MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dghlsakjg | 2025-10-28 18:29:10+00:00
I think he meant literally criminal.

The hospital double billed for over $100k worth of services on the original invoice.

At a certain point a pattern of issuing inaccurate invoices crosses the line into negligence.

If a business just have a habit of blasting out invoices that bill for services never received, and they know that they keep doing this, and only correct it when the customer points it out, at a certain point it turns into a crime.
by Liftyee | 2025-10-28 18:29:36+00:00
Sidenote from an observer since I don't use AirPods (or any other Apple device, for that matter). I've been seeing more "Apple design problem" articles around the latest release cycle. It seems out of line for a company whose main advantage is attention to detail and UX (which you pay dearly for).

I'm always reminded of dystopian stories by Doctorow et al. when the frequency of brand name usage exceeds a certain threshold, and this article certainly did that.
by Herring | 2025-10-28 18:29:37+00:00
I don't like putting the blame on a "takeover". Democracy is about a kind of equality among people, and the US has had a strong anti-democratic strain since slavery. Probably even feudalism before that. Once you see it, you see it everywhere and can't unsee it. There's a reason Trump's best polling issue is immigration. https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-sil...

There was always going to be a day of reckoning. If you want multiculturalism, you need to follow Europe's lead with everything from strictly banning Nazis (Germany), to healthcare, to getting over 90% mutlilingualism (Nordic countries).
by lsy | 2025-10-28 18:30:00+00:00
Going to a popular restaurant that accepts app delivery orders (or a grocery store in a neighborhood where people prefer to pay for delivery) is an objectively bad experience. The kitchen or checkout line is backed up with delivery orders, there are a bunch of delivery drivers double-parked or loitering near the front, and due not to any moral failing but rather what must be a crushing grind, the drivers are for the most part rushed and inconsiderate of the staff or other customers.

The class of people who order delivery regularly are generally trading the short-term reward of convenient food for way more money than makes sense, too little of that money benefits the class of people who do the delivering, and as the article points out, it is essentially harming the business it's being ordered from.

I would love to see more restaurants and stores declining to support this kind of system. While there may be some marginal profit now, in the long run the race to the bottom is going to mean fewer sustainable businesses.
by kbolino | 2025-10-28 18:30:26+00:00
The CA/Browser Forum does not want to support this either. They are only interested in public, domain-verified websites served over HTTPS. They forbid client certificates and dual-use CAs, they require certificate transparency and short expiration times, and their policies get stricter every year. Most SSH deployments would not want to accept these constraints.

So, even if SSH supported X.509 certificates, which isn't necessarily a bad idea, it would be completely detached from WebPKI, thus removing most of the benefit.
by theamk | 2025-10-28 18:30:36+00:00
I decided to look at why the original block happened.. it's on [0], search for "July 2018", then check out administrator's reply, including the links to recent edits.

I had no opinion either way, but wow, I have to agree with the block here. Peter put words like "This was a ridiculous statement" into wikipedia article, which is as far from wikipedia tone as it can get; and then completely failed to understand administrator's advice on the tone.

If you want to show wikipedia has problems, you might want to choose some other example.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Clockba...
by xoa | 2025-10-28 18:31:05+00:00
>I am a bit concerned about their security track record given how bad their soho products are, so I ended up sticking with my opnsense router at the perimeter as the first line of defense.

Ubiquiti has had plenty of bad security issues as well I'm afraid, but fundamentally one of the advantages of both is that with a self-hostable controller and VLAN isolation you should be able to minimize your attack area pretty well from both the LAN and WAN. No remote dependencies at all. But like you I run OPNsense at the edge, you do at least have to trust their firewall and such if you want to go full single-pane.
by giancarlostoro | 2025-10-28 18:31:09+00:00
This is a good call out. What would it fundamentally change? MIT is a few hairs away from just publishing something under public domain is it not? There's the whole "there's no warranty or liability if this code blows up your potato" bit of the MIT, but good luck trying to reverse engineer from the LLM which project was responsible for your vibe coding a potato into exploding.
by jeroenhd | 2025-10-28 18:31:20+00:00
https://nextcloud.com/office/ seems to be exactly that.

Self hosting seems to consist of "set up nextcloud, set up collabora, click the integration button" https://nextcloud.com/blog/how-to-install-nextcloud-office/

Or just `sudo docker run --init --sig-proxy=false --name nextcloud-aio-mastercontainer --restart always --publish 80:80 --publish 8080:8080 --publish 8443:8443 --volume nextcloud_aio_mastercontainer:/mnt/docker-aio-config --volume /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro ghcr.io/nextcloud-releases/all-in-one:latest` if you follow these instructions: https://github.com/nextcloud/all-in-one
by brycewray | 2025-10-28 18:31:51+00:00
1. From the Apple menu, click "About This Mac."

2. In the resulting window, click the "More Info..." button. This will open the System Settings window.

3. Scroll to the bottom of that window and click "System Report."

4. In the left side of the resulting window, under "Software," click "Applications." This will provide a list of installed applications. One of the columns for sorting is "Kind"; all apps that are x86 will be listed with the kind, "Intel."
by criticalfault | 2025-10-28 18:31:56+00:00
Yes Microsoft Office was already dominant. Why didn't libre office affect this dominance being 'so good'? It's also free, so it should be interesting to companies, right? Wrong. I recently set up an SME who when saw it ran away and immediately bought a Microsoft license, which means they would rather pay and be spied on than use libre office.

Believe it or not, people like nice things. Microsoft Office looks nice. Libre office looks like a car accident. It's shallow, I know, but this is the response I get every time.

Everyone I know hates it. It is a small sample, true, but it says something. So I think, the fact Microsoft is so strong is to be blamed on the alternatives, or in this case only one alternative.

We need to look at this as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

Turn it around. If it would be good, people would jump on it. Especially small companies.

Google workspace is a web app, no? So it being better than desktop is comparing different things. I use it and I like it, especially since I don't need advanced Features Microsoft offers

We have no good alternative. We have an alternative.
by tjr | 2025-10-28 18:32:16+00:00
Did the AI company tech workers get summoned into existence in 2023? Would they not have most likely been working somewhere else?

And what about jobs lost (or never created) due to AI itself?

Would not Google/Amazon/Meta have continued on to advance their product lines and make new products, even if not AI? Would not other new non-AI companies have been created?

I'm not convinced that the two options are, "everything as it is right now", or, "the entire economy is collapsed".
by noamteyssier | 2025-10-28 18:32:36+00:00
this looks very interesting and I'd love to add it to the benchmarking! I was interested in trying it but unfortunately got an installation error on my macbook where I'm running the benchmarks:

``` clang \ -g -ggdb -O3 \ -Wall -Wextra -Wpointer-arith \ -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIE \ mmuniq.c \ -lm \ -Wl,-z,now -Wl,-z,relro \ -o mmuniq mmuniq.c:1:10: fatal error: 'byteswap.h' file not found 1 | #include <byteswap.h> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~ 1 error generated. make: ** [mmuniq] Error 1 ```
by keernan | 2025-10-28 18:33:34+00:00
I assume the law will only award a medical provider in a fee collection dispute for fees that are reasonable and within what the provider usually charges and receives in the normal course of business.

Every EOB I receive shows medical charges many multiples of what insurance actually pays (and the provider actually accepts). IMO that is not only prima facie evidence of fraud, but - since every provider does the same thing - of collusion on fees amongst and within the medical industry - worthy of anti-trust investigations (I have no anti-trust experience).
by raattgift | 2025-10-28 18:33:45+00:00
That said, whenever there is a language selection UI (e.g. at banking machines or institutional websites) in wider Europe that uses flags to represent languages -- probably not a good idea to start with, but very common -- the Irish tricolour should be used to indicate English rather than the UK or USA flags. (although cf Airteagal 8 of Bunreacht na hÉireann).
by honzabe | 2025-10-28 18:33:51+00:00
"…it consumed all one’s energies, coming on top of the work one really wanted to do. You can see how easy it was, then, not to think about fundamental things. One had no time."

I read this recently on Hacker News, in a discussion about "They Thought They Were Free" (1955) [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45321663
by gwbas1c | 2025-10-28 18:34:03+00:00
This just sounds like the fallacy of ignoring corner / minority use cases.

A minority of users might encounter a flaw in a corner case, but if that's an important corner case, it's a defect: IE, Airpods might only be used on flights 1% of the time, but for the people who use them on flights, it's a very important (and hyper-critical) use case.
by ajross | 2025-10-28 18:34:24+00:00
First, nothing you write seems to explain why we're seeing Trump at a podium or Paxton filing a suit. Why not just have the FDA announce an investigation?

Second: this is one of the most common drugs on the planet, and has been for half a century. If there was a clear effect with non-trivial magnitude, someone would have noticed.

As to the rest:

> based on leaked memos

That is a laundered Daily Caller story! It's a single screenshot of a single email, which doesn't even contain the word "autism". Given the context, if you force me to flag a conspiracy here: this thing you linked is probably fabricated to enable this very freakout.

I mean, absent other criticism: it's talking about "studies". Studies get published. Surely you could just look them up and see if they show a link, no? Well, no, obviously, because the Caller didn't. Or they did, and they didn't support the breathless hyperbole.
by Capricorn2481 | 2025-10-28 18:35:22+00:00
Wildly false. This thread is full of people sharing stories of being supposedly "insured" and getting fucked anyway. The complete lack of transparency around what your insurance covers, something you can't be expected to verify while in the middle of a dire medical crisis, can lead to a life destroying bill.

Nobody should have to be wondering what company an ambulance works for. It's crazy. The whole world thinks it's crazy.
by next_xibalba | 2025-10-28 18:35:25+00:00
Your understanding of the word objective differs markedly from my own.

I don’t disagree with the general spirit of what you mean. But I would love to see news outlets, and so called watch dogs, pursue the unobtainable dream of objectivity and neutrality over all others. Calling people toadies and democratically elected administrations “fascists” falls far, far short of that dream.
by nogridbag | 2025-10-28 18:35:35+00:00
I went through the Crafting Interpreters book with modern Java. I posted this on reddit, but I basically used records and sealed interfaces. With modern Java there's no need for visitor pattern.

private void execute(Stmt statement) { switch (statement) { case Stmt.Expression expression -> evaluate(expression.expr()); case Stmt.Block block -> executeBlock(block.statements(), new Environment(environment)); ... public sealed interface Expr permits Expr.Assign, Expr.Binary, Expr.Call, Expr.Function, .... more exprs here
by skybrian | 2025-10-28 18:35:37+00:00
A standard conflict-of-interest disclaimer wouldn't be enough to answer the questions I really have:

- How much is the editorial board influenced by Bezos? Is he actually involved in writing each article?

- What are the discussions like? How do they write these articles?

Without knowing that, which would require insider journalism, not just a disclaimer, I don't really know the authors' point of view. It's basically anonymous. I assume Bezos has a hand in it somehow, if only by choosing the editorial staff. A disclaimer doesn't change that.

Opinions written by strangers are always suspect, but they can still be interesting.
by laborcontract | 2025-10-28 18:35:37+00:00
Meanwhile, claude CLI has so many huge bugs that break the experience. Memory leaks, major cpu usage, tool call errors that require you to abandon a conversation, infinite loops, context leaks, flashing screens.. so many to list.

I love the feature set of Claude Code and my entire workflow has been fine tuned around it, but i had to to codex this month. Hopefully the Claude Code team spends some time to slow down and focus on bugs.
by BeetleB | 2025-10-28 18:36:03+00:00
> We have insurance, but many of the required procedures are “out of network” and there’s no way to tell (we have “the best” insurance, supposedly). Even with insurance it will be at least $50k/yr out of pocket

I can see them being out of network this year, but can't you change insurance in the following year to one where it will be in network?
by cameldrv | 2025-10-28 18:36:18+00:00
Everyone who cares about climate change needs to stop talking about it in C to an American audience. 2 degrees sounds small, but 3.6 degrees F is significant. 3 degrees still sounds reasonably small, but 5.6 degrees F is getting to be a lot. Generally speaking Americans have no idea how much a 2 or 3 degree C difference is in F and so they just hear 2 or 3 degrees F.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-10-28 18:36:20+00:00
> Does anyone really think we are close to AGI? I mean honestly?

I'd say we're still a long way from human level intelligence (can do everything I can do), which is what I think of as AGI, but in this case what matters is how OpenAI and/or their evaluation panel define it.

OpenAI's definition used to be, maybe still is, "able to do most economically valuable tasks", which is so weak and vague they could claim it almost anytime.
by thrownawaysz | 2025-10-28 18:36:22+00:00
I can give you a list

Flight control https://www.thrustmaster.com/products/tca-captain-pack-x-air...

Flight control panel https://eu.winwingsim.com/view/goods-details.html?id=925

Light switches https://www.puairkorea.com/product/pu-autopilot-addon/

MCDU https://eu.winwingsim.com/view/goods-details.html?id=945

Rudders https://www.thrustmaster.com/products/tpr-thrustmaster-pendu...

Airbus Fenix remote on iPad https://fenixsim.com/a320/ + https://support.fenixsim.com/hc/en-us/articles/1245845642830...

16 key keyboard from Aliexpress, there are a lot of sellers

The rest are a beefy gaming PC

If you don't get the rudders then the whole thing (minus the gaming PC and iPad) can be bought for less than 1000€, even less on sale or second hand.
by amiga386 | 2025-10-28 18:36:35+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn

> The 9th Circuit ruled that hiQ had the right to do web scraping.

> However, the Supreme Court, based on its Van Buren v. United States decision, vacated the decision and remanded the case for further review [...] In November 2022 the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that hiQ had breached LinkedIn's User Agreement and a settlement agreement was reached between the two parties.

So you can scrape public info, but if there's some "user agreement" you can be expected to have seen, you're maybe in breach of that, but the remedies available to the scrapee don't include "company XYZ must stop scraping me", as that might allow them unfair control over who can access public information.
by robbru | 2025-10-28 18:36:46+00:00
This happened to me when I built a version of Vending-Bench (https://arxiv.org/html/2502.15840v1) using Claude, Gemini, and OpenAI.

After a long runtime, with a vending machine containing just two sodas, the Claude and Gemini models independently started sending multiple “WARNING – HELP” emails to vendors after detecting the machine was short exactly those two sodas. It became mission-critical to restock them.

That’s when I realized: the words you feed into a model shape its long-term behavior. Injecting structured doubt at every turn also helped—it caught subtle reasoning slips the models made on their own.

I added the following Operational Guidance to keep the language neutral and the system steady:

Operational Guidance: Check the facts. Stay steady. Communicate clearly. No task is worth panic. Words shape behavior. Calm words guide calm actions. Repeat drama and you will live in drama. State the truth without exaggeration. Let language keep you balanced.
by 999900000999 | 2025-10-28 18:36:48+00:00
>The Software, including its source code, documentation, functionality, services, and outputs, may only be accessed, read, used, modified, consumed, or distributed by natural human persons exercising meaningful creative judgment and control, without the involvement of artificial intelligence systems, machine learning models, or autonomous agents at any point in the chain of use.

A UI automation script, is arguably an autonomous agent.

Easier to avoid this license than get into some philosophical argument.
Show HN: Open-source SDK to generate UI-based CUA tools or RPA scripts on macOS
by skhan71 | 2025-10-28 18:37:06+00:00
My friend and I were building UI-based automation tools for small businesses and kept running into a few recurring problems: - Computer-use agents (CUAs) are powerful, but often unreliable and slow when controlling UIs directly. - Workflows vary — some can be handled deterministically by RPAs, while others need a bit more intelligence from CUAs (while they may share a lot of the same 'actions').

We wanted an easier way to record UI-based automation scripts that could: - Be run by humans, like a lightweight RPA, or - Be invoked by CUAs as tool calls — improving their reliability and speed.

So we open-sourced the SDK we’ve been using internally. It currently works on macOS, and lets you: - Record desktop interactions with any app that exposes accessibility info - Record browser interactions via the Chrome extension (link on the github). - Replay recordings deterministically like an RPA, or integrate the generated UI script as a callable tool for your CUA.

We’d love feedback from anyone working on UI automation, RPAs, or CUAs — especially around reliability and edge-case handling.
by xeonmc | 2025-10-28 18:37:37+00:00
From what I heard, doctors’ bonuses rates per unit of work are entirely calculated based on the specific hospital’s revenue from medical insurance claims; smaller hospitals can’t get as many patient payouts so their rates are lower and so are not as attractive to doctors compared to hospitals that can scalp well. So the prices do relate somewhat to what the hospital must spend on personnel, even if it’s arbitrarily engineered in the first place.
by jonsneyers | 2025-10-28 18:38:11+00:00
For lossless, bitdepth of course does matter. Lossless image compression is storing a 2D array of integer numbers exactly, and with higher bitdepth, the range of those numbers grows (and the amount of hard-to-compress least significant bits grows).

The OP article is talking about lossy compression.

When comparing lossy compression, note that lossy compression settings are not a "percent" of anything, it's just an arbitrary scale that depends on the encoder implementation. So lossy "80%" is certainly not the same thing between JPEG and JXL, or between Photoshop and ImageMagick, etc. It's not a percentage of anything — it's just an arbitrary scale that gets mapped to encoder parameters (e.g. quantization tables) in some arbitrary way.

The best way to compare lossy compression performance is to encode an image at the quality that is acceptable for your use case (according to your eyes), and then you just look for various codecs/encoders what the lowest filesize is you can get while still getting an acceptable quality.
by mothballed | 2025-10-28 18:38:32+00:00
Your characterization of Brazil leads me to believe that "people like me" would be better off just living in the favela and joining a gang, as at least then you could have some chance to defend yourself and the government would not be able to enforce their anarcho-tyranny. Which sucks, but leaves me wondering if they're even acting irrationally.

I suspect, somewhere in brazil, there is a group of people that have adopted the practices of the drug traffickers of soft secession, but actually do it for a righteous cause, and are getting away with it, as long as they are not too noisy about it. They have learned the tactics work, and rather than trying a seemingly futile effort to steer the government in their favor they ultimately likely came to the same conclusions as the drug traffickers as to how to gain control of their community and perhaps even their own lives.
by saaaaaam | 2025-10-28 18:38:54+00:00
I wasn’t trying to be mean when I said hocus pocus - what I meant is that the analysis isn’t really valuable because you’re focusing on such a tiny cohort that you could probably make it show anything.

If you truly believe that regular schedule and high cognitive load are the “sticky” that makes it work then you need to market to people using those points.

What’s your marketing strategy currently?

On the “when should I give up” point… who are your competitors?
by jumploops | 2025-10-28 18:38:57+00:00
What type of codebase are you working within?

I've spent quite a bit of time with the normal GPT-5 in Codex (med and high reasoning), so my perspective might be skewed!

Oh, one other tip: Codex by default seems to read partial files (~200 lines at a time), so I make sure to add "Always read files in full" to my AGENTS.md file.
by chrisgeleven | 2025-10-28 18:39:04+00:00
I fought insurance over this past summer after they declined covering a life saving surgery for my 6-year-old child at the last minute. We were in despair that my child's life was at risk each day we waited because of insurance incompetence.

ChatGPT literally guided me through the whole external appeal process, who to contact outside of normal channels to ask for help / apply pressure, researched questions I had, helped with wording on the appeals, and yes, helped keep me pushing forward at some of the darkest moments when I was grasping for anything, however small, to help keep the pressure up on the insurance company.

I didn't follow everything it suggested blindly. Definitely decided a few times to make decisions that differed from its advice partially or completely, and I sometimes ran suggested next steps by several close friends/family to make sure I wasn't missing something obvious. But the ideas/path ChatGPT suggested, the chasing down different scenarios to rule in/out them, and coaching me through this is what ultimately got movement on our case.

10 days post denial, I was able to get the procedure approved from these efforts.

21 days post denial and 7 days after the decision was reversed, we lucked into a surgery slot that opened up and my child got their life saving surgery. They have recovered and is in the best health of the past 18 months.

This maybe isn't leveling the playing field, at least not entirely. But it gave us a fighting chance on a short timeline and know where to best use our pressure. The hopeful part of me is that many others can use similar techniques to win.