MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by devoutsalsa | 2025-10-02 18:17:03+00:00
What you might consider doing is try contacting Ruby Central, or whoever it is that runs Ruby Gems. Even if they can't/won't give you access to the account, I'm wondering if they could/would freeze publishing updates to these gems until the account "owner" proves they are who they say they are. That way they don't risk giving control to someone who is hard to verify (you) and they prevent malware from being uploaded by the person who now controls your email until they verify the you are (which obviously they shouldn't be able to do).
by cyberax | 2025-10-02 18:17:18+00:00
Similar story. I suffer from dry eyes, and I like perfluorohexyloctane eye drops. They require a prescription and cost $800 here in the US.

I am now ordering them from an Irish pharmacy. They are over the counter there, and cost $20.

They are literally exactly the same, you can tell by the lot numbers on the bottles.
by nerdsniper | 2025-10-02 18:17:19+00:00
The product you want is offered.

Windows Enterprise/LTSC/IoT (effectively all names for the same thing) are the product offerings delivering what you want. When I need Windows, it’s what I use.

It’s available for $238 from CDW.com or less from resellers.

If you want to play games, you have to do a tiny bit of extra work to get the right frameworks/drivers installed, especially for VR. But this isn’t done to frustrate you, it’s because this version of windows doesn’t come with anything that’s strictly helpful, and Activity Monitor shows a blissfully low number of processes running on first boot. If you want bells and whistles, you’re free to add them yourself.
by bccdee | 2025-10-02 18:17:22+00:00
That's not an acceptable statement to make in a public forum.

During a discussion about the Rwandan genocide, you would not say, "I guess the Tutsi found out that invading a nation and assassinating its president is a pretty bad idea" unless you supported the Rwandan genocide, during which the actions of a small Tutsi rebel group were used to justify slaughtering hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians.

It's not coy to parrot the excuses which governments make for butchering children. It's disgusting.
by nonethewiser | 2025-10-02 18:17:30+00:00
>ADHD (and certain forms of Autism) seem to be treated less for the benefit of the individual and more for the benefit of those around them. Compare this to depression -- a condition where the primary suffering is internal -- experienced by the person themselves. With ADHD and Autism, the person is not necessarily suffering directly, but their behaviors often cause difficulty for others, and in turn those others impose suffering on the individual.

I think it would be helpful to specifically characterize what forms you are talking about. Paint a picture of such a case. Because the forms my mind jump to are definitely suffering themselves and I dont want to strawman you.

Sensory overload, unmanageability, etc. Someone who may be perfectly content to obsess over some niche interest but cant take care of themselves because they are inconsistent at work. Cant pay bills, neglected health issues, etc. I can begin to imagine how someone might characterize this as you have but I think that would be quite flawed and I'm not sure this is what you're talking about.
by cogman10 | 2025-10-02 18:17:47+00:00
> so the idea of reducing nuance and distinction still seems questionable by an empirical and epistemological standpoint.

Again, it does not because the treatments as a result of diagnosis remain the same. The primary role of diagnosis is to inform treatment.

If patients are seeing worse outcomes because of arbitrary "nuance", that indicates that the nuance carved out wasn't what needed to be carved out.

> isn't immune to the macro backdrop of the sociopolitical winds of the day.

This is conspiracy thinking.

You don't have any evidence that it was "progressive ideology" that eliminated the diagnosis, you just surmise it based on some people not liking their diagnosis being named after a nazi.

Slamming in reactionary politics in where it doesn't fit and a reasonable explanation does fit is just silly.

Sure, nobody is immune from politics. But I'm going to need more than "feels, vibes, and makes sense to me" before I start second guessing why a well respected diagnostic committee (and others besides the DSM like the ICD) decided to merge the two diagnosis.

Diagnoses for mental disorders, by their nature, are almost always going to have a level of arbitrary lines that could be drawn. That's why we have 5 versions of the DSM and will likely have a 6th in the future.
by RankingMember | 2025-10-02 18:17:58+00:00
As far as I can tell, none of the author's (Public Health Dean Andrea A. Baccarelli) work has demonstrated anything causal, but rather just some correlation. His testimony in a case against Tylenol in 2023 attempting to link the drug to autism was thrown out by the judge for cherry-picking and misinterpretation of study results.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/9/24/autism-dean-pub...
by Certhas | 2025-10-02 18:18:02+00:00
Is this relevant in practice? Say I go to a website to download some data, but a malicious actor has injected an evil decoder (that does what exactly?). They could just have injected the wasm into the website I am visiting to get the data!

In fact, wasm was explicitly designed for me to run unverified wasm blobs from random sources safely on my computer.
by sebastiennight | 2025-10-02 18:18:17+00:00
Ever since I've heard of the meme that "modern men can't spend 24 hours without thinking of the Roman Empire", I haven't been able to escape it, even on days where my only contact with the outside world is HN.

I guess it's like a curse, once you've heard about it you're doomed.

And for anyone finding out about it just now, alea jacta est
by breppp | 2025-10-02 18:18:44+00:00
So, here I don't agree, when no one steps up to take decisions someone will, and in some organization these are lawyers. If the decisions are taken by lawyers, it doesn't matter there's someone that has the title CEO like it doesn't matter that someone has the title King

Others might imagine a parliament system as a system where the lawyers are in control, I don't think that's the case with parliaments
by darth_avocado | 2025-10-02 18:19:01+00:00
The more the middle men, the more the cost. It’s not rocket science that big pharma aren’t the only reason why the costs are high.

Proof:

- I can get plenty of drugs cheaper if I don’t use my insurance - I can get hospital services cheaper if I don’t use my insurance. There have been times where my copay after meeting the deductible and the insurance coverage is higher than my entire out of pocket cost if I don’t use my insurance.
by snozolli | 2025-10-02 18:19:27+00:00
I've lamented that in the late 90s, it seemed like there were a lot of smaller companies hiring at good pay. I've seen job listings recently, looking for senior engineers with a laundry list of skills, and the pay is lower than I made in 1998 as a new grad, adjusted for inflation.

However, I have to admit that maybe companies that engaged in this seemingly fair behavior went out of business because, ultimately, it's not good business. It seems like the only places paying well these days are FAANGs (or whatever it's mutated to) that will work you to the bone.
by tsimionescu | 2025-10-02 18:20:10+00:00
Killing 736 Israeli civilians, 79 foreign nationals, and 379 Israeli military and security personnel, and kidnapping an additional 250 civilians is not, by any fathomable definition, genocide. It is a war crime for sure, but it's not genocide.

Edit: the post I was replying to was claiming Hamas/the Palestinians perpetrated a genocide in Israel. It has since been edited to be a completely different thing.
by FireBeyond | 2025-10-02 18:20:23+00:00
> and the vendor played MBA-nonsense games like requiring two to be purchased at a time

Washington State, the vendors lobbied on the back of a tragic incident to require a variety of people and places to have EpiPens physically present at all times...

... including in the back of ambulances, when we (I am, or was, a paramedic) we had epinephrine already available.

Which resulted in a huge amount of waste, throwing out expired EpiPens, etc. The number of hoops we had to jump through with the DOH to eventually allow us to have a specific "epi jump kit" (a small tackle box with syringes and a vial, alcohol, etc.) was enormous, but the net result was a replacement cost of $28 for the kit (actually less, because the $28 included the tackle box) versus the $600+ for EpiPens.
by pantulis | 2025-10-02 18:20:46+00:00
For my second operation the surgeon basically suggested using some drug ending in -pam (perhaps it was Valium) and they wouldn't provide it over the counter so I had to get a proper prescription, which somehow pissed the surgeon off. At the end of the day, yes, a dentist is worse but the phobia of someone tinkering with your eye remains.

I wanted something simple and didn't want to mess with multifocal lens inside my eye, so opted for monofocal and high myopia correction like around -12 diopters, so after a couple of weeks my far vision felt like I was Superman and my near vision remains poor with zero accommodation.

5 years down the line, it seems the myopia is keeping its course and I need some small correction for far, middle, and reading distances so my drawers are a mess of glasses.

But I keep being grateful for this, I can walk the streets without anything in my eyes and this is something I don't have any memories I can recall. So it's a wonder.

I would gladly go again for that surgery even through the discomfort!
by JCM9 | 2025-10-02 18:20:50+00:00
The Feds will quickly arrive and take over. Aviation issues are Federal matters. The only role of local law enforcement and emergency response is to provide any first aid and then secure the scene for the Feds. Unless lives are at risk local police shouldn’t even touch anything. They put up yellow tape around the scene and keep it secure until the FAA and/or NTSB arrive.
by magicalhippo | 2025-10-02 18:21:40+00:00
My SO has misphonia, and strongly reacts to many sounds I make like smacking while eating or tapping my foot while thinking. She can also react strongly to noises outside the home, like if a car idles loudly outside.

She works in a kindergarten, and so I asked how she tolerates all those kids making noises while eating and such, given how adverse she is towards the sounds I make.

She said it didn't bother her the slightest as she knew the kids couldn't help it, and the reason my smacking annoyed her for example was because she knew it could be avoided if I just were more careful.
by wormius | 2025-10-02 18:22:07+00:00
Yep. It's a difficult needle to thread. Seniority IS important and there really needs to be a way to keep that knowledge. On the other hand, people retire, at some point... If you layoff the last batch of people (no matter how good they were at their job) and replace them with even newer people (in the case of my layoff with my "Team B" in the second most longest job I've had (8 years)). The incoming team at least had more training than our group did which was 2 weeks, they got 3 months. We were meant to be expendable but proved ourself during the pandemic with a massive influx ofwork-from-home installs, while people had quit and burned out from it all.

I still support Unions, even if in the US they're compromised, primarily (IMO) due to Taft-Hartley and the political restrictions placed upon them (mostly about cross-shop/cross-trade organizing, general strikes (sympathy strikes), etc...)

The best part was union leadership informing us the "good news" that there won't be 2 different pay-grades. And at least in the interim we did get a bump to "tier 1" for that time of negotiations while we were there before we were let go.
by georgemcbay | 2025-10-02 18:22:14+00:00
> I often think back to that 'dystopia simulator' LLM on HN years ago that would always plug an ad for Taco Bell or something after it's responses.

As you'd expect from LLM output, that bit was stolen from humans:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAM1rSObk4c
Ask HN: Do you have advice for a new senior software engineer?
by EchelonSix | 2025-10-02 18:22:16+00:00
I’ve recently been successful in my application to become a senior software engineer in my team. I’m curious on what, if any lessons, anyone who has made that transition would give their younger selves?

For example, did you find yourself having to upskill on soft skills as opposed to coding? Were there any internal politics that made the transition uncomfortable?

I welcome any and all wisdom as I make this transition!
by catlikesshrimp | 2025-10-02 18:23:12+00:00
You are honestly blaming the killing of 60,000+ Palestinians on Hamas for not accepting a Peace Deal (Israel didn't honor the last one months ago) only?

Assume it is a hostage situation, 2,000,000 Hostages. Israel has killed 60,000+ hostages trying to rescue hostages. Starvation also counts as killings to me, but I supposed "Starved" is less direct than "Shot"
by Braxton1980 | 2025-10-02 18:24:13+00:00
>If you erase the horrible parts of ourselves we worked hard to banish onto paper, they will eventually remanifest themselves in reality.

What does this mean? That if people aren't able to express or relieve themselves of some horrible act then some people will be more likely to do something bad?

Like if a person can't be racist against Muslims on Facebook (due to it being illegal) they will be more likely to harm Muslims physically?
by mdhb | 2025-10-02 18:24:29+00:00
The moderators genuinely seem to think that everything is going perfectly according to plan and if you ever try to suggest that there’s a group of users who flag things in a coordinated fashion purely because they personally don’t align with their politics you will be told that you’re a conspiracy theorist and that you should just trust them that they are doing a great job but also at the same time no you’re not allowed to see any of the rational behind their moderation decisions, there’s no log, you just have to take them at their word even if we can all see clear as day that there is no link between the rules as they are written and the rules as they are enforced.
by tptacek | 2025-10-02 18:24:30+00:00
Don't do this. We don't diagnose people on HN. Just flag the comment and move on, or, if you're worried, mail hn@yc.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

(I'm not a mod, just someone who cares a lot about this particular rule.)
by freehorse | 2025-10-02 18:25:00+00:00
Honestly, some things like this are solved with learning certain skills, practicing them a bit, and then it becoming easier. Answering to "How are you doing?" does not require masking, people asking it in casual contexts usually do not expect any kind of "honest answer". It is as hard as answering "hi" to "hi". There are plenty neutral answers that neither require you to smile and play it happy, not invite some long, awkward conversation. It could also depend on where you live though, of course.
by dfxm12 | 2025-10-02 18:25:03+00:00
You can't take these things in a vacuum. Labor has gotten weaker over time. AI just gives more power to employers.

Take Klarna. They laid off 700 people, realized it was a mistake, but they are hiring people back as gig workers [0]. Not proper employees with a salary and benefits. The thing about the US in particular is that a job is not just a job. It's your social safety net, as too many welfare programs have onerous work requirements. Employers know this. They have way too much power, probably more than ever before in our lifetimes. AI gives them that much more power.

0 - https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/klarnas-ai-replaced-...
by aspenmayer | 2025-10-02 18:25:18+00:00
The memo in question has been released by NYT here, and is linked in TFA:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/09/20/us/pentagon-p... | https://archive.is/JRqf1

Some interesting diagrams in Appendix D ("areas where press are allowed without an escort") and a map in Appendix E. I am concerned about safety at all times, that of myself and others, especially those doing journalism, and I don't know if most folks benefit from this kind of information being publicly known, but that is ironically the subject of this post, so I can't help but draw attention to it, since you mentioned the memo.
by philjohn | 2025-10-02 18:25:21+00:00
Immich is running in ProxMox for me, and using an NFS mounted ZFS dataset (encrypted at rest as the rack is in the garage, unlocks on boot using clevis and tang).

That ZFS dataset is backed up daily offsite using Restic + Rclone

Immich LXC is backed up daily to Proxmox Backup Server 1, which syncs to Proxmox Backup Server 2, and also gets sent offsite.

PostgreSQL is running in another LXC container, which also backs up to PBS and also offsite.
by FireBeyond | 2025-10-02 18:25:33+00:00
You're also neglecting the insurers and PBMs.

Health insurers are limited by law as to profit margins. So how to make more money? Raise prices, or signal to providers that you'll pay higher. Because if your incoming premiums have to rise, then that percentage that can be captured as profit rises.

But wait... what if you (an insurer) build/buy a middle-man to route prescription money through? That isn't covered by those profit margin constraints. So you can just up the prices of prescriptions and siphon profits that way.

Even better, you can do entirely sketchy BS (looking at you, Aetna, but also others): "Sure, you can get your scripts filled at your local pharmacy... but only for <=30 day supplies. We'll reject any script authorization for a supply of 31+ days, like those extremely convenient 90 day refills... unless you use the mail-order pharmacy that is wholly owned by us", thus making people choose between convenience and pricing.
by bitwalker | 2025-10-02 18:25:38+00:00
That's surprising, I have a '23 X6, and the built-in navigation is actually really nice. The maps have more detailed information than both Google and Apple Maps in many areas. I also haven't observed any lag/stuttering, but perhaps the hardware is worse or something on newer models.

Anyway, for me at least, the benefit of the built-in nav is not about routing, which is basically always worse than Google/Apple at this point, but about having detailed, offline maps. In my experience, offline Google/Apple maps are less detailed, and you have to download them in advance.

I use all three, depending on my needs at the time - each of them have their strengths. I prefer Google/Apple maps for day to day routing and things like that, but if I'm somewhere with poor signal, I use the native maps to navigate, because they are just more reliable.

It's all subjective though, and probably highly specific to location.
by fine_tune | 2025-10-02 18:25:39+00:00
LLMs are only 3-5 years old (NLP is much older OFC), for all we know they'll be a dead end in research like LSTM are today - LLM/Multi Modal just look super hot. "Attention is all you need" was released in 2017, it took 5 years to prove it was useful, for all we know the new hot thing has already been published and LLMs are obsolete - Google might have been right to wait.

Besides I dont think the top people at Google's DeepMind - and I can only "infer" this from watching them speek online - actually think LLM's are "the one".
by dlubarov | 2025-10-02 18:26:30+00:00
The note about bias does nothing to prevent it from being used. Wikipedia doesn't really have any policy of avoiding biased sources; see WP:BIASED.

The live blog warning is mostly ignored in practice, even though it reflects a broader policy (WP:NEWSBLOG). Al Jazeera's live blog alone is probably used more than any other source in the topic area.
by sthf | 2025-10-02 18:26:51+00:00
Just to preempt the most obvious technical question: Why did I immediately delete the JSON file?

The deletion was the critical step to prove the concept. The 900K tokens of the uploaded JSON were the 'source material' taking up context space. By deleting the file, I forced the model to rely solely on the semantic distillation that had occurred during the reading process. The continued, complex interaction, now relying on only 20K tokens of conversation history, definitively proves that the complex state was successfully compressed into the new 'persona' structure.

The whole process is simple and easily reproducible by anyone with a Google AI Studio account. I encourage everyone to try it.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-10-02 18:28:05+00:00
> Most countries do not recognize Chinese sovereignty over Taiwan

That's not true. Most, if not all, countries recognise that Taiwan is a Chinese territory. Taiwan even held the Chinese seat at the UN until 1971. Taiwan is the only Chinese territory still under the control of the Republic of China (ROC). The issue is which side of the Chinese civil war, so PRC vs ROC.

Of course, the issue is weaponised against China in the West by pushing the narrative that Taiwan has nothing to do with China at all... Divide and conquer. That's obvious BS that uses the public's thr ignorance of Chinese history.

> that's not supported by the facts.

Well, it is. When did China threaten to invade Korea or Japan? Again, both of which were invaded by the US.

Taiwan is a Chinese affair and the South China sea (which is not East Asia) is China trying to assert itself, over uninhabited reefs, against undefined borders or borders that were drawn by Western colonial powers without China...

I understand that every country looks after its own interests, and the US are ferocious at it, but in the interest of intellectual curiosity on HN, let's skip over the various propagandas...

In any case, the US are still not going to attack China, nor is China going to attack the US. This would be madness. Proxy wars exist as safety buffers.
by notatoad | 2025-10-02 18:28:07+00:00
this is just the tech-person habit of assuming that users are less informed than they are. go ask an "everyday user" how much they think instagram tracks them. i think you'll be surprised at what their assumptions are. most people i know (including my extremely non-tech-savvy parents) understand that "the algorithm" knows everything they do on the computer, and that's how both ads and content get targeted to them. they don't necessarily understand that amazon, facebook, and google are different algorithms, or even different companies, but they know that there is an algorithm, and that it's train-able from their usage.

a huge number of people think their ads are targeted based on their phone microphone always listening to them. and they don't change any habits as a result of that assumption.
by libraryatnight | 2025-10-02 18:28:22+00:00
This is good advice - I always struggled but managed, then one day I just broke. Decided to do the thing everyone says and get some help. The therapist after a session was suggesting autism and some other stuff mixed in, because of the internet arm chair mental health crowd I was skeptical. I also know some people that are obviously autistic, and a good friend who's autistic and schizophrenic which made me feel like I have nothing to complain about, I'm obviously "fine." But, since the shrink kept mentioning it, I opted for the neuro-psych exam to get a more concrete diagnosis and indeed high functioning autism is there.

It's been interesting to see the therapy (and meds for the other problems) working. Now that we know, my wife has had some therapy to help support her and help her support me - and it's been wonderful. Understanding wtf is going on made it easier to talk about, address, and improve. It's an on-going thing but talking to qualified people was the first step.