MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hitekker | 2025-10-09 19:48:33+00:00
Agreed. "Vetting" is real, painstaking work and online mobs are atrocious at it. They project, fabulate, distort and lie to stir up a moment's self-righteous anger, regardless of actual, grounded truth.

This is obviously true on the Right, but I've learned it's also true on the Left. People scream "1 nazi in your bar means you're a nazi" and yet Drew Devault remains an influential progressive, despite a history of lolicon/CP.
by ziyadparekh | 2025-10-09 19:48:47+00:00
FedNow is extremely exciting, as is the development of local instant payment networks and I’m hoping they can eclipse card networks soon. Development in the US hasn’t been as fast as in other emerging markets though wrt their own networks

As for Venmo/Paypal interoperability across other fintechs is something they’re not supporting at the moment for instance I can’t send money to my friend who uses CashApp and have to use Zelle (so ultimately Zelle/banks win). But that being said they do have a large user base between their two platforms.

Paylias is more closer to the links you shared around instant payment systems, than Wise. In an ideal world, Wise would integrate Paylias’s APIs and issue you an alias that you could use to send/receive/pay money to a friend that uses another wallet.
by cromulent | 2025-10-09 19:48:54+00:00
Bravo! Apparently they are known as keyers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyer#Computer_interface_keyer...

Edit: Circa 1980 when I was young and impressionable, my father's buddy had a WriteHander and since then I have loved this kind of thing.

http://ibnteo.klava.org/keyboard/writehander
by alittlebee | 2025-10-09 19:48:55+00:00
As a trans person, I find it interesting that so many people have opinions on an illness that truly sucks. It’s rough reading every day that you are “wrong” about something you suffer from. I wish folks could see the losses we experience when we transition. I think if they did, they might extend a little more grace and compassion.

(That said, I do agree with you on nuance)
by nkmnz | 2025-10-09 19:49:02+00:00
Radioactivity was discovered before nuclear engineering existed. We had phenomena first and only later the math, tooling, and guardrails. LLMs are in that phase. They are powerful stochastic compressors with weak theory. No stable abstractions yet. Objectives shift, data drifts, evals leak, and context windows make behavior path dependent. That is why experts hedge.

“Cookbooks about cookbooks” are what a field does while it searches for invariants. Until we get reliable primitives and specs, we trade in patterns and anti-patterns. Asking the AI to “prove the paradigm” assumes it can generate guarantees it does not possess. It can explore the design space and surface candidates. It cannot grant correctness without an external oracle.

So treat vibe-engineering like heuristic optimization. Tight loops. Narrow scopes. Strong evals. Log everything. When we find the invariants, the cookbooks shrink and the compilers arrive.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-10-09 19:49:19+00:00
> Guacamole would count as Group 3 I believe

Too minimally processed-I’d say it’s Group 1. You’re taking Group 1 ingredients (avocado, jalapeño, lime, onion, maybe tomato and cilantro) and chopping, squeezing and pounding them. It can entirely be done with stone tools.
by hodgesrm | 2025-10-09 19:49:45+00:00
> You're missing the point. In the past bad writing was just bad writing, and it was typically easy to detect.

If AI generated text were well written, would it matter to you? Is it bad to use Grammarly?

I don't see anything inherently wrong with using AI tools to write, as long as writers take the responsibility to ensure the final result is good. Fighting against use of LLMs seems like a fool's errand at this point. Personally I've been using Google Translate for years to help with writing in German, little knowing at the time that it was using transformers under the covers. [0] I'm pretty sure my correspondents would have thanked me had they known. Same applies for text written in English by non-native speakers.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

edit: fixed typo. Just proof this is not an LLM.
by Viliam1234 | 2025-10-09 19:50:09+00:00
Consider the incentives of the corporations. They have no shame, no professional pride; they only care about money.

What makes more money: releasing a crappy product today, or a better product next year? The former option gets you some money right now, some of which you can spend on fixing the worst bugs. Fixing all bugs would be an overkill though -- there are more profitable actions, such as adding new features.

New features are the key. If your product has 100 features, even if all of them are horrible, the customers will never switch to a product that only has 10 of those feature, no matter how simple and pleasant to use. "Do one thing and do it well" is not how you get rich. Instead of fixing bugs, implement something like one-click publishing on Sharepoint, and keep repeating that this is an important feature that your competitors don't have.
by hadlock | 2025-10-09 19:50:49+00:00
This is where I'm at. If you look at Boston Dynamics' first videos, they're 45 second clips of 4 legged robots walking in not even a straight line, just proving they could walk 5 feet over level ground without falling over. The top comment, from 4 years ago is "This was 11 years ago. Now these things are dancing." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gi6Ohnp9x8

If you can make it look believable on camera for 15 seconds under controlled studio conditions... it's probable you can do it autonomously in 10-15 years. I don't think anyone is going to be casually buying these for their house by this time next year, but it certainly demonstrates what is realistically possible.

If they can provably make these things safe, it will have huge implications for in home care in advanced age, where instead of living in an assisted living home at $huge expense for 20+ years, you might be able to live on your own for most of that time.

I am cautiously optimistic.
by krapp | 2025-10-09 19:50:57+00:00
I know they get an alert whenever a comment is flagged. I assume they get an alert whenever certain "problematic" accounts post. Maybe they get an alert whenever the flamewar detector goes off? This forum is written in a Lisp so they can probably hotpatch whatever code they want and add whatever filters they want.

But dang has said numerous times that he doesn't read everything, that would probably not even be feasible.

The question is, YC being what it is, are they using LLMs to automate moderation or do sentiment analysis?
by bashmelek | 2025-10-09 19:51:12+00:00
I do often feel like a Lost Programmer.

C# is my Blub. I use Visual Studio (and not Visual Studio Code). I also use some T-SQL and JavaScript, and sometimes C++ on the weekends. In all of these, my understanding is still rather shallow. And for my day job, and most of my hobbies, it works.

But there is a definite next level I haven’t pierced, the level of “real programmers”. I want to understand the code I see on GitHub, even contribute. I want to be capable of more. But it is hard when I can’t even tell what I’m seeing, when I’m just trying to Make It.
by salawat | 2025-10-09 19:51:53+00:00
Medicine not in formulary. Their clinical department decided it was not worth covering for $reasons. The Pharmacy, likely to be considered a preferred pharmacy, signed a contract to be bound by that company's clinical formulary for policyholders.

$45 was probably cash price, the they can let it go for if they do their ordering through a pharmacy supply group.

$12 may be a price with a discount program like GoodRx applied. Data changes hands behind the scenes to make the lower price at the till possible. Don't know how GoodRx works, but been around long enough to know you're probably the product.

You'll be amazed the complexity of the pharmacy benefits management complex.

t. Been there, seen it, tried to fix it best I could, left in abject horror.
by shevy-java | 2025-10-09 19:52:02+00:00
I'd recommend to people to wait for a response - RubyCentral spins up a gazillion accusations right now and has been in the last days (and, it is also incomplete, because why did they fire every dev here and placed Marty Haught in charge specifically? They never were able to logically explain this; plus, why didn't they release this write-up before? It feels very strange to wait here; they could have clarified things before, but to me it seems they kind of waited and then tried to come up with some explanation that, to me, makes no real sense).

I also highly recommend to not accept RubyCentral's current strategy to post very isolated emails and insinuate that "this is the ultimate, final proof". We all know that email conversation often requires lots of emails. So doing a piecemail release really feels strange. Plus, there also were in-person meetings - why does RubyCentral not release what was discussed here? Was there a conflict of interest due to financial pressure?

Also, as was already pointed out, RubyCentral went lawyering up already - see discussions on reddit. Is this really the transparency we as users and developers want to see? This is blowing up by the day and no matter from which side you want to look at it, RubyCentral sits at the center; or, at the very least, made numerous mistakes, tries to cover past mistakes by ... making more mistakes. I think it would be better to dissolve RubyCentral. Let's start from a clean state here; let's find rules of engagement that doesn't put rich corporations atop the whole ecosystem.

Last but not least - this tactical slandering is really annoying. If they have factual evidence, they need to bring the matter to a court; if they don't, they need to stop slandering people. To my knowledge RubyCentral hasn't yet started a court case, and I have a slight suspicious that they also will not, because we, as the general public, would then demand COMPLETE transparency, including ALL of RubyCentral's members and their activities here. So my recommendation is: wait for a while, let those accused respond.
by gregsadetsky | 2025-10-09 19:52:29+00:00
a very very quick copy/paste of 73 comments there - fed to claude with a basic "characterize+count comments" give me 70% neutral/technical, 14% positive, 16% negative.

claude also said "The negative comments tend to be more substantive critiques of systems or research approaches rather than personal attacks." - so... that's good? :-)
by roelschroeven | 2025-10-09 19:52:40+00:00
In that example str.split() has the same result as str.splitlines(), but it's not in general the same, even without custom delimiter.

str.split() splits on runs of consecutive whitespace, any type of whitespace, including tabs and spaces which splitlines() doesn't do.

>>> 'one two'.split() ['one', 'two'] >>> 'one two'.splitlines() ['one two']

split() without custom delimiter also splits on runs of whitespace, which splitline() also doesn't do (except for \r\n because that combination counts as one line ending):

>>> 'one\n\ntwo'.split() ['one', 'two'] >>> 'one\n\ntwo'.splitlines() ['one', '', 'two']
by lotsofpulp | 2025-10-09 19:52:48+00:00
The linked article is about insurers trying to reduce spending by downcoding.

So which is it? Insurers unfairly denying reimbursement for what should be valid claims, or insurers unfairly increasing spending on claims so they can increase their profits.

Also, go look at 5, 10, and 15 year returns for the big insurers (UNH/Elevance/CVS/Cigna/Humana/Molina/Centene) if you think health insurance is a good business for earning money. Spoiler alert: they’re less than desirable, stick with SP500.
by Veedrac | 2025-10-09 19:52:58+00:00
This is quite loosely stated. It's true Boston Dynamics is an old company and that they've had some very cool demos. It's not at all true that they've been showing qualitatively similar things for 20 years.

The oldest video on their YouTube channel is 16 years old, and is of a quadrupedal robot not falling over while inching along tricky surfaces.
by kwanbix | 2025-10-09 19:53:13+00:00
This is a very German thing. Most contracts are yearly contracts the first two years, and you have to cancel at most 3 months before the next year starts.

On the third year, the contracts become monthly contracts. However, if you do any change in the contract, it starts again. For example, if you have internet for 5 years, and request a speed change, it starts again to count the 2 years.

Absolutely crazy from my non-german point of view. In my home country the first year is a full year, and it becomes monthly cancelable afterwards for things like internet, where they subsidize the installation and the modem. But in Germany, I was charged 120 dollars for the installation, and had to pay for the modem.
by qrios | 2025-10-09 19:53:49+00:00
Databricks offers an engineering, management, ETL (focussed on data) platform as SaaS/PaaS. As far as I can see, this is what the revenue comes from.

n8n offers an orchestration, integration, ETL platform as SaaS/PaaS (plus self-hosted).

For many medium sized and enterprise companies such a service is as important as the data platform from Databricks. From my personal experience in a small EU-wide enterprise in finance sector, the budget for the data platform is in the lower 7digits/year. For automation and workflows multiple solutions in place. Some are outdated for years (on mainframes) or with an EoL in the next years (due to retirements in-house or at the datacenter provider).

Since decades such companies externalize their own business logic – formally running on homegrown software – to SaaS vendors. Established workflows are quite often not able to integrate these kind of "modern" integration. REST? GraphQL? WebSocket? We speak SOAP and FTP!

So, from my point of view n8n is a valid solution in a growing market.
by zamadatix | 2025-10-09 19:53:56+00:00
You never know how soon or how many iterations until after the goal has been achieved. Sometimes something like the smartphone explodes relatively quickly after the concept starts coming together. Other times you're waiting decades upon decades to turn the corner, like with fusion power.

Humanoid robots have fallen into the latter category for too long for most people to jump at each advancement being "the one" anymore. Afterwards, everyone will agree it was obvious ${ADVANCEMENT} was really the one which would do it - but not before.
by criemen | 2025-10-09 19:54:04+00:00
It's also logically incoherent - division by zero can't occur, because if b=0 then abs(b) < sys.float_info.epsilon.

Furthermore, the code is happy to return NaN from the pre-checks, but replaces a NaN result from the division by None. That doesn't make any sense from an API design standpoint.
by oneplane | 2025-10-09 19:54:16+00:00
Not using root means not bypassing policies. There is no way to not bypass all policies. So yes, never using root makes that issue go away completely.

As for all the other stuff: what it does is it creates distinct identities with distinct credentials and distinct policies. It means that there is no multi-party rotation requires, you can nuke the identity and credentials of a specific person and be done with it. So again, a real solution to a real problem.
by darth_avocado | 2025-10-09 19:54:36+00:00
Yeah enough gets talked about insurers acting in bad faith, but let’s not forget hospitals also acting in bad faith for their end. Some personal examples:

1. Sitting in a Urgent care. They get you in the exam room. You sit there for 15 mins, doctor comes and sees you for 5 mins (mostly rushes the exam), do a blood draw, ask me to sit around while they run the test, doctor leaves, as soon as 45 mins are over the nurse comes over to let me know it’s taking longer to run the test so I can go home and they’ll call when the results are out. A month later charge thousands of dollars to insurance for a 45 min Urgent Care visit that doesn’t cover the lab work.

2. Go to PCP with cold symptoms that haven’t cleared in 10 days. I insist it’s a sinus infection, they send me back with no antibiotics and ask to schedule and online appointment in 2 days. I insist I come in in person, but they schedule an online appointment anyway. Nothing gets better and I see the doctor online after 2 days, they say I’ll have to come in so that they can evaluate me in person and prescribe antibiotics. I go in person, get antibiotics and get cured. Insurance gets charged for 3 separate hour long visits ($750 each and none of them lasted more than 10 mins).
by repsilat | 2025-10-09 19:54:47+00:00
This might have been your experience, but mine has been very different. In my experience a typical python workload is 50% importing python libraries, 45% slow python wrapper logic and 5% fast native code. I spend a lot of time rewriting the python logic in C++, which makes it 100x faster, so the resulting performance approaches "10% fast native logic, 90% useless python imports".
by Y_Y | 2025-10-09 19:54:57+00:00
I love Mini Metro, so chill, but challenging.

One catch is that riders only need to get a particular "shape" of station (roughly analogous to residential, commercial, industrial, stadium, etc). That is to say, they normally don't insist on going to a particular station. Also and it's free in time, money, and political captial to change routes. The model is, I feel, slightly too simple to feel like real transport infra. That doesn't stop it being hella fun though.
by kjhughes | 2025-10-09 19:55:02+00:00
Abstract

We offer a comment on the Centaur (Binz et al., 2025) transformer-based model of human behavior. In particular, Centaur was cast as a path towards unified theories of cognition. We offer a counter claim with supporting argument: Centaur is a path divergent from unified theories of cognition, one that moves towards a unified model of behavior sans cognition.
by djoldman | 2025-10-09 19:55:16+00:00
I'm not proposing that all guardrail responsibilities be shifted to the insurer. Just the "medically necessary" provision.

Doctors would still have a Duty to Code Services Accurately and a Duty to Maintain the Medical Record (which would clearly enable an insurer to prove a non-medically necessary therapies). There would be plenty plenty of evidence for an insurer to immediately respond.

So claims could be rejected on the basis of failing to code accurately or lack of record.
by darrin | 2025-10-09 19:55:36+00:00
They're more like digital patch panels. You can connect any pair of ports together in both directions (TX/RX), just like moving a patch cable around. You can also connect an incoming RX lane to multiple TX lanes (think optical splitter but electrical). You cannot merge signals together. Some products have FPGAs that add L2+ or multiplexing functionality with packet buffers, but that's not part of the 2-5ns path.
by al_borland | 2025-10-09 19:56:22+00:00
I’ve actually spoken to multiple people, enough where it’s not a strange fringe one-off, that say they like relevant ads. If given the option, these people said they enable ads and the tracking to make them relevant, because they find them useful for learning about stuff they might want.

I can’t seem to wrap my head around it personally, as I tend to share your worldview about ads. Despite my shock and how much I disagree with them, these people do exist.
by lovich | 2025-10-09 19:56:29+00:00
> The gig work on Standard Chartered’s marketplace, which was set up in 2020, has helped create more than $8.5 million in value by enabling projects that might have been sidelined in the past due to understaffing or a lengthy hiring process, said Kapilashrami.

> While they don’t make extra money, staff see it as an opportunity to network and build new skills, especially important at a time the labor market is shifting, Kapilashrami said.

Oh, so this was set up before AI was on anyone’s mind and appears to just be another way to squeeze the labor force as companies ruthlessly innovate on their techiques to extract blood from stones.

I think the AI zeitgeist is so popular because it’s given executives a socially convenient excuse to chop 20% of the workforce and push the jobs onto the remaining employees like in 2008

What are these executives going to do when the only people employed by their companies are themselves and it’s time for the bi yearly layoffs to juice the stock price?
by leakycap | 2025-10-09 19:56:40+00:00
> I think 100% compatibile [sic] working would be launching bloatware installed by the manufacturer.

Making a physical button work requires bloatware in your understanding?

> I'm happy not to have the pavlovian training that may some day cause me to click one of these things on someone's windows machine.

Do you know what you're trying to say here? I do not.
by pessimizer | 2025-10-09 19:56:45+00:00
Why does it seem like they're arguing that? I think that it's supposed to really be: cause -> (plaques = cognitive disease), and the fraud was (cause = plaques) -> cognitive disease.

As I took it, understanding that there was a fraud doesn't mean that continually clearing the plaques wouldn't have a good chance of holding off cognitive disease indefinitely.
by lesuorac | 2025-10-09 19:56:51+00:00
Well, the two main counter points are.

1. Doge isn't free. They have staff with expenses which haven't been accounted for in your argument.

2. Cancelation of forward facing contracts shouldn't affect the immediate numbers. But it's like laying off the entire company; you're going to record a record Q4 with all those sales but no expenses however come Q1 good luck for the company.

Although people have posted links so you can read the article [1] which largely points out that spending is up by $220 billion. Which is about 2.2 trillion worse than Doge promised.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45530994
by wahnfrieden | 2025-10-09 19:57:58+00:00
You shouldn't dismiss them - they are not only adaptations, their screenplays were written by Krasznahorkai and he collaborated with their production.

Turin Horse is an original work by Krasznahorkai without being an adaptation, too. (I've seen that one 7 or 8 times, 4 during its festival & cinema run.)

To dismiss them would be like to dismiss his works with Max Neumann (AnimalInside being one of his best!) because they combine writing with painting instead of being pure literature.
by nicoburns | 2025-10-09 19:58:03+00:00
> I don't do a full release build unless I've updated my compiler version, which only happens a few times a year

That's probably part of the difference. I do tens of these every single day.

GUI apps can be quite slow in debug mode, and as you say, the compilation artifacts build up quickly, which requires a cargo clean and then a fresh build.
by pdonis | 2025-10-09 19:58:19+00:00
> I would say the REPL too but until very recently it was extremely shoddy

Can you elaborate? I've been using the Python REPL for more than two decades now, and I've never found it to be "shoddy". Indeed, in pretty much every Python project I work on, one of the first features I add for development is a standard way to load a REPL with all of the objects that the code works with set up properly, so I can inspect them.