MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mullingitover | 2025-10-28 19:49:13+00:00
Arguably the purpose of this site isn't to serve the public or to compile knowledge (it's not user editable at all from what I can see).

The point is to get this thing crawled and given weight by LLMs in order to poison them and bias them in the direction Musk wants: debunked race science, anti-transgender, etc etc.
by tonymet | 2025-10-28 19:49:18+00:00
So there’s nuance to this. We live near Portland —- great provider & insurance networks.

The common perception of “providers” and “network coverage” are the frontline doctors you visit.

But in this case, and what is common, is that there are many degrees of providers. Your doctor refers to pathologist refers to lab 1 refers to lab 2.

So 95% doesn’t tell you much. If only 1-2 of your providers are out of network (e.g. specialized labs ) , that’s $10k+ right there.
by Thrymr | 2025-10-28 19:49:40+00:00
US health care outcomes are really not great, even if you are rich. Yes, you live longer than poor people in the US, but still do worse than Europeans, even those with lower incomes [0]. All while spending much more [1]. It's a system designed to siphon money from wherever it can (individuals, governments, companies, etc.), not to provide the best health care.

[0] "in some cases, the wealthiest Americans have survival rates on par with the poorest Europeans in western parts of Europe such as Germany, France and the Netherlands." https://www.brown.edu/news/2025-04-02/wealth-mortality-gap

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/us-life-expectancy-low
by Nextgrid | 2025-10-28 19:49:46+00:00
> who worked hard to make windows phone die

You mean Microsoft? No backwards-compatibility with Windows Mobile to begin with (so companies can't reuse their existing investment into line-of-business apps on actually nice modern devices either), then they reset the ecosystem 2 times (once during the WP7->WP8 transition, another time during the Windows 10 transition).
by smaudet | 2025-10-28 19:50:06+00:00
Yeah, just because the US has 300 billionaires that does not make the median salary anywhere near six figures.

In fact it's quite low, somehow people are expected to survive on several thousand a year, after the rent, utilities, transport costs are all paid.

https://www.fool.com/money/research/average-us-income/

These are official stats, but unofficial employment puts the number lower:

https://investorshangout.com/carlyle-group-unveils-alarming-...
by kenhwang | 2025-10-28 19:50:28+00:00
Looks like there's a type mapping chart for supported types: https://fory.apache.org/docs/docs/guide/xlang_type_mapping

Otherwise, the schema seems to be derived from the class being serialized for typed languages, or otherwise annotated in code. The serializer and deserializer code must be manually written to be compatible instead of both sides being codegen'd to match from a schema file. He's the example I found for python: https://fory.apache.org/docs/docs/guide/python_serialization...
by MaxRegret | 2025-10-28 19:50:28+00:00
Passkeys are a public/private keypair, where the service you're authenticating against has the public key and your browser has the private key. To authenticate, the browser demonstrates that it has the private key by signing and returning a challenge sent by the server.

So, unlike API keys, the actual passkey is never sent anywhere out of your device. Passkeys are more like SSH keys than API keys.

One difference between SSH and the WebAuthn protocol is that the challenge identifies which key it is expecting. So the user doesn't have to explicitly select which key to use.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-10-28 19:50:36+00:00
I bought a vented Samsung washer/dryer combo recently. I have to say I like it a lot, probably because its a combo and I no longer have to transfer clothes from washer to dryer. The fact that is Samsung definitely makes me feel nervous however (how long will it last?). Unfortunately, they were the only one to make a vented combo so far (I should have waited for more options, but I'm still OK with it).

We have a frame TV also and it worked nice for the very narrow use case we had.
by Y-bar | 2025-10-28 19:50:39+00:00
I don't think I did, at least not harshly. I was just seemingly finding a political pattern which I recognised from earlier, and that happened to be what it was. Was I incorrect in my observation or were you reminded of https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-... perhaps?

I partly agree with your general observation in parenthesis there, it seems this situation is being significantly sponsored by the American oligarchy (e.g. Thiel).
by gruez | 2025-10-28 19:50:40+00:00
>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.

So going back to the textile mill example above, what should the owner do? Keep the workers around even though they're not needed until the next recession, and only then fire them? If it's a particularly profitable industry, it might even still be profitable even with a recession, so is amazon on the hook for decades, until there's some sort of industry-wide crisis (think the one that hit the American auto industry in 2008), and by then it's too late because upstarts without the burden of older employees have already overtaken them?
by balaz | 2025-10-28 19:50:41+00:00
I reject the entirety of your comment but this point struck me:

>It also destroys every restaurant's natural advantage of closeness - if you run a pizzeria and your food is not horrible, you can naturally expect people from about 2 city blocks over to eat there - now, they're competing with every pizzeria in the city.

How is this a bad thing? You want businesses to compete, both in quality and price.
by BrenBarn | 2025-10-28 19:50:47+00:00
I think we could set the bar substantially higher. Don't even bother with discussion of sideloading. Talk about bounded transactions and device control.

What is needed is: Once I have purchased a device, the transaction is over. I then have 100% control over that device and the hardware maker, the retailer, and the OS maker have a combined 0% control.
by pcthrowaway | 2025-10-28 19:50:52+00:00
They're both the bad guy, but from the sound of it, the insurance companies are worse. They will delay cases and deny claims which result in people dying sooner rather than going through a long, costly, but ultimately life-saving treatment, to save themselves money in the long run.

The alleged shooter was clearly referencing this book which talks about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay,_Deny,_Defend

I haven't read the book, I'm just recalling what I've read about it.
by legitster | 2025-10-28 19:50:54+00:00
I think one of the most important things the "message" has gotten wrong is that you personally need to make big sacrifices and suffer: Buy a worse/more expensive car. Stop eating meat. Don't use disposable plates. Stop travelling. This is the stuff that fuels reactionaries.

Really the most impactful stuff is at the margins anyway: Whether your electricity comes from coal or solar. How many rare earths can we mine and recycle? Do you have a lawn or xeriscape?

The story here is not really that Gates has changed his mind (he never got rid of his private jet after all) it's the emphasis that doomscrolling is counterproductive.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-10-28 19:51:18+00:00
Agreed. I think that the push to make everything HTTPS is completely unnecessary, and in fact counterproductive to security. By throwing scary warnings in front of users when there is no actual security threat, we teach users that the scary warnings don't matter and they just should click past them. Warning when a site doesn't use TLS is a clear cut case of crying wolf.
by tgv | 2025-10-28 19:51:41+00:00
I got the impression Grokipedia (what a lousy name, BTW; there's not a teenage rock band that would call itself that) has been trained on Wikipedia. I compared the entries for "Gallium Arsenide", and Grok's first sections is a copy of Wikipedia, with a an editor-like comment on top:

Gallium arsenide Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa). verify (what is Y N ?) Gallium arsenide (GaAs) is a III-V direct band gap semiconductor with a zinc blende crystal structure. Gallium arsenide is used in the manufacture of devices such as microwave frequency integrated circuits, monolithic microwave integrated circuits, infrared light-emitting diodes, laser diodes, solar cells and optical windows.[6] GaAs is often used as a substrate material for the epitaxial growth of other III-V semiconductors, including indium gallium arsenide, aluminum gallium arsenide and others.

The word "verify" links to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:ComparePa...

Makes me think Grok is also parsing the history and selectively leaving out edits in order to produce a result with the "correct" bias.
by baq | 2025-10-28 19:51:47+00:00
Not omoda, but TP-Link - recently built a deco setup - 3x be65, 2x be25, one WiFi mesh node, the rest is wired 2.5gbe backhaul and performance is excellent, though I’m not a fan of only being able to configure stuff from the app, and there isn’t that much to configure anyway. It just works, but if it wouldn’t, I’d probably have to return the whole set.
by acemarke | 2025-10-28 19:51:53+00:00
React's bundling system and published packages has gotten noticeably more complicated over time.

First, there's the separation between the generic cross-platform `react` package, and the platform-specific reconcilers like `react-dom` and `react-native. All the actual "React" logic is built into the reconciler packages (ie, each contains a complete copy of the actual `react-reconciler` package + all the platform-specific handling). So, bundle size has to measure both `react` and `react-dom` together.

Then, the contents of `react-dom` have changed over time. In React 18 they shifted the main entry point to be `react-dom/client`, which then ends up importing the right dev/prod artifacts (with `react-dom` still supported but deprecated):

- https://app.unpkg.com/react-dom@18.3.1/files/cjs

Then, in React 19, they restructured it further so that `react-dom` really only has a few utils, and all the logic is truly in the `react-dom/client` entry point:

- https://app.unpkg.com/react-dom@19.2.0/files/cjs/react-dom.d...

- https://app.unpkg.com/react-dom@19.2.0/files/cjs/react-dom-c...

So yes, the full prod bundle size is something like 60K min+gz, but it takes some work to see that. I don't think Bundlephobia handles it right at all - it's just automatically reading the main entry points for each package (and thus doesn't import `react-dom/client`. You can specify that with BundleJS though:

- https://bundlejs.com/?q=react%2Creact-dom%2Fclient&treeshake...

> Bundle size is 193 kB -> 60.2 kB (gzip)
by nickpinkston | 2025-10-28 19:51:58+00:00
Subvocal mics seem like such a killer app for an AI input device - just think and listen to your AI respond through your Airpods.

I've haven't seen anything that looks truly "working" yet other than some hand wavey demos, so I imagine it must be hard to go from sensing to words.

Anyone have any recent news on this?
by herval | 2025-10-28 19:52:00+00:00
it means that the cost of moving from X is too high (be it in terms of time, cost or lack of suitable alternatives).

In the case of iCloud, for most people, it's probably a combination of convenience (no other tool is so well integrated with the OS) and cost (you can sorta replicate the combo of photos + files + vpn + fake emails, but it'll be more expensive and complex to maintain)
by Aurornis | 2025-10-28 19:52:05+00:00
> University is expensive as fck.

One thing that's hard to understand from the outside is that almost nobody actually pays those mind-blowing $60K/year tuition prices. US universities charge on a sliding scale based on the applicants' families' ability to pay.

For an extreme example: Harvard's tuition is nominally $60K per year, but for families earning $200K or less it's $0. Many prestigious universities follow similar patterns resulting in a large percentage of students paying no tuition, the middle ground of students paying some fraction, and a small number of students from wealthy families subsidizing everyone else.

For those who don't attend the prestigious universities with large endowments, average in-state state-run University tuition is under $10K, though again a large percentage of students receive some form of aids or grants to bring that number down even further.

That said, it's entirely possible or someone to go out and sign up for bad investment private university with no aid and rack up $300K of debt by graduation if they're not paying attention to anything, but it's a myth to think that everyone does this.

The average US college student graduates with around $30-40K debt depending on whether they go public or private, which isn't all that hard to pay off when our wages are already significantly higher than other countries. We're especially lucky in tech where our compensation differential relative to other countries more than makes up for the cost of university education.
by rcarmo | 2025-10-28 19:52:09+00:00
As an iOS user who's been frustrated with Apple's approach to "self-loading" (i.e., running your own code on your own devices) and who's actually gone out and gotten Android devices to write PoC/PoV apps on instead, I really don't like Google's stance on this--even if I would not, at this time, choose to daily drive an Android device, I do rely on F-Droid for getting software on six or seven different devices _right now_ and they would be useless to me if I couldn't do it.
by GuB-42 | 2025-10-28 19:52:15+00:00
Musk was definitely good at running Tesla for what matters for a company: making money.

I suspect that just as with SpaceX, he shows off more than he does actual work. He is well known for taking credit for other people work, but you can't deny that he takes credit (and money) for the work of the right people, and it has value!

As for the cars themselves, Tesla is usually in the middle of the pack, with the Japanese on top and Americans at the bottom, making Tesla rather good for an American car brand. All that to say, nothing special on the reliability side, except that people talk a lot about Tesla in one way or another. You probably got unlucky while the people contradicting you got lucky.
by DubiousPusher | 2025-10-28 19:52:24+00:00
I guess I'm very confused as to why just throwing an LLM at a problem like this is interesting. I can see how the LLM is great at decomposing user requests into commands. I had great success with this on a personal assistant project I helped prototype. The LLM did a great job of understanding user intent and even extracting parameters regarding the requested task.

But it seems pretty obvious to me that after decomposition and parameterization, coordination of a complex task would much better be handled by a classical AI algorithm like a planner. After all, even humans don't put into words every individual action which makes up a complex task. We do this more while first learning a task but if we had to do it for everything, we'd go insane.
by orwin | 2025-10-28 19:53:05+00:00
To be fair, their isn't any evidence for any explanation how COVID happened. The only thing we know is that gene splicing isn't involved, it's a genetically 'natural' variant. All other theories about what happened, including it's origin, is unsatisfactory at best.

Some Chinese I talk to think it's not from Wuhan, but rural China, and got confused with flu there, and since no one care about them [0].

If the virus circulated two months in rural China and the local authorities only detected it once it got in a big city, that's a big indictment against the CCP. Like a virus breaking out of a lab would be. But we have no evidence of either, and I'm not ready to choose between the two.

[0] China biggest issue is its countryside away from the coast, it's terrible there. less addict than in WV for sure, but tribes of 'abandoned' kids that makes 'lord of the fly' seems like a documentary. Since rural China population curve looks like a U (all the working age adults work for months in the city and come back twice a year, leaving their old parents or sometimes grandparents take care of the kid), and COVID was so hard on the elderly, post COVID it seems you have villages with two adults for 50 kids, and maybe worse.
by nymanjon | 2025-10-28 19:53:10+00:00
No need for HTMX, HTMZ can get you most of the way there if it is going from simple MPA to slightly more complicated. I used a variation of HTMZ to make a offline-first soccer app I use for myself. I thought I would need to use a front end for the match play page, but, nope, I used Morphdom with HTMZ and I was able to keep the simplicity of templating and a back end.

[1]: https://github.com/jon49/htmz-be

[2]: https://github.com/jon49/Soccer
by stevepotter | 2025-10-28 19:53:12+00:00
This ad nonsense aside, don't buy Samsung refrigerators. They are so awfully made and difficult to service that almost no appliance repair companies will touch them. I got suckered into buying one a few years back and it was awful. The ice maker didn't work, every few weeks I would sop up a gallon of condensation at the bottom of the cheese drawer, and eventually it just died. I went to a local appliance store and they chuckled when I told them. They would never carry that brand. Just fridges, don't want to talk about other appliances.
by dreamcompiler | 2025-10-28 19:53:53+00:00
His own entry in grokpedia [0] says two conflicting things:

"Musk founded SpaceX in 2002 as CEO and chief engineer, Tesla in 2003 where he became CEO in 2008..."

and later on the same page,

"...the company [Tesla] had been founded in 2003 by engineers Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning with a focus on high-performance EVs."

Grok can't seem to keep its story straight.

[0] https://grokipedia.com/page/Elon_Musk
by mikkupikku | 2025-10-28 19:54:10+00:00
Bezos had the money and opportunity to do the same as SpaceX but hasn't been even remotely as successful. He technically started Blue Origin first, but wasted several years not taking it seriously as a rocket company; back then it was basically just a space-themed club for him and his friends (Neal Stephenson, etc.) SpaceX went balls to the walls and never let up. The day to day operations are run by Shotwell and she deserves enormous credit, but we shouldn't ignore the role Elon played in recognizing her potential, keeping her happy and letting her do her job (usually) not getting in her way. And a lot of the dreamer stuff, all the Mars colonization and Starship stuff, has Musk's fingerprints all over it. Granted, none of that stuff has actually happened or worked, but it has clearly been good for helping SpaceX recruit highly motivated talent. If you're a young aerospace engineer with something to prove in 2010, which company do you go to? The one that is sending stuff to the space station and talking about putting people on Mars? Or the one that hasn't publicly done anything and doesn't talk about anything either? SpaceX was run extremely well compared to Blue Origin, not just in terms of day to day management but also their big picture strategy.
by tzs | 2025-10-28 19:54:14+00:00
> @BillGates: Tell us some tough truths about Epstein island!

There's no evidence Gates was ever on Epstein's island, so it is unlikely he has anything interesting to say about it.

The only known connection Gates has to Epstein is a few business meetings.

> But Kudos on acknowledging the growing evidence that the climate change movement is mostly about ideology, money, power and redistributing wealth.

The article did no such thing.
by trilogic | 2025-10-28 19:54:15+00:00
Maybe you are right, on ignoring a study weaknesses and red flags is bad scientific practice. Is that I have been involved personally so long in this topic, that I know for a fact that the results are Good. As I also know many good studies being ridiculed and buried on purpose. No one in the scientific community would dare to criticize a paper in that way. Constructive criticism is connected to intellectual, educated minds, all the rest deserves the same coin or being ignored. I still don´t understand why that comment on top, (I have seen this to many times).
by hmstx | 2025-10-28 19:54:18+00:00
In retrospect, it seems almost nuts that appliances from the past came with not only a block diagram, but a schematic. Especially now that everything is not only too complex to be documented "for your own good", and even potential repair techs, and now with DMCA protected software locks.

I still sometimes use the old Scott amplifier my parents got 50 years ago, with manual - and it has everything you need for a repair (besides a list of modern day replacement for some of these, of course). Same with the ol' Amiga 500 in a box over at their house. A lot of tinkering you could scheme on your own without going online (my quartz oscillator overclocking replacement never materialized, but hey).
by bluGill | 2025-10-28 19:54:23+00:00
Most retirement communities don't have that much supervision.

Regardless, you can get a lot of data, but of it is from people who have other significant differences in lifestyle from the average person and so it is questionable how it applies. Military gets more physical fitness (we already know most of us need more). Boarding school implies young - children or just older, and so while not useful there are differences related to that to control for (military as well, unless you can get officers who are older thus allowing controlling for age).
by pcthrowaway | 2025-10-28 19:54:27+00:00
Canadian here; our system has some pretty extreme issues. The vast majority of Canadians still prefer it to the U.S. Wealthy Canadians (>$500M net worth) would likely prefer the U.S. system in all cases though. Even moderately wealthy Canadians ($1M+ net worth) would likely get better treatment from the American system 95% of the time (when they don't have extreme issues which result in exceptionally costly treatment)

One thing to consider is that doctors seemingly prefer things about how the U.S. system works (I'm not just talking about the amounts charged, but inefficiencies and red tape in the Canadian system, some of which seem to be a consequence of socialized health care). Ultimately this does lead to some brain drain which then compounds the issues with our system.
by ozim | 2025-10-28 19:54:28+00:00
You just clearly don’t understand it is important that no one injects anything into your code while I am browsing it.

With http it is trivial.

So you say you don’t care if my ISP injects whole bunch of ads and I don’t even see your content but only the ads and I blame you for duping me into watching them.

Nowadays VPN providers are popular what if someone buys VPN service from the shitty ones and gets treated like I wrote above and it is your reputation of your blog devastated.
by bpfrh | 2025-10-28 19:54:43+00:00
Depending on your app this is not all.

If i send a golang binary to someone with a mac via signal or other mediums, apple simply displays a dialog that the app is damaged and can't be run.

You need to use chmod to manually remove the quarantine flag to run it.

That for me is something that should be fined ad infinitum, because it is clearly designed to disallow non technical people to run custom apps.