MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by WhitneyLand | 2025-05-28 19:37:42+00:00
No?

Im not sure what you’re disagreeing with. It seems like selective quoting to sidestep my point about quality of predictions and pivot to ridiculing the original theory which I actually was originally critical of.

I don’t feel any need to shame the author. There’s clearly a good faith effort to contribute and I think the most constructive feedback is to suggest how it could be stronger.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-05-28 19:37:54+00:00
Well, my point is that there's unique pressure for browsers to be permissive for practical reasons beyond Postel's law even if you were building a browser in 2025 and the whole internet reset to xhtml.

And that's because the end-user is at the mercy of, but not party to, an over the air interface between the producer and consumer that you can't verify ahead of time.

So if you're consuming a stream of supposed xhtml `<p>foo<p>bar</p>`, you have to decide if you want to screw the user for the producer's mistake for a single fuck up in the website's footer.
by overfeed | 2025-05-28 19:38:10+00:00
It sounds like they'll buy an alternative product when one is available. Tesla, X, and xAI all have multiple viable alternatives - superior alternatives even. That's not yet the case for Starlink in many locations[0], but in 5-10 years, your colleague may be using an Amazon Kuiper, One World, Garmin[1], or Apple[1] connection.

0. Symmetric gigabit fiber Internet remains the gold standard, where one can get it, but unfortunately that's not many places.

1. I hope these companies are at least looking into doing these, as it's adjacent to their current products.
by kayodelycaon | 2025-05-28 19:38:14+00:00
There’s also the problem of communities that are not nice to anyone they don’t approve of.

Maybe I just have too many LGBT friends to be objective. But I’ve had to leave communities because I had to keep my head down and my mouth shut to stay in them.

LGBT communities aren’t perfect either.

Communities are messy and we have a lot of choice in who we pick to be in them. In the past, you didn’t have a lot of options and you were strongly incentivized to make compromises.
by dustbunny | 2025-05-28 19:38:15+00:00
Taking detailed notes in meetings, and keeping a record of what I'm doing/thinking about has allowed me to drastically shorten the "context switching time" between meetings and days. And having those notes is vital every once in a while, ie: X person said Y thing on Z date. Or It took me X days to do this thing, etc... doing this is a great way to be "management material" if that's what you wanna do. Because you are visibly very organized.

I literally just write down everything important in meetings because it keeps me focused and I enjoy the act of hand writing.

And then I keep notes in a giant endless .md file of what my goals are for the day. It's like 10 lines per day max.
by mort96 | 2025-05-28 19:38:30+00:00
Especially macOS is built on the assumption that you rarely "quit" apps. When you close all of an app's windows, it remains running. You actually have to hit cmd+q or right click and hit "Quit" in the Dock to really quit an app.

In other circumstances too though, it's not great UX to demand your users quit your app once they're done with it because it eats too many resources just being idle in the background. It's an issue I have with both Electron, where idle apps waste tonnes or RAM, and with many Rust UI frameworks, where an immediate-mode architecture means they'll be consuming CPU on the background.
by skeaker | 2025-05-28 19:38:32+00:00
This is often brought up and almost never true. No reasonable court would dump their trademark over this. It needs to be overwhelmingly out of their hands and in the public conscious. "Frisbee" for example still holds their trademark over the word Frisbee despite the fact that the vast majority of people don't even realize that it's a trademarked term. Businesses have de facto no obligation to defend their trademark to the extent that the internet often thinks they do.
by 1dom | 2025-05-28 19:38:47+00:00
I guess it comes down to world view, since we can never know the answer: when a human has everything they need, including enough bandwidth, how many will care by default vs being apathetic by default.

If they care by default, all we need to do is give them everything they need and they'll do what is wanted. If not, then giving them everything they need will result in them doing nothing more.
by burkaman | 2025-05-28 19:38:51+00:00
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/firefox-labs/try-out-link-pre...

This is an opt-in feature that uses a local model. After some brief testing, it doesn't seem very useful yet. It often just extracts a few sentences from the beginning of a page and shows those as bullet points, missing the main point of the article or page.
by potato3732842 | 2025-05-28 19:39:14+00:00
Americans replaced alcohol with sweets, generally. There's a reason a huge fraction of the modern candies and confections either got their start or took on their modern forms during this era. Prohibition is probably single handedly responsible for more of the "processed sweet junk" in the American diet than any other singular policy. It really is the gift that keeps on giving.

That said, ice cream is aa highly underrated dessert and I have a hard time thinking of a better item to have available on un-air conditioned ships in a tropical environment, absolutely on par with a cold beer.
by gorkish | 2025-05-28 19:39:19+00:00
To me this whole situation seems to be a pretty good example of what not to do if faced with a copyright claim. It's tempting to see outfits like The Onion or Cards Against Humanity doing this kind of thing and feel like you are bulletproof and can do it too. But it's pretty easy to tell when these 'open letter' responses have not received legal review.

Waffle House had a legitimate claim and acted on their obligation to their trademark.

There is a pretty good argument that Waffle House continues to have a claim.

They probably wont do anything because its, frankly, a waste of time.

This could probably have been avoided entirely if copyrights were correctly respected from the beginning.
by whyowhy3484939 | 2025-05-28 19:39:19+00:00
I find there is middle ground between "who the fuck cares" and "I got to fight for what is righteous". Do the job best you can. Accept resources, including skilled human beings, are what they are and unless you own the place there is very little you can do about it. Try to do the best work you can with the resources you are given is all I can say. It does give pleasure to at least try to do a good job.

Yes, I am saying you should be cleaning the decks of the Titanic with all the care you can muster but without being obsessive or neurotic about it. Don't do it for the Titanic, don't do it for all the people who are about to die. Just do it for you.
by jimmyl02 | 2025-05-28 19:39:20+00:00
I thought the reaction was more so that you can train SOTA models without an extremely large quantity of hyper-expensive GPU clusters?

But I would say that the reaction was probably vastly overblown as what Deepseek really showed was there are much more efficient ways of doing things (which can also be applied with even larger clusters).

If this checkpoint is trained using non-Nvidia GPUs that would definitely be a much bigger situation but it doesn't seem like there has been any associated announcements.
by valbaca | 2025-05-28 19:39:34+00:00
> But as a gamer, or even as an end user of any embedded piece of hardware, the trend towards shorter battery lives of devices is definitely visible.

No it isn't.

Also, apples to apples isn't even close. Even just the gameboy vs gameboy color ignores that they used different batteries. Also rechargable vs not.

I had a Gameboy and the move to rechargable batteries is a GOD send. I don't need battery-life as much as I needed to not be spending $$$ to play my games.
by layer8 | 2025-05-28 19:40:36+00:00
URLs in the strict sense are a subset of URIs. They specify a mechanism (like HTTP or FTP) for how to access the referenced resource. The other type of URIs are opaque IDs, like doi:10.1000/182 or urn:isbn:9780141036144. These technically can’t expire, though that doesn’t mean you’ll be able to access what they reference.

However, “URL” in the broader sense is used as an umbrella term for URIs and IRIs (internationalized resource identifiers), in particular by WHATWG.

In practice, what matters is the specific URI scheme (“http”, “doi”, etc.).
by jplusequalt | 2025-05-28 19:40:42+00:00
>There's no such thing late stage capitalism

I'd wager you'd argue there was such a thing as late stage socialism, no? You're inability to imagine anything else than capitalism is a fallacy. Google Capitalist Realism.

>the cream rises to the top

No it doesn't. Success is largely determined by who had access to the most capital, or who was able to build a moat around themselves fast enough. The meritocracy people love to imagine they live in, is nothing more than a myth for a majority of people.
by grep_name | 2025-05-28 19:40:58+00:00
I thought I was pretty clear? It would be nice to be able to call functions from org-mode and its related packages without having Emacs installed, or with some minimal subset of emacs meant for the commandline which caters to the needs of people running headless commands. It would solve a whole ton of issues for me. In particular, org-roam-ui is amazing. To run it, I have to open emacs and then... have emacs launch it into a browser for me. But the hosted interface won't export to anything that can be statically (or dynamically, really) hosted, so I can never access this awesome note-viewing interface from the web, even though to do it locally I already have to use a browser?

I have a project for hosting org-roam-ui as a website that took a ton of finagling to figure out and is extremely brittle. I had to finally load a custom .el script to prepare emacs to even try to evaluate the 'org-roam-ui' command from the commandline. If emacs prioritized headless / cli operations, this wouldn't have been such a nightmare, but it absolutely was. Just finding the right ports and re-assigning them to get out of each others way was a huge learning curve even for a seasoned emacs-er.

> It's like wishing for java programs to be able to execute without JVM, or Erlang-code without BEAM

No, it's not. It's wishing for basic functionality offered by all other markup languages of which I'm aware. That includes latex and everything supported by pandoc. Org-mode can do all sorts of crazy rendering tasks from its files, and it is worse than pulling teeth to get that functionality into a build pipeline of any kind.
by skydhash | 2025-05-28 19:41:03+00:00
Debugger for me is more about inspection than actual debugging, especially when dealing with a complex systems. It's possible to just use a printf, but the debugger gives more information. It's rare that I need to do stepping. I mostly just want to see the stack trace and the state of the program. One of the nice thing about Common Lisp and Smalltalk is to be able to do this any single point.
by neilv | 2025-05-28 19:41:57+00:00
If you have the misfortune to deal with that category of corporate specimen, additional reasons for why they might disregard good advice:

* Option A (bad choice for company) has some angle upside for them, such as something they can credit to themselves or that increases their status, but option B (the best choice for the company) would be owned by one of their rivals.

* Loss of face, such the best option for the company would too clearly expose and reverse a mistake they made (when they and/or the org doesn't believe in acknowledging mistakes).

* (Speculating about some weirder ones) They are all about confidence projection, as you say, and further, they've come to believe their own BS. (Maybe this falls under the psych quirks I mentioned earlier.)

So the confidence in ChatGPT, or in anything else, might not be irrational or misinformed, but merely part of their internal sales act for selfish advantage.

Fortunately, I haven't run into any of these problems a lot, but have enough experience to know they can happen. Today, I would recognize some BS quickly, and move to confirm and correct it, and probably leave if there was too much uncorrected BS.
by watwut | 2025-05-28 19:42:34+00:00
Huh, it is pretty much settled that kids from "good homes" have better school results then the ones from "bad homes". The kids themselves are under less stres, they eat better, they sleep more, they have someone who cares about their school results. The parents have more resources (time, ability, inclination) to intervene when things go badly regardless of what school does.
by jjmarr | 2025-05-28 19:42:38+00:00
The first sentence on SteamDB is:

> This third-party website gives you better insight into the Steam platform and everything in its database.

It clearly states that it's not affiliated with Steam and is a separate organization. There's also a further disclaimer in the footer of the page.

In contrast, the "Waffle House Index" had the Waffle House logo at the top of the page, with zero explanation or elaboration on who created the website.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-05-28 19:43:32+00:00
Even if all this true, there’s unlikely to be a mass switch campaign until an alternative with better privacy and security gains the smoothness, flexibility, and platform coverage that Telegram has. Most people I know who use it do so because it runs everywhere, is nice to use, and isn’t a Facebook product (which while perhaps not being as bad as a foreign government, is a more prominently perceived threat for most people).
by jp57 | 2025-05-28 19:43:44+00:00
Many of the problems this article talks about are relatively new, historically, and I can't help but wonder if the problem isn't really other trends like high-intensity helicopter parenting, rather than "atomic" families.

I grew up in a fairly typical American suburb, in the 70s, and lived in a single-family, single-generation household. But, there were 35+ kids on my one-block street! The neighborhood consisted entirely of families with children and retirees, and among the families, the median number of kids was three. There were a couple of families with two, but multiple with four; there were also families with 5, 6, and 7. We were constantly in and out of each other's houses. I regularly would walk out my door, through my neighbor's front yard, and into my best friend's house without knocking. A lot of the time we were outside, and unsupervised by adults. Overall I think the burden on parents (per kid) was much lower than today.

I think the large number of kids made this kind of arrangement both necessary and possible. Nobody could have the energy to supervise so many kids the way kids are supervised today, but also we all looked out for each other. There were lots of siblings. Older sibs were responsible for younger, and by extension, their younger friends as well. If someone got hurt, some friends would help while others would run to get a parent, and not necessarily the parent of the kid who got hurt.

Even this situation, I can't imagine wanting to actually share a household with any of my friends' families. In fact, when I slept over, I was always struck with how weird other families' closed-door customs seemed. It's the same now: when we get an occasional glimpse into the behind-closed-doors dynamics of our friends' marriages and families, my wife and I are always like, hm... weird. I think it's like that for everyone.

Getting married and having a family is a very personal thing. I love my friends, but I wouldn't want to marry any of them.
by Freak_NL | 2025-05-28 19:44:00+00:00
All that means is that as the receiving party there is absolutely no reason for me to sign anything, or even use my actual signature.

Indeed, if the pallet was delivered to the wrong address and someone just took it, the burden of proof would lie with the selling party. Of course, a reputable transporter will make sure the address is right (plus, people generally don't act as if they were indeed expecting a pallet delivered by lorry).
by PaulHoule | 2025-05-28 19:44:06+00:00
Electric buses failed in Tompkins County ultimately. Just after I got this pic [1]

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/111970855110384330

they had one fall apart when they jacked it up on the lift and took them out of service. It wasn't a problem with the "electric" part, it was a problem with the "bus" not being structurally sound.

Buses are tougher than you might think. In the 1970s NYC had at least two bus procurement contracts fail.

[1] like two buildings over from Max Zhang's office
by bluehex | 2025-05-28 19:45:00+00:00
The "important notes" section on the Japanese page[1] says that you can disable / delete an address at any time and create a new one. If I used this I would rotate every so often and at a minimum for each move. I'm a bit concerned for people that don't understand the risks of updating these. Anyone that's ever seen this code being able to lookup the person's address across moves is scary. I don't feel like this convenience warrants the risk of having this feature, personally. It's already convenient enough to just limit the input required for updating third parties to an alphanumeric code without allowing updating the addresses.

[1]: https://lp.da.pf.japanpost.jp/#importantnotes
by WorldMaker | 2025-05-28 19:45:16+00:00
> It’s « just » a tool which will fetch installation manifests on a centralized Microsoft GitHub repository and execute it.

The winget repo has a ton of useful installation manifests, sure, but isn't "just" a tool to fetch manifests from that one repo. (Also, it doesn't fetch the data directly from GitHub, even though that is the source of truth, it has a light REST service in between which does a lot of caching and DDoS management and what have you.) Winget also by default installs Windows Store apps, too. It's also configurable so you can add your own installation manifest repos if you wish (such as on-premise private feeds).
by pixl97 | 2025-05-28 19:45:36+00:00
Will people buy them?

In the 80s you had to get long battery life because you were generally throwing the batteries away and shoving in new ones. Now with rechargeables you just plug in the cord and you can both play and recharge at the same time. It's not a big expensive hassle.

Do customers want more features/graphics or more battery life?
by growlNark | 2025-05-28 19:46:05+00:00
I think with the linguistic turn the idea of a "correct opinion" feels a bit archaic. Sure, if you can truly glean the semantics and connotations of the language, you can feel confident their view is coherent, that they cohere with your views, etc, perhaps you can call their opinion correct in that agreement tends to be seen as correctness in a posteriori terms. But in practice, establishing that degree of confidence requires a shared linguistic background and skepticism. Especially when you're dealing with floating signifiers, as Locke tended to do (and as many respectable philosophers have done).

Plus, Locke seems to have generally existed outside the concept of being paid for eyeballs. I am not sure much of his philosophy survived the rise of capitalism, which is perhaps why he still remains such a strong voice—we are simply aware on some level of what liberal idealism has lost, and we want it back.

Personally, I think "truth" is actually a pretty weak concept and I have none of the attachments that enlightenment thinkers had to it. Even in good faith confidence about how other folks view concepts that are very real to us can be hard to come by. Am I sure that there the continent of Africa is not a conspiracy theory? Yes, I'm pretty sure. Well, what about the characterization of XYZ conflict? Or about the social value of idk role models with raising children? That's where newsrooms lose me—the terms are just too vague, the connotations too difficult to hold editors accountable for, for "truth" to be a real concern.
by athenot | 2025-05-28 19:46:20+00:00
> there just has to be a risk that consumers think that this is somehow associated with Waffle House

More than risk; some of the tweets could be actual evidence of that confusion.

I think if the general branding vibe of the site was more about hurricanes and only made a reference to the "Waffle House index" via NOAA, it might have had better chances of surviving. And also a big disclaimer that there is no affiliation with WH would have also helped.
by immibis | 2025-05-28 19:46:23+00:00
This quote from The Expanse summarizes our society right now:

> Prax: They're using distilled water in the hydroponic supply instead of the proper mineral solutions needed for long-term stability.

> Amos: That sounds bad.

> Prax: They'll only be able to get away with it for another week, maybe two. After that, the air, the scrubbing plants, what's left of them, will die off. When that happens, they won't be able to stop the cascade.
by jajko | 2025-05-28 19:46:53+00:00
You overestimate (on purpose for the sake of argument I believe) how much many rational folks dislike spirituality on its own.

Rejecting something we have no way of knowing this or that way is certainly not smart, usually its not more than emotional kneejerk reaction. Einstein too had a very pragmatic approach to all this.

For me personally its an irrelevant topic, acting morally in life should be a basic moral imperative and not caused by fear of some almighty deity that will judge me later, thats a childish view on life and moral values.

Its the organized, hierarchical power and control structures that humans created (often) millenia ago around every single religion and spiritual movement, with ossified views on what is moral and what is not, and enforcing that specific view on rest of mankind in some sort of bizzare moral superiority (inferiority?) complex that many many smart folks struggle with.

Tells you how deeply flawed humans are at their deepest core, and absolutely nothing about ie existence of god(s). I personally know a small army of people who are properly disgusted with reality of catholicism for example, to the point they internally fully rejected it, and only keep a small charade for older bits of family or community on few days a year. The sad part is, they often, out of fear of rejection from families and their current social circles, push their own kids on a path of very early indoctrination they themselves dont believe anymore at all, instead of giving them freedom of self-determination later in life when they could actually make decisions for themselves. And this is one of the biggest, if not the biggest item on plates of each of us we have to figure out ourselves.

Sometimes such folks cant shed that indoctrination themselves, and come up with their own version of religion they started with, ignoring some aspects and expanding others... so much for immutable, universal truth.

Tragedy of commons and all. Think how many folks like that you know around you, and multiply by X since shame of being different is one of main drives of societies of humans since forever, and thus a closely guarded secret.
by terhechte | 2025-05-28 19:47:11+00:00
You could split it up in two separate entities. For vector search there's a myriad of good Rust projects. I've personally used:

- https://crates.io/crates/lancedb - https://crates.io/crates/usearch - https://crates.io/crates/simsimd

search and simsimd are fast and lightweight, but I'd advise to use lancedb if you're a bit new to Rust as the other two are a bit trickier to handle due to the C dependency (e.g. usearch needs Vec::with_capacity and will otherwise crash, etc).

And then, you take the result of this query and can combine it with a sqlite `in` query.

Or you use SQLite with a vector search extension: https://crates.io/crates/rig-sqlite