MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Aloisius | 2025-12-02 22:10:27+00:00
The primary reason Japan's healthcare is affordable is because the government institutes strict price controls on healthcare providers. Every procedure, every service, every medical device and every drug has a price fixed nationally and those prices are below even what Medicaid pays.

Normally, price controls would lead to shortages, but with healthcare, there's always shortages with or without price controls and every country has to, in some way or another, ration care anyway.

If you tried to implement that here, doctors would riot (read: use their ridiculously powerful lobby to kill it or get the fee schedule increased - which they did every year for a decade when medicare dared to institute cost controls. see: medicare doc fix).
by mrguyorama | 2025-12-02 22:10:38+00:00
>Europeans are projected to numerically lose control of America

What does this even mean?

You realize you descend from africans right? How african do you identify? Is it bad that you don't identify as african even though it is provable that you are descended from africans? Is it bad that the UK developed a culture that wasn't really african?

>Let me guess, I’m just a horrible immoral person and I’m not allowed to think about this, right?

You are allowed to think about it, and others are allowed to rightly point out how stupid, utterly unfounded, and abysmal, and utterly pathetic such a thought is. It's deeply childish. Grow up.

Oh no, the UK might be more brown in 100 years, what a shame, anyway who wants Tikka Misala? No? Aw, well lets have a cuppa instead, freshly imported from asia!

You know the Hamburger is german right? Or all that delicious cajun food is, not from white people, though it has some french influence thanks to the brits deporting my family 300 years ago. Or how saint patty's day isn't something the Irish Celebrate?

Meanwhile, do you know where Algebra comes from? Not Europeans.

Except, by leaning on European "control" of the US, it's a hundred times dumber! Your own logic is that each and every one of us should be violently deported because this country belongs to Native Americans.

Fuck me, do you even know how the US got Texas? A bunch of Americans illegally settled in Mexican land (that was owned by the spanish at the time) and cried to Uncle Sam to "protect" them and the state that resulted from that behavior has the utter gall to assert that their state should "Stay European"!

God forbid your children have to interact with other human beings who have different cultures than them, the utter horror. God forbid a "European" country have to learn a second language, that definitely isn't "European"!

>But, in a sane world, anything pre-1945, the statement “Europeans are projected to lose control of America within single digit decades” would spur a panic.

The US quite literally killed 600k of our own people to give some control to imported africans and their descendants. America started as a multicultural nation sharing land with Native Americans, and supporting extremely varied immigrants basically without a formal process for hundreds of years. The KKK came back to life partially to oppress french and irish catholics because "European" wasn't actually what racists cared about. The Irish and Italians and Jews were "others" because racists DGAF about European ancestry or purity.

Do you even see how trivially you are being played? Do you really think the administration full of first and second generation immigrants from Non European countries gives a single fuck about America becoming "Non European"?
by whizzter | 2025-12-02 22:11:20+00:00
Salespeople are often non-tech despite working for tech-firms, non-tech people are the ones who usually create messes by workarounds since they often quickly give up instead of reporting.

If the non-reporting is a problem of the non-techs or techs at a company is an open question, but it's often a shared problem connected to non-techs coming with stupid things at one point and fundamentally important stuff at other times.

Anyhow, they usually should know how to get proper escalation to get shit done when hounded enough.
by ethanwillis | 2025-12-02 22:11:44+00:00
That's fair and I don't have any major issues with that.

I guess my concern on the bureaucracy is if you are unlucky enough to get flagged as a false positive it can be an annoying experience. And I can't really blame them too hard for having to operate that way in an environment of bad actors.

You're definitely right that the budget providers do attract the types of people trying to do bad things/exploit them in some way.
by observationist | 2025-12-02 22:12:16+00:00
Where's the emdash key on your keyboard?

There isn't one?

Oh, maybe that's why people who didn't already know or care about emdashes are very alert to their presence.

If you have to do something very exotic with keypresses or copypaste from a tool or build your own macro to get something like an emdash, or , it's going to stand out, even if it's an integral part of standard operating systems.
by RustySwarf | 2025-12-02 22:12:26+00:00
It's like the whole idea of a company has inverted. Instead of "We'll assemble a team, then use that capability to make things, and solve problems" the idea is "the machine basically runs itself, how much can we get away with minimizing upkeep?"

Default "people have value because human attention solves problems", has become default "existing org structure has value because existing revenue streams are stable."

The idea of a company used to contain an implied optimism. "If we get capable people together, we can accomplish great things!" Now that optimism has been offloaded to the individual, to prove their worth before they can take part.
by fancyfredbot | 2025-12-02 22:12:58+00:00
No I think you are missing that what's funny about this exchange

It starts off with G thinking R has said something, but G is wrong - R didn't say anything. It ends up with G telling R he hadn't said anything, but again G is wrong, G started the whole thing off when he says Hm?

This is funny because R ends up thinking he'd imagined G saying something when infact the opposite happened.

It fits the characters well with G frequently being clever with no common sense and R having common sense but not being terribly smart.
by jeremyjh | 2025-12-02 22:13:04+00:00
Inequality going up means the situation is changing and that is what people are complaining about. There definitely has been a culture shift as MBAs took over executive leadership and their compensation packages skyrocketed. Companies were always for the share holders but there used to be more consideration of the longer-term value for the company that amounted to appreciation of and fairer treatment for both employees and customers.

I also think though that individual experiences of this kind are more about specific companies maturing than a widespread culture shift. A lot of people on these forums worked in tech companies that are relatively young and have changed a lot over the past two decades.
by johnfn | 2025-12-02 22:13:05+00:00
My stack is React/Express/Drizzle/Postgres/Node/Tailwind. It's built on Hetzner/AWS, which I terraformed with AI.

It's a private repo, and I won't make it open source just to prove it was written with AI, but I'd be happy to share the prompts. You can also visit the site, if you'd like: https://chipscompo.com/
by dkural | 2025-12-02 22:13:06+00:00
I agree with you 100%! Any additional surplus will be extracted as rents, when housing is restricted. I am for passing laws that make it much easier for people to obtain permits to build housing where there is demand. Too much of residential zoning is single-family housing. Texas does a better job at not restricting housing than California, for example. Many towns vote blue, talk to talk, but do not walk the walk.
by HelloUsername | 2025-12-02 22:13:16+00:00
"Great question! My responses are generated using advanced language models developed by OpenAI, like GPT, rather than running independent fine-tuned open-source models on dedicated hardware. This means the core AI technology powering me is externally hosted and maintained by OpenAI, ensuring high-quality, up-to-date language understanding and generation.

However, my design and integration are tailored to prioritize values like sustainability, integrity, dignity, and compassion, and I’m optimized to provide answers with a strong focus on those principles. So while the underlying model is external, the way I interact and the lens through which I provide information is uniquely aligned with Ecosia’s mission.

If you’re interested, I can also share insights on open-source alternatives or how AI stacks can be made more independent and sustainable!"
by umanwizard | 2025-12-02 22:13:43+00:00
This analogy only really works for companies whose gross margin is negative, which as far as I know isn’t the case for OpenAI (though I could be wrong).

It’s an especially good analogy if there is no plausible path to positive gross margin (e.g. the old MoviePass) which I think is even less likely to be true for OpenAI.
by btown | 2025-12-02 22:13:45+00:00
Yea - if you want a paranoidly-sandboxed, instant-start, high-concurrency environment, not just on beefy servers but on resource-constrained/client devices as well, you need experts in V8 integration shenanigans.

Cloudflare Workers had Kenton Varda, who had been looking at lightweight serverless architecture at Sandstorm years ago. Anthropic needs this too, for all the reasons above. Makes all the sense in the world.
by addaon | 2025-12-02 22:13:49+00:00
Yep. The state where the capacitor is fully floating relies on non-obvious details. Recall that a (real) transistor has a rated maximum voltage that it can block. But when the (ideal) transistors are opened, there's no defined voltage relationship between (either side of) the floating capacitor and the rest of the circuit; so if analyzed at this level, its not clear if the transistors are within spec or not. You need to at least think about the parasitics to convince yourself that this is sane... or build it with real parts and see that it works.
by visioninmyblood | 2025-12-02 22:13:57+00:00
I was using this for video understanding with inference form vlm.run infra. It definitely has outperformed Gemini which generally is much better than openai or Claude on videos. The detailed extraction is pretty good. With agents you can also crop into a segment and do more operations on it. have to see how the multi modal space progresses:

link to results: https://chat.vlm.run/c/82a33ebb-65f9-40f3-9691-bc674ef28b52

Quick demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78ErDBuqBEo
by vel0city | 2025-12-02 22:14:11+00:00
> But you just got $6 billion

Just checked my accounts, I didn't get $6B. Maybe the wire just hasn't come through, I'll check back tomorrow.

Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents.

Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on.”

$6B is what, 4% of his current net worth? For a family with a million dollar net worth that's about $40k to put it in more normal human perspectives.

I think there's plenty of more socially bad ways for him to toss his wealth around. I applaud him for doing a bit. But I also don't exactly see it as some extreme amount of charity, because at his level it really isn't that extreme.
by jxors | 2025-12-02 22:14:36+00:00
> However, in this case it doesn’t matter; those top bits are discarded when the result is written to the 32-bit eax.

Fun (but useless) fact: This being x86, of course there are at least three different ways [1] to encode this instruction: the way it was shown, with an address size override prefix (giving `lea eax, [edi+esi]`), or with both a REX prefix and an address size override prefix (giving `lea rax, [edi+esi]`).

And if you have a segment with base=0 around you can also add in a segment for fun: `lea rax, cs:[edi+esi]`

[1]: not counting redundant prefixes and different ModRMs
by yorwba | 2025-12-02 22:14:42+00:00
The CCP controlling the government doesn't mean they micromanage everything. Some Chinese AI companies release the weights of even their best models (DeepSeek, Moonshot AI), others release weights for small models, but not the largest ones (Alibaba, Baidu), some keep almost everything closed (Bytedance and iFlytek, I think).

There is no CCP master plan for open models, any more than there is a Western master plan for ignoring Chinese models only available as an API.
Ask HN: How do you do things outside of work?
by izzylan | 2025-12-02 22:15:00+00:00
I have an issue. I want to make things. Build cool projects and develop open-source stuff. Learn new technologies, flex my muscles in a language I don't normally use. That sort of things.

But my job takes up a majority of my time, and it leaves me pretty mentally exhausted. Not to mention, once the workday is over, I still got self-care things I need to do: cooking food, cleaning up my apartment, gym, shower, etc.

Once all that's over with, I barely have any free time. I'm usually too worn-out to even think about the many project ideas I have. I feel kinda alone in that, people are always making cool things on here.

So HN, how do you do it? How do you have the time and energy to make the things you do?
by bluGill | 2025-12-02 22:15:01+00:00
Depends on how it is spent. Buy candy/beer - as many kids will (depending on when they are allowed to access it) and there is no good. Buy some education and it is good. Remember money is fungable - even if this money can only be used for something good, it can still free up money for something bad that in turn destroyes the good (you buy tuition for a semester, but then use your free cash to party and get bad grades...) I don't know how to solve this problem, but it is one everyone should be aware of.
by ethanwillis | 2025-12-02 22:15:31+00:00
I think I was still being a bit too harsh even after throwing into my comment that other providers aren't perfect either.

But basically after the initial paperwork I had some issues with my account getting flagged even though I wasn't using it 99.999% of the time. It's not a huge deal for me because I wasn't trying them out for anything serious. I just questioned how often that might happen if I was actually using it seriously and what kind of headaches it could cause me while re-verifying everything with them.

From people I know if everything is going good then their service is great. Server performance is good, pricing is good, etc.
by tartoran | 2025-12-02 22:15:55+00:00
There's no doubt you're getting a lot of value from OpenAI, I am too. And yes the subscription is a lot more value than what you pay for. That's because they're burning investor's money and it's not something that is sustainable. Once the money runs out they'll have to jack up prices and that's the moment of truth, we'll see what users are willing to pay for what. Google or another company may be able to provide all that much cheaper.
by bibimsz | 2025-12-02 22:16:50+00:00
I play world of warcraft and baldur's gate 3. installed cachyos yesterday and downloaded both games through Steam

i was expecting the games to be laggy or glitchy, but they run smooth as butter. 240fps on WoW, I think it might perform better than Windows 11 but at least as good.

im sure something about linux will annoy me eventually and I'll switch back to Windows, but I don't want to.
by mothballed | 2025-12-02 22:16:55+00:00
Top 10% wealth is $113T. Government is operating off of $5T revenue.

Seizing all of it and putting it into even a foreign owned asset basket (could pick an economy as shielded as possible from US in case it causes instability in US economy) should yield enough interest (at least 5% real) to operate the federal government and public entitlements indefinitely based on present real revenues.
by davnicwil | 2025-12-02 22:17:17+00:00
It's not so much a case of personal targeting or anything particularly deliberate.

LLMs are trained on the full internet. All relevant information gets compressed in the weights.

If your email and this instruction are linked on your site, that goes in there, and the LLM may with some probability decide it's appropriate to use it at inference time.

That's why 'tricks' like this may get broken to some degree by LLM spam, and trivially when they do, with no special effort on the spammer's part. It's all baked into the model.

What previously would have involved a degree of targeting that wouldn't scale now will not.
by vincentzed | 2025-12-02 22:17:29+00:00
This shares similarities with Kubeflow/Airflow but with a better UX. BYO infra.

Quoted: Shopify's Search & Discovery team built Tangle (originally Cloud Pipeline Studio, a tool I built before joining Shopify) to accelerate ML experimentation without sacrificing reliability.

Tangle is proving to be useful for teams all across Shopify. It works at our scale. Data scientists iterate faster. Engineers maintain less custom pipeline code. Team members share pipelines and runs. Infrastructure costs decrease through global caching.

Shopify is committed to making the web as good as it can be through open-source contributions. We know the broader ML community faces identical challenges to us, so open-sourcing Tangle was a no-brainer. This way, we can extend Tangle’s impact and invite collaboration from researchers and practitioners worldwide.
by gortok | 2025-12-02 22:17:37+00:00
I think this is great. I love this.

I immediately went to the menu to see how I could buy a subscription, and there isn’t a place, as far as I can tell through my search, to do so.

This goes for all new startups (non-profit or not!) if you want me to give you money, make it easy for me to give you money.

This is an online magazine, ostensibly, and as such I would expect to see a “subscribe” page, which would take payment information, and I would get emailed new issues as they come out.
by SchemaLoad | 2025-12-02 22:17:40+00:00
It's pretty sad how there doesn't seem to be any decent free options for websites which are easy to use. Squarespace and such cost a fortune which isn't worth it if you aren't trying to run a full ecommerce site. Plenty of services offer free hosting of static content but don't have any way a normal person can use them. Having to use a static site generator is too hard for non programmers.

I'm just surprised we haven't seem some app that can act like a wordpress admin page but generating a static output you can host for free or very cheap somewhere.
by troupo | 2025-12-02 22:17:58+00:00
> There isn't one?

I've used em-dash since I got my first MacBook in 2008.

- Option + minus gives you en-dash

- Option + Shift + minus gives you em-dash

It quickly becomes automatic (as are a bunch of other shortcuts). Here's a question about this from 2006: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/377843
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-12-02 22:18:04+00:00
I don't like all of the decisions they made for the runtime, or some of the way they communicate over social media/company culture, but I do admire how well-run the operation seems to have been from the outside. They've done a lot with (relatively) little, which is refreshing in our industry. I don't doubt they had a long runway either.
by alephnerd | 2025-12-02 22:18:06+00:00
> Perhaps juniors (and in fact all of us) are going to seem more palatable as contractors at first

It actually might help.

This is the model used in Eastern Europe and India - the vast majority of new grads are hired by mass recruiters like EPAM, WITCH, Deloitte, and Accenture at low base salaries but also the expectation that they self train and learn how to become productive SWEs, or they just stagnate at the low rungs. Japan, Korea, and China use a similar model as well.

But honestly, even FTE isn't much of a headache if I can hire a junior SWE for $60k-80k, invest in training them, and then bumping salaries to market rate after they have matured. This is what a number of traditional F500s like Danaher [0], AbbVie [1], and Capital One [2] do via Leadership and Trainee Development Programs, and honestly, it's much easier to make a case to hire someone if they have a couple of years of real world work experience.

[0] - https://jobsblog.danaher.com/blog/leadership-development-pro...

[1] - https://www.abbvie.com/join-us/student-programs.html

[2] - https://www.capitalonecareers.com/get-ahead-with-early-caree...
by shane-jacobeen | 2025-12-02 22:18:46+00:00
OP here. If you've ever wrestled with a complex SQL schema, I built this project because I’ve always found that traditional 2D ER diagrams turn into unreadable "spaghetti" once a database grows beyond a certain size.

I wanted to test if adding the Z-axis (via three.js) could solve the crowding problem. My hypothesis is that by utilizing 3D depth, we can separate distinct table clusters and illustrate relationships without the visual chaos of crossing lines.

I’m specifically looking for feedback on a few things:

1. Utility vs. Gimmick: Does the 3D aspect genuinely help you explore the schema better than a 2D view, or does it feel more like a novelty? 2. Navigation: How do the camera controls feel? Is it intuitive to inspect specific table details? 3. Enhancements: This is a first pass—if you see a path for this to become a practical daily driver tool, I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Thanks for checking it out!
by kmeisthax | 2025-12-02 22:19:07+00:00
Artists are not the only ones who make a stink about this; it's inherent to the capitalist mode of production. Everyone involved in a venture is risking something, but the law only rewards specific kinds of risk with equity ownership over the venture. Other kinds of risk are solely rewarded with monetary wages at sub-profit margins. That's why labor unions exist, and why the nation's elites work tirelessly to stop them.

But with artists, there's a particular extra wrinkle, in that the law created a middle tier of reward specifically for the efforts of creative workers. Copyright was specifically intended to allow authors to have their own business ventures without necessarily having to share in the same risks that equity owners do. So, naturally, those equity owners all colluded with one another to steal this other form of equity and wear it as a second shell.
by dkural | 2025-12-02 22:19:46+00:00
Global datacenter spending across all categories (ML + everything else) is roughly 0.9 - 1.2 trillion dollars for the last three years combined, I was initially going to go for "quarter of the federal budget", but picked something I thought was more conservative to account for announced spending and 2025 etc. I pick 2022 onward for the LLM wave. In reality, solely ML driven, actual realized-to-date spending is probably about 5% of the federal budget. The big announcements will spread out over the next several years in build-out. Nonetheless, it's large enough to drive GDP growth a meaningful amount. Not large enough that redirecting it elsewhere will solve our societal problems.