MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lern_too_spel | 2025-11-13 05:03:15+00:00
> Note also that while they are not completely removing sideloading (for now) they are introducing further restrictions on it, including gate-keeping by them.

This blog post is specifically saying there will be a way to bypass the gatekeeping on Google-blessed Android builds, just as we wanted.

> But that kind of privacy based security model is anathema to Google because its whole business model is based on violating its users' privacy.

Despite this, they sell some of the most privacy-capable phones available, with the Pixels having unlockable bootloaders. Even without unlocking the bootloader to install something like GrapheneOS, they support better privacy than the other mass market mobile phones by Samsung and Apple, which both admittedly set a low bar.
by jojobas | 2025-11-13 05:03:22+00:00
I'm not in the US, but there sure were vaccine mandates there as well, by both private and government employers. In Australia it was even more centralized, for a time you were excluded from a great deal of life without a certificate.

It was a totally different drug with a very short term body of evidence. If pharma companies trusted them so much why did they require different liability treatment?

Just for renal side-effects, those requiring long-term treatment manifest in about 5 per million vaccinations, heart side effects even more prevalent. This is nowhere near the safety record of say MMR or DTaP.
by jasonjmcghee | 2025-11-13 05:03:58+00:00
I'll say what I've said before...

Cunningham's law states "The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it’s to post the wrong answer."

I think we're about to see a new law "The best way to find the right solution on the internet is not to ask for it; it's to post a vibe coded solution."

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That being said, you can also just ask your LLM something like "is there already a solution to this? anything else I should know?"
by AlexeyBelov | 2025-11-13 05:04:22+00:00
I don't know. You've been kinda known as a troll in /r/programming. First you were shevegen, then shevy-ruby and then shevy-java. The mods there are really, really hands-off, so it took them a loooong time to ban you (I presume they did?), which lead you to ban evasion and creating dupe accounts. Not a feel-good story.
by scorpioxy | 2025-11-13 05:04:26+00:00
It depends on the location and it depends on what services you're after. If you have private healthcare insurance, you get to skip the wait times at hospitals and get a choice of public or private hospitals. For clinics, it's a different story and can get quite detailed. The private insurance can help you with the payment there but not wait times.

For some regional and rural locations, the wait times can be better or can be worse than metro depending on the service.

By the way, I also pay out of pocket on top of the medicare rebate so my experience is not with bulk billing clinics. When you get access to medicare, you'd probably still need to pay out of pocket on top of the rebate as bulk billing clinics have all but disappeared. Recent government incentives aim to bring them back but with cost of living increases I doubt that'll work.
by musicale | 2025-11-13 05:04:37+00:00
> And as for Apple itself, they had built the first iPhone on top of ARM to begin with (partially because Intel didn’t see a market). So they were already familiar with ARM before they even started building ARM CPUs

As a co-founder of Advanced RISC Machines Ltd, Apple had a history with ARM dating back to 1990 at least:

> Arm was officially founded as a company in November 1990 as Advanced RISC Machines Ltd, which was a joint venture between Acorn Computers, Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.), and VLSI Technology (now NXP Semiconductors N.V)

https://newsroom.arm.com/blog/arm-official-history

Apple also shipped ARM-based Newton systems from 1993-98, and ARM-based iPods starting in 2001.
by verelo | 2025-11-13 05:05:12+00:00
That’s wild. I fell off my garage roof almost 2 weeks back. My wife called the ambulance, they arrived within 20 minutes. We are in rural Ontario, 30 minutes from the nearest hospital, on a dirt road that is privately owned and maintained. I expected over an hour.

I plan to make a trip in to the ambulance hall and fire hall this week and say thanks. I am ok, fractured vertebrae, but honestly i just am so grateful for the public service they provide.
by bsder | 2025-11-13 05:05:59+00:00
> What non-gaming use cases do you imagine people might use these for?

Media box under your TV? Right now I don't have a lot of options that also don't inundate me with ads.

Sure, I can build one, but if Valve can put this out at a price that makes me go "Nah. Not worth building it myself." that's a win.
by dangus | 2025-11-13 05:06:41+00:00
People use WhatsApp on the computer? From the Windows Store of all places?

Must be a tiny percentage, which is why this version is now a basic web wrapper now.

Anyway, I’d remind everyone that “using” RAM doesn’t mean “would not function with less RAM.”

Many applications just use a lot if it’s available.

RAM is not really something you explicitly ration.
by evilduck | 2025-11-13 05:06:46+00:00
Hard to swallow.

Every day I sit down at a Mac for work and proceed to launch VS Code, Zed, Outlook, DBeaver, Excel, Teams, LogSeq, Syncthing, Chrome, Firefox, LM Studio and Docker. I prefer MacOS but basically all of my application workflow exists for Windows verbatim and if using browser versions of the MS apps, on Linux too.
by Aaron2222 | 2025-11-13 05:06:48+00:00
> i can't even just install and run the docker CLI--docker on Mac requires Desktop and commercial use of Desktop requires a license.

That's not on Apple. Docker needs the Linux kernel (for Linux containers), so it's no different to needing something like Docker Desktop to use Docker on Windows. Yeah, Docker changed the license on Docker Desktop, but there's plenty of alternatives (Podman Desktop, Rancher Desktop, Colima, Apple's own container tool, or just running a Linux VM in Lima).
by svnt | 2025-11-13 05:07:05+00:00
People holding your current naive viewpoint is why we have professional societies with the power to remove licenses/disbar.

Someone who takes the hippocratic oath and then behaves in this manner is not fit to be a caregiver. Medical care is about more than technical competence.

I’d hate to see the state of the flattened world you seem to be arguing for. Please go read about the origins of professional standards.
by softgrow | 2025-11-13 05:08:29+00:00
I don't think my taxes/insurance costs/donations to charity are high enough. London (donation funded) has a helicopter service that attends 6 serious trauma cases a day. Denmark, Germany and others has a Helicopter Emergency Medical Service which delivers a senior doctor and paramedic. It probably doesn't scale well.

Basic issues like overhead powerlines make life difficult for helicopters. They are used in rural Australia as an alternative to road, but only due to time saving. In a city, well you get a road ambulance/paramedic/medical team.

The (Melbourne) Victorian Ambulance Cardiac Arrest Registry claims third best in the world in out of hospital cardiac arrest.
by miki123211 | 2025-11-13 05:09:30+00:00
I would like a world where I have the final say over whether I should have a final say.

One way to achieve this is to only allow sideloading in "developer mode", which could only be activated from the setup / onboarding screen. That way, power users who know they'll want to sideload could still sideload. The rest could enjoy the benefits of an ecosystem where somebody more competent than their 80-year-old nontechnical self can worry about cybersecurity.

Another way to do this would be to enforce a 48-hour cooldown on enabling sideloading, perhaps waived if enabled within 48 hrs of device setup. This would be enough time for most people to literally "cool off" and realize they're being scammed, while not much of an obstacle for power users.
by jsunderland323 | 2025-11-13 05:09:39+00:00
Thanks! I think we want to get good enough to take over the front end and your IDE is there for backend things but I think it’s a long road to get to that place. For now I feel comfortable promoting that it’s great for small tweaks and style changes but I think it would be pretty disingenuous to tell anyone to ditch their IDE at this point. With that said, we keep building features to make the full IDE dream a reality.
by canucker2016 | 2025-11-13 05:09:44+00:00
There were several reports during the pandemic about lack of ambulance service in Toronto:

- 2022 - https://www.blogto.com/city/2022/01/toronto-ran-out-ambulanc...

- 2023 - https://www.blogto.com/city/2023/10/paramedics-raise-alarm-c...

from the 2025 Program Summary for Toronto Paramedic Services, https://www.toronto.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/8d5d-2025-...:

- Page 3

- Avg 90th Percentile response times have gone from 12 minutes in 2019 & 2020 to 14.5 mins in 2024 and almost 15 minutes as a 2025 target: (12.1, 12.1, 13.0, 14.2, 14.0, 14.5, 14.8)

- staffing is up more than 50% in that time, while number of patient transports is up just 10% during that same timeframe

- Page 4

- scary graphic - graph concerning Daily Hours with < 10% available ambulances

- 2019-2020 - Daily Average - 0 hours, 43 minutes

- 2021 - Daily Average - 2 hours, 29 minutes

- 2022 - Daily Average - 5 hours, 57 minutes

- 2023 - Daily Average - 4 hours, 33 minutes

- 2024 - Daily Average - 4 hours, 9 minutes
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-13 05:10:12+00:00
> in the name of "increased security" they've needlessly turned it into a binary thing where it's completely unprotected

Why isn't a binary condition valid? Isn't that the ethos inherent to a literal walled garden?

If you're inside, trust us. If you're outside, you don't, but don't expect us to bail you out.
by grogenaut | 2025-11-13 05:10:37+00:00
yet it can help. no direct counter stats to your stats but different data: https://www.mediconefoundation.org/whyandhowtohelp/ https://newsroom.uw.edu/news-releases/study-spotlights-cardi...

getting compressions going and getting an AED onboard is the focus of this program. that means getting people and responders trained on CPR + AED.
by rrwright | 2025-11-13 05:11:40+00:00
I posted a link to an important Claude Code bug here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45910257 with the original title of "Claude Code Introduces Off-by-One Errors"

It made it to the front page at about #11. Then apparently the editors renamed it to the (less interesting/more convoluted) title of the page it linked to. I didn't cause or approve that change. Why does HN rewrite my post? Is it because it was negative to Claude Code?

Original: https://pasteboard.co/xTjaRmnkhRRo.png

HN edited it to: https://pasteboard.co/rDPINchmufIF.png
by gpt5 | 2025-11-13 05:11:44+00:00
Melbourne has an excellent ambulance response time (defined from the moment 000 call is received to when the first ambulance resource arrives on scene):

* Average Code 1 response time: 12 minutes 47 seconds

* Code 1 responses within 15 minutes: 77.2%

* Number of Code 1 first responses: 12,375

This places Melbourne among the faster councils in the state, and well ahead of the statewide average response time.

Source: The Victorian Parliamentary Budget Office’s 2025 report: https://static.pbo.vic.gov.au/files/PBO_Ambulance-funding-an...
by goku12 | 2025-11-13 05:12:11+00:00
That 'moderation' is in the same spirit as 'Enhanced Interrogation Techniques' at Guantanamo Bay, 'Administrative Segregation' in US prisons or Russia's 'Special military operations' in Ukraine. Tomayto, tomahto.

Disclaimer: To anybody getting ready to be offended by these references, don't be selectively blind to the word 'spirit' above. If you still can't make it out, I'm obviously referring to euphemisms here and no additional equivalences are implied. Anything else you attribute to my statement reflects your own views and is your own responsibility. It's such a shame that I have to explain such basic facts with a disclaimer that's longer than the comment itself. But the reality is that some people are so sensitive that they insist on imposing their version political correctness to not just implied speech, but also to unimplied speech, language and even thought, while totally disregarding others' cultural perspectives. I leave this here just in case I have to explain my intentions to someone again.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-11-13 05:13:01+00:00
Don't think of the uncaught type as a "mega" throw. It's just a distinct type of error that nobody specified that they can handle. If you truly worry about the caller missing something, then somewhere in there you can catch anything and translate into a recognizable exception. This is easiest to understand in a library. The interface functions can catch all and translate into one particular exception type for "unknown" or generic errors. Then, that will be caught by anyone using the thing as documented. This only works if it's just reporting a non-fatal error. In case of a fatal error, it can't be handled, so the translation is kind of pointless.
by buyx | 2025-11-13 05:13:37+00:00
My grandfather died at a hospital in South Africa in 1997 after experiencing chest pain. Apparently, he went to reception, and they told him and my uncle to take a lift/elevator up to the ward, and he died in the lift. I was told afterward that it's a no-no to exert oneself during a heart attack. No idea if that's true or not.

Anyway, not second guessing OP, just putting it out there.
by bonsai_spool | 2025-11-13 05:14:35+00:00
> People holding your current naive viewpoint is why we have professional societies with the power to remove licenses/disbar.

> Someone who takes the hippocratic oath and then behaves in this manner is not fit to be a caregiver. Medical care is about more than technical competence.

> I’d hate to see the state of the flattened world you seem to be arguing for. Please go read about the origins of professional standards.

So much pathos—I was responding to an illogical set of statements.

People holding your current naive viewpoint is why we have professional societies with the power to remove licenses/disbar. - or maybe the evidence was insufficient?

> hippocratic oath

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath

I don't see a comment about research standards. Let's stick to rationality here, please.

> I’d hate to see the state of the flattened world you seem to be arguing for.

Exactly the opposite of what I am asking.

> about the origins of professional standards.

The suggestions of your comment have been falling flat, so I'm not going to take this ill-defined assignment. If there are logical statements you wish to provide, please do.

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Again, the OP did not say anything about malpractice. Had the OP done so, I would have made no comment.

The incidental prior incidence of alleged research fraud has no a priori bearing on why OP did not like this person.
by BrenBarn | 2025-11-13 05:15:06+00:00
Complying with the law is just another way of protecting your money. I have no doubt if they would break laws if they judged it better for the bottom line --- in fact I have little doubt they're already doing so. On the flip side, if there were ruinous penalties for their anticompetitive behaviors (i.e., in the tens or hundreds of billions of dollars) they might change course.

Certainly voters need to have their say, but often their message is muffled by the layers of political and administrative material it passes through.
by hekkle | 2025-11-13 05:15:31+00:00
I get that you're mad, and rightly should be for an invasion of your privacy, but the NYT would be foolish to use any of your data for anything other than this lawsuit, and to not delete it afterwards, as per their request.

They can't use this data against any individual, even if they explicitly asked, "How do I hack the NYT?"

The only potential issue is them finding something juicy in someone's chat, that they could publish as a story; and then claiming they found out about this juicy story through other means, (such as a confidential informant), but that's not likely an issue for the average punter to be concerned about.
by Aaron2222 | 2025-11-13 05:15:45+00:00
> Apple Silicon won’t run unsigned apps anyway.

Technically true, but misleading. The macOS kernel won't execute an Apple Silicon binary that doesn't have a signature, but as Apple documents, an ad-hoc signature is enough to meet that requirement. That won't get you past Gatekeeper, but that's no different to how it is with unsigned Intel binaries.
by abound | 2025-11-13 05:16:26+00:00
In defense of OpenAI in this particular situation, GPT 5 can be incredibly jargon-y at times, making it much worse of a learning tool than other LLMs. Here's some response snippets from me asking a question about dual-stack networking:

> Get an IPv6 allocation from your RIR and IPv6 transit/peering. Run IPv6 BGP with upstreams and in your core (OSPFv3/IS-IS + iBGP).

> Enable IPv6 on your access/BNG/BRAS/CMTS and aggregation. Support PPPoE or IPoE for IPv6 just like IPv4.

> Security and ops: permit ICMPv6, implement BCP38/uRPF, RA/DHCPv6 Guard on access ports, filter IPv6 bogons, update monitoring/flow logs for IPv6.

Speaking like a networking pro makes sense if you're talking to another pro, but it wasn't offering any explanations with this stuff, just diving deep right away. Other LLMs conveyed the same info in a more digestible way.
by scorpioxy | 2025-11-13 05:17:03+00:00
I don't understand where you got that I am saying public health care systems are flawed. Both systems have pros and cons. And I have seen the "going to take time" phrase for quite a long time now and so don't think it holds any value anymore.

In terms of affordability which you also referenced in a separate comment, I disagree. Compared to some prices I've seen in the US, it is cheaper. Compared to other countries I've experienced, it is more expensive. Comparing private and public systems is not straight forward and I don't think this adds any value to the discussion.

In terms of attributing failure to correct sources, Victoria hasn't had a "they"(who you're claiming gimped our public system) for many years now but I am not interested in a discussion about politics.
by toast0 | 2025-11-13 05:19:00+00:00
> in many states it's legal for the contractor to drive from the passenger seat.

I doubt they're driving from the passenger seat. It's hard to reach the pedals from the passenger seat. Many mail delivery vehicles in the US are right hand drive; the driver's seat is on the right. I don't know that left hand drive is strictly required by any states, it's more a matter of there's not many models available for sale in the US with right hand drive as an option, and few people order them when available; and importing out of market RHD cars is a chore.

You can (or could) order some Jeeps in RHD, and a lot of rural USPS contractors have RHD minivans (many from the Japanese Domestic Market)

I did see a 'converted' RHD Windstar (Ford minivan) on FB Marketplace, where they removed the driver seat, put a flat platform in, and connected controls with cables and levers. That's an option too, I guess.
by mmis1000 | 2025-11-13 05:19:33+00:00
Even just have direct access to hardware apis is already a big win. On Oculus quest. The closest you can get is running with webxr. But webxr suffer from all those performance problem of web platforms. (And bug of meta softwares. The recent quest browser have bug that prevent you from disabling spatial audio, rendering it not usable for watch video at all)
by svnt | 2025-11-13 05:20:05+00:00
It is not alleged research fraud. It is admitted fraud. The person is saying they sensed something wrong with her. Dishonest behavior is often discernible in advance if you know what to look for.

> Jamal now takes full responsibility and “regrets having exposed patients to the risk of harm by enrolling them in studies which had no value.”

There is no pathos in my comment. Your statement is literally naive.
by Ajedi32 | 2025-11-13 05:20:17+00:00
Which is an unacceptable loophole in our legal system that should be closed immediately as far as I'm concerned. If I buy a product, even if that product is software, then I own it, and I should have ultimate control my copy of it.

The idea that we allow companies to go "Yes, you paid for this product, but it's not really yours. We still control it and can do whatever we want with it regardless of what you want." is asinine.
by onlypassingthru | 2025-11-13 05:20:37+00:00
The state has an incentive to encourage callers to wait for trained emergency drivers. Nobody wants mom in a panic and flying through red lights at the intersections. Or worse, my former teacher drove himself to the ER while in the midst of a heart attack rather than wait for an ambulance. He didn't survive the attack but made it to the hospital without incident.

edit, to add this old gem: "I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather. Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car."
by lern_too_spel | 2025-11-13 05:20:55+00:00
> Google can then require highlighting things like number of downloads and developer reputation by 3rd party appstores

F-droid doesn't want to track number of installs because that is an invasion of privacy.

> require developer verification, but also allow third party appstores like f-droid that don't require verification

Now you've moved the problem from Google gatekeeping apps to Google gatekeeping app stores. We don't want either.
by aquafox | 2025-11-13 05:21:15+00:00
Having gone through the explainations of the Transformer Explainer [1], I now have a good intuition for GPT-2. Is there a resource that gives intuition on what changes since then improve things like more conceptually approaching a problem, being better at coding, suggesting next steps if wanted etc? I have a feeling this is a result of more than just increasing transformer blocks, heads, and embedding dimension.

[1] https://poloclub.github.io/transformer-explainer/
by phil21 | 2025-11-13 05:21:33+00:00
I’ve thought about this a decent amount.

My opinion has shifted over the years. At first I also thought it was largely just sour grapes re: accessibility and fear of the unknown, but now I’m thinking that a large number of people are going to be so far deep into anti-GLP opinions and hot takes they can’t backtrack out of it. Much like political or social beliefs you make into your identity. Too embarrassing to admit you might be wrong.

I know you’re alluding to the same thing, it’s just interesting to me someone else in the world seems to share these thoughts. I also think it may really delineate a multi-generational class divide that is hard to break.

Or all the folks on GLP-1s will develop some rare form of cancer and die early leaving the world to the so-called haters.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-13 05:21:36+00:00
> which is a surprise given all the criticism against that particular aspect of ChatGPT

From whom?

History teaches that the vast majority of practically any demographic wants--from the masses to the elites--is personal sycophancy. It's been a well-trodden path to ruin for leaders for millenia. Now we get species-wide selection against this inbuilt impulse.
by AlbertoGP | 2025-11-13 05:22:53+00:00
> Then apparently the editors renamed it to the (less interesting/more convoluted) title of the page it linked to.

It is part of the submission guidelines:

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by thaumasiotes | 2025-11-13 05:23:30+00:00
> there cannot exist an easy way for a typical non-technical user to install “unverified apps” (whatever that means), because the governments of countries where such scams are widespread will hold Google responsible.

What, the same way they hold Microsoft responsible for the fact that you can install whatever you want in Windows?

Obviously, there can exist an easy way for a non-technical user to install unverified apps, because there has always been one.