MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tempfile | 2025-08-05 11:30:36+00:00
Ok, that wasn't clear before since you just kept saying how you expressed your consent rather than why your consent should be taken into account.

Licensing is much much more limited than you seem to be thinking of it. For instance, you said explicitly you want a way to control your ideas. The only thing this can mean is a way to control who gets to use your ideas, or what they get to use them for. So if I express a political idea in a novel way or tell a funny joke or something I should be able to dictate who gets to repeat it, or in this case with LLMs who gets to summarise and describe it.

This kind of control is antithetical to the spirit of the internet and would be frankly evil if people were actually able to assert it. Luckily in most cases it's impossible, nobody can actually stop me from describing a movie to my friends or from reposting a meme. Just copying and reposting what you wrote verbatim is something we can probably agree is wrong, but that isn't what's up for questioning here. The idea I was actually replying to in the first place was that you can decide somebody can't read your ideas - even if they're public - just because you don't like them or you don't like what they will do with them. It is hard to think of a more egregious kind of 1984-style censorship, really.

There is a place for regulation of LLM companies, they are doing a lot of harm that I wish governments would effectively rein in. It would not be hard if the political will existed. But this idea of saying I should be able to "control my ideas" is way, way worse.
by 286395273 | 2025-08-05 11:30:47+00:00
I was diagnosed with Celiac disease in 2014 via blood test and upper endoscopy. Before I was diagnosed I went to at least 5 doctors (that I can remember) complaining of symptoms.

When I said that I felt fatigued, I was told to sleep more. When I complained of joint pain, I was told that I was just typing too much. When I complained of mood swings, I was told it was just being a teenager.

Doctor after doctor told me that that I was a hypochondriac.

Celiac disease is not rare--it affects ~1% of the population--so statistically speaking, all the doctors who told me to stop faking it regularly see Celiac patients.

My story is incredibly common; every person with chronic illness I know has a version of the same story: being called a hypochondriac by many doctors before finally getting a diagnosis. (Diagnoses which, like my own Celiac disease diagnosis, are not wonky or controversial; they meet standard diagnostic criteria.)

I don't know think the entirety of that "5%-10%" of the population are actually hypochondriacs.
by sokoloff | 2025-08-05 11:30:48+00:00
The HSA is like a bank or investment account, not an insurance program; there's no claim process; you just withdraw the money whenever you want at your say-so. There is only an IRS audit process if they think you acted against the rules of the HSA.

For keeping receipts, we have a process where we dump our eligible receipts into a folder on the NAS and have the scanner/printer setup with a one-button "medical scan" that also dumps paper bills into that folder. You only need receipts to substantiate your position during an audit if they decide to do one, so a big pile of receipts and a spreadsheet with the annual amounts is enough for my taste.

For a reduction of taxes at our full federal tax bracket plus our state income rate, it's worth keeping a folder on the NAS and pushing a button on the scanner a couple handful of times per year.

> Is there a chance the rules could change and the medical care has to be recent?

There's always a theoretical chance, but any prior (or likely then-current year) medical bills would almost surely still remain eligible for reimbursement. The worst case that I can see as being likely is a rule change to require that a 2026 expense would have to be claimed by April 15, 2027. But I wouldn't expect that and think there's precedent that they couldn't change the reimbursement eligibility for expenses incurred prior to the law change. US v Carlton is one where specifically a one-year period of retroactive change was found to be "supported by a legitimate legislative purpose furthered by rational means" which suggests to me (IANAL) that longer periods of retroactive change would likely be found to violate due process.
by shortformblog | 2025-08-05 11:30:48+00:00
Publishers don't get paid a dime if you block the ad unless they are doing a direct ad transaction. Adtech has largely made that transaction a rarity for like 30 years.

It's not like newspapers where advertising is paid in full before publishers put stories online. It has not been that way for a long time.

Your reasoning for not accessing advertising reminds me of that scene in Arrested Development where, to hide the money they've taken out of the till, they throw away the bananas. It doesn't hide the transaction, it compounds the problem.

If publishers were getting paid before any ads ran the publishing business would be a hell of a lot stronger.
Ask HN: How do you manage downtime as a developer?
by stugots2 | 2025-08-05 11:31:31+00:00
i've been working in software for almost 10 years with a stable, decent job. the work is interesting at times, the team is fine, and the company isn’t doing anything insane.

however i’m finding myself in a pattern that’s mentally exhausting: some weeks (or months), there’s no urgent focus, no clear priority, and no pressure. there’s work i could do — bugs, refactoring, docs—but nobody will notice if i do it or don’t. these aren’t vacation days, but they feel like slow-drain burnout zones.

weirdly,i’m not like this elsewhere. i have a side project where i can easily focus 8+ hours without much friction. but at my main job, staying focused feels like a mental grind. i’ve tried time-blocking, daily planning etc. - but i don’t stick with them in this foggy state. i tried working on expanding my knowledge, read a book on tcp/ip, build a webserver in a new language, but i cant seem to stick with it.

my current workaround: i commit to either doing work or literally doing nothing (staring at a wall if that what it takes). that has reduced the old youtube/scrolling guilt, but it’s draining and unsatisfying.

what mental frameworks or systems have helped you stay focused during long, low-pressure stretches?
by sails | 2025-08-05 11:31:47+00:00
I did an ERP implementation for manufacturing years ago, it was such a nightmare.

I imagine a good approach that would solve some of my reservations would be a strict core ledger, especially as it relates to inventory and finance related transactions, but then relatively flexible around the specific product domain (we did craft beer, which in the end was a nightmare to map to the ERP processes)

Flexible where it matters, strict where it matters. Idk, but good luck!
by theandrewbailey | 2025-08-05 11:31:50+00:00
> It's 2017, and a thunderstorm shoots off a lightning bolt. ... . It sets a new world record, besting the previous title holder — a 477-mile (768-km) bolt from 2020

So the previous record holder never should have held it at all (an earlier one beats a later one)? How was that missed? Is there that much data to sift through? Why is that not addressed in the article?
by GCUMstlyHarmls | 2025-08-05 11:32:05+00:00
0.41 included some "non-colliding keybind" option, and you can clear-defaults in the config now, so this issue might be fixed. I haven't tested it but I recall seeing news about it.

Last I tried it the bind issue and performance were sort of blockers for me, but it looks like both of those are moving forward.

https://github.com/zellij-org/zellij/releases/tag/v0.41.0
by DrewADesign | 2025-08-05 11:32:26+00:00
I’m sure there’s some indexing thing I could take care of, but windows edges out spotlight for me for both ineffectiveness and slowness on every machine I use. For me, windows used to be far better than spotlight. It’s strange to me how much better the command line tools do essentially the same job, and that, anecdotally, the GUI ones seem to be getting worse?
by windexh8er | 2025-08-05 11:32:45+00:00
That's exactly why I said conciliation court. None of what you've outlined is required nor is it expensive. But, for each case, the defendant is still required to show up.

I've successfully used conciliation court against large corporations in the past which is why I question it here.

And while this should be able to be handled via legislation it won't be. Beyond that a workaround could force that to happen.
by flyinglizard | 2025-08-05 11:33:00+00:00
Your use of the term "peace" instead of "surrender". As a result of this unconditional surrender Japan was reformed in a way that's very beneficial to the rest of the world (and, you could say, itself). A different way could have left an adversary with grudge just waiting to rebuild, but how things turned out completely took the fighting spirit out of Japan.
by mananaysiempre | 2025-08-05 11:33:07+00:00
The point of the concept of war crimes is that it applies to you regardless of whether you think you’re in the right. Even if the other side is committing them, it still applies. That’s why the definitions take pains to not make them a winning strategy or unilaterally avoiding them a losing one: why we talk about (deliberately) targeting civilians, not (incidentally) killing them; why putting munitions in a Red Cross-marked hospital annuls all protections for it; etc.
by dfedbeef | 2025-08-05 11:33:29+00:00
Do whatever you want. It's easier for me to have a primary recovery email and password manager with MFA that uses a yubikey and phone authenticator. Then I can use passkeys or whatever for the rest of the stupid accounts that I don't care about.

Side note: I feel like people always say 'i can just use good passwords' and then their password is like '<sports reference><year>'
by sarchertech | 2025-08-05 11:33:32+00:00
I have a CS degree. My wife has an engineering degree and then went to medschool. Both of us had 4.0s.

We both agree that we had far more time in undergrad than at anytime since.

We frequently had small assignments the first week, but they were universally not worth much because many people aren’t even in the class yet since drop/add ran through the whole first week. They were also not very much work.

The point is there is no way you were spending 12-16 hours per class the first week.

I never spent that much time in Physics I, Calculus I or any English Class. The only classes I spent that much time on or more were higher level project based CS classes.

And even then I wasn’t spending that much time on them till closer to midway through the semester.

Then you get nearly the whole month of December off—Spring Break, Thanksgiving, and Summer.

No one expects anything from you at a summer internship. Companies don’t expect anything from experienced employees in the first couple months. Harder than a summer internship doesn’t say much.

On top of that you’ll never have fewer responsibilities than when you were at school.

It just seems like you had no free time because it’s the time in your life when you haven’t learned time management yet, and you remember the last few weeks leading up to final exams and semester project due dates.
by namibj | 2025-08-05 11:33:33+00:00
Apparently you were right, mostly. Though it was later determined to be independent of quality setting; the vendor had claimed after the initial findings and having had a lot of time to try and internally reproduce "that factory default settings would be unaffected".

I, probably due to phrasing ambiguity in an old TheRegister article on the matter, had mistakenly remembered the temporary storage between scan and print of the copy mode to also had been affected.

As there were many situations where one would scan and destroy the original once offsite backup has run, while physical copies would/should often not entail destruction of the original, most of the overall damage/impact would be due to scanning anyways, not copying.
by UmGuys | 2025-08-05 11:33:43+00:00
The best programming advice I was ever given was given to me before I started while I was in college. It took me too long to appreciate how strong it made me. KEEP AN ENGINEERING JOURNAL. Keep it somewhere you have access to outside company property and update it daily with what you worked on learned. Bonus: take notes in every meeting. Also: how to make bad co-workers hate you.
by codethief | 2025-08-05 11:34:10+00:00
> maintaining a scheduling/pre-empting runtime (which is the only approach I'm aware of that works here without basically making Python into an entirely unrelated language) is very labor intensive! There's a reason there aren't usable alternative implementations of ERTS/BEAM […]

You seem to know a lot about PL. Could you elaborate on that reason and on the maintenance burden of a preemptive runtime?
by christophilus | 2025-08-05 11:34:20+00:00
I use a window manager and have never bothered with tmux, except as a screen alternative to keep processes alive on servers every once in a while. I don’t like the idea of learning a 3rd set of key bindings in order to get what my window manager mostly gives me.

For those of you who use a tiling or scrolling window manager and tmux, what’s your selling point?
by kakadu | 2025-08-05 11:34:39+00:00
While I like echarts I have found it somewhat challenging to extend their functionality.

I wanted a Gantt chart and while I did achieve what I wanted it wasn't without having to delve into the their source and putting log statements everywhere.

I happen to be using ant design and I've had the same issues there.

Its a bit all over the place and the translations are not great, but i will stick with it.
by Arnt | 2025-08-05 11:36:51+00:00
I think the summary of that is "passkeys only solve the problems the designers cared to solve, and I care about some others but not those".

I heard at a conference that users of one large freemail service store their passwords in an average of seven different files, so that provides an average of eight different possible attack vectors to get hold of a user's password — seven plus social engineering.
by augment_me | 2025-08-05 11:37:03+00:00
I actually did not mean the post as a call to perfection/action but I can see why it could be seen as such. You can have a temporary solution that is good-enough for its purpose at a time. I advocate for the conscious effort to evaluate your intention so that you can feel a sense of agency around whatever happens afterwards because you are more likely to lose context, and the initial intention, as time passes.
Show HN: Weekend project – Alerts for broken public URLs via Slack / Telegram
by 0xsahilk | 2025-08-05 11:38:58+00:00
Over the weekend, I hacked together a tiny tool to help devs keep track of their deployed URLs (apps, docs, testnets, etc). We had too many incidents where something silently broke and no one noticed for hours.

So this tool: - Checks up to 5 URLs (free tier) - Sends 2–3x/day status summary to Slack or Telegram - No login, no config — just paste + pick your alert channel

Would love feedback from anyone shipping Web3 stuff or client work. Happy to share the demo link!
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-08-05 11:40:20+00:00
Free markets are great, for price discovery.

Thats about it.

Now, that goes a very long way in many many aspects of life, but not all of them.

The insistence on using markets as the only tool to determine everything is just as mistaken as throwing out free markets as a useful tool because it’s used in places it never should be.
by quibono | 2025-08-05 11:40:21+00:00
> My advice for finding ideas is to get out of the ecosystem of companies in the Big Tech or Silicon Valley traditions and go and work for tiny little companies where all the office staff work in the same room and your job is to modernise a C++ application that has a hard dependency on Microsoft Office 2003 and runs on a VM running Windows XP (which was the first programming job I got when I left teaching in 2021). Those businesses are full of problems that are easily solved with computers, but no one who knows how to solve those problems has discovered those problems yet.

Agreed. Except: smaller companies tend to have much smaller budgets and be less tolerant when it comes to software pricing.

I would also say from experience that there is either a lot of commonalities in the types of issues that these companies face OR they have some very unique needs. In the former case one might as well abstract away and try to attack these problems in the general case. In the latter we need to hope that the niche can be big enough to be profitable.
by tempfile | 2025-08-05 11:40:23+00:00
> I don't think there is anything wrong with ignoring robots.txt

Neither do I, I just thought your reply was disingenuous.

> Crawling = recursive fetching

I do not find this convincing. I am ok with using the word crawler for recursive fetching only. But robots.txt is not only for excluding crawlers and never has been. From the very beginning it was used to exclude specific automated clients, whether they only fetch one page or many, and that is certainly how the vast majority of people think about it today.

Like I implied in my first comment, I have no problem with you saying you dislike robots.txt, but it is not reasonable to pretend the article is unclear in some way.
by cess11 | 2025-08-05 11:40:59+00:00
Could you give a realistic example?

The PHP pipes as described in the articles about it will require a bunch of wrapping anyway so you could just do that. There are several alternatives, from a function or method that just converts from raw array to class, to abstractions involving stuff like __invoke, __call, dispatchers and such.

Also the expectation to not have to put facades on libraries is a bit suspicious, in my experience it is very common. I find it unlikely you actually want to use raw arrays instead of leveraging type guards in your code.
by wltechblog | 2025-08-05 11:42:10+00:00
Since Thingino targets retail devices at the top level rather than components, when you install our firmware you get an image made specifically for your device. We can give you easier installation methods than using a flash programming in many cases, and once your camera is flashed, all of its functions work out of the box.

Also, by focusing on the Ingenic platform, you can be assured that your camera will actually work once installed. That was not my experience with OpenIPC.
by sevensor | 2025-08-05 11:42:12+00:00
> It's impossible to avoid signalling

You can take that one step further. What kind of signal does “I can afford to go to University and not worry about credentials” send? I’d argue that’s realistic only for people who are willing to admit that they belong to a leisure class. In the US at least, we like to flatter the leisure class with the pretense that they worked hard to get there.
by wiredfool | 2025-08-05 11:42:34+00:00
UVA is a heavily Liberal Arts college. (or at least, it was when I was looking a generation ago). That means that there are a lot of distribution requirements and you're going to be doing the soft fuzzy useless sounding things like English rather than going through blindered to things that will be in your major/make you money right out of college. But learning to write means that you need to learn to think critically of what to write.

It's not a Technically oriented college, though it does teach the sciences, but I wouldn't go there (and didn't) for Engineering. That's what VA Tech is for, though the weather is worse, the campus not as nice, and not quite as prestigious.

The generally Liberal Arts system in the US is a strong contrast to the European system, where you often start focusing on a few subjects at the high school level, and then apply to a degree program where you have very few "outside the major" choices. My wife didn't take math or science after she was 12 (but she took languages), Oldest 2 kids are down to 3 or 4 subjects at the high school level (One is doing the Bio/Chem/Physics A levels, one did Phys/Math/Further Math/Geography). The last incidence of anything not STEMish was GCSE/Junior Cert/~15yr old level.
by jgalt212 | 2025-08-05 11:42:59+00:00
> Japanese had no navy to speak of at the time, America had complete air superiority, and had no qualms of firebombing Japanese cities and killing its civilians. They were essentially already defeated.

This roughly aligns with some of the island hopping campaign, but still the Japanese just wouldn't surrender. It was not on their culture to do so (at the time).

I'm not saying you're overall wrong, but saying I would not infer too much from your premise.
Ask HN: Drowning in tech and content. How do you spot the next opportunity?
by fwiech | 2025-08-05 11:43:32+00:00
There is more stuff in the world that anyone can use in a lifetime.

In the post-industrial world, so many things are created already. There is more content to consume than you'll ever have time for. There is so much written code, more you'll ever be able to read. And more software than you can ever use in a lifetime.

Everyone jumps onto the AI hype train rebuilding things that are already built. May it be the search for fully autonomous machines or the desperate attempt to fill the marketing void.

How do you move, adapt, advertise and find new business opportunities in this world?
by rlupi | 2025-08-05 11:43:41+00:00
The most radical act of resistance in the age of surveillance is to stop watching yourself.

The most powerful form of sovereignty is to not be monitored — not even by yourself.

I suggest you ask yourself questions like:

- What would my ideal day feel like, not in terms of tasks, but in terms of energy, rhythm, and peace?

- When did I feel most real today — not productive, not performing — but truly present?

- If stress were a teacher, what would it be trying to show me — not about my work, but about my needs?

They help see things more clearly.
by FrustratedMonky | 2025-08-05 11:43:43+00:00
I'm in this industry and very interested in efforts like this.

What is the plan to monetize and support.

You'll never get market share without support, and that takes money. Support contracts. SLA's. Any company larger than 10 people aren't going to bother with something that doesn't provide support.

> Edit. Sorry. Had to click around a bit. 90$/Month for business. > Probably light. If business is 1000 people, this could be 1000$/month.

I have to add, I think all of the current tools that do have the market share, are not very good. So I do want something like this to succeed.
by sklargh | 2025-08-05 11:44:34+00:00
A few big corporate things. These do not apply to small firms. They may apply to certain middle market shops. Nothing revelatory, just hoping to help a “me” at 21.

1. For large corporations the most appropriate governance analytical model is usually a feudal state and you can think of business units like manors.

2. Over the long run, proximity to revenue is usually a good proxy for survival.

3. Most people just want to do their job, feel good about themselves, and go home.

4. All things being equal, if people like you, you are far more likely to advance than if they do not like you.