MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-10-28 21:17:56+00:00
I've personally been running the Claude Code tool but pointed at DeepSeek's API platform. Cheaper than both Anthropic and OpenAI, and about as good as Sonnet 4 was, I'm finding.

Context window is too small though, and it sometimes has problems with compacting. But I was having that with Sonnet 4.5 as well.
by churchill | 2025-10-28 21:18:23+00:00
Do you mean Elon Musk? Bryanston High School and Pretoria Boys High School were all-white, so any beating he received (I'm assuming you're referring to the same savage incident Kimball was) was at the hands of other white boys.

So, being attacked and nearly killed by other white boys does not validate his opinions on apartheid.
by tptacek | 2025-10-28 21:18:25+00:00
Again, you can just do the math on this. You're making an argument about the macro costs of our system --- I think those costs are fucked, too. But I'm not talking about that; I'm talking about the actual experience of an ordinary middle-income family with private health insurance. That family would likely (in fact, almost certainly) be worse off in a single-payer system.

I'd appreciate if you'd avoid using language like "simply dishonest" with me in the future. It's easy to tell me I'm wrong about something without accusing me of commenting in bad faith. This is in the guidelines. Thanks in advance!
by dheera | 2025-10-28 21:18:38+00:00
Is there anything here from Ubiquiti that can allow me to plug an AT&T Fiber directly into my Unifi switch and get rid of the BGW620 crap? One would think AT&T Fiber is so common in Ubiquiti's target market that they should make an official SFP module for this already.

I know there are these XPS-GROUPON with "8311 firmware" SFP modules or something to bypass it but they cost $130+ and just wondering if there's something for <$50 before I pull the trigger.

Also

> 1000% lower pricing

What the hell does that mean? If some other vendor sells it for $1000, you sell it for -$9000?
by kragen | 2025-10-28 21:18:51+00:00
Nobody who knew Leonardo called him "da Vinci", any more than you would call Jessica "from church" ("Hey, is From Church coming over tonight?") or Venezuelans would call Hugo Chávez Frias "Mr. Frias". "Descriptive linguistics" is not a magic trump password that makes all erroneous utterances correct. If you haven't studied 16th-century Italian, you're going to make errors when you name 16th-century Italians.
by runjake | 2025-10-28 21:19:22+00:00
The cause is probably related to the new OS, but I don't have that same wait on my multiple Tahoe systems, so it's not just because: Tahoe.

If you're a Linux user, or were a Linux user, check the logs, close programs, uncheck login items 1 by 1, run "launchctl list", etc to identify the specific cause.
by lsaferite | 2025-10-28 21:19:27+00:00
I'd say this method of coding agent interaction is likely a strong contender for integrating coding agents into teams. You start with a really well defined ticket and a good source of relevant documentation for the project then set the agent loose by assigning it a ticket. It does it's thing, maybe asks questions on a group chat or in the ticket, and eventually produces a PR for the ticket. It's the 'interface' behind how a developer interacts with a project already. There's a lot of hand-waving in there and it's not a today or tomorrow thing, but it seems like it's coming fairly soon.
by munk-a | 2025-10-28 21:20:12+00:00
I think it's important to reinforce that SQL isn't an COBOL like attempt at building a querying language out of natural expressions (which you could see if you squint really hard). Instead SQL is a refinement of various querying languages (hence being the standard one) that co-evolved with relational algebra. If you have a chance to learn more within an academic environment courses on relational algebra and the abstract theory of set operations can be invaluable to building a basis for more naturally understanding the intent and tools available in SQL.
by edanm | 2025-10-28 21:20:18+00:00
> Firing is when employer terminates someone for cause, i.e. employee did something wrong or didn't meet expectations.

AFAIK you are using the term "for cause" incorrectly. Firing "for cause" is usually more serious than simply firing for poor performance or similar. It's usually for something like breach of contract, for getting in legal trouble, for theft, wilful misconduct, etc. It also usually results in losing severance, options, etc.

Simple firing for poor performance is not firing "for cause".
by hagbard_c | 2025-10-28 21:20:29+00:00
Is hasn't so much been 'trained' on Wikipedia but seems to have 'copied' a large fraction of the 'less contentious' (i.e. less politically biased) content of the site and marked it as such in the footer: The content is adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.

Here's an example of such an article, this one on Toroidal Propellers:

https://grokipedia.com/page/Toroidal_propeller

This is not surprising and quite legal given the licence conditions. It is also fitting given the stated intent of 'Grokipedia' as being a less biased knowledge source - if Wikipedia did not suffer from being overly politically biased there would not have been a need for alternatives.

The above example is not a high-quality article - it reads more like a sales brochure - but it does not show political bias. It will be interesting to see whether Grokipedia follows edits to Wikipedia content and if it 'rejects' or 'edits out' politically biased edits.
by saltcured | 2025-10-28 21:20:41+00:00
I rarely "hear" utterances in my mind, but that may be more aphantasia than the lack of monologue...

For a recollection, auditory aspects might be present for a high stress moment, such as someone emoting a mere word or syllable. It's more like a static vignette with a brief sound clip. It could also be non-verbal sounds.

I don't know exactly how to describe it, but general speech recollection for me is something like a train of AST fragments that I just sort of know/feel. These are some intermediate representation of verbal content, not the serialized phonemes or lexemes, but also not my core thought mode either, which is somehow non-verbal semantics.

I also get this train of AST fragments from reading or from trying to compose text in my head. These verbal units are larger than words, shorter than sentences or paragraphs, and I'm not sure they always align with what you would call grammatical phrases either. This train can have a timing aspect to it which correlates with the remembered or planned cadence of speech, a bit like some cue sheet. Or it could correlate with written structures.

Ironically, I like poetry but have no appreciation for "spoken word". To me, the structure of rhyme and meter is felt almost spatially when I read the page in silence. Hearing it aloud is distracting, not very enjoyable, and also much harder for me to absorb the content. It's as if I don't have enough short-term memory duration to buffer what is being said and assemble the structures I want.

I like music with vocals, but I similarly don't absorb the verbal meaning that much. I like them for the musicality, tone, and emotional content. If I don't read the whole lyric on a page, I might never fully appreciate the verbal content. Weirdly, I can remember lyrics and sing along, even if I haven't read them and fully absorbed them. It's like I have recall cued to the music, but I would not be able to recite those same lines if I wasn't hearing the song to cue me for each little bit.
by CupricTea | 2025-10-28 21:20:50+00:00
The refusal to mention "federally named Gulf of America in the US" in the lede for the Gulf of Mexico (with the Talk page growing ad infinitum with blatantly negative commentary for the president until it was finally purged and locked), the refusal to name the alleged killer Karmelo Anthony in the killing of Austin Metcalf, the attempted deletion of the article for the killing of Iryna Zarutska, overemphasis on Charlie Kirk as "far-right" and a "conspiracy theorist", keeping the title "GamerGate (harassment campaign)" and purposely refusing any mention for what triggered it and motivations involved, instead hyperfocusing on victimizing journalists involved, etc.
by antonvs | 2025-10-28 21:21:16+00:00
> Flock cameras were nearby

The article explicitly claims that the police officer claimed that they had footage from a Flock camera:

> "The proof, according to Milliman: Footage from Flock surveillance cameras showing Elser’s forest green Rivian driving through the town from 11:52 a.m. to 12:09 p.m. on the day of the theft."

That's exactly what the headline describes. It's not clear why you're trying to downplay the role of the Flock camera, given that this seems to be the central piece of evidence that the police used, incorrectly.

> Forgive me for writing this

You would need to explain yourself first.
Show HN: Permit Watch, Turning Ireland's work permits into a job-demand proxy
by fredthedeve | 2025-10-28 21:21:32+00:00
I'm a Stamp 1G student in Ireland. DETE's data is gold but buried in Excels. Built this to filter/search: HSE's 12,501 health permits (2024), IT trends (6,788 issued), CSRI success odds (e.g., 88.8% for US devs at Meta Dublin).

Proxy insight: High permits = hot sectors/companies for non-EU talent.

100% DETE open data. Feedback?
by jack_tripper | 2025-10-28 21:23:02+00:00
>How do they track credit-worthiness inside the EU? I thought Germany had something equivalent?

It's funny that your parent says "I just prefer rule of law than these hacks on society", when Germany's credit check institution, Schufa, acts like that, not super different to China's social credit score he mentioned.

You can't get a rental in China with a bad credit score, and like that, good luck getting a landlord in Germany to lent you his property with a bad Schufa.
by somedude895 | 2025-10-28 21:23:07+00:00
I had a Samsung TV ten years ago. While watching Game of Thrones with friends, it overlayed an ad at the top of the screen recommending I play Fruit Ninja on my TV. I immediately disconnected it from my WiFi and have not bought a single other Samsung device since, except for one thumbdrive that I needed. Avoiding Samsung as a brand when buying electronics has been really easy as well.
by kuratkull | 2025-10-28 21:23:23+00:00
That's also a large part of the issue IMO. I currently _have_ root on my rooted and Lineaged Poco F3. But as hardware attestation is becoming the norm I am deeply worried about the future. I have been a pretty eager Android fan due to its achievable-if-savvy openness. If I lose root and sideloading, then Android is dead to me. There would be nothing valuable in it, just another corporate walled garden.
by jeremyalfred | 2025-10-28 21:23:37+00:00
WorkVerify was born from the recognition that the hiring process is fundamentally broken. Employers struggle to get accurate references, while employees have no way to showcase their verified track record.

Anonymous review sites failed because they invited defamation and personal attacks. Traditional reference checks are time-consuming and unreliable. We saw an opportunity to create something better—a system that benefits both employers and employees through structured, verified data.

Today, we're building the verified reputation network that empowers good employees to stand out and gives employers the confidence to make informed hiring decisions.
by andy99 | 2025-10-28 21:23:38+00:00
Edit: just saw an earlier better comment saying the same thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45737190

Countries with “free” also healthcare ration it and don’t cover everything.

Socialized insurance is still insurance, and at least in Canada it’s the only game in town, so if you have a procedure that is denied or not available your choice is basically to go to the US and pay for it and be in the same position as an uninsured American.
by ottah | 2025-10-28 21:23:42+00:00
Mmmm, great that and mandatory key rotation every 90 days, plus needing to get a cert from an approved CA, means just that more busy work to have an independent web presence.

I don't like people externalizing their security policy preferences. Yes this might be more secure for a class of use-cases, but I as a user should be allowed to decide my threat model. It's not like these initiatives really solve the risks posed by bad actors. We have so much compliance theater around email, and we still have exactly the same threats and issues as existed twenty years ago.
by ekjhgkejhgk | 2025-10-28 21:23:44+00:00
What is to be done?

Install LineageOS or GrapheneOS?

I feel that the root problem is that there aren't enough highly skilled low level developers willing to spend their time writing free software for mobile phones. Why do we have Linux and things around it? Because a lot of very skilled developers decided to work on it and offer it to the world.
by ribosometronome | 2025-10-28 21:23:45+00:00
I'm not sure how you can say every President left office peacefully when four of them left by way of being assassinated, but I do see that's not quite the point you're trying to make. I'm not sure why we'd be so narrow as to only examine US history, rather than history at large unless we're operating under some guise of American Exceptionalism.
by JoshTriplett | 2025-10-28 21:23:56+00:00
> and don't see how connecting a different box to watch the same things is much better than just using the OS to do that.

Because then you can replace a $50-100 box when it starts misbehaving (e.g. tracking and selling your information) or not getting upgrades anymore or getting slower, rather than replacing a $1000 TV.
by cb321 | 2025-10-28 21:24:29+00:00
All very true and "balk en masse" is what I meant by "first exposé". (Ancient wisdom, even, if you think about individuals and mortages/car loans and having a steady job, etc. rather than just businesses.) Maybe we'll anyway see some market segments succeed with "pay 2x more for your screwdriver, but it will at least be your screwdriver" slogans, and then have screwdrivers to do with what we will, like the proverbial "pound sand". ;-)
by colechristensen | 2025-10-28 21:24:47+00:00
And also there's a difference between infection incidence, intensity, and duration, the evidence I've seen has been strongest in reducing intensity and duration. Also dosage might just be too low.

I've been feeling a little off lately with some respiratory symptoms and took 25,000 IU of Vitamin D, in people who are deficient (probably me lately) 400-1000 daily dose might not actually do enough to have an effect.

It's about time for a meta-meta analysis comparing the traits of the different sets of papers (N, dosage, deficiency status, time of year, duration/incidence/intensity, etc)
by epistasis | 2025-10-28 21:25:00+00:00
The complexity is far higher than credit card processing, including extensive price negotiation with individual health care providers. Though we call it "insurance" it's just as much a "buyer's club" for health care services.

Large employers (e.g. Google) are also generally "self-insured" meaning that the "insurance" component is offloaded to the purchaser, the employer of the insured individuals. In those cases, the health care insurer processes the claims from health care providers, determines if they were justified, or if the treatment/diagnostic/drug is justified by coverage determinations of the provider, etc, but the employer (e.g. Google) just pays the claims in the end too.
by dragonwriter | 2025-10-28 21:26:03+00:00
> Again, you can just do the math on this. You're making an argument about the macro costs of our system --- I think those costs are fucked, too. But I'm not talking about that; I'm talking about the actual experience of an ordinary middle-income family with private health insurance.

Yes, you can just do the math, and changing nothing about the US except transition to a European style universal system, the median family would face lower aggregate tax, out-of-paycheck, and out-of-pocket costs than they do now, with less health insecurity around unexpected events (either health or employment), unless the tax increases necessary were deliberately and perversely targeted to avoid that.

That’s a direct consequence of the difference in the macro-level costs: they aren’t separate, orthogonal concerns. People just have a hard time accepting that the US health care system is structurally constructed right now to waste vast hordes of money preventing people from accessing health care, but that’s exactly what it does.
by criticalfault | 2025-10-28 21:26:05+00:00
I disagree completely. If libre office would be fine, it would be popular. And, as said, most of the people I know avoid it like a plague.

Also, im not trying to ridicule FOSS as a whole. if anything I'm a financial supporter for several projects and organizations. It's not a lot of money, but it's every month. So, no, it's not this.

The proposal would be to fund something like collabora, build on top of libre office or do something greenfield, but all this money that was supposed to go to Microsoft should be redirected.

Decision that governments did are not based on the fact that libre office is good. It's based on 1) political reasons called digital sovereignty and 2) price. Maybe 3) being pissed at trump. They didn't do it because LO was good.

Some american products have no good alternatives, yet. Some do, like windows can be replaced with gnome, but mobile phones cannot. Probably you are not typing or reading this from a European os on your phone, yet alternatives exist. Just not good ones.

Microsoft Office clone is not what I want, but what I would accept. Let's say UI should be very similar to Microsoft Office or even better Google office. That's it. Make it in a desktop suite and we are all good.

But do not ignore the UI part of the app.
by bogwog | 2025-10-28 21:26:27+00:00
This comment is very uninformed and misleading.

> Having an approved channel for verified app loading is a valuable security tool and greatly reduces the number of malicious apps installed on users devices

These are claims that Apple and Google make to justify their distribution monopolies, and you are repeating them as fact. I don't think it's true, and cite as evidence both major app stores and the massive amount of malware in them.

Don't parrot anti-competitive lies from monopolists.

> Given that both of these things are obviously true, it seems like a pretty obvious solution is to just have a pop up that has a install at your own risk warning whenever you install something outside of the official app store.

Google already does this. They've always done this, and it has always been a bad thing because it disadvantages app stores that try to compete with Google Play. Imagine you want to sell an app, and your marketing materials need to include instructions on how to enable "side loading" and tell people to ignore the multiple scary popups warning about vague security risks and malware.

> because they take a vig on all transactions done through those apps

This has already been litigated and federal judges ruled that they must allow devs to use third party payment processors. Look up the Epic Games cases against Apple and Google.

> In a normal market there would be no incentive to side load because...

This is nonsense. "sideload" just means to install something outside the Play store. In a normal market, there would be every incentive to do so, as consumers would be able to choose from multiple app stores. Users don't care where an app comes from, as long as they can figure out how to get it.
by sam_goody | 2025-10-28 21:26:27+00:00
Kohler once made a gold plated toilet seat as a display item for their show rooms.

The Kohler rep near me was pretty surprised when someone walked in and offered ridiculous cash for the seat on display. The buyer explained... "There is no way I can impress my guests more than having them realize that even the toilet seat is gold plated." Kohler wound up selling the whole run.

Nothing, perhaps, less than a Humanoid robot that is almost as good as Roomba.

People will pay a crazy amount of money to show off.
by nunez | 2025-10-28 21:26:29+00:00
I compared Grokipedia's entry on the band "American Football" [^0] to Wikipedia's [^1] and they are _almost_ the same. While Grok does attribute Wikipedia in the footer, they added this to their article:

> On July 2, 2025, the band released their first live album, American Football (Live in Los Angeles), recorded during the anniversary shows at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles with guest appearances by Ethel Cain and M.A.G.S., accompanied by a concert film documenting the performance.

If you go to the source [^4] for this claim, you'll see that:

- They dropped a film of the same name alongside the album release.

- The "guest appearances" are actually interviews in the film.

- The entry excluded the female artist that was cited in the source.

I, then, compared Grok's entry on United Airlines [^2] against Wikipedia's [^3]. Grok's seemed to be autogenerated this time.

I skipped to the section on MileagePlus since I know a bit about how that program works. It has a few inaccuracies:

- It only lists the four published MileagePlus tiers: Silver, Gold, Platinum and 1K and omits the two unpublished, but well-known, tiers above 1K: Global Services and Chairman's Circle.

- The 2025 premier qualifying point (PQP) redemptions are actually from 2024.

- Some of the language it uses wouldn't meet Wikipedia's editorial standards, like the nebulous "priority everything" benefit from obtaining 1K status (whose source is unclear, as neither of the two sources cited use this phrase).

- "The current logo features a stylized "U" incorporating a world map outline, symbolizing global connectivity" That's United's old logo. They absorbed Continental's logo when they merged.

- The article opens with the claim that United has 1018 aircraft in its fleet as of APR 2025, then, later, states that it has 1,001 active aircraft as of OCT 2025. The source for the 1,001 figure states 1,055 on the page with 1,003 in revenue service.

So I wouldn't use Grokipedia as a source for anything, just like Wikipedia, though I'm sure some will try.

[^0]: https://archive.is/twkBP (might not be available yet; it's still getting archived)

[^1]: https://archive.ph/lOkdT

[^2]: https://archive.ph/EnN2T

[^3]: https://archive.ph/uooNW

[^4]: https://pitchfork.com/news/american-football-to-share-new-li...
by shaftway | 2025-10-28 21:26:57+00:00
I don't know about builder's keys from that era, but modern builder's keys aren't vulnerable to this problem. The builder's key uses a deeper cut on one or more pins, but the owner's key can and should be pretty unique. The only real requirement is that there be at least one cut to a high enough number to allow for a builder's key. There's a good video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUCW4OnE6Mc

Maybe they used a master key system instead.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-10-28 21:27:09+00:00
They don't deserve a single iota of respect, are a total joke & nightmare for the world, feeding lies and disinformation to the world. Would be plutocrats Koch Brothers, Harlan Crow, Leonard Leo of the Federalist Society, Chris twitter-poster-shit-show-freaking Rufo?! A whose who of extreme conservatives eager to get us back to the 1850's. Here's some sites from about covering them, in gentle neutral terms, but Manhanttan Institute absolutely deserve more serious lambasting & being laughed out of any polite company. Ad hominem maybe, but absolutely people working in opposition to a better world, trying to drag us into a corporate controlled hell world, and deserving of no regards.

https://supremetransparency.org/powerbrokers/manhattan-insti...

https://centerjd.org/content/fact-sheet-manhattan-institute

https://www.monitoringinfluence.org/org/manhattan-institute/