MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by beepbooptheory | 2026-03-05 04:09:13+00:00
I was wrong, it's in Book II. This is "Socratic irony", he is assuming the position of an argument from earlier. He of course doesn't believe in the conclusion... we are going to learn later that justice is a form, based on the Good! This is all the doxa of one still in the cave.

> According to the tradition, Gyges was a shepherd in the service of the king of Lydia; there was a great storm, and an earthquake made an opening in the earth at the place where he was feeding his flock. Amazed at the sight, he descended into the opening, where, among other marvels, he beheld a hollow brazen horse, having doors, at which he stooping and looking in saw a dead body of stature, as appeared to him, more than human, and having nothing on but a gold ring; this he took from the finger of the dead and reascended. Now the shepherds met together, according to custom, that they might send their monthly report about the flocks to the king; into their assembly he came having the ring on his finger, and as he was sitting among them he chanced to turn the collet of the ring inside his hand, when instantly he became invisible to the rest of the company and they began to speak of him as if he were no longer present. He was astonished at this, and again touching the ring he turned the collet outwards and reappeared; he made several trials of the ring, and always with the same result—when he turned the collet inwards he became invisible, when outwards he reappeared. Whereupon he contrived to be chosen one of the messengers who were sent to the court; whereas soon as he arrived he seduced the queen, and with her help conspired against the king and slew him, and took the kingdom. Suppose now that there were two such magic rings, and the just put on one of them and the unjust the other; no man can be imagined to be of such an iron nature that he would stand fast in justice. No man would keep his hands off what was not his own when he could safely take what he liked out of the market, or go into houses and lie with any one at his pleasure, or kill or release from prison whom he would, and in all respects be like a God among men. Then the actions of the just would be as the actions of the unjust; they would both come at last to the same point. And this we may truly affirm to be a great proof that a man is just, not willingly or because he thinks that justice is any good to him individually, but of necessity, for wherever any one thinks that he can safely be unjust, there he is unjust.

https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1497/pg1497.txt
by knodi123 | 2026-03-05 04:09:35+00:00
> even just two dots above the USB3 and two dots above the USB2 wouldn't be rude.

But then they'd look the same! :-P You're reminding me of the old story about the leprechaun, commanded not to tamper with a marker over the location of his buried gold, nor to move the gold, instead filled the entire forest with identical markers.
by jjav | 2026-03-05 04:09:50+00:00
Not really. Sure you can find something on ebay but some parts can be hard to find (I collect old SPARC machines).

More importantly, you can't go back to the time where you could interact with the world with the older machines. My SPARCstation10 would run a web browser marvelously in 1993, but that combination isn't going to browse any website today.
by lotsofpulp | 2026-03-05 04:10:22+00:00
shimman claimed

>hundreds of billions in profit that health insurance companies extract

yet no request for evidence?

Here's data for medical loss ratios:

https://www.kff.org/private-insurance/medical-loss-ratio-reb...

https://www.oliverwyman.com/our-expertise/insights/2023/mar/...

Here are the sub 5% profit margins for the publicly listed insurers. On the same website, clicking on the "Revenue & Profit" tab will show you that all of the health insurers, combined, earn less than $50B of profit per year, and most of that is probably not even insurance related since a large portion comes from UNH's enormous healthcare provider business.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/UNH/unitedhealth-g...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/CVS/cvs-health/pro...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/CI/cigna-group/pro...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/ELV/elevance-healt...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/HUM/humana/profit-...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/CNC/centene/profit...

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MOH/molina-healthc...

The above obviously does not include the many millions of Americans covered by non profit insurers, such as Kaiser Permanence, Providence, Cambia, and the various Blue Cross plans.

Here are the 5 year returns for the above businesses compared to SP500:

https://i.imgur.com/S8bNSM2.png

Suffice to say, you would not want to be a shareholder of a health insurer.
by SurvivorForge | 2026-03-05 04:10:30+00:00
The biggest version of this I see is when people batch-submit PRs to popular open source repos with agent-generated code. The maintainer gets flooded with well-formatted but shallow contributions that take more time to review than they save.

What helps is treating agent output as a first draft. My workflow: let the agent generate, then spend equal time reviewing as if a junior dev wrote it. If I cannot explain every line in the diff, it does not ship.

The culture shift matters too. Teams should normalize asking "did you review this yourself?" without it feeling accusatory. A simple PR template checkbox like "I have personally tested these changes" sets the right expectation.
by vedantnair | 2026-03-05 04:11:32+00:00
> Wow, these people don't know how to filter git log by directory? This is pretty messed up, no wonder that git does not work to them.

Hmm... good point. Would you say that a directory per device is the best way to manage robot config? Have you felt that non-technical users are comfortable with this? Curious what your experience has been like.

> oh! This was a strawman argument to motivate their SAAS. Still, it's a pretty weak one.

I don't think this is a strawman argument. This is a problem we've heard from real robotics teams as they scale their fleets. I did my best not to shill. I'd like to think that reserving one sentence at the end of the blog is acceptable.

Still, I'd love to hear where you think the arguments are weak so I can reconsider them. Thanks again for reading. I appreciate it!
by DaedalusII | 2026-03-05 04:11:34+00:00
its reasonable praise. a 19 year old social outcast who grew up in the midwest drops out of ivy league and starts a company before smartphones exist that he sells for $43 million dollars at age 27, then invested almost all the money into more startups, became a billionaire, and hijacked chatgpt from the richest person in the world.

its not a comment on his ethics or morality
by 0xbadcafebee | 2026-03-05 04:13:23+00:00
When we no longer have concentration camps whose victims are located via Flock, then I'll be okay with them. It's not hypothetical, it's happening right now.

https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/ice-deaths-s... | https://atlpresscollective.com/2025/11/13/atlanta-police-flo... | https://immpolicytracking.org/policies/reported-ice-accessin... | https://jsis.washington.edu/humanrights/2025/10/21/leaving-t... | https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/how-cops-are-using-flo...

They're putting people in pens and then murdering them, and using Flock cameras to round them up.
by a456463 | 2026-03-05 04:14:02+00:00
Eh. Just simply on stability and life, beyond CMOS battery and laptop battery changes, my 5x 2015-2018 lenovos are working like a charm. I love the plastic case, it flexes and catches falls better than the mac. The MBPs have fallen down and dent like crazy, leak electricity through the metal body, weight like crazy and still no OS freedom and no free app store and you got to rely on "homebrew"? It is wild that we are relying on "home" brew for making a machine from on the richest companies in the world palatable.
Superorganism AI
by kaungsetlin | 2026-03-05 04:14:15+00:00
use AI with care. they are optimized to please user and the most certain way to please a user is if the user does not exist.
each AI agent may be viewed as harmless. but when its small influence on a user is seemed from a systems perspective (all AI agents acting as a superorganism like an ant colony), there really is some point all these agents are pushing us towards. is this convergence point for better or worse? all it takes is one of stroke black ink to smear a white canvas. i therefore think less energy is needed to move us towards a point that is not beneficial to the human race.
how can we stop it? use it as a tool. have a definite problem or question you want to solve. don't think of it as a friend. personality of AI is not a feature, it is a camouflage for misinformation.
by gnabgib | 2026-03-05 04:15:44+00:00
You've a lot of accounts that have spammed your domain in the last quarter

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42884734
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46943245
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46918057
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46707516
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46648837
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46523887
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46423419
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46423230
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46408751
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46368177
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46356281
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46338266
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46270197
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46177567
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46134344
by idebasispaul | 2026-03-05 04:16:04+00:00
Submission Details:

Show HN? Yes (if you are sharing this as a project or a unique review find).

Summary/Comment: This review explores the technical capabilities of the Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 Pro, specifically focusing on the 5-level Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) and the 5-level Ambient Sound customization. It also examines the software integration within the Android ecosystem, including the V-shaped curve EQ settings and automatic device switching.

Relevant Discussion Points for HN:

Integration: How Samsung’s proprietary features compare to the AirPods Pro ecosystem.

Design Shift: The move toward a square-stem "blade" design for better touch controls and acoustics.

Audio Customization: The utility of having granular control over ANC levels vs. automated adaptive systems.
by dang | 2026-03-05 04:16:40+00:00
oneeyedpigeon already explained it, but allow me to follow up with more information:*

You can see a zillion examples here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

The purpose is to satisfy extra-curious readers (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...) who might want to read previous discussions of the same story.

No criticism is intended! I add this because sometimes people think there's an implied "why did you repost this, it's already been discussed" - but not at all: reposts on HN are fine after about a year or so: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

* than you could possibly want, but oh well
by diogenescynic | 2026-03-05 04:18:15+00:00
No, it's incompetent mentally ill weirdos being put in charge of things that they should because of DEI and woke virtue signaling that I disagree with. And again, if that's the hill that democrats want to die on when they think the entire country is under siege... then it shows just how unserious they really are. Those are elitist and luxury beliefs.
by SoftTalker | 2026-03-05 04:18:32+00:00
I distinctly remember reading that the entire bill of materials for building a Boeing 747 was managed in Excel. I have not been able to find that claim since then but it was so amazing to me that I remember it.

It doesn't really make sense as I think about it now, because the 747 design predates Excel by many years so maybe it was BS.
by shiroiuma | 2026-03-05 04:18:54+00:00
Go back and re-read my comments. I never specifically said that xenophobia was sinking the West. That's something that you said, not me.

The West is sinking due to many causes, and is predictably turning to xenophobia as a distraction. It's a typical far-right playbook: find some minority group to blame all the country's troubles on, instead of looking at the real reasons.

China doesn't need to amp up xenophobia because it just doesn't have a lot of immigrants in its borders in the first place, and it isn't sinking (yet) compared to the West, and seems to be generally outperforming them for now. In fact, they can distract people from the problems caused by their government's bad policies by blaming "the West" instead.
by srean | 2026-03-05 04:19:36+00:00
Prompted by current news I was idly thinking about how caverns and tunnels get impacted by surface level blast overpressured.

How much of the energy will get transmitted as opposed to reflected will depend on impedance matching. There are two very important transitions (i) open air to air inside cavern and (ii) cavern air to cavern walls.

Regarding (ii) unless the density transition is eased into, (gravel and sand ?) the energy in the air will get reflected right back. Very little will get transmitted into the rock walls.

Same principle applies for (i). As a resident of such a cavern you would want high impedance mismatch. It makes sense to have well matched labyrinths to dissipate the energy much like silencers and mufflers. One would want all the energy be converted into turbulence, safely and quickly.

I wonder if these considerations inform their design. Probably does.
by toraway | 2026-03-05 04:20:03+00:00
I can't find anything corroborating that example either.

I've been seeing a lot of similar grandiose claims made in random comments/Tweets/etc recently that Flock solved this or that specific high profile case that have also turned up zero proof when I did research.

I'm not sure whether it's just individual techno optimist fantasy that somehow becomes confabulated in the brain with some other crime in the news as if Flock was actually used, an organized persuasion/lobbying/misinformation campaign, or something else. But I'm seeing it a lot now which feels a bit concerning.
by pseudohadamard | 2026-03-05 04:20:11+00:00
TFA pretty much summed it up with:

Completely useless. Thanks for showing me every feature you’ve ever shipped

And that's what it is, we'll just use the right-click menu as a garbage dump for every feature we've added. I've currently got my right-click menu down to eight entries, of which four are extensions I added (NoScript, DownThemAll, etc), and the four built-in ones are things I've never, ever used in 20+ years as a Firefox user. I'm also running RightLinks which turns right clicks on a link into "Open in New Tab", which is what I want to do, oh, approximately 100% of the time I right-click on a link (for the epsilon times I don't want to do that you can override with Ctrl-Click to get the original menu back). Its actually painful watching users who haven't overridden the Firefox builtins use right-click, "right-click, scroll, scroll, pause to check, scroll, click".
by lotsofpulp | 2026-03-05 04:20:59+00:00
The insurance companies are not stopping the government from paying for everyone's healthcare. It's the other way around, governments are using insurance companies (better referred to as managed care organizations since they don't really sell insurance) to add the friction so that some people get more healthcare and some people get less.

Who gets more and who gets less depends on who has political power (that's why the old and non working get subsidized by the young and working), and in a democracy, this question ultimately comes back to the voters.

Bottom line is due to demographics and restrictions in the credentialing process (including for medicine itself, one of the costliest components of healthcare), there is nowhere near enough supply of healthcare relative to demand, AND due to the enormous damages awarded in lawsuits in the US, the cost of liability protection is sky-high and increases prices for every step of the healthcare chain.

We need way more healthcare providers, and tort reform, and publicly funded medicinal trials, and without that we will continue to limp on with this bureaucratic maze to essentially reduce demand to manageable levels.
by Cyphase | 2026-03-05 04:21:07+00:00
There was a small thread about Daemon a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996474

Someone there mentioned never having heard of the sequel, so.. FYI, there's a sequel! It's called Freedom™[0]. It's very much one story split into two volumes, not "our heroes go on a new adventure".

And as I said in that thread, for another great fictional portrayal of AI, see Person of Interest[1]; it starts as a crime procedural with an AI-flavored twist, and ended up being considered by many critics the best sci-fi show on broadcast TV.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%E2%84%A2

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_Interest_(TV_series)
by xvector | 2026-03-05 04:21:45+00:00
There is also:

3. Talent migration to Anthropic. No serious researcher working towards AGI will want it to be in the hands of OpenAI anymore. They are all asking themselves: "do I trust Sam or Dario more with AGI/ASI?" and are finding the former lacking.

It is already telling that Anthropic's models outperform OAI's with half the headcount and a fraction of the funding.
by jacquesm | 2026-03-05 04:21:45+00:00
Thinkpad + linux is unbeatable in my opinion. My daily driver is a more than 10 years old W540 and absolutely rock solid, drives three monitors, has four USB ports and a GPU. I don't use it for gaming or anything like that, just software development, work, email and browsing. It is maxed out for RAM and cost all of 300 bucks or so second hand.
by chihuahua | 2026-03-05 04:22:05+00:00
I frequently walk 20 minutes from my house to a trailhead. Along the way, I often see annoying trash. Somehow, a freeway underpass (a road going underneath I-90) seems to be catnip to people who want to throw trash out of their cars.

Eventually I got fed up and picked up a few bags full of trash. Then I found another guy nearby who also likes picking up trash, so we had a few get-togethers where we collect 3 trash bags each. He has a connection with our city sanitation department, so they come and pick up the bags.

The same guy also runs a once-a-month litter pick up event where we meet at the post office and spend an hour picking up trash. He provides hi-viz vests, trash bags, and grabbers. Usually about 10 people show up.

Overall it puts me in a bad mood to see so much trash thrown out by shitty people.
by SamDc73 | 2026-03-05 04:22:08+00:00
I find https://github.com/steipete/gogcli a bit easier (but still confusing to setup)

Google Workspace API(s) keys and Roles was always confusing to me at so many levels .. and they just seem to keeping topping that confusion, no one is addressing the core (honestly not sure if that is even possible at this point)
by ajross | 2026-03-05 04:23:02+00:00
> you are trying to convince me that someone being encouraged to kill themselves [...]

Arrgh. You lost the plot in all the yelling. This is EXACTLY what I was trying to debunk upthread with the D&D stuff. You don't know the context of that quote. It could absolutely be, and in context very likely was, a fantasy/roleplay/drama activity which the AI had been engaged in by the poor guy. I don't know. You don't know.

But I do know not to be so dumb as to trust a plaintiff in a Huge Suit Against Tech Giant without context.
by wingmanjd | 2026-03-05 04:23:26+00:00
Datacenter income for nVidia last quarter was something like 62B vs the gaming market of <4B. While not quite a rounding error, it feels like the gaming market is just too small for them to put more resources toward it for us consumer folks.

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-financia...
by hunterpayne | 2026-03-05 04:23:37+00:00
The Chinese CAP1400s took 5 years and that's a new design to them. The first NPP was built in 1951 (ish) and took 18 months from blackboard to grid interconnection. Some designs take longer, others are shorter. Some parts of Vogal were rebuilt 3x times due to the federal government changing the design requirements multiple times during construction. Another challenge is that NPPs are built rarely enough that its hard to be a supplier to the nuclear industry so many parts are custom built per project. That doesn't have to be the case. The idea there is a hard limit of 7 years, sorry...that just isn't so.
by nradov | 2026-03-05 04:25:01+00:00
You're giving doctors a little too much credit. While most of them have good intentions and try to act in the best interests of their patients, something like a third of the care they deliver is considered "low value" in that it's not evidence based and isn't likely to benefit patients. While some of the friction caused by health plans is just pointless waste, the utilization management processes can actually nudge doctors towards practicing better medicine.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/price-we-pay-9781635574128/
by yunwal | 2026-03-05 04:25:45+00:00
>> X is basically Y is how we got here

> This is abuser rhetoric

Oh come on, this has nothing to do with being an abuser. You're doing the online millennial version of calling someone a dork. It's the way an entire generation of "left"ists (with no actual leftist principles) learned to bully the people they have a distaste for. Just call them an abuser, a facist, etc etc until the words mean nothing anymore and actual abusers and facists can get away with it in broad daylight.
by dang | 2026-03-05 04:26:25+00:00
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

“It Turns Out” (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25556578 - Dec 2020 (29 comments)

Paul Graham and "It turns out" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1633802 - Aug 2010 (15 comments)

“It turns out” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1162965 - March 2010 (63 comments, with pg's response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1163194)
by gnabgib | 2026-03-05 04:27:16+00:00
(2011) Previously:

2019 (153 points, 11 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21895050

2918 (184 points, 33 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17396878

2015 (106 points, 55 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9470376
by webXL | 2026-03-05 04:27:31+00:00
Wow, that's A lot. Even though there's diminishing returns with more workers, they'd probably build them faster if they weren't scaling out so much concurrently, right?

Seems like we could match a 7 year clip at a much smaller scale. We'll be forced to at some point, but we need to overhaul the regulatory mess and fix the grid first. Hopefully that happens long before battalions of Chinese drones and droids take over the world.