MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by causal | 2025-10-28 19:28:12+00:00
It's interesting how different the subjective experiences of similarly-capable coding models is. My experience with Codex is that it tends to run off and do things without asking enough questions or keeping me in sync, whereas Claude seems to be more careful to clarify and keep me apprised of what it's doing.

I wonder how much of it comes down to how models "train us" to work in ways they are most effective.
by joomla199 | 2025-10-28 19:28:44+00:00
I quit Google last year because I was just done with the incessant push for "AI" in everything (AI exclusively means LLMs of course). I still believe in the company as a whole, the work culture just took a hard right towards kafkaville. Nowadays when my relatives say "AI will replace X" or whatever I just nod along. People are incredibly naive and unbelievably ignorant, but that's about as new as eating wheat.
by basisword | 2025-10-28 19:29:12+00:00
>> University is expensive as fck.

While healthcare is brought up all the time this is usually ignored. The idea of parents saving a 'college fund' for their child is something I only know from movies. It's such a strange idea that access to education would be something you either need to be able to afford or need to get a 'scholarship' for (another strange concept).
by rozap | 2025-10-28 19:29:12+00:00
Oof. The roomba guy said that the form factor of robots inform customer expectations. I keep thinking about that and wincing when I see these humanoid robots. Even if there's impressive engineering that goes into them, people are going to expect they can do human things. When they can't, they're going to be disappointed.

I expect my robot vacuum to vacuum the floor, because it's a little wheeled disc on the floor. It's not going to be able to cook for me. But this thing? Yea, it should cook for me.
by antisthenes | 2025-10-28 19:29:15+00:00
> Not aware of what programs you're talking about other than medi-cal (medicaid)

I was talking about individual hospital programs. They typically have those programs as part of whatever hospital system that is.

Something like this:

https://www.adventisthealthcare.com/patients-visitors/billin...

But you would probably not qualify for something like this due to income. I happened to have a minor accident while unemployed (<$10k income that year) about 10 years ago, and the hospital financial aid forgave most of the cost.
by sam_lowry_ | 2025-10-28 19:29:17+00:00
That's an implementation detail users should not care about.

The bigger question is... why don't we replace the login/password combination with just a string of randomly generated characters and call it a day?

Why protect these strings of random characters from users, call them passkeys and advertise them on all street corners?

Feels like a devil's plot to strip us from all the rights to our devices.
by sdsd | 2025-10-28 19:29:50+00:00
>How come the US government allows this?

Allows? The government works for the wealthy and powerful. That includes the masses, who (if they organize) have their own power, but it also includes every other powerful group or individual.

Why would the government want to stop this? It's the average person who would want to disallow this, and they'd have to pressure the government enough that the pain of popular opposition outweighs the brazillions of dollars they're making.
by shadowgovt | 2025-10-28 19:29:54+00:00
This puts the question into my brain, which I have never thought to pursue, of whether you could offer a self-signed cert that the user has to install for HTTPS.

Their client will complain loudly until and unless they install it, but then for those who care you could offer the best of both worlds.

Almost certainly more trouble than it's worth. G'ah, and me without any free time to pursue a weekend hobby project!
by FuriouslyAdrift | 2025-10-28 19:30:03+00:00
When I started weighing food and counting calories I found that is soooo easy to accidentally slip in a few 100 calories here and there without even noticing.

That's all it takes to make a difference between losing or gaining. I added a mile or two walk every day to burn just a little more calories just in case. Ended up dropping 50 lbs in about a year without any suffering (and kept all but 10 of it off).
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-10-28 19:30:04+00:00
Sure, I hope I didn't state otherwise. Prefer protein over carbs when you are hungry, if you have to eat carbs, consider really small portions so you don't spike your insulin too much. You basically eat all the veggies you want, and your protein budget is pretty generous as well although you still need to watch calories on it (150 calories for 40g of protein is ok, but stay away from almonds).

My problem was that I was still eating large bowls of what I thought was a healthy cereal, but even if the calories looked good on paper, the insulin spike was killing weight loss.
by noir_lord | 2025-10-28 19:30:04+00:00
Same they are off my list as well though I generally have less than zero interest in smart devices, I also have a Samsung "smart" TV as well, it asked for Wifi first time I turned it on, said "nope" connected a HDMI to a Fedora box and just use that.

I control what devices in my house connect to the internet.
by jobs_throwaway | 2025-10-28 19:30:34+00:00
If, as someone with money, you look across systems, the US is one of the best. That's the point I'm making. There's plenty of places where all the money in the world won't buy you the quality of care you can get in the US.

Quality of care available to wealthy people is an important factor in evaluating a system. In the US, there are many millions of wealthy people who the system is great for.
by immibis | 2025-10-28 19:30:41+00:00
Personalized ads are based on your user profile (ads for motorbikes because you're tagged as someone who loves motorbikes). Contextualized ads are based on where and when they're being displayed (ads for food delivery on the fridge late at night) but not on your user profile. This is the advertising industry, so they're probably lying, or they're not lying yet but they plan to add personalized ads later.
by atourgates | 2025-10-28 19:30:59+00:00
I hope you do!

I'm skeptical of v1 of this technology, but I could imagine a mature version of this technology could be great.

And $500/mo for essentially an always-available housekeeper seems very reasonable.

Where I live, having a housekeeper come for a few hours once a week costs about $100 a week, or $400/mo. Having a robot that could potentially always be there to:

* Tidy up.

* Clean

* Do laundry

* Help with other stuff

Seems well worth $500/mo. I don't expect that V1 of this technology will be able to effectively do all that stuff, but I'm hopeful that v2 or v5 might be able to.

On a related note, "folding laundry" seems to be a really hard challenge for machine learning to solve. Solutions like "Foldimate" kind of work if you individually hand it every piece in the right way - but nothing seems to be cable of having a human dump a bin of washed clothes in and spitting out nicely folded laundry. And everything so far that's promised to do that seems to be vaporware.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-28 19:31:06+00:00
> "would you favor that your employer-based healthcare would be rescinded and you would instead get healthcare from a new government controlled plan, where there would be no other options", which is the assumption M4A's viability is based on

No, that's just the condition for one proposal for Medicare For All.

As much as Americans complain about healthcare in general, most people don't want to give up their own health insurance once they have it. This is a known political trap that the previous M4A proposals walked right into, before crashing and burning.

When you say "Medicare for All" to people without details, they assume it means a Medicare option for all. When they start reading the details and realize they have to give up their current insurance, they don't like it.
by jandrese | 2025-10-28 19:31:12+00:00
Well, I wouldn't say I was missing them.

I don't know why I would connect a fridge to the Internet at all. Maybe there is a use case where you can get a picture of the contents of your fridge on your phone when you are out and about? Like you're at the grocery store and can't remember if you need to pick up milk or not?
by simmons | 2025-10-28 19:31:14+00:00
I don't think it was ever common, since earphones weren't that popular until people started calling them "earbuds", but the term was historically used in at least some circles in the U.S. The 1988 Radio Shack catalog [1] seems to mention "earphone" 57 times, including two mono earphone products.

[1] https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Catalogs/Radio-Sha...
by madamelic | 2025-10-28 19:31:34+00:00
They absolutely didn't. It's within Amazon's legal rights to cut as many employees as they like for any reason (besides a protected one).

With that said, I would consider doing layoffs after a profitable quarter to be anti-social / anti-culture. It creates fear and uncertainty in the organization which will cause people to move to 'cash checks until I am fired then I'll leverage this to get a job somewhere else' versus trying hard to make the company their career where they put down roots.

In my opinion, chasing ever increasing profitability as a tech company is cannibalizing future earnings. By cutting over and over in pursuit of more profit, you are trading compound earnings (ie: create new products) for money today by injecting fear into your 'innovation centers'.
by stavros | 2025-10-28 19:31:40+00:00
I've heard this from many people, but I really haven't had this experience. Sonnet will write code that doesn't work, but Codex will give me working code basically every time. It does take longer, and it does think a lot, but I've never seen it go off the rails.

I do look at the backend code it writes, and it seems moderately sane. Sometimes it overcomplicates things, which makes me think that there are a few dragons in the frontend (I haven't looked), but by and large it's been ok.
by BeetleB | 2025-10-28 19:32:02+00:00
> One of its benefits is that it's transparent and readily available.

So is the usual and customary rate - I think it's been available since before Obamacare.

> Blue Cross isn't gonna tell you what it's contracted to pay an individual provider (and that individual provider often won't know what they'll be reimbursed untill after they submit a bill)

You'll find out when you get the bill :-) The bills I get have:

- Cost the provider is charging (e.g. $1000)

- Agreed upon cost with the insurance company ($600)

- Amount due ($60 assuming 10% and deductible met).

I don't know if they publish it transparently, but for common procedures, it's easy to find out. They're not going to prevent you from posting your bill online.
by kaoD | 2025-10-28 19:32:13+00:00
Just because you don't care doesn't mean nobody cares. I don't want anyone snooping on what I browse regardless of how "safe" someone thinks it is.

My navigation habits are boring but they are mine, not anyone else's to see.

A server has no way to know whether the user cares or not, so they are not in a position to choose the user's privacy preferences.

Also: a page might be fully static, but I wouldn't want $GOVERNMENT or $ISP or $UNIVERSITY_IT_DEPARTMENT to inject propaganda, censor... Just because it's safe for you doesn't mean it's safe for everyone.
by trilogic | 2025-10-28 19:32:15+00:00
This was meant for Gwerbret (but he deleted the comment). Now is to whom may concern :) Standing by your words you think this paper is shady and you are questioning the work and results behind it. Moreover your comment somehow is on the very top it misleading the users or at least ridiculing the paper. Answering to you: It is indeed very much connected to the LEVELS of Vit D not the absence of it. You fail to understand and acknowledge the importance of the results (even though you already know and confirm the benefits of Vit D). Regulating the levels of it (keeping them higher then average) it prevents health issues by regulating many biological functions/pathways, raising the immunity and lifespan in general. This is the real cure which prevent incredibly terrible future health issues and suffering.

Edit: Just for this effort, this paper deserves Credit. Bravo.
by condensedcrab | 2025-10-28 19:32:26+00:00
To be fair, the one thing Musk has going for him is bringing funding to opportunities and making the most of it.

I wouldn't say that Musk is the only person who could have brought SpaceX and Tesla to where there are now, and certainly there are many individuals who contributed heavily to get them there. That being said, not many people have the money and interest to do it.
by notahacker | 2025-10-28 19:32:38+00:00
I know that the reverse understanding isn't too bad from chatting with a Saudi-born member of staff on holiday in Malta.

I don't think anyone would seriously consider it a dialect of Arabic though with its completely different alphabet and half the vocabulary and morphology coming from Italian languages/dialects, even if Malta hadn't spent the best part of a millennium trying very hard not to become part of the Arab world
by gigel82 | 2025-10-28 19:32:41+00:00
So, like a large scale scam to get your "downpayment" ?

How would remote human operators scale, especially for the $20k "ownership" model? I presume the actual hardware probably costs them at least $10k to make, so after about 400 hours of "remote operator use", it's all loss on the company?

I suspect they have a limit on use, or a pay-to-use-remotely thing they neglected to announce.
by array_key_first | 2025-10-28 19:32:41+00:00
Right but if we do this with public funds then the narrative shifts to "OMG the EU is so corrupt and stupid, looking they're pouring taxpayer dollars into unproven stuff! They're deindustrializing!!"

The point being that, as soon as public dollars are on the table, people expect perfection. Anything less is waste, fraud, and abuse.

There's literally no winning. Want to make sure the money is allocated right? Bureaucracy. Want to not do that? Waste, fraud, and abuse.
by hypeatei | 2025-10-28 19:32:51+00:00
It depends on the forum, but I think some level of "flamewar" type stuff should be tolerated for scenarios like this. I'd happily be okay with someone replying to me and saying "you're really fucking offbase and delusional on this because X, Y, and Z" as it provides a quick reality check (or a point to respond to)
by patel011393 | 2025-10-28 19:33:08+00:00
Take it from an academic like me that peer review in just over a month is rare and a sign of low-quality editorial work at the journal (the exceptions would be the most open, progressive journals like PCI and similar).

The formatting/style and peer review history alone are enough for me to doubt this. Of course, the other users' points about study design and lack of transparency make it even harder to trust the claims.
by JumpinJack_Cash | 2025-10-28 19:33:23+00:00
> > Bill Gates gets attacked by both the right and the left

They attack him because he constantly yaps about stuff without being elected or yaps stuff that is not even within the purpose of his 501c3 foundation.

I don't know why he behaves that way honestly, being relevant in the discourse might attract talent to work at the foundation but also produces attacks on the foundation, I guess in his calculus he comes out ahead.
by deepdarkforest | 2025-10-28 19:33:27+00:00
If my mom gives me 1000 dollars for 1% of my lemonade stand, that doesn't mean my stand is worth 100k. Tether is in talks with investors to mayb raise 20b at a 500b valuation. Keep in mind also that crypto investors overvalue companies to create the hype and then lobby for better regulations etc. It doesn't mean at all that someone would be interested to buy 100% of tether for 500b. Now, if they were public is a different story, like Tesla etc
by techblueberry | 2025-10-28 19:33:29+00:00
I mean "People will be able to live and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future." Seems pretty fucking doomsday to me. Most Places?

Like I don't think anyone thought the world would implode, but an increase in the number of places humanity can't survive? What if one of those places is South Florida? What if one of those places causes mass emmigration/immigration.
by OptionOfT | 2025-10-28 19:33:32+00:00
It's more than political. In speaking Flemish is to Dutch as UK English is to US English. In writing however there is no difference in spelling, but there is a difference in word choice.

Now, being from Belgium, even within that small part of the country where everybody is supposed to speak Dutch, I genuinely don't understand people from near the coast, which was about 150 miles from where I used to live.
by Fwirt | 2025-10-28 19:33:32+00:00
Samsung appliances have among the worst reputations for ease of repair and lifespan. Sadly most other brands are rebrands of Chinese conglomerates or not much better on the quality chain. But honestly it's also a lottery. We bought a fridge on sale for $500 as an emergency stopover when our expensive fridge was delayed by a month during a move, and it's still plugging along out in the garage, a hostile environment for fridges. All the parts are very accessible too which bodes well for repair, although the leveling feet did snap off.

However, when you see the viral videos of "dream fridges" from the 1950s, it's important to remember that adjusted for inflation they would be something like $10k today. Of course they also last 10x as long, but you can still find fridges in that price range today with a similar value proposition. The question is whether or not you're willing to pay that upfront. I think we've all been so conditioned to accept that appliances go obsolete that it doesn't seem possible for a fridge like that to ever pay for itself.

It's the boots theory at work.
by NickC25 | 2025-10-28 19:33:56+00:00
the canadian system might suck but it's infinitely better than what we have in the USA.

we have a capitalist bastard child of for-profit "insurance" companies who are heavily subsidized (yet are still allowed to profit massively and turn profits over to shareholders) and in cahoots with hospitals who often employ more "billing specialists" and lawyers than they do actual doctors and nurses.

the whole thing is a racket.
by yesfitz | 2025-10-28 19:34:05+00:00
I actually stopped using a phone case because I liked the dings and scratches on my phone. The wear made it feel like my device.

As for cloth, I feel similarly about my worn flannel shirts and some chunky-knit sweaters, but not car seats or white shirts with some tomato-sauce stain on them.

Assuming this style of robot catches on, the designers or enthusiasts may find ways to make the cloth wear feel cozy instead of ratty.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-10-28 19:34:11+00:00
Are you aware of the history of setting acceptable levels of Vitamin D? Basically, 100 years ago, people experimented with cures for TB by giving patients one to two orders of magnitude higher dosage than the "vitamin D toxicity" levels reported today. Like insanely high numbers. Strangely enough, most people did recover from the TB, but they kept getting the treatments anyway, and that in a few instances led to bone issues. So for some reason that doesn't seem to be documented, they set the "safe level" of vitamin D to be something like two orders of magnitude lower than the level that actually caused issues. And that level has never been changed.

All of the studies I've seen around Vitamin D supplementation has shown that the "safe level" reported today is way, way lower than it should be. People appear to be just fine taking 10k IUs for months on end, even 7 years in one study. I think what we're learning is that the "safe level" is a very wide spectrum; some people could possibly be harmed from a low level, whereas some people are perfectly fine at a very high level.
by jaffa2 | 2025-10-28 19:34:14+00:00
Im still learning. All i know is claude.ai website chat. I thought claude code was a different thing. Not sure what codex is yet. Ive been using gemini assist in vscode for a week now, its kinda like just using it on the web but of course it edits your for you. Sometimes it ‘cant apply the changes though’
by mrguyorama | 2025-10-28 19:34:17+00:00
Except, the news calling, for example, Bush Jr a "War criminal" is exactly objective.

His Casus Belli was false, and he knew that. We invaded sovereign countries illegally.

Would you read news that openly called him a war criminal? Reality gets extreme all the time. If you police the language more than the reality, you are just making the problem worse. You are forcing people to pretend reality isn't so bad just so you do not have to fix reality.

Guess what? Reality is bad right now. We are bombing boats off the coast of south America and posturing like we are going to war with them and bailing out Argentina because of political rhetoric and affiliations and corruption, and we wasted over $150 billion harassing brown people and sending American citizens to foreign prisons and maybe catching a few people who overstayed their visas or walked over our border.

And yet you tone police the people trying to inform you of that.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-28 19:34:18+00:00
> Every actuarial study about the switch projects total cost savings even during the first year.

This is missing the point about why people don't like the past M4A proposals: It's not about cost savings, it's about losing access to their existing health care with scarce details about what would change.

The surprising reality about American health insurance is that many people's plans cover a lot of things, procedures, and medications that would be harder for them to obtain under Medicare or even in other socialized medicine systems like the NHS.

If politicians would lay out a Medicare buy-in option and let everyone opt-in to it, it would be far more popular. The past proposals that involved shutting down the private insurance industry and handing it all over to the government is resoundingly unpopular.
by secabeen | 2025-10-28 19:34:19+00:00
I don't think you're going to find it. The main vendors are hostile to this workflow. I get why, any flow that can exist to export passkeys can be used by hostile actors to walk a 75-year old millionaire grandma through handing over $$$. I think however that that's just a risk we have to make the bank and brokerages accept. It's not a problem with a technical solution.