tor 16 will bring a massive improvement for Tor!
by anonymous908213 | 2025-10-29 00:17:31+00:00
I've long felt this whole concept is a waste of time. I've been using a very simple rule since shortly after I started programming: comments are green. That's it. That's the rule. Distinguish code from stuff that isn't code, and otherwise just read the damn thing. No highlighting at all would be fine too. Playing games with rainbows makes everything take more effort to read, not less. You ever notice how you do just fine parsing syntax intuitively and subconsciously as, for example, you're reading this paragraph? We already spend our entire lives training the skill of instantly understanding syntax when reading un-highlighted text.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-10-29 00:19:16+00:00
I hate that computers get faster, because it means I'll be forced to buy another laptop. It goes like this:

- Some developer buys a new laptop - Developer writes software (a browser) - When the software works "fast enough" on their new laptop, they ship it - The software was designed to work on the dev's new laptop, not my old laptop - Soon the software is too bloated to work on my old laptop - So I have to buy a new laptop to run the software

Before I'd buy a laptop because it had cool new features. But now the only reason I buy a new one is the new software crashes from too little RAM, or runs too slowly. My old laptops work just fine. All the old apps they come with work just fine. Even new native apps work just fine. But they can't run a recent browser. And you can't do anything without a recent browser.

If our computers never got faster, we would still be able to do everything the same that we can do today. But we wouldn't have to put down a grand every couple years to replace a perfectly good machine.
by al_borland | 2025-10-29 00:19:34+00:00
Instead of asking “what can I add”, to solve a problem, I will ask, “what can I take away”.

This plays out in all areas of my life.

At home there might be a cluttered area. Most people would buy a shelf, maybe head to the Container Store, and try or organize it. I tend to get rid of it. This removes the clutter and opens up a new area of the home with new possibilities.

At work when something goes wrong there is a whole call full of people suggesting on additional process, approvals, etc to add so it doesn’t happen again. I’m often the lone voice asking if we need to do the thing at all. If we stop doing it, it won’t break again and there is less work, not more. Everybody wins.

This is summed up in this quote I quite like.

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Or more simply, “less, but better” —Dieter Rams
by simoncion | 2025-10-29 00:19:39+00:00
It looks to be a very new program.

While the fulu.org domain has been around for a long time, archive.org's oldest snapshot of bounties.fulu.org is from late last week.

This press release from Oct. 23rd agrees with archive.org's snapshot history: <https://fulu-foundation.ghost.io/repair-bounty-program/>.

Given the complexity of the tasks on offer, I'm unsurprised that zero of them have been completed in three days. Give those boffins some time, yeah?
by makeitdouble | 2025-10-29 00:20:25+00:00
It has a reasonable probability to get somewhere(that would require a lot of redesign, but they have th money to do so), but to be honest I wouldn't be happy with the most restrictive and closed ecosystem winning again in a new field.

If it was by design excellence and truly providing a better proposition it would sweeten the pill, but as of now it would be only because the way better products are from a company everyone hates.

In a weird way, Meta has been good at balancing hardware lockdown, and I'd see a better future with them leading the pack and allowing for better alternatives to come up along the way. Basically the same way the Quest allowed for exploration, and extended the PCVR market enough for it to survive up to this point. That wouldn't happen with Apple domining the field.