MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Magi604 | 2025-11-13 03:30:17+00:00
This is a very tragic story and my heart goes out to the family. It's one I've seen a few times now and hear about on a very regular basis from my coworkers.

I am a Canadian Paramedic (EMR soon to be PCP in a few months, roughly equivalent to EMT and AEMT respectively). Some things strike out at me:

- Here in BC our calltakers can advise patients on some treatments. I'm sure if that were to happen here, they would have advised the family to administer some ASA (Aspirin) to the patient which would have bought valuable time until professional care could be reached. Even if it was found to be contraindicated, the fact it was not mentioned in the blog post stands out to me.

- I'm not familiar with the geography of Toronto or its normal traffic patterns, but it's surprising that a single ambulance was not 30 minutes from the patient driving lights and sirens at that time of night (shortly after dinner).

- Fire crews here in BC are dispatched to severe medical incidents (like heart attacks) and most of the time can even beat ambulance crews to a scene. They would have been able to provide CPR if needed, possibly even ASA or Nitro depending on their scope. So again it's surprising that there's no mention of them. Perhaps they aren't dispatched to medical calls in Toronto?

- Lastly it's surprising that the calltaker had no visibility on where the dispatched crews were at. At the very least they could have radioed the crew to get an ETA. I guess I just take it for granted that over here we are tracked as soon as we sign in to our vehicle (it's a safety thing especially in some of our more rural/remote stations). If the ambulance was just about to reach the patient right before the family decided to go to the hospital on their own, things might have turned out differently.

Also since I'm assuming that a large percentage of HN readers are older males who are at risk of a heart attack (due to factors like working desk jobs and not keeping up with fitness as much), read up on the signs and symptoms of a heart attack and keep a bottle of aspirin at the ready. Bodies are complicated and weird and you never know.
by mcastle | 2025-11-13 03:30:51+00:00
I think much of the value is the funding infrastructure and also the debate creation and discoverability, similar in some ways to the role eventbrite serves for events.

Thanks for catching the copy and messaging edits. The homepage debate is a sample debate that directs to the list of proposed debates. I’ll change that sample debate so it’s less confusing.

Also good point about “create with AI”.
by godelski | 2025-11-13 03:31:06+00:00
> We're told a lot of things by "officials" not because it's correct

Often these rules are in place because they are statistically correct.

What needs to be understood is that no rule can be so well written that there are no exceptions. Rules are guides. Understanding this we can understand why certain guidelines are created, because they are likely the right response 9/10 times. This is especially important when dealing with high stress and low information settings.

BUT being statistically correct does not mean correct. For example, if the operator had information about the ETA of the ambulance (we don't know this!) then the correct answer would have been to tell them to not wait. But if the operator had no information, then the correct decision is to say to wait.

The world is full of edge cases. This is a major contributor to Moravec's paradox and why bureaucracies often feel like they are doing idiotic things. Because you are likely working in a much more information rich environment than the robot was designed for or the bureaucratic rules were. The lesson here is to learn that our great advantage as humans is to be flexible. To trust in people. To train them properly but also empower them to make judgement calls. It won't work out all the time, but doing this tends to beat the statistical rate. The reason simply comes down to "boots on the ground" knowledge. You can't predict every situation and there's too many edge cases. So trust in the people you're already putting trust into and recognize that in the real world there's more information to formulate decisions. You can't rule from a spreadsheet no more than you can hike up a mountain with only a map. The map is important, but it isn't enough.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-11-13 03:31:25+00:00
Very few consoles were sold at a loss. Some certainly were, like the fat PS3. But that was the exception, not the rule.

More relevantly, none of the current generation (ps5, xbox series, switch 2) are sold at a loss. They don't have large margins, but they are sold above cost.

The Taiwanese computer manufacturers won't be phased by thin margins; that's their modus operandi.
by cesarb | 2025-11-13 03:31:50+00:00
> Android could have, for example, a 24 hour "cooling off" period for sideloading approval.

And, to prevent the scammer from simply calling back once the 24 hours are gone, make it show a couple of warnings (at random times so they can't be predicted by the scammer) explaining the issue, with rejecting these warnings making the cooling off timer reset (so a new attempt to enable would need another full 24 hours).
by vkou | 2025-11-13 03:32:19+00:00
The 2020, in hindsight was largely correct. COVID was a highly infectious disease, it put a lot of people in the hospital, and a lot of people in the morgue. Social distancing and wearing masks slowed its spread, until an effective, safe vaccine was developed. Horse paste was not a cure for it, and after further investigation it turns out that it only had a positive effect on patients who, in addition to having COVID, also had worms. (To the surprise of absolutely everyone, it turned out that giving de-wormer to people with worms improved their health.)

For some reason, chronic contrarians always to point at a few details that were gotten wrong during the fog of war, and shout from the rooftops that if only they were in charge, we'd all be living in castles made of candy and shitting rainbows.

Joke's on us, though, those contrarians have since made a moron who doesn't believe in germs... The Secretary of Health.
by bilekas | 2025-11-13 03:32:32+00:00
YouTube itself is offered for free. The creators of content are not Google employees. Adblocking is a safety measure on my own physical machine.

Not YouTube's users? Maybe. But I am, so by that metric there's some doubt.

I paid for over 2 years for the premium, the cost increases and it's cheaper to pihole everything and support the usual suspects on patreon.

It's become a scenario of "I've given you so many adverts, you should pay me to get less."
by zeroq | 2025-11-13 03:32:34+00:00
Yes!

The booth depicted on the 1000CS image looks exactly how I recall it, and the screenshot looks very similar to how I remember the game (minus dragon, and mine was fully wireframe), but the map layout looks very similar. It has this Q3DM17 vibe I was talking about.

Isn't this crazy, that we had this tech in ~'91 and it's still not just there yet?

On similar note - around that time, mid 90s, my father also took my to CEBIT. One building was almost fully occupied by Intel or IBM and they had different sections dedicated to all sorts of cool stuff. One of I won't forget was straight out of Minority Report, only many years earlier.

They had a whole section dedicated to showcasing a "smart watch". Imagine Casio G-Shock but with Linux. You could navigate options by twisting your wrist (up or down the menu) and you would press the screen or button to select an option.

They had different scenarios built in form of an amusement park - from restaurant where you would walk in with your watch - it would talk to the relay at the door and download menu for you just so you could twist your wrist to select your meal and order it without a human interaction and... leave without interaction as well, because the relay at the door would charge you based on your prior selection.

Or - and that was straight out of Minority Report - a scenario of an airport, where you would disembark at your location and walk past a big screen that would talk to your watch and display travel information for you, prompting question if you'd like to order a taxi to your destination, based on your data.
by ethmarks | 2025-11-13 03:33:06+00:00
What non-gaming use cases do you imagine people might use these for?

For normal computer use (reading email, watching videos, doing spreadsheets), there are much cheaper and better options available. If somebody wanted a Steam Machine specifically, it'd be for the GPU.

If you needed a lot of GPU compute (for AI or blockchain or whatever), it'd be cheaper to buy or rent a dedicated server with Nvidia H100s rather than buying dozens of Steam Machines.

So the only potential use cases are those that have a significant but not too significant GPU requirement. The only ones I can think of are gaming (which is the intended use case), video editing, and 3D rendering.

Video editing is less of a concern because neither Adobe Premier nor Final Cut Pro will run on Linux (to my knowledge), so you might as well buy a Mac that runs both of those very efficiently and has decent hardware.

So we're left with 3D rendering. If people want to use Steam Machines to render things in Blender, I say "let them", and I assume that Valve does too.
by frenchman_in_ny | 2025-11-13 03:33:09+00:00
I'm coming at this as someone who had an MI at a relatively young age:

For the goals -- and this may differ between EMT / paramedic & protocols -- but I would really wish that there was a blood draw done in the field. Before they bring you to the cath lab with a suspected MI, the ER is likely going to draw blood to get troponin levels at a 2-hour interval. You could save some time & heart muscle by getting a blood sample (containing initial levels) in the field.
by markus_zhang | 2025-11-13 03:34:18+00:00
I’m so sad to see this. For anyone who reads this, get a day, learn CPR, and buy that machine if your parents or whoever has history of heart issues. The machine doesn’t fix every kind of heart diseases but the trainer told me it decreases the possibility of death from a heart attack greatly. I recall that the possibility is lowered by 50% if you do CPR and 80% with the machine.

It is not hard to use the machine as it has clear instructions. They probably expect you to still be able to read when in panic.
by gpm | 2025-11-13 03:34:20+00:00
See the "Empowering experienced users" section.

They announced the $25 "verification" plan awhile ago. The new part in this article is that they're going to have it remain possible to install software that didn't do that "verification".

> Based on this feedback and our ongoing conversations with the community, we are building a new advanced flow that allows experienced users to accept the risks of installing software that isn't verified.
by quantummagic | 2025-11-13 03:34:30+00:00
> I hardly see how it can even be called a console.

Rather than focus too much on the technology classification, think of it in terms of extending the Steam platform to new markets. How many new people in the market for games-on-their-tv will at least consider a Steam machine. Even with the trade-offs you mention, my guess is quite a lot. And Valve doesn't care about making money on the hardware, they are already basically printing money.
by captainkrtek | 2025-11-13 03:35:01+00:00
I’d say no if it were my family, and I know the response times in my area, but the story in the blog is a nightmare scenario.

People can go from heart attack to cardiac arrest quickly, and you don’t want to then tell medics you’re on the freeway and now need to do CPR.

See: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mxUqHwHbNtk&t=1520s

Around the 11 minute mark this man went into cardiac arrest, a moment prior was still talking.
by mgerdts | 2025-11-13 03:35:25+00:00
A drive that supports Secure Instant Erase should be encrypting all data. When the SEI function is invoked (“nvme format -s 2”, “hdparm —-security-erase”) they key is thrown away and replaced with a new one. Similar implementations exist for NVMe, SATA, and SAS drives — regardless of whether they are HDD or SSD.

This puts a fair amount of trust and in the drive’s ability to really delete the old key.
by copypaper | 2025-11-13 03:35:33+00:00
This looks awesome!

>I needed it to be a pretty fully functional IDE. I needed [IDE feature]...

I'm just curious, why didn't you make this as a VS Code plugin to benefit from all the features of an IDE? I'd imagine you could do something similar to the Live Server plugin. That way you could support any browser and not worry about maintaining the IDE features.
by throw234234234 | 2025-11-13 03:36:04+00:00
I've seen the gains in Java; the main things that would close the gap are not yet there in Java. .NET code, especially when tuned, still has significantly more knobs in your code to tune and make faster. An example would be proper generics with value types together means less boxing in generic code in general overall but there's a lot more I can think of. I've seen almost 50% of gains, particuarly when doing math like code, of moving away from Java to .NET especially if the jump to C/C++/Rust is too much for the team in question due to other requirements.
by analog8374 | 2025-11-13 03:36:10+00:00
It's like we're wired to trust what we're told over what we see.

The one doing the telling is the confident man on tv and the people around us.

What's funny is, 9 out of 10 people are totally credulous. They'll swallow any foolish thing as long as a authority says it. That last guy is a skeptic. BUT if everybody around him AND the authority are saying the thing, then he believes it. Because that's reasonable, right?
by skydhash | 2025-11-13 03:36:43+00:00
After daily driving OpenBSD and FreeBSD, i can point the finger at the kernel subsystems that tries to handle everything under the sun, but with no clear direction and competing projects with different designs. Everything is three or more layers, each governed by a different team and interacting in opaque ways.

Meanwhile in the *BSD, you have the devices or some other OS concepts/subsystems, then a control layer with the associated management tools. Any other tool is either an alternate version, or a UI paint job.
by devsda | 2025-11-13 03:36:48+00:00
They didn't say no changes. They are just saying we'll address the concerns of hobbyists and students.

Lets not celebrate prematurely and let us wait for more details on whats actually changing both technically and process wise. We should demand more clarity and should not wait to discover it after the implementation at which point it is hard and nearly impossible to push back against.

We don't want to be in a situation where they technically make it possible but make it practically impossible to install apps outside playstore.
by sowbug | 2025-11-13 03:36:55+00:00
If I were designing the advanced flow, I'd require the decision to be made at phone setup time. Changing your mind later requires a factory reset.

Real sideloaders (F-Droid users, etc.) know at setup time that that's how they'll be using their phone, so it works for them. But ordinary users who are targets for sideloading malware will become a lot less attractive if attackers must convince them to wipe their phone to complete the coercive instructions.

Aliexpress has a similar approach to protect their accounts from takeovers. If you change or forget your password, all your saved payment methods are erased. This makes the account less valuable to an attacker, at the cost of a little pain to authentic account holders.
by rogerrogerr | 2025-11-13 03:37:22+00:00
(Not GP): Heart attacks and strokes are the two things where I will always load family members into the car and get to the hospital as quickly as practicable. Time is brain, and time is heart. I’d call 911 on the way and have them notify the hospital what’s going on.

I figure that if I’m a 10 minute drive from the hospital, it’s highly unlikely that lights and sirens will get to me and then to the hospital quicker than I can do only the second leg. If they want to meet me halfway, fine - but if they aren’t there, I’m not waiting.

Everything else? Sure, we can wait for the ambulance. I can control bleeding or whatever and you’ll live through some pain without lasting side effects. But if there isn’t blood going to an organ, we are gonna get that fixed ASAP.
by gus_massa | 2025-11-13 03:37:47+00:00
Hi from Argentina! Here we unofficially deprecated the AR$10, AR$20 and AR$50 bill, so the smallest one is the AR$100 bill (~US$0.07). Every price include taxes.

What are they selling? Candies one by one? Inside the candy store everything is rounded to a multiple of AR$100. A single candy is AR$100. You many get an offer of 3 candies for AR$200, or 2 small candies for AR$100, or other fancy candies in packages of 13 for AR$1000. Everything else is more expensive, like AR$700 or more, but all multiples of AR$100.

The photocopy shop near my home has a copy for AR$120. They usually sell many copies, so a 20% is relevant. They have a stash of AR$20, but it's probably the only shop nearby. I also collect the AR$20 just to pay the photocopies, just to be nice to avoid finishing their stash and also because I don't know what to do with the AR$20.

I guess a single apple is probably a problem. It cost like AR$400-AR$500 depending on the weight. Someone very smart can learn to choose and apple with the exact weight to get a AR$499 apple and pay AR$400 :) Luckily inflation changes the price so it's difficult to learn. Also AR$499 will be illegaly rounded to AR$500. And most people will buy more than 1 apple, let's say that the total is AR$10,000 and AR$100 is only a 1% that is lower than the spoilage of rotten fruit.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-11-13 03:38:23+00:00
Weird statement, because I can search for PS5 pro & see $750 price points, and entry level computers have been far far cheaper. Cheaper than Xbox series X at $650. Getting pretty solid laptops for a bit under $500 has been possible for many years now.

But "entry level computer" has a very broad interpretation available. Could be higher for sure.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-11-13 03:38:34+00:00
we're not better off without algorithms either, they've vastly improved the quality of lives for many. My point is that it is us humans who are corrupt and evil, that is the problem that needs fixing, not our tools and instruments.

The first thing we did with nuclear power is mass-killing and weapons. But if only we used it for power generation a lot more, we could have even avoided the climate crisis happening now.

Lots of harm caused by fire, but it is a pillar of human cvilization.

Nevertheless, you can't unspill milk as they say. It is even more pointless than the "war on drugs". you can regulate the models though. and stop telling people to seek mental health, it isn't something you seek and magically you go "poof" and you're cured. If you can be a friend to someone instead of some AI, do that! be the solution. else, get out of their way. If they can google chatgpt, they can google "mental health". people have been making friends with inanimate objects since forever. lonely people talk to dolls and puppets. There is a huge market for human like doll wives that costs >$5k. There are even mainstream movies with a-list actors in them about this like "lars and the real girl" and "her".

Life is hard and then you die. people grasp at straws to last as long as they can, because everything that lives wants to continue to live. and I hope they fight their best fight instead of giving up early after being dismissed by society to "seek mental help" lol.

P.S.: "mental help" is like lawyers, they're there for the corporations and the ultra-wealthy. everything accessible by normal people, to the most part that is, is not useful unless your goal is to get pilled-up, in which case I doubt that is better than just talking to some inanimate computer.
by tharkun__ | 2025-11-13 03:39:12+00:00
This. Previous cow-orker of mine that was doing remote-only like 10+ years ago at some other company got an actual yellow rubber duck sent to him together with his company laptop when he joined.

I also like to do this when debugging. I'll just write out whatever my current hypotheses are about what the bug is and I adjust as I go, as I disprove or make them more precise. I would usually just do it right on the ticket. It both helps because it provides the "rubber duck" and in the end I just submit the comment and I have a root cause analysis right there.

Unfortunately it's quite rare to see this from anyone and asking them to provide a root cause analysis is usually fraught with peril. I don't quite get why. It's been working awesomely.

And like OP says, AI hasn't made it better in the sense that not everyone can use AI (or cow-orkers) in that way. They just believe what the AI tells them and they literally won't reverse engineer that protocol in 24h ;)
by gpm | 2025-11-13 03:40:18+00:00
> Just yesterday there was a story on here about how Google found [a security vulnerability that anyone running `ffmpeg -i <untrusted file> ...` was vulnerable to] in FFMPEG, and told [the world about it so that everyone could take appropriate action before hackers found the same thing and exploited it, having first told the ffmpeg developers about it in case they wanted to fix it before it was announced publicly]

Fixed that for you. Google's public service was both entirely appropriate and highly appreciated.
by enraged_camel | 2025-11-13 03:40:22+00:00
I don’t know what level of experience you have with agentic AI, but the frontier models are also really good at things like product management and data modeling. You can start with a description of the problem and end up with a really solid design plan that you can then give the AI to implement.

So yeah, if you’re starting with a “write me code that does X Y Z” then you aren’t getting the most out of these tools, because you’re right, that’s not the hard part.
by tomhow | 2025-11-13 03:40:22+00:00
People continually try on this “gotcha” that we moderate more for tone than substance and that HN freely allows hateful rhetoric as long as it is smuggled in a Trojan Horse of “civility”.

This is of course a non-starter and nothing in the guidelines allows it. The first words in the “In Comments“ section of the guidelines are Be kind, and there is nothing “kind” about xenophobia or other hateful ideas, by definition.

But as longtime forum moderators we can't be so naïve as to succumb to an attempt to characterize any discussion about immigration laws and their enforcement as “anti-immigration” and ”hateful”. From what I can see this is discussion is not one of “pro” or “anti” immigration but about how laws should be interpreted and enforced, which is always something that should be able to be discussed in a spirit of curiosity. The guidelines cover this too:

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

Nailer is a user who has crossed the line before and we've appealed to him multiple times to observe the guidelines, and will certainly do so again if and when it is warranted. In this case I don't see how he is the one who has crossed the line, but even if he was, that doesn't excuse you from doing so.

If you see guidelines-breaking comments on HN, just flag them or if they're especially egregious, email us (hn@ycombinator.com). If you escalate, then you become the one in the wrong, by making a bad situation even worse.
by jtfrench | 2025-11-13 03:40:30+00:00
I like that they distinguish between the collider mesh (lower poly) and the detailed mesh (higher poly).

As a game developer I'm looking for:

• Export low-poly triangle mesh (ideally OBJ or FBX format — something fairly generic, nothing too fancy) • Export texture map • Export normals • Bonus: export the scene as "de-structured" objects (e.g. instead of a giant world mesh with everything baked into it, separate exports for foreground and background objects to make it more game engine-ready.

Gaussian splats are awesome, but not critical for my current renderers. Cool to have though.