MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by duxup | 2025-10-29 13:36:49+00:00
>For those who stay, health care services can be limited. Vourgos said he and his wife spent thousands of euros to travel for medical care for each of her two pregnancies.

>The island's small public hospital has no neonatal ICU services, so many pregnant women make that choice

I've seen this in communities back home / in the area as well. I sometimes think how nice it would be to move back home, but there's far fewer services (recreation, healthcare, even quality groceries) and many are shrinking.

Even things like housing, is on the surface cheaper in a technical sense ... if you want a crappy old house for "cheap"-ish, that needs work. And then good luck finding many options to fix up or build that new house.

It also doesn't help that the locals back home elect politicians who are determined to enact policies that accelerate these issues like cutting healthcare, transportation, and so on. It's wild to see them complain about the big cities, and then elect people who cut all support for their own people, communities, and had the development advantages to the big city in spades.
by gruez | 2025-10-29 13:37:04+00:00
>Under the terms of the deal, the mechanism works like this:

> If either Google or Amazon provides information to authorities in the US, where the dialing code is +1, and they are prevented from disclosing their cooperation, they must send the Israeli government 1,000 shekels.

This sounds like warrant canaries but worse. At least with warrant canaries you argue that you can't compel speech, but in this case it's pretty clear to any judge that such payments constitute disclosure or violation of gag order, because you're taking a specific action that results in the target knowing the request was made.
by jajuuka | 2025-10-29 13:37:30+00:00
Considering I can find plenty of nonstandard Windows 11 install guides on youtube I don't think this guys video was taken down for that reason. Most likely hit with automated moderating and he probably said "kill" in the video while giving instructions. That could trigger the violence filter and now he gets tons of more views from idiots thinking Microsoft and Google are working together to protect Win11 from a supposed massive wave of people going around the sign in requirement. Or whatever other grievence they have with Windows.
by dorfsmay | 2025-10-29 13:37:37+00:00
Agreed.

So many good working devices go to waste because no longer supported by Google and the hardware manufacturers. They have good cameras, good wifi etc... we should be able to reflash them and install whatever OS we want on them.

It's becoming more and more difficult to install even Lineage on a lot of 6 or 7 year old hardware.
by laszlokorte | 2025-10-29 13:37:42+00:00
In my experience when applying this architecture to react or svelte, the performance is quiet good, often better than classic alternative approaches (redux, many local useState)

But the main benefit is not only the persistence of the app state, but composable globally consistent state. With most state management solutions at some point you hit a wall where communicating state changes between far away components is really difficult. You need to manually manage eventlistener lifecycles, route events through the application and convert events into state changes and state changes into events, while not causing cycles or unstable feedback loops or race conditions.

With lenses the state tree is composed declaratively and locally. each component does not need to care if the parent state is locally constructed or coming from further away.

/edit: Actually using this approach you are not forced to have a single global state but instead each component can simply decide to embed its child components state into its own state or not. If all components decide to embed their children state you get a single global state. But if all components decide to not embed their children state you get only local state with no communication. But the unified Interface gives you the choice.
by incomingpain | 2025-10-29 13:38:51+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Systemic_bias

>This page in a nutshell: Wikipedia aims for a neutral point of view, but it falls short due to systemic bias caused by the narrow demographics of its editing community. This bias results in underrepresentation of Global South perspectives, limited access individuals, and women, among others.

Wikipedia admits it's systemic bias. You cant admit there's a problem of bias for years and do nothing about it. It's going to spawn alternatives that attempt to fix the bias.

Yesterday I showed Acupuncture's article on Grokipedia was significantly superior, shockingly better than wikipedia.

I can show an example of where Grokipedia is worse:

https://grokipedia.com/page/Kfar_Aza_massacre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kfar_Aza_massacre

Wikipedia is superior. Grokipedia's fail in my mind comes with the wording of: "Militants engaged in cold-blooded killing of entire households"

Which while factually correct, it's the wrong way to say it for neutrality. But it's not like Grokipedia was ever pushing some sort of "unreality" on the subject.

https://www.trackingai.org/political-test

Grok is left-wing aligned. The allegation that Grok is somehow far-right and pushing false narratives doesnt stand up.
by berkes | 2025-10-29 13:39:07+00:00
This is because there's no unified capital market.

A texas VC can invest in a startup in Chicago and a startup in Florida can raise money from NY and so on.

> If anything this would be due to Dutch regulations rather than Estonian ones

Yes, because there's no unified capital market. You describe an effect not the cause. With 27 member states, if such regulations are bi-directional, you'd need 351 of such "regulations". If one way, you'd need 702.

In the US with 51 states, there aren't a total of 1,275 "regulation contracts" between all states, there's one, and it's federal.
by wedgel | 2025-10-29 13:39:24+00:00
I had a stroke roughly eleven years ago. When the stroke started, I got really creeped out. I was in an elevator and I thought a stranger was reaching around me from behind to grab me. It was my right arm. I cracked a joke about it, I didn't know it, but I wasn't soeaking. Just mumbling and making creepy gutteral noises when I thought I was laughing. Then the face droop. Followed by my right hand becoming locked in a fist. It took months on rehab to get it open. And it lost a lot of function.
by fidotron | 2025-10-29 13:39:46+00:00
JBQ redeemed: https://www.greenbot.com/jbq-is-quitting-aosp/ (yes, 2013)

I regret having wasted a good part of my career supporting Google with the Android enterprise. They had some very good (technically and intentionally) people there, but it all got thoroughly corrupted.

With hindsight the only thing that kept them remotely honest was the Andy Rubin vs Sundar Pichai turf war, which at the time manifested as Android vs Chrome. Once that had a decided winner it was a recipe for serious trouble.

The only viable way forward for an open mobile OS is to fork Android as is. This is the only way to carry over anything resembling existing app support or all the work that goes into making a mobile OS actually work up to the level users expect. i.e. cameras through to hardware media CODECs and total system stability.
by dns_snek | 2025-10-29 13:39:51+00:00
> Do I even know whether a specialist is good or not?

Of course but unless I misunderstood what you meant to say, you don't escape that by buying from AWS. It's just that instead of "sysadmin specialists" you need "AWS specialists".

If you want to outsource the job then you need to go up at least 1 more layer of abstraction (and likely an order of magnitude in price) and buy fully managed services.
by embedding-shape | 2025-10-29 13:39:51+00:00
I'm well aware of what "pure functional programming" is about, I spend most of my time in Clojure during a normal work day, and done my fair deal of Haskell too :)

And yes, even the most pure functional language eventually needs to do something non-pure, even if the entire flow up until that point is pure, that last step (IO) just cannot be pure, no matter how badly you want it to.

With that said, you'd have to pry my pure functions out of my cold dead hands, but I'm not living under the illusion that every function can be pure in a typical application, unless you have no outputs at all.
by Fnoord | 2025-10-29 13:39:55+00:00
I completely agree.

Google has been gradually becoming more restrictive on Android openness, slowly but surely strengtening the thumb screws.

On the long term, the best thing to happen is for them to bang make it proprietary [1] while it is still free and liberal. The shock effect will be big, and the initial changes big, too. Such will motivate the right people. Open source devs, governments, legislators, people with executive powers within other companies.

But Google is too sneakily clever for that. So they go slowly, gradually. There won't be a shock effect, or if it happens it'll be a done deal.

This is how you turn a country into fascism, too. Slowly but surely, and then bang. It is all the small steps beforehand which matter, and this is why the Execute Order 66 quote from Star Wars is so such a beautiful example in popular movie SF.

You can see how failed efforts for coups in democracies have failed recently because of checks and balances. South Korea is a recent example, but looking at the details it was a close call. In my opinion, the same was true for USA, and I don't know enough about the Brazil example.

[1] Yes, I realize Android is proprietary and AOSP is FOSS.
by nielspace | 2025-10-29 13:39:56+00:00
Last night I was reading On-Policy Distillation from the Thinking Machines Lab, and it felt like a quiet turning point in how we teach large models to reason.

Here’s the idea in plain terms.

Most post-training still uses reinforcement learning -- models act, get a final score, iterate. They are effective but sparse. It’s like giving feedback after the exam.

Trajectory distillation changes the granularity of learning.

The teacher doesn’t just score the outcome; it scores every token, every step of reasoning. The feedback is dense. The student learns how to think rather than just to imitate.

Key observations from the blog:

1. The Qwen3-8B student reached 74.4 % on AIME’24 with roughly 10× less compute than RL. 2. Lost behaviors (like instruction-following) can be recovered through distillation after domain fine-tuning. 3. Feedback density scales linearly with tokens.

This isn’t a rejection of RL; it’s a refinement.

Dense supervision compresses reasoning. Sparse reward compresses outcomes. Both shape cognition differently.

Foundation models are moving past “bigger is better.”

They’re becoming systems that learn efficiently, reason locally, and update continuously.
by belorn | 2025-10-29 13:40:14+00:00
A more difficult but potentially great solution is to run Linux as a the host system and windows in single purpose containers for each game/program that work better in windows. All the anti-user behavior will only have minimal harm if all the container does is to start windows and then start the game, then close when finished. Ads will not have time to be shown, and telemetry only has game data to give. It can take a bit of trickery to get anti-cheat drm to work.
by anal_reactor | 2025-10-29 13:40:50+00:00
My manager wants me to make this silly AWS certification.

Let me go on a tangent about trains. In Spain before you board a high-speed train you need to go though full security check, like on an airport. In all other EU countries you just show up and board, but in Spain there's the security check. The problem is that even though the security check is an expensive, inefficient theatre, just in case something does blow up, nobody wants to be the politician that removed the security check. There will be no reward for a politician that makes life marginally easier for lots of people, but there will be severe punishment for a politician that is involved in a potential terrorist attack, even if the chance of that happening is ridiculously small.

This is exactly why so many companies love to be balls deep into AWS ecosystem, even if it's expensive.
by JohnFen | 2025-10-29 13:40:52+00:00
I think that people are, for the most part, seeing real phenomena of various sorts. The problem is that people tend to jump from "I don't know what that is" directly to "it's aliens", ignoring the vast number of other, much more likely, possible explanations.

> We used to have issues with fairies, now it's humanoids visiting in crafts.

I wish I could find it, but many years ago I read a great paper on this. The thesis was that when people see things they can't explain, they will interpret what they see in the context of their society. Technologically-oriented societies produce explanations of a technological nature. Mystically-oriented societies will produce explanations of a mystical nature, and so on.

As I said in another comment, people tend to see what they expect to see rather than what is actually there.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-10-29 13:41:20+00:00
Texas-based Janta Power --- as low as $0.05/kWh compared to a global average of about $0.15/kWh.

The solar revolution has definitely arrived when even oil soaked Texas is on board.

At this rate, it will only takes a few decades for the USA to catch China.

https://electrek.co/2025/09/02/h1-2025-china-installs-more-s...

It's a sad thing to say but to see the future, look to China, not the USA.
by MangoToupe | 2025-10-29 13:41:30+00:00
Obviously missing things:

1. Needs to fix keybindings, including setting readline shortcuts across all gui textfields. May be effectively impossible with so many gui toolkits floating around. 2. Needs a gui to manage configuration of startup items, login items. 3. Portable application distribution rather than futzing with installing a third party package source (may be effectively impossible for gui apps). 4. Cleaner systemd configuration tooling and especially documentation, even if it can't be expressed via a gui. 5. Cleaner process management. 6. Cleaner user management via GUI.

The look and feel mostly doesn't matter tbh; you'll just end up with something that looks like macos but still mostly functions like windows but without consistent keybindings or behavior or system management.
by commandlinefan | 2025-10-29 13:42:28+00:00
Well, it's not just that (not that I disagree with the author in general, but I do on this point). point-and-click interfaces _are_ objectively worse interfaces for power use. I've been stuck selecting a group of files, moving them, double-clicking and renaming, selecting another, etc. all the while knowing that I could write a script that could do all of this much faster if I had access to a command line interface. Point-and-click is just easier to get started with.
by codedokode | 2025-10-29 13:42:31+00:00
All the banks I use, have a web app, although it can be somewhat limited, but I don't need any advanced functions anyway.

> as well as those now using push MFA with their apps for every large purchase.

Our banks use SMS OTP (not required for mobile app) for all operations - I assume otherwise the amount of fraud would be exorbitant.

> Recently I needed to install an app from the UK government to prove my identity via camera to renew my driving license, and that doesn't work in GrapheneOS either. I can do it in person (for now) but there is an extra fee.

Interesting that the government relies on a proprietary, foreign platform.
by berkes | 2025-10-29 13:42:47+00:00
Not entirely.

I care a lot if an app on my android suddenly opens an IOS date picker.

Because I don't care about date pickers. I don't care about how it looks. All I care about is picking a date and doing that fast.

But now I have to learn a -to me- unfamiliar interface, spend cognitive load on something unrelated to what I was trying to do (e.g. schedule a date with a friend)
by maccard | 2025-10-29 13:43:14+00:00
Our use case is a dotnet project with infra defined in terraform. Dotnet fmt is too slow to run as a pre commit hook so I wanted to try tflint and tofu fmt as I know they are very quick and they are relatively easy to work with.

They both accept a list of files to work on, but the filter on hk gives you a full list of files that changed, so if a cs file and a tf file changes, both steps will fire with both the cs and the tf file

I think a small improvement might be adding a matched_files template sub that would only show the files that matched the glob rule. I also think an LSP integration for VSCode would go a long way. I could manage the first but the second might be pushing my limits
by 0xrelogic | 2025-10-29 13:43:45+00:00
I tested Next.js 16 on a 200+ component project. The Turbopack numbers are real:

Development startup: 1083ms (Webpack) → 603ms (Turbopack) = 44% faster

Production builds: 45s (Webpack) → 17s (Turbopack) = 2.6x faster

This isn't a micro-optimization. It's a noticeable difference in daily workflow.

The article also covers: • Astro 5.15 deployment skew protection (solves version mismatch bugs)

• Node 22 LTS native proxy support (useful for enterprise environments)

• CSS View Transitions now Baseline (all major browsers)

• Vite+ announcement (unified JavaScript toolchain, preview early 2026)

October was packed with releases. Happy to discuss any of these updates.
by embedding-shape | 2025-10-29 13:43:59+00:00
Seems there is a difference between "Bare Metal" and "Bare Machine".

I'm not sure what you did, but when you go to that Wikipedia article, it redirects to "Bare Machine", and the article contents is about "Bare Machine". Clicking the link you have sends you to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare_machine

So it seems like you almost intentionally shared the article that redirects, instead of linking to the proper page?
by mauvehaus | 2025-10-29 13:44:36+00:00
Honestly, if you aren't planning on making a regular thing of it, MDF is probably a better choice. It's more stable than even multi-ply, and cheaper too. The ply wins on edge and corner durability though. On the third hand, MDF from e.g. Home Depot is pretty crap. If you're already going to a better lumberyard, maybe the ply is worth the additional dollars now that you've gone to the trouble of finding a better lumberyard.

Further considerations:

Multi-ply is frequently available in 5'x5' sheets and can be tough to find in 4'x8's. MDF is universally 49"x97" (so you can net a 4'x8' after accounting for the dinged up edges). The size of your puzzle may inform your choice.

Home Depot et al. will usually cut a sheet to size on their panel saw. Your local lumberyard may or may not be interested in doing so for a small order.

Home Depot et al. generally aren't interested in delivering for an even half reasonable price if they do it at all. A real lumberyard might be willing to do so, though it's unlikely to be cheap for a single sheet order ($25 for an order under $500, last I needed a delivery. Cheaper than owning a truck or van for me). They also usually dispatch trucks on a schedule. Mine goes north on Tuesdays and south on Thursdays, for example. Plan ahead and don't expect your stuff to show up like Amazon packages the next day.
by dev_l1x_be | 2025-10-29 13:44:55+00:00
> AWS is extremely expensive.

I really like how people throw around these baseless accusations.

S3 is one of the cheapest storage solutions ever created. The last 10 years I have migrated roughly 10-20PB worth of data to AWS S3 and it resulted in significant cost saving every single time.

If you do not know how to use cloud computing than yes, AWS can be really expensive.
by kristianc | 2025-10-29 13:44:59+00:00
Dash’s entire identity is bound up with narrating technology by translating its cultural shifts into moral parables. His record at actually building things is, at best, spotty. Now the LLM takes that role by absorbing, it summarising, editorialising. And like Winer, he often reads like a guy who has never really made peace with the modern era and who isn't content to declare the final draft of history unless it's had his fingerprints on it.

The machine is suddenly the narrator, and it doesn’t cite him. When he calls Atlas “anti-web,” he’s really saying it is “anti-author”.

In a way though, how much do we need people to narrate these shifts for us? Isn't the point of these technologies that we are able to do things for ourselves rather than rely on mediators to interpret it for us? If he can be outcompeted by LLMs, does that not just show how shallow his shtick is?
by deng | 2025-10-29 13:45:20+00:00
Not sure what exactly you mean with "open source OS" and if Lineage counts as one in your book: it supports quite a few cheap and also fairly recent Motorola phones, which are also easy to unlock:

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/#motorola

For family, I just got a used Edge 30 Neo for ~100$ and put LineageOS on it, and it works like a charm. Phones like the Moto g84 go for even less and still can be bought new for a decent price.

Xiaomi would be even cheaper, but I would highly discourage getting one because the unlock process is plain ridiculous nowadays.

And as others have already noted, if you don't mind getting a phone that's a few years old, a used Pixel 5 is not expensive (still happily using a Pixel 4a and don't see why I would need to upgrade).
by x187463 | 2025-10-29 13:45:21+00:00
I find Lego, when building sets rather than free building, is a meditative activity where the journey is more valuable than the destination. Discovering the engineering and complexity enabling modern sets is also fun. Overall, it's about as 'valuable' as watching TV or playing a video game, with the added benefit of having a new, albeit expensive, decoration to add to your shelf. You could also just take it apart and revisit the set later, much like rewatching a film or replaying a game.
by canucktrash669 | 2025-10-29 13:46:15+00:00
Managed servers reduce the on-prem skillset requirement and can also deliver a lot of value.

The most frustrating part of hyperscalers is that it's so easy to make mistakes. Active tracking of you bill is a must, but the data is 24-48h late in some cases. So a single engineer can cause 5-figure regrettable spend very quickly.
by everfrustrated | 2025-10-29 13:46:30+00:00
I'd agree that AWS never sold on being cheaper, but there is one particular way AWS could be cheaper and that is their approach to billing-by-the-unit with no fixed costs or minimum charges.

Being able to start small from a $1/mth bill without any fixed cost overheads is incredibly powerful for small startups.

If I wanted to store bytes in a DC it would cost $10k/mth by the time I was paying colo/ servers/ disks before I stored my first byte. Sure there wouldn't be any incremental costs for the second byte but thats a steep jump. S3 would have cost me $0.02. Being able to try technology and prove concepts at the product development stage is very powerful and why AWS became not just a vendor but a _technology partner_ for many companies.