MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lamontcg | 2025-10-28 16:54:53+00:00
> It's interesting to me that Apple made such a large fit change without considering 2's are simply better for some people fit wise.

I immediately ran out and bought aftermarket foam tips for my 2's since the silicone ones never stayed in. Apple is likely trying to fix that kind of problem (and may have done so on average entirely successfully) but now you're seeing the people that it doesn't work for show up in these comments. This comment section is going to be biased towards complaining about the 3's so you can't really judge if what they did was effective or not on average, only that clearly it wasn't perfect.
by dcchambers | 2025-10-28 16:54:56+00:00
Here's the fundamental problem I have with this: This is treating the symptom and not addressing the problem.

The problem is that America's healthcare system is ridiculously broken. The symptom of that problem is that prices are astronomically high.

I am happy AI is useful for things like this, but I want to focus on CURING the problem and not just making the symptoms more tolerable.
by sidewndr46 | 2025-10-28 16:55:03+00:00
I used to live with a guy from Guatemala, who at some point or another wound up at the ER. At the time his insurance apparently had some huge deductible for ER visits so he got the whole bill in excess of $1000. He was going to pay it, so I suggested he just call and tell them he was planning to leave the country and not come back. I told him to tell them there was no way he could pay the full amount, but didn't want to leave a debt out there like this. They lowered the bill to $150 after a few minutes on the phone.
by LocalPCGuy | 2025-10-28 16:55:07+00:00
As has been commented elsewhere, everyone absorbs vitamin D differently, this really is a matter where someone should just get tested, if they (and their doctor) decide supplementation is needed, do so, test again, and adjust dosage accordingly until desired levels are attained.

Not medical advice here, but harmful effects from vitamin D exposure/toxicity generally only happen at very high levels, or if high doses are taken over long periods of time (as excess can be stored in fatty tissue/liver). Doctors often prescribe a very high dose (like 50,000 IUs) for individuals who are very deficient (often taken once a week, not daily) for a short period before going on a more standard (400-2,000, maybe 5,000) IU dose for maintenance.
by vdfs | 2025-10-28 16:55:14+00:00
"Although a few people have confused my reporting of the vulnerability with causing the vulnerability itself, I can take comfort in a story that Richard Feynman famously told about his days on the Manhattan project. Some simple vulnerabilities (and user interface problems) made it easy to open most of the safes in use at Los Alamos. He eventually demonstrated the problem to the Army officials in charge. Horrified, they promised to do something about it. The response? A memo ordering the staff to keep Feynman away from their safes."
by ecosystem | 2025-10-28 16:55:21+00:00
The American Medical Association owns copyright to all the codes and their descriptions. They have an extremely restrictive and expensive licensing options and they strictly forbid training models with the codes.

This month, the practice was called out (https://www.help.senate.gov/rep/newsroom/press/chair-cassidy...) so the Overton window may be opening.

The AMA (a nonprofit!) clears ~$300M/year revenue from the codes, which is the direct cost passed through to consumers, but the indirect costs are the byzantine nightmare of OP.
by ericmay | 2025-10-28 16:55:35+00:00
Yes, Martin. All men (and women) are created equal. The purpose of that document and in that phrase is that all are created equal under the purview of the law or God, not that "society should be equal". Those are completely different things and as you mentioned, it's a very popular (and stupid) meme which is why I responded specifically to what you wrote there.

> Exactly, that's why I say ownership should be proportional to the amount of work done (and perhaps skill involved).

This sounds reasonable, as all bad ideas usually do (and good ones sometimes) but the complexity is in the implementation. If I start a business and hire someone who is going to do 50% of the work, I give them 50% of the company (generally speaking not even talking about $ investments here).

Well, what do you do when your company hires over a million people? And, what do you actually distribute to the employees? Is it the market value of the company divided amongst employees? If they work for 6 months how much value do they get? How exactly are you assessing the value that someone is delivering or the amount of work that was done?

There aren't easy answers to these questions. We are in fact not great as a society (and I'm not sure we should even strive to be) at assessing who did what work. And, how do you handle people who are less skilled because they were born that way? Some people just aren't capable or competent and that's a genetic fact of life. Oh, by the way, what if you leave the company for more pay? How does that work?

Your simple idea opens up a pretty nasty can of worms here without clear answers. But there is one solution - if you (or others) think that giving ownership proportional to the amount of work done is the best way to run a company, the free market is right there waiting for you to give it a go.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-10-28 16:56:14+00:00
Sure, don't get yourself hurt, but also don't live in irrational fear. Intervening in a crime in progress has never led to my execution, so it seems that likely is the wrong assessment of chance.

I have stopped bike thieves, car break-ins, and harassment in multiple cities in North America. I have stopped a racist situation escalating into an attack on a subway in Rotterdam, and stopped a pickpocket in Barcelona. I have shooed away people clearly up to no good in Central and South America. Certainly there was the possibility of violence, but the worst of it in reality was criminals cussing at me as they retreated.

If you don't feel comfortable with direct confrontation, something as simple as yelling "I already called the cops" has worked, or you know, actually calling the cops is an option.

I'm well aware that there are parts of the world where intervening will get you into trouble (and have been in situations where I have held back), but I also believe pretty strongly that doing the right thing is a virtuous feedback loop, and the risks do not outweigh the benefits.

I don't want to live in a world where good people won't do the right thing out of fear. So I choose not to live in that world by being a good person that does the right thing.
by deaux | 2025-10-28 16:56:18+00:00
Where in Europe and where in the US? You probably started one in the easiest US state to do so. Did you try starting one in the easiest EU state? Otherwise we already can't take things very seriously.

Secondly, what's easier besides VC funding? If it's VC funding, the disparity there has nothing to do with regulations - guess how much VC funding the non-EU rest of the world gets.
by throw0101a | 2025-10-28 16:56:28+00:00
For any given viewing distance, there's a recommended screen size; further there are diminishing returns to resolution given the Mark One eyeball's resolution power:

* https://carltonbale.com/1080p-does-matter/

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimum_HDTV_viewing_distance

* https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/by-size/size-to-distance-r...
by Fwirt | 2025-10-28 16:56:39+00:00
100% agree with the required update to 26, I was hugely bummed when I discovered I had to update my devices to pair them.

I've had the opposite experience with noise cancelling though, the APP3 feel like magic when I'm working with power tools - better than any other (passive) ear protection I've tried in Noise Cancellation mode, and still enough protection in Transparency mode that I can use my circular saw without any discomfort. I did experience a little of what you're mentioning the other day, but only when my Airpods (and head) were close to the tool. I thought it might be back EMF.

I have no complaints with my APP3 other than the forced iOS upgrade. I feel like they fit much better than the APP2, I have had far fewer incidences of them working their way out. And sound quality is a huge leap forward IMO. Best IEMs I have ever heard.
by Mo3 | 2025-10-28 16:56:40+00:00
That was the plan to begin with.

Great way to dispense a few billion of taxpayer money in settlements as a favor while everyone's distracted by the story and laughing about how dumb RFK and Trump are.

They're not that dumb. Anything that seems particularly illogical has underlying motives. Look and you'll find more instances of this. Much more.
by pfdietz | 2025-10-28 16:56:47+00:00
Yeah, I call bullshit on that claim. The only way something like this could become required would be if it's so much more performant that farmers would have no choice. But that would mean it's creating so much extra value the farmers still come out ahead. How is this a bad thing? In no scenario is it possible for the introduction of a new variety to force farmers to make a decision that leaves them worse off than some other decision they could make.
by softwaredoug | 2025-10-28 16:57:14+00:00
Is the point of these policies to pick winners? Or to upskill the creators and stimulate the economy by giving possible entrepreneurs experience Europeans can't get in big tech?

In the US, some ex-Googler might found a startup. Europe doesn't have the equivalent of FAANG. (Europe-wide companies are not quite as easy as US-wide)

Even if the super computer itself "fails", is the goal actually the secondary impacts to the economy?

(And in the US, we do our own fair share of picking winners / losers, especially in the current regime)
by GaryBluto | 2025-10-28 16:57:20+00:00
>I'm afraid at some point we'll be swamped by bots. 99% of the content online will be AI generated. It might even be of better quality than what we can produce. Would that be a win ? I'm not sure. I value the fact that I am interacting with humans.

I'm afraid that ship has sailed.

>I think it's worth looking at alternative ways to protect our humanity in the online world, even if it means remaining in niches, as those niches have value, at least to me. This post and this license is one possible solution, hopefully there are more

While I appreciate the sentiment, I think anybody willing to create armies of bots to pretend to be humans are unlikely to listen to a software license, nor operate within territories where the law would prosecute them.
by jzb | 2025-10-28 16:57:31+00:00
I don't think that ship has sailed as far as you suggest: There are strong proponents of LLMs/GenAI, but not IMO many more than NFTs, cryptocurrencies, and other technologies that ultimately did not hit mainstream adoption.

I don't think GenAI or LLMs are going away entirely - but I'm not convinced that they are inevitable and must be adopted, either. Then again, I'm mostly a hold-out when it comes to things like self checkout, too. I'd rather wait a bit longer in line to help ensure a human has a job than rush through self-checkout if it means some poor soul is going to be out of work.
by gampleman | 2025-10-28 16:58:17+00:00
I think it will be interesting to see how this sort of thing evolves in various jurisdictions. I doubt it will ever fly in the US given how strongly the US economy relies on AI. US courts are likely to keep ruling that AI training is fair use because if they reversed their policy the economic consequences would likely be severe.

But EU jurisdictions? I'm quite curious where this will go. Europe is much more keen to protect natural persons rights against corporate interests in the digital sphere, particularly since it has much less to lose, since EU digital economy is much weaker.

I could imagine ECJ ruling on something like this quite positively.
by harambae | 2025-10-28 16:58:17+00:00
I did this once and, while there were no legal repercussions, the medical collection agency started calling my aging mother in the middle of the night (she still has a landline phone that will go off).

Of course, I hadn't actually lived there since I was a teenager over a decade ago, and I'm sure they knew that, but the harassment tactic worked and I just paid it.
by pelzatessa | 2025-10-28 16:58:47+00:00
Most interesting, will bear that in mind. To this date I haven't encountered any "drastically wrong" symptoms with my d3 usage and frankly haven't heard that much about any adverse events linked to vitamin d3. If you feel comfortable with that then you could disclose what exactly is that adverse effect you've been experiencing, but I see that you try to avoid this topic so no pressure :)
by LocalPCGuy | 2025-10-28 16:58:51+00:00
Generally agree, but unlike water-soluable vitamins, vitamin D can store excess in fatty tissue and the liver, and so if a person takes a large dose (generally 10,000 IU daily or more), they could develop toxicity over time due to the build-up. That's why it's important to test and adjust dosages according to the data.
by embedding-shape | 2025-10-28 16:58:52+00:00
Seems there are a couple of pages like that, if you enter "views of" without hitting enter in the Wikipedia search bar, you get some suggestions. Seems there is similar pages for Kanye West, Richard Dawkins and some more. Many of the pages are redirects back to the main page of the person though, so seems they're maybe disappearing or exclusively used for people who are very outspoken about lots of different things.
by jorvi | 2025-10-28 16:58:56+00:00
Hardened chains of sufficient thickness can stand up to an angle grinder pretty well, to the point where thieves will rather steal another bike because angle grinding for that long will attract attention.

Ring locks suck, a lot of them can be defeated with a pair of scissors. Similarly, U-locks suck because they're never as strong as the bike frame. You can just pick up the bike and use the frame as lever and the streetlight pole as fulcrum, twisting the bike around until the locking notches of the U-lock snap.

Occasionally, in The Netherlands professional bike thieves will drive up with a stolen van at night and load up entire bike racks. Not much you can do against that except store your bike inside.
by beala | 2025-10-28 16:58:57+00:00
I don't think I've run into any bugs, but there are also entire sections of the controller I haven't explored yet. I have a pretty typical homelab style setup with multiple wifi SSIDs for trusted devices and untrusted devices, and several VLANs to isolate them. I guess it's good to know rumors of Ubiquiti's death have been greatly exaggerated in case my Omada hardware starts acting up.
by Cleonis | 2025-10-28 16:59:08+00:00
About d'Alembert's principle. A modern name for it is 'd'Alembert's virtual work'.

The modern concept of 'work done' was formulated around 1850 (Eighteen-fifty). That is, we shouldn't assume that back in the days of Lagrange d'Alembert's principle was understood in the same way as it is today.

Joseph Louis Lagrange motivated his notion of potential energy in terms of d'Alembert's principle.

The recurring theme is the concept of 'work done'.

In case you hadn't noticed yet, I'm the contributor who notified you of a resource I created, with interactive diagrams.

There is this distinction: the work-energy theorem expresses physical motion, whereas d'Alembert's virtual work expresses, as the modern name indicates, virtual work.

My assessment is that using d'Alembert's virtual work is an unnecesarily elaborate approach. The same result can be arrived at in a more direct way.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-10-28 16:59:25+00:00
As far as I understand it real X-Rays are too hard to handle in general, and though more precise because of shorter wavelengths etch too much away from the substrates. EUV is just soft enough, to not do that(as much). That seems to be the main reason all the effort went into EUV of 'just the right wavelength and energy.'
by matheusmoreira | 2025-10-28 16:59:30+00:00
Lack of violence.

All of civilization exists due to the threat of violence. There's no need to negotiate peacefully when you can just take what you want. It's the violence that makes it happen. Negotiate, because if you don't there's no telling who's gonna be left standing.

If people are breaking locks and stealing property in plain sight right in front of other people, it's because they think society has become so soft they won't do anything about it.

And frankly, the average person won't. They'll probably just stand there shocked at the event unfolding before them. Or they'll try to "stand up" to the criminal, only to end up insulting his masculinity or something, thereby getting themselves killed for the insult. Yes, criminals kill people who disrespect them.

If you're gonna do this, you have to be prepared to use lethal force against another human being. The vast majority of people are not. They're better off calling the cops, whose entire purpose is to be that person.
by sofixa | 2025-10-28 16:59:32+00:00
> Okay, what is the limiting factor

A few.

A big part is that the EU is a collection of countries that (with very few exceptions) have different languages and laws. For a company to serve Spain and France, for instance, it would need to translate everything, hire local lawyers and customer support agents. Considering the much smaller size of the countries (biggest one is 70 million vs 330 million in the US), the opportunity for "unlimited" growth is limited.

This also rebounds in the fact that when an American company makes it big, they have the resources to flood other EU markets and be cheaper/better than the local competition due to economies of scale and money based on their big successful US market. A French company making it big is still small compared to a US equivalent.

Then, there's the capital markets, no denying that. The money being thrown around the US is like nowhere else on the planet. Some of it definitely a bubble / unrealistic, but that doesn't matter. But in part it's because of the size of the total potential market that this is justified.

Education / national mythology also plays a part, I think (this is pure conjecture now). In the US, the "American Dream", "everyone can make it" etc is heavily ingrained. It propagates through the world with the help of Hollywood and other American cultural exports. In most EU countries, there isn't such a heavy emphasis on independence and "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps". "Hustle culture" isn't a thing. So for most people, it isn't something that comes naturally to them to start a company and work 100 hour weeks to be big and rich and successful and famous.

That's not to say there aren't such people, I went to 42 and have been to Station F and know some people in that universe. A decent proportion of my classmates wanted to make their startup and make it big, and some did end up starting their own companies.
Show HN: VS Code extension to run/debug Go table tests
by drakyoko | 2025-10-28 16:59:38+00:00
Hey HN, Over the weekend I built a small VS Code extension that lets you run/debug individual subtests in Go table tests — something I’ve often wished the official extension supported.

Unlike other extensions I’ve seen, it doesn’t just rely on regex and assumed field names but it does a bit of structural analysis by following testing.T references.

If you’re a Go developer and this sounds useful, I’d love to hear your feedback!
by mytailorisrich | 2025-10-28 17:00:06+00:00
If we want to go all legal, I believe that Spanish/Castilian is the only official language of the State, so at country level, with the other "Spanish languages" only official in their respective areas:

Section 3

(1) Castilian is the official Spanish language of the State. All Spaniards have the duty to know it and the right to use it.

(2) The other Spanish languages shall also be official in the respective Autonomous Communities in accordance with their Statutes.

(3) The richness of the different linguistic modalities of Spain is a cultural heritage which shall be specially respected and protected. [1]

[1] https://www.senado.es/web/conocersenado/normas/constitucion/...
by jack_tripper | 2025-10-28 17:00:19+00:00
You're missing the point completely. I was not talking about why hospital debt is big, but the difference in how debt in general of all sizes gets collected.

Because in most of Europe even a 50 Euro debt will be collected, medical or not. while in the US it seems you can live just fine with a lot of debt that somehow nobody bothers to collect.

And your hospital in Europe DOES collect the half million Euro bill, for say a heart transplant, from your insurance company. You just never see the massive bill because it goes directly to your insurer but someone always pays.
by someone7x | 2025-10-28 17:00:22+00:00
This isn’t about eyewitnesses, it’s about looking at historical pictures of the sky before the advent of space flight.

> Villarroel and her team used the digitized scans to study the night sky as it was before the 1957 launch of the first artificial satellite, the Soviet Union’s Sputnik 1, to eliminate the possibility of seeing space-based interference from human activity.

> Under the auspices of Villarroel’s Vanishing & Appearing Sources during a Century of Observations (VASCO) project, they identified more than 107,000 transients.
by jakewins | 2025-10-28 17:00:34+00:00
That is not something that’s necessary for all CQRS systems, but maybe is something you’ve heard for the subset that people call “Event Sourcing”? There it’s a design goal that the system only records events that are occurring, so there’s no domain level validation that can be done on the command path - the user pressed the button whether we like it or not, so to speak. Whether the event has the intended effect is worked out after the event is recorded.

But there’s nothing in the more general idea of “separate reads from writes” that mandates “no validation on writes”
by bobmcnamara | 2025-10-28 17:00:39+00:00
I did a 10 gig backbone between my three switches, and it's awesome. I didn't bother placing conduit - just tacked up preterminated lengths using coax clips and ordered a spare in case one of them ever goes down. I also have Wi-Fi mesh routers on each switch, which provides low speed redundancy until I have time to replace a fiber. I considered doing conduit - mostly I didn't because I don't expect to be in this house for too many more years. I don't know that I would run fiber to many more places - I did place a jumper through the wall for my wife's desktop if we wanted that in the future. But most consumer devices still seem to have rj45s, so I wouldn't want to put down a media converter for each. If this were a new build I might consider placing fiber and only lighting it as needed.

This is the SFP DAS and fiber links in the current place:

workstation - switchUpStairs - switchMainFloor - switchBasement - nas

Edge devices are a mix between 100meg, 1gig, 2.5gig, so anything wired is limited mostly by its own nic or the ISP.
by Y-bar | 2025-10-28 17:00:45+00:00
I remember a story a couple of weeks ago, or perhaps earlier this year about the lead-up to the NSDAP takeover of the German government in the mid 1900:s. It was something about just overwhelming people with pointless crisis and issues to keep you busy and preoccupied both physically and mentally so not to notice the truly bad things going when the democratic state was eroding.

This seems like one such thing, it's a ploy for the public, it distracts from other things, it takes space away from other thing in the news, it ties up courts and others.