MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cogman10 | 2025-10-02 18:42:10+00:00
What makes it hard to discuss is everyone at every level is gouging for various reasons.

Like, for example, doctors are going to be paid more than foreign counter parts, but they also end up needing very expensive schooling. (Similar thing happens to dentists).

Go into the hospital, and you end up paying 10x the amount for any medication (Tylenol being a good example) because either the hospital has an agreement with a medical supplier for exclusive supplies or they are trying to make up for ER treatments.

Then there's simply the added layer of bloat on top of everything. Health insurance ends up hiring a large staff of people to try and reject all claims while hospitals hire patient advocates to appeal the denials for the patients. All that ends up being paid for somehow (usually a large chunk is from the patient's insurance principle).

And, much like funerals, slap on "medical" on any piece of equipment and you get to raise the price by 10x. A $10 stethoscope ends up costing $100 from a medical supplier. Or one I've personally seen, a "medical" pocket protector made from $1 in fabric costing $50.

The reason non-us healthcare ends up being cheaper is because the governments are running most everything rather than having 3 or 4 private businesses duking it out over cost. It eliminates a huge amount of redundancy in the system when a government builds the hospitals, pays the doctors directly, and is the only one negotiating with medical equipment providers.
by konmok | 2025-10-02 18:42:17+00:00
You sound almost exactly like Trump talking about Mexicans. When you dismiss an entire people as murderers, rapists, and savages, something's gone wrong with how you understand the world.

I'm sure that many many Palestinians hate Jews, but that shouldn't be a surprise when Palestinians have been brutally oppressed for a century for the sake of creating a Jewish state. This is the natural consequence of oppression, and the way to end that hatred is to end the oppression.

Lastly, you say "Gaza was given to the Palestinians for free", but neglect to mention how Israel came to control Gaza. Is it really that generous to return a small piece of the land that was stolen?
by n4r9 | 2025-10-02 18:42:32+00:00
The evidence, e.g.

> Current policy debates regarding transgender people’s access to restrooms and other gendered facilities are predicated on narratives about protecting the safety and privacy of women’s spaces. These narratives lack evidence showing any negative impacts on safety and privacy in women’s restrooms or other facilities when transgender people can use restrooms according to their gender identity. However, transgender people consistently report having negative experiences in restrooms perpetrated by others, including denial of access, verbal harassment, and physical assault. Evidence suggests that transgender people are put at added risk if required by law to use restrooms in accordance with their sex assigned at birth.

https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications/safety-i...
by hirvi74 | 2025-10-02 18:42:36+00:00
> ADHD is Hell

I am well aware.

> Can't sleep and eat properly

Would be less of a problem if I was not forced to conform to society's expectations. I also have been diagnosed with Delayed Sleep-Phase Disorder, so I am also well aware. Also what are two of the most common side-effects of stimulants? Sleep disturbances and reduced appetite.

Also, what type of eating issues are directly due to ADHD and not a comorbid disorder? I skip meals a lot due to laziness, but I wouldn't say it causes any dysfunction in my life.

> can't focus on your work

Who is more negatively affected by this behavior: your employer or you?

> and hobbies

So what if I struggle to commit to one hobby or finish a hobby? I do my hobbies for my enjoyment, not some ulterior motive. I do not think there is anything pathological about being a jack-of-all trades type or not committing to some hobby.

> can't maintain your relationships

Which I believe is direct evidence of how our symptoms affect others and not inherently oneself.

> everyone I know is incredibly grateful to be on medication

I remember feeling the same way once. I have been taking medication for over a decade now. Grateful is not the word I would personally use. I would say that I made a deal with the Devil just to feel some sense of respite.
by mesh | 2025-10-02 18:42:48+00:00
Relevant read is Chomsky's and Herman's Manufacturing Consent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

Basically, there has always been a strong bias and structural constraints toward US / elite views.

I think the core question is why trust has gotten particularly bad over the last decade (I have some ideas, including one side particularly trying to weaken trust in it).
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-02 18:43:54+00:00
It is exactly from the article:

> Religious interpretations play a key role in shaping these views. Nearly half (47 percent) of respondents agreed that "when conquering an enemy city, the Israel Defense Forces should act as the Israelites did in Jericho under Joshua's command – killing all its inhabitants." Sixty-five percent said they believed in the existence of a modern-day incarnation of Amalek, the Israelite biblical enemy whom God commanded to wipe out in Deuteronomy 25:19. Among those believers, 93 percent said the commandment to erase Amalek's memory remains relevant today.
by Night_Thastus | 2025-10-02 18:45:00+00:00
"An email is your copy, and the sender can’t revise it later."

Sort of. They can't change plain text, but modern emails often include vast swaths of remote content. When you open the message, it retrieves the relevant assets directly from whoever sent the email. That remote content is not permanently stored. It's cached for a bit and will not be re-used if the email is opened months or years later.

If those assets disappear or are changed, there's very little any email provider can do about that.
by jodrellblank | 2025-10-02 18:45:04+00:00
My reference point is existing for many years and seeing many people pushing for dockable computers and seeing them repeatedly not take off.

Notably the people pushing for dockable computers are computer geeks who say things like "I only listen to OGG Vorbis, MP3 is unusable" and "no wireless, less space than a Nomad, lame" and "I could build Dropbox in a weekend with rsync" and "I don't understand why people need to see pictures or video, text is all I need". Normal people aren't itching to SSH from their TV using a bluetooth keyboard connected to a smartphone with a VPN so they can do X-Forwarding of Brave browser. Normal people are fine with buying a laptop with Gmail and using an Android TV stick to watch from a streaming service.
by rich_sasha | 2025-10-02 18:45:27+00:00
I think we are in a bubble, which will burst at some point, AI stocks will crash and many will burn, and the growth will resume. Just like the dotcom bubble definitely was a bubble, but it was the foundation of all tech giants of today.

The trouble with bubbles is that it's not enough to know you are in one. You don't know when it will pop, at what level, and how far back it will go.
by dredmorbius | 2025-10-02 18:45:55+00:00
James Burke's Connections (companion to his 1978 television series of the same name) does this in fair part, though it tracks a number of distinct (and somewhat idiosyncratic) paths through time.

<https://openlibrary.org/search?isbn=9780333248270>

There's Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China though that's not exactly a coffee-table book. It's staggering in its own way, however:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_Civilisation_in_Ch...>
by aborsy | 2025-10-02 18:46:11+00:00
>> Forward secrecy is somewhat overrated in end to end encrypted messaging. Most people do not want a truly off the record experience but instead keep their old messages around indefinitely. As long as those old messages exist and are accessible to the user they will be just as accessible to any attacker that gets access to the secret key material.

On a more serious note, if a quantum computer can break a key, a task requiring exponential complexity with key length on a classical computer, then breaking N keys is only a negligible additional cost in comparison.

So it kind of feels like it’s overrated in this case to be honest :)
by qafy | 2025-10-02 18:46:24+00:00
Great! I see that further down in the website, which I did not see before posting this comment. I think this could be valuable to demonstrate / communicate in the billing platform demo which is the first thing you see, and is what captured all of my attention (i never even scrolled down).

Edit: I just re-ran the demo and it seemed way faster this time??? the first time it said GOAL: PRESS_ENTER... (agent proceeds to think about it for 5-8 seconds) which seemed hilarious to me.
by bobbob1921 | 2025-10-02 18:46:33+00:00
Assuming my calculation is accurate, 90,000,000 hours of video using around 30 PB comes to an average bit rate of about 760k. (Hard to guess though bc I doubt they’re using up all the space they provision day1)

So my guess is either CCTV type of footage where there’s large gaps of motion / high GOP / big codec gains - or something like desktop recordings which are generally very low bit rate even though they can be high res. At that bitrate I can’t imagine it’s something like YouTube video. (Unrelated to the bitrate maybe it’s something like all older public domain videos). I would love to have an idea of what type of videos they are using (just out of curiosity)
by dustbunny | 2025-10-02 18:46:39+00:00
> those others impose suffering on the individual

There are so many people out there sacrificing their own mental and physical health for their children or their loved ones or their students or patients to simply have a few hours of calm happiness every day.

And you flippantly dismiss them. You paint them with a broad negative brush.

This is an ice cold, selfish, naive and incorrect statement.
by simonw | 2025-10-02 18:46:50+00:00
I've seen a bunch of tweets like this recently, as far as I can tell they're all from people using https://aistudio.google.com/ who got served an A/B test.

A few more in this genre:

https://x.com/cannn064/status/1973818263168852146 - "Make a SVG of a PlayStation 4 controller"

https://x.com/cannn064/status/1973415142302830878 "Create a single, self-contained HTML5 file that mimics a macOS Sonoma-style desktop: translucent menu bar with live clock, magnifying dock, draggable/resizable windows, and a dynamic wallpaper. No external assets; use inline SVG for icons."

https://x.com/synthwavedd/status/1973405539708056022 "Write full HTML, CSS and Javascript for a very realistic page on Apple's website for the new iPhone 18"

I've not seen it myself so I'm not sure how confident they are that it's Gemini 3.0.
by nonethewiser | 2025-10-02 18:47:41+00:00
Yeah Im just now realizing how the baseball scoring conventions are basically a DSL for a baseball game. There is a standardized way for expressing what happens in a game. I wonder if this has been leveraged in any interesting programs.

here is an example inning:

K | 6-3 | BB | 2B (RBI, R1-H) | F8
by ragona | 2025-10-02 18:48:12+00:00
I don't think that's quite right. PQ attacks focus on the "trapdoor" functions in asymmetric cryptography, _not_ the symmetric encryption that happens after key negotiation. The current concern is that a future attacker could unwrap the symmetric key, not directly attack the symmetric encryption that is used for something like backups.

(Note: I didn't actually dig into the backup implementation, but my guess is that it's more of a KDF -> symmetric design, rather than the sorts of asymmetric negotiation you'd find in multi-party messaging.)
by hagbard_c | 2025-10-02 18:48:34+00:00
They could charge for the screen and give the option to use a connected phone as screen instead. To use that phone you'd have to install the car manufacturer's app which could leech data from the user whether it was anywhere near the car or not.

Another alternative would be to use the dashboard screen - where the speedometer etc. used to be - to show the backup camera image, the speedometer isn't really needed when backing up anyway.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-10-02 18:48:41+00:00
The provider could create a snapshot at receive and/or open (fetching these potentially mutable asset dependencies within a message), similar to what https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep and https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile do with url bookmarks, and attach it (or otherwise associate it) to the message. Optional of course.

The benefit of this is senders couldn't treat it as a read receipt, because the provider can state "Our infra performs this operation for the user for immutability purposes" similar to other email operations that proxy these requests for privacy purposes.
by thecsw | 2025-10-02 18:48:56+00:00
I was in the same boat for many years! Having started using org-mode for my website in 2018 [1] (just add index.org to the path to see the source), it grew into this massive pile of obscure gen and with my limited comfort level with lisp, turned into a scary smelling concoction of dozens of perl/sed/sh scripts that modified the output to fit my needs and have them do something fancy.

But then, really, sat down for about 48 hours on a lonely weekend when everyone was away and wrote a simple static site generator [2] that takes exact same files and produces output that I fully understand e2e, becoming the project I'm most proud of.

There are so many other generators I tried (hugo, jekyll, rails, asciidoctor, org-publish, astro), rolling up your own gives a sense of a stable foundation. Love your website! So clean. One thing that I'm thinking of adding (though I haven't touched my generator that much, I consider it "complete") is the dynamic execution of source code blocks.

[1] https://sandyuraz.com

[2] https://github.com/thecsw/darkness
by jacquesm | 2025-10-02 18:48:59+00:00
No, but I had used it extensively and written a fairly large amount of code for it so it was mostly re-implementing how I thought things must work under the hood. The hardest part was to bridge some of the posix like functionality to this rather strange set of primitives, especially 'fork' and the '/dev/' parts required some pretty hacky solutions. But they work and they ended up being quite reliable.

As for it being lightyears ahead of Minix: Minix was built from the ground up as a platform to demonstrate how Unix works without being Unix. QnX and by extension my version on that theme was built from day one to be low latency and to have the smallest possible kernel footprint that you could have. The lack of a root file system and the Plan-9 like network transparency are all as a result of that and allow extremely fine grained control over what goes into the final package. It is far more suitable for low level control while at the same time having high level tooling than Minix. What I loved about Minix is the way the source code is organized and how - and this is obviously no accident - it reads as a textbook, I learned a lot from looking at the code and ended up adopting the file system as a stand-alone piece of code (which allowed me to pass files in and out of the OS early on by writing them under one OS and then rebooting so I had access on the other side).
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-02 18:49:25+00:00
> The 50 days Obama had a "trifecta" that couldn't actually pass democrat policy

The ACA?!

We wasted our trifecta under Biden, but that's the point.

> 49 + A guy who refuses to push democrat policy isn't an actual "majority"?

Anyone who believes this doesn't deserve to govern. You know what we'd have if we had a few more Manchins and Sinemas today? A majority.

> "majorities" are rarely more than a couple politicians

Sure [1].

> Republicans empirically "fall in line" for votes more than "democrats"

Source? Trump 1.0 was Republicans constantly falling over themselves. Even this time, McCarthy versus cocaine Chucky almost blew up the party.

> They weren't the minority

Republicans were in a complete federal minority when we passed the ACA, and in a legislative and executive minority in 2021.

> If republicans literally break the law to do things, as Trump keeps doing, they still get re-elected. If a democrat does the same, the entire party suffers

We don't know this! Obama was, erm, creative with a lot of limits. He won re-election.

> lets have the tiny amount of democrats remaining in government do blatantly criminal things

Totally unnecessary.

> There is no solution that Democrat politicians can do on their own. The long term solution is Americans finally re-learning the Republican governance doesn't work well

If Democrats can't use their state majorities and federal minority productively, they can't govern. The choice, then, isn't between Republicans and Democrats, because the latter gave up the game. (Biding time doesn't work when the other side is strategically repositioning to their advantage.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_divisions_of_United_Stat...
by elcritch | 2025-10-02 18:49:29+00:00
It’s not purely a bad thing per se if it attracts doctors who excel and are the best.

However, it seems now more like straight-up profiteering the past decade or two by doctors as a whole but it’s harder to point a finger at. In contrast with “Big Pharma” the profits are fairly centralized and easy to point a finger at.

Personally I’ve for a while believed the biggest issue with wealth inequality in the US isn’t primarily due to billionaire class, but rather the millionaire class and “managerial class”, though I’d include doctors in that list. Most CEOs would also be in that list.

Doctors via the AMA keep salaries artificially high, just the same as similar tactics used by land lords using software to jack up rent prices.
by perihelions | 2025-10-02 18:49:37+00:00
> "stay 100m away from tall structures"

But then how do you deliver to the upper floors of vertical buildings? That must be half the near-term market for these kinds of drones: people in dense, urban areas well-served by local droneports, who are looking for convenience above all else.

If you can't safely manage urban canyons—you can't manage. It'd be like selling self-driving cars that are only approved for private racetracks.

Here's a curious article I read the other day, that underscores the market factor:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45445406 ("What It Takes to Get Lunch Delivered to the 70th Floor in a Shenzhen Skyscraper (nytimes.com)" / "An informal network of last-mile runners close the gap between harried delivery drivers and hungry office workers in a Shenzhen skyscraper")
by munk-a | 2025-10-02 18:49:39+00:00
I'm not certain if there's a specific example you have in mind but as a Canadian familiar with the pharma market you can rest assured that Canada (sometimes through the hidden mechanism of government subsidies) pays well above cost for every medication and medical device I'm familiar with.

Sure, companies are gouging the US worse - but they still make a tidy profit in the Canadian market.
by ajkjk | 2025-10-02 18:49:47+00:00
(a controversial opinion I hold which relates to this: one of the reason everyone else is masking so well, and therefore why everything seems so confusing, is that they're on drugs. Either psychiatric drugs, like SSRIs, or recreational drugs, like marijuana and alcohol (you might also include video games or social media addiction or gambling here). Which is not to cast any moral shade on them; it's just an observation that I wish I could test. Probably many of those drugs are "actually" needed, but probably many of them are also needed because they're helping them cope with the Virus. I wonder what would happen if lots of people weaned off their drugs at the same time. Would they all start to relate differently? Would they feel like their daily interactions are more human? Would they realize that they can't actually handle how upset they are about their life, but now that lots of other people feel the same way, they're able to organize and do something about it? I don't know, but I'd like to see what happens in that scenario.)
by viccis | 2025-10-02 18:50:06+00:00
When my wife needed a rabies post-exposure shot course, it would have been around $25000 range for the shots without coverage. Our (expensive high end) insurance brought it down to "only" $2500 out of pocket for us. The alternative is to take the gamble of a possible horrible death.

In the UK? Around £150-£300 total.
by huevosabio | 2025-10-02 18:50:14+00:00
Yea... It's sad and worrying.

I feel like the community is censored or rather finds inconvenient to talk about it because of the big role that Israel plays in the tech scene. SV has an ethos of avoiding name calling and finger pointing at members of the community, since they know it's a long repeated game they are playing.

But I'm glad to see some prominent voices step up. Particularly, PG and Amjad Massad (Replit) have been very vocal. I hope their voice makes people feel like it's OK to call out human right violations when they see them.

Then there's the other extreme of the tech scene that simply decided to play politics for its own gain. The All In Pod crew as the poster children of this. Their cynicism is s transparent and disgusting in how they kiss the ring to get favor of the king in turn. I think that's a bit of what triangle man is trying to get, and it's certainly what sama was trying to do when this admin started.
by vector_spaces | 2025-10-02 18:50:38+00:00
Me too -- I reacted this way when I read it, and posted it here to see if others would agree or if there was some nuance I was missing. In particular I bristle at this frequent juxtaposition of the US and Japan (or "East" vs "West" more broadly) in terms of individualism and collectivism -- those terms aren't well defined enough to not be misleading, and might convey truth in some cases but better specificity would help us avoid wrongheaded generalizations based on old tropes and stereotypes

It makes sense to me that there would be differences in how people with various cultural backgrounds interpret art, since we largely know that the way people experience and think about color is different, though