MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mikeocool | 2025-06-19 22:40:46+00:00
How about release 2.0 and then don’t release 2.1 for a LONG time.

I get that in the early days such a fast paced release/EOL schedule made sense. But now something that operates at such a low level shouldn’t require non-security upgrades every 3 months and have breaking API changes at least once a year.
by vinoveritas | 2025-06-19 22:41:25+00:00
It’s an extremely common pattern for alcoholic drinks, to the point that a man ordering a very sweet drink or a woman ordering neat whisky is likely to draw comments (not even necessarily negative ones, especially in the case of a woman preferring usually-masculine drinks). It’s also present in wine marketing—the lower end of the market has heavily feminine-coded marketing and tends to be very sweet (at least in the US), and in fact that aligns with actual preferences I’ve observed (I’m not sure I know a single woman who prefers dry wines?)

Chocolate (dark vs milk) and coffee drinks (heavy on milk and sugar versus light on them, or black) follow similar patterns in perception (and actual observed preferences, IME)

Of course, how much of that is nature versus socialization is another matter… but also, the kind of risk-taking and one-upsmanship behavior that might drive men to be more willing to acquire tastes for things that aren’t initially appealing and to so-expand their palates may itself be hormonal, so even one plausible “nurture” cause for this might actually be “nature” one step removed.

But either way, and even if data doesn’t bear any of that out (pretty sure it would, though), the perception that all that’s generally true is certainly common.
by Aurornis | 2025-06-19 22:41:51+00:00
> the general lack of curiosity

Honestly, I find the Hacker News comments in recent years to be most enlightening because so many comments come from people who spent years immersed in rationalist communities.

For years one of my friend groups was deep into LessWrong and SSC. I've read countless blog posts and other content out of those groups.

Yet every time I write about it, I'm dismissed as an uninformed outsider. It's an interesting group of people who like to criticize and dissect other groups, but they don't take kindly to anyone questioning their own circles.
by RebeccaTheDev | 2025-06-19 22:43:11+00:00
You can do whatever you like. Many do, and are totally happy about that.

Note, again, I am talking about one specific "type" of gender dysphoria, social dysphoria. There are usually far more facets that come into play as well.

And that's also a way you know you're trans, and not just a man that loves spending time with women. Because the relationships dynamics and social expectations are totally different regardless, we feel out of place. And not being seen in the correct way causes ... pretty deep negative feelings.
by mettamage | 2025-06-19 22:43:15+00:00
> That always seemed like a meaningless argument to me.

Same as that is not the lived experience. I notice that I care about free choice.

The idea that there's no free will may be a pessimistic outlook to some but to me it's a strictly neutral one. It used to be a bit negative, until I looked more closely that there's a difference between looking at a situation objectively and having a lived experience. When it comes to my inclinations and how I want to live life, lived experience takes precedence.

I don't have my thoughts sharp on it, but I don't think the concept even exists philosophically, but I think that's also what you're getting at. It's a conceptual remnant from the past.
by xiande04 | 2025-06-19 22:43:27+00:00
Ah, the old "it could be worse" fallacy.

So to recap, you're saying, "don't worry about what's going on in the US right now, because you still have it better than most of the world"

Just because something could be worse does not mean that 1. It's nothing to be concerned about 2. That we shouldn't take steps to improve the situation.

Things can always be worse, so this "logic" is always applicable. It's a vacuous argument. Even if you lived in the country with the worst homo/transphobia in the world, you could tell the person, "well, at least your alive."

Moreover, there's nothing constructive about this line of thinking. If people actually lived by this logic, we would live in a static world, because "it could be worse."
by jchw | 2025-06-19 22:44:00+00:00
Well really, what people actually want, by my estimation, is a machine that works and to not have to adjust their workflows. These are both very sensible things that everyone understands. The stuff about "UNIX philosophy" and composability is mostly BS. We're talking about Linux, the least UNIX-y UNIX-like imaginable. People getting mad that a single program does too many things is insane when the first thing your computer boots out of firmware is the Linux kernel. Same for many of the more ideological systemd complaints, some of which exacerbated by people not understanding that systemd is an umbrella project and not an init daemon (and you can in fact swap in and out many of the components like timesyncd, networkd, resolved etc.)

I think whether Wayland really was what people wanted out of systemd or not is mostly not that important. I'm arguing that people were mad because systemd took away their choices, you're arguing that Wayland wasn't the choices they wanted. I'm not sure what choices they wanted. I don't think most people who are mad about new things have fully-formed opinions about what they actually want in the first place. Either way, Wayland gives you nothing if not plenty of choices, and many of them much more complete than what you could get with random WMs on X.

Most importantly, though, I strongly disagree that X11 is the ideal protocol to build on. X11 is a mess that's hard to implement and if you omit anything you'll basically always break a non-trivial amount of software. XInput 1 is pretty broken but tough, Wine needs it. Have fun implementing Xv everywhere too, and XRender. Most modern apps just grab a GL or Vulkan context and ignore all of that, but if you want to meaningfully implement X11 those things need to be there. I could go on, but I'm sure you get the point.

Realistically, I'm sure we don't want to maintain multiple X servers. As it is, nobody wants to really maintain X.org to begin with... Well, there is one guy, but that doesn't appear to have gone so well so far.

What's funny is, when people actually want to have X11 support, what they do instead is implement Wayland and use XWayland instead. Seriously, look at how many things implement Wayland: ChromeOS for Linux apps, SteamOS for game compositing, Windows for wslG, termux-x11... Wayland and Weston are much easier to implement and adapt than X11 and X.org were.

When everything works well across all of the GPU vendors and the major applications have the remaining kinks ironed out, things will keep moving along and the sky will probably not fall. I honestly think that people were going to get cranky even if everything was done absolutely perfectly here, because succeeding X requires some people to do a bunch of work and adjust their workflows. Don't blame 'em, doesn't mean they're right.
by figassis | 2025-06-19 22:44:43+00:00
I love the idea, then I think about it a bit more and the value I see on HN is that almost all information is accessible. Would not want a discord like experience.

I get we also want a human connection, but if you really need a human, maybe let’s have HN meetups. It takes more efforts ao people will do it less, but it means conversations will continue to happen here, publicly.
by bayarearefugee | 2025-06-19 22:44:53+00:00
You think Jeff "All WaPo opinion articles must focus on personal liberties and free markets" Bezos is a left-winger? lol.

You must have missed the part where he got divorced and then predictably shifted hard right.

(Being credibly accused of being a sex pest is the only thing more powerful than divorce when it comes to putting men on the right-wing-shift pipeline).
by robmccoll | 2025-06-19 22:44:57+00:00
Disclaimer: I don't know the details of how this works.

Time-to-solution and quality would be my guess. In my experience, adding high level important details about the way information is organized to the beginning of the context and then explaining the tools to further explore schema or access data produces much more consistent results rather than each inference having to query the system and build its own world view before trying to figure out how to answer your query and then doing it.

It's a bit like giving you a book or giving you that book without the table of contents and no index, but you you can do basic text search over the whole thing.
by imduffy15 | 2025-06-19 22:45:01+00:00
Absolutely loving the functionality KEP-4412 brings to kubernetes.

Having the pods service account token passed to the credential provider allows for seamless authentication with private registries.

Before you either had to use the node identity which in some cases isn’t oidc based or create a bunch of imagePullSecrets.

Code and walkthrough at https://github.com/cloudsmith-io/cloudsmith-kubernetes-crede...
by Aurornis | 2025-06-19 22:45:31+00:00
I always find it interesting that when the topic of rationalists' fixation on neoreactionary topics comes into question, the primary defenses are that it's important to look at controversial ideas and that we shouldn't dismiss novel ideas because we don't like the group sharing them.

Yet as soon as the topic turns to criticisms of the rationalist community, we're supposed to ignore those ideas and instead fixate on the messenger, ignore their arguments, and focus on ad-hominem attacks that reduce their credibility.

It's no secret that Scott Alexander had a bit of a fixation on neoreactionary content for years. The leaked e-mails showed he believed there to be "gold" in some of their ideas and he enjoyed the extra traffic it brought to his blog. I know the rationalist community has been working hard to distance themselves from that era publicly, but dismissing that chapter of the history because it feels too much like a "smear" or because we're not supposed to like the author feels extremely hypocritical given the context.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-06-19 22:45:51+00:00
Never been to Munich, but went to Hamburg (and Lübeck) a number of times, as we worked with a German company there.

One of the German managers was from East Germany, and was very much a "Northern German."

We used to bait him, by talking about Bavarian stereotypes, like steins and lederhosen.

He'd get cranky, and start going on about how "We're Northern Germans..."

Hamburg is a pretty industrial city, and was firebombed flat, in WWII, so most of the architecture is relatively new (like Tokyo).

Lübeck was really cool. The company we worked with, started in a 1,000-year-old building.
by consumer451 | 2025-06-19 22:46:29+00:00
I hesitate to divide a group as diverse as software devs into two categories, but here I go:

I have a feeling that devs who love LLM coding tools are more product-driven than those who hate them.

Put another way, maybe devs with their own product ideas love LLM coding tools, whilr devs without them do not.

I am genuinely not trying to throw shade here in any way. Does this rough division ring true to anyone else? Is there any better way to put it?
by moomoo11 | 2025-06-19 22:46:49+00:00
Happy Juneteenth

Idk why so many people are upset or arguing. Sorry to add to the noise but I’m a naturalized citizen here and I feel like USA has so much history of doing better and moving things forward for everyone.

People all operate independently in thought here, but somehow since 1776 they have genuinely pushed society forward all things considered.

Everyone acting out of self interest but in a direction where things get better, objectively speaking, makes it a good society.

It is superior to living under dictatorships, corruption rotted “democracies”, or religious intolerance where the people always lose.
by pxmpxm | 2025-06-19 22:46:58+00:00
He's done the same asinine antics his entire career - friends at early-days at Tesla corroborate the identical on the spectrum nonsense that conveniently is now all over mass media. The only difference is back then he was saying batshit things that were on-canon for feel good progressives.

This is the same thing as twitter folding in like 3 days when he did those grand layoffs; arguments entirely grounded in feels of the aformentioned group.
by wahern | 2025-06-19 22:47:56+00:00
> Now that SCOTUS has green-lit denying healthcare on the basis of assigned gender at birth, the gates are wide open.

Yes, we're at a juncture. But my point is I don't think bans for adult care are inevitable, nor that strict prohibitions for minors need be permanent. If trans advocates and their supports took a breather and figured out how to reframe things, the backslide (such as it is) could be arrested and even reversed. But that will require, at a minimum, taking back the microphone from the most radical "advocates". And probably to depoliticize it. The issue has become highly politically polarized, but that's a relatively recent thing. I was gobsmacked by the generally tame and sympathetic conservative response to Caitlyn Jenner among conservatives 10 years ago. The turn was avoidable and, arguably, reversible.
by wkat4242 | 2025-06-19 22:48:25+00:00
I was there two years after it was filmed. It was not that run down, not by a long shot :) And I lived in a pretty bad area (I used to leave my car unlocked because the heroine junkies would smash the window to have somewhere to sit while shooting up). I guess some of the cleanup was for the benefit of the olympics but that doesn't apply to the back street stuff.
by msgodel | 2025-06-19 22:48:54+00:00
Are they focusing on beginners? I think everyone in tech has always been excited about bringing more people in but I don't feel like there's more of that here than anywhere else.

Have you tried building things with this stuff? I have, it's exciting, there's all kinds of new things to build. I haven't been as excited to build things for a while before this.
by protocolture | 2025-06-19 22:49:45+00:00
>They remind me of the "Effective Altruism" crowd who get completely wound up in these hypothetical logical thought exercises and end up coming to insane conclusions that they feel trapped in because they got there using pure logic

I have read Effective Altruists like that. But I also remember seeing a lot of money donated to a bunch of really decent sounding causes because someone spent 5 minutes asking themselves what they wanted their donation to maximise, decided on "Lives saved" and figured out who is doing the best at that.
Show HN: I wrote a new BitTorrent tracker in Elixir
by dahrkael | 2025-06-19 22:49:49+00:00
Hello everyone!

I'm currently in a journey to learn and improve my Elixir and Go skills (my daily job uses C++) and looking through my backlog for projects to take on I decided Elixir is the perfect language to write a highly-parallel BitTorrent tracker. So I have spent my free time these last 3 months writing one! Now I think it has enough features to present it to the world (and a docker image to give it a quick try).

I know some people see trackers as relics of the past now that DHT and PEX are common but I think they still serve a purpose in today's Internet (purely talking about public trackers). That said there is not a lot going on in terms of new developments since everyone just throws opentracker in a vps a calls it a day (honorable exceptions: aquatic and torrust).

I plan to continue development for the foreseeable future and add some (optional) esoteric features along the way so if anyone currently operates a tracker please give a try and enjoy the lack of crashes.

note: only swarm_printout.ex has been vibe coded, the rest has all been written by hand.
by Aurornis | 2025-06-19 22:50:17+00:00
> I especially liked the existential threat of Cade Metz.

I am perpetually fascinated by the way rationalists love to dismiss critics by pointing out that they met some people in person and they seemed nice.

It's such a bizarre meme.

Curtis Yarvin went to one of the "Vibecamp" rationalist gatherings, was nice to some prominent Twitter rationalists, and now they are ardent defenders of him on Twitter. Their entire argument is "I met him and he was nice".

It's mind boggling that the rationalist part of their philosophy goes out the window as soon as the lines are drawn between in-group and out-group.

Bringing up Cade Metz is a perennial favorite signal because of how effectively they turned it into a "you're either with us or against us" battle, completely ignoring any valid arguments Cade Metz may have been brought to the table. Then you look at how they treat Neoreactionaries and how we're supposed to look past our disdain for them and focus on the possible good things in their arguments, and you realize maybe this entire movement isn't really about truth-seeking as much as they think it is.
by atum47 | 2025-06-19 22:51:09+00:00
The title says everything. For some time I've been thinking about porting my radial menu project to use SVG instead of canvas. I've asked ChatGPT to do it and that is the code.

I intend to polish the edges a little afterwards, but I honestly think it did a pretty good job.

P.s.: the README was also generated by ChatGPT.
by regularfry | 2025-06-19 22:51:24+00:00
I just don't get the legal theory here.

If I download harry_potter_goblet_fire.txt off some dodgy site, then let's assume that owner of that site has infringed copyright by distributing it. If I upload it again to some other dodgy site, I would also infringe copyright in a similar same way. But that would be naughty so I'm not going to do that.

Let's say instead that I feed it into a bunch of janky pytorch scripts with a bunch of other text files, and out pops a bunch of weights. Twice.

The first model I build is a classifier. Its output is binary: is this text about wizards, yes/no.

The second model I build is an LLM. Its output is text, and (as in the article) you can get imperfect reproductions of parts of the training file out of it with the right prompts.

Now, I upload both those sets of weights to HuggingFace.

How many times am I supposed to have infringed copyright?

Is it:

A) Twice (at least), because the act of doing anything whatsoever with harry_potter_goblet_fire.txt without permission is verboten;

B) Once, because only one of the models is capable of reproducing the original (even if only approximately);

C) Zero, because neither model is capable of a reproduction that would compete with the original;

or

D) Zero, because I'm not the distributor of the file, and merely processing it - "format shifted" from the book, if you like - is not problematic in itself.

Logically I can see justifications for any of B) (tenuously), C), or D). Obviously publishers would want us to think that A) is right, but based on what? I see a lot of moral outrage, but very little actual argument. That makes me think there's nothing there.
by wahern | 2025-06-19 22:52:40+00:00
Much of the majority and most of the dissenting opinions in the recent SCOTUS case are exactly about that--is it sex discrimination?: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/23-477_2cp3.pdf All the opinions are worth a read. The best arguments for both sides are there. Though, I thought all the best arguments on both sides kind of sucked; it's just a very difficult issue. Transgender questions lay to waste 100 years of sex and gender discourse on both the right and left.
by iscoelho | 2025-06-19 22:52:53+00:00
> I'm sorry, this is just such an incredibly fine-tuned threat model for me to take it seriously.

You claim it is fine-tuned, but it has happened in the real world. It is actually even better for attackers that it is "obscure", because that means it is harder to detect.

> but assume that the hijacker is only so powerful as being able to impersonate a specific DNS server and not the server that the DNS server tells you about.

Yes, all layers of the stack need to be secure. I am not making assumptions about the other layers - this thread is about DNS.

> if the CA is capable of using any information to detect that this might be a forgery

They are not. The only mitigation is "multi-perspective validation", which only addresses a subset of this attack.

> And of course, the proposed solution doesn't do anything to protect against other kinds of DNS hijacking

Yes, because other kinds of DNS hijacking are solved by HTTPS TLS. If TLS and CAs are broken, nothing is secure.
by ghushn3 | 2025-06-19 22:52:55+00:00
You are asking a good question (it reads to me like a good faith question that comes from a desire to learn more about how others think).

> Is it biological in basis, spiritual/metaphysical, or cultural?

Personally, I view it as cultural leading to physiological -- what does it mean to be a man? What is "manly"? I think everyone can agree that "manliness" is different globally. Is Bill Gates manly? He's very successful, but is that something that's manly? Is Tom Cruise manly? Or Kid Rock? What about George Takei? Manliness has some multi-axis definition that exists in each culture around the world.

We call that set of vectors "being a man", and we push people who are born with penises into it because it seems to fit most people who are born with XY chromosomes. Personally, I think it's useful to decouple the two ideas -- what my body is, and what the cultural expectations are in how I should behave because I have that body. This is what people mean when they say gender is a social construct -- they are saying, "The piece we call 'manliness' is a separate concept from the piece we define by bodies."

Now, say I experience anxiety, fear, and revulsion about the set of vectors that define "manliness". I have a penis, but absolutely all the vectors for "womanliness" line up with my understanding of how the world works. Clothing, presentation, speech patterns, interests, activities, etc. etc. etc. What do I do in such a case?

I could just live my life in pursuit of the 'wrong' set of vectors -- but socially that's quite dangerous. When people who are "supposed" to maximize one set of vectors try to live with another set, they tend to get bullied (if not violently attacked.) This puts me in a bind -- either live a miserable life pretending to be manly OR push my body to try and match the set of vectors associated with womanliness. (Or, change society to stop caring so much about people who fall outside of the traditional vector space, but that's a lot harder than either of the two other approaches.)

> is being transgender also just a social construct that can and maybe should be addressed by loosening up our tight expectations for gender roles?

For me, absolutely! That's the exactly the sort of ideal world I'd love to be in -- let people just... pursue what makes them feel happy. If someone with a penis wants to get way into makeup and the color pink, stop beating the shit out of them for it.
by wkat4242 | 2025-06-19 22:52:58+00:00
Oh when I was there 24 years ago Chinatown wasn't all that bad. We often went to eat there, or go to paddy's market (which was not quite in chinatown but on the edge of it).

It was also the only "ethnic town" that actually felt like one. "Koreatown" and "Thai town" were just normal CBD streets with maybe one or two massage parlors. I think those names were invented more for publicity than anything.

I wish I could go back to Oceania for a long trip some day. But it's so far and expensive from Europe :'(

PS Chinatown isn't even like a neighbourhood, it's like 2 streets ;) But the Chinese influence is everywhere in Sydney. Even in the neighbourhood I lived there was this really cool Chinese temple in the middle of a normal terrace housing block.
by andy99 | 2025-06-19 22:53:07+00:00
AI generated content quality is bad. That's the only issue that can have a business impact. This "what about the weavers and match dippers" makes good news articles for some audiences but isn't real, trying to roll back progress is unproductive and not something anyone actually wants.

Good news is that most people hate AI generated stuff because it's crap, no reason to try and make up reasons.