MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jjmarr | 2025-05-28 19:55:46+00:00
"Waffle House is so reliably open that FEMA uses it to measure hurricane devastation" is a great piece of marketing.

If you're tired, hung over, or really hungry, you can always stumble into a Waffle House at any time and get something to eat. If you can't, there are bigger problems in your life (hurricane, zombies, tornadoes).
by mindcrime | 2025-05-28 19:56:01+00:00
That's an oversimplification. WH could also reach out and offer to work out a deal with the site owner to license use of their trademark. That would probably entail some compensation (which could be anything from "good will" or a token cash amount, up to millions of dollars) and probably some verbiage on the page reading something along the lines of "Logos and identifiers on this page are the property of Waffle House, Inc and are used under license" or whatever.
by cesarb | 2025-05-28 19:56:05+00:00
> Such a scheme does not work without cookies in the first place, so the optimal strategy for scrapers is to keep any (likely multiple) session cookies until they expire.

AFAIK, Anubis does not work alone, it works together with traditional per-IP-address rate limiting; its cookies are bound to the requesting IP address. If the scraper uses a new IP address for each request, it cannot reuse the cookies; if it uses the same IP address to be able to reuse the cookies, it will be restricted by the rate limiting.
by hk1337 | 2025-05-28 19:56:10+00:00
> Honestly, I was more surprised that the silly logo I made (a very great representation, if I do say so myself) was what got me in trouble, and less so the scraping or reverse-engineering part.

I am not all that surprised. Companies have to take trademarks and such VERY seriously and act quickly. They can be royally screwed later if they do not.

I am surprised the creator of the site didn't add a disclaimer that information should not be used in any sort of serious manner.
by metalman | 2025-05-28 19:56:21+00:00
from northern europe somewhere, also did work for major auto makers, may be working from home, may have left with his team, from memory of a skim read last year only remember because I like Resonance and TV engineering, similar but different interesting phenominion and continues to be challenging. The one thing they have going for them on the starship program, is data.....the thing going against them is that they are making 600 changes to each iteration......which is actualy ok, as when they solve for the issues, they should end up with a wide configuration envelope for the ship.
by hn_acker | 2025-05-28 19:56:58+00:00
I only recently learned about the book, just in time for Jake Tapper to say about Biden's medical cover-up [1]:

> It is without question, and may be even worse than Watergate in some ways, because Richard Nixon was in control of his faculties when he wasn’t drinking

[1] https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5321613-jake-tapper-water...
by breckinloggins | 2025-05-28 19:57:01+00:00
I wonder if some of it is a good old fashioned marketing problem. "Communes" in America seem to be far-left or far-right coded, with little in between (and always - it appears - with a subtle suggestion that you're getting a nice cult along with your little village).

I don't see any reason it has to be that way, though. It's more an accident of history.

I probably would have chosen to have children if I grew up in a culture where "a bunch of people living close together and helping each other out" was the norm. I didn't, though. I grew up in 1980s "Superman and McDonalds and the American Way" suburbs. Having kids in that environment always looked like a nightmare to me, so I didn't.

I also suspect this has an extrovert / introvert component. The super social people around me constructed these little "ephemeral villages" out of nought but thin air, smiles, backyard barbecues, and PTA meetings. Or so it seemed to me. I was always too introverted to do this, though.
by godelski | 2025-05-28 19:57:05+00:00
I actually really like this idea. I've often found it odd we don't show off reports or how we run experiments during interviews. Certainly this has far greater influence over your aptitude than leetcode.

> 90% of candidates do not do this or cannot explain AI's mistakes an interview.

I have a growing concern that people do not see mistakes. This seems to be a bigger divide than "uses AI to code" vs "doesn't".
by DontBreakAlex | 2025-05-28 19:57:10+00:00
Tell me you're american without telling me you're american.

> I know what Hip Young Urban Professionals Sipping Coffee On A Sidewalk Next To A Cafe Along The Seine Or Rhine Because Their Apartment Is To Small To Do Anything do the second they get money.

They buy a nice apartment on the southern bank of the seine because they're the only one that can afford it, cycle everywhere and enjoy the thousands of places you can go in Paris with their friends while sharing a babysitter because they can walk by their friends places to pickup their kids afterwards.

I moved to SF for work 6 months ago and I can't understand how you guys can "enjoy" living alone and depressed in your empty suburb.

Want to know who actually lives in the "american-style suburbs" of Paris? Poor people who have no choice but to live there
by skydhash | 2025-05-28 19:57:24+00:00
One of the biggest boost to my SWE career was studying theory of computation and programming languages theory. My major was electronic engineering, so I didn't touch those at the university. But I use some books to at least grasp the introductory knowledge.

The boost was how easy it is to find the mechanism to some abstractions. And instead of being those amazing and complex tools that you have to use carefully, they've become easier to use and reason about. I would say very much like the study of forms, value, and perspectives for an artist, or music theory for a musician. It just makes everything easier. Especially the understanding about automata (regex), context-free grammar (programming language), and the Turing machine (CPU).
by johnecheck | 2025-05-28 19:57:49+00:00
That's fair, but don't sell them short. A 3d printed gun just killed a CEO. Ukrainian drones are using 3d printed parts to drop bombs.

Between that and the changed game for hobbyists, the world is meaningfully different.

Most world-changing inventions do so subtly. Atom bombs are the exception, not the rule.
by dcminter | 2025-05-28 19:58:07+00:00
When I get gloomy about current tech stuff I like to read the latest on the "Vesuvius Challenge" - making progress on reading a library's worth of scrolls that literally burned to ashes in the Pompei eruption... who knows what treasures we might get to read in our lifetimes that were lost for 2000 years. Sure, there's some "AI" involved, but it's not just rub-more-AI-on-it dross.

https://scrollprize.org/

https://scrollprize.substack.com/p/april-progress-prizes-upd...
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-05-28 19:58:08+00:00
The question isn't: Why doesn't everyone want to raise their children in communal living?

It's more like: why does almost no one want that?

There's a big difference.

It should be obvious why not everyone or even most people don't want that.

It's less obvious why basically no one does - especially since lots of people are actually interested in the idea, and there are - theoretically - advantages.
by Ray20 | 2025-05-28 19:58:29+00:00
>Nobody's gonna live in a mud hut using a spinning wheel just because workers run companies.

That exactly what will happen. In the best case, if you lacky enough, you will be live in a mud hut. The rest will envy those who can afford to live in a mud hut.

Workers can start running companies at any time, no one restricts them from running their companies. The only reason they don't do this is that this will be worse for workers.

So you are being hypocritical. You don't want workers to run companies (they can do that now), you want workers to have no alternative.
by mattlondon | 2025-05-28 19:58:44+00:00
Because other people do it wrong :)

My own mother and of course my mother in law are absolute liabilities with my 5 and 3 year olds. They continually and repeatedly break our rules.

It's not unsafe per se, but it's just high-risk things for no reason apart from what we believe is just willful defiance from the grandparents. E.g. letting them out into the garden with no direct supervision, when there is no physical barrier from them getting into the road etc. "Oh lighten up! It's just a busy street with loads of distracted drivers in 2+ ton vehicles going over the speed limit! What's the problem!"

As a result, they're not usually left alone with the kids unless we can avoid it.

Ultimately if any harm were to come, I want to know that it was my own fault effectively, and not because I suspected that some other adult was not paying enough attention, or could have tried harder/made more effort to stop it, or was deliberately not doing things how I like it to be done. If it was under your own watch or your partner's watch that something bad happened then you can be pretty sure that the harm was unavoidable and not because someone else has other concepts of safety and risk for your offspring.
by hnfever | 2025-05-28 19:59:00+00:00
>You need to make your way through 1-5 to get to 6

This isn't true. As the genocide watch page says "The process is not linear."

White South Africans are less likely to be victims of crime, make more money, live longer, and are over-represented among corporate and political leadership. Taking steps to undo the damage done by apartheid isn't fucked up, it's necessary as evidenced by the aforementioned inequalities.
by Henchman21 | 2025-05-28 19:59:09+00:00
> Those are unnecessarily emotionally charged definitions and implications of “resources” and “exploit”.

One, don’t attempt to invalidate my emotions. They are both entirely valid, given the concerted push from the C-suite to dehumanize their workforce, and entirely necessary. Necessary because our parents and grandparents lived better lives because they weren’t as dehumanized. Necessary because so few people in this community specifically see it that way and it *needs to be pointed out repeatedly*.

Perhaps it would resonate more if you, too, had heard a couple of C-suites & their chosen MBAs joking about this exact topic. Perhaps dehumanizing people would make your blood boil if you experienced it as casually and often as I have.

But perhaps not. One of the great things about the WTFC-era is that I can disregard your opinion utterly.
by jhallenworld | 2025-05-28 19:59:10+00:00
I went looking for Rudy Rucker on this list, and am satisfied. He's wild, highly recommend. Enjoy some merge with someone: "the drug "merge" is a key element in the novel "Wetware". Merge is a drug that causes users to soften into a puddle, experience oneness with the universe, and fuse conscious entities. "
by cleverbit | 2025-05-28 19:59:16+00:00
It’s been fun thinking about what a post-iPhone world might look like—especially in light of Jony Ive and Sam Altman’s recent $6.5B bet on ambient, AI-first devices (via the acquisition of io).

Would love feedback or ideas for where to take it next.

I wrote up my developer journey in a longer blog post including some background on how the project started as a vibe-code experiment: https://richarddas.com/blog/chatgpt-client-for-apple-watch/
by micromacrofoot | 2025-05-28 19:59:34+00:00
> I want to raise them around a wealth of adults who model different ways to be successful and happy.

Right this is why I don't live in a community house, a lot of my kids' friend's parents suck ass. Who gets to live in the community house with the alcoholic soccer mom or the cop who got fired for threatening to kill someone at a baseball game.
by PaulHoule | 2025-05-28 20:01:20+00:00
Yeah, people usually use bridge rectifiers with 50 or 60 Hz or maybe 400 Hz in aviation applications.

However, the way people build power supplies has changed completely since the 1970s when I was a kid reading ham radio books that told you to get a big transformer, hook it to a bridge rectifier, and have a filter with some large capacitors in it. Today the state of the art is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switched-mode_power_supply

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck%E2%80%93boost_converter

My son was looking for an 18V-1A power supply for a guitar gadget and looking around the house he told me "there doesn't seem to be any connection with the voltage and current and the size of the supply" and it's precisely because of that revolution. Even if the input power is 60 Hz the power supply switches at 100 kHz or more which means the filter network is vastly smaller and you don't have the really dangerous big capacitors you might have seen in the power supply of a PDP-11 or something like that.
by echelon | 2025-05-28 20:01:38+00:00
> I recently went the other way (started a project in Tauri, moved to Electron) because of frustration with rendering differences between the web views employed on different platforms.

This is our #1 frustration with Tauri. The OS-provided system webviews are not stable, repeatable, consistent platforms to build upon.

Tauri decided that a key selling point of their platform was that Tauri builds won't bundle a browser runtime with your application. Instead, you wind up with whatever your operating system's browser runtime is. Each OS gets a different runtime.

Sounds nice on paper, but that has turned into a massive headache for us.

Safari and Edge have super finicky non-standard behavior, and it sucks. Different browser features break frequently. You're already operating in such a weird way between the tight system sandboxing and CORS behaviors (different between each browser), the subtle differences are death by a thousand cuts. And it never seems to stop stacking up. These aren't small CSS padding issues, but rather full-blown application behavior breakages. Even "caniuse.com" is wrong about the compatibility matrix with built-in web views.

To be fair, we're using advanced browser features. Animation, 2D contexts, trying to do things like pointer lock. But these are all examples of things that are extremely different between each web view.

All of this has doubled (quadrupled - with dev and prod builds behaving so differently! - but that's another story) the amount of physical testing we have to do. It takes so much time to manually test and ship. When we were building for the web, this wasn't an issue even if people used different browsers. The webviews have incredibly different behavior than web browsers.

Their rationale for using OS-provided system webviews instead of a bundled runtime baked into the installer at build time is that it would save space. But in reality all it has done is created developer frustration. And wasted so much freaking time. It's the single biggest time sink we have to deal with right now.

We were sold on Tauri because of Rust, but the system browser runtime is just such a bad decision. A self-imposed shotgun wound to the chest.

The Tauri folks have heard these complaints, and unfortunately their approach to solving it is to put Servo support on the roadmap. That's 1000% not the right fix. Servo is not even a production-ready platform. We just want Chrome.

Please just let us bundle a modern chrome with our apps. It's not saving anyone any headache with smaller programs and installer sizes. Games are already huge and people tolerate them. Lots of software is large. It's accepted, it's okay, it's normal. We have a lot of space, but we don't have a lot of time. That's the real trade off.

I want to use Rust. I want to use Chrome.

I hope the Tauri devs are reading this. It's not just from me. This is the general community consensus.

Built-in webviews are not the selling point for Tauri. Rust is.
by KaiserPro | 2025-05-28 20:01:56+00:00
I worked at a startup with a "monorepo" (C++, cuda and python) it worked well and wasn't too hard to manage. Once someone bit the bullet and made some robust bazel spells it was brilliant to use and multi-platform too.

Worked at a FAANG with a monorepo, and everything was partially broken most of the time. Its trivial to bring in dependencies, which is great, super fast re-use.

The problem is, its trivial to add dependencies. That means that bringing in a library to manage messages also somehow requires a large amount of CUDA code as well.

A basic python programme would endup having something like >10k build items to go through each build.
by nickpsecurity | 2025-05-28 20:02:31+00:00
I'll warn that the FBI was publicly trying to get warrants for information while they and NSA were siphoning it off in secret from the same companies. One was likely a cover for the other.

Unless there's legal protections, assume in your threat model any company has let their host government, maybe others, backdoor their offerings. It might have been willingly or forced. Police states like U.S. and Russia should be assumed to subvert any pprovider.

If they don't like that, they need to repeal the Patriot Act, ban requiring companies to attach black boxes to their internal systems, give companies immunity for publicly talking about court orders, require companies to disclose what data they give to the government, and let individuals know what was ordered after a period of time. Then, I might trust statements about what they do or don't share.

Also, if these bother you, try not to commit crimes.
by JulianPGough | 2025-05-28 20:02:48+00:00
I watched the search for the Higgs Boson and the search for Cold Dark Matter carry on in parallel for decades.

The former was clearly actual science: they had a theoretical particle, they knew what it did, it had a place that made sense in the Standard Model, they had an estimate for the energy range in which they could find it, they built an instrument to look for it, and they found it.

The latter... well, it was clearly epicycles. Endlessly tweakable, with six free parameters, not in the Standard Model, a bunch of different guesses as to what it actually was, a bunch of different energies at which it might be found – oh dear, not there, well it must be at a much higher energy then – always on the brink of discovery but never actually discovered...

And then, as I began researching my book on cosmological natural selection, I could see that an evolved, fine-tuned universe was going to have startling emergent-looking properties built into its developmental process. Baryonic matter was going to pull off some weird shit, as the interaction of extremely fine-tuned parameters led to highly unlikely-looking outcomes. These would look like inexplicable anomalies, if your fundamental assumption was that we lived in a random and arbitrary one-shot universe.

And cold dark matter started to look awfully like the kind of think you would have to invent to save the old paradigm...

So as I developed my approach, I assumed dark matter was an error, and did my best to explain everything using fine-tuned parameters, and baryonic matter only.
by BeetleB | 2025-05-28 20:03:10+00:00
Not from India, but seen this in other countries. Fully agree.

People who are forced to cohabit with relatives (siblings' families, with parents/grandparents as well) conform, and you don't hear them complain because they don't have a choice. But oh boy there are so, so many problems/conflicts. Harmony is usually an illusion.

They of course get the benefits when it comes to helping raise kids. But you have to pick your poison. Life isn't better - it's just different.

Much of what's in the article is fairly different from multiple (related) families having to share a house. I'm guessing for each of them, leaving is always an option, and it results in a different dynamic than "I'm stuck with these people because I can't afford to leave." If you offend someone who is not your relative, you don't have to live with the consequences forever.
by johng | 2025-05-28 20:03:32+00:00
I did a startup that went south, with some of us cofounders fighting. It went on with negotiations, offers, etc... I remember receiving a buyout offer that was rejected. The 2nd offer came, and it was the final offer. Then the third, that was the final final offer. Then the 4th.... the final final final offer. Of course, more came but at least none of them included the final word :)
by platevoltage | 2025-05-28 20:04:19+00:00
I ended up calling it Microscopic View. I made a webpage for it and everything.

https://microscopic-view.jgarrettcorbin.com

I got tied up with other projects while I was trying to navigate the submission process (it was my first time), so it's not up yet, but I'd be happy send you a build if you want to check it out.
by comex | 2025-05-28 20:05:02+00:00
As a user, I hate Sparkle. At least, I hate Sparkle's default mode where you have to click "Install Update", then wait for the update to download, then authenticate, then wait for the update to extract, then wait for the app to relaunch. Too slow. When I open an app, I want to use it, immediately. I'd rather have apps update in the background; barring that, at least give me a button to manually start a background update while I continue to use the older version of the app.
by overfeed | 2025-05-28 20:05:03+00:00
> Does anyone besides the few with their wealth invested in AI believe that AI is the next iPhone moment?

It doesn't matter because for such an industry-wide hype, there are no consequences for being wrong. If a CEO ignores AI and it does become the next iPhone moment, they'll be deposed in short order. If "everyone" is wrong and nothing comes off AI, they'll write off some investments, write some "What we learned" LinkedIn posts, and carry on. Our existing framework has no incentives to correct or innoculate agaisnt hypes led by the management/capital classes
by yamazakiwi | 2025-05-28 20:06:10+00:00
I was on an Australian Navy ship in 2008 and they could still have beer then. They were also paid different by job which I found interesting.

I remember hearing a lot of stories about "the good old days" when people would drink and smoke weed or opium on ships. When I was in, alcohol and drugs had been replaced by Monster energy drinks.

I don't remember getting ice cream while deployed.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-05-28 20:06:25+00:00
Have you actually tried deploying to webkitgtk ever?

Good luck "testing" your video conferencing app on webkitgtk - it doesn't support webrtc! It is still useful to test your error page I suppose.

Note that this is one example among many of missing features, bugs and/or horrible performance.

Here's a preview: no notifications, no :has, no TLA.

(Not blaming the epiphany devs for the situation here to be clear)
by os2warpman | 2025-05-28 20:11:32+00:00
Of course there are exceptions. Exceptions are irrelevant.

Like when someone says "cats are furry and fuzzy and I like petting them" and someone chimes in "Well what about hairless cats??????"

Why do you think Tata bought the brands and formed Jaguar Land Rover?

Did Ratan Tata "just like the brand" or did he see every single person around him buying Land/Range Rovers as Indians (and people in China, and Kenya, and everywhere else) got wealthier and started moving out to single family homes in suburbs and he wanted to profit off that?