MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jinjin2 | 2025-10-28 17:58:58+00:00
The original idea idea behind SQL was to create a language that looked like English and allowed regular users to express their queries in something that resembled natur Al language. Naturally it has evolved into something far more complex, but maybe today with LLMs it can get back to its origin,

LLMs are getting pretty good at writing SQL. There is so much training material out there, and it is not that hard to validate the results. The real interesting question will be if they will be better at leveraging all the database specific dialects than tool like PowerBI. High-performance databases like Exasol often has a lot of specific features in their SQL dialects that generic tools and ORMs are not able to use, it will be interesting to see if LLMs can make that more accessible.
by ericmay | 2025-10-28 17:59:03+00:00
If the value of the lives lost in just one state due to car crashes is $5 billion more than the entire budget of the transportation agency, why doesn't the transportation agency take specific actions to get more drivers off the road where they can't be killed? Why does it instead take actions to increase the number of drivers?

And we're just talking about deaths, not even other repercussions or cost including traffic degradation due to accidents.

If we were to take any of these numbers at face value, you're telling me my own state loses out on $16,440,000,000.00 of human lives on an annual basis and we're not doing anything about it but we're spending $11,000,000,000.00 to make the problem worse. Now multiply that across the entire country.

That's the bullshit.
by TrueDuality | 2025-10-28 17:59:04+00:00
I haven't decided my opinion on this specific license, ones like it, or specifically around rights of training models on content... I think there is a legitimate argument this could apply in regards to making copies and making derivative works of source code and content when it comes to training models. It's still an open question legally as far as I know whether the weights of models are potentially a derivative work and production by models potentially a distribution of the original content. I'm not a lawyer here but it definitely seems like one of the open gray areas.
by el_benhameen | 2025-10-28 17:59:06+00:00
I’ve tried with every set of tips except for the xs, same thumping with all of them. Zero issues running almost daily with the second gens for several years. I think it’s more than fit—either oversensitive ANC or something with the composition of the tips themselves. Oddly enough, it’s not present in both ears every time. Sometimes both, sometimes just one, rarely neither. I’ve stopped gathering data because I switched to a different set of headphones.

I’ll grant you that the ANC in the third gen is fantastic. I just felt like the second gen fit themselves into my routine, whereas I have to fiddle and futz with the third gen to get them just-so so that they don’t inhibit my routine.
by torstenvl | 2025-10-28 17:59:12+00:00
You're right. It looks like the new full VM emulation in 20.2 doesn't use Rosetta.

https://www.parallels.com/blogs/parallels-desktop-20-2-0/

Nevertheless, running x64 software including Docker containers on aarch64 VMs does use Rosetta. There's still a significant valid use case that has nothing to do with neglected software.

Edited my post above. Thanks for the correction.
by prewett | 2025-10-28 17:59:15+00:00
I've slowly been coming to see voting for Trump as a populist revolt against the educated elite. The educated elite has embraced the Progressive Left, but refuses to acknowledge that a lot of people are simply do not agree that this is a positive development. But the Progressive Left keeps making that position not acceptable. Hillary Clinton's "deplorables" comment--and the fact that it got laughs--is a minor example. The Progressive Left has been making it harder to live as someone with a different opinion, and 2024 was the year everybody else revolted; I think even white men finally voted majority Republican, after the minorities slowly peeled off over the past decade. Trump is appalling, but I think the election makes more sense if you look at it as the non-elite population saying "we want less Progressivism", and Trump promised that he would deliver. Since nobody in the elite was listening, they had to say it louder and louder, until Trump became their mouthpiece. (This is probably all subconscious, of course.) If educated elites continue to along their current path, which I expect, because this seems to be a matter of essentially religious righteousness for them, I expect it will be said even louder, with potentially disastrous consequences for everyone. Continued Progressivism will also be disastrous, but in a different way. It won't be Putin, but dissent will certainly not be tolerated. Similar dynamics are happening in the UK, except that I don't think there is a Trump figure there, so the message is more diffuse. I expect you can probably look at Canada to see how continued Progressivism will work out.
by furyofantares | 2025-10-28 17:59:36+00:00
> 3) LLMs do not have a mechanism for sampling from given probability distributions. E.g. if you ask LLM to sample a random number from 1 to 10, it will likely give you 3 or 7, as those are overrepresented in the training data.

You can have them output a probability distribution and then have normal code pick the action. There's other ways to do this, you don't need to make the LLM pick a random number.
by mxey | 2025-10-28 18:00:02+00:00
I cannot tell you about implementation difference but what I mean is that this only talks about Rosetta 2 for Mac apps. Rosetta for Linux is a feature of the Virtualization framework that’s documented in a completely different place. And this message says a part of Rosetta for macOS will stick around, so I would be surprised if they removed the Linux part.

On the Linux side, Rosetta is an executable that you hook up with binfmt to run AMD64 binaries, like how you might use Wine for windows binaries
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-10-28 18:00:08+00:00
Doors are such an important invention that multiple unrelated animals have evolved modified body parts to serve as doors to burrows¹. Being able to store food is critically important for surviving low-food periods like winter without migrating. "Indoors" lets you store food without insects or other animals getting to it & stealing it. Fire allows for hardening clay, which lets you make a special tiny "indoors" called a "pot" for storing food. Also bricks so "indoors" can be made anywhere. With a roof the rain stays out & you can stay dry & warm, and not freeze at night. A significant portion of why fire is so important is it enables creating various sorts of "indoors".

¹https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phragmosis
by landdate | 2025-10-28 18:00:16+00:00
Years past humans would hear stories from within their social circle. These are important because they create bonds and pass on wisdom & knowledge from one to many. From this, humans gained a yearn for hearing stories, but without adequate restrictions anything that fulfills pleasure can and will becomes a vice. The average human will spend their little "free time" (another delusion) toiling as an observer to fantasies conjured up by individuals they have no connection or relationship with. Fictional media preys on your mind the same way a video game, or a coke, or any one of these artificial productions of the modern world preys on you.

It's utterly pointless and degrades one's life into voyeurism. Many don't think of this, nor think about the food they eat, the work they do, the "life" they live, they only think of the consequences if they become painfully visible. Even then you will see people unwilling to get out of the bond of slavery, and form lies to protect their habit just as an addict of heroin addict would.

Non-fiction can be as bad (biographies, documentaries), but (for the most part) it's primary purpose isn't a voyeur's pleasure, so it's rarely abused in the same way.
by tw04 | 2025-10-28 18:00:27+00:00
>This month, the practice was called out (https://www.help.senate.gov/rep/newsroom/press/chair-cassidy...) so the Overton window may be opening.

So you think the same Senate that is planning on gutting healthcare for millions of Americans is going to go after the AMA billing codes? Is this real life? They MIGHT demand some donations to the ballroom, but I doubt they care enough to even do that.

Ahh, here's the correct link and as I suspected, this has absolutely nothing to do with reducing healthcare costs for the average american. It is a direct attack on the AMA for advocating for supportive care for transgender citizens.

https://www.help.senate.gov/rep/newsroom/press/chair-cassidy...

With opinions like this, you can rest assured Cassidy is concerned with healthcare costs for the average citizen:

>This comes after Cassidy denounced the AMA for defying President Trump’s Executive Order by promoting gender mutilation and castration of children.
by claytongulick | 2025-10-28 18:00:34+00:00
For folks who aren't healthcare tech nerds, what happened in this case is called "unbundling" which is a fraudulent practice that can have steep penalties from CMS.

CMS maintains a service and set of tools to help prevent payers from getting hit with this called the National Correct Coding Initiative (NCCI) [1]. NCCI only applies to provider services and outpatient billing codes, but is still applicable for emergency room services.

There are a bunch of technical details for implementing the edits in the NCCI, but I think it's worth taking a moment to reflect on this.

It's pretty popular to point to the insurance company as the "bad guy" in healthcare, but this is the sort of stuff they deal with thousands of times per day.

As frustrating and horrible as this story is, it's not unique to an uninsured individual. A big problem in US healthcare is provider overbilling.

One of the most tragic jobs I held in healthcare tech was developing software for billing negotiation between providers and insurance companies. It was pretty eye-opening how terribly everyone behaves, and I learned to have a lot more sympathy for what insurance companies/government payers have to deal with.

As a patient trying to have necessary treatment paid for, it's incredibly frustrating to have a claim denied, and these are what we see in the news and experience personally.

As an insurance company, building robust systems that authorize necessary care while catching overbilling, overutilization and outright fraud is unfathomably complex and error prone.

This one of the reasons I've become a fan of DPC (direct primary care) models [2] with HSAs and supplement high-deductible catastrophic insurance to protect against hospital stays. It puts primary care back into a direct relationship with the patient, and lets insurance companies do what they are good at: pricing risk.

Some of the unintended consequences of how insurance companies are currently regulated is that in some states it can be difficult or impossible for an insurance company to provide a low cost, high deductible plan. They are forced to cover things that drive the costs up, so it's hard to do a DPC + catastrophic insurance option.

[1] https://www.cms.gov/national-correct-coding-initiative-ncci

[2] https://www.aafp.org/family-physician/practice-and-career/de...
by ctoth | 2025-10-28 18:01:04+00:00
I'm not going to downvote. But if the world actually looks like that to you - people as disposable biomass, everything rigged, nothing matters - that's not how reality works, that's depression. And I mean that straightforwardly, not as an insult. I'm seeing more of this on HN lately and it's worrying. People presenting total despair as political insight. If you're in that headspace, talk to someone. It gets better, but not if you're reinforcing it by posting it as reality.
by cestith | 2025-10-28 18:01:08+00:00
The definition I’ve used for my own projects is that anything that touches anything outside the function or in any way outlives the function is impure. It works pretty well for me. That is, no i/o, mutability of a function-local variable is okay but no touching other memory state (and that variable cannot outlive the return), the same function on the same input always produces the same output, and there’s no calling of impure code from within pure code. Notice this makes closures and currying impure unless done explicitly during function instantiation, making those things at least nominally part of the input syntactically. YMMV.
by ageitgey | 2025-10-28 18:01:15+00:00
Fun fact:

In the UK, you can pay more (say 30%-40% the cost of a US health insurance plan), get treated like royalty in private care, skip all the lines for specialists, still be covered by the NHS to pay 0 for anything catastrophic, and still never get a bill in the mail from anyone.

It's not an either/or situation. The US has the least efficient healthcare system of any country in the world. It provides less treatment per dollar than anywhere else. You can provide universal basic coverage and still provide luxury insurance plans.
by philipwhiuk | 2025-10-28 18:01:40+00:00
> Whereas the actual needles are scientifically based as providing pain relief in a small and short term effect.

This is the basically the same evidence that says if I set you on fire you'll stop complaining about a cough, right?

> qwackery

Quackery has a 'u'. Maybe you need Grammarly.

> Which I dont know if you know, but tylenol is extremely ineffective for pain relief.

Try not to source all your opinions from the guy who suggested people drink bleach.
by timeinput | 2025-10-28 18:01:42+00:00
I started with TPLink gear in a mesh mode, and it kinda sorta maybe worked? I had an access point on the ground floor, a range extender + option to connect RJ45 (for devices with out WiFi), on the middle floor, and an additional meshed AP / range extender on the top floor. The top floor meshed thing basically didn't work, the RJ45 thing got me like 50 Mbps while wireless was getting me 200 Mbps. It 'just worked', but it didn't work well.

In that same house switching over to Ubiquiti just worked, and worked well. I had the same setup (mesh nodes on every floor), but performance was substantially better (2-4x).

I've moved house, and now have wired APs on every floor, and get phenomenal performance. The management UI to see what is where / how its connected, and when something doesn't work is very good. It also enables things that were hard / difficult with other non-'prosumer' gear. Like I can have multiple WAN ports, and plug in a cellular modem, so that when my internet doesn't just work (which happens way too often) it auto-fails over to the cellular modem, and continues just working.

The reason I went with Ubiquiti in the first place was their Unifi Protect line of cameras, and again those 'just work' from the wireless small ones to domes / etc plugged into wired connections they all just seamlessly connect to my dream machine, and provides a great UI, and the data is on prem which I want.

The only thing Ubiquiti doesn't do the way I want is DHCP + DNS, so I have a seperate raspberry pi doing that.

After years of fussing around with either linux / pfsense / ... routing + firewall solutions, and different AP / meshing configurations the ubiquiti stuff is very hands off.
by can16358p | 2025-10-28 18:01:43+00:00
Just curious, which Sennheisers did you give up on in favor of APP3?

I have over-the-ear Momentum 3 and love it, but if APP3 provides better sound quality and better ANC I might consider switching as Momentum 3, while I love it, is bulky, heavy, and started to wear off and break down.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-10-28 18:01:47+00:00
You don't need to go the reductio ad Hitlerum route. Distraction, lawfare, divide-and-conquer are old, tried, and tested tactics for diverting attention, grinding down the opposition, and scattering threats. It isn't unique to this administration nor to our times.

(Incidentally, in the US, divide-and-conquer often happens on racial grounds, for example. When American oligarchy starts feeling threatened, it can easily reach for the race card by giving the appropriate people a platform to manufacture paranoia, grievance, outrage, indignation, and antipathy. Solidarity breaks down. People stop talking about how badly they're being governed and manipulated by gov't and private interest and shift focus toward hating each other. Indeed, this is how democracies function in practice. Whereas dictatorships often rely on a good deal of brute force, oligarchs in democracies must be craftier in their methods - this includes the abuse of media, or the phenomenon of sexual lib, as described by Aldous Huxley, as another intersecting example. The citizen cannot know he is subject to manipulation or coercion. Media and education become instruments of conditioning and inculcation, with society functioning as a force multiplier.)
by gnabgib | 2025-10-28 18:01:52+00:00
No discussion, but just on the front page last week (31 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45655519

Previous discussion:

2025 Safepoints and Fil-C (87 points, 1 month ago, 44 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45258029

2025 Fil's Unbelievable Garbage Collector (603 points, 2 months ago, 281 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45133938

2024 The Fil-C Manifesto: Garbage In, Memory Safety Out (13 points, 17 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39449500
by pembrook | 2025-10-28 18:02:07+00:00
If it's publicly available data, books and research, I can assure you the big models have already all been trained on it.

European culture is already embedded in all the models, unless the people involved in this project have some hidden trove of private data that they're training on which diverges drastically from things Europeans have published publicly (I'm 99.9% positive they don't...especially given Europe's alarmist attitude around anything related to data).

I think people don't understand a huge percentage of the employees at OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. are non-US born.
by 8note | 2025-10-28 18:02:19+00:00
people are being fooled, but not being given the problem: "one of these users is a bot, which one is which"

a problem similar to the turing test, "0 or more of these users is a bot, have fun in a discussion forum"

but there's no test or evaluation to see if any user successfully identified the bot, and there's no field to collect which users are actually bots, or partially using bots, or not at all, nor a field to capture the user's opinions about whether the others are bots
by gnabgib | 2025-10-28 18:02:20+00:00
No discussion, but just on the front page last week (31 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45655519

Previous discussion:

2025 Safepoints and Fil-C (87 points, 1 month ago, 44 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45258029

2025 Fil's Unbelievable Garbage Collector (603 points, 2 months ago, 281 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45133938

2024 The Fil-C Manifesto: Garbage In, Memory Safety Out (13 points, 17 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39449500
by dzikimarian | 2025-10-28 18:03:09+00:00
I took part in application for EU grants a few times and our company group did it many times over the years.

It's bureaucracy, often bordering with stupidity. You may need advisors to navigate all their forms & processes. But it certainly isn't "pals-only" type of deal.

On the other hand - is it harder than getting VC funding? For seasoned founder with reputation - probably. For fresh startup - probably not.
by deaux | 2025-10-28 18:03:11+00:00
> 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.

Ding ding ding! When China does it with solar and EVs we call it "dumping". When Uber, OpenAI and Anthropic do it, that term is never ever used. VC funded US techs dumps harder than any Chinese industry ever has.
by deaux | 2025-10-28 18:04:04+00:00
But it is on the cost vs quality frontier. The OpenRouter prices are all from mainly US(!) companies self-hosting and providing these models for inference. They're absolutely not all subsidizing it to death. This isn't Chinese subsidies at play, far from it.

Ironically, I'll bet you $500 that OpenAI and Anthropic's models are far more subsidized. We can be almost sure about this, given the losses that they post, and the above fact. These providers are effectively hardware plays, they can't just subsidize at scale and they're a commodity.

On top of that I also mentioned size vs quality, where they're also frontier. Size ≈ cost.
by thesuitonym | 2025-10-28 18:04:07+00:00
> Libre office in my opinion is one of the reasons Microsoft is so dominant.

Microsoft Office was already dominant long before LibreOffice started. Hell, MSO was already dominant when StarOffice was renamed OpenOffice.org, long before LibreOffice was a thought in anyone's mind.

> Unfortunately, libre office, even though useful, is one of the worst desktop applications to use.

You only feel this way because you're used to MS Office. Ask anyone who's more well versed in Google Workspace and they'll tell you that MS is difficult to use.
by hinkley | 2025-10-28 18:04:23+00:00
Found an example that is closer to how I learned about CQS:

https://hemath.dev/blog/command-query-separation/

Down at the bottom it gets into composition to make utility functions that compose several operations. Any OO system has to be careful not to expose methods that should have been private, so that’s not specific to CQS. It’s just that the opportunities to get it wrong increase and the consequences are higher.
by purrcat259 | 2025-10-28 18:04:25+00:00
Depends on where you live and how you were brought up, but for the most part code switching is default.

There was a point about 7 years ago when the overton window shifted to "speak english to strangers first" because of a large influx of foreigners who did not know the language. Since then I've met foreigners who have better Maltese than some natives.

Older folks & geriatrics will sometimes be surprised when they assume someone is foreign and they turn out to be Maltese. "int Malti??" is a statement I get often because I don't look Mediterranean despite being born here.
by rkomorn | 2025-10-28 18:04:42+00:00
Protesting, sure, although it's pretty obvious protesting does little in the US (and there's no "right way" to, either).

Pulling their kids out of school? Quitting their teaching jobs? I'd say not so much.

Strikes are also iffy.

I'm from France so, you know, I'm down with strikes, protests, and all that.

I also lived more than half my life in the US and, as you wrote, it's just different (and not accidentally so).
by whimsicalism | 2025-10-28 18:05:11+00:00
True of the UK, not true of Canada (where providing services covered by the public sector is illegal AFAIU). I think this is exactly the sort of model to move to, price sensitivity for routine care - government insurance and forced saving for the catastrophic. Healthcare should be entirely untied from jobs.

US healthcare is a mess and I'm not defending the cost - but it does have the highest number of top specialists in the world & strong R&D.