MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by berkes | 2025-06-25 13:24:43+00:00
I see it as a larger problem in many "ideologically inclined" projects, like Open Source software, fairtrade products, etc.

A large amount of energy is wasted on "infighting" where people spend significant effort on attacking projects that, seen from a distance, are actually allies¹.

Or where people dismiss the entire project because it's not 100 aligned with their view of perfection².

Or, indeed, where people who don't even use or want to use a project, spend significant effort to discredit this project.

¹ an example is the enormous amount of effort and campaigning within the "mastodon" community against projects like bluesky or nostr. But also gnome vs kde, Ubuntu vs Redhat, Etc

² an example is Opensource software being discredited because they use GitHub, or host on AWS. It's Patagonia being discredited because they use plastic. Or Fairtrade coffee being dismissed because it transports coffee with trucks and ships burning oil.
by moron4hire | 2025-06-25 13:25:51+00:00
This is the W3C standardization process.

The W3C is not a prescriptive standardization body. It doesn't have any regulatory power giving it any teeth to go after vendors acting in bad faith. So the W3C process is descriptive and encourages a period of competitive divergence in implementations. It is only after the early adopters have hammered on the features and figured out which parts they like best that a Web API can then start to get standardized.
by dev_l1x_be | 2025-06-25 13:26:23+00:00
> Look at poor webp

What about it?

"Lossless WebP is typically 26% smaller than PNG, while lossy WebP can be 25-34% smaller than JPEG at equivalent quality levels"

This literally saves houndred of thousand of cost, bandwith, electricity every month on the internet. In fact, I strongly belive that this is one of the greatest contributions from Google to society just like ZSTD from Facebook.

https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/docs/webp_study
by sloaken | 2025-06-25 13:26:55+00:00
2 ideas: As you mention, you want to rebuild - so set short time frames of reading and slowly increase.

Always have something available to read, be it device or hard copy. When you have a free second read. This works best with fiction, but with practice you have digest bigger technical crap 2 minutes at a time.

For me part of the problem is quality. So much of what I read is filled with, well filler. As such I skim the first sentence of each paragraph until I find the real information.
by chilmers | 2025-06-25 13:27:19+00:00
I'm not sure how much sense it makes to talk about 9 year old children "liking" gambling. Sure, genetic predisposition undoubtedly plays a role in any behaviour, but do you really think childhood experiences have no effect on shaping adult behaviour? Kids brains are still developing and it's hardly a stretch to suggest that uncontrolled exposure to heavily-optimised addiction generators could encourage a gambling habit as much as exploit an inherent tendency.
by bluGill | 2025-06-25 13:28:06+00:00
AUTOSAR had the idea of collecting the common parts used for CARs. Your phone doesn't need a generic library for CAN, but cars do. Reuse isn't a new idea, but the idea of doing it for common car specific code is new - it is an obvious idea whose time has come, but still new for this specific application.

Then consultants got involved and made it into the garbage it is. The ideas themself were sound and obvious. However they over complicated it and made it into garbage even though the idea itself is sound. (over complicated as in I know experienced autosar developers who got fed up and took 1 week to rewrite in C code they had just done in autosar in 3 months!)
by Hetzner_OL | 2025-06-25 13:29:38+00:00
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by runako | 2025-06-25 13:30:46+00:00
And then the model names & descriptions are virtually useless at providing any guidance.

ChatGPT lets me choose between GPT-4o ("Great for most tasks"), o3 ("Uses advanced reasoning"), o4-mini ("Fastest at advanced reasoning"), and o4-mini-high ("Great at coding and visual reasoning").

Is what I'm doing "most tasks"? How do I know when I want "advanced reasoning"? Great, I want advanced reasoning, so I should choose the faster one with the higher version number, right? etc.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-06-25 13:31:02+00:00
I don't get the connection between the skillset of a startup founder and someone like Bill. While Jobs showcases taking something from vision to product, your Wozniaks and Atkinsons solved the countless problems at steps along the entire path of the journey. These seem like very complimentary but distinct skillsets. I interpreted the OP as stating there's a lack of the latter, but they didn't comment on the former.
by b112 | 2025-06-25 13:31:57+00:00
Wasn't the operation planned, to rescue hostages that the regime wasn't capable of protecting? In fact, didn't care to protect? Wikipedia seems to say so.

After all, you're supposed to police your own residents, and keep them from invading embassies, which are foreign turf. You're also supposed to respect that aspect of diplomacy. Letting your citizens raid an embassy and kidnap diplomats is the act of a banana republic, and definitely signals the end of diplomacy.

If the current regime is upset at someone trying to rescue their own people kidnapped from their embassy, then frankly that regime is insane. Iran is 100% at fault for allowing that to happen, not working quickly to resolve it. The US is 100% correct to have sent people in to rescue their own people, under those circumstances.

If the embassy was better armed, with more security, they'd be completely correct to shoot-to-kill every single person who stormed that embassy. Yet sending people in to rescue them after the fact is... wrong?

Hardly, and I sincerely doubt Iran is significantly upset still. Yelling about it, sure. Upset for real? No.

After all, it was a spectacular failure.
by sidewndr46 | 2025-06-25 13:32:03+00:00
My parents live in what is still a relatively rural area, it's unlikely you'd ever send something to their address on accident. They perpetually get kids toys shipped to their house. Address and name is correct each time. The package is clearly from Amazon. I'm relatively certain it is some part of weird review scam process. It's become a common enough thing that they just hand out the toys to who ever has young kids in the family.
by yjftsjthsd-h | 2025-06-25 13:32:36+00:00
I don't know enough to understand the DOM argument, but

> The spec assumes a certain form of translation backend, exposing information about model availability, download progress, quotas, and usage prediction. We'd like to minimize the information exposure so that the implementation can be more flexible.

reads to me as Chrome once again trying to export itself verbatim as a "standard" and Mozilla pointing out that that's not really applicable to others.

Also the WebKit post seems to raise somewhat similar arguments but on the basis of fingerprinting/privacy problems.
by Eisenstein | 2025-06-25 13:32:37+00:00
I'm sure your bitcoin are fine, seeing as the entrenched financial institutions and the old money crowd invested in them, their value isn't going to go down; nice to be part of that crowd I am sure. You may want to check in on NFTs, Terra Luna, Celsius, Safe Moon, SQUID, and FTX. I think they might not be at all time highs.
by entuno | 2025-06-25 13:32:45+00:00
TF2 had lootboxes ("crates") back in 2010, a couple of years before CS:GO was released - I think this was Valve's first major foray into them. And it was really easy to trade the items, or buy/sell them on the Steam marketplace.

I don't know how the relative market caps compared, but I remember reading years ago that a hat in TF2 had sold for $14k...
by bee_rider | 2025-06-25 13:32:47+00:00
Like anything else, the casino business is competitive, right? A casino might be a money printer, but as the years go by the tech to print money can get cheaper, and there isn’t a ton of incumbency advantage because it’s all straightforward.

Also with a job board, there seems to be a natural progression—the most valuable asset you can have is that the dummies and the useless resume-optimizers haven’t figured out how to game your system yet. So if anything there’s a huge incumbency disadvantage.
by haswell | 2025-06-25 13:33:18+00:00
> you aren't a winner if you are unlocking social media. You are opening the gate to loserdom

That is not a psychologically healthy way to frame this.

And I think it’s a stretch to say that screaming “I’m a loser” is positive punishment, which seems just as likely to reinforce negative self beliefs that lead to the outcomes described in the parent comment’s research and opposite of what the user presumably wants.

To your point, just flipping this around to “I’m a winner” doesn’t seem quite right either. But more importantly, reinforcing the idea that “I’m a loser” seems counterproductive either way.
by TMEHpodcast | 2025-06-25 13:33:31+00:00
I made a significant error conflating different levels of the quantum gravity problem. Special relativity and quantum mechanics have indeed been successfully merged since the Dirac equation in 1928, forming quantum field theory that underlies all particle physics. That's well-established and experimentally validated.

The Wheeler-DeWitt equation is specifically an attempt to merge general relativity with quantum mechanics - quantum gravity - which remains unsolved. And you're correct that even the Wheeler-DeWitt equation does contain spacetime coordinates including time, as shown in your matrix breakdown.

The "timelessness" issue I was referring to is more subtle - it's about how when you try to quantize general relativity using the ADM formalism, you get a constraint equation (the Hamiltonian constraint) where the total Hamiltonian equals zero, leading to what looks like a "frozen" or timeless quantum state. But this is a technical issue in the formalism, not literally "no time variable exists."

I oversimplified this into "contains no time variable" which is just wrong, as you've demonstrated. The actual problem is much more nuanced and relates to how time evolution works in quantum gravity, not the absence of temporal coordinates.

>> That just make no sense. Atomic clocks just measure the frequency of some process, some may use entanglement, but the clocks don't show that time is created by quantum entanglement.

You're absolutely right - that's a complete logical leap that makes no sense. I conflated two separate things:

1. Atomic clocks are incredibly precise frequency measurements of atomic transitions 2. Some recent atomic clock experiments use quantum entanglement to enhance precision

But precise frequency measurement has nothing to do with proving time emerges from quantum entanglement. That's like saying "this really accurate thermometer proves temperature is created by the mercury inside it."

The fact that some atomic clocks use entanglement for better precision doesn't mean they're revealing that "time measurement has quantum foundations" in any deep sense about time's nature. They're just using quantum effects as a tool for more accurate measurement of whatever time actually is.

I was trying to connect recent atomic clock advances to the emergent time hypothesis, but there's no actual connection there. The clocks measure time precisely - they don't tell us anything about whether time is fundamental or emergent.

Thanks for keeping the physics accurate!

This is a science comedy podcast, so I’m hoping the 30K view I give my listeners on these topics encourage creative, but critical thought (sprinkled with humour).
by sodimel | 2025-06-25 13:33:55+00:00
It seems to send the data to google's servers.

> Note: On some browsers, like Chrome, using Speech Recognition on a web page involves a server-based recognition engine. Your audio is sent to a web service for recognition processing, so it won't work offline.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_...
by boredpudding | 2025-06-25 13:34:42+00:00
I experience this a lot. I have a Fairphone 5 and helping provide answers to questions in threads online is a minefield. You answer questions of someone, and somebody else comes along and starts shouting they want feature x.

People seem to flock to smaller phone companies and demand they fill in their one feature. Whether it's USB-OTG display functionality, headphone jack, slider to kill all connections, etc, everybody is convinced their one feature is holding this phone company back, just because they want this one feature.

It's just disappointing. I'm just happy with my long-lasting repairable phone.
by bpt3 | 2025-06-25 13:35:06+00:00
Equating TikTok (which I am not a fan of but can see the entertainment value), video games (which I do enjoy), and nuclear weapons (which is basically the only thing in existence that can wipe humans off the earth) is absurd. A user of TikTok and a "user" of a nuclear bomb are not equivalent in any way, and therefore claiming this is an example of your "straightforward" reasoning is also absurd.

I am not conflating "useful" and "good overall". You are the one claiming that something (let's pick TikTok) is useful to its users, but shouldn't exist. Why should something that is useful to its users not exist?

When you say useful in this case, I think you mean that users are deriving short term pleasure from interacting with the app by choice. You also seem to believe that the long term effects of near-constant social media consumption are so harmful that it should be banned. In my mind, if the latter is true, the short term pleasure is not in reality useful. If the latter is false, then the short term pleasure could be considered "useful" but there's no need for a ban.

This pattern also seems to hold with your example of students using chatGPT to avoid writing papers themselves. If I needed to succinctly describe the actions of someone who is spending tens of thousands of dollars a year and at least several hundred hours a year at a place for the express purpose of learning yet also actively avoids making effort to learn, "stupid" is a word that jumps to mind. Yet you seem to be arguing that is not the case because they know they're making a bad decision, which is hard to accept as an attempt at honest dialogue.

In both cases, people are trading long term gains for short term enjoyment. Calling that choice "stupid" may be rude or blunt, but it's not incorrect in most instances.

I'm not trying to put words into your mouth so I would welcome an actual answer to my question above (Why should something that is useful to its users not exist?), but I did want to explain what seems to me like an inherent contradiction in your position.
by asadm | 2025-06-25 13:35:35+00:00
I have been using this for about a month and it’s a beast, mostly thanks to 2.5pro being SOTA and also how it leverages that huge 1M context window. Other tools either preemptively compress context or try to read files partially.

I have thrown very large codebases at this and it has been able to navigate and learn them effortlessly.
by awkward | 2025-06-25 13:35:37+00:00
There's some domains where the bitter lesson has big impacts on theory. The Peter Norvig vs Noam Chomsky debate on the merits of brute force compute finding a full and complete theory of language is an example. That's a case where the path of "get a ton of data and handle it statistically" competes with the path of "build a complete and abstract understanding of the domain." Lots of resources and lifetimes of work are decided by which path to take.

Agreed that overfitting the bitter lesson often leads slopping piles of compute and hardware at problems that could just be deterministic.
by eduction | 2025-06-25 13:35:43+00:00
Local time isn’t just a view it gets down into the model. You can’t effectively model “every Tuesday at 4pm until cancelled” as a series of timestamps because it comes with an implied “…regardless of changes to daylight saving rules.”

Heck you can’t even model “Oct 15 2030 at 2pm” as a timestamp for the same reason if it is an appointment involving two humans in the same tz.

Somewhere you need to store the rule using local time concepts.
by thorin | 2025-06-25 13:35:49+00:00
Spanish guitar is hard, there is not much crossover between spanish styles and modern pop/metal etc. It probably has more in common with classical music, but then the picking is completely different. It's not that Brian couldn't have done that solo, he's an amazing player and can play in multiple styles, it sounded like from the interview they just wanted to add a different perspective to the track.

If you want to listen to something I think very few people in the pop scene could replicate I would suggest listening to Paco De Lucia. Of course people like Al Di Meola who played with Paco were able to crossover into that world but he is a virtuoso in his own right.
by KingOfCoders | 2025-06-25 13:36:29+00:00
Never worked for me that way, for one we found out how to find certain rares at that time, bought boxes (Second edition I think), got the good rares out, sold the rest packs.

It was more people buying boxes back then, opening, and selling the cards for profits (university mid 90s) than me buying lots of MTG in the hope to find something. We also played mostly with what we had, perhaps professional tournaments changed that.

Funnily, cards that people played back then, are worthless today, cards we considered average, are worth 1000+ EUR. Still have ~5000 EUR MTG cards somewhere.
by ableal | 2025-06-25 13:37:04+00:00
> Why would a network operator allow caller ID to be so easily spoofed?

Our protocols are descended from the postal system - the sender is a bit of text written on the wrapper.

Certifying that is out of the scope of delivering to the addressee. It would involve back and forth with an authority - e.g. showing someone your id before being allowed to post a letter.
by bdangubic | 2025-06-25 13:37:07+00:00
with all due respect but what does this mean? we can either "all know" or we can all not have a clue and have our own "visions" of the correct form, both of these are complete opposites.

decades of building garbage-barely-working forms is a proof that we just do not know (much like we (generally) don't know how to center a div on the page so once-per-year, without fail, top story on HN is "how to center a div" :) ).
by jerf | 2025-06-25 13:37:12+00:00
It's amazing to me how too much marketing education and/or experience seems to rot the brain. You learn on like day 4 of Marketing 101 that your brands should be distinct and recognizable, and hopefully some solid tips on how to do that. Cool. Solid. Seems obvious but there's plenty of things that seem obvious in hindsight that education can help you with.

Somewhere between that and a master's degree and 10 years at a prestigious marketing firm, though, apparently there's some lessons about how you should smear all your brands all over each other in some bid to, I presume, transfer any good will one may have had to all of them, but it seems to me that they could stand to send those people back to MKT101 again, because the principle of labeling what your product actually is seems to elude them after Too Much Education.
by dinfinity | 2025-06-25 13:37:21+00:00
> Online reviews in general are pretty useless these days.

It depends on the contents and the number of them. If multiple/many negative reviews for something all mention a similar defect, you can be pretty sure it is an actual issue with the thing. It is then up to you to determine if the thing is still worth your time/money.

I will say that for some things the motivations of the reviewers are something to take into account especially. For book reviews on Goodreads I've found that animosity towards the author causes heavy overstating of the 'defects' of a book.
by max-leo | 2025-06-25 13:37:36+00:00
Really weird that the label loot boxes and gambling mechanics in games as recent trends and mostly ignore them, as they imho are the main culprit here.

These kids don't transition from gaming to gambling. They switch from gambling in games like Counter-Strike, Fifa or Apex Legends, to gambling on online casinos.

Also from what I have witnessed, this transition already happens while they are still minors, as many of the big casinos have no KYC until you want to cash out again.
by iandanforth | 2025-06-25 13:37:48+00:00
I love how fragmented Google's Gemini offerings are. I'm a Pro subscriber, but I now learn I should be a "Gemini Code Assist Standard or Enterprise" user to get additional usage. I didn't even know that existed! As a run of the mill Google user I get a generous usage tier but paying them specifically for "Gemini" doesn't get me anything when it comes to "Gemini CLI". Delightful!
by KingOfCoders | 2025-06-25 13:38:30+00:00
People probably not buying, but the most expensive item now on marketplace.tf is $9,499.99. Myself bought ~$200 cosmetics, mostly strange killstreak ones I play (Sheep with a gun).

But also never bought a key. Recently sold old loot boxes for $15 each, nice.

https://marketplace.tf/browse/tf2?ssortfield=min_price
by dfxm12 | 2025-06-25 13:38:58+00:00
In east Asia, about 20 years ago with gacha games like Maple Story and slightly later with games that you'd play for free in an Internet Cafe, but would offer you loot crates. It became news in the west when EA took notice and added loot crates in FIFA 09, then TF2 famously was made free to play in order to hook more people in and push loot crates on them. It took off from there. Throughout this time there were Facebook games like this and eventually games like Puzzle and Dragons were pretty mainstream on mobile platforms by 2011.

Also of note, in many jurisdictions that regulate gambling, companies have found loopholes that offer arcade style "games of skill" that are still like 99.9% games of chance to get around gambling regulations. So gambling is also becoming more like gaming. It's enshittification all the way down.
by unshavedyak | 2025-06-25 13:39:24+00:00
Same. Generally i really prefer Claude Code's UX (CLI based, permissions, etc) - it's all generally close to right for me, but not perfect.

However i didn't use Claude Code before the Max plan because i just fret about some untrusted AI going ham on some stupid logic and burning credits.

If it's dumb on Max i don't mind, just some time wasted. If it's dumb on credits, i just paid for throw away work. Mentally it's just too much overhead for me as i end up worrying about Claude's journey, not just the destination. And the journey is often really bad, even for Claude.
by nzach | 2025-06-25 13:39:42+00:00
I'm experimenting with a somewhat similar workflow.

I have a Boox tablet I use to take handwritten notes on any relevant topics during the day. And with that I create the following workflow: 1. transform handwritten notes into a markdown document using chatgpt 2. with this document I ask chatgpt to create a summary of yesterdays activities and a list of unfinished things I still need to work on today.

This approach isn't perfect but is surprisingly useful.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-06-25 13:39:51+00:00
I buy lots of books and write lots of reviews on Amazon, and mine always say "verified purchase." I also see other reviews which were solicited by giving readers free copies (ARCs) a la Goodreads, and they never say "verified purchase." (And some reviews that were written by people who never read the book at all...) So yeah. Unless you have evidence to the contrary -- which would be evidence of a crime -- I think they can be trusted on this point.