MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gymbeaux | 2025-04-24 15:36:46+00:00
I did a dive into these services back in 2019 though some of these services in the article I’ve never heard of.

The three I spent a lot of time with were Azure Maps, MapQuest and of course OpenStreetMap’s Nominatim.

This was for a side project so the financial restrictions alone led me to settle on Nominatim. I had a dedicated Nominatim server running on a PowerEdge R620 in my closet on an array of SAS drives. Or maybe it was 500GB SATA SSDs. Anyway, I recall the normalization of addresses being a big pain point, although I was working with government data so that was going to be a pain point whether I used Nominatim or something “higher quality”.

I also recall becoming frustrated with some of these edits users would make to OSM (that went downstream to Nominatim’s data). Like Wikipedia, OSM’s data is often made worse by new editors who don’t understand the pragmatics of the map- for example, someone had gone through my neighborhood and traced the wooded area behind it, but did it based on satellite view and just followed the pattern of trees- even though that meant going well into people’s back yards that had only a tree or two. This really should have been a property line tracing.
by alex1138 | 2025-04-24 15:37:01+00:00
And that's fine except people have missed seriously important life updates because of selective post non-showing

Facebook already had people up in arms when the feed was first introduced (probably because Zuckerberg seemingly doesn't believe in privacy as a concept, at all) and now they want to ruin it (especially now but it's been like this for years) by defeating the point of it?

And I do blame him, anyway https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1692122
by thenaturalist | 2025-04-24 15:37:19+00:00
On first glance possibly, on second glance not at all.

First, repeat data analyst queries are a usage driver in SQL DBs. Think iterating the code and executing again.

Another huge factor in the same vein is running dev pipelines with limited data to validate a change works when modelling complex data.

This is currently a FE feature, but underneath lies effective caching.

The underlying tech is driving down usage cost which is a big thing for data practitioners.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-04-24 15:37:28+00:00
the tragedy is they were only paying it lip service failed to deliver.

That about sums up the last 25 years of Canadian economic/political/military "planning" generally.

It's time to get serious. I don't so much care about the military per-se, but industrial capacity, manufacturing, etc. generally.

And of course the problem with "taking the North seriously" in the context of what Harper was suggesting is what this was almost entirely purely about from an exploitative POV (military and resources) rather than recognizing that people live there (and lived there first) and that qualify of life for the people that live there needs to be improved.

A few mines, some pipelines, and a military base doesn't make that happen. Taking the north seriously also means providing services.
by mikey_p | 2025-04-24 15:37:54+00:00
Clearly nothing based on Latin script can be original, which itself is based on the Etruscan Old italic alphabet, which itself it based on the Euboean alphabet — ergo, any typeface developed after say the 8th century BC is just a silly derivative.

Everything is derivative, there is nothing new under the sun, and your argument proves nothing.
by summitsingh | 2025-04-24 15:38:03+00:00
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by lo_zamoyski | 2025-04-24 15:38:06+00:00
The problem here is that Forster is relativising the good.

I am not betraying my country by refusing to follow laws or decrees that require that I engage in intrinsically evil deeds. I am not loyal to my friend if I do evil things he asks me to do.

Our loyalty is to the objective good of our country and our friend. Otherwise, there is no such thing as loyalty.
by foxyv | 2025-04-24 15:38:12+00:00
The United States is a weird mix of third world country and obscenely rich playground. I can walk ten minutes and go from an area of profound poverty to a shopping center selling $10,000 outfits and shoes. I see 10 million dollar houses sitting a block away from homeless camps being burned by city workers.

It's no surprise that our police are aggressive and homicidal. They have to be in order to keep such an out-of-balance society working.
by AndroTux | 2025-04-24 15:38:17+00:00
While that’s true of course, I find that a bit of a harsh conclusion. Yes, that’s the end result for any greedy company in a world without regulation.

But you can make that case for most business models. Restaurants? They’ll all eventually turn into fast food chains, because our human lizard brain appreciates fat and sugar more than actually good meals.

Gaming? Let’s just replace it all with casinos already. Loot boxes are just gambling anyways.

There’s absolutely a market for proper social media that’s actually social. It’s just that companies are way too greedy currently.
by mindslight | 2025-04-24 15:38:19+00:00
I've read all your replies in this thread. Your points boil down to "tariffs can be good sometimes". That might sound insightful to your buddies while stoned, but it doesn't even really amount to an argument.

Yet you continue pouring most of your effort into complaining about how you're being judged and treated so unfairly. uh-huh.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-04-24 15:38:26+00:00
> I've always distilled this down to people who like the "craft" and those who like the "result".

I find it very unlikely anyone who only likes the results will ever pick up the craft in the first place

It takes a very specific sort of person to push through learning a craft they dislike (or don't care about) just because they want a result badly enough
by knorker | 2025-04-24 15:38:39+00:00
I'm getting a bit of reddit vibes in that you only took part of what I said out of context, and ignored the rest.

But also yes it was very much a defensive acquisition, and my point about them not (yet) ruining it shows that there was no plan.

Buying another company from the spoils of your first hit doesn't make you not a one hit wonder. Especially since most of your bidding competitors would have been blocked by antitrust.

I don't know if the same is true for Instagram. I've never used it.
by ipdashc | 2025-04-24 15:38:43+00:00
I never really understood the "with delivery in Cushing, Oklahoma" thing, and the Delivery section on page 3 doesn't make it too much clearer.

Surely there are people trading in these contracts that... don't want their oil delivered to Cushing? The Delivery section makes it sound like maybe it can be delivered somewhere else if the buyer and seller agree, maybe?

And Wikipedia does make it sound like Cushing really can be a bottleneck: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_industry_in_Cushing,_Oklah... But... how? It seems like such a bizarre setup to literally require all the oil to come to this one specific town, I assume I'm missing something obvious?
by EA-3167 | 2025-04-24 15:39:00+00:00
To summarize, because my that article does go on before getting to the "good" part:

Removing the graphite anode from some batteries would make them cheaper and more efficient, but the downside is that they charge much more slowly. As a result this tech would be used only in auxiliary batteries.

The second announcement is faster charging, although this isn't explained.

The third announcement is the use of Sodium-ion batteries, although they admit this would require a different geometry, and therefore might be first used in trucks.
by bitwize | 2025-04-24 15:39:28+00:00
Loyalty is worth it if you can reasonably assume it will be repaid in kind. Assuming you didn't make a huge mistake in partner selection, that assumption is valid for your spouse. It emphatically does NOT hold for your employer, who will drop you the instant you become a problem. Therefore, it makes no sense to be loyal to your employer beyond the bare minimum.
by caseyy | 2025-04-24 15:40:04+00:00
I understand I was supposed to say “no” and question the open-source label. We’ve heard many arguments that if something can’t be reproduced from scratch, it’s not true open-source.

To me, they sound a bit like “no true Scotsman”. Llama is open source, compared to commercial models with closed weights. Even if it could be more open source.

That’s why I looked at it in a broader sense — what could happen in an open-source world to improve or replace Llama. Much could happen, thanks to Llama’s open nature, actually.
by siavosh | 2025-04-24 15:40:17+00:00
Can anyone benefit from working 10% harder or smarter? Undoubtedly. But success isn’t linear. It’s clear from the zeitgeist that the ultra-rich and powerful—past or present—aren’t working a million percent harder or smarter; their positions are more accurately explained by structural advantages. The first million might be 95% hard work and talent. The next million, probably a bit less so.
by taeric | 2025-04-24 15:40:25+00:00
Cool, I'm assuming this is largely driven by mouse usage, as well?

I'm always baffled by how long it has been since I was used to step debugging. It was definitely something that was huge when I was learning, but seemed to get left behind by so many practices.

My general memory is that it was growing and the likes of JRebel were aiming for very powerful uses of debugger connected development experiences. Eclipse, as I recall, have their own compiler specifically to let you debug code that isn't completed. Then, cloud technologies largely came and many just lost track of what could be done.

A fun example, I remember senior engineers at Amazon that didn't know you could hot patch Java while step debugging. Something that they had largely never had a chance to do, because of the standard deployment processes they had been used to.

To the direct point, I am somewhat surprised these aren't doable in Common Lisp. I saw examples showing these years ago, just without the GUI affordances that were in some of the other IDEs. https://malisper.me/debugging-lisp-part-5-miscellaneous/ has examples of the trace command offering conditional breaks and such. Sounds like there is the functionality, but lacking the visual cues/affordances?
by kemiller | 2025-04-24 15:40:28+00:00
I was leaving a company recently and the fresh grads, with whom I had a good relationship, asked if I had any advice.

I said, “Always remember that the company is not your friend. I don’t mean your boss or your coworkers, they might well be or become your friend. I mean the company itself. If all is well, it may be an excellent ally, but the company can and sometimes will turn on you in an instant if its goals change. Your boss’s job, even if they are your friend, is ultimately to serve the company.

Go out there, work hard, have fun, but put your needs first in the bigger picture.”
by mrweasel | 2025-04-24 15:40:32+00:00
> IG is just broken at this point.

It's all broken because the incentives are all broken. Everything is optimized for maximum profit through maximum screen time and maximum ad impressions.

If anything the online advertisement industry has shown that it cannot be trusted as a means to support businesses while having those businesses provide a healthy, no addictive, worth having product.

Would it truly hurt Facebook, Google or YouTube to make less money. Many companies could provide better solutions, if they where happy with less profit.
by bdelmas | 2025-04-24 15:40:42+00:00
It doesn't fall apart, you have examples that actually match it. Marketing boutiques of website creators match the 3-star Michelin analogy. High budgets from their customers (think LVMH) are the norm. And they will love and understand paying X for a font. In fact they will almost expect this type of thing in the design process.

At the end of the day if people don't see the difference and the value between a free and a priced one, then they don't need to steal and can just use the free ones. There are plenty of amazing free fonts anyway some being the actual roots of many paying ones, and the gold standards.
by potato3732842 | 2025-04-24 15:40:55+00:00
Consumer Reports reporting is bought and paid for by the OEMs. They'll make a big issue out of nothing or minimize real issues depending on where the money is coming from. This goes back at least as far as the Samurai rollover scandal.

Pretty much all industry journalism where the journalists depend on being in the good graces of the manufacturers to get the access they need to make their content is like this.
by flave | 2025-04-24 15:40:59+00:00
Employee. But someone will, ideally, accrue significant equity over time and grow into a leadership position as the company expands. We're funded so it's paid at market rate.

I know it sounds silly but as a startup grows, later in the process investors will want you to have a 'co-founder' who could basically take over if the original founder couldn't for any reason. It's de-risking. Probably needs a different title than 'co-founder'.
by photonthug | 2025-04-24 15:41:04+00:00
Sounds like you’d have appreciated 90s era irc, which was good for nuanced and sincere discussion, but also did not require talking to people that you already knew.

There’s a sweet spot between open/closed and known/unknown and somewhat focused but not too niche where it kind of works. Theres a certain size that works too, ideally Lots of users and yet occasionally you recognize someone. But I don’t think that’s what people mean at all by group chat today, which regardless of venue tends to be rather more insular and thus echo’y.
by ben_w | 2025-04-24 15:41:12+00:00
I've seen enough weird output from some models to not think quite so negatively about nay-sayers.

If "stupid response" happens 1% of the time, and the first attempt to use a model has four rounds of prompt-and-response, then I'd expect 1 in 25 people to anchor on them being extremely dumb and/or "just autocomplete on steroids" — the first time I tried a local model (IIRC it was Phi-2), I asked for a single page Tetris web app, which started off bad and half way in became a python machine learning script; the first time I used NotebookLM, I had it summarise one of my own blog posts and it missed half and made up clichés about half the rest.

And driving off, if not a cliff then a collapsed bridge, has gotten in the news even with AI of the Dijkstra era: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/21/us/father-death-google-gp...
by scyzoryk_xyz | 2025-04-24 15:41:12+00:00
Ack, I'm getting the sense that the author of this article is getting caught up in the argumentation prepared for use in the trial. Of course the Meta people are going to do everything they can to get everyone feeling it's like this to shake at the logical foundations of the case.

The F.T.C. is not chasing an old problem. A case like this may serve as precedent.
by iNic | 2025-04-24 15:41:23+00:00
Technological developments have massively changed our morals. I think it is even likely that without technological progress we would barely have any moral progress! Humanity was more anarchist back when we were foragers. Becoming farmers made us sedentary and allowed morals to focus more on "family values" and religion. Similarly moving from a pre-printing press world to a post-printing press world forced civilization into a more "free-speech" stance and brought about massive religious and cultural changes. We might still have the same emotions, but they are now shaped by different environments and I really believe that that makes a difference. Check out Foragers Farmers and Fossil Fuels by Ian Morris.
by EA-3167 | 2025-04-24 15:41:38+00:00
It isn't a technical problem though, it's just a lot easier when you have China's trio of:

Government subsidized energy

Criminally cheap and unsafe labor

No cares for the local environmental effects

It's a cost issue, because in the US or EU none of those three factors are present. Instead we've all 'outsourced' that mess to China.
by keeda | 2025-04-24 15:41:50+00:00
> The article is basically saying "if you don't use Play store and Google apps you'll have to build them yourself".

The article says a lot more. A key point about the Open Handset Alliance, OHA (emphasis theirs):

"If a company does ever manage to fork AOSP, clone the Google apps, and create a viable competitor to Google's Android, it's going to have a hard time getting anyone to build a device for it. In an open market, it would be as easy as calling up an Android OEM and convincing them to switch, but Google is out to make life a little more difficult than that. ...

The OHA is a group of companies committed to Android—Google's Android—and members are contractually prohibited from building non-Google approved devices. That's right, joining the OHA requires a company to sign its life away and promise to not build a device that runs a competing Android fork."
by dgacmu | 2025-04-24 15:42:38+00:00
But it's not. Look at the number of people who voted for Trump believing he would do things he explicitly said he wouldn't. Right-wing control of media sources is a really powerful thing, from Murdoch to Sinclair.

The democratic party gerontocracy is a problem - they really seem to want to just play politics and get individual people re-elected in many cases - but we really do have a propaganda problem in addition to a batch of senior democrats wholly unprepared to face the moment.
by eitally | 2025-04-24 15:42:47+00:00
This isn't universally true (and I'm saying this as someone who's been laid off three times in my career). When searching for a job, it's important to perform due diligence to ascertain whether the company is on solid footing, their strategy makes sense, and your role will be valued. But once you're there, who your boss is, including how well they mentor you and what their political clout is within the business, can absolutely make "loyalty" worthwhile because the ROI can be career acceleration (in terms of compensation, job title and also breadth/depth of experience/exposure) that goes far beyond just the direct pay when you consider the overall value.
by throwaway7783 | 2025-04-24 15:43:05+00:00
I agree in parts. Loyalty and corresponding benefits are a local optima. But when the macro is controlled and influenced by external (to the local) forces, and these forces have power, loyalty means nothing in terms of security. But you will still have good relationships with people and new opportunities may surface as a benefit.

But loyalty to a company is complete, utter BS.
by sepositus | 2025-04-24 15:43:06+00:00
I see it more as a sign of how few mainstream alternatives have been proposed. I've been guilty of generally assuming a communist bent when I see a negatively zealous response to the "free market" ideology. I don't act on the assumption, but from my experience, it tends to be the most common result.

Our political system seems hell-bent on only ever having two solutions to a problem, though.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-04-24 15:43:22+00:00
> Meanwhile here I am on my Linux machine, constantly anxious that sooner or later one of my bazillion npm and pip dependencies will get compromised, and secretly praying that one day proper sandboxing and an Android-security model will be common on the Linux desktop, so that I can erect security boundaries between my applications and repositories.

Why wait? You can shove your pip/npm uses into docker/podman and remove 90% of the attack surface today. (Provided you don't map your home directory into the containers)
by Hojojo | 2025-04-24 15:43:26+00:00
There was this Reddit post yesterday where it completely makes up being able to plant flowers in Elden Ring https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/1k6hupy/thanks_g...

The AI overview is worse than useless. It either hallucinates things or it treats shitposts as equally valid information-wise as anything else.
by dreamcompiler | 2025-04-24 15:43:39+00:00
I think power sometimes leads to this kind of insecurity, but a bigger factor is that people with narcissistic personalities often succeed because ordinary people are unaccustomed to dealing with them. Narcissists often come off as unusually competent, confident, and intimidating. This leads normies to want to follow them and give them what they want.

Narcissists are always extremely insecure, usually because someone crushed their ego during childhood. (There also exist people with intact egos who are simply arrogant; I'm not talking about them. The arrogant are easy to distinguish from narcissists after you study them a bit.)

My point is that Zuck was probably very insecure before the creation of FB, and he became rich partially because he was an insecure narcissist.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-04-24 15:43:44+00:00
Your examples are bizarre (sports teams are a matter of petty entertainment, not proper objects of loyalty). Philosophy isn't an object of loyalty either.

However, you should acquaint yourself with the principle of subsidiarity. Loyalty, duty, and love radiate outward from those who are owed the most diminishing to those who are owed the least (spouses, then children, then parents, etc., all the way through extended family and then community and nation and finally the human race). The loyalty is to the objective good. How that is expressed will be modified by contingent factors particular to a given person's situation.
by Jensson | 2025-04-24 15:44:04+00:00
> It’s clear from the zeitgeist that the ultra-rich and powerful—past or present—aren’t working a million percent harder or smarter; their positions are more accurately explained by structural advantages.

Millions of people had an equal or better starting condition than Mark Zuckerberg so we aren't really lacking privileged people, but vanishingly few of those do become ultra wealthy.
by coldpie | 2025-04-24 15:44:38+00:00
> would be a massive improvement

This is where we disagree. It would be a small improvement at best. Most of what you're pointing out are the awkward corner cases that just don't come up or, like you said, we already have other solutions for. Outside of some specialties, pretty much no one needs to know how many cups are in a gallon or yards in a mile or what a nautical mile is. I don't know those things, and I somehow get by OK.
by swatcoder | 2025-04-24 15:45:02+00:00
I think the more common outcome you're not seeing, for the "other" group, is that they just go back to smaller ponds where they excelled in the first place, and often make strong contributions there.

Once it's been observed that there are bigger fish, you can't really go back to the naive sense of boundless potentiality, but you can go back to feeling like a strong and competent leader among people who benefit from and respect what you have.

Your comment focuses on the irrepressibly ambitious few who linger in the upper echelons of jet-setting academia and commerce and politics, trying to find a niche while constantly nagged by threats to their ego (sometimes succeeding, sometimes not), but there's many more Harvard/etc alum who just went back to Omaha or Baltimore or Denver or Burlington and made more or less big things happen there. That road is not so unhealthy or unhappy for them.