MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by heyjamesknight | 2025-08-14 01:31:13+00:00
Yes, but HIPAA is notoriously vague with regards to what actual security measures have to be in place. Its more of an agreement between parties as to who is liable in case of a breach than it is a specific set of guidelines like SOC 2.

If your medical files are locked in the trunk of a car, that’s “HIPAA-compliant” until someone steals the car.
by slwvx | 2025-08-14 01:32:07+00:00
At the start of the internet age, say 30-50 years ago, there was lotsa optimism about internet and web tools being mechanisms for democracy, leading to decentralization of power. Today the internet is dominated by big tech companies, who jealously guard their power and vacuum up our personal data. The early vision of the internet feels pretty naive.

Seems like a similar pattern is occurring with crypto.
by socalgal2 | 2025-08-14 01:32:15+00:00
Theoretically you could compile Blender via Emscripten into a webpage. Kind of like someone compile Audacity into a webpage.

https://wavacity.com/

Of course I feel like web based editor would have accounts, cloud storage, multi-user (like Google Docs, Figma), and a bunch of other things, streaming files, streaming textures, etc.... Still, it might run with no mods :P
by mceoin | 2025-08-14 01:32:20+00:00
Perhaps you shouldn't care, although I find this to be a short-sighted perspective.

Agents are users now, and agent-friendly docs and libraries will be standard practice for the tools that want to thrive through broader industry adoption.

Similarly, perhaps you wouldn't care if your website wasn't easily parsable by crawlers, but if you'd like your work to appear in search results you might like to include a sitemap or structure the HTML a little.
by juped | 2025-08-14 01:32:52+00:00
Another person who thinks semver is some kind of eldritch law-magic, serving well to illustrate the primary way in which semver was and is a mistake.

Sacrificing a version number segment as a permanent zero prefix to keep them away is the most practical way to appease semver's fans, given that they exist in numbers and make ill-conceived attempts to depend on semver's purported eldritch law-magics in tooling. It's a bit like the "Mozilla" in browser user-agents; I hope we can stop at one digit sacrificed, rather than ending up like user-agents did, though.

In other words, 0ver, unironically. Pray we do not need 0.0ver.
by Melatonic | 2025-08-14 01:34:25+00:00
It is a negation - so anytime you combine it with a verb (grammatically).

Ex:

I have seen the movie --> I have not seen the movie

When combined with the verb "do" (and giving a command or instruction) it would negate the verb "do"

Ex:

Please do run on the lawn --> Please do not run on the lawn
by alephnerd | 2025-08-14 01:34:29+00:00
> Other parts of the world still have factory cities

I mean, factory cities in other countries are also increasingly being automated as well.

Look at what happened to Wolfsburg in Germany as well as the investments in robotic and additive manufacturing in China leading to around 20 million factory jobs being shed from 2013 to 2023 [0]. If an Indian auto manufacturers like Maruti Suzuki themselves had a 1 robot for 4 employee ratio by 2017 [1] in a country where labor (skilled and unskilled) is cheap, it shows where the tide is turning globally for factory cities.

Globally, manufacturing (especially in electronics, chemicals, pharma, automotive, and aerospace) has become much more automated because the cost barriers for automation have fallen significantly. For example, a robotic arm like that which Kuka or FANUC manufactures costs around $30-40k to install, whereas 30 years ago an industrial robot would have costed around $65-115k in 2003 dollars [2]

The era of single factory cities is coming to a close globally. Industries are overwhelmingly clustering in hubs in order to take full advantage of supply chains and vendor ecosystems.

[0] - https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/06/10/f...

[1] - https://www.livemint.com/Companies/0qexlea1C0MelXiAXcveOJ/Ro...

[2] - https://unece.org/sites/default/files/datastore/fileadmin/DA...
by ncruces | 2025-08-14 01:34:42+00:00
> Note also that historically, the C standard left things UB exactly so that implementations can use it for extensions (e.g. mmap). The idea that UB == invalid program is fairly recent misinformation, but we have to react to it and make things at least implementation-defined (which also meant a bit something else before).

I'll just finish by saying: yes please. And thank you for bearing with me.
by wkat4242 | 2025-08-14 01:36:08+00:00
> in my lived experience as an LGBTQ person in Texas (which to be fair, may not be entirely representative of the rest of the country), hold more of a "live at let live" philosophy that, paradoxically, is more tolerant of LGBTQ+ persons with nuanced views than the political left is

For what it's worth as a European who has never been to the US (and certainly won't now!) I've spoken to many US LGBTQ people and the ones from Texas mentioned this "live and let live" thing as a specifically Texan thing. Texas seems to be more open in that sense than other Southern states.

However like I said this is just hearsay but the two Texan people I spoke to mentioned exactly this phenomenon independently.

And yeah I can imagine you consider us leftists more purist. But I don't think you can say that America is heading leftward. Compare Trump with even a hard-line right winger like George W Bush and the latter is like a model president. I recently saw his congratulation speech to Obama and it exuded respect and sanity. It's kinda amazing that a president we considered pretty bad is now a role model.

Whereas Trump started the Capitol raid when Biden wijand now wants to redact history at the Smithsonian if it doesn't suit his narrative.
by alephnerd | 2025-08-14 01:36:09+00:00
What I mean is Folsom is a city where research into a physical engineering field continues, and primarily for a single employer (Intel), though that remains to be seen with the current rightsizing going on.

> The same strip malls on every block and beige-box sprawl as far as the eye could see

Plenty of industrial cities are similar. And as I mentioned in the previous response, manufacturing is much more automated and skilled today - it's increasingly a white collar job in nature.
by streptomycin | 2025-08-14 01:36:16+00:00
FWIW I've implemented a simplistic WAR in a baseball video game I wrote, so I am well aware of what it is :)

> Well there's infinite ways to combine peak and career totals, and "10 years of 1 WAR is equal to 1 year of 10 WAR" is certainly one of them.

That means that you can imagine many different ways of calculating overall career quality, even if you restrict yourself to just using WAR values. Summing up all the seasons is one of them. Others might give some additional value for exceptional seasons. For instance https://a.espncdn.com/magazine/1224NBAHOB.pdf as a simple example. I use a similar formula for Hall of Fame eligibility in my video game.
by jspann | 2025-08-14 01:36:33+00:00
Maybe I'm reading the headlines wrong, but it doesn't seem like a lot of people read the actual press release and earnings report from the August 11th, 2025[1]:

1) The "Going Concern Assessment" that they put out was a regulatory requirement because they didn't have full control of the sale of parts of the pension. They say in the release that they're going to have the sale finalized on December 15th, with details on August 15th

2) They not only mention opening a new business segment, but built a lab AND got FDA approval for that segment (Advanced Materials & Chemicals)

3) The sale of the pension is going to have so much of a surplus they're going to pay down parts of the long debt that they have.

I'd love to be corrected if I'm misreading this, but the reports of Kodak's death seem greatly exaggerated

[1]: https://investor.kodak.com/news-releases/news-release-detail...
by esseph | 2025-08-14 01:37:06+00:00
This very much mirrors the scenes I grew up with in the late 80s and through the 90s, early 2000s.

I just checked and there's still an old .gif image in the center of one of the websites with an upraised red fist.

A lot of those folks are security researchers, CISOs, network engineers, and software devs now.
by cobbzilla | 2025-08-14 01:37:43+00:00
I’m almost 100% in agreement, but context matters, and attitude matters.

If you’re up against a behemoth, figure out how to get out ASAP.

But I’ve learned that small claims lawsuits can actually be quite fun! Earlier this year I sued a former landlord in small claims court. He had entered my rented space while I was away (without notice, multiple times) and then refused to return my security deposit when I moved out.

I went into it with a “let’s have fun and learn” attitude. I had never sued someone and I’d never represented myself in court. I read a lot, had some good conversations with LLMs (and then fact-checked them!) about the laws and case history in my area, then filed my suit.

After he dodged the summons three times, I discovered I could file a motion for alternative service (post on his front door, post in a newspaper, etc). When I went to court to argue for that motion, he actually showed up in court! So I asked the judge if he could be served right there, and he was!

Our trial was highly entertaining, I caught him in a bald-faced lie, then looked at the judge and said I’m not sure how both of these things he said could be true, I can’t figure out how it adds up but maybe you can.

I won the case, the judge awarded me less than I was asking for, but more than I was actually owed.

I was kinda hoping he would not pay (that’s common) in which case I was looking forward to learning about how to garnish his wages or put a lien on his property. But he’s actually paying me in monthly installments for the next very many months. He could pay me all at once so he’s being a bit of a jerk, but at least he’s paying.

All-in-all, I knew I had a solid case, had fun along the way, and didn’t spend more than a few bucks on court fees. In that specific context, it made sense for me and I’m happy I did it.
by amonroe0805 | 2025-08-14 01:38:48+00:00
I think the obvious reason for this is that alcohol is an order of magnitude more fun when you're socializing with people in person, and people just do so much less of that now than even just before covid.

Instead, you're seeing people turn to "quiet night at home" types of recreational drugs.

For me, I'd rather have more in-person social time and a few beers, whatever the health effects may be. The benefits of social time always felt well-worth it.
by komali2 | 2025-08-14 01:39:01+00:00
Choose peace or violence. Violence doesn't have to mean physical destruction or harm, it can mean self psychological harm as you put aside your comfort to further a goal or your values.

Peace is a perfectly valid option for people to pick. If they can master it, they can weather any depredation the world throws at them. Which may be many if society continues to slip slide into fascism.

However I believe most good things in the world came at the behest of violence - again not necessarily physical, but at minimum people sacrificing personal peace. Woman's suffrage, black suffrage in America, the civil rights act, LGBT rights in the UK, the overthrow of the kmt military dictatorship in Taiwan. Endless examples.

I'm still thinking about this all the time, I wrote about it a while back: https://blog.calebjay.com/posts/accept-or-reject/
by MrCheeze | 2025-08-14 01:40:25+00:00
Claude almost universally reacts to everything with a positive exclamation as its first sentence, regardless of whether it's good or bad. If you don't believe me, just watch https://www.twitch.tv/claudeplayspokemon for about three minutes and you'll get the idea.

Alternatively, look at the system prompt, where Anthropic attempted to get it to stop doing this: > Claude never starts its response by saying a question or idea or observation was good, great, fascinating, profound, excellent, or any other positive adjective. It skips the flattery and responds directly. https://docs.anthropic.com/en/release-notes/system-prompts#a...

This problem seems highly specific to Claude. It's not exactly sycophancy so much as it is a strong bias towards this exact type of reaction to everything.
by jpetso | 2025-08-14 01:40:39+00:00
Phabricator had its task tracker open to everyone, but the company behind it would charge for prioritization of tasks being tackled. If you want your bug fixed or feature implemented before whatever else is on the maintainer's inherent priority list, pay up. IIRC, they also did all development in-house without accepting merge requests from the outside, but I may misremember.

It's unclear how successful they were with this. Phabricator lasted for about a decade before announcing the end of its development, not all of which was as a stand-alone company. The announcement didn't say why they stopped.
by soraminazuki | 2025-08-14 01:42:14+00:00
This is yet another example of how utterly disingenuous the stated purpose of intellectual property laws are. There's all this talk from proponents about how it protects the little guys from abuse by big corporations, yet in reality it's the exact opposite every single time. Rights are taken away from the public with the force of the law while big businesses trample on the law to steal from individuals. For all the talk here about the best course of action being to "just" give in, things will keep getting progressively worse until there is collective action.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-08-14 01:42:58+00:00
Is this a swipe at AI?

>Energy demand in the United States is growing for the first time in a decade, driven by power-hungry AI and the rapid spread of data centers.

The Q I'm really interested in having answered is why experts are not pointing to geothermal as a scaleable way to get radionuclides into the biosphere. Seems like a great way to get govs to pay attention. Do they fear becoming the latest incarnation of Thomas Midgley Jr?

(aside to Paul: I don't ascribe to conspiracy theory what sheer negligence can explain :)
by jmclnx | 2025-08-14 01:43:08+00:00
From the article

>What it’s ultimately selling them is not just software, but the idea of a seamless, almost magical solution to complex problems

Sound like to me all it does is funnel our tax dollars to the top 1%.

They seem to be involved with the project below. So I cannot help to believe these people with Trump's Admin. is a massive corruption operation on steroids.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/how-unraveling-two-pentagon...

No wonder the deficit is expanding.
by gwerbret | 2025-08-14 01:43:49+00:00
Some important things not mentioned in this press release (not to detract from the idea of new treatment approaches of any sort):

- All patients had their tumors surgically removed before they were started on treatment. Thus the trial wasn't testing cure so much as delay of recurrence.

- These were very superficial tumors, meaning they were growing on the very surface of the inner bladder, just like skin tags. These aren't the ones that kill people. Patients with superficial bladder cancer who don't respond to BCG can be treated for quite a while just by having the tumors surgically removed whenever they recur (using a minimally-invasive procedure known as a transurethral resection of bladder tumors, TURBT).

- Fun with words: the press release called this a clinical trial, but it's not -- it has no controls, no real statistics, no randomization, none of the things that make up the usual standard in medicine. The authors of the paper call it a "study", which is basically a research experiment. They don't use the word "trial" at all in the paper.

Having said all that, I still look forward to seeing a proper trial.

Edit: wordsmithing.
by lbrito | 2025-08-14 01:44:37+00:00
That's a lot of assumptions for someone supposedly not wanting to hand out psychological diagnoses based on a single comment on a online forum. I can online imagine the theses that would come out if you _were_ trying!

You can ad hominem all you want, but my central point remains: everyone has the same allotment of time. If you are spending it on something, that necessarily means you are not spending it on other things. That's just a fact and doesn't have moral judgements attached.
by tombert | 2025-08-14 01:45:29+00:00
Yeah, I just assumed that the coin was a last-ditch effort to cash in on a trend, and I guess I assumed that when that thing failed, so did the company.

I haven't touched a film camera in more than twenty years, so for most of my life I have only been aware of Kodak peripherally, so it's not like I was paying a lot of attention to them.
by godelski | 2025-08-14 01:45:32+00:00
IIRC the Challenger o-ring problem was much more deterministic. That the flaw was known and caused by the design not considering the actual operational temperature range. Which, I think there's a good lesson to learn there (and from several NASA failure): the little things matter. It's idiotic to ignore a $10 fix if the damage would cost billions of dollars.

But I still think your point is spot on and that's really what matters haha
by p3rls | 2025-08-14 01:45:58+00:00
It was GOOGLE that promoted endless yoasted wordpress slop in every single niche made by semiliterate semitechnical people with no actual experience in their niches (despite google's protestations about EEAT)

Even today you can search things like "BTS" and see google has overwhelmingly preferred indian slop URLs for some of the highest traffic queries on the planet and no one gives a fuck.
by wkat4242 | 2025-08-14 01:46:00+00:00
Ok I was speaking from my knowledge of here in Europe (my ex worked with homeless and unemployed) and here it's really not the case. People here don't live on the streets unless there's something seriously wrong with them. Anyone else is well supported by the welfare system. They won't be rich and it may take a while and often not in a good area but they'll have a place to live.

If this is common for regular people in the US then the system is really letting them down and I'm starting to understand why people vote for Trump (though I'm sure this will only make things worse for them)
by zahlman | 2025-08-14 01:46:14+00:00
On the other hand, it feels wrong to me to call these "myths" when they are really just simplifications.

(And I have heard of the 80-bit internal register thing described in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44888692 causing real problems for people before. And --ffast-math is basically spooky action at a distance considering how it bleeds into the entire program; see e.g. https://moyix.blogspot.com/2022/09/someones-been-messing-wit....)
by potsandpans | 2025-08-14 01:47:26+00:00
I apologize on both accounts. To recenter my argument, and restate in an attempt to be less ambiguous:

There is a bit of irony on how this creator has positioned themselves. The website itself presents as very arts-and-crafts, salt of the earth, "human". The crux of the argument I feel exists in the initial quoted text, which I feel is (the ironic part) not very human (collective) at all, and a much more self-centered, pro-individualist.

My observation is that this is what you see typically in conservative reactionary movements. Luddites (the idea of, not the historical narrative which is rich and nuanced) here would be the canonical example: a legitimate reaction to a disruption in a conservative posture. e.g. _the machines are the problem, not the context for which the machines are allowed to exist without equity for our society as a whole_. It misses the forest for the trees.

The example, by extension, is somewhat humorous to me. To eat, is to be human. A person cannot "stop creating recipes", because we literally need food to survive. And so to suggest that any one person might have ownership over the specific combination of ingredients, of which have been discovered and selected and refined through the whole "human project"... is to me, patently absurd.

The inconsistancy that I sense is that we digest the collective knowledge of the world, synthesize it and produce something new. The llm is doing analogous work here, the difference is it doesn't have a human credential associated with it. It's obky loosely analogous, it's not the same thing... it just rhymes.

An llm trained on all of humanities data provides a synthesis of all of our information, readily available to all: I can run an open model on my local machine and have it synthesize for me at whim without big corpo in the equation at all.

To note: I am not making a value judgement here. Instead I'm observing that the _feeling_ expressed by the author is in my opinion not consistent with the intent.

Stated somewhat ungenerously, it's not "for people", it's "for ME to decide who it's for."
by btown | 2025-08-14 01:47:33+00:00
I can't give advice about the trademark, other than that I've been through this kind of thing before and it sucks.

What I can say... is that I love what you've been doing on your Deepkit, and I was horrified to hear that this was happening to you.

Seriously, I've only lurked in the community so far, but it's possibly the most forward-thinking foundational library in the web space that I've seen.

Strong typing with annotations that can simultaneously influence runtime ORM and frontend generation, while being fully compliant Typescript? A hand-rolled lightning-fast Typescript compiler that emits the runtime reflection capabilities? Full-fledged DI as an inherent part of the design, not an afterthought?

It's such an incredible blend of beautiful tooling with pragmatic applications.

For anyone curious about this, https://web.archive.org/web/20230916074647/https://deepkit.i... is a fascinating read.

https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/47658#issueco... provides context on why some of TypeScript's design goals around erasure hold it back from these features. My vision of the web is that it would be an even more vibrant and innovative place if TypeScript were to cast off those restrictions.

DeepKit actually solving this by implementing its own compiler, bytecode, and interpreter... it's truly incredible.

Marc, know that there are people out there who love your work, and who will continue to follow it avidly regardless of the name. You're doing amazing things.
by giantrobot | 2025-08-14 01:51:05+00:00
> I don't like the fact that stores like Fry's don't exist anymore, but electronics is a much more niche hobby now than it was 30/40/50 years ago and is much less hobbyist friendly - building something with an 8088 might be fun, but not as much anymore when you can purchase a STM32 for a fraction of what they 8088 was 30 years ago. Coding has becoming a very prevalent hobby now, and access to hobbyist boards like Arduinos and Raspberry Pis has become much more democratized.

I don't think it's so much that electronics is more niche of a hobby but instead of going to Frys or Radio Shack people can click a button and order from Amazon or the Arduino store or anywhere else. There's no hoping a shop has a part you need. You just pick it and are done.
by filleduchaos | 2025-08-14 01:51:12+00:00
I find it rather strange that you talk about them as if they are two separate things when they are intrinsically linked. You have ~60 days from the date of employment termination to have your work permit transferred or you are out of status, period. Leaving your job (whether via resigning or getting fired or laid off) without something already lined up is thus quite obviously much more risky than it is for someone who doesn't have that sword hanging over their head. I'd sincerely hope it doesn't need explaining how this tilts the balance of power even more in the employer's favour.