MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by proberts | 2025-12-05 22:28:01+00:00
There are ways for someone in H-1B status to start a company and not in a roundabout way. The approach will depend in part on whether she will leave her current employer and get an H-1B through her startup, stay with her current employment and get a concurrent part-time H-1B through her startup, or just stay with her current employer and somehow work on her startup.
by metalman | 2025-12-05 22:29:04+00:00
out the back door of my house, down through the field and woods to the water is a 12 min walk at high tide, and another 12 min + walk to the water at low tide, 53 vertical feet between the two. I know ,not the slightest thing about tides, other than what my senses tell me when walking the shore, and I suppose the practicalities of beach walking along cliffs are similar to planning and predicting arival times for ships loaded to the maximum draft, the money to be made there bieng the motivation behind the push to understand tides.
by JamesSwift | 2025-12-05 22:29:10+00:00
I just oneshot it with claude code (opus 4.5) using this prompt. It took about 5 mins and included detecting that it was cheating at first (drew a line around the boundary of the maze instead), so it added guardrails for that:

```

Create a devenv project that does the following:

- Read the image at maze.jpg - Write a script that solves the maze in the most optimal way between the mouse and the cheese - Generate a new image which is of the original maze, but with a red line that represents the calculated path

Use whatever lib/framework is most appropriate

```

Output: https://gist.github.com/J-Swift/ceb1db348f46ba167948f734ff0fc604 Solution: https://imgur.com/a/bkJloPT
by dh2022 | 2025-12-05 22:29:16+00:00
And Medicare cannot negotiate drug prices until 2026 (). Medicare is also banned from re-importing drugs from other countries (ex Canada) at lower prices. Thank you president GWB, the Alliance to Improve Medicare, and AARP (!!!!) https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1126891/

() Biden's inflation act gave Medicare permission to start negotiating drug prices in 2026. Who know what the current US Administration will do though.
by jtbayly | 2025-12-05 22:30:18+00:00
Yep. And it's worse than that.

80% of prescriptions are controlled by 3 companies. You can look up the FTC report on it. All three of them own or are owned by insurance companies.

The insurance companies had their profit percentage capped, and so the only way they could increase profits was by increasing their share of the pie. So they bought medical providers and prescription companies.

Now the insurance company is both the buyer and the seller, but not the one who pays. We pay. So they raise the prices of the drug, raise the cost of insurance, and make a lot more money while staying in their profit percent cap.

All the way around, this is the opposite of a free market and the FTC should be breaking these companies up. And as everybody knows, all the way around, it is immoral, too.
by testbjjl | 2025-12-05 22:30:57+00:00
I once worked for a tech company that bought Warner Brothers, well time Warner. Did not end well for the tech company (AOL). In my opinion at the time, the cultures between the two were so different. Fly by night tech guys making a decent amount of money mixing with people who worked long to get where they were in the content space, plus the commercial internet was “newer” e.g. less established then. As they used to say, content is king. Good luck.
by FloorEgg | 2025-12-05 22:31:14+00:00
In some narrow contexts that is easy, but in many other contexts that is not easy, or doesn't actually solve it.

online programs, limited infrastructure, dishonest students exploiting accessibility programs, are some examples where it's easier to say than do what you're suggesting.

Also AI can help students cheat in class too. Smart glasses, pens with cameras and LED screens on them (yes really), or just regular smart phones. Even switching to pen and paper won't reduce the ease of access.

Instructors don't want to police cheating, they want to teach (or do research). Either way, they don't want to police.

Students cheat when they think what they're learning is low value, the learning process is too clunky, or they place too high a value on the grade. All these imbalances can be improved with better pedagogy.

The only enduring way to actually solve the cheating crisis isn't to make it harder, it's to reduce the value of cheating. Everything else is either temporary or performative.
by BeetleB | 2025-12-05 22:31:29+00:00
This is an insight I realized several years ago: I want RSS, but I don't want to track what I've read and haven't. I solved my problem by writing a bot for each RSS feed - it would mirror posts in Diaspora. I would then subscribe to those bots.

These days it's Mastodon, but same idea. I just scroll and browse a bit, with nothing in the system telling me I have 573 unread posts.
by majormajor | 2025-12-05 22:31:42+00:00
Chesterton's Fence, no?

Why are real-estate transactions complex and full of paperwork? Because there are history books filled with fraud. There are other types of large transactions that also involve a lot of paperwork too, for the same reason.

Why does a company have extensive internal tracing of the progress of their business processes, and those of their customers? Same reason, usually. People want accountability and they want to discourage embezzlement and such things.
by Animats | 2025-12-05 22:31:46+00:00
It's striking how much the crypto world depends on trust in other parties. The whole point of crypto was supposed to be that it was "trustless". But it's not set up that way. All these crypto derivatives are not set up as contracts on a blockchain, with assets locked up until the derivatives settle. They're book entries with some weakly regulated exchange in Outer Nowhere.
by xnorswap | 2025-12-05 22:32:10+00:00
The best thing about universal healthcare isn't how much money I may or may not have to pay, it's that I literally don't once have to think about a bill or filling out a form to avoid paying too much.

I wouldn't care if I ended up paying more in tax than I would in an insurance model. The benefit is being able to 100% focus on my health instead of navigating a system to try to reduce what I'm paying.

When you're diagnosed with an illness, that's a huge peace of mind.
by FireBeyond | 2025-12-05 22:33:00+00:00
It's a state university, and I said that they had "rules about relationship overnights", not that they were forbidden.

Essentially it's one night a week. So, if both students, effectively two nights a week.

I don't disagree. I think it would be disrespectful to your dorm mate if your partner was just living in that space (which is already small for two, let alone three) most of the time. And you have to imagine that's at least part of the reason why such things are rules now, not suggestions.
by steveklabnik | 2025-12-05 22:33:00+00:00
Glad you like that I like it!

What I will say is this: there is certainly an adjustment period, and I also totally hear you about how learning internals can be time consuming.

I think you can get a lot of the way there with at least the core concept with something like this, if you'll indulge me:

With git, you build up stuff on your filesystem. You then select which bits go into a diff in your index, and then when you're done, you stamp out a commit.

With jj, you instead start by creating a commit. In this case, it's empty. Then, every time you run a jj command, it does a snapshot, and this produces a new commit. However, because we want to have a stable identifier for a commit, we introduce a new one: the change id. This is basically an alias for the latest commit snapshot that was made. Your git history is just made up of each of these latest commits for each change.

... does that make any sense? Obviously there's more to all of the features than this, but that's sort of the core way that the histories map to each other.
by meibo | 2025-12-05 22:33:06+00:00
If someone at work was writing blog posts with white-supremacist code, then yes, I would probably go to HR and they would probably get in trouble. Maybe they wouldn't be fired, but they would be placed on another team. And then the people on that team would find the blog posts, and the same thing would happen, and they would probably be let go at some point.

Because people that do that type of thing usually cannot shut up about it.
by stouset | 2025-12-05 22:33:12+00:00
> jj is harder to adopt for people with a thorough mental model of git

No, it really isn’t. I have used git since shortly after it was first released and I’ve written a git implementation.

I switched to jj in one day. And the amount of git arcana I have to keep in working memory is now basically nil. My VCS now works in almost a 1:1 mapping with how my brain wants to interact with my repo rather than having to go through a translation layer.

If you understand what git commands are doing, what jj does is essentially trivial to add to your mental model.

I also get the benefit of being able to use workflows that I always want to use in git but which are an enormous pain in practice. And I get access to wildly powerful new workflows I didn’t even consider because they would be outlandish in git.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-12-05 22:33:22+00:00
This is true. When you look at actually free markets -- like the gray markets in bodybuilding drugs, "nootropics," peptides, etc. -- you'll find that there's usually a race to the bottom on price, and that everything is easily affordable out of pocket. Quality also tends to be okay, as lab reports are one of the primary ways that customers rank and differentiate between brands.

And these aren't necessarily old pharma hand-me-downs. There are lots of novel and strange drugs (9-MBC, lol) that you can buy for next to nothing.
by sneak | 2025-12-05 22:33:47+00:00
I know the guideline about complaining about site display and rendering, but there’s more to this one, I promise.

This gives a CloudFront 403 error when loaded from a Mullvad VPN endpoint in the US.

How can I vote with my wallet for privacy support from a vendor when there are only a few vendors and they all block VPNs? This is bigger than Netflix, bigger even than streaming media.

I fear that we are very rapidly advancing to a point where you can’t use any of the “normal internet” and the mass-appeal normie services without doing full identification with some unique identifier. For most apps, it’s your phone number (which is 1:1 with a person and these days never changes). For websites, it’s going to be your residential home (IP) address.

I’m glad I downloaded all the movies I’ve ever cared about and have local copies of 100% of them. I doubt I’ll be permitted to use any of these services that stream them now, even if I wanted to.
by ggm | 2025-12-05 22:33:57+00:00
Plan9 is like ocean yacht racing. If you have to ask about the "cost" you aren't the target market.

Plan9 is like writing. You either do it, or talk about doing it. I'm talking not doing btw. I tried, but I got stuck on trivial things and the barrier to asking for help over 2+2= is high. (No offence intended. The 9 heads aren't interested in running a kindergarden)
by terminalshort | 2025-12-05 22:34:08+00:00
If a drug isn't one of the following it should be available over the counter.

1. heinously addictive

2. incredibly dangerous when not used exactly correctly

3. an antibiotic (due to the resistance externality)

And for drugs that do meet one of these conditions, doctors should be able to write lifetime prescriptions for cases where the medication is used to treat a permanent condition. This probably covers 95% of non-antibiotic prescriptions. The savings from removing the gatekeepers in terms of time and money would be massive and the costs would be minimal.
by jeroenimo | 2025-12-05 22:34:13+00:00
I have a Lenovo thinkpad T14 gen 1. Certainly not the fastest, but in have yet to find a problem running Linux. It suspends, hibernates and I haven’t found any quirks yet Everything works and it’s built like a tank. Battery has 600 cycles and I still get 4 hrs out of it, when in low power mode. I’m pretty sure the newer models aren’t that well built and supported. Maybe the gen 3 and 4 of the T14 is similar good. But YMMV..
by rayiner | 2025-12-05 22:34:32+00:00
> Assuming the US continues to alienate its allies

I wouldn’t make business or investment decisions based on any assumptions about “alienation.” I was just in Tokyo for a week of meetings with various business professionals, and there was zero sign of any “alienation.” I was expecting to spend most of the time talking about tariffs and nobody even about them. Everyone instead was focused on the new Prime Minister’s faux pas commenting on the security of Taiwan.

Just one set of data points, of course, but consider whether this concept of alienation is real or a creation of US media.
by alephnerd | 2025-12-05 22:34:37+00:00
> To the extent they felt threatened. That amounted to an increase from ~1.3% of GDP to ~1.55% between 2015 and 2020.

Yet continued to trade as usual with Russia and took no steps to reduce reliance on Russia in strategic sectors.

Like I said, deal with the Russians on your own now. The only state we can even somewhat trust to help us in the Indo-Pac is France.

> France...

You realize France has territories in the Pacific that saw severe instability instigated by Chinese disinformation networks [0] right?

> I'm saying that defense spending is fundamentally wasted money. It may be necessary if you feel threatened...

Which we in the US are when looking at our presence in Pacific. If European nations cannot handle their own affairs, then we may as well put them in their place.

[0] - https://www.aspi.org.au/report/when-china-knocks-door-new-ca...
by dzogchen | 2025-12-05 22:34:38+00:00
> Anyone who’s fought with CMake or dealt with header file dependencies knows this pain. For a small team trying to move quickly, we didn’t want to waste time debugging build configuration issues.

I find this take a bit hard to believe. There's no way that Zig is some kind of magic bullet that avoids build configuration challenges. Especially not considering you are building a browser on top of V8 in a different programming language.

CMake is quite crufty, but there's toolchains for every system under the Sun and this is what makes it actually less painful in a lot of cases. Glossing over your build files it does not look particularly scalable or portable. Nice that Zig allows you to write build config in Zig though.
by acheong08 | 2025-12-05 22:35:23+00:00
Most of the time, my need for terminal multiplexers are accommodated by tiling window managers and workspaces. When I do use Zellij, it's when I'm on my laptop and no sockets are nearby. Then I boot onto console and use Zellij for the scroll, split panes, and session management. A replacement for the desktop if you will. Quite handy.
by hn_acc1 | 2025-12-05 22:36:06+00:00
Sure - NOW. Growing up in the 80s? How did you FIND things? For example, a shop willing to install random non-OEM car part for me? I had to hunt through the yellow pages, cold-call a bunch of places, etc.

My parents are STILL in that mind-set - TV "tells you" about stuff - and TV never lies!!

They're seeing more and more advertising during their "shows". And sadly, becoming more and more susceptible to it as they age - like the thousands of dollars of "apocalypse food buckets" they bought from some televangelist. Most of which they had to leave behind when they moved into the retirement community (ignoring the rationality of buying it in the first place).
by watwut | 2025-12-05 22:36:44+00:00
People cant verbalize good and bad writing. Being able to see it and being able to diagnoze are two different things.

Fact is, AI writing is just bad. It checks all the elementary school writing boxes, but fails in a sense that it is a bad, overly verbose, just subtly but meaningfully incorrect text. People see that, cant put the issue into words and then look for other signs.

Yes, ai is bad in a way someone who learns some rules about writing produces bad texts. And when human writes the same way, it is still bad.
by RickJWagner | 2025-12-05 22:37:01+00:00
No, not hardly.

The evil ones are the people that put out the welcome mat for great caravans of immigrants, then looked the other way or even threw them out of their community when they arrived in their backyard.

Such people were great humanitarians when the immigrants were staying close to the border. That changed quickly when the first bus arrived at Martha’s Vineyard.

The truly evil ones are the NIMBY crowd, when they were the welcoming crowd for somebody else’s back yard.
by Spooky23 | 2025-12-05 22:37:04+00:00
You’re overthinking it. The accommodation is a quieter room with a more generous time limit. Just provide that and use a lottery to distribute slots. I had classes that had take home finals.

My son runs into the phony accommodation game in middle school. The latest BS is to get a dyslexia diagnosis, which lets you have more time and take a 90 minute break (where they look up the answers). 9 kids discovered that they have this condition in 8th grade. Performance impacts eligibility for placement in some programs in high school.

If the kids didn’t know it, I wouldn’t have an issue with it. But they do, and abusing accommodations and gamification of zero integrity behavior undermines society in a small way.
by maccard | 2025-12-05 22:37:10+00:00
I was being a little tongue in cheek, and my "basically" was doing a lot of heavy lifting. VSCode is electron based, so under the hood it's already doing the heavy lifting. It's got a first class editor, first class terminal, first class plugins developed using web tech, very easily and readily debuggable.

It has a browser built in, which is "just" an iframe, and it definitely doesn't function as a full blown web browser, but it does work for previewing your dev work, and given it's a dev tool it makes sense that the experience would be editor+debugger+tools first, with browser as a second class citizen (rather than chrome with an embedded terminal which would be the other way around).
by tzs | 2025-12-05 22:37:16+00:00
That's been studied and the evidence suggests that there is some causation. Bacteria that cause your gum disease can get into the bloodstream and reach the brain, where they release enzymes that cause inflammation and can damage cells.

In particular this can seriously impair microglial cells which is something you really don't want to have happen if you value maintaining a well functioning brain.
by doctorpangloss | 2025-12-05 22:37:21+00:00
Haha, another way of describing what you are saying is enterprise sales: “give people exactly what they ask for, not what makes the most sense.”

Businesses that require enterprise sales are probably the worst performing category of seed investing. They encompass all of Ed tech and health tech, which are the two worst industry verticals for VC; and Y Combinator has to focus on an index of B2B services for other programmers because without that constraint, nearly every “do what you are asked for” would fail. Most of the IT projects business do internally fail!

In fact I think the idea you are selling is even harder, it is much harder to do B2B enterprise sales than knowing if the thing you are making makes sense and is good.
by RoyalHenOil | 2025-12-05 22:37:24+00:00
I used to work on a farm producing hybrid seed. It is indeed very, very expensive compared to non-hybrid seed — in large part because it is a LOT of work to produce, depending on the crop.

You have to maintain a separate "father" line and "mother" line. You must prevent the mother line from self-pollinating, which in some cases (like tomatoes) requires you to physically remove the anthers from every single flower, ever single day.

You must also prevent it from cross-pollinating with the wrong crop, which (for insect-pollinated crops) means you may need to grow it under insect-proof netting and then provide your own pollinators. That's easy enough if it's a honeybee-pollinated crop, but some crops are only pollinated by wild insects, so you need to hand-pollinate every flower.

In most cases, the father line needs to be grown intermixed with the mother line to ensure good pollination. These are usually two wildly different varieties (otherwise, why are you hybridizing them?) with different physical features, care requirements, planting times, etc. This means you typically can't use standard farming equipment (which is designed for monocropping at scale) and must plant and care for the crops using a lot more physical labor.

Once the mother line is pollinated, the father line must removed to ensure it doesn't produce seed that could get mixed up with the hybrid seed. While removing it, you have to be very careful to not the damage the mother line crop. In some crops, you must not even jostle the mother plants too much or they'll drop a lot of their seed.

For this reason, F1 hybrid seed is very expensive, especially for crops where hybridizing is particularly painstaking. For example, the tomato seed I hybridized sold for approximately $1 per seed. It was extremely worth it to or customers, though, because it meant they could grow several times the amount of fruit in the same space with the same inputs.
by Beijinger | 2025-12-05 22:37:31+00:00
You could try this:

Visomitin (Emoxipine/Mexidol) eye drops are a Russian-developed antioxidant medication known for treating dry eyes, fatigue, radiation damage, and improving vision, working to protect eye cells from damage (oxidative stress), but it's not widely available or FDA-approved in the US, requiring international purchase or specific prescriptions, often used for cataracts or post-surgery recovery, focusing on cell protection rather than just lubrication like many Western OTC drops.
by NewsaHackO | 2025-12-05 22:37:33+00:00
Unless you are using a proprietary, dedicated grammar checker, auto grammar check is far from perfect and will miss some subject-verb agreement errors, incorrect use of idioms, or choppy flow. Particularly in professional environments where you are being evaluated, this can tank an otherwise solid piece of written work. Even online in HN comments, people will poke fun at grammar, and (while I don't have objective evidence for this) I have noticed that posts with poor grammar or misspellings tend to have less engagement overall. In a perfect world, this wouldn't matter, but it's a huge driving factor for why people use LLMs to touch up their writing.
by kbolino | 2025-12-05 22:38:01+00:00
There's no sweet spot I've found. I don't work for Cloudflare but when I did have a status indicator to maintain, you could never please everyone. Users would complain when our system was up but a dependent system was down, saying that our status indicator was a lie. "Fixing" that by marking our system as down or degraded whenever a dependent system was down led to the status indicator being not green regularly, causing us to unfairly develop a reputation as unreliable (most broken dependencies had limited blast radius). The juice no longer seemed worth the squeeze and we gave up on automated status indicators.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-12-05 22:38:03+00:00
Europe doesn't have a single health service. There are going to be different prices in different countries under different schemes.

In my EU country I get a subsidy of at least two thirds on most drug prices with a state prescription. But the nominal cost is already negotiated down by state purchasing, and I suspect there's some EU cooperation there. So it's impossible to say what the "normal" price would be.

The cost of the paperwork depends on your doctor. I pay €3 for new paperwork a few times a year.

You can get many drugs OTC here without a prescription - more expensive, but it always surprises tourists who suddenly discover they can get many common meds (except for things like antibiotics and steroids) just by asking.