MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by makeitdouble | 2025-10-08 17:45:33+00:00
I'm kinda lost, in another comment you mention the Eket system, so if it's those components you're looking for there's a full page for them liked right at the top of the Eket page:

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/cat/eket-inserts-accessories-5928...

If we're talking about the "Product details" -> "Assembly and documents" part, that's 3 clicks away and looks pretty straightforward to me. You make it sound like it's 15 levels of links inside the privacy policy.
by dreamcompiler | 2025-10-08 17:45:40+00:00
> Because their regulatory capture is so entrenched that we don't even think about it.

Nonsense. Residents don't complain about hotels because of the perception that hotels are too expensive for poor and working-class people to afford. Whereas the perception of apartments is that they are cheap enough that such people will choose to live in them.

It's all about not wanting to live near "poor" people.
by westurner | 2025-10-08 17:45:47+00:00
From 2019 re: "post-market" clinical data which is collected after clinical trials and regulatory approval: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21235358 :

> We really could get more out of this data through international collaboration and through linked data (e.g. URIs for columns). See: "Open, and Linked, FDA data" https://github.com/FDA/openfda/issues/5#issuecomment-5392966... and "ENH: Adverse Event Count / 'Use' Count Heatmap" https://github.com/FDA/openfda/issues/49

> With sales/usage counts, we'd have a denominator with which we could calculate relative hazard.
by dang | 2025-10-08 17:46:11+00:00
Please don't make things even worse by posting bad comments yourself.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: your account has unfortunately been posting a lot of unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45412687 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45404646). Can you please stop doing that? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for—we're trying for something different here.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
by hn773746483 | 2025-10-08 17:46:15+00:00
Turns out when you're dealing with millions of users "small number of government IDs" means a measley... 2 million, no biggie.

https://x.com/vxunderground/status/1975834621503062495

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/1975846997568737666

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/1975847000978694317
by karpik | 2025-10-08 17:46:18+00:00
about NATO expansion you’re right, never thought there is no public document, the only thing I found (looks not legit at all but it’s clear what’s government propaganda have in mind https://rg.ru/amp/2022/02/18/der-spiegel-obnaruzhen-dokument... )

Just before Ukraine invasion Zelensky speak up about cancelling Budapest memorandum https://amp.rbc.ru/rbcnews/politics/19/02/2022/621108ac9a794... That’s not a first time Ukraine presidents discuss this, but that timing was tough.

About Russia - NATO membership: western media hold narrative “in 1990s Russia was close – in 2007 Putin declared independent way of using energy and army resources”, but I find this 2001 Bush reaction humiliating (reasons unknown, pure subjective observation) https://youtu.be/x7kkRkWbIzI?si=LBhci7V_qdWDBDT9

Putin says he saw some secret KGB documents about the whole east-west situation when he became a president, idk if that’s legit at all.

I can only add up to the topic that in 90s almost all oil/gas in Russia was exported by western companies, and only in 2002 all sources became formerly owned by russian companies and citizens. As for now 20% Rosneft still held by BP Russian Investments Limited.
by more_corn | 2025-10-08 17:46:29+00:00
The flip side is that anyone not riding the AI wave gets swept away. Schoolteachers and bartenders, bus drivers and librarians. It becomes impossible for normal people to live in San Francisco. Shouldn’t we all be wishing for a normal stable diversified economy with modest growth, opportunity for young people and reasonable cost of living?

I don’t think hyper growth bubble vs economic depression are the only two options.
by renewiltord | 2025-10-08 17:46:33+00:00
It's probably like venture capital. There are many scientists who test many hypotheses. Many are bad at generating hypotheses or running tests. Some are good at one or the other. Some are good at both and just happen to pick the ones that don't work. Some are good at all.

But you can't tell ahead of time which one is which. Maybe you can shift the distribution but often your pathological cases excluded are precisely the ones you wanted to not exclude (your Karikos get Suhadolniked). So you need to have them all work. It's just an inherent property of the problem.

Like searching an unsorted n list for a number. You kind of need to test all the numbers till you find yours. The search cost is just the cost. You can't uncost it by just picking the right index. That's not a meaningful statement.
by tredre3 | 2025-10-08 17:46:47+00:00
I'm surprised that you put the blame squarely on the the (bought) government.

Deregulation and "free" markets are something that many americans actively want. You can argue that they're misinformed and they're advocating against their own self-interest. But it's still something they actively want, this isn't just the evil corporations taking control of the corrupt government.

In fact on this very site I'd wager that more than half of Americans users are against regulation in general, state ownership of any utility, or any additional control on financial markets.
by ghaff | 2025-10-08 17:48:03+00:00
I actually needed a couple of closet accessories after some renovation and IKEA seemed to make the most sense. I could have driven to the Boston-area IKEA but it was a pretty hectic time and, while I could have made a day-long expedition out of the process, at the end of the day, it just made more sense to pay them $60 or whatever to deliver what I needed to assemble and use.

And, yes, I would probably have bought some other things had I gone to the store.
by seec | 2025-10-08 17:48:07+00:00
Well ThePirateBay is still up and even when they were deep into the legal fight the site was still finding ways to survive.

So, it doesn't look like a good parallel to me. Apple does have ridiculous control on what you can run on your phone and they are clearly trying to do the same with Macs nowadays. They are undefendable really.
by deepdarkforest | 2025-10-08 17:48:21+00:00
The whole point of embeddings and tokens are that they are a compressed version of text, a lower dimensionality. now, how low depends on performance, lower amount of vectors=more lossy (usually). https://huggingface.co/spaces/mteb/leaderboard

You can train your own with very very compressed, i mean you could even go down to each token=just 2 float numbers. It will train, but it will be terrible, because it can essentially only capture distance.

Prompting a good LLM to summarize the context is probably funnily enough the best way of actually "compressing" context
by neltnerb | 2025-10-08 17:49:23+00:00
Could you clarify what you mean about getting serial over the USB port in the context of debug pins?

I've been using Teensy devices for over a decade and have always had it just recognize the device as if it were a USB to serial adapter and I can talk to it as what I'd call "serial over the USB port". But that obviously doesn't involve what I think software people usually mean when they're talking about firmware debug -- which usually entails stepping through execution, right?

I'm used to just printing debug statements to the Serial.println() function, I learned on the 8051 where the best bet was to toggle different pins when code lines are passed, so even Serial.println() was a huge step up.
by btown | 2025-10-08 17:50:11+00:00
Between a surveillance state where every communication is siphoned up, fed to LLMs, and used to target random people not already under suspicion... and a world where at the very least there needs to be some documented/auditable/accountable/whistle-blowable process of identifying an individual target and serving, say, a warrant to a third-party chat company... the second world has something of a "damping function" that slows the acceleration of authoritarianism. While far from ideal, it's better than the first option, which ChatControl was laying the groundwork for.
by ketzu | 2025-10-08 17:50:37+00:00
I wanted to give it a try, unfortuantely I fail already at the first screen. Selection a location the backend fails at creating the timeline:

"error": "opening database: pinging database file: invalid uri authority: D%5CMy%20Timeline%5Ctimeline.db_foreign_keys=on&_journal_mode=wal&_txlock=immediate&mode=rwc"

It seems it is trying to parse windows file paths as URIs, and thrown off by the ":" in windows file paths.
by mslzed | 2025-10-08 17:50:44+00:00
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by some_guy_nobel | 2025-10-08 17:51:32+00:00
Nice post up until the section on "don'ts", at which point it loses the plot and almost becomes a performative caricature of itself:

> Don’t feel like you have to continue the conversation if they respond. You can if you want, but don’t feel obligated.

So why reach out at all? Solely for the (mentioned) networking off-chance they remember that you messaged them in the future? Seems pretty self-serving

> Don’t trash your employer, nor respond if they do. If they start that, say “I’m sorry, I can imagine why you’d feel that way, but I can’t continue this conversation.”

Imagine their perspective here (that is, use empathy) if you just cut off the conversation at the mention of the actor responsible for the reason you're messaging them at all. They would just feel even more isolated at this, and wonder why you reached out in the first place. So bizarre.

> Finally, don’t do this if you are the manager who laid them off.

Well, for a layoffs, not a pip, definitely do reach out to them as a manager. I can't think of anyone they'd like to hear from more than their manager to explain the situation and offer some sort of solace.

> Don’t say things that might cause you trouble like “wish we could have kept you” or “you were such a great performer, I don’t know why they laid you off”. You don’t know the full details and you don’t want to expose yourself or your company to any legal issues.

That's right - don't show any actual empathy, lest you put the company in any negative light!!

NGL, this honestly reads like a satirical take on a sociopath submitting an assignment on how to show empathy. (Obviously OP is not a sociopath, I'm just saying if The Onion released this as written by one, I'd get a good chuckle).
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-10-08 17:51:54+00:00
> Not only does one need to develop compiler, runtime, libraries, and IDE support (which is a tall order by itself)

CC can do that by itself in a loop, in ~3mo apparently. https://cursed-lang.org/

I know it's a meme project, but still it's impressive. And cc is at the point where you can take the repo of that language, ask it to "make it support emoji variables", and 5$ later it works. So yeah ... pretty impressive that we're already there.
by bluGill | 2025-10-08 17:52:14+00:00
You have to trust something though. There are people out to get you - maybe not you personally, but there are evil people. We need to handle criminals, letting them go free isn't not a good answer.

You seem to be saying that letting them go free is the best answer we have. This may be correct - it is something we as society need to debate in great depth. However it still isn't a good answer.
by hackernewsdhsu | 2025-10-08 17:52:19+00:00
You must assume it is backdoored. Cell [smart] phones are the greatest surveillance network the government has ever created.

But, you can use that against them. Your phone doesn't have to always be with you. You can be where you are, and you phone's location can be hundres of miles away.

Use it to your advantage.... They do.
by ckemere | 2025-10-08 17:52:38+00:00
I think citations are an insufficient metric to judge these things on. My experience in writing a paper is that I have formed a well defined model of the world, such that when I write the introduction, I have a series of clear concepts that I use to ground the work. When it comes to the citations to back these ideas, I often associate a person rather than a particular paper, then search for an appropriate paper by that person to cite. That suggests that other means for creating that association - talks, posters, even just conversations- may have significant influence. That in turn suggests a variety of personality/community influences that might drive “scientific progress” as measured by citation.
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-10-08 17:52:45+00:00
I love this comment. I am so sick and tired of the term "common sense" being used as a panacea for those on the bottom of a Dunning Kruger curve to justify wanting their ignorance to be taken as seriously as other people's knowledge. I can think of dozens of ways someone could misuse a ladder that would definitely result in property damage and quite possibly injuries and even fatalities.

I wonder how many people are killed yearly because they buy various tools and don't read the damn instructions because they're definitely smart enough to use this and be safe already, it's common sense after all!
by Teever | 2025-10-08 17:53:09+00:00
I think a good metaphor for the situation is that the US is like a tank and regulations are like armour on that tank.

It can both be true that the US has too many regulations (the tank has too much armour) and that it's in the wrong spots (too much armour in the back and not on the front.)

America needs less regulations in some scenarios, and more regulations in others. It may very well end up that the net result of these combined changes is less overall regulation and also more effective regulation.
by nticompass | 2025-10-08 17:53:26+00:00
I was playing with it, and you can do this, which looks a little better.

const greeting = pipe('hello'); greeting | upper | ex('!!!'); await greeting.run(); // → "HELLO!!!"

Since it uses the "Symbol.toPrimitive" method, you can use any operator (not just "bitwise OR" (|)).

const greeting = pipe('hello'); greeting / upper * ex('!!!'); await greeting.run(); // → "HELLO!!!"
by trhway | 2025-10-08 17:53:46+00:00
Somehow government made distinction between a machine gun and a rifle in the context of 2nd Amendment, even though they are really the same thing in principle.

Paradoxically, the same government fails to see the same distinction between an individual police officer following a person and a mass scale surveillance using electronic cameras everywhere with automated computer image analysis (the "machine gun" of 4th Amendment).
by re-thc | 2025-10-08 17:54:22+00:00
> I can't imagine how great/amazing it must be there now with AI being 17x that. Everyone where I live is financially stressed.

Maybe without the AI it'd be worse? COVID over-hiring lingered for a long time. A lot of the layoffs were due to that. Perhaps without AI and the over-supply for workers things could have crashed.
by 9front | 2025-10-08 17:54:28+00:00
True. In the Second Edition the Preface mentioned that "Finally, the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10" and some of those systems were connected mostly via telephone lines.

The article refers to a "typical packet found on a typical network" then describes an Ethernet frame, so the author clearly refers to MACs in an Ethernet setup.

MAC is part of the Ethernet standard. The clue of why is needed for is in the name "access control". Without MAC there's no Ethernet. Without Ethernet there's no Internet.

Wait ...there are other networking standards!
by lesuorac | 2025-10-08 17:55:20+00:00
Running a platform where billions of users are able to communicate is pretty technologically marvel.

Lest not forget when Hotz said he could easily fix Twitter's search functionality only to give up after 3 months [1]. When immensen scale is involved things do become difficult.

Like we have a comment below taking a shot at Phillip Morris [2]. Lets see you grow, process, and distribute 1/100 the quality of cigarettes. The end product might not be that great for society but it's not trivial to do it either.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/22/23472869/george-hotz-twi...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45516831
by plainOldText | 2025-10-08 17:55:51+00:00
You're absolutely right ((:

Now, seriously though, no tools is perfect, and I agree we should not trust it blindly, but leaving aside AI Agents, LLMs are very helpful in illuminating one's path, by consulting a large body of knowledge on demand, particularly when dealing with problems which might be new to you, but which have already been tackled one way or another by other people in the industry (provided they're in the training set of course).

Yes, there's always the risk of perpetuating existing slop. But that is the risk in any human endeavor. The majority of people mostly follow practices and knowledge established by the few. How many invent new things?

To be honest, I haven't yet used AI agents, I'm mostly just using LLMs as a dialogue partner to further my own understanding and to deepen my knowledge. I think we're all still trying to figure it out how to best use it.
by jzb | 2025-10-08 17:56:06+00:00
Sure, but the motivation was "I want to get out of this place." A job just helped to facilitate that. I mean, I was in that boat too -- though I moved for college, not a job -- and never seriously considered going back. I would've loved to have stayed where I was after college, but there were no great jobs there, so I moved for a job -- but that meant parting with my then-girlfriend and other friends.
by sadcodemonkey | 2025-10-08 17:56:13+00:00
OP's blog post also rang false to me. It feels like it was written by someone who works in HR trying to promote a culture that inhibits real interactions, under the guise of being "a good human being."

Being a good human involves honesty and naming things that are extremely difficult to name when you're both employed at the same place. I've had so many honest and illuminating conversations with coworkers after one or both of us left a company or organization, conversations that deepened into real friendships instead of just being colleagues.
by pjmlp | 2025-10-08 17:56:15+00:00
Sure, I have experienced them, e.g. once in 2006 using IBM's JVM implementation with Websphere.

However it is probably not as problematic due to the way Go allows for Assembly being used directly.

While the JVM and CLR don't allow for direct access to Assembly code, Go does, thus I assume expecting safepoints everywhere is not an option, as any subroutine call can land on code that was manually written.
by _3u10 | 2025-10-08 17:56:42+00:00
The "second" world is now western civilization. People in government need to get paid, so if the state isn't paying them, then you have a defacto free society. When the state pays poorly, it aligns the incentives of the people and the government. It is the best form of government, and I am glad to live somewhere where the rule of law extends to all, and not just the elites.

Recently in the country I live some people from interpol accidentally withdrew a red notice, after initial prosecution, the prosecutor realized several mistakes were made and documents lost, so as a country with the rule of law, the prosecution withdrew the charges as there was insufficient evidence, compare and constrast with a corrupt country like Canada where the attorney general was fired for wanting to prosecute a company that had bribed Momar Ghaddaffi with 2 million dollars. Worse yet, they spread their culture of corruption through out the world instead of keeping it at home.
by realityfactchex | 2025-10-08 17:56:51+00:00
Nice!

Is it better than or much different from Marp [0]? If so, in what ways?

Looks like the Deckless editor UI is nice.

I wonder if the Markdown source could be compatible/portable between Deckless and Marp.

[0] https://github.com/marp-team/marp
by aeternum | 2025-10-08 17:56:55+00:00
I agree the attacks were successful, I just don't agree they were successful because of lack of detection.

You generally can't continually launch a even $1mil missiles at $100-$10k drones and expect to win. The problem is that most air defenses were designed in an age where the enemy aircraft were quite expensive so it wasn't so critical to optimize ordinance cost. That IMO is the primary challenge for all militaries now.
by babypuncher | 2025-10-08 17:57:03+00:00
Any backdoor fundamentally breaks the promise of any end-to-end encryption.

This isn't a problem of process like requiring warrants and just cause. Even if said process is designed to be perfect and is executed flawlessly, it is still hinged on a fundamental breakage of the security model a given chat software is built on. If a trusted government has a magic password that can read anybody's encrypted text messages, then it must be assumed more nefarious actors can figure out that password and use it themselves.

It creates a single point of failure that would compromise literally everyone.
by whatamidoingyo | 2025-10-08 17:57:07+00:00
Honestly, I didn't even think to look. I'm so far behind in the LLM space. I also tend to ignore any AI a company is offering, but perhaps Burp AI is good.

> data policies can prevent pentesters from using it in their engagements.

I recently watched a Jason Haddix talk[0] where he mentioned that companies like Cloudflare are watching what pentesters do, so that they can better train their AI against such attacks.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SNy0u6pYOc
by beart | 2025-10-08 17:57:40+00:00
I started with a Synology. I still have it running, but it is only used for backups now. My second system was a repurposed PC running Proxmox with various services containerized. I was impressed with it. However, I got to tinkering with Unraid and really love it. It is what synology tries to be, but better in every way (IMO).
by westurner | 2025-10-08 17:57:50+00:00
FHIR is a standard for sharing health data.

FHIR would be useful for sharing collected clinical data - for example vitals - with patients and their other providers if they choose.

FHIR could be useful for collecting chart data from clinical trial participants.

FHIR can be represented in JSON-LD, which is Linked Data in JSON such that no XML parsing is required.

Re: FHIR JSON-LD https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42230270 :

> /? awesome clinical open source: https://www.google.com/search?q=awesome+clinical+open+source