MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mountainb | 2025-06-10 13:04:08+00:00
There's a lot of mental cycles being expended on "how to avoid going to court over contract litigation" when the answer could be provided by a bog-standard forum selection clause requiring arbitration from a template last updated in 1992 or indeed a chatbot; but you would have to ask it the right question.

Looking up the lawsuit in question but without reviewing the record, it looks like this was probably as much personal as it was business. This always makes cases a lot harder to settle. When it is just business, you can almost always work it out in numbers. When you screw over a wealthy man in a very personal and humiliating way, your contract case can become like divorce, which is only good for the lawyers and for no one else. Ask the chatbot to summarize "The Prince" for you and maybe this will be one of the points that it gives you.
by bandoti | 2025-06-10 13:04:29+00:00
It’s going to be really interesting to see how this UI paradigm pans out. I think this captures a shift toward the extreme in responsive, fluid, convergent, whatever-you-want-to-call-it, design.

We’ve had books/scrolls for thousands of years, laid out in beautiful proportion, and now it has all melted in the oven!
by pfdietz | 2025-06-10 13:04:44+00:00
Hydrogen is intimately connected with solar and wind, because it's a way to counter long term variability in the output of solar and wind. It's this long term variability that's the last desperate argument the anti-renewable propagandists are clinging to. It's also because the link ("Implications of Battery and Gas Storage for Germany's National Energy Management") you posted to start this thread includes hydrogen in its anti-renewable argument.

It's also the case that China's experience, far from being an argument for nuclear, is actually evidence nuclear is losing, even in China. Nuclear bad faith arguers like to point to China as evidence for nuclear but it has become the opposite.

Capacity factor doesn't matter if the LCoE is much lower and if intermittency can be dealt with properly.

Europe's problem at this point is not that nuclear is better, it's that Europe's place in the world is built on a foundation of fossil fuel use. In a post-fossil fuel, solar-powered age Europe will be an energy ghetto, and nuclear won't fix that.
by ksec | 2025-06-10 13:05:08+00:00
Adding Another note to myself.

My Early 2015 Intel MacBook Pro has a GB6 Single Core of 974, and Multi Core 1931.

An Early 2025 M4 MacBook Air has a GB6 Single Core of 3700, and Multi Core 14600.

That is 3.7x faster at single core and ~7.5x faster in Multi Core over the span of 10 years. May be M5 is even faster.

On GPU Metal MBP 2015 is roughly ~5500 while 2025 M4 is roughly 55000. So 10x.

Edit: The M4 Pro has a TDP of 32W and PL2 of 40W. So not a very good comparison to Max 28W of Intel Core i5-5257U. But still adding it here.

M4 Pro GB6 3840, Multi Core 20400. Metal 105814.
by andrewlgood | 2025-06-10 13:05:21+00:00
For startups that don’t make it five years the issue is moot. Expensing the software developers compensation in year 1 rather than over years 1-5 simply creates a larger taxable loss which creates a Net Operating Loss on the balance sheet which could be used in a future, profitable year. As NOLs can expire and have rules regarding how quickly they can be used and whether they can be sold, capitalizing the R&D could be a better answer for some firms.
by potato3732842 | 2025-06-10 13:05:44+00:00
>On the other side many, mostly childless, women feel some kind of loneliness and adopt a dog.

Back in "the day" these people would get into crappy marriages and pop out a few kids before ultimately getting divorced or just be single moms. While it's nice that they're not doing that I think the more interesting angle is the picture of how the economic reality has changed over the generations.
Show HN: AlienArt.io – Turn Data into Videos
by omegascorp | 2025-06-10 13:05:47+00:00
I've been working on this project since 2021, but just recently realized that it would be great to receive feedback from the Hacker News community.

What's the purpose?

AlienArt.io transforms Data into Video Data Visualizations, which can be downloaded as an MP4 file or embedded into a website.

It can work with spreadsheets, and recently we've added an option to import data from a Wikipedia page.

Most users utilize it to create videos and publish them on YouTube and TikTok.

I'm looking for applications of the tool within companies and would appreciate feedback.

--

As a technical note, here is the stack:

Backend: TypeScript, Node.js, Express, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, ManticoreSearch, Socketi, ffmpeg

Frontend: TypeScript, React, Konva
by conartist6 | 2025-06-10 13:05:51+00:00
You would do well to remember that the protesters likely feel it would be accomplishing their political goals to provoke a larger violent confrontation with the police. The best case for the protesters looking to undermine Trump is if they convince the US Marines to open fire and slaughter lots of innocents on live TV. That could make these protests 10x - 100x larger than they are currently. Think Boston Massacre and you'll get the idea.
by presentation | 2025-06-10 13:05:54+00:00
I also had an experience like this, where we found a great lawyer who basically explained to us the social dynamics of the particular arbitration court that the legal battle would be fought out in, and how if we can establish a paper trail that just made the guy suing us look like he was acting in bad faith, that it would be hard for that guy to make his case. Then our lawyer helped us craft emails without being emotionally involved like we were to socially engineer this outcome, and then came out with a nice settlement at the end once his lawyer convinced him that he was in trouble.

I think finding these people is a dark art, but they exist.
by BryantD | 2025-06-10 13:05:58+00:00
You didn't say it was popular, you said it seemed to you like Democrats were trying to reconstruct a form of slavery. That's incorrect.

I have thought about what Trump got a lot of legal immigrant votes. I believe it's because a) he lied, playing on fear in order to get people to think he could save them from a non-existent threat and b) people didn't think he was going to do what he promised to do.

Ileana Garcia, Florida State Senator and co-founder of Latinos for Trump, just said "This is not what we voted for." She's wrong -- it was very clear to me during the campaign that Stephen Miller's goal was exactly what we're seeing now. However, I am fundamentally sympathetic to people who were fooled.
by arizen | 2025-06-10 13:06:46+00:00
Great framing. I'd add a strategic layer to this.

From a purely strategic perspective, as in military doctrine or game theory, expanding your set of viable options is almost always advantageous.

The goal is to maximize your own optionality while reducing your opponent's.

The failure mode you're describing isn't having options, but the paralysis of refusing to commit to one for execution.

A better model might be a cycle:

Strategy Phase: Actively broaden your options. Explore potential cities, business models, partners. This is reconnaissance.

Execution Phase: Choose the most promising option and commit fully. This is where your point about the power of constraints shines. You go all-in.

The Backlog: The other options aren't discarded; they're put in a strategic backlog. You don't burn the bridges.

You re-evaluate only when you hit a major "strategic bifurcation point" - a market shift, a major life event, a completed project. Then you might pull an option from the backlog.

This way, you get the power of constraints without the fragility of having never considered alternatives.
by T3OU-736 | 2025-06-10 13:07:47+00:00
Looks like a neat tool, and a valuable addition to the network bandwidth/latency/performance toolkit.

(Admittedly, it has been a while since I have done it) It did feel odd that there was not a mention of time discipline for the client/server and the impact on finer-grained stats. Perhaps, at least, mention that NTP (or, ideally, PTP, but that is a fair bit more involved) is strongly recommended to be running and stable (NTP's own jitter being low)?
by card_zero | 2025-06-10 13:08:23+00:00
Wikipedia says Gordon Bajnai, an entrepreneur aged about 41 at the time, who was in power for just one year, by choice:

> In his first speech as PM, he promised drastic measures to stop the negative spiral of the Hungarian economy, and to ease the burden of the international crisis. He also stated that he would remain in power until he had the solid majority of Parliament behind his austerity package, but will stay no longer than a year.

> The new cabinet formed on 29 May 2010. Bajnai was succeeded by Viktor Orbán. After that he retired from politics and returned to business life.
by bluGill | 2025-06-10 13:08:36+00:00
If you fail a goal in games you can restart - which most of us will a few times in playing games. You cannot restart life so easially. We only get an unknown amount of years to live (statistically about 80, but up to about 120 is possible, or down to however many hours old you are right now) I've thought about going back to college several times in life, however as each year goes by the value of a different degree goes down because there is even less time I could use it. Though also as time goes by the cost of "useless degrees" goes down because I have more money saved (though it is saved for retirement).

Often if you fail to reach some goal in life it is gone for good. If you lose out in a promotion to someone else (who might or might not be good) you need to give up on that goal - either find a different promotion you can get next year, or a different job equivalent to that promotion (assuming you are worthy of the promotion)
by ClaraForm | 2025-06-10 13:09:35+00:00
The funny thing is, I think either goals or a constraint are a tool that should serve the user. Constraints that don't automatically allow the user to achieve goals they would have otherwise accomplished, and that are meaningful and important to them, are useless constraints.

I think figuring out the constraints one likes to work with can act as a great filter once someone knows what kind of success, goals, values and life they want to inhabit. Otherwise, it's as arbitrary as goal setting.

For me, I parroted other people's cool-sounding goals for a lot of my life, achieving varying degrees of success and happiness. Only in retrospect can I look at my favourite success and failure stories and consider which constraints, if I held them earlier, would have helped me narrow down to those favourite storylines from the get-go. Those constraints, I keep near and dear to my heart and attention in my daily life.

I don't think there's a way to set a meaningful constraint before practicing setting goals first. Walk before you run, etc. etc.
by andreygrehov | 2025-06-10 13:09:44+00:00
First, the article doesn’t say where they got that quote from. There’s zero context - just random words in the middle of the text. It’s extremely low-quality journalism.

Second, please review the author’s articles - https://apnews.com/author/michelle-r-smith - she’s obsessed with RFK. There’s zero positive writing about anything. RFK wants the healthcare industry to be more transparent. He insists on more rigorous testing. These are common sense policy positions that deserve fair analysis. The lack of balanced reporting does a disservice to readers who deserve comprehensive coverage of important health policy debates.
by jimkleiber | 2025-06-10 13:10:02+00:00
Really excited to try this.

1) I'm surprised to not see the bugdrop feature in the admin section, which means I currently have to report the bug here :-)

2) I was also surprised that it didn't seem to need to confirm my email, seems standard these days.

Otherwise, stoked to try this. I already reported a "bug" on your front page and it went very smoothly.

3) Didn't receive an email receipt confirming that the bug was reported after I had entered my email, not sure if that's planned or not.

Thanks!
by hash872 | 2025-06-10 13:10:19+00:00
Thank God I've never been involved in serious litigation, but his description of the process sounds absolutely wild to me. Reminder that the US is a global outlier in 'loser doesn't pay winners' attorneys' fees' (as he notes, this is literally called the American Rule). And a global outlier in using juries for civil trials, which can lead to some gigantic unpredictable judgements. I'd imagine our discovery laws are unique too.

Surprised some business-friendly US state hasn't greatly restricted discovery in civil litigation, so as to attract companies to incorporate there. And this is why arbitration rose as a way to settle disputes- if you look at the standard arbitration agreement they greatly limit discovery
by neither_color | 2025-06-10 13:10:42+00:00
The US refuses to admit it has always had an addiction to cheap labor so it entices desperate people to come over with the implicit assumption that if they keep their head down and are otherwise law-abiding it'll "look the other way." Some of them, after years of living on the outskirts of town, commuting 1.5 hours each day to back-breaking minimum wage jobs, and years without seeing their families, are able to scrounge up enough money to pay a lawyer thousands to help them get normalized. Only now they're being spawn-camped at court hearings too.

If the US were more self-aware and honest it would expand existing guest worker programs and create new pathways for temp labor to work without obtaining citizenship the way Singapore and Middle Eastern countries do. They seem cruel but at least each side of the equation knows what it's getting and they can even visit home every year! But Americans' hubristic tendency is to look at a place like Singapore or some other new skyline in the middle east or Asia and declare smugly "borderline slaves built that."
by hn_acker | 2025-06-10 13:12:02+00:00
> It seemed to me like most of the opposition was to the mandate rather than to letting people take the vaccine if they chose to.

That's how it seems to me too, but somehow the people with that perspective are not the ones being represented in HHS. Instead, we have Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who has chosen to "approve" a COVID-19 vaccine while restricting most currently-healthy adults from using it (even though vaccines are supposed to prevent currently-healthy people from getting an infection or as severe of an infection).
by Doxin | 2025-06-10 13:12:24+00:00
While the purposivism approach has its own problems, it does seem to avoid a lot of shenanigans of the form "Well you didn't say we couldn't sell ground up orphans as soup."

There should be space for companies and people to make honest mistakes or misunderstandings and not get punished too harshly for it, but when a company like apple has their lawyers go over legal texts with a fine tooth comb to look for a single sentence that could be possibly interpreted in their advantage, knowing full well they are circumventing the intent of the law by doing so, I don't see an issue with telling them in no uncertain terms to knock it off.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-06-10 13:12:24+00:00
I don't have this experience with Claude, frankly. I do have to correct it, but I try to give very specific prompts with very specific instructions. IT does well with highly commented code.

Now, I have the best luck in my personal project codebase, which I know extremely intimately so can be very surgical with.

Work, which has far less comments and is full of very high level abstractions that I don't know as well.. it struggles with. We both do.

It's a fine pair programmer when one of the pairs knows the codebase extremely well. It's a bad companion elsewhere.
by ansgri | 2025-06-10 13:13:09+00:00
What's the primary use case you had in mind here? In the example I see it generating a palette of 256 colors and then using them, but it doesn't seem to correspond to any modern use case. AFAIU one currently needs dithering either as part of print/display process (but then you have a fixed palette), or for compression, but I think this makes sense nowadays only with very low color count, like 16 max?
by Y_Y | 2025-06-10 13:14:08+00:00
> None of this is realistic. We need attainable goals, using concrete steps.

Well you know, that's just like, your opinion, man.[0]

Surely it makes sense to have overarching goals, that you can then divide up into little concrete stepping stones.

Whether or not your big goal is possible or worthwhile is something you can keep examining along the way.

Incremental change is the only kind that you can make happen, but without big-picture direction you'll just skitter around local maxima.

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z-xI1384Ry4
by kj4211cash | 2025-06-10 13:14:54+00:00
So much of academic life revolves around bringing in grant money. This is particularly true in STEM fields and at the best research schools. There are ever increasing administrative hoops to jump through to bring in that grant money. And grants nowadays are often given out for research on very specific topics often chosen by bureaucrats. These topics are, almost by definition, not innovative. The NSF is an exception but there are very few NSF grants given out, relative to the number of researchers. My assessment is that the most famous, most published researchers can still afford to explore, if they have the time and inclination, but the rest cannot.
by bluGill | 2025-06-10 13:14:57+00:00
I always thought of winning a game as proof of my skill in the game. All those hours of studying the rules, practicing moves, or whatever it takes have proven to pay off because I win once in a while - or if I lose it proves that I didn't do enough and is motivation to study/practice enough. Playing the game is in itself fun as well even if I lose and the constraints of the rules makes the game possible.

What I don't get is watching someone else play a game. I want to do it myself. If I'm watching the game it is to learn how someone else does it. OTOH, I can sit in the audience and watch someone else play music for hours... YMMV.
by kmarc | 2025-06-10 13:15:21+00:00
Before his second term came, it was the Socialist party in coalition with the (left) Liberals[1] for 8 years. I don't recall to have an equivalent of Sleepy Joe, but one of the early left wing PM certainly seemed a bit dumb.

The "real" problem was that they had too many (Russia-influenced / supported?) ex-communists and some of them were doing corrupt business in the 100k USD range; Of course this is already forgotten, Orban's friends' 100M+ USD ranging businesses seem to be fine with the voters. Not to mention Orban's and the foreign minister's regular visit to Putin.

Relevant search keywords: "Hungary Orban" + any of the following: "stadium", "castle", "rich meszaros", "corruption"

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Hungarian_parliamentary_e...
by 1dom | 2025-06-10 13:15:30+00:00
> All of humanity might suffer, at least that's my fear.

Suffer compared to what? That's the alternative? Number 1 stays number 1?

The world works in peaks and troughs, swings and roundabouts. What goes up must come down. Time marches on, change happens. This comes with suffering, but is also the definition of progress.

Nothing is the best forever, and the one's at the top who don't acknowledge that are the ones with the hardest fall ahead. That applies to complacent SV leadership as much as it applies to the average American citizen.

I can't fault this way of thinking about the world: change is inevitable, you have to roll with it. If I accept it though, the idea of "planned decline of America" is interesting to think about. If you're at the top, decline is inevitable, it's the only direction. What's the only thing you can do to mitigate the pain of the inevitable? Try plan to work with it. Not sure how I feel about this way of thinking, it feels pragmatic if nothing else.
by scott_w | 2025-06-10 13:15:36+00:00
> My understanding is that the National Guard are being deployed because ICE is being impeded from carrying out their operations. If California were allowed to constructively block the Federal government from carrying out policy of democratically elected administrations, that would be effectively a declaration of secession.

The California government are not blocking the Federal government from carrying out ICE raids. If you believe otherwise, please show the evidence that Trump has presented.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-06-10 13:15:38+00:00
> Back in the early 2010s, they found a way to spy on HTTPS traffic on the iOS App Store to monitor which apps were getting popular. That's what allowed them to know WhatsApp and Instagram were good acquisition targets.

Incorrect. An Israeli startup (Onavo) had pivoted into selling data acquired from their VPN got acquired by Facebook. Importantly, they used statistics to estimate population prevalence which is how FB knew that Whatsapp (specifically, this was all post IG acquisition) was super popular outside the US.

> They had people install a VPN app using enterprise certificate so it was never in the App Store and they monitored all the traffic that the VPN sent.

This was (sadly) an entirely different scandal.

Honestly, I generally defend Meta/targeted advertising in these threads, but this one is such incredible, total, absolute bullshit that I can't even begin to comprehend how one could defend this.

I do remember when I joined FB in 2013, how surprised I was that most of the company didn't care about ads/making money (apart from the sales org). That ship has clearly sailed.
by viraptor | 2025-06-10 13:15:45+00:00
Sorry, but this is both hyperbolic and so low on details it's hard to understand the problem. Migrants, so you mean basically homeless people? Low income, so a big chunk of the problem is that minimum wage is not enough to survive without help? (That applies to everyone, not migrants) What does being black have to do with that? What do you mean the kids have nowhere else to go? There are so many kids with no after school programs or any kind.

Is there actually more real context missing here?
by MantisShrimp90 | 2025-06-10 13:16:04+00:00
Meh, you're making the same mistake most do on this one. You're treating the Linux desktop like it's compatible even though these two non-linux operating systems are made by some of the biggest companies ever with allot of engineering hours paid to lock people in.

Plus, one could argue they've actually just established dominance through market lockin by ensuring the culture never had a chance and making operating system moves hard for the normal person.

But more importantly if we instead consider the context that this is largely a collection of small utilities made by volunteers vs huge companies with paid engineering teams, one should be amazed at how comparable they are at all.
by CivBase | 2025-06-10 13:16:06+00:00
I have a hard time reading the text in a lot of their examples.

The artist name "Nao" on the music player. The zoom level "1x" on the camera. The tab "Library" on the gallery. And even the URL "floralarrangem..." in the browser.

Seems to be a consequence of low-contrast, busy backgrounds, and overly aggressive use of transparency. Maybe a "tinted glass" approach and more considerate color/contrast choices would help.