MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hu3 | 2025-10-02 18:08:16+00:00
Nice! The whole implementation seems to be a bit over 1k lines. https://github.com/zig-wasm/zorth/blob/main/src/zorth.zig

The tests give some examples of what to try like: 65 EMIT

const tests = .{ .{ "65 EMIT ", "A" }, .{ "777 65 EMIT ", "A" }, .{ "32 DUP + 1+ EMIT ", "A" }, .{ "16 DUP 2DUP + + + 1+ EMIT ", "A" }, .{ "8 DUP * 1+ EMIT ", "A" }, .{ "CHAR A EMIT ", "A" }, .{ ": SLOW WORD FIND >CFA EXECUTE ; 65 SLOW EMIT ", "A" }, .{ fmt.comptimePrint("{d} DSP@ 8 TELL ", .{s}), "SYSCALL0" }, .{ fmt.comptimePrint("{d} DSP@ HERE @ 8 CMOVE HERE @ 8 TELL ", .{s}), "SYSCALL0" }, .{ fmt.comptimePrint("{d} DSP@ 2 NUMBER DROP EMIT ", .{mem.readInt(u16, "65", .little)}), "A" }, .{ "64 >R RSP@ 1 TELL RDROP ", "@" }, .{ "64 DSP@ RSP@ SWAP C@C! RSP@ 1 TELL ", "@" }, .{ "64 >R 1 RSP@ +! RSP@ 1 TELL ", "A" }, .{ \\: <BUILDS WORD CREATE DODOES , 0 , ; \\: DOES> R> LATEST @ >DFA ! ; \\: CONST <BUILDS , DOES> @ ; \\ \\65 CONST FOO \\FOO EMIT , "A", }, .{ preamble ++ "VERSION . ", "47 " }, .{ preamble ++ "CR ", "\n" }, .{ preamble ++ "0 1 > . 1 0 > . ", "0 -1 " }, .{ preamble ++ "0 1 >= . 0 0 >= . ", "0 -1 " }, .{ preamble ++ "0 0<> . 1 0<> . ", "0 -1 " }, .{ preamble ++ "1 0<= . 0 0<= . ", "0 -1 " }, .{ preamble ++ "-1 0>= . 0 0>= . ", "0 -1 " }, .{ preamble ++ "0 0 OR . 0 -1 OR . ", "0 -1 " }, .{ preamble ++ "-1 -1 XOR . 0 -1 XOR . ", "0 -1 " }, .{ preamble ++ "-1 INVERT . 0 INVERT . ", "0 -1 " }, .{ preamble ++ "3 4 5 .S ", "5 4 3 " }, .{ preamble ++ "1 2 3 4 2SWAP .S ", "2 1 4 3 " }, .{ preamble ++ "F_IMMED F_HIDDEN .S ", "32 128 " }, .{ preamble ++ ": CFA@ WORD FIND >CFA @ ; CFA@ >DFA DOCOL = . ", "-1 " }, .{ preamble ++ "3 4 5 WITHIN . ", "0 " }, .{ preamble ++ fmt.comptimePrint(": GETPPID {d} SYSCALL0 ; GETPPID . ", .{@intFromEnum(syscalls.X64.getppid)}), p }, .{ preamble ++ "ARGC . ", "2 " }, .{ preamble ++ "ENVIRON @ DUP STRLEN TELL ", mem.sliceTo(os.environ[0], 0) }, .{ preamble ++ "SEE >DFA ", ": >DFA >CFA 8+ EXIT ;\n" }, .{ preamble ++ "SEE HIDE ", ": HIDE WORD FIND HIDDEN ;\n" }, .{ preamble ++ "SEE QUIT ", ": QUIT R0 RSP! INTERPRET BRANCH ( -16 ) ;\n" }, .{ preamble ++ \\: FOO THROW ; \\: TEST-EXCEPTIONS 25 ['] FOO CATCH ?DUP IF ." FOO threw exception: " . CR DROP THEN ; \\TEST-EXCEPTIONS , "FOO threw exception: 25 \n", },
by taylodl | 2025-10-02 18:08:26+00:00
> Taiwan is Chinese territory as recognised by everyone.

Most countries do not recognize Chinese sovereignty over Taiwan. However, they also don't officially recognize Taiwan as an independent country. This is the position of strategic ambiguity. Even the UN has failed to recognize China's sovereignty over Taiwan. Taiwan's status is an unresolved issue in international law.

As for the idea that China has no expansionist views in East Asia, that's not supported by the facts. From Taiwan to the South China Sea to the Senkaku Islands, China has made aggressive territorial claims and has conducted coercive actions below the threshold of war to assert control. These actions aren't defensive - they're strategic moves to reshape the regional order. If the US fails to respond meaningfully, it risks undermining its alliances and ceding East Asia to Chinese dominance.

Bottom line: The U.S. must carefully consider how much political capital it’s willing to spend to prevent Chinese hegemony in East Asia and what the fallout will be if it fails.
by duxup | 2025-10-02 18:08:30+00:00
>The policy, issued by the Department of Defense in a seventeen-page memo on September 18, demands that journalists covering the Pentagon sign a document promising to report only on material “approved for public release by an appropriate authorizing official, even if it is unclassified.” Failure to do so by September 30 would result in the loss of their “hard pass,” the coveted press credential that permits certain reporters regular, unescorted access to the building. Pentagon officials recently told reporters they could request an additional five days to “consult with legal counsel” before the policy would be enforced.

Reporters and people should be able to talk about / report things, even if the government doesn't like it.

That policy is absurd / anti democratic.
by marcon680 | 2025-10-02 18:08:42+00:00
We've generally seen the "easy" flows not actually be easy. Workflows that have complex branching logic (shown when filling out the Aetna form in the first example in the video), structured scraping (the second example we showed in the video), and login/2FA/intelligent multi-agent scraping (shown in the last example in the video), are all things that are difficult to impossible to do with traditional automation libraries.

We also have an example of a complex, multi-agent workflow here that might be useful for you to look at: https://www.simplex.sh/blog/context-engineering-for-web-agen...
by freehorse | 2025-10-02 18:09:08+00:00
It is a public forum, people say all kinds of stuff. The commenter did not try to insult anybody, and they were trying to be polite and share how that worked for them. If you think their comment has no value to you, ignore it and move on. Hopefully you find other comments more stimulating/interesting (or not). Maybe some people find some value in that comment themselves. Not all people here are in their 40s with decades long insomnia issues.
by djohnston | 2025-10-02 18:09:29+00:00
Eh... "ridiculous" is a matter of perspective. If you're running a country and you want your people to be well-compensated and live meaningful lives, shuffling the hand in their favour is not violating some physical law. Countries restrain naked competition all the time to benefit their people.

To me it seems much more ridiculous to expect Western citizens to accept a degradation in living standards for the abstract notion of some universal economic efficiency. Though you can easily argue we're headed that way, it's mostly because of government capture by multinational corps.
by justin66 | 2025-10-02 18:09:46+00:00
> How do you convince people that believe this that it isn't true

It's not like the Gazans have any money to speak of.

> (or is irrelevant)?

If the way to prevent starvation is to flood the zone with food shipments, it's a moral imperative to do that. That it will also help keep the enemy fed is entirely beside the point, since causing starvation is not a legal or ethical form of warfare.
We can generate 15-hour training courses in under 20 minutes
by ESibio | 2025-10-02 18:10:33+00:00
We’ve been building this for about two and a half years and it’s been live for a year now. It’s an AI pipeline that creates full training courses end to end, not just outlines but slides, transcripts, quizzes, and voiceovers. Right now it can spin up about an hour of content in five minutes or 10–15 hours in around twenty minutes. We do have paying customers so it’s not just an experiment, but growth has been slow. We’re not the Stanford dropout story with $10M in VC behind us, and I’m not a Forbes 30 under 30 founder waiting to be sentenced for fraud either. We're just a small team trying to push this forward. The pattern so far has been companies say they want it, we run demos, some sign on, but most never convert, and sales cycles are long (3+ Months).

So I’m trying to figure out where this kind of capability actually fits best. Is it corporate training, higher ed, certifications, consumer learning? If you can generate effectively infinite training on demand, how do you convince people it’s not junk content? I’ve reviewed thousands of hours myself and even run AI checks outside the platform, (I have built courses the old fashioned way for UCSD, the USAF Innovation labs, and Northrop Grumman) and the material is solid, but that alone hasn’t seriously moved the needle. If you were bootstrapping or running on a tiny seed budget how would you approach growth without leaning on the hype machine? I’d really like to hear from people who went through the GTM struggle and came out the other side.

Thanks.
by mikeyouse | 2025-10-02 18:10:52+00:00
I’d like to see a deeper analysis here though. Insurers don’t make that much money on a percentage profit basis, but profit’s derived after expenses. Hypothetically, their sheer existence could be a huge burden to everyone involved, their costs to employ legions of make-work employees processing/rejecting/questioning claims could result in low profits even if the work isn’t necessary, they could take advantage of transfer pricing to hide profits in their wholly owned but separately reported PBMs…
by creer | 2025-10-02 18:10:55+00:00
To argue that Bernard Arnault is clueless in economics is beyond absurd. He did not inherit this wealth. He did start with a family operating business, yes, but nowhere near his life result (and "the job" not even complete yet). He grew his group entirely in one generation - and so, yeah he has a pretty good grasp of economics.

Biased, sure - like most of the french population where being opinionated is normal. Clueless, no.
by kazinator | 2025-10-02 18:10:58+00:00
Everything else being horrendously expensive does exert an upward lift on pharma prices. Yes, pharma does gouge Americans, no doubt about it.

This is not easy to analyze with complements vs substitutes. Sometimes drugs can be substitutes for other treatments, and sometimes they are complements.

Also, people may be desperately needing one or the other or both. It's not like quitting coffee when the prices are high.

Say that for a certain drug and certain set of medical treatments, they are complementary. If the treatment is jacked up to be expensive, less of it will be performed, and that will create less demand for the drug. So you would think the drug would go cheaper. But the drug vendors can simply use their market power (say it is a patented drug with no generic version available) to stick to their guns and jack their prices too. Then they exert the reverse effect; the more expensive drug will put downward pressure on the complementary treatment.

In this manner, both the drug and the procedures can gradually become expensive together. Though each one is not as expensive as it would be if the other didn't move.
by hn_acc1 | 2025-10-02 18:11:03+00:00
Maybe I am using some (use mostly firefox at home on my Linux box, other than when streaming certain sites where the picture is better on chrome) - but I can't think of many "new" FFox features I actually like, going back to like version 68 or something.. Every time they introduce something new, I have to disable it or work around it, or whatever.. Just let me keep my "it works" workflow, FFS.
by davidschultz | 2025-10-02 18:11:47+00:00
The book by Moritz Lenz is quite good. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-6109-5

There's also this polished three-hour introductory lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eb-j1rxs7sc

Combine that with reading up on details in the reference and you're in for a decent start. https://docs.raku.org/reference
Show HN: Self-hosted API for CRUD-ing JSON data
by tiemster | 2025-10-02 18:12:28+00:00
Self-hosted API for CRUD-ing JSON data in GO. No setup required. Perfect for quick data storage tasks (or e.g. mocking an API).

The API is based on your JSON structure. So the example below is for CRUD-ing [key1][key2] in file.json. The value (which can be anything) is then added to the body of the request. Moreover, there are helper functions for appending and incrementing values.

DELETE/PUT/GET: /api/file/key1/key2/...
by altairprime | 2025-10-02 18:12:32+00:00
Perhaps not posting the “here’s how to destroy a nice thing” ideas, which makes them more widely known and thus more likely to be created by someone, would help reduce the incidences of “nice thing destroyed”. That next step towards destruction is never quite as obvious to everyone as you think. Sure, a few people have probably thought of it, but odds are they won’t do anything about it. Sharing them widely like this is like leading a flash mob to hold up lightning rods in a thunderstorm and saying “it would be such a shame if lightning struck one of us”.
by chrisjeffries24 | 2025-10-02 18:12:38+00:00
One had rather hoped that American universities — those self-proclaimed citadels of enlightenment and free inquiry — might have learned something from the sordid pageant of McCarthyism. Apparently not.

The University of California, Berkeley, an institution that once prided itself on being the very cradle of the Free Speech Movement, has now distinguished itself by compiling and surrendering a list of 160 names to the Trump administration’s Department of Education. The crime of these faculty members, students, and staff? They stand accused — though “accused” dignifies the process far beyond what it deserves — of “alleged antisemitic incidents.”

160 names. No notification. No due process. No defense.

Let us pause to admire the exquisite cowardice of that bureaucratic formulation: “alleged antisemitic incidents.” Not proven. Not substantiated. Not even clearly defined. Merely alleged — a word that in the hands of the vindictive and the opportunistic becomes a license for unlimited persecution.
by yakshaving_jgt | 2025-10-02 18:12:47+00:00
> Yes and no.

Yes, the russian regime started the war. There isn't more to it than that.

> Come on, when is enough enough?

Enough will be when the russian federation collapses, and the russian military is removed from all of Ukrainian territory, including Donbas and Crimea. Clearly, you don't think this is realistic, but that's because you're ignorant, wilfully or otherwise. The current Ukrainian military strategy of destroying russian crude oil refinement facilities is accelerating the collapse of russia. This will be what reverses course on the broader global trend of war and authoritarianism. Western diplomacy didn't do this. Peaceful protest didn't do this. Economic sanctions didn't do this. Ukrainian military strategy is doing this.

> And now, I'm not hippie

I don't think you're a hippie, but I do think you're delusional.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-10-02 18:13:07+00:00
>Perhaps so. But your original comment implied that politicians were doing what voters wanted, whereas now you're suggesting that politicians simply lied, or used Orwellian doublespeak, to do what the politicians wanted, which is practically the opposite of what the voters wanted.

Voters often want things, but simultaneously don’t want to pay for them (i.e. increase taxes). See also federally subsidized student loans and federally subsidized mortgages.
by klntsky | 2025-10-02 18:13:26+00:00
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I'm mainly interested in LLM/AI automation (especially chatbots), FP, and DeFi.
by collingreen | 2025-10-02 18:13:51+00:00
I was thinking this again just yesterday. Do my laundry correctly and get it put away. Organized my storage. Clean the bathroom. Do the dishes. Catalog my pantry, give me recipes, and keep it correctly stocked. Maybe I'm just a simple creature but like, these are the obvious problems in my life I'll pay to have go away so why are we taking away the fun stuff instead?
by dinobones | 2025-10-02 18:13:52+00:00
I think your anthropomorphization of GPT4-o is pretty generous.

Vanilla WoW was also discontinued in 2006, and somehow players got Blizzard to bring it back in 2019.

Does that mean that vanilla WoW is a 300 IQ AGI?

To be more charitable, I get it, 4o is engaging/lonely people like talking to it. But that doesn't actually mean that those people will carry out its will in the real world. Nor does it have the capabilities of coordinating that across conversations. Nor does it have a singular agentic drive/ambition. Because it's a piece of software.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-10-02 18:13:53+00:00
When it costs more than it's worth, most people won't be able to afford it.

When the costs come down to where everybody can afford it easily, it's not going to make any more money than a lot of other things.

You would also have "currency offset" in the form of general intelligence itself, with "artificial" having its value diluted or suffering "inflation" relative to scarce alternatives, which would put upward pressure on "natural" to increasingly trade at a premium.
by FireBeyond | 2025-10-02 18:14:39+00:00
> and deliver way more procedures

Diagnostic imaging companies - each of the big ones (Siemens, GE, Philips) offer in-house financing for MRI, CT, etc., that they advertise to physicians. They also all offer specialist consulting help to facilitate you getting a CoN (Certificate of Need) for your facility. Hell, they also will help you find other physicians in your area who'd like to go in on setting up a DI facility (and will assist with spinning up the practice).

We then find that physicians who own a DI practice (or a share in one) refer their patients to diagnostic imaging at rates several standard deviations above other physicians and at rates that are "statistically improbable" when correlated to underlying ICD-10 diagnostic codes.

Upton Sinclair comes to mind ("It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it").
by max51 | 2025-10-02 18:14:56+00:00
In the early days of Windows 10, it was even worse because the updates could brick your windows install and you would get stuck on a blue screen or a boot loop after it forced you to restart. I've had to reinstall W10 at least a dozen time because of bad updates.

I personally liked the W8 approach to updates. You were allowed to set windows update in a mode that would notify you of new updates but you got to chose when to download/install them. That setting as also permanent and they didn't "accidentally" revert it back during an update.
by Animats | 2025-10-02 18:15:23+00:00
“Israel has built the most efficient starvation machine you can imagine.”

There's political opposition to this within Israel. Here's what happened to an elected member of the Knesset who spoke out against the cruelty in Gaza.[1] He was forcibly removed from the podium of the Knesset.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzDxV7jnAos
by rockercoaster | 2025-10-02 18:15:36+00:00
There's perhaps more pressure in a way because you're now responsible for fixing any problems, but kids are exposed to the exact same risks of adult life and employment via their parents, plus some extra ones that adults aren't subject to (parents can be abusive, for one thing—adults can abuse other adults in their household, but getting out is a lot easier for an adult than a kid, especially young kids).

That's one factor that's lower-pressure (sort-of... plenty of kids end up working to help support the household, in addition to school) but still offering up similar risk & worries, on one side, and then all the bad stuff of high school and of not yet having the freedom of an adult on the other side, increasing pressure. I still think in the typical case, being a high schooler's a ton worse.

Add to this that the pressure on you in high school is in part to perform well so you don't fail at adult life. That adult life pressure, and the concerns about e.g. lack of employability or homelessness, are is already present in high school. The harm is in the future, but the pressure is already there.

Though, yes, one absolutely can "fail" badly at adult life. I don't mean to suggest it's entirely easy street. It's just a whole lot less unpleasant or difficult on average than high school.

I mean, truly, if adult life were anywhere near as harsh as high school, assuming I hadn't offed myself, I'd definitely have "failed" by now and be living on the street or something. Expectations are just... comically low, most of the time, not much-higher as so many suggested when I was in school, so it's pretty easy to do alright provided you don't get hit by bad luck (which exact same bad luck potential, again, high schoolers are exposed to via their parents anyway).
by cubefox | 2025-10-02 18:15:37+00:00
Google has led AI research for years with Google Brain and DeepMind, but they have been overtaken by OpenAI now, and perhaps soon also by other players who are building gigantic data centers. Google's core mistake was arguably that they were far too late in coming up with a model that was competitive with GPT-4. Now ChatGPT has likely more than an order of magnitude more subscribers than Gemini. At the same time, Google's search engine is increasingly replaced by ChatGPT, drying up their main source of revenue: search ads.

Recently one of their top reasoning researchers switched to OpenAI, likely leaking Google's internal reasoning secret sauce, if they even knew anything that OpenAI didn't. I doubt they will catch up.
by tptacek | 2025-10-02 18:15:54+00:00
I'm not even looking at profit; you don't have to, because insurance is such a small component of US health spending. This is the value of having the NHE data in front of you in discussions like this; we don't even have to debate how much of US health insurance is administered by nonprofit firms, or whether for-profit firms are gouging, because the whole thing is too small a component to matter.
by 9rx | 2025-10-02 18:16:23+00:00
Of course, likewise, the best engineering is to do nothing. All actions have consequences, and while engineers may not look at the exact same consequences as lawyers, they are both equally concerned about consequences.

But sitting back and doing nothing on the basis of their worry wouldn't fly in the real world. If such a hypothetical government existed, the leaders would have to act, else be quickly overthrown. Power is only able to be held if the people want to give it to you.
by zijin1994 | 2025-10-02 18:16:25+00:00
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by Centigonal | 2025-10-02 18:16:37+00:00
> In other words, in the study population patients who would have had high LDL were likely to be on statins. The had a lower measured LDL value even though they might still be consuming a poor diet and living an unhealthy lifestyle, for example. Statins don't fix everything about poor diet and lifestyle, but they do help with cholesterol.

The implication here is that the LDL-lowering effect of statins is greater than the CVE-reducing effect of statins. That is, if the statins lower your LDL by 30%, that doesn't bring your risk of heart disease the to the same level as someone who naturally has an identical lower LDL.
by bitshiftfaced | 2025-10-02 18:16:57+00:00
> How do you teach political science, history, basically any social science, or even freaking literature, while doing that? Even if it only required you to be "neutral" (which is not what it says), that would be impossible.

By keeping it descriptive instead of prescriptive. As to whether staff should be allowed to make prescriptive statements, I think there's an argument for both sides. Personally, it irked me when professors used the time I paid for to "enlighten" me about their personal worldview during time that could've been used for learning about the subject and leaving the student to decide what to make of it.