MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by estearum | 2026-01-05 22:00:22+00:00
There are more powerful forces than the profit caps, namely that the big insurers now actually also own the doctors.

And capped or not, the pay-vider structure allows intra-company eliminations to bury arbitrary amounts of money as "not profit" even though it effectively is.

And even if that weren't true, the expected coverage term for a US patient is ~4 years due to it being tied to employment, so there is quite literally zero incentive to address any health issue that won't materialize as cost in the next few years (obesity being one such type of health problem).
by taylodl | 2026-01-05 22:00:56+00:00
> Or maybe I eat my words and this is more like the tariffs thing, where he barks and growls but in the end is a bully tactic to get others to do what he wants. Because that has in fact worked somewhat well.

What if Venezuela undoes that? What if countries decide they're going to squelch on their concessions to Trump as a result?
by mothballed | 2026-01-05 22:00:59+00:00
Liking naked pictures of (adult) women means you hate women (/misogyny)? I've imagined lots of women naked and it's not because I hate them. I probably wouldn't share them but if I did it would be because I liked how they looked, not out of hate.

I'm sure lots of people do it for hate but legitimately a lot of people just look at someone and think "they'd look nice naked" and then if they actually have a picture of that, might share it because it's enjoyable to look at rather than to punish someone.
by Bjartr | 2026-01-05 22:01:24+00:00
That matches what I managed to glean, though I didn't get much further.

It started making more sense though when I managed to fully understand the AST comparison that was being made. Specifically, this approach lets you do the LISPy "code is data" thing where you can construct your program within your program and then run it, but instead does it via "data is execution+control-flow". Thus gaining the benefits of static analysis on the constructed program since you wrote it all out in the "normal"/static order rather than the "nested"/dynamic view of a program that monads give.

At least that's the gist I got, though take it with a grain of salt, the article went very over my head at times.
by shimman | 2026-01-05 22:01:35+00:00
There's no evidence that any of those startups are better for society, in fact most of them have directly led to worse economic inequality (uber, airbnb) and exacerbating climate change (LLM insanity).

If anything the current system is beyond redemption and should probably be nationalized for the betterment of society. Government investment in technology brought us the transistor and internet, the two things that enabled any of this to exist and it was massively subsidized for the betterment of the public.

Maybe we should follow that model again.
by phtrivier | 2026-01-05 22:01:43+00:00
Unfortunately, some of the convertors for électrification depend on minerals which, if not "rare", are unevenly distributed.

That leave plenty of room for "battery wars", "motor wars", Even "solar panel" wars if we need to.

I do not believe Putin and Trump are eying Dumbass and Groenland only because of the scenery - and the general historical lesson of the 2020s is that brute force _is_ worth it.

China only is self sufficient, as far as I understand it.

Europe could use minerals from its soil, if we accepted mining. But we don't want that either, any more.
(And given what is about to happen to Groenland, it may be a blessing in disguise not to be too resource-rich. Again: pray the Emperor may ignore you.)
by basscomm | 2026-01-05 22:01:43+00:00
My house has a problem with little black ants that pest control services never could quite take care of. Spiders kept trying to set up shop near a window, but I would always knock the web down. Once I relented and let the spiders do their thing my ant problem went away. All I need to do is clean up a few ant corpses in the fall, which is a tradeoff I'm willing to make.
by tredre3 | 2026-01-05 22:01:46+00:00
> Where are the upsides in CSAM - whether real or computer generated? How does it benefit society?

In a public forum like X, there probably are no upsides.

In general, though, pedophilia exists. This isn't something that is going to change. What is the harm in providing them with a alternative to real CSAM (which actually and actively hurts children)?
by Jtsummers | 2026-01-05 22:02:20+00:00
>> economic

I included the economic disaster in my list. I just felt that I needed to explain why I considered it a military disaster even though the US could likely "win" Greenland. It would lose Europe and the ability to project military power through Europe. This impacts the ability to project power in Africa and the Middle East. It'll lead to a cascading military failure which leads to lots of other problems including further economic problems.
by FrankWilhoit | 2026-01-05 22:02:22+00:00
1. Deep knowledge of some subject matter.
1a. Ability to extract something implementable from the fog of business requirements.
2. Deep knowledge of some implementation platform and toolchain.
2a. A gift for defining and solving problems, in that order.

Then go hang out where 1. and 2. are, look for some quick win, even a small one, and be prepared to go deep into some other subject and some other platform at any moment. Your first real job will not be the first one you get on your own. It will be the first one you get because you were recommended for it by someone you impressed.
by 737min | 2026-01-05 22:02:34+00:00
Rank Country Total
1 Qatar $6,572,557,546

2 Germany $4,444,392,564

3 England $4,290,201,284

4 China $4,055,470,977

5 Canada $3,961,790,171

6 Saudi Arabia $3,916,067,990

7 Switzerland $3,392,721,030

8 Japan $3,351,313,885

9 Hong Kong $1,928,025,983

10 France $1,880,843,949
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by refulgentis | 2026-01-05 22:02:44+00:00
What does action (i.e. not-strongly-worded-letters, i.e. not words) look like?

Capture Trump?

Invade the US?

The idea the EU is some bureaucratic hellhole incapable of anything is really odd and nigh-universal - I'm used to righties adopting it from Brexit & antipathy for social demoracy, but I'm not used to see it as a despondent wailing from people otherwise sympathetic to it.

Note no one even mentioned the EU - it's so universal a reaction to "US is acting bad" that it came out of nowhere. Not to pick on you: when I was first replying, I also replied as if it was the EU! Had to go back and read the comment I was replying to and corrected myself before posting.
by sanderjd | 2026-01-05 22:03:13+00:00
I'm happy to agree to disagree, but I think this seems like a misunderstanding of the kind of work I'm referring to. It's not clear to me how being plugged into exec calendars and org charts would help, so I think we're probably talking about different things.

But that the with is misunderstood and invisible to lots of people is the whole point of the thread! So it's an understandable misunderstanding :)
by TZubiri | 2026-01-05 22:04:06+00:00
"The fees the federal government charges for court documents are significant. PACER charges users $0.10 for every page users search and access, and $30 per name or item searched plus $0.10 per page per document per month, albeit with a max of $3 per individual document."

It's funny how these numbers sound very reasonable on their face, especially if used for human review.

But if you consider programmatic searches, 10 cents per page is a lot. Consider the CPU cost of cycling through each pdf, assume 1000 letters, that's 1Khz which is like a billionth of a cent, in terms of electricity and hardware ammortization.

I'd bet that this incentivizes a 'hoarding' and reuse of information, rather than a "query when necessary" practice, which would in fact give place to monopolies like OP argues.

A newcomer legal analysis company would have to pay, say 200$ for research from their first customer. If they save those documents, then it is unlikely that their second customer will benefit from those documents.

However huge firms would make a business out of the byproduct of searches, they spend 200$ on documents, and they serve a client, but they add those documents to their own internal database, which of course has costs much lower than the nominal fees stipulated by the federal steward (PACER).

An argument could be that you can't eliminate the fees because there's costs that need to be paid. But isn't that what taxes are typically for? Especially corporate income tax. The costs are probably a nominal fee to avoid overbearing systems, similar to franchise taxes and incorporation clerical fees.

I don't think the idea of charging for documents is bad, who said that the system would need to be adopted for huge data hungry systems, I'm all for giving human analysis an advantage instead of adapting systems to play into the data munching AI fad. I'd rather see balancing that rewards human analysis rather than bringing data munching to the masses.
by huhkerrf | 2026-01-05 22:04:23+00:00
It was a good indication of how things like conspiracy theories spread.

He gave his notice on NYE? Oh, he's probably just fudging that so he's not caught. He doesn't care about getting caught but he's on a burner laptop? Oh, people do weird things when they're stressed. And on and on.

Then, of course, the ultimate fallback: Well it sounds like something they would do. So even if most of this is made up, the bad things are still probably true.
by taeric | 2026-01-05 22:04:25+00:00
I think aligning to decimal point just amuses the crap out of me because "receipt" is a very common document type that you would expect to see on the web. No?

At least in something like GTK and Qt you would be more than justified in just punting on the semantics of the receipt and formatting a fixed width set of numbers to call it a day? In HTML, doing that feels extra wrong. (But, indeed, you can do the same "fixed width" with non collapsed whitespace, even in HTML.)

And it isn't like this isn't a somewhat solved thing in long existing layout engines. Aligning to variables and such is very common in math texts. And largely not doable in HTML.

Reflow is one that always strikes me as largely misguided. No amount of reflow will make most websites look good on a gigantic monitor. Same as no amount of reflow will make most documents handle someone's name that is actually a novel. It just doesn't make sense, for many reasons. And yet we will put forth herculean efforts to maintain "reflow" based on content in so many places.
by coryfklein | 2026-01-05 22:04:45+00:00
EDIT: Ignore this comment, I thought this was https://slackmojis.com/

I'm super bummed about this. I absolutely loved slackmojis, it made it possible to find and add new emojis to Slack in sub 10 seconds.

Slack re-doing their UX back in 202X was the moment I realized they were past their peak. Virtually no one liked the new UI but they were too tone deaf to listen to users.

Really hoping some startup builds a spiritual successor and knocks them down a notch, because this cease and desist attacking their very own community to me reads as them being in the "milk the business for all it is worth" stage.
by rc5150 | 2026-01-05 22:05:03+00:00
I don't see these being used outside of high earning households in gated communities. The same humans being exploited for their labor, whose earnings are hoovered up by the ultra-wealthy, barely have the discretionary income for food and clothes.

It's that old tinfoil hat theory that the Jetsons and the Flintstones took place in the same point in history, the Jetsons were in the sky with their mind-bending technology, all their needs met, meanwhile the Flintstones are down on the planet, working menial jobs wearing and eating literal scraps.

The common man will never see a household robot, that is unless they cobble together enough components that have been discarded by the haves to be used by the have-nots.

To the point of your statement, humanoid robots will certainly fill lots of niches, it'll be fascinating to see what becomes prevalent first: menial labor, agentic-type household assistance, tutoring the kids, walking grandma across the busy intersection, sex tasks, etc.
by johnisgood | 2026-01-05 22:05:06+00:00
I agree.

BTW Forgejo seems to be very similar to GitHub when it comes to bug tracking. There are so many project management systems and bug trackers out there, and I think GitHub (and as thus, Forgejo's) way of doing this is limiting.

There was a recent submission about it on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46460319.
by neoCrimeLabs | 2026-01-05 22:05:12+00:00
It depends on your threat model, but generally speaking would not trust default container runtimes for a true sandbox.

The kata-containers [1] runtime takes a container and runs it as a virtual host. It works with Docker, podman, k8s, etc.

It's a way to get the convenience of a container, but benefits of a virtual host.

This is not do-all-end-all, (there are more options), but this is a convenient one that is better than typical containers.

[1] - https://katacontainers.io/
by stdbrouw | 2026-01-05 22:05:15+00:00
Cute and thus worthy of an upvote, but whenever I see scientists or economists refer to first or second order effects it pertains to things that are subsequent to each other in time, or at least intended vs. ancillary. I don't think anyone except for a Stafford "the purpose of a system is what it does" Beer acolyte would designate new demand of pill bottles as the first order effect of a new medication.

It's just something that statisticians have observed across many fields: you theorize about how potentially huge a particular interaction effect or knock-on effect could be relative to the main effect, you read about the Jevons Paradox and intuitively feel that it can explain so much of the world today... and then you get the data and it just almost never does. No reason why it couldn't, just empirically it rarely happens.
by runako | 2026-01-05 22:05:27+00:00
> Unions are a potential solution to this issue

This is part of the Labor vs Capital stuff I mentioned in my post. We're not likely to have strong unions again in the near future, so any jobs we bring are likely going to be dangerous in addition to carrying low pay.

OTOH if we posit strong Labor, the good news is we have a lot of jobs now that we can turn into Good Jobs. We could, for example, make it so that any large employer pay their employees enough such that nobody who works for them full time (including contractors) is eligible for income-based government assistance at the state or federal level. We could choose to expand those rules to any organization over a certain size. There's a lot we can do to turn Bad Jobs into Better Jobs without boiling the ocean and moving industry supply chains.
by nick_g | 2026-01-05 22:05:38+00:00
I'm going to have to read through this again to really grasp it

I believe there's a minor error in the "Tensorful" section. When describing that `CaseTree` is a profunctor, the type of the contravariant map over `CaseTree` is written as `(i' -> i) -> CaseTree f i r -> CaseTree i' f r`. I believe the last term should be `CaseTree f i' r`
by 01100011 | 2026-01-05 22:05:49+00:00
Yes, they will unload from the specialized robot(dishwasher). They can be the glue in certain situations that are not common enough to design a better solution for. But rapid prototyping, AI and other tech will also make it faster and easier than ever to produce custom solutions for niche applications. The "human robots will take over" bros are thinking one step ahead but not two.
by like_any_other | 2026-01-05 22:06:20+00:00
> I cringed while reading his many comparisons between people of different regions, as if they were species of finches

Wasn't exactly that one of the most revolutionary insights of his theory? That humans evolved and are governed by the same forces of natural selection as other animals? It is amusing that, 166 years after On the Origin of Species, that part is still controversial.
by xquce | 2026-01-05 22:06:41+00:00
No one is calling for war, but it's not like that documented history happened in this century. Greenland had been part of Denmark since the vikings. Surely we can get past the history and talk in today's terms. The people of Greenland have a voice in Danish politics and both the people and politicians said NO to wanting to have US rule them and YES to stay with Denmark.

So yes, defending Greenland becomes a case of helping a people stay free and not invaded, no matter the enemy.

It's silly to say "well we have no chance against" because then you can end that with China, Russia or even India.
by Ajedi32 | 2026-01-05 22:06:42+00:00
They ban users responsible for misusing the tool, and refer them to law enforcement when appropriate. The whole point of this article is to say that's not good enough ("X blames users for [their misuse of the tool]") implying that merely making the tool available for people to use constitutes support of pedophilia. (Textbook case of appealing to the Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse.) The prevailing sentiment in this thread seems to be agreement with that take.
by dangus | 2026-01-05 22:07:14+00:00
I think the only possible flaw with this idea is you might not know.

I find that my organizational and leadership skills demonstrated in my role suffer when I am working on individual contributor work that requires deep focus and perhaps even isolation.

At the same time, I’ve handled other roles at other companies that required more leadership and team mentorship, where you’d look at my actions and feel more like I was management material. But in my current role with my current responsibilities it’s hard for myself let alone someone else to imagine that I would make an effective leader, since my job basically dictates that I don’t do that on a daily basis.

The day to day needs and responsibilities of the business often get in the way of the person actually demonstrating that they will excel when they do something else.

I don’t have any kind of direct solution for this specific dilemma. I think in my situation my manager should make more opportunities available but hasn’t been doing so due to the daily routine of putting out fires.
by severino | 2026-01-05 22:07:22+00:00
Yes, there were elections where at most only 18M people voted, compared to the 24M people that voted when the pro-Russian candidate won, in 2010. Because there were almost no ballot station in those regions leaning more towards Russia. Yet the government didn't think that was a problem at all; in fact, it was good for them (imagine if Trump could just make that people in some blue states couldn't vote). All this in a climate with banned parties and where all the media was controlled by the "Maidan" parties.

So it doesn't look the situation in Ukraine was very democratic either.
by vel0city | 2026-01-05 22:07:23+00:00
Henry VIII had only three legitimate kids surviving infancy, one of which was a boy. He was 1/3 for boys in this count. Add in the one for sure illegitimate child and he's 2/4 born male. Of those infants who were stillborn or died very early into their infancy, several were boys but it seems the counts for those children were uncertain. Also, there were probably several illegitimate male and female children had by him.

Musk is 14/14 born male. Its extremely unnatural.
by TacticalCoder | 2026-01-05 22:08:31+00:00
Assuming someone manages to first get root, can kernels only allowing signed modules to be loaded (Talos does that if I'm not mistaken, for example) prevent that stealth rootkit from being loaded? Or can root just bypass that check?

Or is the only line of defense a kernel compiled without the ability to load modules?

I know all bets are off once someone already gained root, but not allowing the installation of a stealth rootkit is never bad.
by simontheHWguy | 2026-01-05 22:08:50+00:00
I'm glad you like it! I actually made an ssvep pong game a while back with this, was kinda hard to play as the paddle was really small but was a cool concept demonstration. I am working on a video for this device to show off its capabilities with more depth as the current video on the site is very old.

With regards to higher channel count, yes I was thinking about this however it will likely not be released for a few months or longer. The firmware/software rules change a lot when you start daisy chaining the ADC so dev time takes long and I need to reincorporate back into these software ecosystems. Hardware config is also a bit different.
by JauntTrooper | 2026-01-05 22:09:03+00:00
In 2011 Netflix announced it would split its DVD-by-mail and streaming businesses. The DVD business would be called "Qwikster", which was mocked. Eventually they reversed the decision.

Besides the goofy name, people thought the move was premature. Netflix wanted to go all-in on streaming. The catalogue was a lot more limited back then, though, and the DVDs helped bridge the gap since a lot of movies and TV shows that were unavailable for streaming were available by DVD instead.
by QuercusMax | 2026-01-05 22:09:34+00:00
The majority of people who had an opinion (32%) said it was either a Roman salute or a Nazi salute (which are the same thing). Lots of people had no idea (probably cuz they didn't pay attention). Only 19% said it was a "gesture from the heart", which is just parroting what Elon claimed, and I discount those folks as they are almost certainly crypto-Nazis.

So yeah, I believe there are a LOT of Nazi-adjacent folks in this country: they're the ones who voted for Trump 3 times even after they knew he was a fascist piece of garbage.
by travisvn | 2026-01-05 22:10:21+00:00
Does anyone have a good method for avoiding accidentally accepting an "upgrade" notification from Sequoia to Tahoe?

With the potential to set off the installation flow with the wrong click (when its being shown over-and-over again), it makes me anxious and feel like I'm not even in control of my own computer anymore.

For the time being, I've installed a management profile to defer updates, disabled the Settings options for automatic updates, and used "Quiet You!" to try and keep the notifications at bay.

But the maximum deferral time for profiles is 90 days, so if anyone knows of a better solution or work-around, please let me know
by estearum | 2026-01-05 22:10:28+00:00
The demand for pill bottles literally does grow before anyone takes the medication, no?

And correct I agree they wouldn't designate the demand for pill bottles as the first order effect. That's because despite happening first, it's not the most important object of analysis. That's why it's a disproof of your earlier claim that second order effects aren't more significant than first order ones: because if they were, they'd be considered the first order effect.
by jakeydus | 2026-01-05 22:11:00+00:00
If the something in question is a crime though, then that's called a conspiracy and there are laws against that. The legal difference in this case is the overt act, where one participant takes a criminal action beyond speech. Conspiracy is hard to prove in court, but that doesn't mean that I can say whatever I want and be completely absolved just because the action was not taken by my own hand.