MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 999900000999 | 2025-10-06 20:11:05+00:00
Free healthcare is a big deal.

Get sick, can't keep up at work so you get fired, can't afford treatment because healthcare insurance is tied to employment.

You will never get well, you get evicted. Then you can decay on the streets if not jail.

Compared to Europe.

Get sick. Have real labor protections so you won't get fired, and generous benefits to keep you afloat. Get free healthcare, get well.

Sip fine wine while reading horror stories about the US healthcare system.

America is basically a giant casino. A small percentage of gamblers win, but even they are a bad roll of the dice away from destitution.
by necovek | 2025-10-06 20:11:32+00:00
I think the main one was "they (immigrants) took our jobs" (whereas I would argue USA was as successful as it was for as long as it was due to how long they benefited from influx of smart, hard-working immigrants who were willing to work for less than "born Americans").

The other ones about "non-whites are criminals", "marriage is a union between a man and a woman", "let me have my gun or I'll shoot you with it", "transgender people don't belong in sports" and similar, were mostly sideshow to stir the pot, but it was obvious people had to be careful before Trump not to get "cancelled" for some of those views, especially if they were in any somewhat public position (like an executive of a public company). And yes, today this seems to continue to happen in the other direction, but due to tribe mentality, one side is probably enjoying that today even if it's not really fair either.

Again, this is just looking from the sidelines somewhere in the non-EU part of Europe. And don't for a moment think I believe we've got it better over here: it's really much worse instead (we've had our Trump-like president in power for over 12 years now).
by florkbork | 2025-10-06 20:12:05+00:00
No.

Imagine if someone came into your house and changed all of the locks on you/your family, because "security". You had built that house from your original designs but the other party claims they own it now because they happen to manage a series of rental listings for houses built to your design. You had even made it so the plans could be copied and modified in private; if "security" were a real concern with about 10 minutes effort to do so.

Would you agree that it is right, do nothing? Or would you rebuild something new, given how little time it takes to copy the plans.

Swap "house design" for "software project" and "rental listings" for "running an instance of your software project" and you have the current situation.

Developers are free to choose the party they trust more.
by lapcat | 2025-10-06 20:12:42+00:00
> My brother in Christ

I am not your brother in Christ.

> the point is that Trump v. United States itself was unconstitutional

I wasn't defending the decision. There are plenty of Supreme Court decisions that I consider to be badly wrong.

> Trump v. United States is a blank check for power overreach that we have yet to see the full amount of.

It doesn't magically give him a new election or a third term in office, which is what this discussion was about.
by derekcheng08 | 2025-10-06 20:12:52+00:00
I suspect there are many, many things for which chat is a great interface. And by positioning ChatGPT as the distributor for all these things, they get to be the new Google. But you're also right that many domains for which a purpose-built interface is the right approach, and if the domain is valuable enough, it'll have someone coming after it to build that.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-06 20:12:57+00:00
> Getting an AI to play "that song that goes hmm hmmm hmmm hmmm ... uh, it was in some commercials when I was a kid" tho

Absolutely. The point is this is a specialised and occasional use case. You don't want to have to go through a chat bot every time you want to play a particular song just because sometimes you might hum at it.

The closest we've come to a widely-adopted AR interface are AirPods. Critically, however, they work by mimicing how someone would speak to a real human by them.
by lbhdc | 2025-10-06 20:12:58+00:00
It is pretty common that "weird" tlds get blocked more or less whole sale in places you might not expect.

The reason is spam. Before these can get wide spread "normal" adoption they can be heavily used by spammers. Its hard to say if that is because they have desirable look-a-likes available, or if its because the first year is offered at a deep discount. So, systems will get flooded, and on inspection they will see that they don't have any legit traffic from those tlds and will whole sale block them.

.xyz is kind of infamous for being in this situation. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28554400

I have no idea if that applies to .coop though.
by WorldMaker | 2025-10-06 20:12:58+00:00
> Apple taxis service? Apple family self driving vans?

Taxis and buses are pretty old tech at this point. (Not just from an Uber/Lyft perspective either; taxis and coaches predate cars themselves, because the ideas/"tech" worked just fine with actual horse power.)

As for self-driving cars, so much of the efforts today remind me of that old Ford quote to the tune of "If I asked people what they wanted, they would have asked for a better horse". It doesn't feel like an innovative step change in transportation, it feels like a slightly better car (when it works). It doesn't fix any of the current big problems of cars and over-relying on cars as our primary transportation form factor.
by mfdupuis | 2025-10-06 20:13:15+00:00
> The best way to avoid the red ocean is to build for an obscure and complex niche.

This seems like the counter-argument... You need to build something incredibly different. You need to message differently, you need to distribute differently.

If the argument is that convincing the world that you're different is harder than ever I buy that. So much fluff and noise out there that it's harder than ever to break through that noise and cut through the skepticism. But for that, it's more important than ever to be different.
by cultofmetatron | 2025-10-06 20:13:20+00:00
I think it both along with a bunch of other factors including a shit economy. Just from my personal experience, I've approached women in cafes in colombia, morocco, malaysia, indonesia, greece, poland and peru. With just a modicum of friendliness, I can usually get a conversation going and while not everyone is interested in meeting later, a lot are and everyone is at least open to talking to see where things go.

My experience in America in stark contrast is that I'm ding something outside the social norm. If anything, the onus is on me to prove my motives aren't sinister and frankly it gets exhausting when the few yes's end up with a last min cancellation.

we can certainly argue that social media apps like Tinder set up negative expectations. my experience with Tinder is universally bad no matter what country I go to. But potential downsides of trying to strike up a conversation in these other countries aren't nearly as bad as what I find in America. Milage may be different if you're white (I'm south asian) however.
by fidotron | 2025-10-06 20:13:43+00:00
The whole value of an actual executive assistant is them solving problems and you not micromanaging them.

What users want, which various entities religiously avoid providing to us, is a fair price comparison and discovery mechanism for essentially everything. A huge part of the value of LLMs to date is in bypassing much of the obfuscation that exists to perpetuate this, and that's completely counteracted by much of what they're demonstrating here.
by mikestew | 2025-10-06 20:14:37+00:00
I think it's like Apple cables: for some they're frayed in a month, others still have perfectly serviceable 30-pin cables that they've used daily. Personally, I wear Unbound merino t-shirts and underwear, and they last for years.

(I'm also convinced that front-loading washers make clothes last longer because they don't literally beat your clothes to death.)
by mattlondon | 2025-10-06 20:14:53+00:00
I dunno, the Chinese cars available in the UK seem to do ok in crash tests and in reviews too, e.g. 5 star crash rating for the byd dolphin https://www.euroncap.com/en/results/byd/dolphin/50011 MG EV4 gets 8/10 review while VW id3 gets 7/10 https://www.topgear.com/car-reviews/mg-motor-uk/mg4

I've driven a MG ZS EV for a month a year or two ago and it was an equal in terms of "feel" to my current to VW id3, but way better equipped. The tyres are just normal bridgestones or michellins etc.

Can't comment on the paint or if they're lying about the battery capacity, but they genuinely seem like decent cars, at least the ones in the UK. I am sure there are cheaper-made ones for the domestic china market, but the export stuff seems good.
by lukan | 2025-10-06 20:15:14+00:00
Unless he found some secret magic trick, I believe they have in general been written down already a millions times by now. And yes, they have to be hard earned, meaning when you do carry your big backpack around way longer than you planned for (because a bus was not there or whatever) - you do learn to not appreciate all the useless things you carried for no reason and leave them at home next time.

Best advice:

Travel light

But still, mind where you are going. If it is the mountains, you still want to bring warm clothes and they just are heavy.

I am right now preparing for the mountains and think of whether to take a tent or not (the huts for sleeping are mostly closed already)

The heavier the backpack, the less fun is walking with it.

And that works also as a metaphor for everyday life. The less shit you take with you, pulling you down, the easier it is to make progress.
by Lerc | 2025-10-06 20:15:35+00:00
It also implies that either the blood was taken within 30 minutes of inhalation or they are measuring something else entirely.

Post mortem diffusion can happen, in either direction. Unless the individual died while smoking, there would have been ample opportunity for the drug to distribute within the bloodstream that could allow post mortem diffusion.

Unless the numbers I have for the blood stream decay rate are completely wrong a number as high as 30.7 seems like an extraordinary claim requiring extraordinary evidence.

I saw a rate of 46% of car crash fatalities are within 30 minutes of the moment of impact. Unless they are only considering the subset of immediate deaths, I would be very sceptical of their numbers.
by harrall | 2025-10-06 20:15:39+00:00
I have written it down but it is a checklist and there are thousands of those. Checklists are very personal so that’s why I suggested that you “do it for yourself.”

That said, these are the 3 main lessons I got:

- Everything needs a place. I need to picture that place before I even buy the thing, while at the store. When you are trying to fit everything into one backpack, you practice this a lot.

- Occasional I go look through all my belongings and toss. I did this a lot when I felt my backpack got too heavy or big. Do this enough times and getting rid of a belonging becomes emotionally normalized and easy.

- This may all seem like a lot of work but only at first. Why? Because it creates a mental feedback loop that discourages hoarding. You remember what kind of items you throw away so you stop even collecting them. For example, I use to keep all USB cables but I would always throw them out during these “spring cleanings” so now I throw them when I first get them.

So I encourage trying it yourself because things like having a feedback loop or being okay with discarding junk doesn’t come from just reading about it. Similar to being okay with being rejected when dating, you have to do it enough times so it becomes comfortable.
by CharlieDigital | 2025-10-06 20:16:08+00:00
Very typical e-commerce use cases processing scraped content: product categorization, review sentiment, etc. where the scope is very limited. We would process tens of thousands of these so faster inference with a cheaper model with FT was advantageous.

Disclaimer: this was in the 3.5 Turbo "era" so models like `nano` now might be cheap enough, good enough, fast enough to do this even without FT.
by Keyframe | 2025-10-06 20:16:33+00:00
translated, AMD buys GPU from itself and gives them to OpenAI for free. OpenAI gets GPUs for free, AMD hopes the market will reward the deal enough to increase its valuation by more than the dilution cost.

I have to ask - is this even legal? I understand it can be, but somehow it feels wrong. I guess AMD would report revenue of those GPU sale and equity issuance / dilution as part of payment terms, and OpenAI would record hardware purchase expense as well as investment income or maybe capital gain when selling those shares. What makes it legal is probably it all needs to be transparently communicated in time?
by gruez | 2025-10-06 20:16:40+00:00
> Freak weather events can be used as an excuse to shop for clothing, too (the best rain jacket that I ever bought was in this situation in the Netherlands - it was expensive, but I'm still using it a decade later - a fantastic souvenir that people always complement me on when wearing it).

This doesn't make any sense. Going going to a random shop to buy a rain jacket is inevitably going to be worse than doing careful research and ordering from the cheapest retailer. Moreover after you bought your first rain jacket, then what? Buy another next time it rains? If not, why not just buy it ahead of your trip and pack it?
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-10-06 20:16:41+00:00
while I'm glad they're no longer doing urinalysis and convicted people of DUI based on evidence that doesn't prove anything beyond that they've used marijuana in the past several months, the standard they use to test for impairment (5ng/ml seems to be the highest standard I could find among states that have a standard) may not actually indicate recent marijuana use and in some states the standard for intoxication is so low that frequent users will still test positive after days of abstinence (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32841811/)
by mothballed | 2025-10-06 20:17:04+00:00
If you insist, they could take me to court for not paying the bill, at which time they'd have to accept USD for the debt.

So yes, they could refuse the $100 and then sue me, at which point they'd have to take it. So you'd get a big clap for technically "winning" this argument but in possibly the dumbest way possible.

In practice, the reason why 'legal tender for all debts' is relevant is because it pretty much forces to take my $100 or go through an expensive process to just end up with the same result.
by glenstein | 2025-10-06 20:17:08+00:00
There's a lot of appropriate blowback against stupid AI hype and I'm all for it. But I do think in many respects it's a better interface than (1) bad search results, (2) cluttered websites, (3) freemium apps with upgrade nags, as well as the collective search cost of sorting through all those things.

I remember reading some not-Neuromancer book by William Gibson where one of his near-future predictions was print magazines but with custom printed articles curated to fit your interests. Which is cool! In a world where print magazines were still dominant, you could see it as a forward iteration from the magazine status quo, potentially predictive of a future to come. But what happened in reality was a wholesale leapfrogging of magazines.

So I think you sometimes get leapfrogging rather than iteration, which I suspect is in play as a possibility with AI driven apps. I don't think apps will ever literally be replaced but I think there's a real chance they get displaced by AI everything-interfaces. I think the mitigating factor is not some foundational limit to AI's usefulness but enshittification, which I don't think used to consume good services so voraciously in the 00s or 2010s as it does today. Something tells me we might look back at the current chat based interfaces as the good old days.
by wat10000 | 2025-10-06 20:17:08+00:00
A 2-10% increase seems like a hell of a lot.

Human CO2 emissions are well under 10% of natural CO2 emissions, and yet that additional amount has been enough to increase the atmospheric concentration of CO2 by over 50% and substantially alter the planetary climate.

CO2 in the atmosphere is at a vastly larger scale than mass falling in from space, so that doesn't mean this is a problem, but that percentage certainly seems to indicate that the question should be studied further.
by swores | 2025-10-06 20:17:16+00:00
There's no methods of field sobriety testing that are actually reliable, what it's best at doing is allowing police to get probable cause even if a sober driver just happens to not be good at something they've not done before and are being asked to do in the dark and cold outside their car in a high stress moment; or, worse, if the police officer judging them is just biased and wanting to subjectively decide they failed.

I'm pretty sure lawyers' advice is generally to say no when asked to take a field sobriety test, as you're basically only asked to do it if the police already think you're going to fail and therefore will be at minimum subconsciously biases towards expecting that. Much better to only let them do any breath/blood tests they can legally insist on. (At least, if you are indeed sober. I don't know what the best advice is if you're going to fail those tests, maybe in that case a tiny chance of being convincing with a field sobriety test is worth the chance?)
by bbg2401 | 2025-10-06 20:17:17+00:00
> In a post on X on Monday morning, Mr Zelensky said: “In the fourth year of the full-scale war, Russia continues to obtain components for producing weapons... “During the massive combined strike on Ukraine on the night of October 5, Russia used 549 weapon systems containing 102,785 foreign-made components — from companies in the United States, China and Taiwan, the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and the Netherlands.”

The editorialized focus on British parts being found is being highlighted over other countries for some peculiar reason. For fun, have a read though the numerous printings of this story, each vying for the most evocative sub-headline.

My winner is Nancy Fielder's effort at https://www.nationalworld.com/news/british-parts-found-in-ru...

> British firms are making money supplying weapon parts for Russian drones which are killing children in Ukraine.

No mention of the aforementioned other allies whose unspecified components were found.
by stronglikedan | 2025-10-06 20:18:10+00:00
My problem is that I know the underlying cause is anxiety, and I still can't bring myself to do anything about it. Like, I have to book a flight for travel in a month. I don't much like traveling so I don't do much of it, and I'm traveling by myself. That anxiety, coupled with my anxiety from flying, have had me planning to book this flight for over two months unsuccessfully. There's a good chance I'll just make up some excuse to not go, even though I really, really want to. The anxiety is literally crippling.
by jychang | 2025-10-06 20:18:24+00:00
I think it’s important to read the book more as humor than as science.

He’s not trying to defend his hypothesis at a PhD thesis defense in front of a panel.

It’s more like he’s on the stage at a small TEDx talk. He’s not trying to offer proof for each statement, he’s trying to almost play stand up comedian keeping the crowd engaged.
by nradov | 2025-10-06 20:18:24+00:00
That is a factor but a relatively small one. Several US states have instituted limits on medical malpractice liability and that has had only a small impact on total healthcare system costs. It's often the patients themselves (or family members) who insist on trying every possible diagnostic test, and even with the growth of evidence-based medicine we still don't have clear clinical practice guidelines covering many of those situations.
by h3half | 2025-10-06 20:18:27+00:00
I can attest to that. I was using Gemini to help with some spherical geometry that I just couldn't figure out myself. This was for an engineering system to define and avoid attitude deadzones for a system that can rotate arbitrarily.

About 75% of the time the code snippets it provided did what it said they did. But the other 25% was killer. Luckily I made a visualization system and was able to see when it made mistakes, but I think if I had tried to vibe code this months ago I'd still be trying.

(These were things like "how can I detect if an arbitrary small circle arc on a unit sphere intersects a circle of arbitrary size projected onto the surface of the unit sphere". With the right MATLAB setup this was easy to visualize and check; but I'm quite convinced it would have taken me a lot longer to understand the geometry and come up with the equations myself than it actually took me to complete the tool)
by wnevets | 2025-10-06 20:18:31+00:00
Are you asking me to believe that people who "roll coal" [1] are simply concerned about long distance driving?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal

> Some drivers intentionally trigger coal rolling in the presence of hybrid vehicles (a practice nicknamed "Prius repellent") to cause their drivers to lose sight of the road and inhale harmful air pollution. Coal rolling may also be directed at foreign vehicles, bicyclists, protesters, and pedestrians
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-06 20:19:26+00:00
> We now know why Flash was murdered

This is a stupid conspiracy given Apple decided not to support Flash on iPhone since before Jobs came around on third-party apps. (The iPhone was launched with a vision of Apple-only native apps and HTML5 web apps. The latter's performance forced Cupertino's hand into launching the App Store. Then they saw the golden goose.)
by bjourne | 2025-10-06 20:19:33+00:00
Damned if you do - damned if you don't. It's the dilemma all counter-culturists struggle with. Greta Thunberg famously sail to climate conferences: "She is an ideological purist! She don't convince everyday people!" If she had flown instead: "She is such a hypocrite! She doesn't live what she preaches!"
by modeless | 2025-10-06 20:19:40+00:00
No, not really. They are both cool but solve different problems. The problem Basis solves is that GPUs don't agree on which compressed texture formats to support in hardware. Basis is a single compressed format that can be transcoded to almost any of the formats GPUs support, which is faster and higher quality than e.g. decoding a JPEG and then re-encoding to a GPU format.
by citizenpaul | 2025-10-06 20:19:42+00:00
The AI hypy has inflated the values of the "magnificent seven". Meta,MS,Appl, Amzn, Nvidia ect. Retail and various professonal investment chasing indirect investment in AI,ie MS owns almost half of openai. Also 401k rebalancing. Are driving the valutation of those public stocks to very unbalanced valuations with zero increase in business.

Its complicated. Though you could argue its all good business. But first buy my swampland in florida please.
by notmyjob | 2025-10-06 20:19:57+00:00
This would be interesting IFF those drivers did not have alcohol in their system too. I can’t tell if that’s the case from the attached article. I also can’t tell whether the drivers were at fault or e.g. if they froze when another vehicle came at them, which would fit with the stereotype of the slow overly cautious stoned driver vs fast reckless driving you get from alcohol or being a young male (which might be more common in Dayton because of the Air Force base).
by lenkite | 2025-10-06 20:20:03+00:00
Looks like that maintenance did a LOT of good. In 2024, France’s net electricity exports (gross exports - imports) reached ~ 89 TWh, a record.

France's total nuclear generation was ~ 361.7 TWh in 2024. It is expected to be even above that in 2025.

https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-insights/latest-marke...

France is currently the nation that exports the MAXIMUM electricity in Europe.