MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by orwin | 2025-12-02 00:37:44+00:00
Pregnancy can turn bad (10% of first-time pregnancy, might be higher in country with high obesity rates). In that case, the faster you are with the anaesthetic and the C-section, the better. Also, hygiene. Also, ombilical cords around the newborn necks. Also, the maternities in my country are great (the one we have left at least).
by phil21 | 2025-12-02 00:37:49+00:00
> Hospitals charge $15 for a single pill of Tylenol because they know insurance will pay for it

It’s more they know insurance won’t pay for it, and negotiate discounts based off the “retail” price. Although at this point it’s gotten so ridiculously convoluted and cross-subsidized that I doubt even the insurance company or hospital knows what the actual paid amount for a Tylenol will end up being until months after the fact.
by bonsai_spool | 2025-12-02 00:37:49+00:00
> And what the OP is pointing out is that if your injury is $30K, insurance covers nothing, because the premium + deductible is $40K.

The point of insurance is to mitigate risk. If you think you have enough money to cover your risk, there's no reason to buy insurance.

The sleight of hand here is first complaining that you did not incur enough hazards to offset the risk premium and then citing this as a reason the risk premiums should not exist. Where is the story of the family being weighed down by bills? Or of not getting physical therapy after an injury and having permanent, income-reducing disabilities?
by hn_acc1 | 2025-12-02 00:37:55+00:00
So are you still allowed real wine at communion then? A bottle of beer after working on your car all day? I know some christians who preach "100% dry", others are more relaxed. Some are fine with contraceptives (including many Pentecostals, which is how I was raised), quite a few overweight people, etc. And they're just as christian as you are.

It sounds like you're going for the "unlikely to need it" plans, which go broke when you actually get sick..
by kace91 | 2025-12-02 00:38:33+00:00
I see your point, but I see nothing to indicate they’re doing the “polish and wait”. No reason to believe they’re cooking behind the scenes or that this product was a learning exercise for them.

Most of their current products seem to be decaying in the dead march towards the next yearly release. ux and ui are becoming more and more poorly thought (see their last design language). They half pursue ideas and don’t manage to deliver (vr, apple car, etc).

I see cargo culting and fad chasing like any average leadership, only with a fatter stack of cash supporting the endeavour.
by JimDabell | 2025-12-02 00:38:51+00:00
> In my experience Apple's software has been accumulating small annoying bugs for a couple years.

They’ve never not been like this. They don’t know how to write software sustainably and don’t seem interested to learn. They add features faster than they fix bugs. Early on, it was masked by less frequent releases, but switching to an annual cadence made it more obvious. They worked around the problem once by focusing Snow Leopard on bug fixing, but they are just letting the bugs accumulate again now.
by ssl-3 | 2025-12-02 00:38:52+00:00
Sure, they'll move around in the prop wash.

But that's fine, isn't it? If they're intended to detect fixed objects, then noticing that one or more of them have ceased to be blown around in that way may be a good way to detect unanticipated contact with a fixed object: When the signal becomes less noisy, then maybe something is in the way.

And the whiskers don't have to be all floppy like a wet noodle. I myself am thinking that something rigid or semi-rigid might be good. Perhaps something akin to armature wire, or thin spring steel. Maybe even literal bamboo chopsticks.

They can also be constrained so that they don't get sent into the props.

My little brain thinks that the drone-end of the whiskers can be attached to potentiometers, with light return springs to bring them back towards center, like the mechanism used by an analog stick on a PS3 controller.
by QuercusMax | 2025-12-02 00:39:18+00:00
For CLIs - most reasonable commands either have a `-h`, `--help`, `-help`, `/?`, or what have you. And manpages exist. Hunt the verb isn't really a problem for CLIs.

And furthermore - aren't there shells that will give you the --help if you try to tab-complete certain commands? Obviously there's the issue of a lack of standardization for how command-line switches work, but broadly speaking it's not difficult to have a list of common (or even uncommon) commands and how their args work.

(spends a few minutes researching...)

This project evidently exists, and I think it's even fairly well supported in e.g. Debian-based systems: https://github.com/scop/bash-completion.
by ptero | 2025-12-02 00:40:08+00:00
Just a personal opinion, but as an occasional job seeker here, I prefer the current system, seeing "no complaints in replies" policy as efficiency, not censorship. Were it not the case I suspect many job postings would become discussion battlegrounds and people looking for brief summaries would have to scroll through pages of discussions.

It is a painful process for both the seekers (who feel they are being ghosted) and the employers (who feel they are being spammed by AI bots); IMO the best approach is to follow the general HN guidance of "be kind" and "assume good intentions". And if a company ghosted you, downvote their post. My 2c.
by sfRattan | 2025-12-02 00:40:29+00:00
If you're writing in MS Word, LibreOffice, or most word processors, typing a word and then two dashes and then a word, without any spaces, like--this will generate an em dash automatically. I learned how to do it in Freshman English in high school. Though I was also taught to double space after a period.

To revise GP's comment: it’s just less computer literate people feeling the need to out themselves.
by romeumaleiane | 2025-12-02 00:40:31+00:00
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by phil21 | 2025-12-02 00:41:02+00:00
Many of those “simple diagnostic procedures” are a tenth of the cost if done outside of insurance out of pocket. MRIs are one of them.

My routine blood work done via my doctor bills something like $1600 to my insurance every other year or so - but it do it on my own outside of the medical system for about $180 every six months.

No one should have to do this for necessary care - but once you get into things not typically covered by insurance like plastic surgery or LASIK the true costs are generally rather reasonable.

A whole shadow ecosystem for “health hackers” or whatever you might want to call it exists where standard medical stuff is 10% of the cost if paid out of pocket and through alternative prescribers. It’s a small subset of all available medical items, but the difference in true cost is illuminating.
by stavros | 2025-12-02 00:41:33+00:00
I have no problem with LLM generated PRs in my repo, I merged one the other day and it was very helpful. What I do have a problem with is two things:

0. Make the PR reviewable. That means small, logically distinct PRs, not one huge PR with a bunch of stuff in it.

1. You are 100% completely responsible for the code. I gave the maintainer some feedback on how to add a few lines of comments, they gave that to the LLM, which changed an unrelated path in a pre-commit hook. That's unacceptable, I don't want to babysit your LLM because you can't be bothered to review its output.

2. If I talk to you, I expect you to talk to me. I asked the author a question with a simple answer, and got four pages of LLM ELI5. If I wanted to read four pages of text, I'd open Anna Karenina.

You might notice that the above requirements don't have anything to do with LLMs. I expect them whether a person wrote the PR or an LLM. It's basic etiquette.

I don't think OSS contributors suddenly went crazy and started being rude, but I do think that LLMs allow people who have never contributed to OSS before to start doing it, before they know the rules of OSS etiquette. I'm not sure that's a net positive, but I hope we'll all learn.
by firefax | 2025-12-02 00:41:37+00:00
>Ethics matter. I don't believe there's any life after this one, but I find myself ruminating on what I've done. In 2015, I had a lot of interaction with a startup incubator you know well, and ended up sitting in the discussions and planning around banning and erasing a young programmer we considered a threat to our financial interests, due to his concerns about authoritarianism in technology. In retrospect, he was harmless, but an example had to be made. The decision was made to ban him here, try to get him fired though I don't know if we succeeded, and attack him with sockpuppets on Reddit, and it seems to have worked because you don't hear his name much.

What have you done since then to mitigate this very egregious harm?

I have not found your success, and I suspect it's because I too am "anti-authoritarian" -- I had folks try to convince me to do "scholarshop for service" and act like I was crazy when I expressed worry if the presidency went from D to R, someone might do crazy shit like initiate a government shutdown making it impossible to fulfull my service, and then I'd get a bill for a degree I didn't want.

https://cyberscoop.com/government-shutdown-cybersecurity-wor...

In fact, every prediction I made about creeping authoritarianism down to a member of the national guard being shot dead outside where I used to toil away as a public interest lobbyist has come true.

I'm having one of the worst emotional nights of my life tonight -- and maybe I'll regret this post, but why do you feel you're in any way good, to put your boot on on the necks of others then say all the right things at the last second to ease your conscience while those of us who actually acted in the public interest are harassed and abused?
by shagie | 2025-12-02 00:41:47+00:00
Again, you are focusing on tech workers. Not everyone on a H-1B visa is a tech worker.

There is a problem with tech and how oversubscribed the H-1B visa is because of tech contracting - especially with visa dependent employers. However, the suggestion to cancel the program would impact many other professions (that already suffer because of tech in the field) where the visa isn't used in the same way.

The problems that we are seeing is not one of the H-1B visa, but rather large amounts of money sloshing around in the tech industry trying to get things done first and consultancies trying to get a piece of the pie from people who have ideas but no idea of how to do do whatever the hyped thing is today.
by teleforce | 2025-12-02 00:41:59+00:00
If people want to know the main reasons why Ruby or by extension RoR, is popular, please check this excellent article by the author of a non-popular programming language Stanza [1].

From the cited article [1]:

"Casual website designers can safely completely ignore the concepts of types and memory deallocation because Ruby is dynamically-typed and garbage-collected. These features are simply not available in all other languages. Java's meta-programming features, for example, are just not powerful enough to implement a system like ActiveRecords. Rails is only possible because of Ruby."

But I'd argue that you can still have types and still have a very powerful meta-programming features and abilities of compiled language for example D to implement a system like ActiveRecords [2].

[1] Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead:

https://lbstanza.org/purpose_of_programming_languages.html

[2] D Language: Features Overview:

https://dlang.org/comparison.html
by array_key_first | 2025-12-02 00:42:14+00:00
I think it's still a mostly correct conclusion. Pretty much everywhere you look across services, they've been cooked to their bones. Have you noticed that supermarkets seem to have, like, 1/5th the employees they did before? Since when is 1 open lane on a Saturday night and a 30 minute wait acceptable?

Well, since we've accepted it. Everything kind of sucks and barely works, but it doesn't matter, because we ultimately put up with it.
by tptacek | 2025-12-02 00:42:17+00:00
Hold on, because what you're arguing is that OpenAI and Anthropic deploy dark patterns, and I have zero doubt that they do. I'm not saying OpenAI has clean hands. I'm saying that on this article's own terms, sycophancy isn't a "dark pattern"; it's a bad thing that happens to be an emergent property both of LLMs generally and, apparently, of RL in particular.

I'm standing up for the idea that not every "bad thing" is a "dark pattern"; the patterns are "dark" because their beneficiaries intentionally exploit the hidden nature of the pattern.
by waterTanuki | 2025-12-02 00:42:33+00:00
This is a highly recycled talking point that only applies to people lucky enough to live in the vicinity of Standford, UCLA, Mass Gen, Cleveland Clinic, or Johns Hopkins AND afford a visit and is extremely dismissive of the millions of other Americans who can't. Rural hospitals have been shuttered and some people have even been turned away at emergency rooms now. This claim simply does not match up to reality, no matter how many graphs you put together.
by reilly3000 | 2025-12-02 00:43:00+00:00
If you’re already using GCP, Vertex AI is pretty good. You can run lots of models on it:

https://docs.cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/m...

Lambda.ai used to offer per-token pricing but they have moved up market. You can still rent a B200 instance for sub $5/hr which is reasonable for experimenting with models.

https://app.hyperbolic.ai/models Hyperbolic offers both GPU hosting and token pricing for popular OSS models. It’s easy with token based options because usually are a drop-in replacement for OpenAI API endpoints.

You have you rent a GPU instance if you want to run the latest or custom stuff, but if you just want to play around for a few hours it’s not unreasonable.
by zdragnar | 2025-12-02 00:43:31+00:00
I am throwing out a wild guess here, but some services already block ranges of IP addresses on the basis that they have VPN servers running.

Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime Video all do something along these lines to protect geographically restricted licenses.

Presumably, the authors of the bills were aware that these services were already doing it and want that same behavior to be legally required for obscene material.
by evanelias | 2025-12-02 00:43:32+00:00
I skimmed your 2400-word article a second time just now, and I still don't understand why your math is allocating 100% of your family's health insurance premiums to childbirth. And now I additionally don't understand your abrasive tone in answering this fairly straightforward question.

Multiple commenters are raising this point, so perhaps you should consider that you aren't conveying this information well?
by scruple | 2025-12-02 00:43:36+00:00
I played around with it and I have to agree. It treats the user like they're dumb, regardless of what personal context you provide it. I found myself backtracking constantly to invalidate it's assumptions, to the point that I gave up. All of that within like 4 hours of bothering to touch it in the first place.

I genuinely can't imagine allowing these things to run commands on a machine. If I ever found out a colleague was doing that I would want them fired.
by quenix | 2025-12-02 00:44:51+00:00
Does anyone have an actual technical theory of how it’s possible for commands that used to work , say a month ago, to just stop working?

What is it about Siri’s architecture that causes “Set bedroom light to 30%”, a command that worked for years, to randomly stops working on a random Tuesday with no OS update or home change?

I mean, what on earth are they doing on the back end…?
by TomatoProgram | 2025-12-02 00:45:11+00:00
I wanted something to work on over the weekend and wanted to dive into Web3 and also do stuff involving QR code generation (not really sure why just figured it might be an untapped market). After doing some looking online and asking ChatGPT what was needed in the world of Web3 it came up with a QR code based verification system for blockchain items and content. I spent some time researching the concept then started building with Next.js. The photos you see are the result of a few days of work (the back end and logic was 90% done by me with 10% Claude debugging. The design was all AI as I have the artistic talent of a cheeseburger). This is also working using the testnet for now as I do not want to lose funds testing.

So here is how it works currently:

Step 1: You sign in with you wallet (this is not stored anywhere and you will have to sign in each time) Step 2: Enter any data you want to have recorded on the ETH blockchain (my example is a url) Step 3: Click generate and confirm the transaction Step 4: wait a few seconds. I find most QR codes generate in under 30 seconds Step 5: Save your QR code

To validate, simply point your phone camera at the QR code and scan it. This will open up the validation page and show you if the QR code is valid or not. It will also show how many times the code has been scanned and the Etherscan link

Why is this necessary? Traditional QR codes can be easily copied or faked. If someone counterfeits your product, they can just copy the QR code. There's no way to prove which one is authentic. ProofQR provides a way to make sure your data is secure and protected on the ETH blockchain.

What I need from you is feedback. I want ideas on how to make this better and potential additions to add. Any and all feedback is wanted.

Thank you for viewing my post. Stay tuned for future updates!
by jmward01 | 2025-12-02 00:45:16+00:00
I have a discussion with my mother often. I tell her to keep a reasonable buffer of money in her bank account and then spend every single $ beyond that. Why? Because when she hits end of life, or even before then when she hits any number of inevitable age related issues, medical bills will take every penny she has and then go for more after that. My family pays even more a month than OP.

Healthcare is reaching for the point of neutrality where the value it provides exactly equals the cost they are charging. This is what happens when the only signal they get is a money related one. Nation after nation has shown that healthcare elsewhere can be better and far cheaper. Not perfect, but better and also not out of control. The real question isn't 'how do we fix healthcare' but instead, 'how do we remove the cancer in our system that is blocking the obvious fixes we see actually working all over the world'.
by eTomte | 2025-12-02 00:45:25+00:00
I've been running synapse on a small VPS for the past few years. I got some of the bridges working too. Def bumps along the way, but its still the daily driver for me and about five other people.

Recently I spun up the new ESS Community Edition on a new VPS. Much easier to get up and running. I was delightfully surprised. although since that one uses kubernetes and other things I'm not familiar with getting bridges and other things I've become used to is going to require more learning on my part. Since ESS is so new, not a lot of newbie friendly howtos yet out there.

I remain optimistic.
by aag | 2025-12-02 00:45:27+00:00
<rant>I've never had confidence in MacOS or Apple software in general, and especially not in Apple Photos. Photos beachballs constantly, even when I do simple things like creating a new folder or naming a photo. It loses keystrokes almost every time I type a folder or photo name. No other program does this on the same Mac, which is an M4 Pro with 64GB RAM and terabytes of SSD. I know that it's not a problem with the hardware because the previous Mac Mini, which was well equipped, had the same problem for years. Reconstructing the Photos database didn't help.

Don't get me started about how Time Machine drops files — important files like the Photos Sqlite3 database — from backups.

Yes, I should switch from Photos to something else, e.g. Immich.

I barely use the software included with the Mac, and would only use Linux except that there are still just a few programs or bits of hardware that insist on there being a Mac or Windows machine somewhere.

How Apple every got a reputation for high-quality, user-friendly software is beyond me.

Not recommended.</rant>
by jakubmazanec | 2025-12-02 00:45:33+00:00
React Router v4 was released in March 2017 (more than 8 years ago!). v5 was released in May 2019 with no API changes. v6 was released in November 2021 with a new API based on React hooks (this API was much better than the previous). v7 was released in November 2024 with the "Remix" APIs (most importantly the "framework mode"). So, the gaps are 4 years and 3 years - that's doesn't seem that crazy.
by AstroBen | 2025-12-02 00:45:34+00:00
And what if the CEO needs international numbers across all continents?

What if the CEO needs to supply an entire 1,332 person company with business phones?

What about an assistant to answer them! What if we're sleeping!

Oh god!

But just to put my comment in context, here is what he said:

> Having a $200/mo smartphone is now a participation cost for many things such as getting access to your banking information remotely, medical records, and work / school.
by AnonC | 2025-12-02 00:45:36+00:00
> It started with the macOS that brought the iOS settings panel. We went from a logical structure of easily findable stuff to a complete mess.

It’s difficult to pinpoint when exactly the decline started. But one key event before the Settings app was the Catalyst apps that were straight out and dismal ports from their iOS versions. Till date, none of those work well and cannot be navigated properly using the keyboard. Reminders, Messages, Notes and more.

Craig Federighi seems to be increasingly taking on so much authority without having a trusted set of people under him and his leadership (or lack of it) has resulted in neglecting software across device platforms. Some of the Apple apps on tvOS with paid subscriptions are worse, because the bugs in them don’t get any attention at all.
by BoorishBears | 2025-12-02 00:45:41+00:00
I've used and finetuned Z-Image Turbo: it's nowhere near Seedream or even Qwen-Image when the latter is finetuned (also doesn't do image editing yet)

It is very good for the size and speed, and I'm excited for the Edit and Base variants... but Reddit has been a bit "over-excited" because it run on their small GPUs and isn't overly resistant to porn.
by fragmede | 2025-12-02 00:45:43+00:00
Yeah there should just be a global option when you're settling up the phone called "I want my shit to work and don't care that Apple has my location", and then allow all the relevant apps location access, rather than the piecemeal per-apple-app setting. I mean, as a developer I can understand the difference between the weather app always having my location and apple maps only having my location when open, but what the hell Apple? Just have a button for "make it work" vs "I'm paranoid", and let the paranoid micromanage to their hearts desire. (Not pejoratively, other people have a different threat model from me. I know people who have legitimate reason for enabling lockdown mode.)