MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fidotron | 2025-05-02 12:14:08+00:00
> Even if it's collecting dust it's still market penetration.

The big question is why so many of these things are collecting dust.

In my case a huge part of it is resistance to putting it on again to discover what new account/privacy requirements it has today, along with how they've rearranged the UI, when all I want to do is fishing and table tennis.
by jwitthuhn | 2025-05-02 12:14:32+00:00
The difference is that SSPL is a license that was written in bad faith with the explicit intent that people can't comply with the parts about running a hosted service.

https://www.mongodb.com/legal/licensing/server-side-public-l...

See section 13, "Offering the Program as a Service". To comply with that you need to release all software used "to make the Program or modified version available as a service" under the SSPL.

For something like redis this includes: redis itself, the os you are using to host redis, the drivers and firmware for the hardware you are using to host redis, and more. Also your whole deployment stack up to and including the mouse drivers you use to click on the "deploy" button.

It is an absurd condition that effectively makes section 13 say "you can't offer a hosted version" and the OSI and FSF are right to reject that fig leaf of "it is like the agpl, but more".
by lesuorac | 2025-05-02 12:16:01+00:00
To use actual numbers instead of indicies.

The parent was claiming that say 10 is closed to 2 than any of the 100s are. It is also true that 10 is closer to 9 than 2.

That said, given how much Trump has increased not only government spending but also the deficit he's pretty far _politically_ from Clinton. However, IIRC, the two of them were _physically_ closer on Epstein's island than any current democratic leader.
by jajko | 2025-05-02 12:16:23+00:00
You just described situation in Switzerland (and some other western European countries). I don't mean some tiny isolated situation or place, I mean whole countries, anything from tiny village to biggest traffic jam-packed cities.

Sometimes I am ashamed a bit how early drivers break for me as a pedestrian and let me pass, like 3m from road when they and 2-3 more cars could easily pass through without affecting my crossing.

The problem is getting used to this and then going to places where this is not the norm, potentially very dangerous especially for kids.
by chrsw | 2025-05-02 12:16:38+00:00
I feel like this study aligns with my experience. I don't live in a Waymo city but I do sometimes drive to the office. I find many other drivers to be impatient, short tempered, selfish and at least once a trip, borderline reckless. Computer drivers definitely aren't perfect. But from what I can tell they aren't intentionally unsafe and will probably improve over time. I wish I could say the same for humans.
by switch007 | 2025-05-02 12:16:57+00:00
Not universally

> Placement of the sign varies. Countries have generally continued the style used for their former currencies. In those countries where previous convention was to place the currency sign before the figure, the euro sign is placed in the same position (e.g., €3.50).[7] In those countries where the amount preceded the national currency sign, the euro sign is again placed in that relative position (e.g., 3,50 €).

> In English, the euro sign – like the dollar sign ⟨$⟩ and the pound sign ⟨£⟩ – is usually placed before the figure, unspaced,[8] the reverse of usage in many other European languages

> The European Union's Interinstitutional Style Guide (for EU staff) states that the euro sign should be placed in front of the amount without any space in English, but after the amount in most other languages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_sign#Use
by markus_zhang | 2025-05-02 12:17:27+00:00
I think they just use this as another form of taxation.

If a $20 pant doubles to $40, it still beats a domestic one (if there is even one) with one hand.

If the US really wants to reboot manufacturing, first I agree with what you said, it should focus on national security goods as well as higher value add goods. Second, the US should actually lower the tax for machines that build these items and import them to build up these businesses, and third, then it should move upstream i.e. to build those machines domestically and push the taxation higher.

The current policy seems to be the most idiotic.
by spicyusername | 2025-05-02 12:18:16+00:00
These discussions are important. It's okay for us, as a society, to make mistakes. Especially if the mistakes are made in an attempt to do "the right thing", whatever that is.

We can only make the decisions we make with the information we have available in the moment, but it is important, later, to be honest with ourselves about the outcomes of the decisions we made and try to learn from them to improve decision making next time.

We shouldn't need to be defensive about this or that, we should follow the data, wherever it leads.

If it turns out the risk from spreading COVID wasn't worth the social and economic damage of lockdowns, that's an important data point to consider when making these kinds of decisions again.
by somenameforme | 2025-05-02 12:19:02+00:00
The point is that the example of 98 beans vs eating somebody's mother is obviously nothing like what we have in reality. We have different scales of offenses, many extremely serious in character, but there is no administration has been even remotely likely ethical and above board perhaps since JFK.

And the issue you're not considering is that we all subconsciously, if not consciously, discount the wrongs of those we prefer while blowing up the wrongs of those we dislike. I hate to use contemporary examples, because it's still so emotionally charged for most people - but I think there's too perfect an example not to here, and we've probably scared off everybody else by having responses with more than 100 words anyhow.

The last administration essentially turned the White House into the latest remake of Weekend at (B)ernie's. And they did this in complete collusive coordination with the media, and aggressively attacked and defamed anybody who tried to call them out on it. A person who fancied that administration is largely going to discount this because in the end the arguable net result was not much more than that advisors in that administration ended up playing a much more executive role than they would normally have.

But if you look at it from another person's perspective, it was a complete undermining of democracy that emphasized that the "independent" media is functionally identical to what we pejoratively refer to as state media in adversarial countries. And the response to people saying and seeing what was happening before their eyes (as, for instance, when the President would wander about in a senile stupor) was nothing short of 1984 - "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

One person's molehill is another's mountain, and vice versa.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-05-02 12:19:04+00:00
> But installing software I didn't ask for is bad, actually.

Except it's a fork, so it is what you asked for. The name changed, sure, and there's a different governance arrangement. But pretty much the entire point of using a distro is offloading decisions such as which developers and repositories to trust onto the maintainers.

If you want to make those decisions for yourself then you should obviously be cloning and building from source. I'm not just saying that - I myself do exactly that in cases where it matters to me.

If you don't care about license purity then perhaps don't use a distro that explicitly filters on that?
by fkyoureadthedoc | 2025-05-02 12:19:21+00:00
Why not? I'd personally never go somewhere else to pay for your subscription or content. Maybe if you were a big time player that didn't have an appealing alternative, like Netflix. But for the average app, like Planta or Breethe, I'm just switching to an app that has an in app purchase if yours doesn't.

Semi-related, but I also always pick an app that has family sharing of subscription over one that doesn't too (Headspace --> Breethe)
by dardeaup | 2025-05-02 12:19:32+00:00
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by hn_acker | 2025-05-02 12:19:45+00:00
How often do left-wing people with health-related conspiracy theories get into government positions (by election or appointment, at all levels) compared to right-wing people with health-related conspiracy theories, is what I'd like to know. Even in the case that RFK Jr. received his conspiracy theories more from the left, I get the impression that RFK meshes more with right-wing political figures, even though you could make the case that he doesn't try to appeal to the right-wing population.
by sylens | 2025-05-02 12:20:03+00:00
Meta (and Zuckerberg) are nomads in the current tech space. They have no platform to call their own, so when a platform holder decides to turn the screws on them (like Apple with the App Tracking Transparency), they have little recourse. This is what the future would have looked like for Google if Android did not become a success.

Zuckerberg knows this and saw VR as a potential platform that they could own moving forward. It's why they have invested so much in it, renamed the company, and played for keeps making deals with game developers to publish their games on their store. The problem is that VR is a niche that will never crossover to the mainstream until major problems are solved with the form factor and battery life. Nobody wants a headset strapped to their face for a prolonged period of time. Even the most hardcore of gamers see their headsets collecting dust after a few months.
by mfrw | 2025-05-02 12:20:27+00:00
I like to think of it as a magical checklist, it helps us to quickly check if something _might_ be there, without actually looking through everything.

A few non-exhaustive real world use-cases that come to mind:

- Databases: To quickly check if a record might exist before doing a costly disk lookup.

- Spell Checkers: To check if a word might be in the dictionary.

- Spam Filters: To check if an email sender is on a list of known spammers.

- Browser Security: Chrome uses Bloom filters to check if a site might be malicious.

- Password Checker: To check if a password is known to be leaked.

- Web Caches: To check if a URL or resource is definitely not in the cache.

- Distributed Systems: To avoid sending data that another system definitely doesn’t need.
by skydhash | 2025-05-02 12:20:51+00:00
Unit tests aren’t cruft. Unless you’re blindly adding tests. It’s often the easiest things to write as the structures are the same so you can copy paste code, adding harness,…

If writing tests is difficult that’s often a clear indication that your code has an issue architecture wise. If writing test is tedious, that can means you’re not familiar with the tooling or have no clear idea of the expected input~output ranges.
by Breza | 2025-05-02 12:20:52+00:00
I completely agree. It baffles me that there aren't more entry level EVs in the United States.

Two years ago, I decided I wanted an EV. I didn't want to spend a ton. There weren't many good options. I was disappointed by the Model 3. Ionic was promising. Ended up buying a Chevy Bolt EUV. I absolutely love it. The torque you get from even a modestly powerful electric vehicle is incredible, and one pedal driving is a real boon in city driving. Plus it's fun to drive past the gas station and just plug into the charger that Chevy paid to install at my house.
by consp | 2025-05-02 12:20:56+00:00
In a vacuum, sure. But in a workplace this workflow is best practice at best and even gets ignored. I've been able to accidently add a secret despite scans and I noticed it myself so it was quickly fixed. Still resulted in a discussion of how to prevent it in the future as nothing is perfect and you learn from mistakes.

Or you don't by simply firing the engineer and assume everyone in the entire workflow is perfect.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-05-02 12:21:09+00:00
This is partially why I think the whole "they're conspiratorially lying to us and it was for sure a lab leak!" is a huge distraction. First, we have literally hundreds of pages of emails of scientists saying they believed (correctly or incorrectly) it was not a leak. Second, there is approximately zero chance we will ever know that it came from a lab. Third, it doesn't actually give us any more information: it could have come from any one of countless labs doing work on viruses like this.

Dangerous GoF research should be outright banned regardless!

Insofar as there is huge ambiguity in what we did or didn't know at the time, I can fault scientists for covering their own asses and their preferred research directions (which I agree are dangerous), but I can't fault them for biasing themselves against statements that leaned on the side of ambiguous that might have, at the time, literally sparked a war.
by hereaiham | 2025-05-02 12:21:16+00:00
I don't think the poster meant it as a revenge thing. France at some point made it illegal to deny the Frenchness of Algeria, you could go to prison for this back then. The two countries have had a very long history of close relations with its all ups and downs, and many French lived in Algeria and Algerian lived in France. I have no connection to either of those countries I'm just interested in history.
by spacebanana7 | 2025-05-02 12:22:06+00:00
The best thing for VR adoption would be for Meta to send out a few thousand VR cameras to onlyfans creators, and pay onlyfans a $1B to add VR video support.

This might sound expensive and wasteful, but it’s actually probably cheaper than the effort to improve gaming or hand tracking by a substantial amounts. Also more likely to drive unit sales.
by lolinder | 2025-05-02 12:22:36+00:00
Yep. This is true for all languages that I've tried, but it's particularly true in Rust. The model will get into a loop where it gets further and further away from the intended behavior while trying to fix borrow checker errors, then eventually (if you're lucky) gives up and hand the mess back over to you.

Which at least with Cursor's implementation means that it by default gives you the last iteration of its attempt to fix the problem, which when this happens is almost always way worse than its first attempt.
by this_user | 2025-05-02 12:22:43+00:00
I think this entire "metaverse" idea is a trap. It's an idea that is very popular in fiction, and that makes tech people believe that this is something that should exist in the future. But the reality is that, from a user perspective, it just doesn't work very well, because it's not a good interface for most use cases for digital devices.

Why would I want to strap a clunky VR device to my head to enter a 3D VR to then awkwardly use a virtual keyboard to type an email? Why would I want to do a 3D VR call with low-polygon avatars when I can just do a regular video call? There are very few use cases where this adds anything. Even in gaming, it will probably remain a niche genre, because most genres just work better without VR, especially competitive ones where input precision and latency are crucial.
by sgc | 2025-05-02 12:23:17+00:00
I completely agree with you. I just want to point out that the actual software author here is not being aggressive about it. They make a request and that's it. Nor are the other 55 contributors visible on github.

"we ask (but not demand, these are words on the internet, not word of law) that you not remove the Anubis character from your deployment"

For whatever reason somebody decided to blow it out of proportion here on hn.
by sensanaty | 2025-05-02 12:23:19+00:00
Not in gamedev myself but have friends who are, and while it can be argued the 30% (I think they're also around 15% or 20% under X amount actually, so it affects smaller games less) Steam takes hurts, it also comes with a lot of benefits to the publishers. Global CDN and delivery network, all the steam social/community features, all the Steam APIs for multiplayer, cloud saves, achievement framework, hell even the steam community market. Steam handles a lot for you, whereas with Apple it's little more than a tax on just existing within their storefront.

Sure, they handle the CDN/Delivery part just like Steam (and Steam has to deal with assets that can easily surpass 100GB, mind), but beyond that? You're forced to buy Apple's hardware, and forced into paying them for access to their app store, while making it literally impossible (until recently) to sideload apps. Many games that are on Steam are also available from alternate storefronts like GOG, and Steam doesn't care if you link to those or mention them, and in fact many of Valves competitors have killed off their own equivalent apps because it's hard to beat Steam's quality (which is hilarious, cause Steam has so much room to grow and become better IMO).

As to the state of the consoles, I'm not entirely sure as I haven't had one since the PS2, but IMO if they're anything like Apple, then yes we should open them up in the exact same way Apple should be opened up
by xp84 | 2025-05-02 12:24:03+00:00
As far as I can tell, these aren’t made by asking a competent model to answer the “question” — based on what they seem to do, it seems to me like they take a model (a “mini” type of model?), pipe in the contents of the first 5 or 10 results from the slopfest that are Google’s current search results, and tell it to summarize THAT.

This is why it tells you to eat rocks. It is a very narrow sample of webpages and suffers from not even contextualizing each page it is reading to wonder if it’s a troll, satire, propaganda, fiction, or fact.

I have taken to ignoring them completely. I’d rather ask ChatGPT directly than trust these - and often I do just that. It’s much more accurate.

What’s frustrating is that the real estate these occupy was until a few years ago where they’d put text extracts quoted directly from a short-ish list of reputable sites. Same purpose, different content. While it was arguably a bit abusive of the sites to extract and display their contents there, the information used to be pretty reliable as a result.
by sarchertech | 2025-05-02 12:24:57+00:00
Yeah but the scale wasn’t apparent yet. Normal people didn’t commonly order firstly from Ali express in 2015.

If you look at the amount of de minimis goods shipped the year after the amount was raised vs today, they have increased over 10x.

Also the pre 2016 limit was $200, still low enough to allow the temu business model.
by psvisualdesign | 2025-05-02 12:25:05+00:00
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by nicce | 2025-05-02 12:25:31+00:00
There have been cases when o1/o3 has helped me to solve some issues that I could not solve with stackoverflow or Rust forum.

LLM was able to connect the dots of some more complex and rarer Rust features and my requirements. I did not know that they could be used like that. One case was, for example, about complex usage of generic associated types (GATs).

What it comes to lifetime issues, usually it is about wasting time if trying to solve with LLMs.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-05-02 12:25:49+00:00
But you do have the ultimate say in this case. You can reconfigure the mainstream package managers in all sorts of ways, set up your own repos, anything you'd like.

I use a distro because I don't have the time or energy to do all of that for myself. It's a purely voluntary arrangement unlike the iOS/Android duopoly that modern society is increasingly built on top of.
by foobarian | 2025-05-02 12:25:51+00:00
My charitable answer would be it's hard to break the chicken and egg cycle. Not enough headsets -> game developers don't target the platform -> no demand to buy headsets without games.

I have to respect how much they were willing to invest to try and break the cycle; for now it seems the headset count at least is nontrivial enough to get at least a handful of appealing games. Time will tell if that continues I guess.

(I found kids love to play Yeeps Hide and Seek. I would never in a million years suspect that would be a successful game. It's an MMO, and it has an interesting mechanic of defaulting to voice comms, which ends up with the kids forming an ingroup that rejects anyone who sounds "grown up". There are also levers to deal with griefing behaviors. I think is a great way to filter out the usual internet boogeyman the "creepy perv" types.)
by dartharva | 2025-05-02 12:26:09+00:00
Yep. What's interesting is that this bloated bureaucracy is the result of the country being an electoral democracy embedded with every "equity" intervention possible. With the ridiculous levels of population and heterogeneity within it, and with the majority of the population being intellectually poor, it was evident that the dominating part of the administration's energy is spent in appeasing voters' sentiments in place of competently executing good policies. India is the prime example of what happens when a country gets democracy at a stage when it's not prepared for it.

There is a famous quote attributed to some post-Independence India bureaucrat that I forgot the name of, which went something like "if we are to prioritize efficiency against representation, we might as well have just accepted British rule." India had to choose between strong economic development or plebeian representation, and it chose the latter. This is the consequence.
by aurareturn | 2025-05-02 12:26:32+00:00
EU has issues with human rights violations regularly happening in China. China has even sanctioned European politicians voicing critique.

Does China sanction France for its role in suppressing parts of Africa?[0] In the video comments, a lot of French citizens never even heard about it. That tells you that the French government is also hiding a ton of atrocities it's committing to its citizens, right?

Why is the EU judging when they still violate human rights themselves?

I think when Europeans criticize China for not having the same values as them, they should learn some history about how European powers tried to tear China apart and take advantage of it. Start with the photo of Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United States and the United Kingdom forces inside the Forbidden City.[1]

Perhaps China not having the same values of European powers is a good thing in terms of overall peace?

I would love to hear from EU citizens on why they should be the judge of all human moral values when their countries have arguably done more collectively to disturb the peace of others in the last 300 years than any country in Asia.

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiD24uEvY1U

[1]https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50adfa2ae4b0cc...
by theoryofx | 2025-05-02 12:26:32+00:00
"It's an industry standard because other compensation methods for salespeople that pay them like all the other non-salespeople don't work ..."

[citation needed]

I think it's more accurate to say that it's an industry standard because it works, not because nothing else can work. There's a lot of herd mentality and (much more reasonably) risk aversion when it comes to messing with revenue generation.
by aristofun | 2025-05-02 12:26:40+00:00
Generally speaking, yes, real investors are heartless wolves. Whenever banks have better deal - they go to bank.

Investing in a bunch of smart ambitious dudes is already an extremely risky endeavor.

But its a spectrum, not black and white.

When money is cheap (aka “good” times) more investors are ready for more risky investments. When money is expensive - less.