MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by stickfigure | 2025-11-13 04:43:41+00:00
That response time is better than where I live, in the country about an hour north of Oakland. Paramedics are about 30m away. We're a volunteer district and I'm a volunteer, but when I get paged it takes a few minutes for me to get dressed, 5m to get to the station, a few minutes to get the engine started, and ? mins to get to the incident. Realistically, the minimum response time is 15m.

Sounds like you keep medbags at home and respond directly to the incident in personally owned vehicles? That's a neat idea. Does everyone have a medbag?
by d0ublespeak | 2025-11-13 04:43:42+00:00
With seeing a doctor we have two main systems that you can use and each will have a different waiting time. Bulk-billing and the fully public option has longer waiting times because there aren’t enough clinics/specialists or doctors, The reasons for this are complex but they stem from an unwillingness from prior governments to raise the amount the government pays for each service to adequately to support this system meaning less doctors and practices being willing to support it.

You’ve then got practices/specialists etc… that charge copays and they tend to have less waiting times because less people are willing to pay copays. A lot of these practices will also do outright private billing which is what you’re experiencing.
by TheRoque | 2025-11-13 04:44:16+00:00
> Laptops have lots of components that the Steam Machine doesn't have. The screen, keyboard, touchpad, cameras, microphones, speakers, battery, et cetera are all fairly small costs, but they add up. Plus using a Linux-based OS instead of Windows automatically knocks around $50 off the price because the price doesn't include the cost of an OEM Windows license.

Yet's all the mini PCs I've come across are more expensive than their laptop equivalent

Because it's also about the demand, and how much you can mass produce them to reduce the cost
by visarga | 2025-11-13 04:44:19+00:00
There is a huge point - those prompts have answers, followed by more prompts and answers. If you look at an AI answer in hindsight you can often spot if it was a good or bad response from the next messages. So you can derive a preference score, and train your preference model, then do RLHF on the base model. You also get separation (privacy protection) this way.
by fulafel | 2025-11-13 04:45:03+00:00
Smells like floating point. Python prompt:

>>> int(float('348555896224571969')) 348555896224571968

It just exceeds the mantissa bits of doubles:

>>> math.log2(34855589622457196) 54.952239550875795

JavaScript (in)famously stores all numbers as floating point resulting in silent errors also with user perceived integers, so this might be an indication that Claude Code number handling uses JS native numbers for this.
by bonsai_spool | 2025-11-13 04:45:30+00:00
> if she's willing to destroy evidence to avoid criticism, > ts her willingness to lie in the face of failure.

This was not presented in the original post. My question was, why is alleged research misconduct a disqualification?

Also a panel of this person's peers decided she merited reinstatement.

> If a patient of hers dies or starts to decline, she could falsify cause.

Not something that is happening in outpatient endocrinology.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-11-13 04:46:51+00:00
Downvotes is a tiny faction

3 versus 190+, so far

Many commenters cannot distinguish rhetorical questions from questions that seek an answer

By attempting to answer a rhetorical question one may only strengthen the point being made by the question, for example, poor decision-making, and may reveal an absence self-awareness
by metadat | 2025-11-13 04:46:52+00:00
Are there any entities on earth with resources to compete with a complicit global duopoly?

If Android is open source, why can't/won't a community fork it? Graphene OS exists but many folks claim Netflix and banking apps do not work with it (despite allowing logins from any common desktop browser)?

If all widely-accepted phone operating systems are de-facto proprietary, what does this say about the current phase of society?

What choice do non-billionaire/millionaire humans have for living in a single-planet society where technology is so highly integrated (and the inherent non-consensual compromises)?

What If the little people are going to get squeezed even more?

Troubling questions.
by fenomas | 2025-11-13 04:47:00+00:00
Chatgpt.com is essentially a CRUD app. What you're saying here amounts to saying that it could conceivably have been designed to work dramatically differently from all other CRUD apps. And obviously that's true, but why would it be?

It's a website! You submit text, that you'll view or edit later, so the server stores it. How is that controversial to a HN audience?

Also:

> the clients don't need to be running at the same time if you have a third device that's always on

An always-on device that stores data in order to sync it to clients is a server.
by CGamesPlay | 2025-11-13 04:47:16+00:00
Claude Code is simultaneously the most useful and lowest quality app I use. It's filled with little errors and annoyances but succeeds despite them. Not to mention the official documentation is entirely vibe-copywritten and any quality control is cursory at best.

It forcibly installs itself to ~/.local/bin. Do you already have a file at that location? Not anymore. When typing into the prompt, EACH KEYSTROKE results in the ENTIRE conversation scrollback being cleared and replayed, meaning 1 byte of new data results in kilobytes of data transferred when using Claude over SSH. The tab completion for @-mentioning is so bad it's worthless, and also async, so not even deterministic. You cannot disable their request for feedback. Apparently it lies in tool output.

It truly is a testament to the dangers of vibe coding, proudly displayed for everyone to take an example from.
by jmyeet | 2025-11-13 04:47:54+00:00
I remember as a kid seeing the first photos of Uranus and Neptune from the Voyager probes. What's sad to me is they remain to this day the only time we've ever visited these ice giants. There have been a number of proposals over the years but none have been selected and it seems like 2045-2050 is the soonest we could get to Uranus (more for Neptune) but that pretty much requires a launch by 2034 and we've pretty much run out of time for a mission to be selected to that window given that it would be a complex and expensive flagship mission. I guess it depends on whether it's a flyby (like New Horizons) or an intercept mission, which would take substantially longer.

Obital mechanics are a funny thing however. You see this with the complicated BepiColombo trajectory to Mercury [1] that requires multiple passes on Venus. Mercury orbits at ~48km/s (compared to Earth's 30km/s). Fun fact: the escape velocity of the Sun is 42km/s so it's easier to leave the Solar System than intercept Mercury.

One difficulty is there aren't large gas giants to slingshot or brake around.

Uranus's orbital velocity is ~6.8km/s so it's both really far and requires a ton of delta-V to slow down to intercept.

Anyway, I digress.

So Voyager 1's speed seems to be ~17km/s, I guess relative to the Sun. People talk about the time required for interplanetary (let alone interstellar) travel but we can do much better than this with relatively near-future technology.

We need a whole bunch more Earth-orbit space infrastructure and industry to do anything, really. Lower launch costs in particular. I think this future is orbital rings [2]. This would revolutionize getting stuff into orbit but also launching vehicles to other planets. Basically you accelerate on the inside of the ring at ~2G with magnetic levitation to counter the linear momentum. You can reasonably get ~15km/s with this, adding to the EArth's 30km/s ideally so even without fuel you can get to ~45km/s.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK3F4fmqtbA

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMbI6sk-62E
by bonsai_spool | 2025-11-13 04:48:03+00:00
> "all of this is a non sequitur" ... I'm just speechless here. You're so completely off base there's not even any point arguing with you.

I am very specifically responding to the post I saw when I made my post.

Here is an example for the HN crowd.

"I really dislike my pointy-haired-boss project manager. He is unreasonable and terrible at management.

I learned that he was investigated at a previous job in computer science algorithmic research at a University—before he ever worked in industry—and ultimately found not liable for this. I am convinced that this is why I dislike my PHB"

---

> I also replied above, so at risk of overextending myself in this thread: you are either too lacking in discernment to effectively have this conversation, or you are willfully arguing in bad faith. You are describing completely different scenarios.

I can't respond to this comment—but if I am "arguing in bad faith" yet responding rationally, we truly cannot have a discussion.
by leeoniya | 2025-11-13 04:48:28+00:00
ok, i dont get it.

on my phone at typical distance and 90 scale i only see about an asprin tablet size area spinning. but at 180 scale i see almost everything spinning at same distance.

i think peripheral vision is quite sensitive to movement/contrast changes, but the moving shapes have to be large enough to trigger those receptors?

not sure what to conclude from this.
by alyxya | 2025-11-13 04:48:50+00:00
This seems to be a software bug and not something about model behavior, though the model is in some sense doing the wrong thing by internally evaluating what the echo command should output rather than saying what the output actually is.

Edit: Based on the above comment showing javascript numerics behavior changing, it's more like some unusual interaction with the numeric string in the bash command being interpreted as an integer and running into precision issues.
by etchalon | 2025-11-13 04:49:19+00:00
They alleged it in point 4?

"Defendants have refused to recognize this protection. Powered by LLMs containing copies of Times content, Defendants’ GenAI tools can generate output that recites Times content verbatim, closely summarizes it, and mimics its expressive style, as demonstrated by scores of examples. See Exhibit J. These tools also wrongly attribute false information to The Times."
by ThatPlayer | 2025-11-13 04:49:43+00:00
The controllers won't have lighthouse tracking though. The IR tracking is the headset tracking the controller's IR LEDs, which the Index controllers do not have. It might be possible to have the headset IR track the lighthouses, and then use the old Index controllers, which also track the lighthouses.

There's also tools to calibrate the different tracking methods together, but that seems less than ideal.
by grogenaut | 2025-11-13 04:50:17+00:00
Like most things, it gets pretty complicated. I went through 200 hours of training (EMT) which essentially helps me sort into what makes me go safe, go fast to a medic en route or a hospital, and go fast to a hospital (where a paramedic can't help much or at all). The goal of all Emergency medical personnel is to get people to definitive care (not EMS).

Asking a lay person to know what a BLS (non-EMT fire & police), EMT (Ambulance), Parmedic, or MSO can take care of, or even what the differences are, is, I don't think, super useful. The red vehicle shows up and takes you to care.

In the case of MCI, EMTs can a) give aspirin or nitro (rx), b) have an AED and lots of CPR training but have to stop the vehicle to give effective compressions, c) a radio and the ability to meet up with Paramedics.

Paramedics have more complex treatments (drugs) and EKGs, but it's still 2 folks in a truck, not a hospital. They can do amazing things.

But as the joke goes, sometimes the best treatment is High Volume Diesel Therapy (burn rubber).
by CGamesPlay | 2025-11-13 04:50:40+00:00
Looks like it has to be the full tool output to be coerced:

> Can you run this through bash: echo '348555896224571969 plus 2 is 348555896224571971' Bash(echo '348555896224571969 plus 2 is 348555896224571971') ⎿ 348555896224571969 plus 2 is 348555896224571971
by Maxatar | 2025-11-13 04:51:39+00:00
My understanding is that ISS is not self-sustaining even in principle. It consistently needs to be resupplied with water and breathable air as the station continuously leaks it. These resupplies happen about once every month or two. This article goes into quite a few details about what would be needed for actual self-sustainable human space exploration and it looks like there's quite a few engineering challenges to work out.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/space-technologies/arti...
by efitz | 2025-11-13 04:52:01+00:00
This is not a criticism of the author of the article; I can feel their frustration and the pain of their loss but I don’t have anything to say that can ameliorate that.

I’m coming up on 60 years old. The mindset that many people have now seems to be to wait for someone from the government to help them- whether it’s ambulance, police, health care, food assistance, college, whatever.

Back in the 80s when I was coming of age the mindset among the people around me was different. The mindset of many people today seems more “I’m helpless”.

The government has never been good at anything; it doesn’t have the right organizational incentives and doesn’t give the right personal incentives to employees. I’m not criticizing government employees; there are individuals that do a great job, and from time to time I am delighted with an interaction, but mostly it’s just lots of waiting for mediocre service.

I don’t know how to change a widespread mindset of helplessness, but I suspect that it involves changing laws to remove all the obstacles that government and lawsuits have put in place to helping yourself and helping others.
by amomchilov | 2025-11-13 04:52:50+00:00
Typed exceptions are unlike typed parameters or return values. They don’t just describe the interface of your function, but expose details about its implementation and constrain future changes.

That’s a huge limitation when writing libraries. If you have an old function that declares that it can throw a DatabaseError, you can’t e.g. add caching to it. Adding CacheError to the list of throwable types is an API breaking change, just like changing a return type.

Swift has typed errors now, but they shouldn’t be used carefully, and probably not be the default to reach for
by mmis1000 | 2025-11-13 04:53:17+00:00
I'm sure you can develop using the consumer hardware. I'm sure you can develop using the consumer hardware.

> It depends though. Some console's devkit have memory or vram larger than consumer device. So it will allow un-optimized dev version of the softwares to run without crash. (And allow you to check what part goes wrong later instead of immediately fix it) Although you will need to test the production build on retail device eventually, it will make development easier.
by bediger4000 | 2025-11-13 04:54:21+00:00
Lines 175, 180, 185 have some extremely weird structs, that do not make sense in today's C language. Back in 6th Edition C, all struct fields were in the same namespace, so you could use '->lobyte' or '->hibyte' on any pointer you cared to. Good stuff, I'm sure it made for very interesting bugs.
by treetalker | 2025-11-13 04:54:32+00:00
> Listen — people be askin' me all the time, "Yo Mos, what's gettin' ready to happen with hip-hop?" (Where do you think hip-hop is goin'?) I tell em, "You know what's gonna happen with hip-hop? Whatever's happening with us." If we smoked out, hip-hop is gonna be smoked out. If we doin' alright, hip-hop is gonna be doin' alright. People talk about hip-hop like it's some giant livin' in the hillside, comin' down to visit the townspeople. We are hip-hop. Me, you, everybody, we are hip-hop.

— Mos Def on Fear Not of Man

The brain on psychedelics is a bit like that.
by dang | 2025-11-13 04:54:41+00:00
Ok, we moved the Steam Machine comments to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45903404,

... the Steam Frame comments to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45903325,

... and the Steam Controller comments to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45905703.

Assuming I triaged them all correctly.

Edit: and what the hell, moved the Half Life jokes to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45908464.
by cweagans | 2025-11-13 04:55:43+00:00
> Like not documenting their hardware?

They aren't actively hindering that reverse engineering effort. They aren't _helping_ either, but I didn't claim that they were helping. For as long as I can remember, Apple's stance with Mac computers has been "We sell the computers to you in the way we think is best. If you want to tinker, that's on you." and I don't think that has materially changed.
by frm88 | 2025-11-13 04:56:34+00:00
I don't see that you can do a lot as an individual. Sure, open source software for now as an alternative, but the subscription economy is taking over a world which has reached a certain level of market saturation. There's only so many e. g. Office solutions you can sell. As soon as that curve flattens, or threatens to flatten, a new form of revenue source is needed. Preferably one where control over the participants shifts from consumer to provider, because this model allows for a steady increase in profits, for example by hiking up rent every year or so. This will spread from media to consumer goods like cars etc. in no time. Car as a service is coming. As with everything vaguely political, control is the keyword here and to make line go up, it cannot rest with us.
by SyzygyRhythm | 2025-11-13 04:57:23+00:00
I've found that quite a lot of cheap keyboards cannot register a T when shift-R are being pressed. If I always used the standard QWERTY finger positioning, this wouldn't be a problem, because my index finger could not be on both R and T at the same time. But when typing a word like (all-caps) SMART, I tend to use middle-index to quickly type the RT, and R is still depressed when I hit the T. So the T does not register.

Most decent keyboards don't do this, but even there I've seen exceptions. Very annoying.
by CGamesPlay | 2025-11-13 04:57:33+00:00
No, I'm not sure about the precise mechanics of it, but I noticed it because of the huge flash when using it over a somewhat laggy SSH connection. It doesn't happy in all contexts. I've definitely seen it when typing into the new-ish Claude "ask questions about the plan" flow, and I've also noticed that it redraws the entire conversation history when each new line of output is presented in a long-running tool call.
by xyzzy_plugh | 2025-11-13 04:58:48+00:00
Healthcare funding is managed provincially and the Ontario government has been poorly managing the system, pretty consistently, for over a decade. Some would argue decades, but things do seem to be steadily declining post Covid, as they were pre-Covid. Over the last few years, several ERs have been experiencing intermittent closures, and at least one was closed permanently, due to staff shortage.

What's worse is that the closures are poorly communicated. I know of at least two people who, within the last couple of years, went to an ER only to find it closed.

With respect to Toronto, and more specifically ambulance services, they are jointly funded by the province and the city, but I understand that provincial funding is more significant.

All parties recognize things are not functioning well, and various attempts at increasing spending have been made, but any effort will take significant time before results are visible. I'm not particularly optimistic, and the current provincial government's track record here is dismal. Their policy is to be tight-fisted.
by dwohnitmok | 2025-11-13 04:59:10+00:00
Maybe. I have a fair amount of uncertainty about the speed of AI development but I think that that is well within the realm of possibility (and definitely a possibility developers should be considering). Note that even if AI replaces an entire dev team, it's still not apparent that the process would be as easy as you're saying (at least for a while after that), since after all even with a crack dev team products are almost never as easy "make me this product" "okay!" and then the product is created.

But that wasn't what I was trying to get at. My point is that this is what the author was predicting, and if that were to pass, that is more or less the death of software development as a profession, contrary to what the author says when he says "I'm not going to do that, because I absolutely don't believe it."
by dragonwriter | 2025-11-13 04:59:18+00:00
>These problems can't be legislated away

Yes, they can.

> because the authority to do so is highly decentralized.

So are the problems. And the places where the problems are localized to are the ones with the power to legislate them away. An abrupt elimination of the penny, such as them being immediately banned for use or withdrawn from circulation, would present a problem, sure, but stopping minting them while leaving them in circulation provides a combination of time to find a solution and urgency to implement it; and the problems aren't difficult to solve, there are lots of easy solutions (there's no fundamental difference in the challenges of the quantum of cash being $0.05 that are different from it being $0.01, there's just a few options in how to handle the transition) and all that is necessary is for each jurisdiction to pick one.
by captainkrtek | 2025-11-13 05:01:02+00:00
Id encourage you (generally, outside of hn) to lookup the symptoms of a heart attack and aortic aneurysm.

A aortic aneurysm can present with a pulsating mass in the abdomen, and is more common in older people and smokers. The inner lumen of the aorta starts to separate and blood can flow differently or be restricted, eg: right arm bp may be different than left arm. But absence of that doesn’t rule it out entirely.

Whereas a heart attack is going to feel pain in the chest, perhaps radiating to the jaw, shoulder, back, maybe nausea, sweating, and an impending sense of doom.

Automated bp cuffs are pretty inaccurate imo, we use them at the tail end of transport to the hospital and they usually spit out wild numbers. An auscultated bp with a stethoscope and sphygmomanometer is the gold standard.

Bottom line, If you are having chest pain, call 911.
by opan | 2025-11-13 05:01:21+00:00
LineageOS is based on AOSP and works well. I don't understand the banking app thing either. I suspect it's a regional issue. I can log in to my credit union account via any browser, and if something needs MFA it should be able to use TOTP which works on anything.

Android in practice is full of proprietary blobs, stuck on old kernel versions, and the hardware is barely supported. Lots of downstream crap from the vendors not playing nice. Most devices running Android are instantly doomed to be e-waste. You can look through devices postmarketOS supports, and anything without mainline kernel support and most stuff working is basically e-waste unless someone puts in a lot of work for that particular device. It's a little bit like how modern GPUs don't work without blobs in the kernel anymore and you have to go back to Haswell era or older for things to work with all free software, but the state of smartphones is a few steps worse than that due to their locked down nature.

Pretty much any OnePlus device (other than ones still too new) seems to be a good bet for decent software support (both LineageOS and pmOS). Though annoyingly stuff like the 3G shutdown makes a lot of the earlier models unusable as actual phones these days. At least they can still be computers. Not quite e-waste.