MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by horsawlarway | 2025-06-27 13:12:56+00:00
Yeah, this piece is remarkably unclear in its message, but my read is similar.

It sounds like they're not actually changing much at all, and continue to plan to charge a fee on software released through alternatives, like 3rd party marketplaces or the web.

Personally - whoever thought that replacing "Fee" with "Commission" was a good call, when the words are literally synonyms (to the point that MW defines commission as "a fee paid to an agent") is smoking some drugs.

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My entire read here is: "We're changing some words to try the lawsuit again". I hope the penalty here from the EU is sharp and quick.
by modo_mario | 2025-06-27 13:13:00+00:00
I went to check and it seems like it works fine for plenty of other public domain books. The picture of Dorian Grey, Pride and prejudice and what have you. I can ask for x amount of paragraphs from a specific and such.

I doubt every part of those books get quoted everywhere on a numbered basis like the bible might be. For only recently public domain books it seems to be overly cautious trough the retroactively applied filtering where it refuses if it suspects there might be a single country where copyright still applies.
by codelikeawolf | 2025-06-27 13:13:15+00:00
I know XML and XSLT gets a lot of hate. To some extent, the hate for XSLT is warranted. But I have to work with XML files for my job, and it was pretty refreshing to not have to install any libraries to work with them in a web app. We use XML as the serialization format for a spaceflight mission planning app, so there's a lot of complex data that would be trickier to represent with JSON. At the end of the day, HTML is spicy XML, so you can use all the native web APIs to read/write/query/manipulate XML files and even apply XSLT transformations.

I suspect some of the hate towards XML from the web dev community boils down to it being "old". I'll admit that used to have the same opinion until I actually started working with it. It's a little bit more of a PITA than working with JSON, but I think I'm getting a much more expressive and powerful serialization format for the cost of the added complexity.
by JFingleton | 2025-06-27 13:13:38+00:00
I'm in my mid-40's and I'm in the best shape of my life. However it's taken a lot of hard work and sacrifice, that I weirdly enjoy:

* Cooking all meals from scratch (I try and reduce UPFs as much as possible).

* No bread or pasta ever. Fresh non-supermarket bread and pasta is probably OK for you...

* Less alcohol (only on special occasions). Modern no-alcohol beer is actually very enjoyable.

* Lift weights 3x a week. I built a home gym in my garage, with a TV mounted on a wall. It's a great time to unwind, watch YouTube and get fit. It's alone time I look forward to.

* Walk every lunchtime for 20 minutes, rather than browsing the Internet

The key thing about exercise, is that if you don't enjoy it then you won't do it. For me, the alone time watching Youtube or listening to a podcast is the pull-factor. For others it'll be a sport playing in a team.

Food is the major factor in your general health, and we really have fallen into a trap in the Western world with our food habits. Fortunately we have a choice in this regard.
by alganet | 2025-06-27 13:13:41+00:00
> You don't fix their parts either, unless you absolutely have no other options.

You don't build these parts in assembly lines. They're often not cheap commodities.

Satellites, for example, are full of parts made by hand because no assembly line can handle the requirements.

These, require specialized troubleshooting (debugging).

If you're talking exclusively about the cheap stuff (trivial programs), you're in the wrong thread (arguibly, the wrong website). We gave you a little space, but that's a courtesy that other environments might not extend.
by cubefox | 2025-06-27 13:15:37+00:00
A reusable lower stage with powered landing also had never been flown to orbit at that time. And in contrast to aerospike engines, which had been tested before on the ground [1], you can't do ground testing with rocket stage landings.

I think SpaceX didn't try to develop aerospike nozzles because the advantages probably aren't that large compared to the mixed nozzle design they are currently using. They also reused the same ceramic heat shield material developed for the space shuttle instead of developing something new.

Compare that to the cancelled "VentureStar": It would have used both linear aerospike engines and a new metallic thermal protection system (TPS) instead of a ceramic one. I remember an interview where Musk answered the question of why they aren't doing aerospikes or metallic heat shields etc, that there are many ways to skin a cat. They are only doing one thing that they think will work, which is not necessarily the best possible solution, but potentially faster or cheaper to develop.

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=FcW9kUUTfxY
by riskassessment | 2025-06-27 13:15:39+00:00
I said I was skeptical of there being a precise pattern of rapid aging. I never said I was skeptical that rapid/non-linear aging can occur. If you did experience rapid aging in the way the paper measured this from 38-40 that is more evidence in support of my point that there is some broad random distribution of when rapid aging occurs and this paper and blog post overintepret the data to mean rapid aging occurs precisely in your mid-forties and at 60.
by unaindz | 2025-06-27 13:16:02+00:00
In Switzerland and probably most or all EU countries. For example, in Spain, the schools need a signed form allowing each student's picture to be published.

The issue of money gatekeeping legal rights is another issue entirely which should be addressed for everything, not just this specific problem. It's also, in my opinion, a lot more prevalent in the US than the rest of the first world countries.
by jamesharding | 2025-06-27 13:16:25+00:00
Each country has slightly different requirements! For the US, here is the FAA rule for it: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-D...

A lot of people still use paper (and fill it in after landing each flight), but there are quite a few digital options on the market now. I use one called LogTen, which stores everything in a SQLite file behind the scenes which is what I used to make this.
by davidtang-ai | 2025-06-27 13:16:46+00:00
Loving this for working with gcloud

gave it brief instructions to deploy a hobby static site on cloud run yesterday; with additional architecture to set up (load balancer etc). It got into a loop, started deleting the gcloud resouces it created when it hit a 403 error for the site.

I hit ESC and prodded a little in terms of authentication rules ... and off it went to complete the task. bravo!
by molticrystal | 2025-06-27 13:17:00+00:00
>In my experience I've met a ton of extremely high IQ people who believe insane things

My working hypothesis is that in individuals with high IQ, the brain has a stronger propensity to make connections autonomously. Then there is the exposures to common public information, ranging from unscientific beliefs like home remedies and crystals, and noticing in news articles, through reasoning ability, that there are omissions, inaccuracies, and outright lies. This can be great, the doubts and misapprehension about mainstream or even specialist knowledge has caused many breakthrough and discoveries.

But this goes haywire when their brain starts making connections between the nonsense and domains they only have a superficial knowledge of, often overestimating their understanding due to intellectual confidence, often driven by cognitive biases like pattern-seeking or overconfidence. For example, if a high IQ person pursued physics and engineering, they would quickly understand most rocketry and its capacities(moon landings certainly happened), but in less familiar domains, their pattern-seeking can lead to flawed conclusions.

The mix of information(pseudoscience,inaccurate news) that is prominent, as described above, combined with personal predispositions or exposure to specific communities, causes some to lose faith in the mainstream and influences whether they become occultists, moon landing deniers, or the like.
by danans | 2025-06-27 13:17:31+00:00
> Whether or not their business is viable depends on the future cost of launches and the future cost of batteries. If batteries get really cheap, it will be economically feasible to have an off-the-grid datacenter on the ground. There's not much point in launching a datacenter into space if you can power it on the ground 24/7 with solar + batteries.

Something tells me that the price of batteries is already cheap enough for terrestrial data centers to make more economic sense than launching a datacenter - which will also need batteries - into space.
by rpdillon | 2025-06-27 13:17:49+00:00
This is a bit of an unfortunate example because it mixes copyright law and trademark law, which are very different in their character.

I think your conclusion is correct, but the child comments mentioning fair use would not apply because fair use is a copyright concept, not a trademark concept. And I'm really only familiar with US laws, so I'm not even sure if fair use is a concept in Denmark or not. They have a different notion of copyright than we do in the US.

That said, I think Denmark did the wrong thing here. I think face and identity is much closer to a trademark than it is to something that is a created piece of artwork. Trademark law is a little bit narrower because it allows you to use the trademark to refer to the company, but it prohibits you from using the trademark to confuse customers about whether this is an authentic product. This feels quite analogous to the issue that Denmark is trying to address with the deep fakes, so I'm a little bit surprised on the copyright angle, since I can imagine a lot of legitimate uses for taking a picture of someone without needing their permission and distributing it. CCTVs, traffic cams, mug shots, police body cams, and the ever-increasing trend of recording in any situation that becomes tense or dangerous. Will a civilian be told by the cop that he's violating copyright because they want to film the interaction with the police? This reminds me of when cops would play Taylor Swift loudly in the background so that people couldn't post videos of the interaction on YouTube.
by addicted | 2025-06-27 13:18:01+00:00
Who is advising Apple on these actions? Is it a team out of California? Because their approach to working with the EU seems pretty obviously unproductive and will (as it has in the past) hurt Apple, leading them to give up even more than they may have wanted, where if they worked collaboratively in good faith, they'd probably be able to negotiate the EU into a position more favorable to their preferences.
by qgin | 2025-06-27 13:18:18+00:00
A few things come together I think:

20% of the effort gets you 80% of the way there. That means the last 20% is going to take 4x more effort than everything you’ve done so far.

You’re losing excitement and motivation, especially as you see the finish line recede farther into the distance.

You question whether the project was ever worth it, whether you’ll fail after all this work, whether it will be embarrassing, maybe worse than if you had never done any of it.

By this time other tasks are calling your attention, now you’re giving up real possibilities to work on this quixotic, possibly foolish project of yours.
by mensetmanusman | 2025-06-27 13:19:22+00:00
Every metric is a lossy compression algorithm of reality:

“”Unemployment is another gamed metric. If you want to get a sense of unemployment, a graph of % employed tells you more than some gamed number like "unemployment" since "unemployment" is a direct measure of political success.””

Even in this case, you may have to normalize to the population pyramid that is inverting because the age is shifting to much older than prior.
by meindnoch | 2025-06-27 13:19:51+00:00
They are unnecessarily filling a 99999999-sized array, only to print the last element and throw away the rest. Most of the time is going to be spent on filling this 400MB array.

Unintentionally, the article is a good cautionary tale of how algorithmic knowledge can beat raw hardware power, if you know what you're doing.
by a4isms | 2025-06-27 13:19:54+00:00
A long time ago, in a dystopic project far, far, away:

Depressed and quite pessimistic about the team’s ability to orchestrate Java development in parallel with the rapid changes to the workbook, he came up with the solution: a series of XSLT files that would automatically build Java classes to handle the Struts actions defined by the XML that was built by Visual Basic from the workbook that was written in Excel.

https://raganwald.com/2008/02/21/mouse-trap.html

HN Discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=120379 · https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=947952
by jamesharding | 2025-06-27 13:21:23+00:00
Great question! It is not an anomaly, it is very geographically specific.

Due the the Ukraine war (and my home base being in the UK), we have to fly the long way around to get to far-east destinations like Tokyo and Hong Kong. Flying outbound from London we have to fly down over Turkey (which adds about two hours of flight time).

Flying home from Tokyo with the ongoing airspace closure, if the the weather is suitable at the ETOPS airports enroute, it is actually quicker to fly home eastbound again, flying up over Alaska. A proper around-the-world in 4 days!
by dingi | 2025-06-27 13:21:47+00:00
XML needs a renaissance because it solves problems modern formats still fumble with. Robust schema validation, namespaces, mixed content, and powerful tooling like XPath/XSLT. It's verbose, yes. It's can be made to look like shit and make you wanna throw up, but also battle-tested and structured for complexity. We ditched it too soon chasing simplicity.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-27 13:23:36+00:00
Radical in terms of economics, but also radical in its incrementalism.

Falcon 9 was a highly competitive rocket without reuse. If they didn't get reuse to work it would have been a successful project. Reuse of the first stage was a huge cost optimization that put it in a class by itself -- but they they did it radically reused risks.

Contrast that to the X-33 which would have required a large number of new technologies to all work to fly at all.

Fixed-cost pricing was also a radical innovation because it drove SpaceX to do everything it could to lower costs. It was known for a long time that reusing (only) the first stage was a good path to lower costs, the SpaceX business model rewarded them for doing it.

SpaceX is highly technically innovative but it's been so successful because technical innovation has been centered around cost reduction and practicality, not chasing high performance for the sake of high performance.

The SpaceX model might need change to get to Mars because of latency. You can launch a Starship to LEO, have it blow up, and launch another one in a few weeks. If a Starship fails to land on Mars, however, you have to wait another two and a half years to try again. Similarly, SpaceX runs everything by remote control from mission control which is great in LEO but to stick a landing on Mars you need something that flies autonomously.
by bokchoi | 2025-06-27 13:24:47+00:00
I just leaned about EXI as it's being used on a project I work on. It's quite amazingly fast and small! It is a binary representation of the xml stream. It can compress quite small if you have an xmlschema to go with your xml.

I was curious about how it is implemented and I found the spec easy to read and quite elegant: https://www.w3.org/TR/exi/
by Zak | 2025-06-27 13:25:51+00:00
> you could have a hardware problem (such as with the OS drive interface) that doesn’t show up with that sort of test

If the hardware is faulty, that sort of thing should show up on an automated test of the drive. In a professional setting, I'd expect this sort of thing to be run unattended: plug it in, turn it on, check back later to see if anything failed.

> a software-triggered problem that doesn’t go away easily

This sounds like re-image the OS territory. A user sophisticated enough to unlock and modify the OS is sophisticated enough to manage their own backups.
by pmarreck | 2025-06-27 13:26:24+00:00
Probably corps. I was working at Factset in the early 2000's when there was a big push for it and I imagine the same thing was reflected across every Microsoft shop across corporate America at the time, which (at the time) Microsoft was winning big marketshare in. (I bet there are still a ton of internal web apps that only work with IE... sigh)

Obviously, that means there's a lot of legacy processes likely still using it.

The easiest way to improve the situation seems to be to upgrade to a newer version of XSLT.
by jerf | 2025-06-27 13:26:52+00:00
"Newer standards lost elegance and kept the ugly syntax."

My biggest problem with XSLT is that I've never encountered a problem that I wouldn't rather solve with an XPath library and literally any other general purpose programming language.

When XSLT was the only thing with XPath you could rely on, maybe it had an edge, but once everyone has an XPath library what's left is a very quirky and restrictive language that I really don't like. And I speak Haskell, so the critic reaching for the reply button can take a pass on the "Oh you must not like functional programming" routine... no, Haskell is included in that set of "literally any other general purpose programming language" above.
by JdeBP | 2025-06-27 13:26:58+00:00
There's nothing stopping it. systemd doesn't do anything particularly special when opening a datagram socket that magically prevents it from receiving broadcast datagrams. There's no difference between Kea opening the socket and systemd opening the socket, except that systemd can do it and then drop privileges before Kea is loaded and run.

Or could do it.

If it weren't that Kea has no mechanism for taking and just using an already-open socket.

Remember that Accept in a socket unit has no meaning for ListenDatagram sockets. There's no waiting for incoming connections before activation going on.

If you're asking about the detailed internals of what systemd does with BPF and how that meshes with what Kea does, then I leave that to be answered by the systemd and Kea people. (-:
by graemep | 2025-06-27 13:27:56+00:00
> People sometimes miss that copyleft is powered by copyright.

That is legally true, but it is also true that copyleft is necessary because of copyright. Without copyright (or if copyright did not apply to software) there would be no need for copyleft and very little motive to produce proprietary software. What was produced could be reverse engineered, or used a binary blobs, and compatible replacements produced.

Where the only choice was keeping the source code a trade secret and obfuscating the distributed form or keep source open the latter would easily dominate.
by mnw21cam | 2025-06-27 13:28:09+00:00
In my field, we're always wanting to see what will happen when DNA is changed in a human pancreatic beta cell. We kind of have a protocol for producing things that look like human pancreatic beta cells from human stem cells, but we're not really sure that they are really going to behave like real human pancreatic beta cells for any particular DNA change, and we have examples of cases where they definitely do not behave the same.
by 0bi1A4xvXtQCO | 2025-06-27 13:28:10+00:00
I created an account just to provide feedback. I would consider myself the core audiance and would be definitly be willing to pay for it. I am learning Japanese with, but, since I am living outside of Japan, struggle to find good opportunities to output on a regular basis. An AI-based language tutor would make my life much easier.

A few comments from the 20min trial I had:

- About the positive aspects: There were definitly parts of the conversation where I was genuinely suprised with the naturalness. Overall, I felt that the demo already helped me practice my output a bit. From this, I definitely believe that AI-based language tutors might become quite widespread soon as they could become really good language exchange partners. In my case, I still have low speaking skills (~Japanese N4, A2), so just having any chance to practice verb conjugations etc is already immensily helpful.

- I also like that there is no gamification aspect. I prefer apps where users can decide how they use them. A lot of Japanese learners, people already use anki for vocab, etc., so forcing extra vocab practice would me definitly quit the app.

Some feedback for improvement:

- Due to my still low speaking skills, I often need mid-sentence pauses which are at least 1-2 seconds long. When I pause, the sentence is already half-transcribed, sometimes in another language. I think I had moments where then the sentence is cut-off entirely. At least, it makes me pressured to finish the sentence in a fluent manner without much pauses.

- I know you want to have multilingual transriptions, but maybe you could add some language bias in transcribing the speech?

- About the cutting off: If you have some sort of VAD frontend: Maybe you could adjust its parameters based on estimated language skills of the users (beginners have longer pauses)

- I saw that my sentences were rated. But they were rated only in text, even though I said that my mistakes should be corrected right away (The speech-based AI partner just kept on talking about the topics). Maybe I have overlooked something, but is there some overview of my mistakes besides the text-based corrections?
by collingreen | 2025-06-27 13:28:17+00:00
This is part of the allure of ai to the management class - having a bunch of your team do exactly what you say (I'm not saying it's what AI will do, just that the thing some of them are drooling over) and vastly reducing this coordination problem.

Ironically I think bad managers replacing their teams with AI will be crushed by AI because 1. wtf do they even do and 2. suddenly the work being done correctly is on them with nobody to scapegoat later

I expect, for this reason, we'll see AI stabilize at managers telling their teams they must use AI and then demanding more output but not see entire workforces replaced.
by LargoLasskhyfv | 2025-06-27 13:28:32+00:00
What do you mean by "for a short time"?

Do they work for a few times, and then 'degrade' in performance?

Could that be by having them washed and dried the wrong way?

Or don't they work at all, not even for single hot night?

Like maybe for 30 minutes, and then feel wet somehow?
by warrenm | 2025-06-27 13:28:45+00:00
Everyone has "experience" - so first let me fix your [semi]broken premise

I know you meant "directly-related experience" - but having unrelated/indirectly-related experience can, at times, be a phenomenal addition to a given team

I care far more about behavior, attitude, personality, and how eager/able you are to learn than any specific related experience

Show me how you think

Show me how you solve problems

Show me how you address 'problem people' (customers, coworkers, etc)

Show me how you interact with people you just met (me and the rest of the interview team)

I have seen many people from indirect or [apparently] unrelated previous career fields make a jump very successfully - it may be "harder" for them than someone who is already 'on the track', so to speak, but they have been great examples of Osterhout's adage, "a little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept"[0] :: by jumping in and demonstrating their willingness to learn (loads of questions, creating metaphors and analogies to previous work / different fields, etc), a motivated individual can become a top-performer (and bring the whole team up by sharing from their background new/different ways of thinking or approaching problems, issues, and challenges

One more thing: do NOT lie to me - be honest with not only me, but yourself in the whole process

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[0] https://briankeng.com/2015/07/a-little-bit-of-slope/