MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-02 23:30:05+00:00
Which, to anyone who knows even the basic econ ideology that would suggest such a claim, is "duh".

You can choose to not repair your car. You cannot choose to not repair your body except in extreme cases.

Demand will always be infinite. We don't have the technology to saturate the healthcare market any time soon.

Meanwhile, plenty of Americans still insist that they "Don't want to pay for freeloaders" as the current system means hospitals overcharge them to subsidize people with no insurance who come into the emergency room (a much much much more expensive healthcare onramp) and require care.

But Americans will fix that shortly. Once hospitals are allowed to just let uninsured people die, you can rest assured that your money will not be used to subsidize poor people. Instead, every excess dime you spend will go right into the profit column of some executive's spreadsheet!
by wat10000 | 2025-10-02 23:30:35+00:00
Ok, so the aggressor is saying “it’s not a famine, we’re only starving 12% of the children.” You do understand that this is not a good faith argument, right? You might care about preserving the meaning of the word but they don’t give the slightest shit about it. They are not trying to preserve the meaning of the word so that we have the ability to talk about it. They are trying to muddy the waters of the actual facts of what is happening so that people talk about whether there is actually a famine or not rather than the fact that a large number of children are starving. Stop being a patsy and doing their work for them.
by olyjohn | 2025-10-02 23:30:49+00:00
Note that you're likely paying $238 and still not getting a legit copy of Windows. If you don't have a volume license agreement and a minimum of 5 Windows licenses, you aren't supposed to use the LTSC version of Windows, and they're not supposed to be used for primary desktops. Also you're supposed to have a Pro license for the machine BEFORE you buy LTSC, so that's just more extra costs. You might as well just save the money and pirate it. Not that this will make any difference in practice if you're just using it at home, but still, people should probably know this.
by Spooky23 | 2025-10-02 23:31:21+00:00
No way. It’s 2025, society is totally different, you have to think about what is the new normal. They are too big to fail at this point — so much of the S&P 500 valuation is tied to AI (Microsoft, Google, Tesla, etc) they are arguable strategic to the US.

Fascist corporatism will throw them in for whatever Intel rescue plan Nvidia is forced to participate in. If the midterms flip congress or if we have another presidential election, maybe something will change.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-10-02 23:31:53+00:00
> A feeling of incompleteness will motivate you to come back and finalize your work the next day.

Unfortunately, in between there's sleep, which is the great feelings eraser / emotional cache flusher. So all that'll happen is that said "feeling of incompleteness" will distract me for the rest of the evening, then disappear at night. Come morning, it won't be there, so I'll have to read the plan to hopefully induce that feeling again.
by frollogaston | 2025-10-02 23:32:09+00:00
Is this an important feature? I know WhatsApp and iMessage have some kind of API for businesses, but as a regular user, I've never interacted with a legit business using it. Only been harassed by bots a few times.

My one serious problem with Signal is that it silently goes out of date then stops sending notifications, so I miss messages entirely. Kind of its one job.
by bbatsell | 2025-10-02 23:33:55+00:00
One technique I occasionally use is to look at the “zap” stanza of an app’s homebrew cask formula:

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/f44500902e420...

Based on the “notion-updater” I’m guessing there’s also a launchagent/launchdaemon that is “updating” (read: reinstalling) it whenever you manually delete it.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-02 23:34:12+00:00
Abhorrent. Not only in the crime but that "although several alleged perpetrators were charged, there has yet to be a trial."

But also, that's forty-eight dead. The fiasco started after "a 'United Ukraine' rally was attacked by pro-Russian separatists." And this was criminality by a protest group (in predominantly pro-Russian territory, no less) not any party claiming to govern Ukraine.
by jedimastert | 2025-10-02 23:34:47+00:00
As a side note, that's the same stuff that just sat on shelves and went back instead of going to starving kids all over the world because Trump and Musk and Co. decided that USAID was a "waste of money".

https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/04/25/g-s1-...
by underlipton | 2025-10-02 23:35:36+00:00
Quick anecdote before I dive in:

>learning things like how to run an Airbnb or food truck, manage a brokerage account or Broadway production, or build a business or drone.

I remember touring my high school alma mater, a local magnet with a decent record of getting kids into top schools (that it was fed by the bedroom communities of NASA and USDA sites clearly notwithstanding). As we passed the shop, we spent a good 15 minutes learning about the small plane students were building. A good 10-foot wingspan. I matriculated and that was the last I heard of it.

I've noticed that, in marketing for educational institutions, it's common for the uncommon and exceptional achievements of That One Student to get pushed as indicative of what most students can expect to (and will never actually) do. I'd think most would do well to be wary of an article that starts out with such a claim. Regression to the mean probably factors in, even for outlier schools.
by komali2 | 2025-10-02 23:36:40+00:00
I'm not seeing how you could draw that conclusion. The more likely explanation is that they are telling people not to build apps around it (and I assume thus the apis aren't well designed for adoption by other apps).

> This repository is used by the Signal client apps (Android, iOS, and Desktop) as well as server-side. Use outside of Signal is unsupported.

https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-10-02 23:37:08+00:00
The simple interpreter seems worth a lot. The official one is under 20k lines. There are reimplementations in many other host language (Go,Rust,JS, etc). Meaning it should be possible run Lua code forever without maintaining a full legacy virtual machine OS. I am not sure I can compile Node today, let alone N years from now as compilers and platforms shift.
by AuthAuth | 2025-10-02 23:38:14+00:00
Thats a weird framing. It seems more like an escalation of an already violent clash than Pro Ukrainian protestors burning a building full of Pro russians alive intentionally.

>A 'United Ukraine' rally was attacked by pro-Russian separatists where Stones, petrol bombs and gunfire were exchanged. The pro-Ukraine protesters then moved to dismantle a pro-Russian protest camp in Kulykove Pole, causing some pro-Russian activists to barricade themselves in the nearby Trade Unions House. Shots were fired by both sides, and the pro-Ukraine protesters attempted to storm the building, which caught fire as the two groups threw petrol bombs at each other.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-10-02 23:38:18+00:00
I don't get it. Is this supposed to be a gotcha or do you honestly believe that conservatives never actually cared about soldiers performing law enforcement?

Considering this was a fairly isolated incident, perhaps Eisenhower was a conservative who encountered extenuating circumstances? Or he was an imperfect conservative?

Also "to escort some kids to school" is a bold way to phrase it.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-02 23:38:18+00:00
> they don’t give the slightest shit about it

Who cares?

We just watched this nonsense happen with the word genocide. Both sides were careless with it. Now, it's lost meaning. Famine is still a hard line in the sand. All the evidence points to Israel having breached that line. The solution isn't to get rid of the line, it's to point to the line, point to the ground and say you're past the fucking line.
by rchaud | 2025-10-02 23:38:54+00:00
Except they behave less like shrewd investors and more like bandwagon jumpers looking to buy influence or get rich quick. Crypto, Twitter, ridesharing, office sharing and now AI. None of these have been the future of business.

Business looks a lot like what it has throughout history. Building physical transport infrastructure, trade links, improving agricultural and manufacturing productivity and investing in military advancements. In the latter respect, countries like Turkey and Iran are decades ahead of Saudi in terms of building internal security capacity with drone tech for example.
by westmeal | 2025-10-02 23:39:11+00:00
Of course, the OS doesn't really matter it's just easier to manage a Linux box as opposed to a windows machine half the time. Especially for a server. Theres a lot of stupid shit you'll see on consumer and even enterprise versions of Windows which I've had to unfortunately deal with for a decade in exchange for money. Since the gp mentioned how frustrating it was I can relate.

Edit: also ufw is so much easier than the windows firewall. That shit drives me insane.
by busterarm | 2025-10-02 23:39:18+00:00
You do know that for the last decade educators nationally have been talking about the "Mississippi Miracle" where they've gone from the bottom performing state at nearly every level to being about a grade-level ahead of the national average, right?

All while still remaining the poorest state in the nation no less.

In large part due to the Literacy-Based Promotion Act, sponsored by state Republicans that got bi-partisan support except for a faction of state house Democrats that tried to kill the bill because they didn't come up with it.

It was so effective that the model was copied successfully by other states.

You could not have chosen a worse example to prove your point.
by deadbabe | 2025-10-02 23:40:15+00:00
The people paying the most in healthcare costs should be getting priority to treatments and medicine don’t you think? Isn’t that fair?

If you are getting cheap healthcare because these people are basically subsidizing it for you, and they’re not even getting anything, then you’re the leech.

These people laughing at Americans having to go bankrupt to afford $1000 medicine that they only have to pay $10 for in their country: fuck em. How I wish we could distribute the costs evenly…
by SalmoShalazar | 2025-10-02 23:40:55+00:00
I’m struggling to see how OpenAI survives this in the long term. They have numerous competitors and their moat is weak. Google above all others seems poised to completely eat OpenAI’s lunch. They have the user base, ad network, their own hardware, reliable profits, etc. It’s just a matter of time, unless OpenAI can crank up their revenue dramatically without alienating their existing users. I’d be sweating if I had invested heavily in OpenAI.
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-02 23:40:59+00:00
The COVID vaccine is such a great example too, because the US government negotiated it's price as part of getting it regulated and distributed, just like other countries do for all sorts of medicine.

The US admin negotiated them down to $20 a dose IIRC. Billions of dollars to just do scale manufacturing of a drug someone else slaved over, invented, stood behind for a decade while nobody else cared, and quickly utilized to deal with a novel virus that seemed to evade normal vaccine strategies.

$20 ain't nothing, but in our terrible system, it's almost a bargain.

And the shareholders of the Pharma company involved were fucking incensed that they didn't get more money.

They are ghouls.

But no, lets keep insisting that the US government couldn't negotiate prices for drugs to save Americans a significant chunk of change despite the fact we have a recent and obvious example of them doing a good job of it. Let's keep insisting that Democrats are in bed with Pharma and profit off our costs even though it was republicans who banned import of cheap drugs from Canada and republicans who refuse to allow Medicaid to negotiate meaningfully.

Pharma companies are public. You can see how much they spend on R&D. The claim is false.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-02 23:41:30+00:00
> What other types of resistance hasn't already been tried and failed there?

Literally everything other than terrorism!

You can fight a resistance without killing kids at a concert. Remember the videos of Ukraine treating its POWs well? Imagine if Hamas had restricted its targets to military assets, released all non-active duty hostages, and then released videos of them being served tea and hummus while Israeli planes pounded above. How different would the narrative be?
by grumple | 2025-10-02 23:41:32+00:00
The IPC standard says for famine to be declared:

> at least two in every 10,000 people die each day from starvation, or from malnutrition and disease.

Gaza population is 2 million * 2/10000 = 400 people dying per day in order for it to be a famine.

> After more than 700 days of war, 455 Palestinians have died of malnutrition or starvation, including 151 children, the health ministry in Gaza reported on October 1. One hundred and seventy-seven of the total number have died of malnutrition or starvation since the IPC confirmed famine on August 15, it said.

Is 455 in 700 days more than 400 per day? I don’t know, I’m having trouble doing math. Perhaps the people of HN can tell me the IPC standard is being met as the CNN article states?

Media and general literacy is apparently impossible even for journalists.
by jmyeet | 2025-10-02 23:41:44+00:00
Yeah, that's just not true.

The Democratic Party is absolutely complicit in everything going on. The term used is "controlled opposition". With the current government shutdown, I think it's taken the Republicans by surprise that the Democrats have (thus far) actually stood up for something and they really don't know what to do because it so rarely happens.

Like why wasn't this happening with the last debt ceiling increase earlier this year? Particularly because there was a fairly awful amendment in the last CR that ended Congress's ability to end the state of emergency the president could declare to use extraordinary powers. That seems like worth standing up to.

Go back to 2012 or so when Bush's tax cuts were expiring. Harry Reid had the Senate Republicans over a barrel until... Joe Biden got involved and just capitulated for absolutely no reason. And got nothing in return.

The last Senate supermarjority was in Obama's first term. It was fairly brief actually (less than a month) due to people taking sick and Republicans using a frivolous court case to stop Al Franken taking his seat. But there still was one.

Obama's signature legislative accomplishment was the ACA and what did it do? It was a massive giveaway to insurance companies. There was even a proposal to allow people to enrol in Medicare at 55 (instead of 65) which was derailed by Joe Lieberman. Why? United Health Care was an employer in his state (Connecticut).

But here's the dirty little secret. Democrats love nothing more than using the filibuster as an excuse to do nothing. If that fails, use "institutionalism". The filibuster is not a constitutional construct. It is part of the rules of the Senate. Originally you had to stand up and speak for so many hours to filibuster. Now you just raise your hand and say "filibuster".

If you have a majority in the House and Senate and a president in the White House, you can pass whatever you want.

And let's not forget we just had an election cycle where the Democratic Party openly and intentionally chose to materially support a genocide (that they could've stopped at any point with a phone call) rather than win an election at a time they were (rightly) calling their opponent a fascist.
by ojosilva | 2025-10-02 23:42:02+00:00
Not sure but I think OP means the investors in OpenAI. Rephrasing: there are too many investors and orgs (ie MSFT) that want to "be in AI" and very few outlets that actually deliver the frontier hard core tech: Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and X, Meta, Amzn and a few other to lesser extents.
by isaacremuant | 2025-10-02 23:42:07+00:00
You sound like a propagandist for a war that has no chance of a good outcome and every moment that passes, more lives are lost pointlessly. Your speech is not new. We've heard it all along.

Give me a date of when will it happen and we can talk again then.

And going back to my original point, it's extremely unfair that you get to push a war you're not fighting because you're not fighting it. Collaborating to it and getting commended for it is not fighting it. You don't die. Your child doesn't die. Your risk profile is definitely not the same.

So your bravado doesn't move me. I do hope for the war to end and the life loss to end and the post war era to not be too cruel on the people who get screwed over by the "rebuilding" vultures.

But that will be diplomacy and not your "total victory will come through our strength, we just need more money to kill more".

You're not delusional, you're simply lying.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-10-02 23:42:35+00:00
>where you obliquely refer to several things that you personally are familiar with

It's sad, I suppose, that you are unfamiliar with the basics such that you can't much discuss (or even follow) current events.

The Third Temple refers to a predicted temple that jews believe they are destined to build some point in the future. Unfortunately, there is an Islamic mosque in the only spot in the world they can/will build it. This is in the West Bank. I don't know how anyone who grew up hearing about Israel/Palestine on the news for the last 20 years wouldn't at least get the vague idea of what I'm talking about. I'll try to have Cliff Notes published for each of my comments published a few weeks before from now on.
by bayindirh | 2025-10-02 23:42:43+00:00
I do the same thing as the author does. Moreover, I keep these notes more frequently, to the project's notebook with my other thoughts during the day.

When I return to the task, I get up to speed in ~10 minutes, and things way go smoother because a) I'll be rested, b) My brain would have processed the plan and came up with a refined version of it. When I read the plan I wrote, I automatically recall the refined version most of the time.

Then, I get to work and finish what I have started.

Interestingly, sleep doesn't erase my emotions, but pause them. I just continue from where I left.
by Spooky23 | 2025-10-02 23:42:49+00:00
Travel.

There are two United States. A prosperous nation and a struggling nation. See both.

I’m from a now depressed rural town. When I periodically drive home it gets a little more ramshackle every year. My town had 20 operating dairy farms, now 0. Three industrial facilities, now one, which is now fully automated and employs security guards and guys to load trucks.

The best jobs are police, teachers and logistics people at a nearby distribution center.

I pay my entry engineers in real terms 15% less than I made 30 years ago. Housing is about 30% higher in real terms. Our benefit overhead grows 2x inflation.

Then travel abroad.
by jph00 | 2025-10-02 23:42:58+00:00
That's fair! I guess since it's a new thing that doesn't quite neatly fit in a category, we were perhaps too shy about trying to define it. Also, we really want to focus on the methodology, rather than the platform. But yes, you're right we should explain the platform too. :) I'll have a go here, and will then go and add it to Johno's article.

So basically, you can think of the platform as combining all these: ChatGPT; Jupyter Notebook + nbdev; Bits of vscode/cursor (we embed the same Monaco editor and add similar optional AI and non-AI autocompletion); a VPS (you get your own persistent full VPS running Linux with a URL you can share for public running applications); Claude Code (all the same tools are available); a persistent terminal.

Then there's some bits added that don't exist elsewhere AFAIK: something like MCP, but way simpler, where any Python function can be instantly used as an AI tool; the ability to refer directly to any live Python variable in AI context (but optional, so it doesn't eat up your context window); full metaprogramming of the environment (you can through code or AI tools modify the environment itself or the dialog); context editing (you can -- and should -- directly edit AI responses instead of tell the AI it's wrong); collaborative notebook coding (multiple people can edit the dialog, run code, etc, and all see live updates).

The combination of these things is rather different (and IMO better!) than the sum of its parts, but hopefully this helps a bit?
by DaveZale | 2025-10-02 23:43:35+00:00
op here. I've come to rely on overseas news, plus alternative domestic US news. I won't mention my favorites, but they are sites operated by former reputable corporate journalists who were fired and went independent to their own sites, or to substack, and they rely upon donations or very light advertising.

So I agree with you, not a disaster, but a change in preferences?
by simpaticoder | 2025-10-02 23:43:45+00:00
A mention of the Pomodoro technique is relevant. It encourages 100% focus on work for 25 minutes followed by a 5 minute break where you are forbidden to work at all in any way. You're supposed to tell a joke, stretch, stare out the window, etc. But no meetings, no email, etc. At first I felt a strong resistance to the "stop work" part, often delaying until "one last thing" was done, but I tried it anyway. What surprised me was that without exception, my thoughts and actions were clearer when I took the break. It never really added a delay, and in fact sped me up considerably. I'm not entirely sure why, or whether its true for others, but that disciplined cadence of 25m 100% focus and 5m 0% focus is like magic.
by balder1991 | 2025-10-02 23:44:47+00:00
I watched the video and it’s basically a “Jupyter notebook” type of app where you can type code and chat with the AI.

It’s nice cause it makes the interaction more dynamic and iterative. Honestly the “changing the answer” thing is something I always did on LM Studio when I wanted to change course. Definitely better than the limited interfaces of chatbots today, but I’m not sure it’s “revolutionary” by any means.

Still, it’s something I’d prefer until someone finds a better way to interact with LLMs. The ability to add stuff, remove stuff, move things around etc. probably help a lot when you’re creating something. It better matches the state of our minds. Also I appreciate the “using AI for learning instead of producing slop or — like many posts I’ve seen before — optimized spam.

I’m not sure what’s up with the course though. Seems more like a way to try to monetize something that wouldn’t be monetizable in any other way.

In fact I’m sure someone more knowledgeable than me could just create a Jupyter Notebook plugin that would replicate most of what this is?