MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bee_rider | 2025-05-28 16:04:49+00:00
It is a cool project but probably imagine they wouldn’t want the escrow idea either, right? I mean they are a restaurant chain, they don’t want to go anywhere near anything that looks at all like providing emergency notification services, right? Even as a joke…

And I mean, do they even want to lean into that reputation to hard? I’m sure they don’t want to have some managers get somebody hurt by not closing a restaurant out of a misplaced sense of pride or bravado based on the reputation (I mean, I know almost nobody would do that, but somebody might!)
by Lichtso | 2025-05-28 16:04:49+00:00
I think caring and competence do correlate.

If you do not care about something you are not going to become competent. And once you are competent you are also more likely to care:

E.g. once you learn a music instrument, or a craft, or the arts, you suddenly see all the flaws in other peoples work as well, not just your own. Sometimes it can even be hard to enjoy these things like you did back when you were ignorant.

Unfortunately, if you have neither you are stuck.
by everfree | 2025-05-28 16:04:56+00:00
Sui didn't halt because of PoS, it halted because of poor coding practices. Solana isn't rigged because it's PoS, it's rigged because its token is distributed mostly to insiders.

> What you are repeating is the same PoS nonsense. Get out of here.

That's rude and unhelpful.

> Eth drove off a cliff when it went PoS.

ETH is the only PoS token that's been performing relatively poorly lately, and it's still in the #2 spot by market cap. (And #1, surpassing Bitcoin, by most other network metrics).

> The billionaires were dumping Sol on retail last cycle.

Because they gave themselves a bunch of Sol. Fairly distributed PoS coins are not like this.

> Eth was “premined”.

103 million of the current 120 million ETH (89%), you or I or anyone could have bought at the public token presale or mined since then. No one person owns more than 0.25% of the supply. That's hardly "premined".

Compare that to Bitcoin, where Satoshi mined 5% of the supply while the network was little more than a whitepaper and a repo. That's 20x the largest holder of ETH, and it's a real risk that those keys come alive again some time in the future and cause a panic in the markets.
by softfalcon | 2025-05-28 16:05:02+00:00
The hardest thing to do in life is to care.

It's easy to not care, anything bad can happen and you can blissfully wash your hands of it. You don't care, so it doesn't matter.

I remember being a teenager, my defense against anything bad that happened to me was, "I don't care" with a snide attitude. I was lying, I did care, but I built up a mindset that not caring about anything made me stronger.

As an adult, I know this is wrong. Caring requires strength. Caring is hard. That's why we need to do it.

I recently had a conversation with a friend who is now no longer my friend. He said, "so, what you're saying is, you go out of your way to try and deeply understand as much of everything as you can?"

I answered, "Yes. Being curious about others, issues outside of myself, and the world around me, is in my opinion, a moral good."

His only response was, "that's not for me, that sounds exhausting."

We started the conversation because he was openly making fun of other people who were not like him. He thought it was okay to laugh at other people for being different. To mock others if their differences were amusing to him.

His lack of curiosity, his lack of caring for others made him a repulsive person. Be careful what you choose to "not care" about.
by mushufasa | 2025-05-28 16:05:51+00:00
the blog post made it clear he is a teenager. I don't think he thought about any of this. Hopefully he reads this thread, learns a bit more about trademarks, and tries again in a proper way.

If it's really true that there's no true Waffle House index, that would have some value for the world. Though I also suspect that there is something that exists for that (maybe part of a paid data subscription, e.g. from Bloomberg or something), since it isn't clear that the author did rigorous research for this fun side project.
by qwerpy | 2025-05-28 16:06:00+00:00
Thanks for the link, I thought it was a good read. I assumed it would dance around the causes but he was pretty direct with it. Getting society to recognize what's happening and then take meaningful action seems intractable. Suppose that's why the path looks like 3rd -> 1st -> 2nd -X. I'm not aware of any society or even a single city that really breaks out of it once they land in "second world".
by bumby | 2025-05-28 16:07:16+00:00
>It’s not about prioritizing short term results

Boeing was forced by courts bolster safety, compliance, and quality programs as well as admitting to conspiracy to thwart FAA oversight. I don’t know about you, but my experience is that when companies undermine those types of oversight, it’s almost always due to schedule and price pressure (ie short term results). (Not to mention, the whole impetus for MCAS was to rush the design to market so they wouldn’t lose out on AA as a customer).
by directevolve | 2025-05-28 16:07:27+00:00
You definitely don’t have the intelligence of the entire human race on Claude. You have a generative model of most of the published, digitized text the human race has produced. I’m happy to call it intelligent, and, as a daily user of the most recent pro LLM models, extremely useful for tasks like coding and, to some extent, search.

But as soon as I turn from implementing and debugging code to conceptual thinking or building a mental mode of a problem domain, LLMs currently function for me mainly as Grammarly on steroids. There’s no one tool in this space that’s supreme - Zotero, DuckDuckGo, Google Scholar, pen and paper, draw.io, and Google Docs all play a role. I’m a PhD student, YMMV, the LLMs do improve over time, etc.
by danbars | 2025-05-28 16:07:39+00:00
Maintaining integration code is hard, no matter how you turn this. Even with your approach, you're still going to have to update your code every time Mailchimp, for example, are updating their API. If integrations is not the business you're trying to compete in, I truly think that you should use an automation platform. There are many to choose from. Use Make or Pabbly as reasonably priced options, or even n8n self-hosted if you need internal automations only.
by afaxwebgirl | 2025-05-28 16:07:41+00:00
My parents had to share a house with a couple when I was a small child. It was not ideal. Shared kitchen. Other shared spaces. Unless you are all on the same page about things, you are basically taking on extra parents. Other people telling you how to do such and such in raising your child which may be ideas that you're not on par with. When you have your own home, you can amicably disagree and go to the privacy of your own house. When you live with these folks, the disagreement may not be as amicable especially if they see that you're not implementing their ideas of what they think is best for your child.

Then there is the whole issue of cleanliness. What one person thinks is clean could be light years away from what you think is clean and tidy. This would cause untold levels of stress and discomfort on both ends. I'd rather have my own domain even if its only a travel trailer, than share living space with a bunch of people continuously giving their "advice" on what they think is best.
by amanaplanacanal | 2025-05-28 16:07:48+00:00
Elon was doing no such thing. They didn't even take time to try to determine whether there was any waste in the things they cut. They just cut wholesale and claimed victory.

This is, of course, on top of the administration claiming that Elon was in no way in charge of DOGE. He was evidently just one of the president's personal advisors.
by scott_w | 2025-05-28 16:08:11+00:00
>> the culture of changing an API is much more understood as something that must be communicated and processes are more rehearsed

> You're just making this up. There are thousands of incidents every day because someone changed an API without communicating to every stakeholder.

What you wrote isn't a contradiction of what I wrote. I wrote "more understood" not "perfectly solved problem."

> "Services are better than databases because service owners are better at communicating changes than database owners" isn't a very compelling argument.

Except they are because the tooling is better. I can check calls to an API endpoint using the same tooling that I would for checking end user API calls. I can push out comms to use the new API, I can confirm calls go to 0 before deleting the old endpoint.

For checking that a table or column is being accessed before changing / deleting it? Fuck, I don't actually know how I'd orchestrate that. And once I've made that change (vs when I make an API change), well, I hope I got it 100% correct because reverting that change is harder.
by alabastervlog | 2025-05-28 16:08:26+00:00
I think a lot of harm has been caused by "automation" actually meaning "distributing parts of the same tasks among a bunch of people". As far as I can tell that's one of the main outcomes of "efficiencies" from computerization of offices, among other places: they mostly just made it feasible to carve up the job of e.g. secretary among everybody, adding to the number of things and processes each worker has to understand and deal with.
Best Buy is selling a $400 "digital Ethernet" cable for "cleaner, clearer sound"
by 34679 | 2025-05-28 16:08:34+00:00
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Discuss but PLEASE do not buy.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/audioquest-cinnamon-rj-e-39-3-digital-ethernet-cable-with-rj45-to-rj45-connectors-black-with-red-stripes/5577904.p?skuId=5577904
by ujkhsjkdhf234 | 2025-05-28 16:08:51+00:00
I don't know if banning federal scientist from publishing has legal basis but creating a state run medical journal is not a bad idea in concept but we all know it will be used to push narratives that the state wants to push. Vaccines are bad, Trump coin cures cancer, unregulated substances from RFK's company will add years onto your life. You can always find 5 to 10 unscrupulous scientist or college professors who will trade ethics for dollars. Just call them leading scientist and have them publish whatever you want.
by motorest | 2025-05-28 16:09:09+00:00
> I'm gonna bet used Valentinos, in my size, are still gonna be at least 200$. I'm not a shoes guy, but I know they are worth something.

That might be true, but it doesn't refute the idea that a) the value listed in the blog is quite possibly inflated, b) it makes financial sense for the students to throw out stuff like used shoes. Of course dumpster divers always find valuables, but it's also a fact that people moving out often give away valuables they can't take with them. There are even expat boards in Facebook where people give away things before moving abroad. In fact, there are businesses specialized in clearing out rentals for a fee, meaning people pay companies to take away stuff they use, including furniture and appliances, even when they are in perfectly good condition.
by quietbritishjim | 2025-05-28 16:09:10+00:00
> My suggestion would be to rename a site "disaster indices" and include the waffle index as one index. Even batter (yes) if you add other similar indices, like theme park closures or other.

Is it really necessary to go that far though? I think they just need to stop using the visual mark and make clear that it's unofficial. (But I am very much not a lawyer.) You are allowed to identify a product or company by name so long as it's clear it's not you and trademark law can't be used to stop you (e.g., for a bad review). Maybe the site could be renamed "disaster index based on Waffle House closures" or simply "unofficial feed of Waffle House closures"
by lafond | 2025-05-28 16:09:16+00:00
Author here - I absolutely do have more to learn about trademarks and appreciate everyones comments :) I was attempting to go for a good faith representation but (obviously) now know that wasn't the best way to go about it.

As far as rigorous research, I looked semi-heavily and couldn't find anything in relation to it. I'm sure it's not a foreign concept to use local area data in this way for disaster planning though!
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-05-28 16:09:38+00:00
I'd also say we are lost in scale.

The supermassive corporate structures that have accreted together in the modern world are beyond the scale of imagining. We are familiar with a vastly smaller % of the org chart, as the size of that chart balloons.

I tend to think there used to be a connection within and across the corporate entity, more shared purposes, shared cause/alignment, and perhaps sometimes at successful places ability for the good ideas to rise. Large companies sometimes love to preach "intrapreneurial" spirit, encourage the individual will & ownership, all while refusing to acknowledge the constraints & impositions of corporate hierarchy, the lack of freedom, that the large organizational structure imposes.

I think there's a real muting of the human will at most large companies, and that caring and trying is only permitted in very narrow scopes. That only some folks are able to maintain will and drive, while fitting themselves into the particular shapes demanded by the org chart around them. At the smaller scale we are not individually abutted by so many others to whom a concern may be charged.

(The impacts of what behaviors we see around us are also bounded by these forces, dimish our spirit collectively too. We grow up & adult in a world where everyone is buried deep in an org chart.)
by smeeth | 2025-05-28 16:09:40+00:00
I don't like Grok that much, but there's nothing particularly new or interesting about this deal. Telegram has a big international audience, it makes sense someone would pay to be the default for user adoption reasons.

"Feels oh so telling that Google has to pay Apple and not the other way around. If Google search was so great wouldn't we all be clamoring for it to be the default search in Safari?"
by msgodel | 2025-05-28 16:09:45+00:00
I don't know why everyone feels like they have a right to live in the US. I don't have a right to live in India, China, or Mexico. It's actually much harder to immigrate to those places than the US from what I hear.

I know it looks like the whole country is just made up of corporations but there are actual people here who have lived here for hundreds of years. There's a whole country that needs to function and it only tolerates this stuff insofar as it benefits them which is a completely reasonable way for any citizenry to view their economy.
by FireBeyond | 2025-05-28 16:10:26+00:00
State run agencies, like DARPA, maybe, who not three weeks ago, RFK accused of being behind chemtrails?

> Kennedy responded. “That is not happening in my agency. We don’t do that. It’s done, we think, by DARPA,” he said, referring to the Defense Department’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. “And a lot of it now is coming out of the jet fuel. You know, those materials are put in jet fuel. I’m going to do everything in my power to stop it.”

Enabled on a show by fucking Dr Phil.

It's not an original thought - but we are really, truly in a fucking idiocracy.

Apologies for my language, but how we ever got to this point...

Source: https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2025/what-is-darpa-str...
by ryandrake | 2025-05-28 16:10:34+00:00
This is a false dichotomy: Either your country is an "economic powerhouse", or you're living in a mud hut, with nothing in between. A country can be a good, decent place to live, where people's basic needs are taken care of, with opportunities for modest life improvements for those who want them, without being an economic powerhouse (and all of the bad that comes with that).
by mmooss | 2025-05-28 16:11:15+00:00
You are such the rebel - using semicolons ilicitly!

> Grammar rules need to be more descriptive than prescriptive.

The style guides - and dictionaries - are way ahead of you, and have long said that.

However, we do need some consistency in order to have clear meaning. Otherwise, you'll write it your new radical way, and others will understand it in the generally understood way.

You can create your own protocols and syntaxes for your computer, but interoperation can be tricky.
by atrettel | 2025-05-28 16:11:46+00:00
I've used printer paper myself in different jobs in science. I personally don't like it but I have done it when it was the only paper available. Budgets in scientific organizations are often very tight, so often nothing else is provided, and many times you do not have the direct authority to order anything yourself.

My point is that I'd view this behavior more as a consequence of the circumstances many scientists find themselves in rather than a conscious choice, though I do admit that some people may like it more than I do.
by stego-tech | 2025-05-28 16:11:51+00:00
…that’s not what I was saying at all? Like, remotely close?

I was saying that:

* For-profit companies like Cloudflare have a vested interest in preserving as many paying customers as possible

* Their own process for getting content taken down makes it deliberately difficult to remove content, as that would harm their business model

* We have willfully chosen to sink large swaths of the internet behind companies like Cloudflare

* As a result, the only tools left to governments and the judiciary are often draconian in nature, harming innocent parties in pursuit of criminals

* We are naive to believe that any for-profit entity will act in the best interests of society, especially when those interests conflict with their profit-motives.
by dragonwriter | 2025-05-28 16:12:50+00:00
Social media has extremely high network externalities. People who are information consumers want to go where the people who are active posters are, and people who are active posters want to go where the audience is.

The actual qualities of the product are almost irrelevant if you have the current user base; it takes very a lot to get even a sizable minority of people to actively use social media that doesn't have that kind of established dominance in the face of social media that does, and it has to be sustained.

That's why most new successful social media sites (even though over time they may converge on feature sets) become successful by dominating some particular new media or interaction style not supported well on existing social media—it effectively lets them operate as if there was no dominant competitor, as an add-on rather than replacement for existing dominant social media. But Bluesky doesn't have that.
by al_borland | 2025-05-28 16:12:56+00:00
Do the skills build on each other where they need to be done in order?

I got a subscription, but wasn’t super interested in the first one, so it’s still sitting in the box. Then the other boxes started showing up. I now have a full year’s worth and haven’t done a single one, because I feel like I should start with the one I’m least interested in.
by neilv | 2025-05-28 16:13:07+00:00
> What still isn’t known

I didn't see in the article the question of why Texas was going out of their way to yield flat test numbers like this, year after year.

It looked the author could've (or maybe not) been hinting that this is numbers-rigging -- to smoothly pass No Child Left Behind metrics, or to affect the real estate market in some way, or some other government goal.

Rather than numbers-rigging, I suppose it could also be useful for educators to see who needs more help, relative to their peers.
by jhp123 | 2025-05-28 16:13:13+00:00
> through a neutral lens, it's a clear positive for humanity that these rockets are being developed

Musk's cuts at USAid have caused an ongoing humanitarian crisis and some 300,000 deaths, mostly children[0]. I think if you're coming from a neutral, utilitarian point of view then SpaceX's role in this atrocity outweighs any realistic estimate of benefit to humanity.

[0] https://www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?view=table&sort=titl...
by quantadev | 2025-05-28 16:13:59+00:00
What I meant by "doesn't matter" is that your original quip didn't prove me wrong. You just want to talk about all these other things to insinuate somehow I'm unaware of them, despite having 3 decades of web dev exp. lol. I already made it perfectly clear what I said is about 2 days of work, and I'm not wrong.
by DaSHacka | 2025-05-28 16:14:08+00:00
The latter is arguably the more important of the two.

I remember a scare some years back around a Monero developer that turned out to be a nothingburger, but it goes to show how important it is that the core development team is trustworthy, or at least sticks to their beliefs and don't capitulate to third-parties (whether public or private in nature).

Monero is the one coin I can confidently say I trust the core developers on, it's had a strong history of making the right decisions where it counts in my opinion (breaking ASICs w/the monero-classic situation, making the official client default to downloading the entire chain, etc)
by danbars | 2025-05-28 16:14:16+00:00
Super cool! The interface is a little slow and navigation on the 3d map could be improved, but still I like it. For example, I think the view should be anchored to the pin and when I drag the map it should behave as if I'm turning my head around or up/down. Don't make me use different controls for different movement directions because it's hard to navigate that way.
by no_wizard | 2025-05-28 16:14:23+00:00
This is my take: the real issue with education in the US goes back to trying to square two ideals.

One is the meritocracy[0]. I believe that No Child Left Behind Act was sold to the public as a way to promote meritocracy in education and having some reasonably unbiased[1] way of doing so. The foundation of which is a way for parents to hold institutions responsible much more easily[2][3]

The other is social and political stratification. This isn't merit based. Good examples of this would be the history of slavery, Jim Crow laws, the formerly legal practice of segregation by race, the drawing school district lines that keep students of wealthy parents away from folks who come from less economically advantaged backgrounds and enforcing this with district based school eligibility and funding.

These two don't exactly square very well. Which is why the top level idea sold to the public - meritocracy - is used to sell these policies, but in practice they are using it to pull levers to further political and social stratification.

[0]: Americans generally have a positive view of the term. I personally believe that most people don't have a proper understanding of the term to begin with, nor conceive what issues it could have in practice if they were given it.

[1]: Leaving out the other half of the narrative, which is how much macro and micro levels of a students environment will influence how well they learn.

[2]: Which made it easier for Republicans to continue to go after public education. They've been pushing for the voucher system for decades as a backdoor way to dismantle the public school system, reasons for wanting to do so vary but it all converges on this point.

[3]: Not to mention, it completely ignores micro and macro issues that students can have, be it poverty, domestic issues, systemic issues and a whole host of other things.