MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nixpulvis | 2025-06-29 19:12:17+00:00
I like the idea of popularizing using IP addresses for personal sites. I don't like trying to rebrand them Web Numbers, since imo it accomplishes nothing but being potentially confusing.

The bigger issue is hosting these small web sites for people who are used to using platforms which make connecting with other users much more seamless.

Most people want to allow comments and replies at least sometimes and that becomes a bigger headache when you host yourself.

I'd love to see Yarn become a solution for one step setup for people. I'd be even more excited if it's done in a way which is modular enough to allow "power users" to customize the framework, and potentially even bring their own framework and integrate it with features provided by Yarn. For example, maybe I want my framework to do the markdown->HTML and templating, but I want to use the comment system from Yarn.
by muhdeeb | 2025-06-29 19:12:55+00:00
This article has a headline engineered with shock value connotations, but when you read it carefully, it takes pains to rein the suggestions of the title in as much as possible while still stirring the pot. It’s a kind of artistry you need to get papers published these days.

All that aside, it’s an interesting thing to think about but it’s not a basis for any kind of personal health recommendation and the authors state that. I have relevant expertise and this is a very complicated area that people routinely want to be boiled down into black and white simple advice. What this article seems to say is that lotion can affect the oxidation chemistry nearby it, but it’s not yet known if that is an effect with consequences that are on the whole negative or positive.

I would criticize the authors for their use of the word disrupt, because of the negative connotation carried by that word when talking about human biological systems. They use a softer, more neutral word, perturb, to express the same idea later in the article, which I think better expresses the idea without an emotional tinge to it.
by abeppu | 2025-06-29 19:13:34+00:00
> Why is that important? Unless the runners are conscripted into the race, it's not telling you anything about women or men

It's not saying something about _all_ men or women. If you did try to work with a random sample wouldn't you mainly find that almost all people of both sexes can't run an ultra marathon?

But in making comparative statements even about people who choose to participate in such races, I think a critical distinction made in that article is that there's a difference between "E(Pace_W) < E(Pace_M)" vs "Min(TotalTime_W) <? Min(TotalTime_M)".

The earlier anecdote was making a statement about who won a canoe race and using it as evidence of a group level difference ... But race winners are the extreme end of the distribution and are poor information about the overall behavior.
Show HN: AI-generated conf-style feedback to imp your paper before submission
by philCS | 2025-06-29 19:13:44+00:00
Hi HN,

We’re a small team of CS researchers and engineers launching an early version of CSPaper, a tool that provides AI-generated conference-style feedback for computer science papers.

You upload your arXiv or PDF draft, choose a target conference (like ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, KDD, etc.), and within about a minute receive structured feedback written in the style of a real conference review. The goal is to help researchers identify weaknesses and iterate faster before submitting to actual venues.

We’re particularly interested in feedback from two groups:

Authors who want to test how useful this is before submission

Reviewers who can help us assess whether this could become a useful aid (or even a problem!) in the peer review process

This is an early version—so it’s far from perfect. We expect rough edges and appreciate honest, critical feedback. We’d love to hear if this kind of tool is actually helpful, how it could be misused, and where it needs to improve. You can try it at https://review.cspaper.org (more info at https://cspaper.org/topic/89/introducing-cspaper-reviews-get... ).

We’re not charging anything during this early stage. If you do try it, please let us know what you think—we’re here to learn and iterate.

Thanks! CSPaper Team
by jrowen | 2025-06-29 19:13:45+00:00
This is completely wild to me. I honestly do most of my clothes shopping through Instagram/Facebook ads. I enjoy that targeted advertising shows me new products and companies that I'm interested in, often very niche stuff that I don't come across otherwise. I would so much rather see that than ads for life insurance, penis pills, ambulance chasers, or whatever other bullcrap goes to the lowest common denominator. The ads that get read on podcasts are a great example of this.
by rafaelmn | 2025-06-29 19:14:06+00:00
>It has been good enough for the past 15 years or so.

I daily drove fedora last summer for a few months and it was a joke on how unstable it was. Slack would crash when screen sharing, likewise for chrome/gmeet, camera corruption bugs. Just two days ago I was teasing a coworker on a daily that we can spot a linux user by how long it takes him to unmute himself. Chrome would randomly stop rendering all windows when watching YouToube in a separate window. KDE plasma would get messed up very frequently. Gnome was more stable but had issues with fractional scaling X11 apps on Wayland (Plasma 6 supported this). Installing a DAW took days of reading audio routing docs and trying stuff out, breaking my audio several times in the process. My LG C4 cannot be used at 4k/120Hz because you cant get HDMI 2.1 on Linux/AMD. And this is all on a well supported desktop machine. Laptop and power management was even worse last time I tried it. Hell I never had a PC laptop that managed sleep state reliably and didn't cook the battery in the backpack randomly.

I just don't have these kinds of issues with MacOS. The processor/laptops are just best on the market and it just works, support is amazing. It is hard to justify dealing with Linux desktop and PC hardware even at a price premium, but these days Apple devices are even price competitive compared to similar windows/linux machines.
by have-a-break | 2025-06-29 19:14:56+00:00
What about arresting and sending to the mental hospital multiple times to deal with psychopathic caregivers whose purpose is ultimately to make you homeless?

A good Christian or any good person would viewing that scene would actively fight to make the person sufferings life better instead of feeding into the false "caregivers" or more aptly put abusers who are more interested in robbing people than improving their lives.
by eitally | 2025-06-29 19:15:16+00:00
You're not wrong, but I think there's another factor, too. (And I drive a 2017 F150)

I would love to sell my truck and get something smaller. But I just got a repair estimate of almost $2500 to replace the from facing camera in my wife's Odyssey, and the Bluetooth stack in my truck has never really worked properly for phone calls. With cars becoming increasingly. "Software defined vehicles" I don't feel comfortable purchasing a $50k+ car that might have software bugs, or may not be supported for over 5-10yrs. I'm currently thinking very seriously that the best options are either to buy used or to lease.

Moreover, I'm thinking the overall percentage of private vehicles that are leased is going to continue to increase as time moves on, until the big mfrs are essentially acting as huge rental fleet operators.
by amarcheschi | 2025-06-29 19:15:48+00:00
At least in the eu there are quite strict rules regulating cosmetics. Hell, lilial in perfumes was banned just to stay safe because they couldn't determine an "average exposure" and went on by banning it in perfumes to reduce what would have been the real exposure, even if it wouldn't have caused issues by being used in perfumes standalone (so not how it's used in cleaning products)

They might not be perfect, of course, and they're always improving
by rewgs | 2025-06-29 19:16:17+00:00
You're both not wrong.

What @surgical_fire is describing is the "minimum viable product" for a career. It's the thing that serves the basics on Maslow's Hierarchy.

What @hshshshshsh is describing is anything past that. We briefly exist sandwiched between two eternities -- shouldn't we care about the quality of our time during the thing that takes up the largest quantity of our time?

The problem is that, the issue that @hshshshshsh is pointing out is precisely what makes the minimum @surgical_fire is describing damn near impossible to find.

Because no one gives a shit about users, values, mission, etc, the company suffers and turns into a shit-show, incentivizing people to become more selfish so that they don't get sucked into the vortex of shit.

In order to reach the minimum of a "tolerable" job that doesn't suck up all your free time or make your time there a living hell, the company _must_ engage with at least some of what @hshshshshsh is describing.

This requires some amount of good faith from the majority involved. This is a tricky and fragile thing. It's easy to lose. And thus the cycle begins anew.

Ultimately, we need more people thinking like @hshshshshsh so that we can get what @surgical_fire is describing.
by charcircuit | 2025-06-29 19:16:41+00:00
If you want more words you can go the unstoppable domains website to see that they will apply in 2026. Yes, it's speculative but I am allowed to hope for a successful open and decentralized web.

>Why get a .brave? Seems similar to .ovh; I don’t see the appeal.

Because .ovh requires paying $3.49 every year to renew it. Because .ovh requires giving away your real name and physical address. Because ICANN can take away your domain (eg. You didn't give your real name or address).

The appeal of .brave is the web3 aspect of having actual ownership over the domain you purchased.
by alwa | 2025-06-29 19:16:52+00:00
I feel like there’s a taste aspect and also a focus/discipline kind of dimension to it. For the longest, they’d essentialize everything almost brutally: like that whole thing about the iPhone coming with no manual since you didn’t need it. The design only afforded you one right way to find and do things.

This is a toaster, it makes toast. This is Apple TV, it plays TV. This is Apple Wallet, it does what your wallet does.

And that was the magic! Of course the simplicity masked kaleidoscopic technical, commercial, and functional complexity—that’s not new!

This weird cross-promotion is the latest, most crass, symptom; but it almost reads as the metastasis of a deeper disease—namely this urge to cross-pollute between little functional fiefdoms from inside the megacorp, instead of prioritizing the perspective of one user on one tool for one purpose at a time.
by jonwachob91 | 2025-06-29 19:17:47+00:00
That's not at all how insurance companies price risk. Unknown risk is more risk, and more risk is more expensive. Therefore, unknown hurricane data is more risky and thus more expensive.

If you know your car's engine is going to need replaced after exactly 100,000 miles, you know to save up for a new engine or a new car - and you know how long you have to save, so you can precisely set aside an appropriate figure every month.

If you know your car's engine will die sometime within the next 15,000 miles, you know you need to start saving up immediately, but b/c you don't know when in the next 15,000 miles you have to rush your saving.

If you have no idea when your car's engine is going to die, you are likely to end up dead engine and little to no savings.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-29 19:17:51+00:00
> We can't actually say this was DOGE

The article is saying it was DOGE. DOGE directly attacked our hurricane-forecasting capacity [1]. OMB, i.e. Vought, continues that attack [2].

Given the top three states by hurricane risk voted for Trump in ‘24 [3][4] this should make for an entertaining hurricane season. (Particularly if both a red and blue state get hit and request federal assistance.)

[1] https://apnews.com/article/national-weather-service-layoffs-...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOAA_under_the_second_presid...

[3] https://www.realtor.com/news/trends/states-most-at-risk-for-...

[4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_president...
by FredPret | 2025-06-29 19:18:04+00:00
I once worked for a large consumer goods company. We had a conference about scents.

We saw a clear correlation between richer consumers and a preference for subtler scents or even no scent.

This even applied across countries: third-world consumers liked aggressive floral scents, but in Northern Europe and North America, the scents are way less concentrated and tend to be more toward subtle alpine or linen.

All this was 15-20 years ago; today I notice that no soap in my house smells like anything at all.
by tolmasky | 2025-06-29 19:18:22+00:00
It occurs to me that "WebScript" actually solves another tricky problem: describing the thing people mean when they say JavaScript, vs. the thing JavaScript actually, technically, is. You see, technically, JS doesn't have half the functionality you're used to, like WebSockets, TextEncoder, fetch, or even something as simple as the URL class. In fact, JS does not technically even "fully" support ESM modules, as major portions of that standard are delegated to other Web Platform APIs.

There's good reasons for all of this of course, but from an end user perspective, it's pretty confusing that URL is not part of JS but encodeURIComponent is. And Uint8Array is part of JS but TextEncoder isn't. But the cool thing is that increasingly no one needs to worry about that because the non-browser JS runtimes have settled on the idea that they should implement the Web Platform APIs. So as a developer, you can just act as if WebSockets is part of JavaScript.

But there's no good name for this “collection" of standards that are together commonly accepted to be "JavaScript". No one says "JavaScript with browser-compliant modules and WebWorker additions…”, and even saying “ECMAScript with the Web Platform Additions” is a mouthful. But you know what does convey “ECMAScript, the way you're used to it in browsers”? WebScript.

This very much makes the case for not using ECMAScript, since ECMAScript still has a separate meaning. It is the pure language spec. Useful as a term for spec writers, pedantic everywhere else. Meanwhile, "WebScript" formalizes what people were sometimes (but not always) bending "JavaScript" to do before, and thus actually does add "new utility" to the terminology, vs. just being a replacement synonym that avoid legal issues.
by dmurray | 2025-06-29 19:18:38+00:00
I definitely get unmutable notifications on Android from my first-party phone manufacturer bloatware apps, which is the equivalent here. Would I like to see the new Themes in the Theme Marketplace?

Pretty sure I've had marketing notifications on third party apps I couldn't disable without losing functionality, too. Separate notification channels might be mandatory in theory, but even if so, the Play Store is worse at policing that kind of thing in practice than Apple.
by jama211 | 2025-06-29 19:18:50+00:00
Yeeeah dude you have some seriously rose tinted glasses on.

My windows machine can go from completely powered off to a big application like a web browser fully open and operational on maybe 10-15 seconds, and yes, fully powered off. No way I’m making coffee in that time. Sure, windows might run stuff in the background, but it’s so fast that stuff doesn’t get in the way of me using the thing at all.

As for phones, “forever” is a silly thing to say but even if I granted you that one off boot time, you have somewhat moved the goalposts as you talked about the act of using software in day to day usage. On my laptop I can genuinely open 10 apps, close 10 apps, and open 10 apps again all within 10 seconds, probably faster if I wasn’t constrained by literal click actions. My computers growing up would grind to a halt if you tried to run like 3 things at once!

There are always instances of inefficient software, but there was back in the day too, I remember generating a new map on civilisation 1 on my 286 and it taking 10 hours. There is no way you can possibly say that on average software is slower today than it used to be, that statement in general is just completely false.
by watwut | 2025-06-29 19:19:28+00:00
They lived from it, full stop. It was middle class sort of occupation. You was not rich nor poor, you was respected but not a leader.

> Weddings, funerals and birthdays, that's where i see community contribution, not full time professionals.

These were definitely professionals and these events were seen as important. Even if you was poor, you threw money on it. People in the past had ears just like we do. The amateur singing after 5th beer is fun for singers, but not fun for anyone else.

> Not much other entertainment possibilities to spend your Sunday on other than being part of the band.

They had plenty of opportunities, we did not invented fun. All generations before us had fun. Socializing and drinking would be the easy straightforward one. Listening to a professional band as you drink and chat.
by counters | 2025-06-29 19:19:48+00:00
> To anyone acting as if this is a surprise or they're suddenly caught out and have to switch to another provider, I have to wonder, with the writing on the wall for 8 years now, how have you not already updated your plans?

That doesn't accurately capture the reason why there's outrage here. In the weather community, we're constantly thinking through contingencies because a great deal of things are out of our control - and we rely on aging infrastructure, much of which is already flaky to begin with.

Data outages and data loss happens. But there's no reason to allow a _preventable_ data loss to occur. The DMSP data is still being collected, it's just not being distributed downstream. And the decision to make this policy change was seemingly done rapidly and with no input or feedback from the user community of this data - both inside and outside the federal government.

There's no reason to turn off the spigot of this data. And there certainly is no reason to do so abruptly and with virtually no notice. As a consequence, the community is limited in its ability to adapt. For instance, it would take time (and money) to spin up more hurricane hunting resources to replace the overpass data that the SSMI/S instrument captures. Some private companies operate PMW satellite constellations and we could accelerate the acquisition of these data, but there are limited (read: none) federal mechanisms to do this and due to vertical integration in the weather industry, the operators of these constellations may not actually be inclined to do so - and certainly won't do so on the cheap, especially for the federal government.

So this isn't hyperbole. This is a really big deal. It might not be visible to you, but there is a panic and scramble occurring in the weather community to figure out what to do from here.

And for the record - yes, the same panic would happen if the DMSP satellites failed suddenly due to natural causes. But this current situation could've - and should've - been prevented.
by freedomben | 2025-06-29 19:20:28+00:00
I despise Oracle, and I think there aren't many companies out there as evil as them. I would be thrilled if they burned to the ground, figuratively speaking of course.

But that said, I think it would be dumb to jump to conclusions just based on having Oracle on the resume. You should at least ask them why they worked there, and why they left. For all you know, they had no idea how bad Oracle was when they started, and they left because they saw how evil they were. That is the exact kind of person that I do want to hire
by dougb5 | 2025-06-29 19:20:32+00:00
I learned of this when users of my dictionary search site (OneLook) started complaining. I'd been in contact with folks from dictionary.com in their early days, and I've watched its rise and fall with curiosity. If whoever owns reference.com now is reading this, I'll buy it from you and I can promise to honor its original mission as I have with OneLook -- make me an offer.

FYI dictionary.com and thesaurus.com are still available on their original domains. I believe that, under prior ownership (IAC), they consolidated the traffic of their properties under reference.com in order to get higher audience numbers in ComScore and hence better ad deals. It's baffling to me that they (apparently) either let the domain expire or sold it to a spammer. It's accrued brand equity since 2008 -- and no doubt a lot of backlinks, for whatever that's worth now.
by Rebelgecko | 2025-06-29 19:21:30+00:00
No encryption*. I think they broadcast on S-band which isn't necessarily compatible with a $20 hobbyist rtl-sdr, but still possible with more advanced amateur setups

* Ok that's an oversimplification. They actually turn encryption on while the satellite is over certain areas. But if you're in the Continental US I think it's in the clear
by jph | 2025-06-29 19:22:02+00:00
mise is a great tool. One area where it doesn't work right out of the box is installing PostgreSQL via macOS brew, when I don't want to use Nix or Docker or Podman etc.

Here's the solution I use; perhaps someone here has a better idea?

brew install gcc readline zlib curl openssl@1.1 ossp-uuid icu4c pkg-config PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$(brew --prefix)/lib/pkgconfig:$(brew --prefix icu4c)/lib/pkgconfig" \ LDFLAGS="-L$(brew --prefix)/lib" \ CPPFLAGS="-I$(brew --prefix)/include" \ mise use postgres --verbose
by saubeidl | 2025-06-29 19:22:12+00:00
"fascism" isn't a vague term meaning "government does things I don't like". It's a specific right wing ideology not at all related to what I was talking about.

> Yes, emphasis on appointed, appointed is not the same as elected. Hence, not democratically elected.

Appointed just like the US president or any minister in any democratic government ever. Are those not democratic?

> Sorry to break it to you, but then your definition of right wing is super skewed.

"She is a member of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its affiliated European political party, the European People's Party."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_von_der_Leyen

I think your definition is skewed.
by thegreatwhale8 | 2025-06-29 19:22:53+00:00
Offtopic: The article reads very much like it's chatgpt generated. But it's not surprising giving the subject matter. I just dislike how a computer tries to be entertaining and uses this default "voice" when writing anything. I hope there will be some way to personalize the output text, so it will be correct, but not soulless.
by schiffern | 2025-06-29 19:23:21+00:00
Before you claim there's nothing happening and The Guardian didn't mean it, check social media comments elsewhere to see how many people misinterpret this news item into "DOGE/Elon did it."

I would bet you, but that money's too easy. :)

Again, this exact conversation is the genius behind 'lying _without lying_.' You can always claim in high-literacy communities like HN that no, nobody would ever be silly enough misread it like that, all while watching your misinformation spread across the low-literacy communities like facebook and reddit.

The Guardian et al has done this too often for plausible deniability. Even I can pick up on the pattern, and that's without access to the big boy's social media engagement and sentiment tracking tools.
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-06-29 19:24:42+00:00
Have you looked at the state of the world? "Let the money vote" works better than "let anyone just commandeer the finite resource, but only once", if nobody immoral enough to exploit it learns about vulnerabilities in your system.

If I can use my money to vote for "give me more money" at a profit, and I have no qualms about doing so, then I win – and if we play multiple such games with the same money, then we end up with a situation that's worse than "let anyone commandeer the resource".