MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by KronisLV | 2025-09-25 16:59:20+00:00
> If people do find themselves in that situation, the best answer is "unionize". The second best answer is to work with your coworkers to adopt better practices (it is very unlikely that they are going to fire you all all at once). And the third best answer is to do the job well, regardless of what is going on around you, and if you get fired you get fired.

That's a pretty nice way to view things! I've been lucky enough to mostly be in environments where I can work towards that (even if there is the occasional enterprise legacy project that can feel as a maze).

But at the same time, even in better circumstances, people can get lazy, I certainly do, and are sometimes also set in their ways. In those cases, I'll take any automated tools that will make it easier to do things in more organized and better ways - e.g. automatic code formatting with a linter for consistency, or various scripts to run on the CI server, to check codebase against a specific set of rules (e.g. "If you add a reusable component, you should also add it somewhere in the showcase page").

I wonder what automation and tooling could be used to manage the complexity of some pull requests, even when people have deadlines or sub-optimal understanding of the whole codebase, or any number of other reasons that make things more difficult. Things like better code navigation tools (even in the web UI), or more useful dependency or call graphs, a bit like what SourceTrail did back in the day, before going bust: https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail
by Dig1t | 2025-09-25 16:59:21+00:00
Having private companies try and label things themselves which are misinformation or incitements to violence is a slippery slope which has never worked well in practice. As soon as you have a person in a company who's job it is to decide whether something is misinformation or not they immediately will apply their own personal biases.

The approach of allowing everything that is _legal_ to say is much better. If it is allowed by a court of law then companies should not be trying to apply their own additional filters. It can be downranked in the algorithm but at least allowing legal speech is important.

Even just looking at your statement, lumping Andrew Tate in with Tommy Robinson is a completely subjective thing, they are two wildly different people. Everything Tommy Robinson has said is true, he regularly states that he doesn’t care about race, he rejects white supremacists, and has a movement filled with peaceful normal Brits. Nothing he says or does is violent or illegal, his claims about Pakistani rape gangs are supported by evidence and first hand testimony. And more generally: not wanting to become a hated minority in your own country is not an extremist position. It doesn’t mean you hate others for their skin color or whatever type of “phobic” label you care to apply. People vote repeatedly for a government to stop the boats and every government that gets elected decides not to try for some mysterious reason, people are justifiably angry that their elected officials are doing the opposite of what they voted for.

Andrew Tate is yes of course a controversial dumb guy who does say things which are pretty out there, but the principle of allowing him to say everything which is legal in a court of law is important. Most normal people recognize that he’s outside the Overton window on many topics and it’s generally easy to counter his speech with better speech. But lumping crazies like Tate in with legitimate people like Robinson is a common tactic to delegitimize the people you disagree with.
by fsckboy | 2025-09-25 16:59:33+00:00
when you are talking to a european audience, they tend to be in favor of gun control so they don't care about erosion of those rights (like the people in the US who also favor eroding them, wording of the rules be damned)

HN is to a large extent a popularity contest, and people here are more in favor of free speech than guns. the US record on protecting free speech is very good.
by cullumsmith | 2025-09-25 16:59:34+00:00
I've run my own mail for 10 years (postfix/dovecot/rspamd), no issues. Reverse DNS, SPF, and DKIM records need to be in place, but that's a small lift.

Well, one time I was unable to send mail to a guy with an ancient @att.com email address from his ISP. I got a nice bounce message back with instructions to contact their sysadmins to get unblocked.

To my surprise, they unblocked the IP of my mail server in a matter of hours.
by sam_goody | 2025-09-25 16:59:38+00:00
As a website owner who uses Cloudflare after having being DDOS'd, I agree whole heartedly.

Cloudflare succeeded to do what Google tried and failed with AMP, and we are all the worse off for it. [Though at least it is not Google, that would be worse.]

I cannot afford to be DDOS'ed and there are bad actors that have already proven that they _will_ take me down if they could. So, I feel bad for the internet being walled up, and I feel bad for users that will lose access. And I fret that one day CF may just decide to take all my content and use it somehow to shut me down.

Meanwhile though, I hold my nose, cry inwardly, and continue to use Cloudflare.
by ChrisArchitect | 2025-09-25 16:59:39+00:00
[dupe]

FTC release: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/09/...

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45374064)

And discussion earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45365712
by chmod775 | 2025-09-25 16:59:41+00:00
Even the EU council's legal service thinks the law as-proposed is probably incompatible with Article 7 and 8:

> The CLS concludes that, in the light of the case law of the Court of Justice at this stage, the regime of the detection order, as currently provided for by the proposed Regulation with regard to interpersonal communications, constitutes a particularly serious limitation to the rights to privacy and personal data protection enshrined in Article 7 and 8 of the Charter.

https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-8787-2023-I...
by Huntsecker | 2025-09-25 17:00:13+00:00
1400 years ? it was a creation of the second world war, but anyway regarding neighbors you mean other than bombing iran, syria, yemen, lebanon I believe in all these cases israel attacked first and thats in the past 12months. I think your point was meant to be more that Israel has a right to defend its self and I think most people and countries would back Israel in that right if the response had been proportionate. instead theyve killed record numbers of journalists(worst in history https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/ng-interactiv...), 70% of the dead are women and children (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn5wel11pgdo), more than a thousand are dead due to starvation directly caused by Israel, this isn't how wars are fought.
by bcrosby95 | 2025-09-25 17:00:20+00:00
I wouldn't call it violence, but I think it's A Problem when companies have two viable policies, and they choose the one that is known by them to statistically cause more deaths.

On top of that, people will give them social cover for making this decision. Because, y'know, its just capitalism/business or whatever. It's not like they murdered someone, they just told their worker bees to do something they knew would kill more people than they had to.
by paxys | 2025-09-25 17:00:22+00:00
The AMA very successfuly lobbied to reduce the number of medical schools, cap federal funding for residency and cut the number of residency slots 20-30 years ago, and we are now dealing with the fallout of that. It has softened its stance in recent years, sure, but even if we fix all of this today (doubtful because of the usual political gridlock) it will be another couple of decades before the situation will actually improve.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-09-25 17:00:28+00:00
After PE took over regional and rural hospitals, they removed specialties so patients have to be transported to larger hospitals. And guess what else they bought up? Air ambulance services. Flights are up 900% and profits are up too. This undoubtedly increased unnecessary and preventable death and suffering in the name of profiteering. Some things should never be allowed to be under-regulated for-profit cash grabs.
by mandevil | 2025-09-25 17:00:36+00:00
My wife is a clinical pharmacist at a hospital. I am a SWE working on AI/ML related stuff. We've talked about this a lot. She thinks that the current generation of software is not a replacement for what she does now, and finds the alerts they provide mostly annoying. The last time this came up, she gave me two examples:

A) The night before, a woman in her 40's came in to the ER suffering a major psychological breakdown of some kind (she was vague to protect patient privacy). The Dr prescribed a major sedative, and the software alerted that they didn't have a negative pregnancy test because this drug is not approved for pregnant women and so should not be given. However, in my wife's clinical judgement- honed by years of training, reading papers, going to conferences, actual work experience and just talking to colleagues- the risk to a (potential) fetus from the drug was less than the risk to a (potential) fetus from mom going through an untreated mental health episode and so she approved the drug and overrode the alert.

B) A prescriber had earlier in that week written a script for Tylenol to be administered "PR" (per-rectum) rather than PRN (per requisite need). PR Tylenol is a perfectly valid thing that is sometimes the correct choice, and was stocked by the hospital for that reason. But my wife recognized that this wasn't one of the cases where that was necessary, and called the nurse to call the prescriber to get that changed so the nurse wouldn't have to give them a Tylenol suppository. This time there were no alerts, no flags from the software, it was just her looking at it and saying "in my clinical judgement, this isn't the right administration for this situation, and will make things worse".

So someone- with expensively trained (and probably licensed) judgement- will still need to look over the results of this AI pharmacist and have the power to override its decisions. And that means that they will need to have enough time per case to build a mental model of the situation in their brain, figure out what is happening, and override if necessary. And it needs to be someone different from the person filling out the Rx, for Swiss cheese model of safety reasons.

Congratulations, we've just described a pharmacist.
by keybored | 2025-09-25 17:00:36+00:00
> This is an impossible argument to make in America because the mind share and persuasion behind the idea that free markets are best have clouded all humane judgement.

Is this according to something like Gallup polling? Or according to what the talking heads on cable news say? Americans can be very progressive according to polling data, despite all the best efforts of the propaganda machine.
by tptacek | 2025-09-25 17:00:37+00:00
I'm the last person here who would defend provider chains, who I believe are in fact at the root of the problems in the American health care system, and certainly the Certificate of Need system --- which applies variably to about half the states in the US --- is stupid, and does restrict the market (most markets are somewhere on a spectrum between free and unfree).

But the alternate problem exists too: hospitals with too many vacant beds, and hospitals shutting down because lack of utilization makes it impossible to pencil out keeping them up and running. That's happening where I am right now.
by DangitBobby | 2025-09-25 17:00:42+00:00
"A few percent."

> There are no official data on their total size, but estimates extrapolated from micro-costing studies suggest that billing and insurance-related services alone comprise about 15 percent of health care spending, and total administrative costs may comprise about 30 percent.

1. https://econofact.org/how-large-a-burden-are-administrative-...?
by IshKebab | 2025-09-25 17:00:53+00:00
IMO there's no point having a clean history of commits within a PR. With rare exceptions, if you have a PR with a clean history of commits and each commit compiles and passes the tests... they should be separate PRs! If it isn't clean then it should be squashed.

A few exceptions:

1. When refactoring often your PR is "do an enormous search and replace, and then fix some stuff manually". In that case it's way easier to review if the mechanical stuff is in a separate commit.

2. Similarly when renaming and editing files, Git tracks it better if you do it in two commits.

3. Sometimes you genuinely have a big branch that's lasted months and has been worked on by many people and it's worth preserving history.

Also I really really wish GitHub had proper support for stacked PRs.
by motorest | 2025-09-25 17:00:53+00:00
> I still believe that CloudFlare means well, but that doesn't mean that I agree with the increased centralization.

I'm perplexed by this sort of comment. Cloudflare doesn't even feature in the top 10 of cloud provider market share, and the number 8 spot already reports 2%. And here you are, complaining about Cloudflare and centralization.

Furthermore, AWS is by far the biggest cloud provider, reporting around 30% market share, and I don't see AWS being referred as a concern.
by klibertp | 2025-09-25 17:00:55+00:00
Kagi uses Yandex to improve search results for relevant queries. That's all they do.

As a company providing the service of web search, Kagi should do whatever it takes to improve search results. I imagine Yandex is the biggest and most complete index of Russian-language content - not using it would make the search results worse. The fact that Kagi still cross-references other indexes and allows users to downgrade specific results provides a check on propaganda content.

It's OK to have an opinion, and it's OK to dislike Kagi because it doesn't have the same opinion. It's wrong to mischaracterize what Kagi does, using wording that strongly suggests actions way more nefarious than giving a few dollars to a Russian company in exchange for some (anonymized) API calls.
by lkey | 2025-09-25 17:01:41+00:00
What are you faffing on about? With no barriers, pure capitalism would consolidate healthcare into a full vertical and horizontal monopoly. This is basically what PE firms are doing, but indirectly.

Capital doesn't organize around any secondary metric but profit without being forced.

Employee satisfaction? Are you completely out of touch? Speak to any working professional in a PE owned hospital system. It's horrid, the worst, dystopian, soul diminishing.

Satisfaction only matters if there are other places you can go.

Patient satisfaction? It's already 'accept what we give you, pay what we demand, or you die' in rural areas or if you are poor/uninsured. People already avoid going to the doctor when they should because of this. What bizarre alternate world are you living in?
Show HN: Export a repo as one doc to feed whole projects to an LLM
by kohler1000 | 2025-09-25 17:01:46+00:00
I wrote a small TypeScript CLI that exports a GitHub repo as one plain-text file. I wanted my medical imaging stack (cornerstone3D, OHIF, dcmjs, vtk.js) in NotebookLM as a single source for study and cross-repo browsing. Might be useful to others doing LLM workflows or repo review.

Code: https://github.com/pedrokohler/github-repo-to-single-file

What it does: 1. Walks a repo and writes a single .txt or .pdf with file paths and contents 2. Aimed at LLM context, RAG prep, and quick repo study

Notes: 1. Best for source and text assets. Skip massive binaries when preparing inputs for LLMs. 2. If your LLM needs smaller chunks, split the output after generation.

Looking for: - Feedback on defaults and output format - Edge cases I should handle - Flags you want (ignore patterns, size caps, include/exclude paths)

Happy to answer questions and iterate.
by Simulacra | 2025-09-25 17:01:51+00:00
It's not that so much as no one wants to lose their jobs due to innovation. Just look at typewriter repairmen, TV, radio, even Taxi drivers at one point etc. One day AI and automation will make many jobs redundant, so rather than resisting the march forward of technology, prepare for it and find a way to work alongside, not against innovation.
by philwelch | 2025-09-25 17:02:03+00:00
Let’s suppose I go to the doctor and get tested for HIV. There isn’t a specialist staring at my blood through a microscope looking for HIV viruses, they put my blood in a machine and the machine tells them, positive or negative. There is a false positive rate and a false negative rate for the test. There’s no fundamental reason you couldn’t put a CT scan into a machine the same way.
by toast0 | 2025-09-25 17:02:19+00:00
Would the WordPress blog need a sign off each time the style is updated... maybe, css is software, fonts are software. If you adjust a plugin or something, that probably needs a signoff.

Do you need a signoff when you update an excel sheet? Maybe only if it's published.

Do we need specific licensing to assign liability for public harm? Could we just not legislate liability on the operators of software causing public harm, and then people would be less likely to operate software in public unless the operator deems the risk low or the provider of the software offers indemnity (most likely in exchange for $$$$$).
by vlovich123 | 2025-09-25 17:02:30+00:00
> What do you mean turning off the fuel for the engines crashes the plane? I thought you said this was a safe airplane?!

Things like this - they're painting users of programming languages as the ones being unreasonable.

> I imagine they're talking about their defaults. One can commonly reconfigure how different build profiles work.

From the article:

> We don’t want published packages to (a) lie to the type and effect system, or (b) contain print debugging statements > As a result, using dprintln in production mode causes a compilation error.

There is no documentation about the existence of build profiles or how they might work. I think you're reading too charitably.
by DavideNL | 2025-09-25 17:02:34+00:00
The biggest problem with Orion is the Firefox & Chrome extensions; Many don't work properly, but you don't see any errors, so you have no idea what parts are working and aren't.

Like using a content blocker and "hoping for the best". It might work, or not.

That's one of the reasons i stopped using Orion...
by justlikereddit | 2025-09-25 17:02:36+00:00
As the prediction of radiologists going dodo sprung out from improvements in image recognition, why don't we see premature and hysterically hyped predictions of psychiatrists being unemployed due to language models.

Their workday consists of conversations, questions and reading. Something LLMs more than excel at doing, tirelessly and in huge volumes.

And if radiologists are still the top bet due to image recognition being so much hotter, then why not add dermatologists to the extinction roster? They only ever look at regular light images, it should be a lower hanging fruit.

(I'm aware of the nuances that make automation of these work roles hard, I'm just trying to shine some light on the mystery of radiologists being perceived as the perennial easy target)
by hellojesus | 2025-09-25 17:02:40+00:00
Most of the erosion is done through court challenges.

Historically, courts have maintained that legislation is pursued under "good faith". This was the justification for not overturning ACA on the grounds of it being an unconstitutional tax: the lawmakers didn't mean to make it an unapportioned tax, even though it effectively is, so it's okay yall. Washington St just did this with income taxes on capital gains in direct violation of their state constitution a year or two ago.

Where I live, you cannot open carry. That is a direct violation of 2A, but the courts have said it's okay baby because it's not an undue burden to pay a fee and waste a day of your life. Pure nonsense. Just change the constitution for goodness sake.
by dheera | 2025-09-25 17:02:53+00:00
> Wanting to finish school is a negative signal

No. This sounds like VC trash advice and very bad career advice.

Startup chances of success are <5%, and many of the factors are beyond your control. A degree is still relevant in being able to easily get interviews and secure jobs, in the >95% case that you do not succeed on the first try.

I'd only recommend dropping out if you see mad traction and revenue and you are on a trajectory to be famous enough that people won't care if you don't have a degree. If you're still a "nobody", it's a really, really bad idea.
by thisislife2 | 2025-09-25 17:02:58+00:00
> ... would be fine if healthcare was a competitive market. But it isn't, and I honestly don't see how to make it one.

The "mixed economy" model - introduce government run hospitals to create competition.

Indian healthcare industry is experimenting with such a model. There are free to cheap government hospitals (along with medical colleges that provide cheap labour in the form of student interns) and smaller public health clinics, that work somewhat like the UK NHS model. But as they tend to be over crowded, or have high wait times to see experts, people with money (and / or insurance) tend to prefer good private hospitals. Private hospitals do charge a lot, but where there are good government hospitals, they have to be mindful that they do not charge too much. Affordable insurance (along with socialised government insurance) and medicines also make access to quality healthcare possible.
by Ukv | 2025-09-25 17:03:12+00:00
> You don't get to exclude every advertiser from any random search string just because you have a domain name with it.

To my understanding, Google keywords are already semantic. It's not that it shows ads because it can't tell that the string is a specific product name - it's showing ads because it determined that string to be referring to Midjourney (the entity in Google's knowledge graph).

> There are many reasons to bid on brand names that are not necessarily squatting.

Google is a leader in AI - I feel they could very easily filter out these blatantly misleading ad campaigns, while keeping "legitimate" ones, if they didn't have financial incentive to turn a blind eye and have more people fooled into clicking ads.
by mountainofdeath | 2025-09-25 17:03:13+00:00
The implicit assumption in libertarian perspectives is that all parties are rational and have similar levels of information. In healthcare, this is simply not true. The average person isn't capable to judge what is and isn't necessary for them (outside of the small amount of very routine and elective care).

Likewise, if a hospital hands you a bill for 30k and you need help, are you really going to be able to negotiate and find a better price?

Healthcare is fundamentally an in-elastic good.
by mrweasel | 2025-09-25 17:03:14+00:00
Something that was pointed out to me the other day: Firefox can show you "important dates" in the address bar, but they've yanked RSS support. You now need a plugin to get the RSS feed link for a site.

I miss the old web, but I'm not sure it's coming back. You can still go on Usenet as well, not sure why anyone is spending time keeping the servers running, because I can not find an active newsgroups anymore. It was nice for a time, but the future has lost it's appeal to me.

Maybe the author, and some the comments are right. I should go build an silly personal website, just in HTML, have all the pages be different styles, have silly buttons, weird Perl scripts all over the place and link to like minded people.
by cl42 | 2025-09-25 17:03:15+00:00
Former management consultant here from a long, long time ago. It blows my mind when I see the consultancies cheer how they are adopting Gen AI to automate deck building, Excel analysis, etc.

... like, don't you see that your clients are READING your announcements and wondering "What the hell am I paying for?"

If I pay you $10K/month (let alone $100K+) and you're sending me anything AI generated, you will never work for me again.