MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dang | 2025-12-08 21:49:06+00:00
There are a bunch of guidelines you broke there. If you want an example, how about ""Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine."" or this one: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

More importantly, though, is a spirit-of-the-law place, not a letter-of-the-law place, so if you're asking for specific rule citations about a comment which obviously was not in the intended spirit of the site, we're already off track a bit.
by littlekey | 2025-12-08 21:49:15+00:00
The author does a good job trying to find nuanced reasons behind the slump, but it's certainly just the money. The prices at every step of the process are exorbitant. The food is not worth the price you pay, end of story. And the table minimums are so high that you don't have time to really settle in and get into that feedback loop described in the article, where you sit there for hours and soak up "free" drinks and make friends. In my case, the one time I went to Vegas I dropped a hundred on craps and played as carefully as possible, and I was out after 15 minutes. There's only so much you can do when a single bet is $25. The casino got my money efficiently, but they didn't help me generate the positive memories that would convince me to become a repeat customer. Apparently their profits are up, but it feels like a squeeze born from short-term thinking that's going to blow up in their faces eventually.
Why Stocktwits Still Has Bots
by saveontrading | 2025-12-08 21:49:19+00:00
If Stocktwits wasn’t VC-backed, they would have fixed their horrendous bot problem years ago.

But they’re incentivized not to for optics.

“We have 9 million users on our platform” looks good, even though the majority are bots or completely dead accounts.
by traceroute66 | 2025-12-08 21:49:42+00:00
> worn down house you might pass on the street.

That "worn down house" might be good until "upper 6". Beyond that it all depends on when it was built and the associated construction standards at the time.

Source: https://isec-society.org/ISEC_PRESS/ASEA_SEC_03/pdf/St-5_v5_...
by palata | 2025-12-08 21:49:50+00:00
I don't know how many time I would have to repeat it, so I'll do it one last time.

The beginning was:

> what would it take to escape the Apple/Google duopoly?

To which someone answered:

> Has no one mentioned not using a smartphone as an option?

To which I answered that in a ton of situations this is just not an option.

And yet I keep getting answers that give examples of when it is an option. Sure, sometimes it is an option. Now for the majority of normal people who don't consider "not having a smartphone" as an option, I was saying that it is very, very hard to escape Apple/Google.

I am NOT saying that most people would die on the stop if they suddenly did not have access to a smartphone. I am saying that there is no solution to that that most people would consider viable.

> I don't think that 24/7 availability is universally perceived as "a normal way".

I never said 24/7 availability. I said "not having access to WhatsApp/Signal [in one's pocket, some of the time]". The part in brackets was implicit because we were talking about smartphone operating systems.
by kenjackson | 2025-12-08 21:49:57+00:00
It has dropped by maybe MORE than 90%. My sons school recently asked me to build some tools for them -- I did this over a decade ago for them, for free. I did it again using AI tools (different problem though) and I had it mostly done in 30 minutes (after I got the credentials set up properly -- that took up more time than the main coding part). This was probably several days of work for me in the past.
by advael | 2025-12-08 21:49:59+00:00
There's a pretty stark difference between medical science, medical practitioners, and medical institutions.

Medical science has done a lot to earn credibility over the last couple hundred years. It fully eliminated a disease that was a leading cause of death in multiple human civilizations. It reduced rates of infant mortality by staggering numbers. It created vaccines and surgeries that have each saved countless lives and effectively cured life-altering disabilities and injuries, and demoted tons of diseases from death sentences to mere manageable disabilities or even mild temporary inconveniences

Medical practitioners are a mixed bag that ranges from total altruists to total mercenaries. Most people can learn a skill and incentivizing any skill via things like money or social status creates some goal-misalignment, but also dramatically increases the prevalence of the skill and also the community surrounding it, including research, pedagogy, and infrastructure. I think there's considerable value in not automatically trusting every medical practitioner, but on the whole many of them have earned credibility

Medical institutions have mostly been responsible for the existence of trustable practitioners and research, though in the rich world and especially the US specifically there are significant misalignments that come from capture from power-hungry parties in both government and the private sector. The American medical establishment in particular seems at this point near unsalvageable, having broken so badly that it often deliberately tanks quality of care to enforce state power or to turn a profit. We should probably rethink a lot of how institutions fund research, administer hospitals, prioritize care, act as financial buffers, what legal and enforcement authority we vest in medical practitioners sanctioned by the institutions, etc. So I agree with you there, especially in the United States specifically, though much of this was apparent well before 2025 (practically before I was born)
by bawolff | 2025-12-08 21:50:05+00:00
Hypothetically (totally made up numbers), if a positive result on the test means there is 1/10000 chance you have cancer, and negative result means a 1/20000 chance, with the test also having a 1/1000 chance of giving the patient an adverse reaction, i think the questions most patients would ask is why was the test run in the first place?
by phkahler | 2025-12-08 21:50:11+00:00
>> If medical professionals hold a legal monopoly on providing diagnostic care, then decide it's better to just not diagnose things

They said detecting. Diagnosing is "hey, somethings wrong or odd, what is going on." Detecting is looking for something you otherwise may not ever notice. Not a doctor, just offering my definitions of two different words being used here.
by dang | 2025-12-08 21:50:26+00:00
I specifically responded with an identical reply to the other main commenter you were arguing with, who was also breaking the rules.

Still, someone else breaking the rules doesn't make it ok for you to do so, and pointing the finger at others instead of taking responsibility is not a helpful response.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Is Gemini 3 with Gemini CLI having issues?
by mmaunder | 2025-12-08 21:50:30+00:00
For the past 3 days I've seen garbage output, API errors, cognitive degradation and it's also been super aggressive about its bias towards action i.e. impossible to have a conversation because it's always defaulting hard to coding. Anyone else seeing this? Was a completely different product early last week.
by dangus | 2025-12-08 21:50:46+00:00
Have you stopped and thought about what you're saying or are you just assuming this is expensive because it's Microsoft and they're Bad?

Let's actually look at what you get for your money (I'll just go by current consumer pricing since it's easy to find/understand):

Microsoft 365 Family:

$130/year

6 people, 1TB storage per person

Each person gets 5 devices for all Office apps

Higher AI usage limits than free (only primary user, not shared)

Let's try to buy this from someone else:

Google: $99/year for 2TB, shared between 6 people, but your limit is 2TB total. No Gemini in Google apps unless you're paying for Google AI which bumps this all up to $20/month with no additional storage. I can't actually see how much additional storage costs to make this equivalent to 1TB/person without signing up.

Apple: $420/year to get 6TB of storage shared between 6 people. iWork apps are garbage, no AI included. iCloud+ does have some side features like private relay, custom domain email, etc.

Proton Family: 3TB, $288 a year

pCloud: 10TB family lifetime plan is $1500, equivalent to about 10 years of paying for Office 365.

All this to say, tl;dr, Microsoft is actually offering one of the better deals out there especially if you want to give a significant amount of storage to each family member at a low cost.
by toast0 | 2025-12-08 21:51:38+00:00
It's a human factors thing. If two patients both have a cancerous tumor that does not need treatment, the patient that did not have a screening is better off. The patient who was screened will deal with anxiety from having a positive screening result in addition to any negative effects from the screening and follow ups. Many patients are not comfortable living with a detected tumor, even if the standard of care is to watch and wait. Of course, the opposite scenario is also true --- if both patients have a tumor were removal would be best, the one that gets screened has a better outcome.

Maybe if we were all pretty rational people, we could better manage positive screening results and follow up actions that lead towards taking no specific action; but that's not where people are at the moment.

There's a tradeoff of early detection of fast growing tumors that are likely to cause issues vs detection of slow growing tumors that are likely to not cause issues except if they're detected. You can see how the consensus is shifting on things like breast, prostate, and colon cancer screenings over time. My TLDR is that we developed tools and methods, started applying them and have generally reduced the screening frequency over time as we understand more about the tradeoffs.
by awesome_dude | 2025-12-08 21:51:56+00:00
Research is estimated, sometimes those estimates are hilariously bad (Computer vision is easy, a summer research for a student should be enough), but more often than not it's "We expect that this research will take someone doing a Ph.D approximately 3 - 5 years to do"

The entire premise of a project is "Look at this, with the intent to find X, and, if it's not possible, break it down so that we can create more projects to work toward that goal" which is an estimate, or a breakdown into sub projects that also come with estimates.
by mvkel | 2025-12-08 21:52:19+00:00
I would disagree, at least in the short term. Exhibit A: AMD's stock rose 36% at the announcement of their OpenAI circular deal. If 1+1 = 3 and there is potential profit to be gleaned from such a deal, then it isn't circular, and is just plain good business. But the fact that AMD's stock collapsed back to where it was shortly after suggests otherwise
by neuronic | 2025-12-08 21:52:28+00:00
Just goes to show that biology is WAY more complicated than "if you want to prevent X then do Y" - especially at microbilogical scale. Genes influence each other for example, so by up- or downregulating stuff you are interfering in a highly complex, non-linear system with complex consequences.

Just look at this example of a gene regulation network: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Different-visualizations...
by chironjit | 2025-12-08 21:53:06+00:00
It feels a little cringe how Elm and the "Elm way of thinking" is so heavily emphasised, but after using Iced, IMO this is probably one of the best gui models without having to implement signals or message passing or IPCs like Dioxus/Tauri does with frontend/backend. Other key advantages Iced has includes daemon mode, native ability to use multi threading and also multi-window support

That said, for actually building most apps, what's more important is likely ease of learning and using the framework, platform/OS support, publishing support, etc, none of which Iced itself directly address.
by verdverm | 2025-12-08 21:53:21+00:00
gemini-cli is trash, use a different agent tool or framework

or consider building your own, it's not that hard and you learn a lot about why these tools have certain peculiarities in the process

tl;dr the system prompts and context engineering matter a lot, they people building these tools have unlimited AI tokens and toy problems, so they aren't great when you try them on IRL problems
by imglorp | 2025-12-08 21:53:44+00:00
This opinion makes me sad.

There truly are experts in areas we can't--or shouldn't--all try to duplicate ourselves. Civilization is advanced by specialization. We identify these experts with a reputation system so you might call them authorities.

Similarly, there truly are institutions that have decades or more of people, procedures and culture to benefit society and a track record of these benefits.

The malicious erosion, by propaganda and by rhetoric, of the public's trust in our authorities and institutions is one of the biggest crimes of this century.
by refurb | 2025-12-08 21:54:21+00:00
This seems like an odd criticism.

First off it ignore the fact that if you include frail patients you’ll confound the results of the trial. So there is a good reason for it.

Second, saying “rate of SAE is higher than rate of treatment effect” is a bit silly considering these are cancer trial - without treatment there is a risk of death so most people are willing to accept SAE in order to achieve treatment effect.

Third, saying “the sickest patients saw the highest increase in SAE” seems obvious? It’s exactly what you’d expect.
by wisty | 2025-12-08 21:54:22+00:00
It was a polite way of saying "that's kinda bull".

And yes, I know what an expert system is.

Do you know that a neural network (or set of matrices, same thing really) can approximate anything else? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_approximation_theore...

How do you know that inside the black box, they don't approximate expert systems?
by fwip | 2025-12-08 21:54:28+00:00
I don't have an opinion on whether it's correct or not. I see AI writing, I stop reading. When compared to human-authored prose, AI writing is much more likely to be convincing-but-wrong. I don't need to be ingesting stuff engineered to be believable, with correctness only as a secondary concern.

If it's correct, it's usually because a better source has already written it correctly, or because it's trivial to somebody who knows what they're talking about.

AI writing is a sign that the author either doesn't know the material, doesn't want to write it, or both. Because distinguishing "too lazy to write it" and "too stupid to fact-check it properly" is very difficult on my end as a reader, it's better to be safe than sorry. There's no sense in exposing my malleable wetware to slop of unknown provenance.

There has been no shortage of human authors writing about this topic. I don't know who "Philip Pieogger" is, so I have no reason to prefer him as a co-author.
by codegeek | 2025-12-08 21:54:35+00:00
The keyword is "building". Yes costs may have dropped 90% just to build software. But there are 1000 other things that comes after it to run a successful software for months let alone years.

- Maintenance, Security

- Upgrades and patches

- Hosting and ability to maintain uptime with traffic

- Support and dealing with customer complexities

- New requirements/features

- Most importantly, ability to blame someone else (at least for management). Politics plays a part. If you build a tool in-house and it fails, you are on the chopping block. If you buy, you at least can say "Hey everyone else bought it too and I shouldn't be fired for that".

Customers pay for all of the above when they buy a SAAS subscription. AI may come for most of the above at some point but not yet. I say give it 3-5 years to see how it all pans out.
by gherkinnn | 2025-12-08 21:54:56+00:00
A strange take. Toasts don't work so GitHub (and by extension MS) should have gone through W3C to implement a browser-wide solution instead of replacing them with alternatives in their products?

From the GitHub doc:

> User and system initiated actions that are direct and straightforward should be successfully completed as a matter of course. An example of this is creating an Issue, and then seeing the Issue show up on the list of Repo Issues.

The alternative proposes:

> Doing something, even as simple as adding a Jira ticket to a backlog, is not something I want to assume happened. I need to know it happened.

I fail to understand how seeing the created item in context does not let me know beyond any reasonable doubt that it was indeed created. Showing an additional toast adds nothing but noise and only showing a toast even more so.
by hapticmonkey | 2025-12-08 21:55:55+00:00
This is like the Rick and Morty “you pass the butter” joke.

All the talented engineers pouring into AI realising they’ve just been used as tools of the ad-tech market to serve more ads to people. That’s their real purpose.

Please get out and go and make something better. Before even your most treasured moments, like reading kids bedtime stories, become commodified with ads.

https://ai.google.dev/competition/projects/storybook-ai-bedt...
by lurking_swe | 2025-12-08 21:56:01+00:00
in some cases the knowledge itself is a curse. These commenters mostly have no clue what they’re talking about and it shows.

My spouse found out they had a benign brain tumor, an accidental discovery while doing a brain scan for some other reason. She now has to get annual scans done to make sure the size doesn’t change. Guess what? It hasn’t changed in 5 years.

You might say “better safe than sorry!” To that i say - bullshit. It’s caused her lots of unnecessary stress and anxiety. EVERY year she goes back to the testing center and stresses out about if it’s changed in the last year. She sleeps poorly sometimes because of the anxiety, etc. Knowing every microscopic issue within your body is not always a net benefit! Quality of life matters too, not just longevity.

I think it really depends on the type of cancer. Actionable information is the most useful information.
by tschellenbach | 2025-12-08 21:56:20+00:00
It depends. For AI to work for large projects (did a post on this forever ago in AI terms. https://getstream.io/blog/cursor-ai-large-projects/)

But you need: a staff level engineer to guide it, great standardization and testing best practices. And yes in that situation you can go 10-50x faster. Many teams/products are not in that environment though.
by NickC25 | 2025-12-08 21:56:36+00:00
>supposedly

My man, you don't have to mince words here. This hostile bid is backed by Jared Kushner, who is the President's son in law. One Rich Asshole owns Paramount, and is most certainly supporting the bid here.

This deal would also leave CNN in a very vulnerable position (they are owned by WB), which is exactly what Trump wants.
by lioeters | 2025-12-08 21:56:52+00:00
Their new CEO fired (sorry "laid off") long-time loyal staff and kicked out the original founders, then described it as "a fond farewell to some colleagues". Complete sociopath.

I enjoyed many of their articles but it's a different company now, wearing the face mask of the old name. I will never read any new stuff from the company.

Curious to see what the original founders may start next.
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-12-08 21:57:52+00:00
My father has a high rate PSA change a few years ago so I learned everything I could about prostate cancer for about 4 weeks.

I then talked to several doctors I know (family practice and two internal medicine).

It was embarrassing how little they knew. And even more shocking actually, is how wrong they were about things.

Two of them told me the risk of infection from a prostate biopsy was basically zero. I asked for clarification with actual numbers, and even led them with "for what kind? Like 1 in 100 or 1 in 1000?"

One said basically zero, the other said 1 in a million.

Neither knew to mention the two common types, and to make sure we go with the one type that carries less risk of infection.

Even then, the less risky one is about 1 in 1000. If you have bad insurance you might go with the older type which is about 1 in 100. And that's with them giving you antibiotics beforehand....

Basically they got everything I asked about wrong compared to specialists you can read online.

Ps, my dad got an MRI with two 1cm growths.

He changed his diet and added fasts, and did nothing else. His doctor basically writing him off in anger.

5 years later, PSA lower than before the incident. Paid for a scan last year, zero growth.

Internet/YouTube experts/doctors really do beat most general doctors. The odds of you having someone in the top 10% of their field, let alone top 1-2% in your local town is pretty low. Even my bay area doctor friends work at pretty basic general bay area hospitals. Imagine who's left in Modesto, CA.
by tjohns | 2025-12-08 21:58:07+00:00
> The idea that a position of authority means ~anything~ anymore is completely ridiculous.

In that case, should we just get rid of licensure for professional engineers while we're at it? No special education or experience needed to build a bridge, nuclear reactors, or life-critical systems... since authority is meaningless now in the age of the internet?

The medical field isn't perfect, but it's hubris to believe that most people will perform better at treating disease than somebody with 11 years (minimum) of specialized education and countless hours of experience in a real clinical setting.
by mrguyorama | 2025-12-08 21:59:04+00:00
The physical responses of the world around them after you have yanked the concept outside of the human brain

We have to blind medical professionals during science because even thoroughly trained and experienced professionals are still more likely to form conclusions and opinions based on understood human biases than reality.

You can take a gambling addict and teach them as much statistics and probability as you want, and even if they demonstrably learned it, they will still go back to the slots and believe a hit is "due" because the link between reality and the brain's construction of its internal models is extremely limited, and those models only inform the brains processes, not necessarily constrain it.

I will never understand however how some people think that an LLM can pull a signal out of it's training material that doesn't actually exist in its training material.

It's like training an LLM on monopoly games and expecting it to be good at chess. What?
by canucker2016 | 2025-12-08 21:59:37+00:00
FTA:

A CBC Toronto reporter rode the entire 10.3-kilometre line from east to west Monday morning, finding it took roughly 55 minutes to complete. As a reference point, over 400 runners ran this year's Toronto Marathon 10-kilometre event in under 55 minutes. CBC Toronto's eastbound return trip to Finch West Station was about eight minutes shorter, clocking in at roughly 47 minutes. Still, several riders Monday told CBC Radio's Metro Morning that the previous bus route on Finch Avenue W. was faster and had more stops along the way, making it easier to access.

Even at the scheduled 47 minutes end-to-end time, athletic teens wouldn't have a problem outrunning the LRT.
by TheTaytay | 2025-12-08 22:00:14+00:00
> Filesystems, databases, all kinds of systems do this. They have some hacks to prevent it from corrupting the entire dataset, but lost writes are accepted.

Woah, those are _really_ strong claims. "Lost writes are accepted"? Assuming we are talking about "acknowledged writes", which the article is discussing, I don't think it's true that this is a common default for databases and filesystems. Perhaps databases or K/V stores that are marketed as in-memory caches might have defaults like this, but I'm not familiar with other systems that do.

I'm also getting MongoDB vibes from deciding not to flush except once every two minutes. Even deciding to wait a second would be pretty long, but two minutes? A lot happens in a busy system in 120 seconds...