MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
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by squidsoup | 2025-12-02 01:55:53+00:00
> A decade and a half is insane timeline in tech industry, and huge majority of users use Siri the same way today as 15 years ago, setting a timer or an alarm clock.

Also quite good for making shopping lists, with some bonus amusement when you get a weird transcription and have to try to work out that "cats and soup" is "tonkatsu sauce" several days after you added it to the list.
by bmelton | 2025-12-02 01:55:53+00:00
> that regulation or rule or something that makes it so like a hospital can't open too close to another hospital

You're referring to certificate of need laws, but it's worth pointing out that they're not universal. More than a dozen states have repealed them (or don't have them) and everywhere I've looked, there's strong evidence that their removal has increased healthcare access, which has put downward pressure on cost of service

> Another would be to just, train more doctors!

Bill Clinton placed a cap on GME funding in the 97 Balanced Budget Act, freezing the number of residency slots that the federal government would provide funding for, so this effectively froze the number of residents there could be, which effectively limits the number of doctors possible
by arbus5672 | 2025-12-02 01:55:57+00:00
I started on a RM2 and upgraded to a Pro when it came out.

I knew going in that it was not going to live up to the hype of the marketing around changing your life. But it has proven to be a very useful addition to work where the screen sharing enables me to have a shared whiteboard remotely that I can actually scribble on. The reading experience is also good with a decent sized screen. Being able to annotate books without feeling like you are desecrating a real book is a game changer.

To anyone from the Remarkable team is reading this: for a device priced at a premium, there sure are lots of corners that feel like they were cut.

1. Would it really have killed you to put a faster SoC on the device? Pressing the wake button to the screen responding can sometimes be 5 seconds. Opening a large PDF can take upwards of 30 seconds.

2. The backlight controls seem to be detached from real life use. The maximum setting produces enough light to be readable in a semi-low light environment(think dusk), but even one notch lower than that is useless. What is the point of having 5 levels of brightness if I only ever get to use 5 or 0

3. I would love to have palette controls. The display supports lots of color but all my writing tools only support 6 preset colors. There is a nice use case of them around paper games like variant Sudoku that require using color to keep track of the solve and having only a small preset color range is very limiting.

This laundry list only exists because the potential of this device is high. If none of these issues are fixed but they release a RMPro 2 with better battery like, I’d still buy it.
by kayodelycaon | 2025-12-02 01:56:31+00:00
A few years ago I had to use one of these services and all the data it had was 10 years out of date. Took weeks to reset my account because they didn’t have my current address and wouldn’t update it.

Cue notarized paperwork with witnesses sent certified mail. Verification code sent back via regular post.

Weeks later, we can do the power of attorney but one of us needs to fly out. Required two additional witness for that. Five signatures on the same document. Had to call for updates to find out if it was accepted.

Getting the forms for this was non-trivial. You had to ask for them to be mailed or emailed.
by Tmpod | 2025-12-02 01:56:45+00:00
Well, I can't check if it is still a thing today, but Element's managed servers used to allow you to do that, at least for the web app (though I had the idea they also did that for the old mobile apps?)

Here's a couple of links:

https://element.io/blog/custom-branding/

https://element.io/blog/a-white-label-messaging-app-to-creat...
by MathMonkeyMan | 2025-12-02 01:56:53+00:00
Contraception is a bargain deal for any class, assuming you were not intending to have a kid.

I also question the idea that safety regulations (let's call them that) are the result of a class of people who have "so few real problems they stop minding their business and mind other's business." I get the idea, but couldn't the high cost of obstetrics and child car seat requirements be due to the wishes and decisions of people outside of this supposed class?
by bxparks | 2025-12-02 01:57:03+00:00
Could also be French speakers. They would say "J'utilise le format .avif depuis quelques années." I think the "depuis" throws off the French speakers when they translate that literally as "since some years" instead of "for some years".

Another common tell: I wake up in the morning in the US/Pacific time zone, and see the European writers on HN using "I have ran" instead of "I have run".
by themafia | 2025-12-02 01:57:16+00:00
> I'd prefer a "low-end" workstation with 32GB memory, but because of the price point I can only afford a 16GB non-workstation one. I don't do gaming any more but I still prefer a good integrated video card.

I started buying 4x4 mini PCs. They're exactly what you describe. For $600 I got an 8 core AMD Ryzen 7 8745H with 96GB of RAM from Minisforum. The graphics aren't half bad and the overall system has been really good. It's even got better thermal performance than the Intel 4x4 I had previously and generally runs 10C cooler for the same workloads.

If you don't absolutely need a "backpack portable" computer I can only highly recommend them.
by linguae | 2025-12-02 01:57:52+00:00
Apple’s reputation for user-friendly software comes from the 1980s, when Windows was very primitive and when the Mac’s biggest competitor was MS-DOS, which was never known for user-friendliness. To be fair to Apple, Apple worked very hard to establish well-conceived UI guidelines and to ship representative software such as MacWrite and MacPaint to show how Mac software should behave.

In the 1990s Windows gradually improved, and Windows 95 was on par with Macintosh System 7.5 in terms of features and ease of use. It even had its own UI guidelines. Windows 95 was one of the factors that led to Apple’s troubles in the mid-1990s.

Even though it took over four years for the purchase of NeXT to lead to the first client release of Mac OS X in 2001, Apple distinguished itself from Windows PC vendors in other ways, such as ease of installation and Apple’s pursuit of the “digital hub” where the Mac was the center of a digital lifestyle involving music, digital cameras, and digital camcorders. This was the era of the iPod, iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand, and related software.

Of course, Mac OS X solved the Mac’s long-standing stability issues, and Mac OS X also came of age when the Windows world was suffering with malware and security issues.

In my opinion, the Mac peaked in the mid-to-late 2000s, where Mac OS X provided users a solid operating system that was easy to use, and where Macs came bundled with a variety of apps from Apple that made it easy to do a lot of tasks many computer users care about, such as organizing music and photos, as well as editing music and videos.

Then came the iPhone and the tremendous profits that came from the iOS ecosystem, and with it came Apple’s shift in strategy, from the Mac being the digital hub to a hub focused increasingly on iOS and Apple’s cloud services. The Mac hasn’t been the main focus, and in my opinion the decline of Mac software is a reflection of Apple’s focus shift.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-12-02 01:58:02+00:00
Sounds like you are looking at it from a consumer's point of view.

The US "market" is between the drug companies, hospitals, practitioners' groups, insurance companies, and government.

They are the ones that have market participation, the patient's not involved with that, their primary duty is to provide justification for the transaction.

>Healthcare doesn't function as a market, to our detriment.

So true, but even worse than that, the market that is there is predatory to a cumulative detriment worse than when simply dropping the ball makes things go wrong :\
by zmgsabst | 2025-12-02 01:58:10+00:00
In my experience, sometimes the job is just to talk and socialize — eg, with sister teams or stakeholders.

For my own sanity, I at least try to accurately label those… which is how my calendar usually fills with “1:1”, “coffee”, “sync”, etc. Maybe it’s pedantic, but the accurate labels help my sanity by letting me know which meetings I can show up without prep, a coffee and cookie, and push if things get busy.
Ask HN: Can drones document a house for insurance claims
by kaihongye4 | 2025-12-02 01:58:26+00:00
A little long question: Q1：Can drones document a house for insurance claims, and what risks should I note?

I’m a bit confused. I’m considering buying home insurance to protect against fire and flood damage. I saw some posts on Quora and Reddit saying that people can rent a drone to take photos and videos of their entire house to avoid disputes during insurance claims. Could I be deserve to do?
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-02 01:58:48+00:00
>It is people who decide what to do with it.

That argument is rather naive, given that millenia of law is meant to regulate and disincentivize behavior. "If people didn't get mad they wouldn't murder!"

We've regulated public messages for decades, and for good reason. I'm not absolving them this time because they want to hide behind a chatbot. They have blood on their hands.
by kcexn | 2025-12-02 01:58:51+00:00
It's a shame that Fleming misremembered his process of discovery and created a myth of accidental discovery.

I like the Root-Bernstein narrative more. That in the monotonous execution of routine experiments for something unrelated an unusual observation 'forced' them to discover penicillins antibacterial properties.

Not an accidental discovery by good fortune in a serendipitous sense. An accidental discovery of a brute force exhaustive search. The narrative of we spent months meticulously examining hundreds of samples is less romantic, but is one that supports the importance of funding scientific inquiry.

We won't make progress by hoping people leave culture plates out on window sills. We make progress when we fund meticulous exhaustive efforts of discovery.
by magicalhippo | 2025-12-02 01:59:08+00:00
JPEG and friends transforms the image data into the frequency domain. Regular old JPEG uses the discrete cosine transformation[1] for this on 8x8 blocks of pixels. This is why with heavily compressed JPEG images you can see blocky artifacts[2]. JPEG XL uses variable block size DCT.

Lets stick to old JPEG as it's easier to explain. The DCT takes the 8x8 pixels of a block and transforms it to 8x8 magnitudes of different frequency components. In one corner you have the DC component, ie zero frequency, which represents the average of all 8x8 pixels. Around it you have the lowest non-zero frequency components. You have three of those, one which has a non-zero x frequency, one with a non-zero y frequency, and one where both x and y are non-zero. The elements next to those are the next-higher frequency components.

To reconstruct the 8x8 pixels, you run the inverse discrete cosine transformation, which is lossless (to within rounding errors).

However, due to Nyquist[3], you don't need those higher-frequency components if you want a lower-resolution image. So if you instead strip away the highest-frequency components so you're left with a 7x7 block, you can run the inverse transform on that to get a 7x7 block of pixels which perfectly represents a 7/8 = 87.5% sized version of the original 8x8 block. And you can do this for each block in the image to get a 87.5% sized image.

Now, the pyramidal scheme takes advantage of this by rearranging how the elements in each transformed block is stored. First it stores the DC components of all the blocks the image. If you just used those, you'd get an image which perfectly represents a 1/8th-sized image.

Next it stores all the lowest-frequency components for all the blocks. Using the DC and those you have effectively 2x2 blocks, and can perfectly reconstruct a quarter-sized image.

Now, if the decoder knows the target size the image will be displayed at, it can then just stop reading when it has sufficiently large blocks to reconstruct the image near the target size.

Note that most good old JPEG decoders supports this already, however since the blocks are stored one after another it still requires reading the entire file from disk. If you have a fast disk and not too large images it can often be a win regardless. But if you have huge images which are often not used in their full resolution, then the pyramidal scheme is better.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_cosine_transform

[2]: https://eyy.co/tools/artifact-generator/ (artifact intensity 80 or above)

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist%E2%80%93Shannon_sampli...
by 3oil3 | 2025-12-02 01:59:12+00:00
What a great article! When the author mentionned "showing-off", that's what I thought at first, I mean, most of us have the "why not spend 2 hours trying to figure it out when you can read the manual for 2 minute" kind of mind-set, which is similar to the "why not make it really complex if we can make it simple". But no, it's actually a really smart idea!!
by aidenn0 | 2025-12-02 01:59:13+00:00
For making compact high-quality jpeg files, consider trying jpegli[1], it does an impressive job.

More specifically, if I try a bunch of AVIF quantization options and manually pick the one that appears visually lossless, it beats jpegli, but if I select a quantization option that always looks visually lossless with AVIF, jpegli will win the average size, because I need to use some headroom for images that AVIF does less well on.

1: https://github.com/google/jpegli
by ggm | 2025-12-02 01:59:50+00:00
I am here to repeat my sort-of non-but-almost conspiracy theory: It's not about the work, it's about the value of the Listed Property Trust (LPT), as a construct, if the entire central business district price model behind buildings tanks.

Every company of this scale is in LPT. They have shitloads of money tied up in the declared value of the office space either they invested, or they leveraged. If it tanks in value, they are on call for the decline in value related to that.

Thank you for reading my almost but not quite tinfoil hat conspiracy theory.
by simoncion | 2025-12-02 01:59:59+00:00
> So now we get to the present day where the solution to that problem is to not let [people who have in their possession a government-issued ID] on the plane.

Some of us still remember how internal checkpoints and the demands for government-issued traveling papers were used in some countries to restrict the travel of and collect persons of interest. The fact that we didn't go "Papers, please!" to folks traveling within the country was once a point of pride. You're suggesting that everyone who wishes to cross the country in less than a week must be in possession of Federal identification papers. [0] You do understand that it's totally legal to have zero identifying documentation other than your boarding pass, right?

Exactly one thing prevented (and prevents) another 9/11: reinforced cockpit doors that lock from inside the cockpit. Everything else that has been done is extremely expensive theater that wastes our time and energy, and empowers authoritarians.

[0] Ubiquitous computerized systems and internetworking means that traveling papers no longer need to be handed out to the traveler. If someone's either of interest or banned there's no need to notify them, you can just snatch them up at (or turn them away from) the checkpoint.
by lukifer | 2025-12-02 02:00:03+00:00
I feel like it says a lot, when intelligent amorality seems genuinely preferable to blundering incompetence. Many such cases. One wonders how much "enshittification" is intrinsic to networked software and our late-stage-whatever political economy, versus how much is a farcical byproduct of office politics and org chart turf wars.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-02 02:01:34+00:00
>I don't know of any examples where that has actually killed someone.

You don't see how botched law case can't cost someone their life? Let's not wait until more die to reign this in.

>Someone could search on Google just the same and ignore their symptoms.

Yes, and it's not uncommon for websites or search engines to be sued. Millenia of laws exist for this exact purpose, so companies can't deflect bad things back to the people.

If you want the benefits, you accept the consequences. Especially when you fail to put up guard rails.
by dredmorbius | 2025-12-02 02:01:53+00:00
In statistics, various examples (e.g., coin flips) often stand in for other activities which might prove expensive or infeasible to make repeated tries of.

For "coin flips", read: human lives, financial investments, scientific observations, historical observations (how many distinct historical analogues are available to you), dating (see, e.g., "the secretary problem" or similar optimal stopping / search bounding problems).

With sufficiently low-numbered trial phenomena, statistics gets weird. A classic example would be the anthropic principle: how is it that the Universe is so perfectly suited for human beings, a life-form which can contemplate why the Universe it so perfectly suited for it? Well, if the Universe were not so suited ... we wouldn't be here to ponder that question. The US judge Richard Posner made a similar observation in his book "Catastrophe: Risk and Response" tackles the common objection to doomsday predictions that all have so far proved false. But then, of all the worlds in which a mass extinction event has wiped out all life prior to the emergence of a technologically-advanced species, there would be no (indegenous) witnesses to the fact. We are only here to ponder that question because utter annihilation did not occur. As Posner writes:

By definition, all but the last doomsday prediction is false. Yet it does not follow, as many seem to think, that all doomsday predictions must be false; what follow is only that all such predictions but one are false.

-Richard A. Posner, Catastrophe: Risk and Response, p. 13.

<https://archive.org/details/catastropheriskr00posn/page/13/m...>
by sgc | 2025-12-02 02:02:15+00:00
That is close. They hold a bit less info because it is for internal US use only. Its also about the required documentation to have one issued. Also, the reason many countries went biometric at the same time 2 decades ago is because the US absolutely insisted.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_ID_Act
by soulofmischief | 2025-12-02 02:03:13+00:00
As predicted, your reply was even more negative and less substantial. You have not actually engaged with anything, instead taking vague potshots.

> Models do not think. I'm just sick of hearing the nonsense

Then explain why that isn't true, instead of just proclaiming it. Give me something substantial to reply to, I'm not interested in trading insults.
by mancerayder | 2025-12-02 02:03:33+00:00
40 percent of transactions in NYC were done with no finance contingency ("all cash") in the last year.

That's a record and it's vastly more than years past. We live in a world where people with vast assets are beating out people who rely on job income for things like housing.

The stock market exploded the past year, and there's your bifurcation: those with assets and those without - getting worse.
by kayodelycaon | 2025-12-02 02:04:02+00:00
It’s definitely security related. Some states did barely any verification and didn’t have much protection against fake cards.

In Ohio, you could show them a birth certificate and Social Security card and a few minutes later have a freshly printed ID.

If you got your hands on the blank ID cards and a standard commercial card printer, you could make fake IDs all day.
by komali2 | 2025-12-02 02:04:35+00:00
I think you're using the American right wing definition of DEI which describes a bit of a strawman. In reality, a leader establishing a rule that people aren't to be discriminated against based on e.g. race or gender, is an example of a DEI policy.

So when I said anti-DEI is a marker for a specific political ideology, it's really because it's a marker for the kind of media a person consumes, which informs the definition of DEI they're using.
by jonhohle | 2025-12-02 02:04:35+00:00
20 years ago, I was excited to get OS X updates and each one made the system better. When Software Update showed something new, it was always going to be good.

At the same time, Windows Update was an anxiety engine.

Now Software Update has mostly become what Windows Update was. Uninteresting security patches. Each new major update makes the interface worse and adds new bugs or drops old hardware.
by tenacious_tuna | 2025-12-02 02:04:37+00:00
it is if that's all people do, but I think it is a necessary step to realize that we do live under a system that encourages an amoral allocation of resources. If people only ever shrug that off or treat it as intractable it will never change. Some would argue that it cannot be changed, but I think that just means they haven't read history.
by ChrisSD | 2025-12-02 02:04:40+00:00
That study only says that most Americans think they interact with AI at least a few times a week (it doesn't say how or if it's intentional). And it also says the vast majority feel they have little or no control over whether AI is used in the lives.

For example, someone getting a google search result containing an AI response is technically interacting with AI but not necessarily making use of its response or even wanting to see it in the first place. Or perhaps someone suspects their insurance premiums were decided by AI (whether that's true or not). Or customer service that requires you go through a chat bot before you get real service.
by weaksauce | 2025-12-02 02:05:15+00:00
about 5 months ago i jumped ship to kde plasma and it's been great. took a month or two to get the most prized things working the way i wanted but kde is so configurable that you can get it to work pretty much identical to a mac. toshy gives you all the familiar mac keyboard shortcuts and lets you do per application configs. I can't see going back to a mac unless an employer mandated it. the freedom you have is refreshing. if something doesn't work the way you want it you can change it.