MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by grayhatter | 2025-12-01 05:25:34+00:00
> I suspect you’re misjudging the friend here. This sounds more like the famous “no brown m&ms” clause in the Van Halen performance contract. As ridiculous as the request is, it being followed provides strong evidence that the rest (and more meaningful) of the requests are.

I'd argue, it's more like you've bought so much into the idea this is reasonable, that you're also willing to go through extreme lengths to recon and pretend like this is sane.

Imagine two different worlds, one where the tools that engineers use, have a clear, and reasonable way to detect and determine if the generative subsystem is still on the rails provided by the controller.

And another world where the interface is completely devoid of any sort of basic introspection interface, and because it's a problematic mess, all the way down, everyone invents some asinine way that they believe provides some sort of signal as to whether or not the random noise generator has gone off the rails.

> Sounds like the friend understands quite well how LLMs actually work and has found a clever way to be signaled when it’s starting to go off the rails.

My point is that while it's a cute hack, if you step back and compare it objectively, to what good engineering would look like. It's wild so many people are all just willing to accept this interface as "functional" because it means they don't have to do the thinking that required to emit the output the AI is able to, via the specific randomness function used.

Imagine these two worlds actually do exist; and instead of using the real interface that provides a clear bool answer to "the generative system has gone off the rails" they *want* to be called Mr Tinkerberry

Which world do you think this example lives in? You could convince me, Mr Tinkleberry is a cute example of the latter, obviously... but it'd take effort to convince me that this reality is half reasonable or that's it's reasonable that people who would want to call themselves engineers should feel proud to be a part of this one.

Before you try to strawman my argument, this isn't a gatekeeping argument. It's only a critical take on the interface options we have to understand something that might as well be magic, because that serves the snakeoil sales much better.

> > Is the magic token machine working?

> Fuck I have no idea dude, ask it to call you a funny name, if it forgets the funny name it's probably broken, and you need to reset it

Yes, I enjoy working with these people and living in this world.
by parineum | 2025-12-01 05:25:40+00:00
I'm just saying, how often do you need to adjust your phone while you're cycling?

It's a step back to not be able to do it by voice but if you're concerned enough about your privacy, stopping once or twice during a ride doesn't sound like the end of the world.

I'm not saying it's fine that Google took away functionality but, from a practical perspective, it seems like OP was acting like there's no other option available to change tracks. There is and it's really not that inconvenient.
by nradov | 2025-12-01 05:26:05+00:00
I support subsidies to help low-income citizens who legitimately can't afford health insurance, but some of the temporary ACA subsidies passed in 2021 were ridiculous. They were handing out cash to early retirees as young as age 55 with incomes over 400% of the poverty line.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/17/aca-enhanced-subsidy-lapse-g...

I don't want my tax dollars wasted on subsidizing them. Give the money to someone who actually needs it.

(Of course the real problem is healthcare costs accelerating out of control. Insurance subsidies won't fix that problem. In fact they make it worse by encouraging healthcare providers and drug companies to raise prices even faster.)
by dashundchen | 2025-12-01 05:27:33+00:00
What did the ACA require that shouldn't be part of healthcare in one the wealthiest countries in the world?

Annual check ups? Cancer screenings? Maternity care? Basic mental health? Forcing the insurance companies to accept patients with preexisting conditions?

These services should be available to everyone.

If a developed country cannot provide these things to its citizens it's a failing state in my book.
by aikinai | 2025-12-01 05:27:39+00:00
In many cases regarding immigration, any single agent can act as judge, jury, and (deportation) executioner. Again something I learned many years ago and have kept top of mind for my own family.

If you are already married, then you enter the country with an assertion that you have no intent to immigrate, then you soon after apply to immigrate, chances you were not lying are vanishingly slim.

Yes, if you meet after you enter the country, then that doesn't apply to you. That's exactly when it is appropriate to apply from inside the country and stay while your application is pending. That's not what these couples are doing.
by rockskon | 2025-12-01 05:27:48+00:00
What isn't going anywhere? You're kidding yourself if you think every single place AI is used will withstand the test of time. You're also kidding yourself if you think consumer sentiment will play no part in determining which uses of AI will eventually die off.

I don't think anyone seriously believes the technology will categorically stop being used anytime soon. But then again we still keep using tech thats 50+ years old as it is.
by adamredwoods | 2025-12-01 05:27:57+00:00
Here's the study on that:

https://academic.oup.com/psychsocgerontology/article/77/4/78...

>> Across a generation’s life course, early-life advantages are magnified through disparate occupational and social trajectories that lead to wide late-life disparities in financial and health resources, in a process first termed by Crystal and Shea as one of “cumulative advantage and disadvantage” (CAD; Crystal, 1982, 1986, 2020; Crystal et al., 1992, 2017; Crystal & Shea, 1990b; Dannefer, 1987, 1988). Dannefer (1987) described the trend of increasing inequality over the life course as the “Matthew effect,” applying a biblical dictum first used by Merton (1968), stating that “to he who has much, more is given, and to he who has little, even that is taken.” This ongoing process has also been described as an “obdurate tendency” for increasing inequality over the life course (Dannefer, 2020).
by loeg | 2025-12-01 05:28:18+00:00
> But I can't imagine what people have to sacrifice to keep any kind of coverage (with high deductible and horrible coinsurance and prescription drug coverage) for their families if they don't have a decent income :(

These increases are specifically a lapse in subsidies for high earners -- those with a "decent income." People under 400% of Federal Poverty Level still qualify for the subsidies. And it's a relatively recent policy change to roll back; we didn't have this subsidy from 2010-2020.
by handoflixue | 2025-12-01 05:29:09+00:00
The main failure state I find is that Claude wants to write an incredibly verbose Claude.md, but if I instruct it "one sentence per topic, be concise" it usually does a good job.

That said, a lot of what it can deduce by looking at the code is exactly what you shouldn't include, since it will usually deduce that stuff just by interacting with the code base. Claude doesn't seem good at that.

An example of both overly-verbose and unnecessary:

### 1. Identify the Working Directory

When a user asks you to work on something:

1. *Check which project* they're referring to

2. *Change to that directory* explicitly if needed

3. *Stay in that directory* for file operations

```bash

# Example: Working on ProjectAlpha

cd /home/user/code/ProjectAlpha

```

(The one sentence version is "Each project has a subfolder; use pwd to make sure you're in the right directory", and the ideal version is probably just letting it occasionally spend 60 seconds confused, until it remembers pwd exists)
by tombert | 2025-12-01 05:29:46+00:00
> Today's FreeBSD resembles the Linux of 10 or 20 years ago a lot more than today's Linux does.

I'm not sure that that's the win that you think it is. Linux 10 to 20 years ago was pretty terrible, at least on desktops.

Everyone hates on systemd, but honestly I really think that the complaints are extremely overblown. I've been using systemd based distros since around ~2012, and while I've had many issues with Linux in that time, I can't really say that any of them were caused by systemd. systemd is easy to use, journalctl is nice for looking at logs, and honestly most of the complaints I see about it boil down to "well what if...", what-if's that simply hasn't happened yet.

FreeBSD is cool, but when I run it I do sometimes kind of miss systemd, simply because systemd is easy. I know there was some interest in launchd in the FreeBSD world but I don't know how far that actually got or if it got any traction, but I really wish it would.
by faidit | 2025-12-01 05:30:53+00:00
Yeah. Minimizing patient days spent in hospital was also mentioned as a metric. Sure that may be good for some reasons (eg avoiding iatrogenesis) but incentivizing it could lead to patients being sent home too early instead of receiving proper care.

They also mentioned surgeons being "top of their list" - what list? Surgery success rates? That's widely understood to be a problematic measure. Surgeons can boost their success rate by only doing easy operations. Conversely, a surgeon who operates on the most at-risk patients will get a lower success rate because the patients' chances of a good outcome were bad no matter what. Regardless of how good the surgeon actually is, which might be impossible to measure objectively.
by ponooqjoqo | 2025-12-01 05:31:18+00:00
ObamaCare (actually the Affordable Care Act: ACA) is a band-aid solution. It's a way to at least ensure that everyone has a pathway to insurance if they have enough money. Basically, the government negotiates some plans with private insurers and makes them available to the general population.

It's subsidized, but the new budget has drastically decreased these subsidies and so the cost to enroll in the ACA is about to go up for people who want to get insurance through their marketplace.
by runako | 2025-12-01 05:31:49+00:00
Quick summary: the US does not have anything approaching a modern healthcare system. (And likely will not for quite some time due to a set of structural factors.)

Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act or ACA) was an attempt to expand coverage and slow the rate of increase of costs. It did the former but less well with the latter.

One other thing the ACA did is stop the scourge of scam insurers. This is a thing where people would pay for "insurance" and then find out later that their "insurance" did not actually afford them any meaningful coverage. The ACA tried to close a set of loopholes and overall regulate the insurance market more closely.

Anybody reading this from outside the US probably lives in a place where low-cost healthcare is more accessible than it is in the US.
by teaearlgraycold | 2025-12-01 05:32:37+00:00
They stripped it of most meaningful changes to get it passed. What it ended up being was kind of the worst of both worlds. A federally related marketplace for private healthcare insurance. They did however ban coverage limits on “pre-existing conditions”. Before Obamacare an insurer could whine that you had cancer before signing up and refuse to cover your cancer care.
by zdragnar | 2025-12-01 05:33:17+00:00
If you're getting health insurance through your employer, that's a pretty standard price (counting both your contribution and your employer's together).

I'm probably going to be self employed for 2026 and a cheap-ish (not the cheapest, but probably below the average) plan for my family is going to be a little under $1500 / month.

It's pre-tax money, which helps a wee bit, but it is definitely expensive. If I made less money, I'd qualify for subsidies, but I don't, so that's just something that needs to be paid in full unfortunately.
by czhu12 | 2025-12-01 05:33:19+00:00
One thing that I’ve been trying to understand about this discourse:

Is the sum of the increase in costs some people are now paying greater than the subsidies that previously existed?

In other words: was there always a massive bill to be paid here, but it was just previously socialized and hidden in the form of taxes/ public debt? Or does the act of subsidizing it actually decrease the total?
What's Happening with Hypermode?
by sthala | 2025-12-01 05:34:44+00:00
until recently, they have been very active. They had released Modus (open source, serverless framework for building intelligent agents and APIs) and they were the maintainers of dgraph. Now, dgrah is acquired by Istaridigital, and hypermode's website seems defunct. Their repos are also read-only now. Anyone knows what's happening? I kind of wnated to start dwelling into Modus, but the current situation bothes me.
by al_borland | 2025-12-01 05:35:48+00:00
They are the same. I was looking for something and tried AI. It gave me a list of stuff. When I asked for its sources, it linked me to some SEO/Amazon affiliate slop.

All AI is doing is making it harder to know what is good information and what is slop, because it obscures the source, or people ignore the source links.
by ethin | 2025-12-01 05:35:52+00:00
I'm literally one of these people. My only work experience is a GSoC internship in 2021. I have yet to get hired and I've been looking for 4 years, graduated in 2022 right before ChatGPT came out. I've had no choice but to become a generalist as a consequence, and over the last year or two my interviews have dropped to zero and absolutely none of the advice I've gotten from anybody has helped. Just my personal experience.
by cchianel | 2025-12-01 05:36:55+00:00
By 1% of optimal, I was giving an example percentage to clarify there are solutions that exists, that are almost as good as optimal, that can be found in reasonable amount of time.

There cannot be a guarantee to find a solution to a given percentage worse than optimal for a fully general problem, since you would need to know optimal to give such a guarantee (and since the problem fully general, you cannot use the structure of the problem to reduce it).

Most constraint problems have many feasible solutions, and have a way to judge how much worse or better one solution is to another.

There are good and bad way to write constraints.

One bad way to write constraints is score traps, where between one clearly better solution has the same score as a clearly worse solution.

For example, for shift scheduling, a solution with only 1 overlapping shift with the same employee is better than a solution with 2 overlapping shifts with the same employee.

A bad score function would penalize both solutions by 1, meaning a solver have no idea which of the two solutions are better.

A good score function would penalize the schedule with 1 overlapping shift with the same employee by 1, and the schedule with 2 overlapping shifts with the same employee by 2.

The class of problems I am talking about is the class of problems where you can assign a score to a possible solution, with limited score traps.

Timefold has no guarantees about finding a solution in reasonable time (but unless you done something terribly wrong or have a truly massive dataset, it finds a good solution really quickly 99.99% of the time). Instead, you set the termination condition of the solver; it could be time-based (say 60 minutes), unimproved time spent (solve until no new better solutions are found after 60 minutes), or the first feasible solution (there are other termination conditions that can be set).
by nielsbot | 2025-12-01 05:37:02+00:00
You comment sounds like snark but I understand if you don't know what Obamacare is.

(And I'm not an expert so hopefully people will correct any mistakes)

"Obamacare" was never healthcare for all. It is a GOP healthcare plan that heavily subsidizes private insurance. (Because free markets) And the current affordability crisis is the result of letting the government subsidies that help people pay for their Obamacare coverage lapse.

On a positive note: Obamacare (aka the ACA-PPP) did put some restrictions reasonable restrictions on the terrible things insurance companies used to do. For example, drop customers for "pre-existing conditions", impose lifetime payout maximums, etc.
by dtech | 2025-12-01 05:37:20+00:00
> I think we ought to be keeping people trained and employed

I never understood this sentiment. We don't have a massive manual weaving industry anymore, 95%+ of people used to be farmers in 1900. Tech comes and replaces humans, and the transition can be extremely painful especially for the people replaced, but ultimately it's better than keeping people artificially employed in obsolete jobs.

(I don't think SWE will be obsolete, but even in this case I'd rather switch careers)
by QuiEgo | 2025-12-01 05:37:32+00:00
My personal experience, YMMV:

I was told that once video conferencing got good and internet and infrastructure became better in other places, "this time it will be different."

I was told once universities in other countries started pumping out a pool of great candidates, expats who worked for FAANGs in the US would go home to found their own companies using that pool, and those companies would take over the world. "this time it's different."

I was told during covid once everyone was remote, why would people not just hire the cheapest remote workers going forward? "This time it's different."

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely have seen more and more offshoring over time, but there's a huge inertia behind the US tech industry that's hard to change. The VC / startup ecosystem and all of it's resources have huge Bay Area inertia - it mostly hasn't even spread to the rest of the US, let alone the rest of the world, despite the cost of living and constrained talent pool in the Bay Area. There's something about getting a bunch of people with the same mindset in one spot and having them know each other, socialize with each other, make friends and networks with each other that still matters. Founders tend to build off the people and connections they know and are connected with personally.

I'm hoping it will take long enough to change for me to finish my career. We'll see. This time really may be different :).

EDIT: p.s. Agree totally it's way to complex to tell what's actually happening. The _impact_ of the end of ZRIP, the rise of AI, major tax changes on R&D amortization, and US tariffs pretty much landed at the same time, so who knows?
by p0w3n3d | 2025-12-01 05:37:53+00:00
I have some questions but I don't want to offend anybody. Aren't there any methods to contract the healthcare to lower the prices down? I heard that in UK they have some requirements that the prices must not go higher than... For a given type of service. Also I read a lot of articles that giving a tablet to a hospitalised person costs 20-50 bucks and people are generally running away from ambulances to not pay
by adamredwoods | 2025-12-01 05:38:44+00:00
Situational.

IMO, I think it breaks even, but eating out saves a lot of time! Healthier cooking at home? Yes. I studied this for myself (N=1), and my cooking is about US$10/meal give or take (asparagus, chicken, rice, water to drink). If you cook for two or more people, then I think cooking at home comes out ahead financially.
by darkvertex | 2025-12-01 05:38:57+00:00
Hi there! If you have a Quest 3/3S you should look up "Space Explorers Ultimate Edition", it's free and within it the experience labeled "The ISS Experience" is a beautiful documentary series filmed with 360 cameras sent to film aboard the International Space Station. Some episodes even feature footage filmed outside the station for real, with gorgeous shots of the Earth actually filmed in real outer space attached to the Canadarm robot arm for maneuvering. It's all stereoscopic (3D) video also.

If you have a Quest 2 or 1, I'm very sorry that you can't enjoy that. (Borrow a friend's Quest3 for a weekend I guess.)

ps: I worked for the studio that made the series and was a dev for the custom camera control software webapp that ran on an astronaut's laptop. Crazy fun project.
by aikinai | 2025-12-01 05:39:07+00:00
"You let me in at the time, therefore you can never deem the past entry fraudulent" is not how the law works. It was fraudulent at the time of entry, but the government doesn't know that until true intent is revealed when the foreigner applies for a change of status.

The timeline is:

1. Foreigner is married to or intends to marry a US citizen and live in the US (they know this; the government doesn't). 2. Foreigner enters the US with the assertion they have no intent to immigrate (they know this is false; US doesn't). 3. Couple applies for change of status to immigrate → This reveals the foreigner's original intent to immigrate even at the time of entry (the US now knows the entry was fraudulent)

I'm not defending the law; I believe it's haphazard and inhumane. Why do you get to apply while together inside the US only if you decided to marry and immigrate after entering the US, but if the foreigner is outside the US at the time you make the decision, you're now locked out for years? But that is what it is, and these people are getting burned trying to skirt the law.
by ggm | 2025-12-01 05:39:44+00:00
The thread on reddit is hilarious for the lack of sympathy. Basically, it seems to have come down to commanding a deletion of a "directory with space in the name" but without quoting which made the command hunt for the word match ending space which was regrettably, the D:\ component of the name, and the specific deletion commanded the equivalent of UNIX rm -rf

The number of people who said "for safety's sake, never name directories with spaces" is high. They may be right. I tend to think thats more honoured in the breach than the observance, judging by what I see windows users type in re-naming events for "New Folder" (which btw, has a space in its name)

The other observations included making sure your deletion command used a trashbin and didn't have a bypass option so you could recover from this kind of thing.

I tend to think giving a remote party, soft or wet ware control over your command prompt inherently comes with risks.

Friends don't let friends run shar files as superuser.
by godelski | 2025-12-01 05:40:08+00:00
I think the way to do it would be that you have GPS run a update script to sync the devices. Surely the boat has a GPS, right? Or there's a GPS somewhere in the system.

So to refine the gp's question: surely there's a way to push an update or sync with a script that can do this based on GPS coordinates, right?

I would think a syncing mechanism would be a big help anyways since regardless of the reliability of the GPS script you're still going to be doing this, right?
by freeqaz | 2025-12-01 05:40:50+00:00
Unfortunately not. It's still very broken, and next year it will be worse for a ton of people. I got AI to write a short answer for you:

> Short version: Obamacare never turned into “free primary care for everyone,” it was just a bunch of rules and subsidies bolted onto the same old private-insurance maze. It helped at the margins (more people covered, protections for pre-existing conditions), but premiums/deductibles can still go nuclear if you’re in the wrong income bracket, state, or employer situation. From an EU/Poland perspective it’s not a public health system at all, just a slightly nerfed market where you still get to roll the dice every year.
by udev4096 | 2025-12-01 05:41:15+00:00
Interesting. I was just setting up a LB like this: client ->LB(nginx) ->TLS terminate for LB conn -> proxy_pass to backend which is behind nginx and has separate TLS certs. it's surprisingly easy to configure. Wonder why people still use HTTP at all. Even at home, I have setup LE certs for all local domains

On a side note, nginx doesn't support HTTP/2 for https load balancing so I am thinking of switching to haproxy which supports it