MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rmunn | 2025-11-13 03:52:11+00:00
yt-dlp doesn't need to be installed, you can download the binary from GitHub and run it without installing. You might say that a restricted environment really really should prevent running binaries just downloaded from the Internet, and I agree (malware could do many nasty things to a user's home folder without needing to request admin access), but some people think merely preventing admin access is enough. So for anyone under that kind of restricted computing environment, yt-dlp used to run just fine until Google's changes to Youtube forced them to add a Deno requirement. (Though I haven't yet checked if Deno could also be run without installing.)
by makeitdouble | 2025-11-13 03:52:29+00:00
> the governments of countries where such scams are widespread will hold Google responsible.

This argument is FUD at this point.

Sovereign governments have ways to make clear what they want: they pass laws, and there needs to be no back deal or veiled threats. If they intend to punish Google for the rampant scams, they'll need a legal framework for that. That's exactly how it went down with the DMA, and how other countries are dealing with Google/Apple.

Otherwise we're just fantasizing on vague rumors, exchanges that might have happened but represent nothing (some politicians telling bullshit isn't a law of the country that will lead to enforcement).

This would be another story if we're discussing exchanges with the mafia and/or private parties, but here you're explicitely mentionning governments.
by estearum | 2025-11-13 03:52:40+00:00
Not sure where you're commenting from, but there were no mandates in the US.

> The vendors themselves didn't trust the new vaccines the same as old one, why should anyone else.

Not sure what "didn't trust the new vaccines the same as the old one" is supposed to mean. It's a totally different drug with a totally different body of evidence. The pharma companies trusted them in that their high-quality, gigantic clinical trials came back with some of the best safety and efficacy data we've ever seen in any drug trial ever.

> "Pretty much any drug of the market" is a big stretch

No, it's actually not. Even the most "common" serious adverse effects are so rare that the clinical trials would've needed to be orders of magnitude larger than the largest clinical trials ever conducted in order to detect them.

This has held true even scaled to billions of doses.
by gryfft | 2025-11-13 03:52:48+00:00
This just doesn't seem like it takes probability into account. Getting someone to the hospital fast is almost always going to be better than waiting, and moving someone isn't usually inherently damaging if they don't have a spinal injury. In the context of a heart attack, it seems indisputable to me that it is better to drive if you have a safe and sober driver available.
by jodrellblank | 2025-11-13 03:52:49+00:00
> "as the proof proceeds, the cardinality of the set of possible answers [1] decreases"

In the sense that it cuts off part of the search tree where answers cannot be found?

member(X, [1,2,3,4]), X > 5, slow_computation(X, 0.001).

will never do the slow_computation - but if it did, it would come up with the same result. How is that the polar opposite of brute force, rather than an optimization of brute-force?

If a language has tail call optimization then it can handle deeper recursive calls with less memory. Without TCO it would do the same thing and get the same result but using more memory, assuming it had enough memory. TCO and non-TCO aren't polar opposites, they are almost the same.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-11-13 03:53:27+00:00
Really a pity the Nimble alliance was skewered by the lawyers. But nice that there's so many excellent works to improve data storage. Vortex looks great. F3. Many others. https://db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2025/zeng-sigmod2025.pdf https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45437759
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-11-13 03:53:45+00:00
My vent: I have very mild cerebral palsy- it affects my left hand and left foot slightly. But properly conditioned, I’ve run half marathons and ended up in the middle of the pack and I’ve been a gym rat and in above average shape all of my adult life.

That being said, anytime I’m looking on the web doing research, the first thing you find are lawyers looking to sue doctors. I absolutely hate that’s the first thing parents think about to blame doctors. Some times things just happen.
by jazzyjackson | 2025-11-13 03:54:02+00:00
gifting sums of money to someone to solve their problems can significantly complicate relationships, have you tried it? Unless theyre a close intimate that is genuinely able to accept a gift you'll end up with someone who feels indebted to you or the opposite, sees you as a bank account or a fallback for next time they're in need. I've seen it between parents and children, between friends, between strangers, debt complicates things. That's what I like about money, it's used to settle debt so you don't owe anything to anyone.

And people hate it when somebody buys a run down building in a poor neighborhood and "invests" in it because now you're making it unaffordable

Edit: I'll give you "pay your employees more", that's a fairly uncomplicated way to distribute windfall wealth, but now you've just passed the buck to them! ;)
by tombert | 2025-11-13 03:54:20+00:00
My main game console right now is one of those little gaming boxes you can buy on Amazon for about $400, where I have installed NixOS + Jovian to get the "SteamOS" interface.

I really like it. It really does feel like a "game console"; usually when I've made my own console using Linux, it always feels kind of janky. For example, RetroPie on the Raspberry Pi is pretty cool, but it doesn't feel like a proper commercial product, it feels like a developer made a GUI to launch games.

I have like 750 games on Steam that I have hoarded over the years, in addition to the Epic Games Store and GOG, which can be installed with Heroic, and the fact that I can play them on a "console" instead of a computer makes it much easier to play in my living room or bedroom. It even works fine with the Xbox One controllers; I use the official Microsoft USB dongle to minimize latency, it works great.

I think there actually is a chance that Valve could really be a real competitor, if not a winner.
by gdulli | 2025-11-13 03:54:20+00:00
Economically "conservative", socially liberal. The richest among the right get what they want in gaining wealth from the rest, but they lose at preventing acceptance of interracial marriage, homosexuality, etc. because that social progress can't be stopped. But losing those causes is also a win for them in that they wield the fear of it to win votes to stay in power to stay rich.
by lone-cloud | 2025-11-13 03:54:23+00:00
Holy, your machine is a beast. 96GB of VRAM is pretty insane. I've been running a single 16GB VRAM AMD GPU. At the bottom of Gerbil's readme I listed out my setup where I use a 27b text gen model (gemma 3) but you'll be able to use much larger models and everything will run super fast.

Now as for your question, I started out with LM studio too, but the problem is that you'll need to juggle multiple apps if you want to do text gen or image gen or if you want to use a custom front-end. As an example, my favorite text gen front-end is "open webui" which gerbil can automatically set up for you (as long as you have Python's uv pre-installed). Gerbil will allow you to run text, image and video gen, as well as set up (and keep updated) any of the front-ends that I listed in my original post. I could be wrong but I'm not sure if LM studio can legally integrate GLP licensed software in the same way that Gerbil can because it's a closed source app.
by stocksinsmocks | 2025-11-13 03:55:08+00:00
No doubt. I’m sure NYT sees an opportunity to buy a few more years of life support by pickpocketing the conductor of the AI gravy train. When Sam Altman and the Sulzbergers fight though, as a normal person, my hope is that they destroy each other.

I think the winner are Chinese (and by extension OSS) models as they can ignore copyright. A net win, I think.
by 3eb7988a1663 | 2025-11-13 03:57:04+00:00
Current estimate is that some 5.6 billion people took at least one dose of a COVID vaccine[0]. You would think that if there severe complications, we would have seen them in, I don't know, hundreds of millions of people by now. Any day now, I am sure those people will all get super cancer and/or turn into zombies.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/people-vaccinated-covid?c...
by bonsai_spool | 2025-11-13 03:58:03+00:00
> if you want to have a care-taker who doesn't mind lying or is a psychopath, you do you but it's a no go for me.

We've gone from accused of research fraud to psychopath.

My original point is that I don't see how the effort to produce new knowledge has any bearing on the appropriate management of diabetes/thyroid hormone.
by Izkata | 2025-11-13 03:58:08+00:00
> Not sure where you're commenting from, but there were no mandates in the US.

Oh yeah there were: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccination_mandates_...

In particular:

> In September 2021, the employees of all federally-funded Medicaid and Medicare-certified health care facilities, and Head Start program facilities, were required to be vaccinated, as ordered through the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).[33][34][31] Companies with more than 100 employees could either require vaccination for all (and give their workers four hours' paid time off for their vaccination appointments); or require any unvaccinated employees to wear masks and be tested weekly for COVID-19, according to an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Emergency Temporary Standard.[35][36] These two policies together —federally-funded healthcare facilities and large companies— would apply to 100 million workers and were scheduled to take effect on January 4, 2022.[32]

The healthcare one happened, while the OSHA one went through multiple appeals before they abandoned it (details on the page). Biden even went on record telling companies to start implementing it in preparation for when they got through the appeal.
by dathinab | 2025-11-13 03:59:12+00:00
my guess is it will be mostly the same as for the SteamDeck but with

- Game Mode becoming getting a not Steam Deck specific desktop version, which I would love to see, e.g. last time I installed Bazzite+Steam Game mode, the Game Mode will default to 1080p even if your GPU can render 4k ...(easy to fix in the options menu, tho. But not very convenient.).

- slightly different defaults, tweaks, builds (e.g. AFIK not to long ago if you tried to put SteamOS on a desktop with RDNA3 graphics it didn't work. But they seem to more or less just use a standard linux graphic stack, so it's probably was just something on the line of "as it's not expected the parts needed for RDNA3 wheren't compiled in/shipped in the SteamOS for SteamDeck image)
by theamk | 2025-11-13 03:59:22+00:00
You mean a modern construction with semiconductor-based SMPS, but tube for output? If so, plenty of those, here is hit #2 in my google search for "guitar tube amplifier": "Orange Micro Terror" [0]. This one take 15V DC input - no way you can get this to tubes without some sort of SMPS.

Or do you mean why people who do period-authentic tube amps don't use SMPS? That's because tube-based SMPS is very complex, often as complex as amplifier itself, and needs unusual parts [1].

[0] https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/MicroTerror--orange-...

[1] https://www.righto.com/2018/09/glowing-mercury-thyratrons-in...
by kragen | 2025-11-13 04:00:02+00:00
I asked GPT-5 Mini and it said, in part, "some studies find clinicians update more when evidence is clear and actionable (better calibration), others show clinicians exhibit the same biases as laypeople (e.g., positivity bias, anchoring). Results depend on task design, sample, and how “evidence” is presented. (...) Experimental psychology and related fields show measurable differences in how some doctors update beliefs—many update appropriately to clear, high‑quality evidence and some update better than average—but there is no simple universal claim that all doctors are more willing than the average person to change their minds. The evidence supports a nuanced conclusion: clinicians can be more evidence‑responsive in domain‑relevant tasks, but updating varies widely and is strongly shaped by task framing, institutional context, performance level, and incentives."

But that's because GPT-5 Mini's responses are strongly shaped by task framing and context. You can get it to say just about anything as long as you stay away from taboo areas.

It did refer me to a lot of books, and the ones I looked up did in fact actually exist, but none of them seemed to be relevant.
by quamserena | 2025-11-13 04:00:50+00:00
Absolutely. Party has no leadership. The progressive wing has been organizing their base, protesting, and calling congressional offices, trying to encourage centrist Dems do something. They finally do this but then get fold immediately when the market starts to dip and flights get canceled. The progressive wing will now proceed to spam call their offices, protest book tours, and call for Chuck Schumer to step down. Rinse and repeat at the next deadline on Jan 30.

If Mamdani’s victory is anything to go by it’s that the centrist Dems are toast. They will get primaried. They know this, it’s why the fall guys that voted to end the shutdown are not up for reelection during the midterms.
by jaggederest | 2025-11-13 04:01:26+00:00
There's a lot of interesting research on paramedics vs emts (I believe the term of art is basic life support vs advanced cardiac life support). In areas where there is a good ER, it's better to have low level basic life support and break the sound barrier to the ER than do significant intervention on site but slow arrival at the hospital, as far as I am aware.
by bruce511 | 2025-11-13 04:02:31+00:00
I get that in some societies there is a quick journey from something bad, to someone-to-blame. In litigious societies this means a quick trip to sue someone, anyone...

What's interesting to me is that in societies not prone to blame, or lawsuits, it can be much easier to have human interactions without being inhibited by legal fear.

Accepting that people make mistakes makes progress simpler. I recently had a medical issue which would have turned out simpler had he run a specific test earlier. I'm not the litigious sort (and I'm not in a society that is litigious) so I can now go back to him and we can discuss the mistake so he doesn't make it in the future.

I accept he's not perfect. I seek his development not his censure.

This is outside the US. No doubt inside the US fear of lawsuits would make this feedback untenable.
by yongjik | 2025-11-13 04:02:31+00:00
FWIW, I think focusing on healthcare was the right strategy. It apparently worked for the election! (Too bad the Democratic "leaders" folded immediately; it's as if they're deathly afraid of actually winning.)

The average American voter has the attention span of a goldfish. (Or at least, those who matter do; everyone else has already made up their mind and won't switch.) You won't get them by talking about constitutional limits of the executive branch, Trump ignoring congressional oversight, and such. Remember that there are people who googled "did biden drop out" on Nov 5, 2024.
by nradov | 2025-11-13 04:02:51+00:00
I support subsidies to help low-income citizens who legitimately can't afford health insurance, but some of the temporary ACA subsidies passed in 2021 were ridiculous. They were handing out cash to early retirees as young as age 55 with incomes over 400% of the poverty line.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/17/aca-enhanced-subsidy-lapse-g...

I don't want my tax dollars wasted on subsidizing them. Give the money to someone who actually needs it.

(Of course the real problem is healthcare costs accelerating out of control. Insurance subsidies won't fix that problem. In fact they make it worse by encouraging healthcare providers and drug companies to raise prices even faster.)
by godelski | 2025-11-13 04:03:02+00:00
You could definitely do this E2EE.

Models should run in ephemeral containers where data is only processed in RAM. For active conversation a unique and temporary key-pair is generated. Saved chats are encrypted client side and stored encrypted server side. To resume a conversation[0], decrypt client side, establish connection to container, generate new temporary key-pair, and so on. There's more details and nuances but this is very doable.

How Mullvad handles your data, for some inspiration: https://mullvad.net/en/help/no-logging-data-policy

> Conversations are kept around because they can be picked up and continued at any point (I use this feature frequently).

I'm not sure why this is a problem. There's no requirement that data at rest needs be unencrypted. Nor is there a requirement that those storing the data need to have the keys to decrypt that data. Encrypted storage is a really common thing...

> Additionally you can use conversations in their scheduled notification feature, where the conversation is replayed and updates are sent to you, all done on the server.

For this we can use the above scenario, or we can use a multi-key setting if you want to ping multiple devices, or you can have data temporarily decrypted. There is still no need to store the data to disk unencrypted or encrypted with keys OAI owns.

Of course, I also don't see OAI pushing the state of Homomorphic Encryption forward either... But there's definitely a lot of research and more than acceptable solutions that allow data to be processed server side while being encrypted for as long as possible and making access to that data incredibly difficult.

Again, dive deep into how Mullvad does it. It is not possible for them to make all their data encrypted, but they make it as close to impossible to get, including by themselves. There doesn't need to be a perfect solution, but there's no real reason these companies couldn't restrict their own access to that data. There's only 2 reasons they are not doing so. Either 1) they just don't care enough about your privacy or 2) they want it for themselves. Considering how OpenAI pushes the "Scale is All You Need" narrative, and "scale" includes "data", I'm far more inclined to believe the reason is option 2.

[0] Remember, this isn't so much a conversation in the conventional sense. The LLMs don't "remember". You send them the entire chat history in each request. In this sense they are Markovian. It's not like they're tuning a model just to you. And even if they were, well we can store weights encrypted too. Doesn't matter if a whole model, LoRA, embeddings, or whatever. That can be encrypted at rest via keys OAI does not have access to.
by trnglina | 2025-11-13 04:03:05+00:00
Healthcare is one of the exclusive powers of the provinces, as laid out in the constitution. There are things the federal government can do, such as provide money, but provincial leaders complaining about lack of federal involvement do so in bad faith; they would certainly complain louder if the federal government overstepped their bounds. It's worth pointing out that taxation and borrowing are also constitutionally protected powers of the province.
by syntonym2 | 2025-11-13 04:03:11+00:00
The article missunderstands the futurelock problem. It assumes that the mutex is a "normal" blocking mutex and that the future blocks. This is not the case: The future does cooperate and returns the control back to the `select!` call. The problem is that the `select!` call does not have access to the future that holds the lock, so it cannot make progress.
by Marshferm | 2025-11-13 04:03:45+00:00
If biology operated this way animals would never have evolved. This is bunk, it has nothing to do with intelligence and everything to do with hyping the oxymoronic/paradox branded as spatial intelligence. It's a flimsy way of using binary to burn energy.

Senses do not represent, if we needed them to in order to survive, we'd be dead before we never saw that branch, or that step, etc. This is the same mistaken approach cog-sci took in inventing the mind from the brain.

The problem is the whole brain prior to sensory and emotional integration is deeply involved so that an incredibly shallow oscillatory requirement fits atop the depth of long-term path-integration, memory consolidation involving allo and egocentric references of space and time, these are then correlated in affinities by sense emotion relays or values. None of this is here, it's all discarded for junk volumes made arbitrary, whereas the spaces here are immeasurably specific, fused by Sharp Wave Ripples.

There's no world model in the instantaneous shallow optic flow response (knowing when to slam on brakes, or pull in for a dive) and in the deep entanglements of memory and imagination and creativity.

This is one-size fits all nonsense. It's junk. It can't hope to resolve the space time requirements of shallow and deep experiences.
by nostrebored | 2025-11-13 04:03:50+00:00
I find this to be an insane argument. I have never seen a k8s environment that wasn’t a garbage heap. But everyone is eager to tell you what a nice can they’ve found next to the rotting banana.

Onboarding new team members? A disaster. The design? All done by one dumpster diver with nobody to call them out on the mistakes because they have no idea what the hell is happening.

I’ve never seen a k8s shop where there weren’t a few principal engineers being roped from incident to incident because teams couldn’t manage their own.

With cloud providers, even ones we don’t use, people have a general idea of how the primitives work. With any reasonably skilled team you get back to talking about how your product works instead of talking about persistent volume replication for Postgres backups or the differing file system behavior or what cli everyone should be using to manage your entire company’s software or how to stop someone from deleting the entire of everything you own or or or
by kami23 | 2025-11-13 04:04:08+00:00
I appreciate you trying it! So at least I care.

I used to do these in college to procrastinate my homework. I always had the most difficulty with the problems that required data structures I wasn't exposed to previously and ended up making really complicated solutions that were inefficient as hell, but fun nonetheless.

I might give them a try with golang now that it's my preferred language. I used to do them in python as that was our intro language.
by Magi604 | 2025-11-13 04:04:13+00:00
So I don't know exactly how Toronto operates their ambulance service, but unless the family gave some bad details, the calltaker should have gleaned that they were likely dealing with a case of cardiac-related chest pain, and that's right at the top of the list of severe emergencies, regardless of how far along it has progressed, at least over here anyways.

I should add I feel a little queasy about dissecting this blog post for details. It seems more like a cathartic exercise for the author rather than some breakdown review of how the incident went, so it seems like some details were left out on purpose.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-11-13 04:04:50+00:00
Yeah. And in general, not taking a potshot at who you replied to, the only people who place citations/peer review on that weird faux-intellectual pedestal are people that don't work in academia. As if publishing something in a citeable format automatically makes it a fact that does not need to be checked for reason. Give me any authoritative source, and I can find you completely contradictory, or obviously falsifiable publications from their lab. Again, not a potshot, that's just how it is, lots of mistakes do get published.