MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jajko | 2025-05-29 20:32:25+00:00
You've never seen a 2+1 free or 3+1 free pricing in stores? We have them frequently here in Europe on some things. This is same thing and tbh I am surprised it took so long.

And as a father of 2 small kids not complaining at all, having multiple kids these days is brutal also financially, any small thing that helps is very much appreciated.
by kstrauser | 2025-05-29 20:32:54+00:00
> Axios: “Court says Trump doesn’t have the authority to set tariffs”

Eh. The article's right that the president does have the authority to set tariffs in general, just not these specific ones. However, it's also universally understood that headlines are radically terse summaries of longer articles. They exist to help you identify longer content you want to read.

A more accurate headline like "Court says Trump doesn't have the authority to set these specific tariffs for the reasons he gave" still grossly simplifies the longer article, takes longer to read, and probably wouldn't fit the space allotted for it. It would be more accurate, strictly speaking, and yet worse.
by dlisboa | 2025-05-29 20:32:55+00:00
Yes, that's just a necessity for the persistence of a society. Otherwise there's no point in even organizing as one. I'm not making a value judgment by the way, just an objective statement. I was also once part of a "DINK" and someone who thought would not have children, I have no qualms with that, but there's just no point in prioritizing that segment.
by PaulHoule | 2025-05-29 20:33:33+00:00
The thing about high dimensional vector spaces is that when N is large they are strangely different from the N=2 and N=3 cases we are familiar with. For instance when N=3 you could imagine that a cube is not all that different from a sphere, just sand away the corners. If N=10,000 though, the "cube" has a huge number of corners which are a distance of 100 away from the origin whereas the sphere never gets past 1. Hypercubes look something like this

https://www.amazon.com/Torre-Tagus-901918B-Spike-Sphere/dp/B...

A consequence of that is that many visualizations give people the wrong idea so I wouldn't try too hard.

Of everything in the article I like the histograms of similarity the best but they are in the weeds a lot with things like "god" ~ "dog". When I was building search engines I looked a lot at graphs that showed the similarity distribution of relevant vs irrelevant results

I'll argue bitterly about word embeddings being "very good" for anything; actually that similarity distribution looks pretty good, but my experience is that when you are looking at N words word vectors look promising when N=5 but when N>50 or so they break down completely. I've worked on teams that were considering both RNN and CNN models. My thinking was that if word embeddings had any knowledge in them that a deep model could benefit from you could also train a classical ML model (say some kind of SVM) to classify words on some characteristic like "is a color" or "is a kind of person" or "can be used as a verb" but I could never get it to work.

Now I went looking and never found that anyone had published positive or negative results for such a classifier, my feeling was it was a terrible tarpit, particularly when N was tiny it would almost seem to work but when N increased it would always fall apart. Between the bias that people don't publish negative results and that people who got negative results might blame themselves and not word embeddings or the hype around word embeddings, they didn't get published.

I do collect papers from arXiv where people do some boring text classification task because I do boring text classification tasks and I facepalm so often because people often try 15 or so algos, most of which never work well, and word embeddings are always in that category. If people tried some classical ML algos with bag-of-words and pooled ModernBERT they'd sample a good segment of the efficient frontier -- a BERT embedding doesn't just capture the word, it captures the meaning of the word in context which is night and day different when it comes to relevance because matching the synonyms of all the different word senses brings as many or more irrelevant matches as it does relevant ones.
by bell-cot | 2025-05-29 20:34:08+00:00
Oops! - yes, thanks.

James IV was about a century earlier, and "only" the King of Scotland. But it was his artfully negotiated marriage to Margaret Tudor that set the dynastic stage - for his great grandson (James VI and I) to also inherit the thrones of England and Ireland in the Union of the Crowns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_IV
by QuercusMax | 2025-05-29 20:34:14+00:00
I just invited myself along on a "girl's cruise" to Alaska that my wife was doing with her friend (who's actually my second cousin). As the third person in the cabin, my fare only cost $99, plus some fees, compared the several thousand each my wife and cousin paid.

There were quite a few solo travelers we met on the cruise, though - I think they mostly had solo inside cabins with no view.
by marcosdumay | 2025-05-29 20:34:21+00:00
Yeah, your link is the one that is wrong.

Systems are self-perpetuating entities that exist independently of the purpose one person or another places on it, and all the different people inside and outside of it all place different purposes.

That phrase the article is complaining about means that talking about a system purpose is meaningless babble. Only people know about purpose, systems don't.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-05-29 20:34:33+00:00
it truly is unfortunate how society punishes you for being single. Insurance, tax, credit worthiness, even health care.

i wonder how low birthrate societies like Japan or South Korea are like, is it worse to improve birthrates? or is it better because being single isn't an anomaly?

More importantly, the number of single/solo people isn't even low in the US. If i had to ballpark it, at least a quarter of the population is like that. Lots of married people travel solo for business for example. Why aren't some airlines playing capitalism well by offering "business elite" flights where solo travelers get a loyalty discount and there are no children on the flight? Not for all destinations but at least popular ones like to vegas or NYC <-> LAX.
by badc0ffee | 2025-05-29 20:34:46+00:00
Pringles are reconstituted from powdered potato - which should be obvious as they're all the the same size and shape, and have a weird texture.

Lays and nearly every other brand are just thinner versions of potato chips you could make yourself at home (cut thin, fry in oil, dress in salt). Nothing "blown to smithereens" there.
by rayiner | 2025-05-29 20:34:49+00:00
> I'm not sure how you can call disenfranchisement activist wordplay. It makes me not even want to engage with you.

"Disenfranchisement" means legally or physically people from voting. Activists repurposed that term to attack any sort of rules and regulations around voting, with the specific purpose of making Voter ID seem akin to laws requiring a grandfather eligible to vote. The whole point is to muddle the facts rather than clarify them.

> Easy voting would mean drive thru voting, mail in voting, automatic voter registration, not weaponizing polling locations, etc.

No, voting is a civic ritual and should be treated with an appropriate level of solemnity to engender trust in the voting system. Look at how Taiwan counts votes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUZa7qIGAdo. What's the purpose of the ritual? Surely a machine could count all the votes easily. But that's not the point. The point is to have a public exercise that people can see and easily understand, to build civic trust.
by cableshaft | 2025-05-29 20:35:31+00:00
I currently pretty much only use A.I. when I get stuck (or sometimes if I want some help writing the scaffolding for unit tests). If I'm not stuck then I don't use it. There may come a day when I don't think it'll be worth the time to code myself when I'm not stuck, but that day is not today.

But then again I may be considered old, too (I'm in my 40s).

I don't think it's a great idea to become too reliant on it, just like it's not a great idea to only know how to copy+paste code from Stack Overflow. If you use it too much the coding muscle gets weak and you will become less able to identify when something is done incorrectly or in a less than ideal way because of this corner case or business requirement.
by al_borland | 2025-05-29 20:35:52+00:00
The other things priced into the "experience" are why I call out cruises separately. With a hotel, I get it, a room is a room. But a solo cruiser is eating half the food, drinking half the drinks, taking up half as many seats at shows...

Maybe that's the problem. Cruises rely on people spending a lot of extra money onboard the ship, or drink packages, nicer dinners, excursions, etc... fewer people doing that, with less social pressure to spend extra, means less money for them and they have to make it up somewhere.
by nightpool | 2025-05-29 20:36:15+00:00
> You don’t want org1 to have access to the data that user x has access to in org2

Of course not—I'm not sure why you'd think I mean that?

I'm just saying that if I open a link to `https://datadog.com/alert/12389` and `https://datadog.com/alert/12500` and the alerts are for different orgs, my auth cookies should be able to tell that I, as user X, have access to both orgs without having to "switch contexts" or re-auth.
by znpy | 2025-05-29 20:36:26+00:00
yeah they tried to re-invent something that has been already invented, and failed (of course).

they should copy 1-to-1 what apple does, since it's a proven strategy. it's also proven that it's not a monopoly (in the us, at least), so it's a safe game to play.

It'd be nice to have consumer windows laptops that are as safe as macbooks, because Microsoft can enforce the presence of TPM and can drop hardware support when it deems necessary (because it's the only producer of consumer windows laptops).
by smarx007 | 2025-05-29 20:36:32+00:00
I think everyone needs to do `dotnet tool install -g dotnet-script` before running them. This is the most annoying part where .NET 10 announcement would be really appreciated.

But then each script has an individual list of dependencies so there should be no need for further scoping like in npm (as in, the compilation of the script is always scoped behind the scenes). In this regard, both should be similar to https://docs.astral.sh/uv/guides/scripts/#declaring-script-d... which I absolutely love.
by neutronicus | 2025-05-29 20:36:41+00:00
It's not even retirement.

When a 25-year-old lands a senior role in 10 years at 35, it's because someone else's 13-year-old grew up, graduated college, and got hired as a junior. Promotions are 10% Crushing It, 90% dumping your grunt work on some poor sap too young to know better.

Society is a pyramid scheme, and, like all pyramid schemes, bringing more people in is ultimately more valuable than actually selling the LuLaRoe or whatever.
by wpollock | 2025-05-29 20:36:48+00:00
You don't know ugly. Your site is fine!

I wrote my website by hand in Notepad (and vi) in the 1990s. In the late 1990s, I rewrote it to use CSS. I tried to use a dark background (research suggested that was easier on the eyes, and it saved power), I tried to pick properly contrasting colors. This was the result: <https://wpollock.com/>.

I used this site for 30 years, and never once received a compliment on its design. Some of us have no artistic sense, I guess.
Ask HN: What would you recommend as a replacement for Windows Storage Replica?
by jacobwilliamroy | 2025-05-29 20:36:54+00:00
So to make a very long story short, at my job we are using Storage Replica to replicate two servers that are sitting right next to each other: one server is a mirror of the other and vice versa. We are using Storage Replica to do this since these are Windows servers but I have a few really big problems with Storage Replica:

1) The documentation is very poor

2) There is no way to configure automated failover in our current server-to-server configuration (I've been at this for over forty hours. Don't ask. It's not possible)

3) We would want to have a third, client computer that is able to manage the Windows Storage Replica servers but Storage Replica is a Windows Server feature and so can only be installed on Windows servers which the client is not

Is there another availability solution which does not share these flaws with Storage Replica? I am currently researching such but I am having a hard time searching the web for a Storage Replica replacement so I am also asking here if anybody knows of one.
by proee | 2025-05-29 20:37:15+00:00
This must be a new thing, because I've experienced the opposite. I needed to book 7 tickets, and the price was much higher than a single ticket. So I ended up adjusting the quantity and saw the price increase at around 4 tickets. So I ended up splitting the purchase into two transactions. However, after purchasing the first 4 tickets, the following price for single ticket was now slightly increased - so they were really playing some games or perhaps there was limited availability that was adjusting prices real-time.
by ithkuil | 2025-05-29 20:37:40+00:00
Geometry in higher dimensions is not only hard to imagine, it's straight up weird.

Take a cube on N dimensions and pack N dimensional spheres inside that cube. Then fit a sphere inside the cube so that it touches but doesn't overlap with any of the other spheres.

In 2D and 3D is easy to visualize and you can see that sphere in the center is smaller than the other spheres and of course it's smaller than the cube itself; after all, it's surrounded by the other spheres that are by construction inside the cube.

Above 10 dimensions the size of the inner hypersphere is actually bigger than the size of the hypercube despite being surrounded by hyperspheres that are contained inside the hyper-cube!

The math behind it is straightforward but the implication is as counterintuitive as it gets
by vouaobrasil | 2025-05-29 20:37:44+00:00
> We still have the ability to opt-out of these things, and (sometimes) loudly let businesses know why, but the window is closing fast.

I sometimes wonder if we do have the ability, because for every one person that has some sense, luxury, or energy to opt-out, there are a hundred that go with the flow. For every person who walks out of a restaurant with a QR-code menu, there are a dozen hungry people that walk in. How can we then take action within this system that is closing up around us?
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-05-29 20:38:19+00:00
The difference in costs between accommodating one person and two people is pretty minimal. Even things like breakfasts are prepared in bulk.

Most single people own and sleep in double beds, so there's no sense in which a double bed is "designed to accomodate" two travellers.

The issue is more that discounted single room rates would encourage unofficial double stays, which would lose significant income.
by nialse | 2025-05-29 20:39:22+00:00
Alternatives need not be better or worse. Just different. Alternatives need not be doing the same thing somewhere else, it might be seeking out something else to do where you are. It might be selling all your stuff and live on an island in the sun for all I know.

I do concur it is an individualistic strategy, and as you mentioned unionization might have helped. But, then again it might not. Developers are partially unionized where I live, and I'm not so sure it's going to help. It might absorb some of the impact. Let's see in a couple of years.
by mattwilsonn888 | 2025-05-29 20:39:26+00:00
I'm not going to argue you or anyone should find the value aforementioned.

But I think the "it's been 15 years" argument is hollow. Clearly Bitcoin has an every-growing community of dedicated holders, and Bitcoin has surely increased the general skepticism of the monetary system.

I think you are conflating a speculative vehicle with an inflation hedge. Bitcoin is surely great for both depending on your timeline, but you strawman it a bit by appealing to the lowest common denominator who doesn't get and doesn't hold it.

It's provably scarce, it's highly locally securable (big job, but possible for most) and as a scarce asset, it's relatively cheap and easy to transfer. Yes, it failed as money (on the base layer), and that was its stated goal, but I'll readily give credit where it is due.
by skydhash | 2025-05-29 20:39:46+00:00
> If you follow agile one of the tenets is getting working code to users fast in order to get feedback sooner rather than later.

There's no mention of that anywhere in the manifesto

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract negotiation Responding to change over following a plan

It's mostly saying to focus on active factors more than rigid rituals so that that the product evolves faster and in the right direction. There's no mention on pumping code out as fast as you can.
by zahlman | 2025-05-29 20:40:05+00:00
You would be full eating three medium-sized apples (https://www.fatsecret.com/calories-nutrition/usda/apples ; https://www.fatsecret.com/calories-nutrition/coca-cola/coca-... ), with (by my back of the envelope calculation) not much more total volume than the can of Coke? Would this be longer lasting than the bloated feeling from the carbonation?

Have you tested this?
by cableshaft | 2025-05-29 20:40:19+00:00
It doesn't necessarily mean not working. Just only showing up for a little while and still working from home otherwise. Like maybe only go in for a few hours in the morning until lunch, go home at lunch, and then work from home the rest of the day.

Also they might actually be more productive going home for most of the day than if they stayed in the office. Some people aren't very productive in office environments, comparatively.
by awesome_dude | 2025-05-29 20:41:16+00:00
> That they don’t buy stuff is only half the story. The other half is they export a lot of primary produce - to the US, primarily frozen fish. The US imports a lot of food so they are interested in Falklands fish. US exports are much higher up the value chain, and Falklands having such a small population has rather limited demand for those high value exports-hence the inevitable trade imbalance.

How is this not what I'm saying?
by tweetle_beetle | 2025-05-29 20:41:30+00:00
> There’s a moral imperative of somehow celebrating making something with people that you think is important and curious and special.

This nonsense from a speech Ive gave (in celebration of designing a few expensive jackets that were not really different from other expensive jackets) sticks with me. It is a pathology when you become this delusional.

https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/moncler-jony-ive-lovefrom-co...
by jgeada | 2025-05-29 20:41:36+00:00
In New York court on May 20th, lawyers representing victims of a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York argued that Meta, Amazon, Discord, Snap, 4chan, and other social media companies all bear responsibility for radicalizing the shooter. The companies defended themselves against claims that their respective design features — including recommendation algorithms — promoted racist content to a man who killed 10 people in 2022, then facilitated his deadly plan. It’s a particularly grim test of a popular legal theory: that social networks are products that can be found legally defective when something goes wrong. Whether this works may rely on how courts interpret Section 230, a foundational piece of internet law.
by schwartzworld | 2025-05-29 20:41:41+00:00
I use a few strategies, but it's mostly the same as if I was mentoring a junior. A lot of my job already involved breaking up big features into small tickets. If the tasks are small enough, juniors and LLMs have an easier time implementing things and I have an easier time reviewing. If there's something I'm really unfamiliar with, it should be in a dedicated function backed by enough tests that my understanding of the implementation isn't required. In fact, LLMs do great with TDD!

> At least with humans I have some basic level of trust, so that even if I don't understand the code at that level, I can scan it and see that it's reasonable.

If you can't scan the code and see that it's reasonable, that's a smell. The task was too big or its implemented the wrong way. You'd feel bad telling a real person to go back and rewrite it a different way but the LLM has no ego to bruise.

I may have a different perspective because I already do a lot of review, but I think using LLMs means you have to do more of it. What's the excuse for merging code that is "off" in any way? The LLM did it? It takes a short time to review your code, give your feedback to the LLM and put up something actually production ready.

> But every piece of LLM generated code I've seen to date hasn't been trustworthy once I put in the effort to really understand it.

That's why your code needs tests. More tests. If you can't test it, it's wrong and needs to be rewritten.
by mike_d | 2025-05-29 20:41:46+00:00
> Yeah I used to think that until I had a family.

It is amazing how blatantly people will just admit "I agree with politics that benefit me even if they exclude others."

> Taxes are more punishing because you're spending half your disposable income on children

I probably spend on my dogs what you do on your children. Gosh life sure is hard because of my decisions. Where are my discounts and tax refunds?

> It's called price discrimination.

...and when is discrimination ok? Lets all say it out loud.
by mystified5016 | 2025-05-29 20:42:00+00:00
Nah, we've been doing this for years. At least ten years ago I built myself a little console based on Roslyn that would evaluate any C# snippets I gave it. C# scripts were pretty well supported, and it was not hard to throw one together. The engine of my console was a couple dozen lines mostly just processing the string.

I'm sure the tooling is better now, though. I seem to recall visual studio and/or Rider also supporting something like this natively at the time.
by alexey-salmin | 2025-05-29 20:42:11+00:00
> I guess as a family be grateful that all hotel rooms come with a 50% (or more) discount per traveler?

This is not always the case. A two-bedroom hotel suite on average costs more than two standard rooms. This happens because the vast majority of rooms are twin/double and cheap hotels often don't offer suites at all.

At a given location two travellers would be chosing from e.g 100 options and at least some of these would be budget/discount offerings. In the same location a family of four would have to chose from 10 options and likely none of them are budget/discount.

Now consider that you HAVE to travel during the school holidays so competition for these damn 10 options increases and the price for both hotels and tickets easily goes up 2-3x.

There are some situations where a family of four would get a better price per person but most of the time it's the other way round.
by perrygeo | 2025-05-29 20:42:22+00:00
> All the stats I'm aware of show fossil fuel usage going down but I'm sure there is more context to the data I'm missing.

The research you're thinking about shows that fossil fuel usage is declining as a percentage of overall energy use. That much is true. Solar is making progress relative to coal, oil, and gas.

But don't confuse the derivative of the relative difference with the scalar value of interest. Measured in physical units, fossil fuel consumption keeps increasing, as the IEA reports constantly.
by Izkata | 2025-05-29 20:42:22+00:00
> > The official story was that we were trying to make COVID die out before it mutated again, but to do that would have required vaccinating all animals as well.

> As far as I'm aware, every circulating covid variant that we've traced has likely come from mutations inside humans, not zoonotic intermixing.

IIRC the original Omicron has a strange lineage that looks like a second spillover event, from some animal that had been infected with one of the first variants instead of any that were going around at the time.