MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by somenameforme | 2025-11-05 05:31:00+00:00
I think people had rose colored glasses about Obama because he was, by far, the most charismatic President we've had in modern times. His speeches still give me goose bumps, even when I disagree with what he's saying! That man has the gift of gab. Him also being intelligent further, sadly, makes him an outlier in modern times.

But many of the things he did were dubious and ACA is a perfect example of this. It's little more than an subsidy for private insurance companies whose profits dramatically increased relatively shortly after adapting to it. Universal healthcare doesn't have to be adversarial towards private insurance, but it should not directly drive increases in profits because, especially once its mandated + subsidized, profits need to be controlled as the government is effectively guaranteeing them.

Medical loss ratios (insurers must pay a minimum percent of premium revenue on medical costs) are obviously insufficient since they do nothing to motivate lower costs. On the contrary, it directly incentivizes maximizing costs which is exactly what's happened. For one specific datum medicare administrative costs are around 2% - private insurance administrative costs start around 12%.

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Basically there is no way this was even remotely close to the most socially motivated (I don't see radical as a desirable adjective) package he could get have gotten passed. And now with the country so divided, it's unlikely we'll be getting anything better anytime in the foreseeable future, because whichever side tries to pass it will simply be opposed by the other, regardless of merit. Hopefully Mamdani isn't a complete failure, because more parties in power is perhaps one way to break the divides in society.
by hoppp | 2025-11-05 05:31:34+00:00
Crypto pretty much failed to deliver anything promising other than the original idea and its been reduced to pyramid schemes.

I say this as a builder who already had to pivot 4 times, the projects are either scams, gambling or killed by regulation.

Its not possible to have a legit ethical legal business in the ecosystem. Builders build then they realize the projects have no future and move on.
by phs318u | 2025-11-05 05:31:35+00:00
> instead it’ll normalize a new era of political extremism

That ship sailed in the Clinton era when Republicans turned a breach of workplace ethics into a coup. Every time the Republicans held any sort of power in Washington, they would keep pushing the needle to the right. There's nothing new about any of this. We are where we are because of the path we've been on.
by twotwotwo | 2025-11-05 05:32:36+00:00
There is a largish category of tools now where, unlike in OLTP systems, a big focus is scanning data but quickly (O(n) but with a good constant): Redshift, Trino/Athena, ClickHouse, DuckDB among others.

Bloom filter indexing seems like a great fit if you ever need to do substring searches in a context like that, and for log searching in general. I haven't dug into what all packages have it, but it looks like at least ClickHouse does: https://clickhouse.com/docs/optimize/skipping-indexes#bloom-...
by mechanicalpulse | 2025-11-05 05:33:10+00:00
Well that's certainly a take. Solid state relays using optoisolated MOSFETs have been around for fifty years. Mechanical relays are overkill for signal switching as in HVAC thermostats, IMHO, but you do you.

Anecdotally, I have a first generation Nest and haven't had a problem. Maybe some of the earlier hardware had fewer protection against misuse (e.g., with non-24VAC systems or otherwise incorrect installation), but that's generally the case with most new things.
by kelnos | 2025-11-05 05:33:38+00:00
The ACA was more or less the GOP's healthcare reform plan[0]. They fought so hard against it because they didn't want the Democrats to get credit for it. The ongoing animosity toward it from Republicans is ridiculous, and Democrats are even further from being able to pass any more healthcare reforms than they were when the ACA was passed. The all-too-brief excitement for Medicare For All is somewhat emblematic of that.

[0] To be fair, it did go further than previous GOP proposals. They did include individual/employer mandates and a marketplace, but not stuff like the Medicaid expansion and higher taxes on high earners to help pay for it.
by moregrist | 2025-11-05 05:34:02+00:00
When I lived in Pennsylvania, the state-run liquor stores had a monopoly on selling wine and liquor. This survived Republican and Democratic administrations for decades.

Mamdani’s proposed grocery stores aren’t a monopoly. Whether they’re a good idea remains to be seen, but they’d be competing against privately owned grocery stores. As I understand them, they’re mostly intended for areas without a local grocery store (food deserts), which seems like a reasonable thing to explore.
by monocasa | 2025-11-05 05:34:29+00:00
It's easier than most people give it credit for. A lot of the complaints are from attempts to loosen the building code. There's savings of many millions on the table per refit if they manage to pass those, but they're not as needed as people say. For instance you lay down a raised floor to run utilities, and you can push sewer away from the core for relatively cheap and without shared bath/kitchen.

That being said, a return to allowing boarding house style housing would also not be the worst thing in the world for some buildings, and would probably do a lot to reduce homelessness. Hell, if I were still in my early 20s I'd be into the idea of a room to rent with shared bath/kitchen to save some money even not necessarily requiring the reduced in unit amenities.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-11-05 05:34:35+00:00
This line of thinking died the moment that the parties began another realignment with 2024. We are in the beginnings of the 7th party system.

Curtis Sliwa was significantly to the left of both Eric Adams and Cuomo on a whole host of issues, which is one of the many reasons why Trump refused to endorse Silwa (they hate each other). If we didn't have a Sinema or Manchin, we might have liberal republicans like a Silwa who would be objectively better if you're a liberal.
by stanfordkid | 2025-11-05 05:34:57+00:00
I'm not so sure that is entirely accurate. Most of Israel's military superiority is based completely on air supremacy -- Dahiya doctrine. Even w/ F-35's this requires tons of US produced munitions (smart bombs etc). The Iron Dome system was jointly designed by US/Israel and most of the actual consumables are supplied by Raytheon.

I think it is accurate to say that if the US wanted to cripple Israel they pretty much could do so on a whim, using nothing more than sanctions. That also applies to any other non-superpower country of course. What I mean to say, we could sanction them like Russia etc. and it would probably have a much larger impact if we really wanted them to do what we want.
by defrost | 2025-11-05 05:35:09+00:00
You're mistaken in your strawmanning of my position.

I'm against the dull left V right shallow simplemindedness dominant in US forums.

I reject the notion that "ostracism mechanisms", especially in a Hollywood context, were recently "pioneered by the left".

I read comments that blather on about "liberal left", "deplorables", et al. and despair for political sanity in the US.

It's an interesting emergance of iterative dynamics that the ancient rules of elections in middle north America resulted in a Hotelling's law two party system, neither broadly representative of US citizens, when those rules were founded by people opposed to party politics who sought robust debate of a multitude of views.
by jmarcher | 2025-11-05 05:36:07+00:00
For me, on macOS, the main thing is that the subpixel layout is rarely the classic RGB (side by side) that macOS only supports for text antialiasing.

If I were to use a TV, it would be an OLED. That being said, the subpixel layout is not great: https://pcmonitors.info/articles/qd-oled-and-woled-fringing-...
by overfeed | 2025-11-05 05:36:49+00:00
> You can always do these things but you still have no cultural power

That's when you use the power of the purse to contractually bind private businesses, non-profits, universities, etc, to your preferred values. Capital beats cultural power (or so goes the current gamble)

Edit: do I need to insert hyperlinks for the strong-arm tactics this administration has tried to force contractual counter-parties to adopts it's anti-DEI culture-war posture via a clause?
by linmob | 2025-11-05 05:37:38+00:00
Please note that user reviews are only out for the FLX1, not the FLX1s, which is about to start shipping soon. That said, as they went with the same SoC, hardware enablement is hopefully going to be fine and the software will work as well as on the FLX1.

I have their FLX1 device here, but I have yet to spend more time with it (instead of my postmarketOS daily driver I am writing this on). It's humongous (the s is going to be smaller), which is holding me back - but feel free to ask questions.

What's nice is that it's 5G hardware, and as they use the (4.19 IIRC) Android kernel they have a lot of hardware working which would be a huge struggle on mainline (think photography, finger print, ...). The Android integration via a Waydroid fork is also decent (but 'basic waydroid' is IMHO fine too, the hardware just needs enough RAM), and overall, it feels quite polished and the team is responsive in adressing customer feedback where they can.
by modeless | 2025-11-05 05:38:36+00:00
> Update 2: even correcting for the fake views, traffic to Substack links from X is up substantially. (full post reads, signups, etc. also track.)

Real traffic is estimated at 3-4x higher than before, after correcting for the preloading.

https://x.com/cjgbest/status/1985852384531394916
by monocasa | 2025-11-05 05:39:05+00:00
You don't have to mandate anything of landlords. Public housing is a thing.

There are very successful examples.

And on the car side, there's plenty of very cheap new options. I can literally lease a new EV for ~$100/month. Who's voluntarily building starter homes anymore? We built fleets of those in the 50s, without the song and dance that they were luxury and required time to turn into starter homes. If anything in a lot of places, the starter homes of the 50s are the relatively expensive housing of today.
Elevenlabs-class 3B param open source TTS model
by freakynit | 2025-11-05 05:39:18+00:00
1. Natural Language Voice Control

2. 15+ Inline Emotion Tags for Expressive Speech

3. Streaming Audio Generation

4. vLLM integration

5. Runs on single GPU

https://huggingface.co/maya-research/maya1
by sunshowers | 2025-11-05 05:39:58+00:00
Shrinking is by far the most important and impressive part of Hypothesis. Compared to how good it is in Hypothesis, it might as well not exist in QuickCheck.

Proptest in Rust is mostly there but has many more issues with monadic bind than Hypothesis does (I wrote about this in https://sunshowers.io/posts/monads-through-pbt/).
Show HN: ImagineToVideo –An accessible AI video generator withVEO, Sora2
by funcin | 2025-11-05 05:40:15+00:00
Hi Hacker Friends,

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We're focused on making video creation straightforward and support three main modes:

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To balance quality and cost, we've integrated a range of models. For high-end, cinematic results, we support top-tier models like VEO 3.1 and Sora 2.

At the same time, we know those models can be expensive. To keep it accessible and reliable for more casual or high-volume use, we also offer the Kling model, which provides a great balance of quality and affordability.

Our core focus is:

Simplicity: A clean UI with no steep learning curve.

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This is a new launch, and I'd be genuinely grateful for any feedback, bug reports, or feature ideas from the HN community. Let me know what you think!
by insane_dreamer | 2025-11-05 05:40:41+00:00
presidents don't pass legislation, and the original Obamacare was too radical even for all the Dem senators, not to mention needing some GOPs to get 60 votes

Maybe, if Obama had been as ruthless as Trump and used blatant lies and targeted attacks on senators to make them so fearful of re-election that they would play along, he might have gotten it passed, though probably not even then. Plus, as much as I wish we'd had the original Obamacare, I'd rather have a watered down version with balance of powers, than a tyrannical president who cowers the legislative branch into submission.
by cookiengineer | 2025-11-05 05:40:49+00:00
Set the system language and timezone, the IP and originating ASN, to areas where APT28/APT29 is having active malware campaigns and see whether you'll receive a sample. Pretty simple.

The real question is whether they have changed their C2 behaviors since Valentine's day in 2023, and whether or not the AstraL1nvx botnet operator images are still available publicly.
by bsder | 2025-11-05 05:40:51+00:00
Extra supply is helping, but I would argue back-to-office and layoffs are the primary culprit.

You're not competing with 4+ techbros to an apartment in downtown Austin anymore.

Anecdotally, the local tech meetups are WAY off in participation since about June. About 1/3 of the people who used to regularly attend have completely left the city.
by throwaway3060 | 2025-11-05 05:42:07+00:00
Doesn't this also apply in reverse? How many supporters of Mamdani acknowledge the groups that this choice will potentially harm? I am instead seeing people usually get defensive and downplay the potential harm on the more controversial issues. I also haven't seen anyone acknowledge that if the risk goes awry, it could end up causing even more harm to exactly those the policies were supposed to help.

If the goal is to vote for one's self interest, isn't it assuming a lot that this will always be aligned with one side? Sometimes self-interest means supporting one side on one issue, and a different side on a different issue. The act of taking a side is in of itself a form of compromise. I see nothing wrong with that, but that's not what people usually mean when they talk of sides.
by mlyle | 2025-11-05 05:42:07+00:00
> then it stands to reason that by the time we reach AGI, it will already be superintelligent (smarter than humans in most domains)

> > Yes, that's more versatile than most of us, because most of us are not at or above the median practiced person in a wide range of tasks. But it's not what I think of when I hear "superintelligence," because its performance on any given task is likely still inferior to the best humans.

> AI is already better than a 50th percentile human on many/most intellectual tasks. Chess, writing business plans, literature reviews, emails, motion graphics, coding…

Note the caveat above of "with some practice." That's much less clear to me.
by monocasa | 2025-11-05 05:42:37+00:00
The 1993 HEART Act was very much like the ACA, built around the individual mandate to purchase private health insurance, primarily through your employer. Romneycare was massaged out of this.

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

This was the Republican alternative to the time's Hillarycare proposal, and was authored by the Heritage Foundation of Project 2025 fame.
by jrm4 | 2025-11-05 05:42:48+00:00
I genuinely can't believe, still, that I have to spell this out for people.

Obama did not do a U-turn. It is the worst naivete to think that what happened was "he had big ideas and he changed his mind." He had to bring up big ideas to get elected, and then he got elected the first Black president and some of you seem entirely too dense to actually grasp what that means. President. Not King.

Subject to all of those checks and balances you hear about and then some.

You people act as if he could wave a wand and just sweep away everyone and everything who was against his big ideas, when the opposite was at play.

Please, grow a better sense of politics.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-11-05 05:45:43+00:00
That's because they are kept milquetoast as a way to nullify any left-wing movement.

https://theintercept.com/2023/03/21/fbi-colorado-springs-sur...

https://jacobin.com/2018/08/fbi-infiltration-new-left-aoki-s...

https://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/1012107432/how-a-former-spy-t...

https://indypendent.org/2019/02/lessons-from-the-fbis-secret...

https://theintercept.com/2023/02/10/deconstructed-fbi-inform...
by Aunche | 2025-11-05 05:48:22+00:00
Semaglutide was approved in 2017. By cutting edge, I suppose I mean covered by patent. Luckily for Canada, Novo Nordisk forgot to pay their for its renewal.

I was just pointing to an example of why healthcare reform is politically difficult. One relevant to the ACA was ending discrimination based on preexisting conditions, which caused a majority of people's premiums to go up to subsidize those who are chronically ill. Morally, most people agree it's the right thing to do, but it was politically disastrous since one person gets one vote.
by afavour | 2025-11-05 05:48:53+00:00
As further evidence to OP’s point: people paint Mamdani as an extremist for discussing rent control but it’s already the law in NYC. It’s not even remotely new. And there were 0% increases (effectively freezes) in 2014-2016 and again during COVID in 2020.

It’s been a truly exhausting election cycle for New Yorkers who have been lectured from all sides by people who don’t even understand how the city works.
by latexr | 2025-11-05 05:48:55+00:00
The HN guidelines explicitly ask you to steel man arguments you reply to. It is obvious that the point of the comment is not sawdust specifically; they could have used anything else, like cyanide, and the point would stand. Spending multiple paragraphs of rebuttal on a nitpick which fails to address the crux of the argument is precisely the kind of bad argument the HN guidelines aim to avoid.
by BrenBarn | 2025-11-05 05:49:02+00:00
I think there's an argument to be made that many of the allegedly "radical" Democratic policies fall into an uncanny valley of wonkiness, where they're enough of a reach to get people riled up emotionally but not enough to have the kind of punchy, obvious benefits that would get people to be supporting on a similarly gut-level basis. Arguments about whether the minimum wage should be $X or $X+2 seem like accounting tournaments. There's no appetite for saying stuff like "we will seize $100 billion from the wealthiest individuals and give it to everyone else as cash payments".

The other problem is that the Democrats don't seem to realize that incremental change doesn't really work when the system of government is messed up like it is. Every little small-ball policy the Dems try to push through can just be undone later by administrative gimmicks as long as we have the level of ambiguity we do about executive power. Beyond that, they can be rolled back by countervailing legislation because the Republicans are focused on gaming the system. "Substantive" radical policies like universal healthcare are unlikely to be achievable without first enacting "procedural" radical policies like anti-gerrymandering rules or abolishing the senate.
by dluan | 2025-11-05 05:49:07+00:00
Zohran is exactly the kind of change candidate that the San Francisco machine with Grow SF would actively seek to squash.

But Zohran's not alone, today's election was a massive swing back in almost every single race. School boards, city councils, state houses and senates, all swung radically left.

It should be ringing alarm bells that the SF / YC / startup community that used to champion utilitarian, meritocratic QoL improvements as a mission, is now so deeply forked from the base that sprung today's results. Politicians like Zohran won't be bought off by Palantir money. So, what's Peter Thiel and Gary to do? Where is Marc Benioff going to park his money? Reid Hoffman, Dustin Moskovitz, Michael Moritz, Reed Hastings, Eric Schmidt, Laurene Jobs, Ben Horowitz - all of these people aren't doing the normal pay for play donations, they are interested in shaping the party in their image. Well, Zohran doesn't look like you.
by lelanthran | 2025-11-05 05:49:08+00:00
> all in all from the moment of ordering to fully operational was about 10 minutes tops.

I think this is an important point. It's quick.

When cloud got popular, doing what you did could take upwards of 3 months in an organisation, with some being closer to 8 months. The organisational bureaucracy meant that any asset purchase was a long procedure.

So, yeah, the choices were:

1. Wait 6 months to spend out of capex budget

Or

2. Use the opex budget and get something in 10m.

We are no longer in that phase, so cloud services makes very little sense now because you can still use the opex budget to get a VPS and have in going in minutes with automation.
by lisdexan | 2025-11-05 05:49:16+00:00
>This isnt even getting into hos antisemitism “the boot of the nypd on your neck was laced by the idf” should have disqualified him, that kind of antisemitic talk was only on /pol/ like 2 years ago.

Is that antisemitic? It's a fact that American cops are routinely trained by a foreign military with a track record of disregarding human rights. It's a fact that the NYPD has a recent history of police brutality. What's next? Mentioning that the US trained deathsquads in LATAM is Gringophobic?

Also I'm not that sure 4chan is worried about police brutality even if it's a excuse to say antisemitic slurs.
by darksaints | 2025-11-05 05:49:28+00:00
I have one of these cars, the last model year before they switched to carplay. The bluetooth implementation is dogshit...randomly speeding up songs, audio skipping, cutting out, etc. Occasionally forgets connections and has to be set up from scratch. Can't handle music and navigation at the same time...will turn down volume on music to handle navigation instructions, only to forget to turn the music back up for 5 minutes, by which time you've already turned up the volume to compensate and get blasted by the unexpected volume increase. And from what I can tell, my car does it better than most other manufacturers from the same era.

I think the only reason why the car makers switched to carplay/android auto is because they knew they sucked at infotainment systems and software and nobody wanted their bullshit, so they just outsourced it so they wouldn't have to try anymore.
by terribleperson | 2025-11-05 05:49:49+00:00
If you play video games, display latency. Most modern TVs offer a way to reduce display latency, but it usually comes at the cost of various features or some impact to visual quality. Gaming monitors offer much better display latencies without compromising their listed capabilities.

Televisions are also more prone to updates that can break things and often have user hostile 'smart' software.

Still, televisions can make a decent monitor and are definitely cheaper per inch.
by yesbut | 2025-11-05 05:53:56+00:00
Consider the framing today: "Trump is doing all these terrible things, making all of these drastic changes, exploiting the system to his will."

The Dems can no longer use the excuse that the president is handcuffed. Trump 2.0 is showing us what the president can do. The dems consistently use that excuse to prevent popular policies from being enacted. Obama even had a ~6mo super majority where he could have codified abortion rights. But instead they keep it around as an outstanding issue because it is a good fundraising issue.