MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by teaearlgraycold | 2025-10-28 22:03:33+00:00
I've been lucky with my health so I don't have a huge list of interactions:

* Free tele psycho-therapy. Not sure what the limit is but it's >= 2 hours per week. I even cancelled same-day once with no fee. The quality of the care was also very high.

* I developed wrist pain from typing, holding a Steam Deck, starting pull ups. I was able to see a physical therapist at the Google office (through an embedded One Medical) after 1 week. No referral needed. Saw them once per week for 5 weeks paying $20 co-pay each time. They fixed my issues permanently.

* I also occasionally used the Google One Medical locations (and public ones) for injuries from a low speed bike crash, vaccines, etc. Don't think I ever paid more than $20 for anything. On a Google income that amount is completely inconsequential.
by quickthrowman | 2025-10-28 22:03:34+00:00
> This is best practice for anyone who uses three phase power.

No, it’s not. It’s a neat trick that visually reveals when the utility drops a phase, but there are better ways to handle avoiding equipment damage.

Best practice is to use phase monitoring relays that can de-energize a motor when a phase is dropped/reversed to prevent damage. The trip time is adjustable and it’s more reliable than manually hitting an e-stop. It also won’t let a motor with incorrect phasing start up either. You see phase loss relays on a lot of compressor motors and other large motors.

Here’s a flyer for an Eaton product: https://www.eaton.com/content/dam/eaton/products/industrialc...
by AlecSchueler | 2025-10-28 22:03:50+00:00
No, not about weapons, about effects. Fishing is violent because it harms fish, not because a fishing rod is categorised as a weapon. I don't think archery is categorically different than darts. Shot-put is somewhat different in that nothing need be damaged in performing it but you're right that the launching of the projectile could be seen as violent. The former two meet both definitions of violence whereas the latter meets only one. The thing with a gun is that any use of them involves violence of multiple kinds.
by zamadatix | 2025-10-28 22:04:02+00:00
> Then perhaps the problem is open APs?

The problem in the above was not actually caused by the AP being open, nor is it just limited to APs in the path between you and whatever you're trying to connect to on the internet. Another common example is ISPs which inject content banners into unencrypted pages (sometimes for billing/usage alerts, other times for ads). Again, this is just another example - you aren't going to whack-a-mole an answer to trusting everything a user might transit on the internet, that's how we came to HTTPS instead.

> There are still legitimate uses for HTTP including reading static content.

There are valid reasons to do a lot of things which don't end up making sense to support in the overall view.

> Say we all move to HTTPS but then let’s encrypt goes away, certificate authority corps merge, and then google decides they also want remote attestation for two way trust or whatever - the whole world becomes walled up into an iOS situation. Even a good idea is potentially very bad at the hands of unregulated corps (and this is not a hypothetical)

There are at least 2 other decent sized independent ACME operators at this point, but say all of the certificate authority corps merge but we planned ahead and kept HTTP support: our banking/payments, sites with passwords, sites with PII, medical sites, etc is in a stranglehold but someone's plain text blog post about it will be accessible without a warning message. Not exactly a great victory, we'll still need to solve the actual problem just as desperately at that point.

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The biggest gripe I have with the way browsers go about this is they only half consider the private use cases, and you get stuck with the rough edges. E.g. here they call private addresses out to not get a warning, but my (fully in browser, single page) tech support dump reader can't work when opened as a file:/// because the browser built-in for calculating an HMAC (part of WebCrypto) is for secure contexts only, and file:/// doesn't qualify. Apart from being stupid because they aren't getting rid of JavaScript support on file:/// origins until they just get rid of file:/// completely and it just means I need a shim, it's also stupid because file:/// is no less a secure origin than localhost.

I'd like for every possible "unsecure" private use case to work, but I (and the majority of those who uses a browser) also has a conflicting want to connect to public websites securely. The options and impacts for these conflicting desires have to be weighed and thought through.
by theshrike79 | 2025-10-28 22:04:17+00:00
There is space for a generic tool that defines code quality as code. Something like ast-grep[0] or Roslyn analysers. Linters for some languages like Go do a lot of lifting in this field, but there could be more checks.

With that you could specify exactly what "good code" looks like and prevent the LLM from even committing stuff that doesn't match the rules.

[0] https://ast-grep.github.io
by timeinput | 2025-10-28 22:05:02+00:00
Definitely in prosumer territory, and it's totally achievable with equipment that isn't Ubiquiti (they're not magic, the mediums RF + ethernet + fiber are all the same), but the amount of fiddling I found to get things to 'work right' with ubiquiti was plug it all in, set up the WiFi password, and update the DNS / DHCP server to my pihole, and then I didn't have to do much else, and there was a really nice UI with nice metrics, and a nice UI for cameras all built in, and a few other niceties like some VPN options. There's also sufficient logging that when something doesn't work I can maybe figure out why.

I don't really do more 'advanced' routing (other than maybe the unifi protect aka camera stuff it sounds like we're describing similar configurations), it's just that when I tried to achieve the configuration you're describing with Asus it was impossible, with TPLink it took a lot of fiddling / configuration and never 'worked right' (right meaning as well as I thought it should, though I've not tried TPLink in a primarily wired configuration) where as the ubiquiti stuff was plug and play and just 'worked right' (close to the speeds and reliability I expected both in a mesh mode and in wired).

The whole camera thing -- which is what really got me to pay the ubiquiti tax -- is another story entirely, I'm sure there are lots of other good options for self hosted IP camera solutions, but I couldn't find any ones I wanted to use, and again with ubiquiti it was super plug and play, and once I'd bought the UDM to do camera stuff and saw how well that worked I wanted to try the ubiquiti networking stuff, and it worked better with less configuration that the other alternatives I'd tried.

With infinite time and finite budget ubiquiti is not the right choice for home networks, with a sizable budget for home networking equipment minimal time investment and a preference for performance ubiquiti has worked out better for me than alternatives out of the box, and better for me after spending time tweaking and trying to optimize TPlink (meaning ubiquiti out of the box was better after trying to optimize TPlink).

If "not ubiquiti" works for you out of the box, or in the configuration you're already in then you're all set, and you're definitely not missing out on anything. If things aren't working out of the box and you're tired of fiddling with it, or your other goals aren't possible, and they are with ubiquiti maybe it's worth the investigation.

I also _hate_ how much I sound like an ad for ubiquiti. I'm really not, but I think I've spent more time writing these two comments than I've spent having to fuss around with my network equipment in years.
by neilv | 2025-10-28 22:05:16+00:00
A lot of outrage in HN comments, but it's kinda ironic, because if you had to point at the single biggest concentration of people who built out surveillance capitalism and other facets of our digital dystopian future...

Maybe the people complaining are the ones whose employers don't even sell out people with third-party trackers on their Web site. But I see more than 3 people complaining.
by davidcbc | 2025-10-28 22:05:24+00:00
Ok I will. This claims the cost of attendance is $36,930-$42,310 per year:

https://www.admissions.illinois.edu/invest/tuition

This claims $21k per semester:

https://cost.illinois.edu/Home/Cost/R/U/10KP0112BS/15/120258...
by mbrock | 2025-10-28 22:05:51+00:00
Check out this document to see how the Fil-C ports of Python and Perl and so on work:

https://github.com/mbrock/filnix/blob/main/ports/analysis.md

This is still within the userspace application realm but it's good to know that Fil-C does have explicit capability-preserving operations (`zxorptr`, `zretagptr`, etc) to do e.g. pointer tagging, and special support for mapping pointers to integer table indices and back (`zptrtable`, etc).
by throwaway150 | 2025-10-28 22:06:22+00:00
> Any recoverability sounds very bad.

PRNGs are not meant to be cryptographically secure. If you don't want recoverability by all means use SHA512 or a proper CSPRNG.

But saying PRNGs are bad because there is recoverability is like saying salt is bad because it isn't sweet. PRNGs are not meant for non-recoverability and salt isn't meant to be sweet.
by theshrike79 | 2025-10-28 22:06:25+00:00
Someone had a blog post that said if a LLM hallucinates a method in your library, that means it should statistically have a method like that. LLMs work on probabilities and if the math says something should be there, who are you to argue =)

Also use MCPs like codex7 and Agentic LLMs for more interactivity instead of just relying on a raw model.
by tavavex | 2025-10-28 22:06:34+00:00
People always say things like these, and I wish it were that way too. Maybe if history had gone a little differently.

But what's the point of defining these standards now? Is the world where this is the reality still feasible? It seems nearly impossible, unless you're an extremely wealthy and influential individual. What I'm seeing is that we never will move to a world where a device that you bought is truly "yours" anymore. Instead, we'll be renting one of the approved devices, ran by one of the tech megacorporations and overseen by your government. They will give no real way to execute any random code that you want, unless you're also licensed and vetted as a developer. They will be tightly surveilled, all information will be saved, every interaction between these devices will be controlled for the sake of security. It will be an entire web of trust, defined by the powers that be. We're seeing early attempts at it now, but we still haven't hit full centralization. But once we do, what happens then?
by kragen | 2025-10-28 22:06:50+00:00
No, I was only talking about the pre-existing C code that wasn't written for the bootloader, which therefore might have incompatibilities with fat pointers you had to hunt down and fix.

Also I'm really skeptical about your "hundreds of millions" number, even if we're talking about all the code that runs before the kernel starts. How do you figure? The entire Linux kernel doesn't contain a hundred millions of lines of code, and that includes all the drivers for network cards, SCSI controllers, and multiport serial boards that nobody's made in 30 years, plus ports to Alpha, HP PA-RISC, Loongson, Motorola 68000, and another half-dozen architectures. All of that contains maybe 30 million lines. glibc is half a million. Firefox 140.4.0esr is 33 million. You're saying that the bootloader is six times the size of Firefox?

Are you really suggesting that tens of gigabytes of source code are compiled into the bootloader? That would make the bootloader at least a few hundred megabytes of executable code, probably gigabytes, wouldn't it?
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-28 22:07:25+00:00
> The next biggest concern is the ACA which is the greatest scam ever pulled on Americans. It started out as, what would've been, universal healthcare.

No, it didn't. Universal coverage between the mandatory coverage and the Medicare expansion was the goal, but universal coverage separate from the mandate you criticize was never part of the ACA or Obama’s proposals before Congress actually crafted the ACA (which differed somewhat from what the President proposed, and actually was closer in many ways to Clinton’s proposal from the campaign.)

> Instead, it simply played into the insurance company profit centers by forcing people (now by law) to hold some kind of insurance or pay a large tax fine.

...except the tax penalty was small, and it only existed for three years (first coming into play in 2014 and being set at 0 since 2017.)

> So you're stuck paying $1,500 for sub-par care on a bronze plan with a massive deductible and no limit.

"No limit" for...what? This sounds like you are talking about out-of-pocket limits, but there are out-of-pocket limits for bronze plans.
by daurentius523 | 2025-10-28 22:07:46+00:00
To be really fair - semitic politheism had a thing for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moloch . This can be seen as opposition (a weak one) or whitewashed remnant of endorsement.

I'm not sure that this label works though - I get the F-Droid is doing it because of regulatory push but it seems to me that simply notion of "safe internet" or "safe app-store" is fundamentally misguided (we didn't made TV safe - just gave ranking and let parents decide)- and I can see that someone with modern sensibilities looking at older or god-forbid "ancient" literature will have to mark huge swaths of it as not safe.

I think that most of this rage should instead be directed toward this regulatory nonsense instead of F-droid though.

This does illustrate ironical thing - and what christian puritans forget - bible will not OK for atheistic/modern puritans.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-10-28 22:08:39+00:00
I feel like although sideloading could be correct term maybe but at the same time as the author stated, people might refer something shady to something which is a genuinely normal part, maybe even more safer when you download from f-droid compared to play-store

I feel like you are having this discussion in good faith which is really nice but I just feel like saying that google is oppressing other open source appstores or just using the word installing and later clarifying can make the people feel about how dangerous it really is.

Let me be really clear. If Google can prevent sideloading and the only feasable way for 99% users is their play store which uses their policy terms which can be ever changing, chances are, that they can also prevent people from downloading your app, and can remove your app etc. as well so they can very definitely prevent installing in general as well

The only escape hatch is maybe adb but please, for the 99% of use cases, I doubt how many people would operate a computer open up the terminal and try to use adb or other scenarios, but in all ways, I think that speaking of it as an installing itself isn't so bad after all.

If Google can genuinely go ahead and do this, it would definitely prevent installation of certain app in and in of itself because play store is also controlled by google and they can also remove/prevent apps installs from there too.

I would still recommend to you / the community to say it as an installation as earlier I was also used to saying sideloading but it was only while writing this comment when I realized of how google can actually prevent installation from play store as well since they own it, its an effective lock/restriction in installation itself for all purposes.

Have a nice day.
by southwindcg | 2025-10-28 22:09:26+00:00
Only eight years for a dryer is definitely not pretty good in my mind. It's barely acceptable unless you have a huge family and are doing laundry daily. I had a low-end Capri (Sears house brand) that was 21 years old and still going strong when I moved away. It was serviced once, by me, to replace a fuse. If I'd paid twice as much and gotten only eight years out of one, I'd be furious.
by Nextgrid | 2025-10-28 22:09:39+00:00
I think it originated on Reddit and it's since been parroted here in the comments on basically every smart TV thread but I have yet to see actual evidence. It seems like a trivial theory to test - disconnect from your wifi or change its password, wait for ads to suddenly reappear on the TV (evidence it got a network connection from somewhere).

Similar FUD is being spread around HDMI's Ethernet channel; a way to carry network data over an HDMI cable. I have basically never seen it in the wild on any consumer device, but even if it were, it would still require the other device to cooperate and act as a switch/router to share its connection to the TV. Yet despite that every time smart TVs and privacy comes up someone mentions this.
by n8cpdx | 2025-10-28 22:09:51+00:00
I also have this. I haven’t tried with cars, but the ANC seems to really amplify some deep bass sounds from the environment. To the point I hear things I wouldn’t ever notice before (e.g. different states of my air conditioner).

The problem is it comes through as an extremely loud rumble, usually in only one ear at a time.

Not a high pitched squeal, but a low pitched rumble. Goes away if I remove and reinsert, but immediately comes back in short order.

I can make it go away but only by using tips that don’t fit as well, and therefore don’t reduce noise as well (and also fall out of my ears while running).
by ptx | 2025-10-28 22:10:07+00:00
If we're using "primary" to mean "first-party" (as in your original comment), then the system's built-in package installer is the most first-party of all, so it's definitely not "not primary".

If we're using "primary" to mean something like "most popular", then I don't see how the term "sideloading" would make any sense to describe "not primary". Are we side-commenting here, and side-submitting HTTP requests, because we're not posting to Facebook, the primary website?
by avadodin | 2025-10-28 22:10:12+00:00
Sorry for misrepresenting it a bit.

The renaming and the having the constant be a variable confused me when skimming for the parts that I was looking for.

So, the state is 128 or 256 for the versions presented and 64 for msws16.

I don't remember if running PractRand in word mode changes the way it reports results but either way failing at 2GB would mean it failed even before going through the whole Weyl sequence although the period itself isn't necessarily reduced.

I'm not sure if the middle-square is acting as a decent non-linear scrambler on the poor adder state or if both combined manage to hold 30 bits worth of state. Swapping the adder with an lcg or lfsr on msws16 would provide an answer.

PractRand has the benefit that we can look at where and how failure happens in these reduced versions so I think the criticism ultimately stands regarding the paper.
by MallocVoidstar | 2025-10-28 22:10:55+00:00
The highest post in the chain we're in:

>PSA: author is Alejandra Caraballo [...]

The reply:

>Yep, this whole article is basically just -->his<-- very biased opinions [...]

My reply:

>Alejandra Caraballo is a woman.

I'm correcting them.
by prawn | 2025-10-28 22:10:59+00:00
Can't stand behaviour like this.

I pay for Spotify and the app now shows paid suggestions (cough ads), to paying users. When you tap the ellipsis and choose "Not interested", it doesn't respond with "OK, we'll stop" but something like 'We'll show less of this'.

No, don't show less, I want you to not show it at all.
by ryao | 2025-10-28 22:11:09+00:00
You are right, but blanket statements only need one counter example to be shown to be false. I had looked into cancer data because I read some remarks made about cancer between the US and Europe and I was curious if they were true.

For what it is worth, I take a prescription medication for a non-life threatening condition. I had once called Costco in Canada to find out how much the price is there out of curiosity. They do not sell it. I then discovered that the drug my doctor prescribed is exclusive to the US and is not sold anywhere else in the world. Presumably, nobody else is willing to pay the exorbitant price that is charged for it. Even the generic is expensive. The US system is expensive, but it gives people access to more expensive treatments that simply are not available elsewhere.

That said, I might have an elective operation in the future. It would have been covered by insurance as a necessity when I was young, but my parents never pursued it and the underlying condition’s severity decreased when I became an adult such that it is now elective surgery. I expect to engage in medical tourism to have that done.
by constantcrying | 2025-10-28 22:11:29+00:00
As someone who only plays videogames on Linux I have to say that it is a surprisingly good experience, even with an Nvidia Card. Some things just are unavailable, e.g. the new Battlefield, mostly due to developers wanting to insert very specific Anti-Cheat software.

But so much just works, old games, new games, singleplayer, multiplayer.
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by tverbeure | 2025-10-28 22:12:09+00:00
I think you are underestimating the number of Americans who make less than what Europeans make.

In both systems, the upper X% can afford it. But it makes no sense to focus on that. What matters is how many don’t have access.

That number is much larger percentage-wise here than in Europe. And it will only increase the way things are going.