skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The emphasis there is on "further treatment". The test itself is broadly benign (except the general risks associated with phlebotomy and any risk of psychological harm).

The issue is that doctors often over-react to adverse results due to the risk of being sued if it did turn out to be a true positive.

I have two examples of this. One was during a routine blood test I had a liver enzyme flag up, which was then further investigated non-invasively with ultrasound and it was determined that I might either have moderately developed NAFLD (non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, I'm obese) or very early stage NASH (non-alcoholic steatohepatitis) associated fibrosis. The doctor wanted to perform a liver biopsy to confirm which is obviously an invasive procedure with a 1%-ish risk of complications.

My response was to ask how the treatment would differ between diagnoses, and he said in either case the treatment would be the same: lifestyle change. He agreed that from a risk perspective the biopsy was just inviting additional risk for no benefit, but that policy is to recommend the test and if I refuse it I'll need to sign an indemnification document saying I was refusing further diagnostics against medical advice. A few years go by, I've made efforts to improve my lifestyle, lost weight, and now my liver tests are all normal proving it was just NAFLD after all.

In another case, I had a suspicious finding in an eye test which (long story short) led to me getting two head CT scans which showed no problems. In hindsight, I think a double dose of brain radiation over a common minor finding with no other symptoms was a crazy over-reaction and I would have refused if I had all the facts, but it could have been a life threatening situation in some ridiculously tiny percentage of cases so it was all rush rush and I didn't have time to weigh it up.

Often the correct thing to do may be a combination of further non-invasive testing, repeating the test (possibly after a period of time), and "watchful waiting". Doctors often don't feel comfortable with the level of personal risk that could expose them to, and for good reason. That is the issue, not the test.
It probably all comes down to cost. I remember reading studies about widespread melanoma screening and they were writing things that basically amounted to: "overall it adds ~0.5 day of life expectancy to the average Joe, based on costs &co it's worth it if you consider 1 year of human life worth $30k"
> They have actually accelerated

They have not. In the first 30 days of the war, Russia captured some 22% of Ukraine. Successful Ukrainian counteroffensives in 2022 reduced this to 17-18%. In 2023 and 2024, Russia failed to regain its foothold and still occupies less than at the end of the first month of the war. All while monthly casualties have risen to the highest they've ever been.

The figures I mentioned - half a percent of territory, 400 000+ casualties - are for 2024 alone. All Russians have to show for such insane losses are militarily super-duper-important landfills, as you put it.

For a country with an aging society and already one of the lowest birth rates in the world, this is pure suicide. They will literally run out of young men before reaching Kyiv. The most cynical people in Washington must be real pleased with the way the war is going. Russia is losing people and permanently crippling itself, while the US population has grown by almost 100 million in the last 30 years.
The big problem there is no easy and consistent way to query RDAP because there are no clients in Debian or Ubuntu. There is one in the experimental stage [1] in Debian, so perhaps in Debian 14?

And yes, I know, there are Perl-Apps [2], Go-Apps [3] and so on which can be installed within minutes. But this extra step (including debugging which happens when compiling/installing from source) isn't going to help RDAP to get traction.

[1] https://packages.debian.org/experimental/rdap
[2] https://metacpan.org/pod/App::rdapper
[3] https://github.com/openrdap/rdap
Same here. I got into woodworking because I was astonished at the price of decently-made furniture here in the US. You can literally buy all the materials AND tools for less than one solid wood rustic-chic kitchen table and bench costs to buy.

Anyway, the hard part about this is that you need a space and then the tools and some tools are easier/cheaper to build than buy (e.g. bandsaw, router table) but there comes a point at which you have to stop building the shop and start building furniture. Most of the YouTubers I follow haven't gotten this message yet...
> Well isn't this what most people voted on?

... No? The US still has a constitution, unexcited though the courts seem about enforcing it. If people wanted to get rid of that, they'd vote in state governments who said they wanted to get rid of the constitution, and do a constitutional convention. Barring that, no, most people in the US probably didn't vote for a sort of wonky dictatorship.
Yep. I've been working on Ardour for 25 years now, and it took me 7-10 years to develop the right kind of skin for dealing with "user feedback". For me, the right kind of skin was basically to shed such stuff like water off a duck's back. Whether someone is saying "I've been using Logic for 10 years and this is so much easier and intuitive" or "You should be ashamed for asking anyone to pay for this steaming pile of shit" (both real quotes), I had to be able to shrug and carry on with whatever my development priorities were anyway.

That said, I sympathize very much with Marcan on this project: getting the basic infrastructure for Linux operational on new hardware inflames passions much more than a niche project like a DAW.
> At the Department of Justice, a database detailing the vast array of criminal charges and successful convictions of January 6 rioters was removed, according to a report from Donie O’Sullivan and Katelyn Polantz at CNN

Like it or hate it, they're all pardoned now and don't have a criminal record.
Trying to push Rust code into Linux and after a year calling it a "failure of leadership" when people are reluctant don't welcome your code with open arms is not very professional. It has taken other projects decades of out-of-tree maintenance until their code finally got in (RTLinux).

The correct way would have been to maintain the Rust code out-of-tree, for as long as it would take, which would also somewhat prove that you are ready to maintain that code over a longer time period.

Sad that this led to him stepping down, but maybe others in the Asahi Linux circle are ready to keep maintaining the code out-of-tree until everyone is ready for it
As that kernel maintainer clearly stated this was not because the code was awful, but because the code was written in Rust and it was therefore cancer.
Couple of quick addendums before (an attempt at) elaborating "my" "humane policing" strategy..

1. Swiss might have what you call an "authentic democratic tradition". Insofar as it's doubly unique-- few Swiss seem to question its uninterrupted efficacy (at managing the historical catholic/proddy/ethnolinguistic divisions,eg)

(their geographical demarcation from the rest of Europe helps, while America's relative isolation works against a "common defence" mechanism. Conscription in CH is a nonissue, even helps to build solidarity. Possible to de-confound this?)

>71% of respondents said that Switzerland’s direct democracy was the most effective way of promoting social cohesion. According to Sotomo, it gives the population a sense of self-empowerment.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/identities/cohesion-in-switzerl...

2. Otoh, in the US there is still a comparable sense of local solidarity, e.g., when disaster strikes the NYC or LA (compared to the 1980s)

Dually, the sense of strife seems to be strongest in artificially compressed geographic spaces: e.g. when representatives of the different values-based USian tribes converge to jostle for an advantage (contrast with the Superbowl!)

(Fuelled by your "elite pusillanimity"? Lack of actual violence make national politics brutal as academia haha. For the US, 3 (sadly) impedance-matched jungles: tribal, federal, international)
> how PhDs are of little value

I see this as being the same as

> the article is about how the challenges of getting a degree (rising living costs, slumping stipends) are causing fewer enrollments.

Also, as far as I know, this dynamic was true at least 20 years ago, when I graduated. You either did a hard science PhD and hoped to get in at a top finance/pharmaceutical/tech firm, or you toiled away as an adjunct professor for low wages with the hope of achieving a unicorn tenured position.

Which is why most doctoral candidates were hopeful immigrants on student visas, and people who had work authorization mostly opted for joining the workforce.
TIL about UefiShell.iso.
6% seems suspect. I would expect it to be higher... at least in the 20% to 30% range. Do you have a source?
Bean counters don't like specialists, because they can't evaluate the value of specialists without having that specialist knowledge themselves...
> why enter into an open-ended low-paid work contract with a professor with no definite end-date on when the PhD is granted?

This is less of a problem than you might imagine. While no school will guarantee to give you a degree regardless of your performance, it's pretty close. They don't offer the limited funded spots to anyone they don't think can make it.

The real compromises are that people go into their PhD thinking they're going to cure cancer and become a professor at Harvard, and come out of it having made a 5% improvement to a model for predicting the risk of one particular complication following treatment for one particular type of cancer, knowing that becoming a professor at Podunk College would take another decade of work. Or the decide to quit once they discover the reality of it.

The under-paid indefinite purgatory period is called the postdoc.
But it is greatly in the interest of US agencies to perpetuate conspiracies that they have access to all data, all the time, with no court needed.
Starting social media shame wars over minor disagreements isn't exactly what I would call hacker spirit, but whatever.
And you don’t think someone would copy/paste what they did on dev or stage onto prod?
This is either delusional, or trying to sell a course.

That aside, it's interesting that software engineering will probably be among the first to be destroyed by ASI. This is simply because it's easy to do reinforcement learning on.
I would do a PhD if they paid me enough. I don't mind if I cannot find a job that pays well with a PhD (I actually don't need a PhD for that); I would do the PhD because I like doing research. What would bother me is to spent ~4-5 years without a decent income. The scholarships here in western europe are just too low, and I cannot justify not working for private companies in favor or pursuing a PhD during ~4-5 years
If the opinions they don't agree with exist on Hacker News, and they do (check the dead comments in just about any thread where Asahi Linux comes up) then it isn't an unfair assessment at all.

What is the "it" that you're insisting they "deal with," here? What is the "drama?"

Also what value does bigotry, homophobia and transphobia have in open discourse that it must be preserved? None of that is on topic for Hacker News, why must it be on topic for the Asahi Linux community?
One of the most dangerous aspects of actions like this is not only the present impact but the future impact, as future presidents from either party might now decide to fill non-political positions (like record keeping) with political "loyalists".

This is extremely detrimental to a democracy.
Having video compression issues on my end- can someone provide a summary?
I first used PhoneNet in a small school computer lab. For the time it was awesome. A bunch of Macs could pretty easily share files and print to the shared printers.

A point to remember is the machines weren't sharing terabytes, gigabytes, or even necessarily megabytes of files. Text or Word docs, spreadsheets, and occasionally networked games were a majority of the traffic. Rarely was the speed ever an issue. You just had to learn some behaviors like don't open and edit a file directly from a network share and everything would slow down when sending a job to the printer.

An aspect I thought was cool was it worked with cheap adapters on all the Macs in the lab from the old Performas to the latest PowerMacs. Ethernet cards were still fairly expensive as was cabling. A cheap RJ-11 extension cord from RadioShack could add a new drop to the PhoneNet network.

Once Ethernet got cheap it was far and away superior to LocalTalk/PhoneNet networking. There was no going back once you tried Ethernet but for a time LocalTalk was an amazing Mac feature.
What did you learn from the Politics of Smell thesis?
Tool selection has been a tough nut to crack, especially when the “toolbox” gets really big.

How well does this work if we give it 10+ search services, SQL data models, python tools, etc. any benchmarks or first-hand experience?
I think it's mostly a lack of ideas.

If I sold you a device for $1 and it minted $5 using $2 of electricity then you'd buy absolutely as many as you could as fast as you can.

However, if the devices stopped working when you had 100 of them you'd buy exactly 100 and if somebody made ones that only needed 50 cents of electricity you'd be looking to switch to those ones.

A company that is looking to downsize it's employee count is saying we are out of growth ideas and we're just going to do the same thing but more efficiently. Nothing really wrong with this except then your stock price shouldn't be like 100 P/E since there's no growth.
> Surely, though, we can do better as a society

We haven't even solved the most basic shit like shelter, food, education, &c for millions of people in the west, as a society we're faaaaaaaaar from universal yearly full health checkups. As an individual feel free to get private checks, they'll gladly take your money
Canada sees "Gulf of Mexico (Golf of America)" in both Apple and Google maps.
Even if he did that, which I'm not in a position to judge:

That is an entirely different situation from facing inner circles in an open source project while contributing to a major port.

Sock puppets aren't taken seriously while the word of the inner circle is taken as gospel.
> There’s a large supply chain that AI is dependent on that requires humans to function.

...for now. Given sufficient advances in robotics, why would you expect that to continue?
Someone wrote (https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/208e1fc3-cfc3-4a26-98...):

> To back up Sima here, we don't need grandstanding, brigading, playing

> to the crowd, streamer drama creation or any of that in discussions

> around this.

Marcan replied (https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/208e1fc3-cfc3-4a26-98...):

> If shaming on social media does not work, then tell me what does, because I'm out of ideas.

Then Linus replied (https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/CAHk-=wi=ZmP2=TmHsFSU...):

> However, I will say that the social media brigading just makes me not want to have anything at all to do with your approach.

> Because if we have issues in the kernel development model, then social media sure as hell isn't the solution. The same way it sure as hell wasn't the solution to politics.

To me, it sure sounds like Marcan is making the case that they tried other venues, didn't feel like it worked, so they resolved to using their social media following to shame kernel developers if they didn't stop.
This shouldn't have been flagged.
USAID, the UN, and these other NGOs often make life worse in the receiving country. This is very hard for Americans to grasp because we're so charitable individually and thus feel our nation should be as well, but these NGOs interests are not aligned with the average American and they're certainly not aligned with the receiving country's. One need only look at the stability of recipients of USAID money v those countries that have refused.

Charity is great but when it comes from NGOs demanding cultural subjugation to American culture and restrictions on how the money works, this leads to resentment, instability and war.

Of course, most Americans would probably not just want to hand out money willy-nilly without any restrictions.

Thus, in my opinion, the entire premise of USAID is flawed, save for a select few endeavors to a small cadre of countries.

The entire diplomatic purpose of USAID is to build up good will abroad, but that's simply not working. No amount of money handed to whomever is going to change the fact that, within recent history, America has undertaken several pre-emptive wars and managed them poorly.
I don't think HN has high moderation at all. High moderation would imply stricter and quicker punishment for making rancid remarks.

There were a number of remarks on the prior thread by people making conspiracy claims, harassment, insults etc. Some of them get flag-killed, some just down voted but ultimately the users on the site still remain.

Of course I'm not one to be above such a thing in terms of insulting people occasionally but HN is really quite permissive in terms of what you can post and get away with. It takes consistent and repeated bad behavior to get a warning, and even more to get banned. And if you're an expert in being politely venomous you can get away with even more. That's why the outside perception of HN tends to be a lot worse than the inward one.
To be clear, I meant the specific issues the OP was talking about in the article, not the overall inefficiencies. I was speaking to the fact that the author had not seemed to have raised the matters with anyone who was actually in a position to do something about it. I apologise for the lack of clarity.
You keep using majority as emphasis, but that's incorrect. Trump only got 49.8% of the vote. The majority of America voters did not vote for him.
SNAP doesn't make food free in the sense of free parking, it gives money to poor people to buy food. The equivalent for parking would be market-rate parking with means-tested parking vouchers, which would be a much, much better solution than what we have now.
Their experiments started in 2021 and the change was made in 2025? This makes me think AI writing code for us will only speed things up so much.
> you can make it faster

Simplest ( works in enterprise too) is to say pay for it to be faster or even considered.
> the "professional" versions are about as rude as "unprofessional" ones, but the wording in those makes it more annoying

That's exactly what I thought. These "professional" responses are hilariously passive-aggressive. Hats off to the author! I just have the fear that some people will use these unironically...
This about the preservation of government records, definitely not "off-topic".

If you're not interested, just move on to the next article. I skip over 90% of HN articles.

Also, like it or not, American politics have a wide impact worldwide, more so than any other country (by far).
Why is it ok that the American government have a backdoor & have access to all non-American's personal data, but when the UK/EU wants something similar, suddenly it's a massive outrage. Is it just "we're stronger than you", so it's ok when we do it?
Was any of the Corellium port [1] usable for mainline Linux? In theory, they have a commercial interest in Linux for Apple Silicon, plus emulation tools.

[1] https://www.corellium.com/blog/linux-m1
Reminder that he did this on the Linux kernel mailing lists. If I was a Linux maintainer who found out that two of the people I'm talking to, are actually with high likelihood the same person secretly maintaining a charade, I wouldn't be far from banning both.

I also certainly wouldn't take any of his complaints about cliques or brigading with any seriousness or self-reflection afterwards.
From 2011: "Don’t call yourself a programmer: “Programmer” sounds like “anomalously high-cost peon who types some mumbo-jumbo into some other mumbo-jumbo.” If you call yourself a programmer, someone is already working on a way to get you fired. You know Salesforce, widely perceived among engineers to be a Software as a Services company? Their motto and sales point is “No Software”, which conveys to their actual customers “You know those programmers you have working on your internal systems? If you used Salesforce, you could fire half of them and pocket part of the difference in your bonus.”" [0]

0 - https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr...
> 1) We're expensive

I reckon we're cheap. Even with the current wages software engineers have, the margins in software companies/industry is large.
> He said it was not about literally shaming people

The original message I read (https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/208e1fc3-cfc3-4a26-98...) they quite explicitly said (verbatim): "If shaming on social media does not work, then tell me what does, because I'm out of ideas."
Tangentially related to the topic of the bandwidth efficiency of Teams: screen sharing in Teams has a very low framerate of about 3 to 4 fps. It is driving me insane, especially when the presenter starts relentlessly scrolling up and down and circling things with the mouse cursor.

I think Microsoft took bandwidth efficiency a bit too far here.
Yes. I was developing some open source stuff before venturing to for-profit closed Source Software, and I was surprised that the paying customers were on average much nicer than those who got their stuff for free!

Great idea about the priority queue.
From my experience, there has been a noticeable decline in PhD positions available within academia, likely due to tenure and career longevity, and reduced retirement benefits. As a result, many PhDs are forced into the private sector. However, many organizations have removed middle management layers, making merit based advancement less likely, and instead time becomes the dominating factor.

So given the choice between longer tenure or further education, where education is only marginally effective and time is dominant, the clear choice is to start a career as soon as possible. Which is something i wish i would have understood during my studies.
But the high salaries are just a question of supply and demand, because for 20 or so years there was always a need for more programmers (well, at least senior ones). Reduced demand should naturally be reflected by reduced salaries (or benefits).
Did you know we also have NPR and PBS? A literal public-TV censorship board?

Also, we’re talking about the CIA. Your conspiracy theory has them waiting for a law to be repealed before acting? Do you think a single DOGE bro hired a lawyer before acting?

> because law makers were terrified of what would happen if this was turned inward

What nonsense. Where did you read this? We had a massive and celebrated domestic propaganda board during the Great Depression and WWII.
They would need to completely reset to do that. Do BSDs even have rust support for their drivers?
To me, an OS is a piece of software that can boot in a computer without requiring anything from another OS as host, and allows running programs bundled with the OS (like Paint on windows 1.1), and if supported, 3rd party programs.
> Your job was never to write code, it is to solve problems for your users. They are why we have a job. You need to talk with the users, empathize with them, understand their problems and feel their pains. This is much too important to be left exclusively in the hands of product managers and designers. You are the problem solver, so you need to fully understand the problem.

Adding to this point, LLMs won't fully understand the problem, so they're simply incapable of developing complete solutions. I've had a lot of success with these tools in developing functions, but at that point I've already architected and designed the solution. Even so, it saves time. These should be regarded as developer productivity tools, not developer replacement tools.
It also depends on the quality of that enclosure and whether or not it adds heat or fan noise.