MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eqvinox | 2025-11-05 14:18:52+00:00
> […] outcomes of non-fatal strangulation in domestic and sexual violence.

> […] However, no studies used formal neuropsychological assessment: the majority were medical case studies or based on self-report. Furthermore, few authors were able to control for possible confounds, including other physical violence and existing psychosocial difficulties.

So, not only is this not about consensual sex, but rather violence — and therefore inapplicable to consensual activities — but also built on very shaky grounds. The latter might be unavoidable in researching domestic/sexual violence cases, but the former just makes this paper completely useless in discussing consensual activities.
by beeboop0 | 2025-11-05 14:18:53+00:00
as work / token (engine efficiency) increases, because agents are getting smarter, my agent (locomotive) count is increasing, because I find more uses for smarter agents, and my overall token use is increasing.

what's odd is we must take this back to literal coal in order to complete the analogy. tokens are ethereal; energy inputs are not.

cost / token is decreasing while model performance stays roughly the same or gradually improves. cost is a rough proxy for tons of coal consumed.

I think smarter models is what's driving greater coal use overall.
by u_sama | 2025-11-05 14:19:01+00:00
UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy all have laws curtailing speech with egregious application.

- A 64-year-old pensioner man faced charges for antisemitic posts and for calling a politician a "professional idiot."

- Interior Minister Nancy Faeser reported multiple citizens to police for criticisms made on social media. In one case, a journalist published a satirical meme digitally altering a photograph of Faeser holding a sign reading "I hate freedom of speech" — and was prosecuted and given a seven-month suspended sentence.

- In 2017, 19-year-old Chelsea Russell quoted a line from Snap Dogg's song "I'm Trippin'" on Instagram: "Kill a snitch nigga, rob a rich nigga." She was charged with sending a "grossly offensive message." Despite being Black and posting in tribute to a deceased 13-year-old friend, she was convicted, fined £585, and subjected to a curfew and ankle monitoring.

- Lucy Connolly was convicted and sentenced to two years and seven months in prison for posting during anti-immigration riots that she hoped someone burned down a hotel containing asylum seekers. She later deleted the post.

- France has applied existing discrimination laws to criminalize BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) activists, treating anti-Israel speech as incitement to religious discrimination. The Court of Cassation ruled BDS boycott calls violated French law.

- Senator Miguel Castells wrote an article claiming the government was failing to investigate murders. He was convicted of insulting the government and sentenced to a year in prison. The European Court of Human Rights ruled his right to free speech had been violated, after which Spain's Constitutional Court developed case law providing greater protection to free speech.

- The satirical magazine El Jueves published a comic strip featuring images of the current King and Queen of Spain, which the public prosecutor's office held to be defamatory. A judge agreed to seizure of the publication.

All western countries btw, Norway falls in the North European country
by abustamam | 2025-11-05 14:19:12+00:00
In my circles of news and friends, plenty of people are actively hating against politicians and policies that make our lives worse, or who spout dangerous rhetoric (and do nothing else but that).

Usually it's just Trump, but my local congressman gets a lot of hate too.

Sometimes it is just "orange man bad" but cmon building an opulent ballroom and remodeling a bathroom in marble and having a grand old Halloween party while millions of Americans have no idea how they're gonna have their next meal is some Marie Antoinette shit. Sure that's not really a "policy" per se but it sure makes it look like he doesn't give a shit about policies that actually help the American people.
by terminalshort | 2025-11-05 14:19:13+00:00
I don't have to explain because judges will do it for me: https://www.whitecase.com/insight-alert/two-california-distr...

On summary judgment too, which means the plaintiffs really had no case. Not surprising because it's the most obvious fair use ever under transformative work. So obvious that I have a hard time taking arguments to the contrary seriously and just assume they are driven by bitterness. Not that anything I have ever heard on that side actually rises to the level of an argument. Your opinion, and everyone else on this thread that agrees with you, falls under your own statement:

> Seems you keep repeating the same stance all over thread, without a single explanation why your opinion should be a valid one.
by Aurornis | 2025-11-05 14:19:43+00:00
The individual pixels on a 60 inch 8K TV are the same size as the pixels on a 30 inch 4K computer monitor. Most 8K TVs are even bigger than that, so their individual pixels are already easier to manufacture than your average 4K monitor or laptop screen.

You can’t compare large TVs to medium size computer monitors.
by abdusm | 2025-11-05 14:19:49+00:00
Hospital bills are especially confusing - pages of codes, huge numbers, zero transparency.

This was built to help:

- Upload your bill PDF or enter CPT codes

- Shows typical costs based on Medicare rates (adjusted for your area)

- Flags billing red flags:

• Duplicate charges

• Unbundling violations (charging separately for bundled procedures)

• Common coding errors

- Gives you questions to ask the billing office

Just caught someone's $400 overcharge: bill had both the complete EKG code (93000) AND the split technical/professional codes (93005 + 93010). You should only be charged one way.

Everything runs in your browser - no data leaves your computer, no signup.
by benmmurphy | 2025-11-05 14:20:00+00:00
> it’s pretty inhuman as a society to leave people to suffer and die because they can’t afford healthcare.

this is mostly about drawing a line between the tradeoffs of costs and the benefits of increased lifespan and better quality of life. almost no-one actually believes all of societies resources should be committed to healthcare to achieve some small marginal health gain. claiming people are inhuman because they want to draw the line differently is messed up.
by TechRemarker | 2025-11-05 14:20:20+00:00
Doubt they would have been considered “goodwill”. Investors would complain they are doing their fiscal responsibilities. Customers and companies would complain they didn’t do it soon enough and still didn’t do enough. And if people started having issues with their phones because of side loading they would not blame themselves they would blame Apple for allowing them to do so and potentially hurting the brand. Vision Pro as a test of hardware capabilities seems to be going as one would expect at the current price points. Once they release their first consumer focused glasses as an accessible price point, that will be the real test of the product category.
by conductr | 2025-11-05 14:20:26+00:00
Also an acceptable solution. This is usually where the next step is have a BI type person just create a report for finance. Many reasons but what will end up is different people are filtering/retrieving the data differently causing inconsistencies.

But Usually finance is always preferring on demand access so the communication feedback loop of asking for stuff is not well liked so I’m sure they appreciate this middle step too.

There are many cases where there’s no easy way to give access to the data and a human in the loop is required. In that case, do the shared workbook thing I mentioned as a starting point at least. It may evolve from there.
by Buttons840 | 2025-11-05 14:20:34+00:00
This is how the bubble pops.

I've been thinking the AI bubble wouldn't pop, because even the AI advances we've already seen can change the majority of industries if it is carefully integrated with existing technology. But if there's a mass movement to use older and/or smaller models, then yeah, all the money going into newer bigger models will pop.

Or, maybe the training datasets getting polluted with AI slop will mean that new models are worse than old models. That would pop the industry.

Or, maybe the GPT-4 era was the golden era for AI, and making them bigger and better is just overfitting (in the classical machine learning sense of the word) and is both worse and more expensive. This would pop the industry too.

I guess there's a few ways for the industry to pop, but this trend of using older models makes me especially skeptical of AI.
Show HN: In the Office Tracker
by jryan49 | 2025-11-05 14:21:10+00:00
Hello HN! I wanted to share my free, *native*, MacOS app that uses Wifi scanning to automatically keep track if you're in the office or not! It let's you keep track of your RTO requirements to make sure you don't get in trouble :)

If people really like it I can make an iOS version and an Android version and a Windows version and a Linux version.

After RTO, we all started using spreadsheets to track our time, but I hated having to remember to go into that spreadsheet every day and mark when I was in or not. So, I decided to waste months learning Swift UI to make this app instead! Please share your RTO stories below if you need some catharsis :)

It's my first time making a "real" app. I'm by day a Java backend engineer.

https://intheofficetracker.com
by TulioKBR | 2025-11-05 14:21:11+00:00
Pelo seus comentários da pra perceber e ter a certeza de que eu já achava.. você é só mais um. O projeto está aí, mesmo que você diga que seja alucinação.. abra o repositório faça o commit ( se souber por que pelo seus comentários acho difícil) em seguida dê seu prompt. Depois me diz aqui.. ou pode apenas ler os componentes e como foram criados( se souber ler também) o problema é que se fosse uma empresa como Lovablle que provavelmente você usa, lançar algo assim você aplaudiria... mas como é claramente um brasileiro, do seu mesmo país, você falando algo que não sabe tendo a oportunidade de testar isso para mim só diz uma coisa VOCÊ É UM QUALQUER.

Abra, faça commit, faça seu teste totalmente gratuito e se a arquitetura que o sistema gerar for comum como qualquer outra IA cria, você está certo.. eu estou alucinando junto com IA.. mas para mim que já uso a minha plataforma, você é só mais um falador e provavelmente sem competência.
Listen to YouTube in the background on iOS (Free)
by pandora-health | 2025-11-05 14:21:43+00:00
1. On the latest iOS, Safari, open target video (not via YouTube app) 2. From that video, open any video that’s offered under the target 3. Quickly perform the following: go back to the target and at the same time switch to the next tab in the safari browser (use swipe to switch).

Video should keep playing in the background, even when you lock and turn off the screen.

I also use uBlock origin / DNS blocking.
by microtonal | 2025-11-05 14:22:03+00:00
For app stores specifically, I don't think people would get apps from other App Stores. Alternative App Stores have been possible on Android, some manufacturers even include their own store (Samsung), but only a tiny subset of users installs apps from another app store or from outside the app store.

For me personally, it is mostly an escape hatch for developers and users. It will keep Apple honest, because if they really mess up the platform, people have the possibility to go elsewhere.

I think the bigger risk for Apple is allowing other payment options within apps that are distributed through the App Store (which I believe is now allowed in the EU among other places)? I think the app store is very sticky, but a lot of people would pick another payment option if is ~30% cheaper.
by uxp100 | 2025-11-05 14:22:16+00:00
No. Most carriers have free phone promotions regularly. I paid $0. I think the phone before that was also $0. No impact on my bill (since I was already on the unlimited 5g super speed blah blah blah plan, these promotions serve as a way to get people into the all the bells and whistles $80 plans)
by dspillett | 2025-11-05 14:24:29+00:00
That method isn't entirely reliable either: all come out at “question mark in a box” (Chrome, Edge) or “codepoint hex in box” (FF) on the old Win10 box that I'm currently trying to retire. The come out find on a similarly default Win11 setup.

While the issue here is Win10, it shows that the problem is client font sensitive so it might affect others too (perhaps those running old-but-still-supported Linux distro releases with default fonts).
by benmmurphy | 2025-11-05 14:24:34+00:00
I would be very surprised if taxes on tobacco did not cover the increased costs to the State from tobacco users. When I last looked at it tobacco users were dying early before they imposed huge costs on the State during their old age years and this produced an enormous saving to the State. This was ~20 years ago and we might be much better at keeping people alive and this has changed the calculus.
by ethbr1 | 2025-11-05 14:24:57+00:00
> It isn't insurance if the provider can't consider risk factors for the policy though.

Insurers are welcome to consider risk factors... for populations in aggregate.

It turns their actuarial models into population-subset models instead of individual models.

Which is easily the most "fair" (to individuals) option.

Allowing insurers to consider individual risk factors (preexisting conditions, genetics, etc.) would make the advertising data mining industry seem quaint. And I don't think any American wants to live in that world.

So we can talk about whether insurers should be able to offer lifestyle incentives (yes!), preventative care incentives (yes!), and be backed by catastrophic reinsurers (like mortgages, maybe)... but enrolling people blindly is one of the best things ACA did.

(Unless one happens to be young, rich, family-less, healthy, and have no moral compunction about fucking others over for ones own benefit)

Also, important unremarked benefit of ACA -- capping maximum insurer "administration" costs.

Firsthand from inside the industry as it was implemented, I can tell you that drove efficiency improvements inside insurers, as they couldn't bill for broken, slow, manual processes in additional premiums.

Granted, it caused other problems (attempts to self-deal and harvest profits through quasi-related provider / pharmacy entities or Medicare Advantage), but it did focus insurers on being efficient facilitators.
by surgical_fire | 2025-11-05 14:25:07+00:00
> If you strongly feel that AI is doing analysis and decision-making at a level which is comparable to human executives

I am more inclined to believe that than the fable that AI can operate at Junior Engineer level.

Especially considering how many times the job of a CEO seem to be to string together a word salad to please shareholders to make line go up.

String together word salads to foster a given sentiment is the specialty of AI.
by marcuskane2 | 2025-11-05 14:25:27+00:00
There are a lot of misunderstandings in this post. I'll try to explain a few of them, which maybe can help realign your whole understanding.

For starters, American insurance has a "maximum out-of-pocket" amount, which means the maximum you can possibly pay for healthcare costs. My plan, from just a regular unknown company doing boring things, has a maximum out of pocket of $5k for an individual. So there's no scenario where I'd ever benefit from spending "a couple tens of thousands of dollars" because even if I spend the whole year in an ICU bed at a cost of millions of dollars to the hospital, I only pay $5,000.

Also, "a lot of people either bankrupt themselves, and end up paying much more than that" doesn't make sense. Declaring bankruptcy means you don't pay the debt, you wouldn't pay a lot AND declare bankruptcy. You'd see the amount was too much to pay, declare bankruptcy, and have the debt wiped out.

Keep in mind that millions of Americans have essentially no assets that aren't protected in a bankruptcy (car, home and retirement accounts are generally safe). It's not like millionaires are going bankrupt from medical costs, it's people who had nothing to begin with declaring bankruptcy when they got hurt while uninsured and going back to zero (instead of negative).

The real problem of the US system isn't the subsidies for the poor, it's the opaque, convoluted billing system between insurance companies, pharmacy benefit managers, and providers. Billions of dollars are siphoned out of the system as profit to insurers and hundreds of millions are wasted on salaries for the bureaucracy of managing the billing system.
by danaris | 2025-11-05 14:25:51+00:00
Because of Manchin and Sinema, the people broadly saw the Democratic Party as ineffective and unwilling to actually try to enact their policies.

This is a part (far from all, but a real part) of why they turned to someone who claimed to be willing to get things done—even if he had to break rules to do it.

I'm not going to say that I wish those seats had been filled by Republicans, instead, because I don't know how much worse that would have made things. It's very possible that we still would've gotten 2 Trump terms even so.

But I don't think it's fair to paint them as unquestionably better, when the second-order effects are real, and, while impossible to measure, potentially devastating.
by halfcat | 2025-11-05 14:26:02+00:00
This works at most one time. If you show up to every board meeting and blame AI, you’re going to get fired.

This is true if you blame a bad vendor, or something you don’t even control like the weather. Your job is to deliver. If bad weather is the new norm, you better figure out how to build circus tents so you can do construction in the rain. If your AI call center is failing, you better hire 20 people to answer phones.
by pnutjam | 2025-11-05 14:26:08+00:00
This looks pretty informative. The terminology can be hard to follow. https://medium.com/@bounouh.fedi/understanding-iops-in-aws-w...

I/O is hard to benchmark so it's often ignored since you can just scale up your disks. It's a common gotcha in the cloud. It's not a show stopper, but it blows up the savings you might be expecting.
by eqvinox | 2025-11-05 14:26:28+00:00
> If your partner asked you to stab them in the belly as a sexual kink, would you do so?

If they could reasonably argue that it were a safe practice, of course I would. Why wouldn't I? Except that argument can't be reasonably made. But it can be made for limited levels of sexual choking play. I specifically asked:

"But does it cause more damage than smoking? Alcohol? Cannabis in young people?"

And without a quantitative answer to this, the entire discussion is hot air and prejudice.

And I cannot help but noting that your way of argument is literally item #1 of Eristic Dialectic: The Extension. These methods are neither productive nor welcome.
by gruez | 2025-11-05 14:26:35+00:00
>Amazon sold products at a loss for years in order to capture market share

Selling at a loss on a cost of goods sold basis, or the entire business as a whole? I'm aware of the latter but not the former. The latter also isn't obvious "abuse", because it would include all sorts of market entrants, including eg. intel trying to enter the GPU space and making a loss because of R&D.
by atcon | 2025-11-05 14:26:55+00:00
Many use cases come to mind. If (retinal?) identities were private, encrypted, and “anonymized” in handshake:

web browsing without captchas, anubis, bot tests, etc. (“human only” internet, maybe like Berners-Lee’s “semantic web” idea [1][2])

Non “anonymized”:

non-jury court and arbitration appearances (with expansion of judges to clear backlogs [3])

medical checkups and social care (eg neurocognitive checkups for elderly, social services checkins esp. children, checkins for depressed or isolated needing offwork social interactions, etc.)

bureaucratic appointments (customer service by humans, DMV, building permits, licenses, etc.)

web browsing for routine tasks without logins (banks, email, etc)

[1] <https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/06/tim-berners-le...> [2] <https://newtfire.org/courses/introDH/BrnrsLeeIntrnt-Lucas-Nw...> [3] <https://nysfocus.com/2025/05/30/uncap-justice-act-new-york-c...>
by zerkten | 2025-11-05 14:27:17+00:00
You can nerf network performance in the browser devtools or underprovision a VM relatively easily on these machines. People sometimes choose not to and others are ignorant. Most of the time, it's just the case that they are dealing with too many things that are vague making it difficult to prioritize seemingly less important things.

A number of times I've had to have a framing discussion with a dev that eventually gets to me asking "what kind of computer do your (grand)parents use? How might X perform there" around some customer complaint. Other times, I've heard devs comment negatively after the holidays when they've tried their product on a family computer.
by terminalshort | 2025-11-05 14:27:56+00:00
It's not murky in the slightest. It's so obviously legal fair use that every judge who has seen it so far has ruled so on summary judgment. That's the legal term for "your case is so bad I'm not even going to allow you to waste more of my time on it." https://www.whitecase.com/insight-alert/two-california-distr...
Show HN: Wosp – advanced full-text search on the command line
by atrettel | 2025-11-05 14:28:09+00:00
Hi, I'm Andrew Trettel. I'm a scientist and researcher. I wrote Wosp to help me search local documents using Boolean and proximity operators.

Wosp is a command-line program that performs full-text search on text documents. Wosp stands for word-oriented search and print. It is designed for advanced searchers. It works differently than line-oriented search tools like grep, so it can search for matches spanning multiple lines. Wosp supports an expressive query language that contains both Boolean and proximity operators. It also supports nested queries, truncation, wildcard characters, and fuzzy searching.

The linked GitHub repository contains all of the code to try out the program. I also wrote a blog post (https://www.andrewtrettel.com/blog/wosp/) that discusses my motivations for creating Wosp in more detail, along with some additional technical discussion and diagrams.

If you give Wosp a try, I'd appreciate any comments or feedback you have about the experience.
by dangus | 2025-11-05 14:28:10+00:00
I would like to ask why even fight the battle?

Philosophically I am with you, e-waste and consumerism are bad, but pragmatically it is not worth punishing yourself from a dollars and cents standpoint.

You can jump on Amazon and buy a mini PC in the $300 range that’s got an 8 core 16 thread AMD 6800H CPU, 16GB RAM, 500GB SSD, basically a well above-average machine, with upgradable RAM and storage. $240 if you buy it on AliExpress.

You can grab a MacBook Air M2 for around $500.

Why suffer with slow hardware? Assuming that using a computer is at least somewhat important to your workflow.
by resonaX | 2025-11-05 14:28:14+00:00
A quick clarification and some context on how the “AI twin” actually works.

- Each twin isn’t just a generic chatbot. - It’s grounded in real behavioural data + psychology frameworks (like MBTI and DISC) that are matched with customer roles and communication patterns.

For example:

If your real customers tend to be data-driven “analyst” types, the twin reasons and responds that way.

If they’re more visionary “driver” types, the twin reacts to emotion and ROI triggers.

So instead of random AI answers, you’re getting responses that mirror how your actual buyers think and decide — built from your CRM, LinkedIn, and conversation data.

I’m particularly curious how others here would:

Combine multiple buyer types into a “composite twin” (like 10 VP Marketing profiles)

Add validation loops that make the twin’s reasoning evolve with more data

Integrate open-source behavioral models rather than proprietary ones

Appreciate all feedback — especially from those who’ve worked on LLM fine-tuning, agent memory, or customer simulation before.