MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by guptadeepak | 2025-05-23 19:04:42+00:00
I've spent over a decade building B2B SaaS companies, including my current role at GrackerAI, and this analysis came from studying how classic business frameworks apply specifically to AI-driven products. The challenge with AI startups is avoiding the "cool technology in search of a problem" trap while leveraging proven growth methodologies.

Three key insights from implementing these strategies:

1. Problem validation becomes critical for AI products 2. Business model experimentation is essential 3. Customer success metrics need AI-specific frameworks

The most interesting technical challenge has been building feedback loops that improve both the product experience and the underlying AI models simultaneously - essentially treating user behavior as training data while maintaining privacy and performance standards.

For those building AI-powered B2B tools: What unexpected dependencies have you discovered between your model performance and customer adoption patterns? How do you balance the experimental nature of AI with enterprise sales cycles?

This is from a longer article I wrote on applying classic growth strategies to AI startups. Read the full post here: https://guptadeepak.com/10-proven-growth-strategies-for-b2b-...
by thrance | 2025-05-23 19:04:46+00:00
No but they had a clean year of 12 months, 30 days each (3 ten-day weeks) plus 5/6 holiday days at the end of the calendar (around the September equinox).

Also, the months were given names by a Poet, and the days had minerals, vertues or plants instead of Saints. The calendar itself was pretty cool.

Honestly, if they had 5 weeks of 6 days each instead of the 3 weeks of 10 days, I'd even call it the perfect calendar.
by simion314 | 2025-05-23 19:05:20+00:00
>When the Western talk about China and Russia, the unspoken objectives are to split the countries in smaller, weaker and easier to control "democratic" governments.

I never heard about China to be split. For Ruzzia it makes sense, it is an empire hold together with force, if the Kremlin would not want to conquer even more lands and control other countries there would be no actual real negative sentiment against the empire, sure soem activists would try to helpo the subjugated nations but nobody would invest money into the movement, the Kremlin regume could have made that empire an economic power, to bad the dictator is a KGB criminal and not an economist.
by badc0ffee | 2025-05-23 19:05:50+00:00
> Plus the same article said much of the "wealth" is on Indigenous Lands. Leaving Alberta with little.

I don't think that's true.

About 1% of Alberta's land is first nations reserves. The productive agricultural land and oil sands land is definitely outside of that 1%.

Edit: Maybe you're confusing this with crown land? But if Alberta was independent, crown land would just be Alberta government-administered land.
by jll29 | 2025-05-23 19:05:52+00:00
As Kermit the Frog in his Maryland commencement speech said, Jim Henson took people for "what they are":

https://www.youtube.com/live/hLFa8zGeotI?feature=shared&t=74...

Do NOT "fake it until you make it". Be yourself. And find people who accept you as you are.
by PrimordialEdg71 | 2025-05-23 19:05:53+00:00
In most animals the so-called Weismann barrier sequesters the germ line very early and then scrubs its epigenome twice (during primordial-germ-cell formation and again post-fertilization). Those genome-wide demethylation waves act like a factory reset, so environmentally induced marks almost never persist beyond F2 or F3, and when they do (e.g. in C. elegans small-RNA cascades or a handful of mouse diet-stress studies) the effects are usually weak or transient.
by chasd00 | 2025-05-23 19:06:16+00:00
i did the same but had my wife as a guide, she dated a musician who lived there before we met and so she had been a lot of times. The different neighborhoods and just the scale of it all were pretty cool but, yeah, no desire to go back or live there. Is it required by law to play that Jay-Z/Alicia Keys "New York" song at all times everywhere there?
by pavel_lishin | 2025-05-23 19:06:44+00:00
> Now in terms of K-12, the Church set all that up, even in Canada and especially for the indigent and marginalized populations.

You cannot mention the Catholic Church's schools in Canada - ones setup for "marginalized" populations - and not mention the thousands of dead children being discovered there:

- https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2021/06/24/...

- https://www.livescience.com/childrens-graves-residential-sch...

- https://www.ncronline.org/news/accountability/canadian-nativ...
by vel0city | 2025-05-23 19:06:51+00:00
When I'm just grilling links outside, it's easier to not bother with all the extra prep space to bother slicing all those buns.

Just grab a bun from the bag, drop in a dog, hand it off to someone to dress it however they want at the line of condiments.

There's practically zero chance I'm buying non-precut hotdog buns when there's a cut variety already on the shelf.
by wpollock | 2025-05-23 19:07:28+00:00
> Strikingly, media reports indicated that some food manufacturers began adding sesame to products that previously did not contain the ingredient following the implementation of the new allergen labeling requirements (Aleccia, 2022; Chatman, 2023; Hughes, et al., 2023).

I have to wonder if they really started adding sesame, or just began accurate labeling?
by derbOac | 2025-05-23 19:07:39+00:00
I'm glad to see this actually being evaluated empirically. Initially I was surprised but as I thought about it it made sense to me, and was consistent with my own personal experiences.

Like a lot of things in the professional sphere, my impressions are that when it's done reliably and in good faith it can be helpful, but when it's not, it's counterproductive. Often it's abused as a leverage mechanism in department politics, letting friends slide on some points, or cudgeling others who do research (or other academic activities) you don't want to make room for more of your own types of colleagues. In general, to try to shape the activities of the department to what you want (or hide systemic problems in the department), rather than as a good faith feedback mechanism.

Also, as you get into higher skill levels a lot of the continuing peer evaluation practice gets into murkier and murkier territories, where you're more and more likely to run into differences opinion. I think this is true of things like subspecialty certification in medicine but also academics. Casting things in terms of performance review becomes questionable.

It's hard for me to imagine it going away, as it's an important response to those who would get rid of tenure entirely. Maybe the processes could be changed, improved, or recast, but it's hard for me to imagine it going away even if it's misguided.
by alexjplant | 2025-05-23 19:08:13+00:00
I've had the opposite experience. Having moved from the boonies to a downtown in a Tier 2 US city has caused a lot of my old friends and neighbors to point out that I could buy a 27-bedroom house on a 100 acre lot in the country for what I pay in rent in the city. They fail to realize that not having to drive two hours each way to have fun is worth the 35% premium in housing for me.

Before I moved I owned a house and justified living where I did by saying stuff like

> country people can make a day trip to do that too.

...but I was lying to myself. Rounding friends up to drive 90 minutes then hop on light rail for a half hour before even getting in the vicinity of where you're going has a very real chilling effect on planning fun time. Most people just end up drinking Mai Tais that a bartender pours out of a plastic jug at a riverside dock bar instead.

Different strokes for different folks, but I think everybody should give each paradigm a shot and decide what they like.
by elcritch | 2025-05-23 19:08:13+00:00
I found LLMs are really good at taking a web page and transforming it to markdown. Well rather commercial LLMs like Claude and Gemini are.

Unfortunately I tried a bunch of hugging face mode on a I could run on my MacBook and all of them ignored my prompts despite trying every variation I could think of. Half the time they just tried summarizing it and describing what JavaScript was. :/
by aspenmayer | 2025-05-23 19:08:28+00:00
It appears that the confusion on my part is that [flagged][dead] is a different state to [dead], which is my mistake if I have misunderstood this distinction, and yet one could be forgiven for not knowing things that are never explained in the guidelines or FAQ.

When trying to explain my situation and experience to elicidate this distinction from others, they somehow missed it, and I missed what they were saying. Context was unclear and I assumed I understood that they meant what I thought I was saying, so I didn’t see their words as being incompatible with the statements I was making. I’ll accept responsibility for that, because it was unclear to others why I disagreed with them.

I’m not sure that I’ve ever been able to reply to a [dead] post that wasn’t [flagged][dead], but I will take your word for it that I can’t. I never paid attention to that distinction before, but now I can, now that I’m aware that there is one.

Does that seem like the source of the misunderstanding of what I was trying to say on your end? I can imagine to you it’s obvious what is or isn’t possible, but given how [dead] posts don’t seem to be indexed on Algolia, researching my own experience and that of others using HN in a historical manner to validate my own understanding of HN is hard.

Are [dead] posts and associated comments part of the API? How can I even research this if they’re not? If they are, is the API the only way to see them without manually incrementing post IDs? I’ve never used the API, but would be curious to try.

Can’t say I was surprised to be wrong, though I do make every effort to be right and accept correction graciously, and so I must admit my fault here, in sum and part.

I will also say that other HN users who aren’t mods have a weird interpretation of the guidelines as being proscriptive rather than descriptive. I don’t feel that’s what the intent or language of the guidelines actually supports, however.

I have been wrong before, in this thread, other threads, other posts, and I reserve the right to be wrong again, though never intentionally and always consistent with the guidelines as best as I understand them.

I am trying to post on HN in such a way as to encourage others to post their best. When I receive comments like I did in reply to this post, I grow as a person, and also understand a little more what people mean when they say “HN is mean”.

When my earnest, well-meaning post is met with personal attacks from senior users of HN, I can take it; I’m not new here. I just don’t want to find myself contributing negatively, and I managed to do that anyway, despite my attempts to the contrary. It’s hard to make good posts, and I certainly don’t always make it easy for myself or others, though I am doing my best with the replies I have to work with.
by apsurd | 2025-05-23 19:08:32+00:00
> (2 of them anyway, tbd on #3 :D)

LOL; thanks this made my chill Friday very chill.

On principle, I don't like feeding into wealth disparity so I don't want to pay for private school. Your perspective is most practical and likely something I'll lean into as I do have kids of my own. "Why not do both" basically.
by SketchySeaBeast | 2025-05-23 19:08:36+00:00
> The UCP (who seem to have no official opinion on separation) have already begun some of this, with an Alberta pension plan and a new Alberta police force.

To be clear, none of this has been enacted. The UCP love to threaten, but those initiatives have not proven to be popular with Albertans.

> But to me, the question is whether that would still hold when it has to work out trade deals with two neighbouring countries, while small (pop. 5 million), and landlocked.

And when Alberta needs to take on all the things that the federal government does for them.
by viccis | 2025-05-23 19:08:41+00:00
This almost seemed like it was going to be a Modest Proposal style tongue-in-cheek skewering of this "old man yells at cloud" style of curmudgeonly generational finger wagging. The breakdown of that $432 itself was almost enough to be a farce. But no, the author really does believe this. (Please correct if I'm wrong, as it still seems hard to believe such a fatuous piece could be written and submitted here)

>At the end of it, most people don’t want to live this way. That’s OK — I’m not here to judge them. But I am here to tell anyone who is fed up with the housing market, tired of living the “4HL,” and sick of seeing our country’s heartland regions continue to crumble that there are actionable solutions to their problems. They could do it today. They could make the change if they wished.

No one is angry that they can't buy a piece of shit shack in middle America where they will have to walk an hour each way to work at their (as suggested by the author) gas station cashier job in the deep snow all winter.

They are angry that in much of the latter 20th century, when the actual "boomers" (rather than the previous generations that the author is disingenuously using in their place) could afford a home that was near jobs and community without being in the top 10-20 percentile of earners. They're angry that this is no longer the case for a number of reasons depending on whom you ask, to include housing as speculation, generational wealth destroyed by medical debt, onerous zoning and regulations preventing housing development, selfish older generations selling their homes (and therefore much of their generational wealth) to fund either lavish retirements or more medical treatments, etc, etc.

Yeah you can live a 1910s rural lifestyle on the cheap, sure. Hell, get a tent and a backpack and you can live the hobo life in any of our major US cities today! But this is ignoring the obvious question, which is: If the productivity of our nation has exploded so tremendously since that time, where has all of the wealth gone that one would even dare suggest that we live a life of sufficient poverty to be suspended in that century-old way of life?
by mprataps | 2025-05-23 19:09:20+00:00
May be. I just started this with the intention to learn about multithreading. I learnt a lot of concepts which I had earlier only learnt in theory. I learnt how to use VisualVM to see my thread performance. I learnt to use builder design pattern. No LLM can take away this learning.

And this project is just a start.
by johnb231 | 2025-05-23 19:09:45+00:00
> More people need to get away from training their models just with words.

They started doing that a couple of years ago. The frontier "language" models are natively multimodal, trained on audio, text, video, images. That is all in the same model, not separate models stitched together. The inputs are tokenized and mapped into a shared embedding space.

Gemini, GPT-4o, Grok 3, Claude 3, Llama 4. These are all multimodal, not just "language models".
by Terr_ | 2025-05-23 19:09:54+00:00
"That's a fantasy" is just substance-free scoffing, be specific. Ex:

1. "Trump isn't that corrupt."

2. "They'll try, but federal law will successfully interrupt the bribe at some stage."

3. "That hyper-exact event is improbable... but perhaps a slightly different favor or a different way of Trump extracting personal gain."

P.S.: For more context, two days ago Trump's Secretary of Commerce was promoting website to go live this week for selling (personally invented, illegal) "Gold Card" visas. https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/business/us-gold-card-investo...
by mdaniel | 2025-05-23 19:10:15+00:00
> I believe we should be "pushing" context to the models rather than giving them directions on how to "pull" the context themselves.

How could that possibly work for the cases that people want the intern to solve for them? If they knew the information ahead of time, presumably they'd just solve the problem by themselves

I get the impression that the value folks get from MCP is "run some query for me, don't make me learn how to glue together 15 sources"
by Aachen | 2025-05-23 19:10:25+00:00
They thought it was too complex and therefore insecure so the natural solution was to roll your own implementation and now they feel comfortable running that version of it?!

Edit: to be clear, I'd not be too surprised if their homegrown client survives an audit unscathed, I'm sure they're a great coder, but the odds just don't seem better than to the alternative of using an existing client that was already audited by professionals as well as other people
by Henchman21 | 2025-05-23 19:10:30+00:00
> but why do we never hear serious talk about "blue" states seceding, and the mere notion is consider traitorous and "undivided under god" or something civil war incantions?

Because conservatives own the media and push their agenda. Its of no use to them to portray things accurately. For instance, gun violence in red states is significantly worse than in blue, but the media pushes their narrative that simply going to Chicago is taking your life in your own hands.. you’re gonna get shot for sure, better to stay away! Which, coincidentally, means that those folks never investigate the truth of the matter and often they push the narrative!
by hbsbsbsndk | 2025-05-23 19:10:31+00:00
I think it's a "fuck around and find out" situation like Brexit. People love to stomp their feet and complain, but when some big interest group actually organizes the vote and it happens they'll be caught unawares.

People complain about have/have-not provinces, but Alberta would be in a much worse position as a independent nation. There are benefits to Confederation beyond just shuffling tax dollars around.
by celestialcheese | 2025-05-23 19:10:56+00:00
It's because when you live rural like this, wood stoves are common, and wood is free.

I live in the northwest, so I can't speak to upstate NY, but downed trees on state and federal land near roads is free to take. Every day there's people posting rounds of wood for free to take.

It's hard work, but it's good exercise and rewarding.

There's some upfront investment: $200 chainsaw, an old maul, and an old pickup truck, but those amortized over a decade is practically speaking $0 heat.
by RHSeeger | 2025-05-23 19:11:01+00:00
Living in a city (or other high COL location) also means you can save more. Sure, you're spending more, but that 5-10% of your earnings you put into saving is a lot more when you're making city money vs not. And when it comes time to retire, having saved 5% of $50-150,000/year every year adds up to a much higher amount to retire on.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-05-23 19:11:16+00:00
For maybe another 10 more years, tops. With the world adding > 1TW of solar every year and > 20 million EV's every year, the demand for oil is going to drop. Alberta oilsands oil has the most expensive production costs of any major oil production area, which means they're the marginal producer, the first to shut down. Saudi Arabia with their cheap light oil is going to be making money on oil for at least 50 years, but Alberta will be lucky to get 10 more.
by jjaksic | 2025-05-23 19:11:44+00:00
Netanyahu is most definitely no angel and he's in large part responsible for the current situation including Oct 7 by propping up Hamas for his own political gain. However, what it happening in Gaza is not ethnic cleansing. Ethnic cleansing is systematic killing of civilians based on ethnicity. This has happened multiple times in history, but it's not what's happening here. There are way too many innocent casualties, yes, but nobody is systematically killing Palestinians. I don't know what this "relocation" plan is; forced relocation is of course bad, but it's much better than systematic killing (which is what ethnic cleansing is), and it's also arguably much better than civilians being stuck in a war zone.

Truth of the matter is that it's very challenging to fight an army of 40k terrorists who are intentionally mixed with civilians in order to maximize civilian casualties. How would you deal with a terrorist organization like that? I don't think anybody has a good answer.
by AlexandrB | 2025-05-23 19:12:39+00:00
The NEP also applied price controls on domestic sales of oil, effectively forcing Alberta to sell oil to other provinces at below market rates:

> The NEP's Petroleum Gas Revenue Tax (PGRT) instituted a double-taxation mechanism that did not apply to other commodities, such as gold and copper (see "Program details" item (c), below), "to redistribute revenue from the [oil] industry and lessen the cost of oil for Eastern Canada" in an attempt to insulate the Canadian economy from the shock of rising global oil prices[20] (see "Program details" item (a), below). In 1981, Scarfe argued that by keeping domestic oil prices below world market prices, the NEP was essentially mandating provincial generosity and subsidizing all Canadian consumers of fuel, because of Alberta and the other oil-producing provinces (such as Newfoundland, which received funding by the NEP for the Hibernia project).[14]: 8

and

> Estimates have placed Alberta's losses between $50 billion and $100 billion because of the NEP.[32][33]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Energy_Program
by doctorpangloss | 2025-05-23 19:13:23+00:00
I'm supportive of visual artists being obnoxious as part of their artwork. It isn't material to me if they did or didn't pay whatever, it's part of their joke that they know what they are doing is unauthorized but marginally (or not at all) harmful. It's cute, for sure, and you know, I didn't watch the documentary, so what do I really know?

It's a very interesting piece. Here we are talking about it, it's kind of interesting to figure out, what does "palmotea" define as "pseudo-public space"?. In my experience in art practice, it is hard to participate in a conversation with people who define things by what they are NOT.

That said, to me, a great strength of a lot of performance art is its ability to attract high drama personalities. But it is tautological to say that drawing the participation of high drama personalities occurs because the art trades on obnoxiousness?
by amluto | 2025-05-23 19:14:00+00:00
> Regarding the "server facing the internet is real", I am not sure I get your point. Could you elaborate?

What I mean is: once upon a time, computers were often not really accessible to the Internet, and a server with an open port was the major attack vector. Sure, you could maybe get compromised by opening a malicious document that someone emailed you or gave you, but that was a slower-moving and more unusual attack vector. The code that you intentionally executed was largely things that you bought, possibly offline and possibly online, installed, and used for a long time.

Nowadays, everything has a web browser, but fortunately it has a decent internal sandbox. But people run "apps", and "apps" have broad permissions and, by design, execute code that comes from their supposed vendor. And people literally buy out vendors of popular apps to be able to deploy arguably malicious code to their user base. And some of these "apps" and plenty of developer applications, by design, run code or the equivalent of native code (thanks, Apple, for your lovely incoherent policies about code integrity) that come from third parties, and possibly from the fourth parties selected by those third parties, etc, and auto-update this code. Increasingly, people do things like running MCP, which is basically a tool to give a remote system remote control of your system. And, in my book, on client machines (e.g. the kind that are likely to use Flatpak or similar systems, all these things are more important attack vectors than servers facing the Internet.