MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nradov | 2025-11-12 14:33:46+00:00
What a lot of people don't realize is that it's mostly employer HR departments running the "death panels". UHG and its competitors would be happy to sell insurance policies that cover absolutely everything with no questions asked: this would be easier for them to administer without the hassles of utilization management and claim edits. But customers — mainly large employers — demand that insurers (or third-party administrators) impose more restrictive coverage rules in order to hold down medical costs.

Ultimately there will always be some healthcare rationing. This happens in every country. For example, the UK NHS has death panels which decide that certain treatments won't be covered at all because they're not cost effective. Resources are limited and demand is effectively infinite. So the only real question is how we do the rationing.
by gwbas1c | 2025-11-12 14:34:04+00:00
This is a very solved problem. EV chargers can change the rate at which the car is charging.

I have a double-charger at home. If I plug in one car, it gets 40 amps. When I plug in two, both cars get 20 amps until one finishes, then it does a 32/8 split with the charging car getting 32 amps and the idle car getting 8 amps.
by masfoobar | 2025-11-12 14:34:05+00:00
> most decent C# devs already moved away from to JetBrains/vscode.

My comment is NOT talking about 'decent C# devs'

It is a RESPONSE as to why more people are not using C# for startups. For those who are not familiar with C# MAY be put off using it for those reasons... and why another language might be used.
by rbanffy | 2025-11-12 14:34:13+00:00
> I think because we already have non-text based terminal succesors.

We've had them for a long time. There have been multiple graphics standards terminals supported - Tektronix, ReGIS, Sixels, up to richer, less successful interfaces (such as AT&T's Blit and its successors - all gorgeous, all failed in the marketplace).

The notebook interface popularized by iPython is an interesting one, but it's not really a replacement for a terminal.
by tvbusy | 2025-11-12 14:34:16+00:00
The model I have seen is that there's a cost for charging as well as parking after charging has completed. You get 20 minutes after charging has ended for free but there will be a blocking fee afterwards as long as the cable is still connected to the car and will be charged as part of the charging fee. If someone charges their car and then disconnects the cable and blocks the spot, they will be towed as the spot has a notice that it's only for charging devices.

I have seen those attached to light posts here in Germany but they all are in front of public area, not private houses so I guess it's only for charging, not parking.

In another point, if it's in front of a private property and the owner plan to occupy it for themselves, it would not make sense to install charger there as even when the owner is not charging, no one else can use.
by npteljes | 2025-11-12 14:34:19+00:00
In the current times yes, you can basically record your screen with whatever tool you fancy.

But even now, many video sites employ DRM, and only the weakest levels of DRM streams can be recorded off the screen. If they crank that up, which is perfectly possible today, the screen recordings only shows a blank rectangle, because the encryption goes from server to video card. At this stage, "hdmi recorders" are the next level - they capture the audio/video stream from the hdmi cable output for example.

Even further, there is technology to encrypt from server to screen. I'm not sure on the rollout on this one. I think we have a long time until this is implemented, and even then, I'm sure we will have the ability to buy screens that fake the encryption, and then let us record the signal. And, for mainstream media, there will be pirated copies until the end of time I think.
by echelon | 2025-11-12 14:34:26+00:00
Violent video games might not have impacted society, but what about addictive social media and addictive online games?

What about the algorithm feeding highly polarized content to folks? It's the new "lead in the air and water" of our generation.

What about green text bubble peer pressure? Fortnite and Roblox FOMO? The billion anime Gatcha games that are exceedingly popular? Whale hunting? Kids are being bullied and industrially engineered into spending money they shouldn't.

Raising kids on iPads, shortened attention spans, social media induced depression and suicide, lack of socialization, inattention in schools, ...

Social media leading people to believe everyone is having more fun than them, is better looking than them, that society is the source of their problems, ...

Now the creepy AI sex bots are replacing real friends.
by philwelch | 2025-11-12 14:34:45+00:00
You’re right of course, but there’s another important way the US contributed. Who do you think paid for those French rifles in the first place? The Entente was financed by Wall Street for years, until Wall Street ran out of money and the federal government took over the loans. The British Empire was close to insolvent at the end of the war—the main reason they were so insistent on receiving reparations from Germany was because of their own debt to the United States, a debt they ultimately defaulted on.
Show HN: Shopscan.io – Automated Shopify Store Audits for Agencies/Freelancers
by mrwangust | 2025-11-12 14:34:50+00:00
Hey HN,

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- Noel
by senkora | 2025-11-12 14:35:44+00:00
The article covers a variety of different approaches to dealing with high cocoa prices, but the Amsterdam brownie in the title is using a more heavily alkalized cocoa powder to maintain a similar taste while using less cocoa:

> The former gets its punch from using more heavily “dutched,” or alkalized, cocoa. It’s also what made that magical brownie taste so chocolatey.
by masfoobar | 2025-11-12 14:35:53+00:00
> C# is not linked to IDE. You can do `dotnet build`? Can run on Linux if you will. Database choice? You are NOT limited to SQL Server or Windows server.

People who already are familiar with C# know this. To programmers that do not, may prefer to stick with another language to keep away from Microsoft in general.

Again - my comment is a response about why C# is not used more for startups. I am not suggesting it isn't, but there are plenty of reasons, and this is likely just one.
by jerf | 2025-11-12 14:35:58+00:00
As much as the default LLMisms are annoying me, it's also a honeymoon period right now where you can even suspect whether something is AI generated based on the default LLM-isms. Word about how to fix their tone has been getting around in academia for a while amongst students trying to pass detection filters, once they're out into the world we can expect to have even more AI generated content masked behind individualized, unique style prompts that aren't immediately recognizable as the default LLM voice.
by k310 | 2025-11-12 14:36:11+00:00
Looks similar to an iPad in the fancy case. I even added a mouse.

For all the discussion, IMNSHO, the big deal is the (unknown) software.

I miss some vital things in iOS. First, I can't right/control click on an online image to get its URL. I have to hold down, "share" it to email and grab the URL there. OOPS, for focus, I disable email on the iPad. I think I tried messages and dropped that for whatever reason.

Big plus, iOS makes text selection a horror. Try dragging your finger through 20 screens. Gimme a keyboard! Command-A totally wins (or click/shift-click).

You can get command-line and unix utils only in virtual machines like a-shell.

For various reasons, I find MacOS hundreds or thousands of times more productive than iOS, and given that many iOS apps run on MacOS, that works.

Having been through chips from 6800 and 6502 to the latest, "The software is the computer" whether installed or web-based, or, if Apple trims this down to Sunray proportions, "The network is the computer."

They must choose wisely. Without Steve Jobs ...

Along those lines, I have favored a home server (a la Cobalt) to do many chores, and one could run a bunch of stuff, TBD.

Sun experience showing. Those were Sunny Days.
by jorvi | 2025-11-12 14:36:16+00:00
Bit of a lesson incoming, skip to the vinyl bit if you don't care for that:

"Dynamic range compression" is a bit of a misleading term because it sounds like you're taking an audio signal and and squeezing it.

What you're really doing is two things: reducing (compressing) the difference between the quiet (valleys) and loudest (peaks) parts, and then pushing the volume of the peaks up to or past 0dB. Technically, that second step isn't dynamic range compression, but in practice it is / was always done. The reason they do this is because for human ears, louder sounds better. However, you lose dynamism. Imagine if you watched a movie, and a whisper during a military night raid would sound as loud as the shouty conversation they had in the planning room.

Past 0dB, a signal will 'clip'[0], which means the loudest parts of the signal cannot be expressed properly and will be cut off, leading to signal loss. Basically, 0dB is the loudest you can get.

These days, in practice, music tracks get mastered so that the average value is -14dB because streaming sites will 'normalize' tracks so that the average dB is -14dB. Here[1] you can see why that makes brickwalling bad. If your track goes full tilt and has almost no valleys, the average dB per second is rather high, so your entire track gets squeezed to average out to -14dB. But if you have lots of valleys, you can have more peaks and the average will still be -14dB!

RE: vinyl? Well, too much and / or too intense motion in the groove (the groove is effectively a physical waveform) makes the needle slightly skip out of the groove. "Too much" happens with brickwalling, "too intense" happens with very deep bass. Try to imagine the upcoming links I'm referring to as a physical groove a needle has to track, instead of a digital waveform.

Here[2] is one Death Magnetic track waveform of the brickwalled original vs. fixed remastered release. It's not too bad. But then there is this[3] insanity.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXptusF7Puo / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7AbmhOsrPs

[1] https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0970/0050/files/46eacedf-c...

[2] https://happyhipster.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/0...

[3] https://happyhipster.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/0...
by simoncion | 2025-11-12 14:37:01+00:00
> We have millions of literally illiterate people living here on sketchy visas for more than a decade now.

If you listen to the propaganda, the same is true about the US. And yet, big US tech companies are constantly screaming for more Skilled Worker visa allotments. Odd.

> I’m sure an American with an IT background (degree or no degree) would not be sent away.

I'll trust the report of family who has actually been through the process over the word of someone who's figuratively hopping mad about contributing to a decent social safety net, but lacks the stones required to move off to a second- or third-rate country that has a taxation policy more to their liking, thanx. ;)
by mikkupikku | 2025-11-12 14:37:06+00:00
From what I understand, Gabe/Valve almost went bust during Half Life's development. His gamble paid off when that turned into a runaway success, but he still could have lost it when he bet again on HL2 and Steam; at the time it was extremely controversial to make those a package deal. If Half Life 2 had been not quite as good as it turned out to be, it could have turned out to be a studio with a one hit wonder that burned their goodwill with some sketchy DRM sort of scheme on their second game.
by JamesSwift | 2025-11-12 14:37:06+00:00
Blazor+MAUI has absolutely been a focus of development from the start. What Im seeing with this is that MAUI is somewhat throwing in the towel and hoping to offload to avalonia to take the torch of development. I'm sad, because I was pretty in the weeds with MAUI at the start, as I was building a greenfield app at the time. It had a ton of potential to be a reimagining of Xamarin and how it fit into the broader .net ecosystem but they just shot themselves in the foot (both MAUI team and the broader MS dev efforts).

I havent been in that space for a couple years now so maybe they have gotten better, but I doubt that. I appreciate the heroic efforts of the MAUI team, but I think its just the unfortunate reality.
by reactordev | 2025-11-12 14:37:13+00:00
My brother is a plumber and his company reimbursed him for every tool he has bought for the job. After 5 years, he started his own plumbing business and he supplies all the tools, trucks, benefits, contracts, and customer support for his employees in the field. For what it’s worth.

You can choose your tool, you’ll get it.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-11-12 14:37:29+00:00
>> Yeah, .NET is a truck and React is a bicycle

I'm not a car guy but I most certainly a bicycle lover, so I will jump on you and say you often need more than one type of bicycle. Joan commutes to work? she wants a city ebike. Dan rides at the bike park? He wants a DH bike. Randy ride centuries on the weekend on his TDF road bike and Sally rides with her kids on a mountain bike.

So yeah, we can pick one bike type and force everyone to ride it, and the results will suck & everyone hate it. Your job can be to continually force everyone to follow this policy or you can stop and we'll get a lot of variation. THis is how it happens.
by npteljes | 2025-11-12 14:38:16+00:00
I have written software to do this kind of recording on a laptop, running 4 of the stream itself (different episodes of the same show).

It opened DRM enabled browsers side by side, ffmpeg captured the video from the respective parts of the screen, and each browser's audio was piped into a different dummy output, which ffmpeg also captured of course.

The tech stack was linux, bash, PHP, php-webdriver, Selenium, Firefox, ffmpeg. So yes, this idea absolutely works! That is, until they crank up the DRM so that software screen capture doesn't work.
by mouse_ | 2025-11-12 14:39:06+00:00
Shitty software killed netbooks. That Intel Atom was more than enough to accomplish the moon landing, or produce an indie game like cave story, or run a recording studio to make music. But people didn't want to do those things, they wanted to play Roblox and watch YouTube.

Netbooks are work machines, and as usual, people don't wanna work.
by abdullahkhalids | 2025-11-12 14:39:26+00:00
The newspaper in question is Pakistan's English language "newspaper of record", which has wide readership.

For some reason, they rarely ever add any graphs or tables to financial articles, which I have never understood. Their readership is all college educated. One time I read an Op-Ed, where the author wrote something like: If you go to this gov webpage, and take the data and put it on excel, and plot this thing vs that thing, you will see X trend.

Why would they not just take the excel graph, clean it up and put it in their article?
by Aurornis | 2025-11-12 14:39:27+00:00
This was submitted with a title that doesn’t match the page and is not even accurste (Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up) is not correct. This donation page is not for the public NTP pool. It’s for the NTP Project organization and their web page.

All of the angry comments from people who think NTP will stop working if the donation bar doesn’t get to $1000 are misinformed. Also note that the bar isn’t updating. It’s been stuck at $365 for myself and others despite donations coming in.
by Ginguin | 2025-11-12 14:40:04+00:00
My first tattoos were each done years apart. I printed a version out, put it in my wallet, and saw it every time I made a purchase. If I still loved it just as much a year later, I booked an appointment.

Later tattoos are essentially private works of art, put together collaboratively with an artist. These are for ME, and no one at work will ever see any of them (or any of my other tattoos).

Each tattoo has some significance for me, but I won't judge others who just like a thing and get a thing. Tattoos are as varied as the reasons people have for getting them. Mine aren't edgy, but they also aren't visible to strangers.
by hrimfaxi | 2025-11-12 14:40:11+00:00
> It makes the case that perfecting language prediction might be the path to AGI — because to predict language well, you have to understand the world it describes.

This is an interesting concept, because in my mind, language can describe worlds beyond our own that exist only in our imagination. Like predicting a sequence of words in Alice in Wonderland or a page from House Of Leaves.

Thanks for the link!
by jrmg | 2025-11-12 14:41:01+00:00
Don’t think you deserve these downvotes. That was my reaction too. Perhaps they’re coming from people who believe that the money is to support running of time servers (which, to be fair, “Please donate to keep the Network Time Protocol up” certainly implies…)

I too would be interested in knowing what the Network Time Foundation is researching, and I think conversation about that is appropriate here. NTP certainly _seems_ like it’s been ‘good enough’ for decades to an uninformed observer, and discussing if and why it’s not would be interesting (and perhaps motivate donations!)
by kristopolous | 2025-11-12 14:41:22+00:00
Is there any endowment for such projects?

Something like money to the endowment from the big corp, then would be recipients petition the endowment for ongoing funding, some board decides based on a set of open protocols...

Because honestly I've seen this a bit recently - major infrastructure projects looking for effectively pocket change; a couple thousand.

They shouldn't ever have to beg for money, this is stupid.
by the_af | 2025-11-12 14:41:42+00:00
Hard disagree.

(Also a correction: by original I meant "Secret of" but mistyped "Curse of").

I meant Return to Monkey Island (2022), which was no more abrupt a change than say, "The Curse of Monkey Island" (1997).

Monkey Island was always "silly comic", it's its sine qua non.

People whined because they wanted a retro game, they wanted "the same style" (pixels) as the original "Secret", but Ron Gilbert was pretty explicit about this: "Secret" looked what it looked like due to limitations of the time, he wasn't "going for that style", it was just the style that they managed with pixel art. Monkey Island was a state-of-the-art game for its time.

So my example is fully within the terms of the concept we're describing: people growing attached to technical limitations, or in the original words:

> [...] examples of "fetishizing accidental properties of physical artworks that the original artists might have considered undesirable degradations"
by h14h | 2025-11-12 14:41:51+00:00
Should Google be doing more to support ffmpeg? Yes.

Should Google stop devoting resources to identifying and reporting security vulnerabilities in ffmpeg?

I cannot bring myself to a mindset where my answer to this question is also "yes".

It would be one thing if Google were pressuring the ffmpeg maintainers in their prioritization decisions, but as far as I can tell, Google is essentially just disclosing that this vulnerability exists?

Maybe the CVE process carries prioritization implications I don't fully understand. Eager to be educated if that is the case.
by masfoobar | 2025-11-12 14:41:57+00:00
???

Java was originally Sun Microsystems.

However - if Java was Oracle to begin with (and as successful in the mid-90s) then might have done some marketing for the Java+Oracle mix.

Some people (ie Managers) if they decide on using Microsoft products will likely "encourage" the use of C# and .NET. -- That is an example of C# + Sql Server.
by lunias | 2025-11-12 14:41:58+00:00
I don't think they're "sucking out souls" so much as people are giving them away willingly. No one taking notes in emacs has this problem. Why Goodnotes 6 and an iPad over org-mode and a laptop? I'm no longer interested in wasting a bunch of my time jailbreaking locked down devices, I'll just buy a PC for every use case.
by jcranmer | 2025-11-12 14:42:02+00:00
"How dare the New York Times demand access to our vault of everything-we-keep to figure out if we're a bunch of lying asses. We must resist them in the name of user privacy! Signed, the people who have scraped literally everything to incorporate it into the products we make."

OpenAI may be trying to paint themselves as the goody-two-shoes here, but they're not.
by hluska | 2025-11-12 14:42:09+00:00
The Stanford Prison Experiment only had 24 participants and implementation problems that should have concerned anyone with a pulse. But it’s been taught for decades.

A lot of psych research uses small samples. It’s a problem, but funding is limited and so it’s a start. Other researchers can take this and build upon it.

Anecdotally, watching people meltdown over the end of ChatGPT 4o indicates this is a bigger problem that 0.1%. And business wise, it would be odd if OpenAI kept an entire model available to serve that small a population.
by dzonga | 2025-11-12 14:42:55+00:00
I tried so many times to get into the .net ecosystem. I actually like f# have written a few toy things with it. but never could built anything substantial with it - as I would starting my own cement factory.

same as c# - seems asp.net comes with a lot of stuff - but to use that stuff a lot of ceremony is baked in.

with Ruby | Rails i'm one or two commands away from most things I need. I understand the language & the ecosystem.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-11-12 14:43:08+00:00
Here’s where I’m coming from: it would really suck if the outcome of all this was for ffmpeg to drop support for niche codecs.

It may be the case that ffmpeg cannot reasonably support every format while maintaining the same level of security. In that case, it makes sense for distros to disable some formats by default. I still think it’s great that they’re supported by the ffmpeg project.

I agree there would probably need to be some unified guidance about which formats to enable.