MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Yizahi | 2025-10-28 17:53:04+00:00
EU in 2008 was extremely biased towards Russia too, the appeasement was going full tilt, just like the tasty gas in the pipeline, so they are not exactly impartial party. I'm generally inclined to believe a victim country, not the invading empire, but you do you. And inconclusive doesn't mean definitely ruled out. Can be lack of evidence for either outcome.

And if you are that suspicious of that date, we can pick another. In 1992 Russia invaded independent Georgia (among other countries), so any action was towards occupation force, in defense.

PS: and if look throughout the history, we will find very few cases, when a smaller country attacks much bigger one especially after already losing at least one fight against them. And the opposite is true, there are hundreds and thousands of cases when a bigger country attacks the smaller one, especially after already winning once against them. And countless times when a bigger country lied about pretext for such attack, to be seen as not crazy murderers outright, but muddy waters and sow doubt. Russia succeeded it seems.
by rkhraishi | 2025-10-28 17:53:51+00:00
In this position paper accepted at NeurIPS 2025, we argue that in the near term, real-time feedback loops + on-the-fly personalization + perverse engagement incentives could turn GenAI into a compulsion engine akin to 'digital heroin,' which may especially affect young people.

Why we think this matters now: - Existing feeds already optimize every swipe and have been shown to be addictive (just look at short-form platforms like TikTok). - AI video is here (think Sora-style quality and speed) and improving fast. - Major platforms are rolling out new AI video-creation experiences that tighten the loop. - The paradigm is shifting from ranking a finite set of human videos to generating effectively infinite, objective-function-optimized clips. Because AI video is now directly optimizable, platforms can, in principle, tune content to maximize engagement (or even micro-signals like pauses, rewinds, gaze, ...).

Here's an interesting post from Karpathy on the topic as well: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1929634696474120576

What we propose: a label for Designated Addictive Systems, audits & transparency, friction-by-design, age-based protections, and a proactive research agenda from the machine learning community.

Oral presentation and poster session details: https://neurips.cc/virtual/2025/poster/121952
by drdec | 2025-10-28 17:53:55+00:00
> Yeah, US hospital billing is based on the idea that the patient has insurance and won't really care about what their insurer gets charged. (The wider implications of this are left to the reader.)

Don't leave out the part where the consumer doesn't even shop (or sometimes pay) for the insurance policy either, it is determined by their place of work.

So the consumer of healthcare is doubly shielded from any price signals the market might supply.
by incomingpain | 2025-10-28 17:53:57+00:00
>I came away with the firm conclusion that acupuncture is psuedoscience;

I dont think most disagrees on this. As I said, I'm not interested in it at all, even if it did work. The science however is not saying it's pseduoscience. It's saying that the Qi and meridians and that sort of stuff is wrong. Whereas the actual needles are scientifically based as providing pain relief in a small and short term effect.

It's a complex topic that doesn't have good conclusions and I chose it because I knew it would show their ideological bias. There's absolutely no reason to call it qwackery when it's not a settled subject. Perhaps even finish defining what it is before going on the attack.

>Anyway, I thought the Grokipedia article was quite good, but also didn't find the Wikipedia article to be particularly biased.

That's completely fair to come to the conclusion. My guess would be that you tend to also align with the ideology that wiki is written for.
by lopsidedmarble | 2025-10-28 17:54:01+00:00
These current llm companies will be unable to "crack AGI".

Some independent researcher will, and it will require ridiculously less compute then the embarrassing things these llm companies produce.

Unfortunately, these current llm companies will still be in the best position: liquid capital, relationships with more capital, access to hardware; to productize the discovery.

At that time I hope these resources will be nationalized and handed to the public.
by da_chicken | 2025-10-28 17:54:57+00:00
It's hard because relational algebra is hard. It's hard because it's easy to write a query that returns arbitrary data, but it's hard to write a query that returns only the correct data that you really want.

The problem is that, IMX, AI is just as shit at that as most humans are. AI can find and connect primary keys and columns with the same name. It doesn't understand cardinality of entities or how to look for data that breaks the data model of the application (which is a critical element of data validation).

None of the actual hard parts of writing SQL go away with AI.
by datavirtue | 2025-10-28 17:54:57+00:00
Sounds good, but then you have the lights over Arizona in 1995 and other incidents that are on video.

Are Aliens here goofing off? Probably not but humans are either conjuring these manifestations of mass hallucinations or they are actually happening. I guess the first case is a really a version of the second case.

We used to have issues with fairies, now it's humanoids visiting in crafts.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-10-28 17:55:08+00:00
Because 92% of Americans have health insurance, and 22% have totally free everything covered health insurance. Of the uninsured, most either are eligible but don't apply, have insurance through work but forgo it, or are not US citizens.

All said and done, you end up with a very small sliver of people who are legitimately uninsured, which means the problem mostly exists as scary stories rather than people actually experiencing it.
by pestat0m | 2025-10-28 17:55:18+00:00
"Your browser is out of date. Update your browser to view this site properly."

it always makes me sad when i see this. you are not reaching your target audience. fyi this seems to be a cloudflare thing. i see it everywhere. The World Wide Web seems to be going down a dark path. perhaps i do need to update my browser, but why should that matter for just reading a news site. it's like someone wants you to not have access unless you buy a new macbook(or maybe a chromebook). maybe i should just install Chrome already? i just feel like this Big Tech has crossed the line with their customers a long time ago at this point.

btw, fair.org looks interesting. i never heard of them before. Thanks!
by roflmaostc | 2025-10-28 17:55:36+00:00
In the PDF they are all titled as

"Assistant Professor, Department of General Medicine, Arundathi Institute of Medical Sciences, Dundigal, Medchal Malkajgiri, Telangana, India"

The 2nd author is listed here: https://aims.ac.in/general-medicine/ I did not find any trace for the other two authors (do they exist?).

Also, look at the timings: Received: 16-09-2025 Accepted: 29-09-2025 Available online: 14-10-2025

That's relatively fast but also the paper is not super in-depth.

And in general it seems like that the "International Journal of Medical and Pharmaceutical Research" is not quite well known. See the Editors, not even pictures there: https://ijmpr.in/editorial-board/
by AngryData | 2025-10-28 17:55:46+00:00
Not the same guy but, when I took them it was as I was laying down to try to sleep, so maybe 10 minutes before I was actually asleep.

In my experience you don't want to take them and not try to go to sleep right afterwards or you can ruin the effect, and trying to take more trying to sleep afterwards merely results in addiction and needing it to sleep at all.

I can also confirm you want a very low dosage. Higher dosages didn't help at all, just merely built tolerance to it. The ones I got were 3-5mg and I broke them up into tiny little pieces and took partial mgs at most. You want to nudge yourself towards sleep with it, not try to drug yourself with it.
by deaux | 2025-10-28 17:55:47+00:00
This is ironic as it's the perpetuating of this myth by people like you that sustains this mindset. And I get that you're not intentionally doing it at all, it comes from a place of misunderstanding. But it's incredibly harmful.

To be very clear:

Companies absolutely do not have any responsibility to maximize short-term profit.

They have a responsibility to not actively and intentionally destroy the company, and to not use the company's resources for purely personal gain in a way unrelated to the company.

That's it.

This is also why you never hear about any company getting sued for anything related to this (let alone succesfully). Because it doesn't happen, as it's not a thing and any lawyer would immediately tell you you don't have a case.
by TYPE_FASTER | 2025-10-28 17:56:11+00:00
While ChatGPT tells me it's unable to access the linked page directly from Grokipedia (lolol), I was able to download the content, copy/paste it into ChatGPT, and ask it to fact check it. I think I will do this more often, with other sites (and other models) as well, going forward, as Chat is able to categorize statements as being correct vs. misleading vs. flat out wrong.

> The article does seem a bit much though. I've noticed a lot of the Grokipedia articles just go on.

And yes, that's what I'm noticing as well. There is a clear attempt to establish a narrative.
by criticalfault | 2025-10-28 17:56:26+00:00
All this money saved should be "unsaved" until a decent alternative is made. Everything that the government should spent here, should be invested into pan-european organization to develop a new office suite.

Libre office in my opinion is one of the reasons Microsoft is so dominant. Unfortunately, libre office, even though useful, is one of the worst desktop applications to use.

Everyone I proposed this to tried it and said that its horrible and they don't want to use it. And I agree with them: because libre office is so sh*t, u use Google docs.
by xp84 | 2025-10-28 17:56:57+00:00
> since another insurance company would just steal their customers by having lower

LOL. Meanwhile, in real-life America, there are only four or five major carriers that control the market, and none of them are incentivized to do this "competition" thing you speak of by engaging in damaging price wars. Why would they when continuing to be part of the problem makes them more and more profits each year? See also: military contracting. Do you see them constantly undercutting each other? No, they buy each other, reducing the number of bidders on every contract.
by JustExAWS | 2025-10-28 17:56:58+00:00
No one is advocating for “communism” any more than Obama was a “secret Muslim trying to bring Sharia law into the US”. If you want to talk “socialism” that’s what you call tariffs that US citizens are paying and redistributing the taxes to farmers hurt by the tariffs.

Again do you think if the terrorist on Jan 6th had bern minorities there wouldn’t have been overwhelming force? Even if they did manage to get to Pelosi and Pence, they weren’t going to overthrow the entire government.

What could the military do? They had guns. They could shoot people. I’m well stew that red and blue is not statewide and there are more Republican voters in California than South Dakota.
by next_xibalba | 2025-10-28 17:57:05+00:00
Yeah, my line for calling someone fascist is not “restricting reporters access to the Pentagon”. It cheapens the word and all that it represents.

There is a wide gulf between writing with basic clarity and injecting opinions like “so and so is a toady”. I would love to see media outlets attempt to describe just the facts with as little opinion as possible. FAIR clearly does not meet that bar.
by luizfelberti | 2025-10-28 17:57:07+00:00
It seems to talk about Rosetta 2 as a whole, which is what the containerization framework depends on to support running amd64 binaries inside Linux VMs (even though the kernel still needs to be arm)

Is there a separate part of Rosetta that is implemented for the VM stuff? I was under the impression Rosetta was some kind of XPC service that would translate executable pages for Hypervisor Framework as they were faulted in, did I just misunderstand how the thing works under the hood? Are there two Rosettas?
by slater | 2025-10-28 17:57:10+00:00
Why not have the decency to respond with your real HN account, instead of making a new account just to post tedious sealioning?

[this is the point at which you swear up, down and sideways that you've never ever in your whole life had a HN account, this is your first account ever, how dare i, etc. etc. etc.]

Edit to answer your totally-asked-in-good-faith question: Causation != correlation.
by tpmoney | 2025-10-28 17:57:13+00:00
Great, and that's followed by > Even now, the newspaper's reporters do so as a matter of routine.

So, we know they "resolutely revealed" this in the past (but that is of course not the same word as "unfailingly" or even "always"), and we know that they continue to do so even to this day "as a matter of routine". But neither of those tells us anything about the current frequency compared to the past frequency. Likewise it tells us nothing about whether the "matter of routine" changed since before Bezos took ownership.

Similarly it says nothing about the wider industry. Oh sure, they tell us: > Newspapers typically manage the perception with transparency. And they tell us that viewing it as a conflict of interest is "conventional", but again no information about how the WPs frequency (either before or after Bezos took ownership) compares to the industry as a whole, nor whether that frequency has actually changed.

Again some numbers would be instructive here. The article says "at least 3 times in the last 2 weeks" this has occurred (and apparently been subsequently corrected). But how many times was it necessary in the last 2 weeks? If the WP published 4 articles in the last 2 weeks that would have normally had one of these disclosures, missing 3 out of 4 is a different thing than if the WP published 200 such articles in the last 2 weeks.

I know it's always been a lot to ask our news reporters to actually do some fact gathering, but it hardly seems unreasonable to ask for any sort of comparative information when asserting there is a change people should be concerned about.
by wholinator2 | 2025-10-28 17:57:26+00:00
Well the difference between those two statements is obvious. One looks and feels, the other processes and analyzes. Most people can process and analyze some things, they're not complete idiots most of the time. But also most people cannot think and analyze the most ground breaking technological advancement they might've personally ever witnessed, that requires college level math and computer science to understand. It's how people have been forever, electricity, the telephone, computers, even barcodes. People just don't understand new technologies. It would be much weirder if the populace suddenly knew exactly what was going on.

And to the "most groundbreaking blah blah blah", i could argue that the difference between no computer and computer requires you to actually understand the computer, which almost no one actually does. It just makes peoples work more confusing and frustrating most of the time. While the difference between computer that can't talk to you and "the voice of god answering directly all questions you can think of" is a sociological catastrophic change.
by panick21 | 2025-10-28 17:57:29+00:00
That is defently the limitation that you need to improve over time. And eventually you likely split the graphcis memory off from the main memory.

To improve performance you need to start to add cache in or around your CPU/MMU and you need an increasingly clever memory chip to arbitrate memory access.

But you are right, you always going to run into limitations. As RAM is the most expensive part of the BOM, literally anything you can do to get maximum utilily of out of the memory bandwith is where you need to spend design time.

Like ARM did a 16 bit encoding for your 32 bit RISC would have been a great design feature to further reduce the how intensive it is to keep the CPU active. Of course nobody had thought of that combination, that was an early 90s thing.

RAM is just so expensive back then, you build your machine around sharing it as well as you can and living with the downsides.
by lapcat | 2025-10-28 17:57:44+00:00
Why would it mean that?

It's a myth that Snow Leopard was a bug fix release. Mac OS X 10.6.0 was much buggier than 10.5.8, indeed brought several new severe bugs. However, Mac OS X 10.6 received two years of minor bug fix updates afterward, which eventually made it the OS that people reminiscence about now.

Apple's strict yearly schedule makes "another Snow Leopard" impossible. At this point, Apple has accumulated so much technical debt that they'd need much more than 2 years of minor bug fix updates.

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2023/11/5.html
by NicuCalcea | 2025-10-28 17:57:47+00:00
That's just your opinion, and the UN would disagree: https://www.un.org/dgacm/en/content/regional-groups#:~:text=...

Some of my fellow Romanians will also claim they're Central European, but in my mind, all the ones I listed are Eastern European countries. I'd even include Turkey and Kazakhstan in there, part of the latter is to the West of the Urals, which is what we normally consider the border between Europe and Asia.
by layer8 | 2025-10-28 17:58:30+00:00
English is an official EU language because Regulation 1 Article 1 says so [0] and hasn’t been changed. In practice, English is the most widely used language in EU institutions, so it would be have been silly to remove it after Brexit.

[0] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:01...
by ruralfam | 2025-10-28 17:58:37+00:00
I had a 20 minute appointment with a doctor at Kaiser in WA. I thought I had set up a free, yearly wellness meet. However due to Epic's really epically bad UI (they provide Kaiser's online presence), I had setup a standard meeting. My bill was nearly $1,700 discounted to $200 which I was fully responsible for as I/We (family) had not yet reached our deductable limit. Funny things: 1) Doctor wanted me to approve the use of AI to take notes of the meeting so she would not have to (I agreed). 2) The one issue I cited caused my doctor to say (pretty close paraphrase), "I have an idea what the problem is." I asked what it was, but the appointment was over so was advised to setup another meeting. I decided to keep working on it myself as I am pretty sure it is a stiff-ligament issue. Thanks Doc. Also: I like Kaiser overall. This one doc (who is not my regular one) was not as asset to Kaiser imho.
by sva_ | 2025-10-28 17:58:37+00:00
Seems like the model isn't limited to those though, from the paper:

> as well as some additional relevant languages (Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Galician, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Russian, Turkish, and Ukrainian).

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.16235

The paper also goes into detail on training set sources, which I feel like a curation thereof might be considered the main contribution of this publication?
by whimsicalism | 2025-10-28 17:58:38+00:00
Imagine if the U.S. government gave out free smartphones to some segment of the population. Over the years, they’d get used to replacing their phones for the smallest reason — a scratch, a tiny crack, dropped it a little hard — because it costs them nothing. Some might even start swapping phones every month or every week.

“Ah,” someone says, “but the government negotiates huge discounts with the phone makers since it buys in bulk!” I think this misses the forest for the trees when it comes to cost control.
by ajross | 2025-10-28 17:58:42+00:00
Can someone explain the angle here? I mean, I get why personally RFK Jr. might have opinions about stuff. I can imagine him putting his finger on the scale here or there.

But why all the attention? It's... tylenol. Why is POTUS and Texas AG and whatnot getting up on a stage in front of the media and going to war against an extremely boring OTC medication that no one has every cared about. There are no conspiracy votes to get here. RFK made it all up.

Is this a corruption thing? Are they shaking down the manufacturer? Is it being blown up for speculative reasons? I note that Johnson & Johnson spun it off just two years ago. Is there a plan behind this?

Seriously, what's actually going on? This smells like some kind of weird conspiracy but I can't see anything but irrationality.
by HelloMcFly | 2025-10-28 17:58:51+00:00
> This means if you're using small tips, there's a lot of spare room, which means the AirPods can easily be mis-seated, breaking the charge connection.

I've used many headphones - probably upwards of 10 pairs cross 5 brands - in my day with rubber tips that can accommodate multiple sizes. This has never been a problem for me with any brand. I've switched to open ear headphones (over-ear for flights) since last year so my knowledge base is aging.

Is the magnetic action in Apple's case not strong enough, maybe?
Show HN: Apache Fory Rust – 10-20x faster serialization than JSON/Protobuf
by chaokunyang | 2025-10-28 17:58:51+00:00
Serialization framework with some interesting numbers: 10-20x faster on nested objects than json/protobuf.

Technical approach: compile-time codegen (no reflection), compact binary protocol with meta-packing, little-endian layout optimized for modern CPUs. Unique features that other fast serializers don't have: - Cross-language without IDL files (Rust ↔ Python/Java/Go) - Trait object serialization (Box<dyn Trait>) - Automatic circular reference handling - Schema evolution without coordination Happy to discuss design trade-offs. Benchmarks: https://fory.apache.org/docs/benchmarks/rust
by Tarsul | 2025-10-28 17:58:54+00:00
(after rereading I don't have any new points but I will let my comment stay for posterity) If so many people leave your free app, consider why they leave instead of focusing on 20 people who stay (how much money could you even make with 20 people? Not enough.). Only then you can focus on monetization. Anyway, best of luck and grats for getting so many downloads (albeit not enough sticky ones).
by Zambyte | 2025-10-28 17:58:56+00:00
Our role as programmers being closer to artists than engineers does not make code closer to paintings than bridges. We do have highly repeatable patterns. Nearly every program can be essentially boiled down to some subset of CRUD + tranformation.

Even if it is art (I'm not convinced), the recent artificial scarcity on art is absurd. Some other thoughts to consider:

- https://drewdevault.com/2020/08/24/Alice-in-Wonderland.html

- https://drewdevault.com/2021/12/23/Sustainable-creativity-po...
by huevosabio | 2025-10-28 17:58:56+00:00
"figured it could just grab money from unsophisticated people"

This sums up my experience with US Healthcare. They bill expecting you to autopay, and either have no incentive to bill correctly or they outright are trying to scam but the result is that every hospital bill is sus.

This also makes insurance a lot less inherently valuable: you are paying for someone to do this untangling shitshow on top of the actual insurance. As if the hospitals just put the billing burden on the client.

There has to be a penalty for sending wrong bills, or they should pay me for my time wasted.

Finally, the prices are so inflated that often the price without insurance in Europe is the same as the copay/coinsurance in the US.

Its a fucking catastrophe.