MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cfu28 | 2025-10-06 23:37:54+00:00
Have you been on the other side of this? I get dozens of sepsis alerts a day, usually on the same patient, and the criteria that triggers them is so broad and non specific they are functionally useless. Each alert locks down the entire system ironically preventing you from reviewing what triggered it in the first place. You cannot do anything until it is addressed and you are forced to commit to an action without all the data because of it like administer a medication or order fluids, which may not be appropriate. Lots of things mimic sepsis criteria including but not limited to decompensated cirrhosis, HF, cancers, leukemias. The worst is that they don’t even pop up at the right time, they usually pop up usually way after the sepsis has been treated. In the past year, I’ve only had about a half dozen appropriate sepsis pop ups among the hundreds I’ve received.
by jonahss | 2025-10-06 23:37:55+00:00
One thing that China has, that the US does not is a marketplace like Alibaba. It's simply incredible how you can place an order for any component with a quantity slider that goes from "three" to "three full train-cars a day".

When starting a hardware product, it's so easy to buy small quantities at commercial prices, no questions asked.

In the US, it seems all sales is relationship-based. I need to fill out forms on bad websites, wait for emails from sales reps, who sniff out immediately that I only want a small order. The overhead for processing an order isn't deemed worth the time, and any US-based small-time project ends there.
by tempestn | 2025-10-06 23:38:00+00:00
I'd say you're biasing the analysis by ending at the bottom after the crash though. Certainly if you managed to time your capitulation for the market bottom you would have lost out, but if you're buy-and-hold long term, you'd catch all of the recovery too. The person who sold early, on the other hand, would most likely miss some of the recovery as well.
by _pdp_ | 2025-10-06 23:39:38+00:00
There are so many libraries called chatkit or some variation of that including the one I am working on - chatbotkit (I guess some SEO will rub off).

Apart from that, it looks like an interesting initiative, but I fail to see what this is supposed to replace. Widgets? Customer support? I mean, sure, you can create some kind of question-answer bot, but for something more substantial, you'll need a completely different dashboard and backend. I can't see how OpenAI will accomplish this without butchering their existing UI.
by chongli | 2025-10-06 23:40:42+00:00
It's funny, because the chat bot designers seem to be continually attempting to recreate the voice computer interface from Star Trek: TNG. Yet if you watch the show carefully, the vast majority of the work done by all the Enterprise crew is done via touchscreens, not voice.

The only reason for the voice interface is to facilitate the production of a TV show. By having the characters speak their requests aloud to the computer as voice commands, the show bypasses all the issues of building visual effects for computer screens and making those visuals easy to interpret for the audience, regardless of their computing background. However, whenever the show wants to demonstrate a character with a high level of computer mastery, the demonstration is almost always via the touchscreen (this is most often seen with Data), not the voice interface.

TNG had issues like this figured out years ago, yet people continue to fall into the same trap because they repeatedly fail to learn the lessons the show had to teach.
by TZubiri | 2025-10-06 23:40:44+00:00
Interesting that we use the same word to describe both technologies, but semantically and technically they are very different.

Perhaps we use the same word to describe them because initially they did use the same technologies, but they have branched out ever since? Maybe IPSec would be a common tech used. But the algorithms are not the same anymore since they serve different purposes (Personal privacy vs corporate/sysadmin security)

In the corporate world VPNs were usually a lower level abstraction security mechanism or a redundant security mechanism to either complement application layer_security, or to hot-patch modern security unto legacy LAN systems. VPN encryption is usually provided by the local router. Common algorithms are IPSec/IKev2.

In the personal privacy world, we are talking about a proxy that hides identification such as IP addresses, and pools connections to provide privacy. The actual encryption is not the main security mechanism even, as it only covers the transit between consumer to proxy, leaving (a potentially longer transit) between the proxy to the actual destination.

In terms of purpose and architecture it's closer to bitcoin tumblers, or Tor or Freenet, or money laundering placement. The fact that they call it VPNs seems to me more of a marketing scheme or political play to avoid association with all of the above, than an actual technical or academical description. If someone were to analyse these technologies, I'm sure a neutral or critical approach would avoid uncritically calling them VPNs in the same way that research is published not about Viagra, but on Sildenafil.
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2025-10-06 23:40:51+00:00
> > If I gamble on a sporting event, the outcome of the sporting event does not change. Someone wins. Someone loses. No value created. The outcome is societally zero sum in expectation.

If your net worth is less than 100M you have no business concerning yourself with societal value creation in the U.S.

The only reason to create a startup instead of betting on a sporting event is that in the startup although your odds are longer you get to learn a field that presumibly you like and forage in an environment of similarly thinking individuals

Nowadays where the startup world is all about networking and performance art and chasing the wave and all sorts of KPI BS, and sell out to VC firms...give me the sport bet every day of the week and twice on Sunday.

Either that or 100M and then I can start worrying about societal outcomes,

Also don't forget that one of the many ways in which for that sport bet windfall could be spent might be donating it to charity

The sport bet is the MVB (minimum viable bet) whereas the startup is this complicated megabet with hundreds moving parts in which you also have to act to either impress your boss or investors (or both)
by rushingcreek | 2025-10-06 23:41:10+00:00
I'm not saying that the schema can't change from time to time, I'm saying that having any fixed schema at request time is not an ideal user experience because it may not be clear what is supported and what is not supported. From first principles, it's much better if the app schema can be created dynamically at request time so we can guarantee that we can fully serve the user's request exactly as they asked it.
by vpShane | 2025-10-06 23:41:28+00:00
'We'll never require you to need an online account to log in to your system'

Look how that changed.

Windows Recall 'We'll never use this in any bad way whatsoever' Sure thing.

Windows 10 goes EOL in 8 days, with the EU forcing Microsoft to give their customer bases security patches. Not anywhere else though, and not in the U.S.

What was the end goal with that? Move everybody over to Windows 11; on their EOL page it lists places you can donate your old non-working hardware to. Forcing users to do what? Buy new overpriced hardware when what they have is fine?

People jumped to Windows 7 out of spite; with Linux Desktop marketshare still slowly, steadily rising over the last 10 months. Windows 7 is EOL and no longer receives security patches, so security wise people are a lot worse off than what was anticipated.

Here's the thing, I started up an old iPad last night and the e-mail no longer exists nor can be created, so I can't do a lost password, I can't log in, so I can't install apps, or even format the device without some 'Account Lock'

I own this iPad, as in: it's mine. Why should I, and why would I want to put MY device's access and security on the whims of company?

They want to own our hardware, and our software.

I for one preach Linux Desktop, Manjaro XFCE for me. I think people are sticking with Windows 7 despite it being EOL because games and their software will for the most part not run in to issues linux gaming may be facing.

That ain't the way. Your computer. Your choice. No cloud accounts/everything being logged on the desktop that people do, no 'requirements' to utilize the new software, and no 'requirements' to connect people to cloud backup systems to later coerce and push people to buy.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-10-06 23:41:43+00:00
I'd still argue that the time to make a focused curriculum to close those gaps (even if it's just a pamphlet of topics to research) is much less time and money than the prospect of paying for more schooling. I'll definitely take the latter if the company is paying for it, but it just seems to be another one of those micro-inefficiencies in US Labor.
by TZubiri | 2025-10-06 23:42:32+00:00
Wait, I think an ISP cannot inspect the content of packets that are encrypted, say, with HTTPs. In order to inspect TLS encrypted packets you need access to the end-device, controlling the end-router is not sufficient since you would not have access to the device certificates.

If you can prove that an ISP can inspect packets, it would be major news.
by egypturnash | 2025-10-06 23:43:42+00:00
Crunchyroll’s major layoff just two months ago, during which most of their operations team was unceremoniously let go, included some of the longest-serving Crunchyrollers, adding up to a combined total of around 100 years of service to the company by my calculations. Is a new subcontractor and/or service the replacement? It seems that way to me.

And there's your answer. Bet they're replacing most of their artisinal subtitlers with AI.
by fragmede | 2025-10-06 23:44:15+00:00
I think there's a lack of financial education in a lot of cases. There are two axis, dumb with money vs smart with money, and rich and poor. These form four quadrants. There are people in each of those quadrants. It's the poor and dumb with money quadrant that's most painful to see. CalebHammer on YouTube helps people to see how their choices result in them drowning in debt.
by dpark | 2025-10-06 23:44:33+00:00
I was using your “a few drinks more”. 4 standard beers over 2 hours supposedly puts a guy around .08. 3 more puts him at .16. But yeah, the near double drinking can’t continue because the alcoholic will just die at some point.

The THC thing is tough and I will leave it to experts and (more likely) politicians to hash it out. I’m not sure I want more reliance on field sobriety tests though. “His eyes were glassy and he was slurring. No, the camera can’t really capture the glassy eyes and don’t really pick up the slurring…”
by maxglute | 2025-10-06 23:44:58+00:00
Current network capacity runs off excess fiber. Networking gets upgraded at nodes and dumb pipe (excess fiber) efficiency improves. Like we upgrade switching for 100+ year old rail to improve freight efficiency. Much of $$$$$ / capex "wasted" in dot bubble boom went to civil engineering - digging trenches to build out "agnostic" fiber conduits with multi decade life span that can be repuporsed for general use.

Bulk of AI capex build out is going to be in specialized hardware and data centers with bespoke power / cooling / networking profile. If current LLM approaches turn out to be deadend the entire data centre is potentially stranded asset unless future applications can specifically take advantage. But there's a good chance _if_ LLM crashes, then it might be due to something inherently wrong with current approach, i.e. compute/cost doesn't make commercial sense, and resuing stranded data centers might not make economic sense.
by PebblesHD | 2025-10-06 23:45:31+00:00
I’ve posted before about my half-in half-out life between Japan and Australia, and the media I consume is a product of this. Anime, while not a massive part of my watching habit, is certainly a weekly thing at least, and over the past few years it’s been getting harder and harder to support legal services outside of Japan.

In Australia, AnimeLab used to be the gold standard. It had a polished app and dedicated team, mainly because it started out as a piracy site and went legal, keeping the passionate team etc.

They got bought out by Funimation and the app was shelved in favour of Funimation’s far worse but still usable one. Then Funimation was bought out by crunchyroll and their app was also shelved for crunchy’s terrible one. I kept paying for a while after that but after a few instances of missing subs and poor releases I gave up and just kept my Japan side subscriptions going, while getting my Australian side content ‘elsewhere’.

I’m sad the market doesn’t seem big enough to support a new competitor with a focus on quality, but as mentioned in TFA, exclusivity deals make this even harder than it otherwise would be. Shame really, as lately the releases from even the various smaller anime studios have been rather excellent.
by randycupertino | 2025-10-06 23:45:36+00:00
Other industries benefit as well from the lack of credientialing pathway for foreign MDs, because they end up taking under market salary roles in things like pharmacovigilance, sales, clindev, med affairs and other roles in biotech and pharma. I have a Bulgarian MD doing a vendor manager role for central lab and he is criminally underpaid for how overqualified he is. One time at a client dinner I asked him if he misses using his MD and he was like, "It's better than nothing and doing this contract PM role is still 10x more than I would be making being an actual doctor in Bulgaria."
by drob518 | 2025-10-06 23:45:45+00:00
I agree that cache efficiency is important. You can never have enough L1. It seems to me that compressed instructions ala ARM Thumb and RISC-V Compressed give you most of what you really want. One of the problems in the CISC era was that the compilers actually didn’t generate many of the fancy instructions, so it’s unclear whether you’d get back much from decoding massive amounts of micro-ops and letting the superscaler scheduler work it out if the compiler is mostly generating the simple instructions anyway. That said, the compilers of that era were also less sophisticated, so maybe we’d do better now.

In the end, though, I don’t see CISC making any significant come back, other than perhaps in embedded where code size is definitely important and speeds are generally lower and multi-cycle execution is ok. But it feels like we already have all the ISAs we need to cover that space pretty well already.
by throwaway2037 | 2025-10-06 23:46:07+00:00
> The AI hype train is bs, but there're real and concrete uses for it if you don't expect it to become a super-intelligence.

I agree 100% with this sentiment. Another good use case: Ask an LLM to summarize a large document. Again, not super-intelligence, but can be a big timesaver to reduce "intern work". I have heard some people have a LLM plug-in to their Microsoft Outlook (Exchange) that allows them to summarize an email thread. Again, not perfect, but helps to reduce cognitive load. Another practical example: Using an LLM with conference calls to transcribe meeting notes and provide a summary. Then you can review the summary, fix any obvious errors, and send by email to participants.
by phoronixrly | 2025-10-06 23:46:14+00:00
Let's review for example Traefik's dependency list: https://github.com/traefik/traefik/blob/master/go.mod

1. Heavy dependency on Github. AKA Microsoft owns much of the golang ecosystem. Not just the source... The package distribution as well!

2. Many packages are referencing a git (short!) commit hash instead of a version. It still boggles my mind that this is an acceptable practice. Not to mention that git tags can be deleted and recreated... A pinnacle of secure package distribution practices.

3. Stuff like ambiguous imports because apparently nothing enforces proper go.mod files? They are not packages to be compiled after all, they're just repos with some conventional structure (optional)...

Mind you, this is popular production-grade software...

I think this is much worse than even node packages, let alone bundler and rubygems...
by brian-armstrong | 2025-10-06 23:46:45+00:00
> People jumped to Windows 7 out of spite; with Linux Desktop marketshare still slowly, steadily rising over the last 10 months. Windows 7 is EOL and no longer receives security patches, so security wise people are a lot worse off than what was anticipated.

If you saw the same report of that, it turned out to be a UA anomaly. Most likely very few people actually went back to Win 7, which now has quite bad compatibility with newer hardware and software.
by dijit | 2025-10-06 23:47:35+00:00
I find it difficult to reconcile “this is what makes the country work long term” when the country you’re talking about is one of the youngest on the world stage.

I should also point out that part of why the US is as strong a global presence is because the manufacturing infrastructure of Europe was decimated after some pretty intense warfare.

I just don’t see what you’re asserting.
by Liftyee | 2025-10-06 23:47:46+00:00
This is really impressive to me as a natural hoarder of stuff (I call it "resourcefulness" when I can use some scrap to fix things, but it can get excessive).

I feel like if I dropped my desire to wear a variety of clothes (collared shirts, jackets ...) I could almost imagine this one bag life, especially when each item is designed to be modular and multipurpose (S-biners!)

I would have a few issues with this particular list though, mainly all the polyester clothes (my only poly clothes are "technical"/sports oriented, otherwise cotton/wool/linen etc...) Not sure exactly where I gained this dislike, I guess I just prefer natural fibers for comfort reasons.

Also, as a hardware-oriented engineer, I would have a hard time packing all the lab equipment/projects up. Perhaps could be solved by finding a good hackerspace, but fundamentally being interested in real-world physical technology means more "stuff" to carry around.

It would definitely be interesting to see a yearly stats breakdown of how many times I used each object. There are definitely many zeroes in that list.

E: Also, I'm too used to Linux and too attached to freedom (in principle) to switch to a Mac, even though the M-series power efficiency is unmatched.
by Havoc | 2025-10-06 23:47:59+00:00
Had to edit a .docx today to refresh my CV today...and realised oh...I don't have any more windows machines on hand anymore. Interesting how smoothly that faded away psychologically after 20+ years of windows use without me even overtly noticing.

Think MS is in for a rough ride on Windows. Short of corporate world - Excel/Sharpoint/AD - there is just no moat. Browsers work fine on all platforms, dev work is better on linux anyway and gaming on linux is rapidly becoming usable. And mac side is obviously competitive on various fronts too.
by nomel | 2025-10-06 23:48:13+00:00
> in terms of people employed

It's also multiple times the size of most states. Per capita is probably a better metric, where it ranks 34th.

> and economic output

I can't find the raw data, so I'm not sure what they're counting. It says "computer and electronics" is highest, which is 2x above chemical, which makes me very suspicious. I work in manufacturing that happens 100% in China. Would I be counted? Are they counting AMD or Qualcomm, where their chips are manufactured in Taiwan (or Arizona)? How much of this is military/government contracts (which aren't subject to many of these pressures)?
by TZubiri | 2025-10-06 23:48:54+00:00
Just because something is called with the same name, doesn't mean it's the same thing. Especially if the naming is done on a product by a company that wants to sell the product, and especially if the name is not a protected trademark.

Express VPN, NordVPN and Surfshark belong to another category of software than the VPNs used by companies.

Some differences are:

1- One is used by consumers, the other is used by businesses.

2- One protects communications to a client-controlled Local area network. The other protects communications with third party services.

3- One provides encryption, the other provides anonymization.
by pfannkuchen | 2025-10-06 23:49:30+00:00
Okay so what percent of historical citizenships have been revoked? What percent would it be for you to not consider it an edge case? My estimate is an upper bound of 1% of citizenships historically were deleted. I would call that an edge case. Not because it doesn’t matter, but because being for enforcement of borders and residency laws does not make you automatically for deleting citizenships, and conflating the two is incorrect. If it is 5% or 10% then I would be wrong to use the language “edge case” but I believe my point stands regardless.

I had not read about the “naked zip tied children” case. If that happened as described, the officers involved should be disciplined. I do wish this could be done in a more orderly fashion as that would reduce the chances of illegal conduct from the officers, though with the American election cycle I can understand why the regime may feel like it needs to act quickly.
by drob518 | 2025-10-06 23:50:24+00:00
That’s the right answer, IMO. To me, that sounds a lot like a RISC with some complex instructions, which is really where all RISCs have landed in any case. That said, I would use fixed length compressed instructions ala Thumb and RISC-V Compressed. And there’s nothing wrong with that patch of design space. That works.
by LudwigNagasena | 2025-10-06 23:50:37+00:00
Glad to see no AGI hubris in this presentation, but we also haven’t see anything groundbreaking: their own version of GUI plugins, their own version of a workflow builder, and an aspiration to take cut of every transaction on the web.

I hope their GUI integration will be eventually superseded by native UI integration. I remember such well thought out concepts dating back to 2018 (https://uxdesign.cc/redesigning-siri-and-adding-multitasking...).
by throwaway2037 | 2025-10-06 23:51:42+00:00
> If the reporter needs an LLM to help translate they could easily be missing subtle mistranslations.

You raise an interesting point about "missing subtle mistranslations". Consider the stakes for this article: This highly factual news reporting. There are unlikely to be complex or subtle grammar. However, if translating an interview, this stakes are higher, as people use many idiomatic expressions when speaking their native language. Thinking deeper: The highest stakes (culturally) that I can think of is translating novels. They are full of subtle meanings.
by GeekyBear | 2025-10-06 23:51:53+00:00
Google has already shown that they will slowly and methodically use every lever at their disposal to nerf ad blocking, regardless of what the user base thinks.

It's the exact same playbook Microsoft is using to block users from logging onto their own computer without using an online Microsoft account.

Given that Google has already started working to limit sideloading on Android, those days seem limited.
by Nifty3929 | 2025-10-06 23:51:57+00:00
Don't confuse wealth with money - they are opposites, or maybe two sides of a coin.

Wealth is the stuff - in this case pens. Money is what you get in exchange.

Society gets more pens with less human effort required - that's a win, and has nothing to do with money.

Money (increased profits, share price, etc) is what happens when you create the more stuff with less effort that society gets.

Money is how we keep track of how much net wealth (stuff) someone or some company has created for society.