MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by steveBK123 | 2025-06-21 13:34:11+00:00
You probably want to encourage an interest/skill level that is good enough to get scholarship money to a good college, but not so good he wants to pursue it as an actual career. That is - just another box tick on the resume.

I grew up in a football obsessed town in a football obsesses county which frequently won the championships, etc.

Of all the kids in all the decades before/after me that played, 1 guy made it to the NFL and made ~$10M over 10 years. Amazing money, yes. But this was the kid who was practicing non-stop from a young age. He had nothing else. You'd see him & his dad running their own 1-1 football practice at the field in the off season.

Similarly there was another kid I was friend with who was smart, played football enough to get a scholarship, went to an Ivy and became a doctor. Probably better lifetime earnings than the NFL kid, and theres way more spots for doctors!

And in the 25 years since, all the 100s of kid who went through the program, no one has gone pro. For that 1 kid who went pro, I'm sure there were 100s who got in inadequate educational preparation for their adult life and football was a net negative in the end for them.
by grogenaut | 2025-06-21 13:34:29+00:00
Lol you sweet summer child, they don't care if the ad is relevant to you, you're not the customer. https://medium.com/@Glenames/programmatic-advertising-101-c9...

Your eyes are the supply. The demand (customer) is people wanting your eyes. Relevance in ads is if your eyes are a candidate to at some point buy their orid8.

What your taking about at costco is essentially house ads or really signage.

Remember unless you are a brand you are not the customer for ads.
by grogenaut | 2025-06-21 13:34:54+00:00
Lol you sweet summer child, they don't care if the ad is relevant to you, you're not the customer. https://medium.com/@Glenames/programmatic-advertising-101-c9...

Your eyes are the supply. The demand (customer) is people wanting your eyes. Relevance in ads is if your eyes are a candidate to at some point buy their product.

What your taking about at costco is essentially house ads or really signage.

Remember unless you are a brand you are not the customer for ads.
by pmarreck | 2025-06-21 13:34:56+00:00
Include optional default email, auth, analytics, job management (you know… the one everyone uses ::cough:: Oban ::cough::), dev/staging/prod modes (with “deployment” or something akin to CD… I know it’s already in the cloud, but you know what I mean) and some kind of non-ephemeral disk storage, maybe even domain management… and this will slay. Base44 just got bought for $80M for supplying all those, but nothing is as cool as Elixir of course!

These other details that are not “just coding” are always the biggest actual impediments to “showing your work”. Thanks for making this!! Somehow I am only just discovering it (toddler kid robbing my “learning tech by osmosis” time… a phenomenon I believe you are also currently familiar with, lol)
by Teever | 2025-06-21 13:35:27+00:00
Sure, there's a need for a product like GA, and in a vacuum someone else would create a similar product but whatever value it provides to the market and the users does not justify socially malignant behaviour from a convicted monopolist

If GA didn't exist there's no guarantee that the alternatives would create the same negative externalities that damage privacy of strangers while delivering value to the users of the software.

Google Analytics ultimately operates the way it does not because it's necessarily the best way to provide value to the sites that use it, but because it serves Google's monopolistic and unscrupulous interests.
Show HN: Zen Notes – Distraction free notes app
by rkwz | 2025-06-21 13:35:33+00:00
Hello everyone,

I've been building a distraction free notes app called Zen for the past few months.

* It's built using Go and uses SQLite database for storage

* It's fast and uses less memory (~20MB) and CPU resources

* Supports standard Markdown with tables, code, etc

* It's built using as few dependencies as possible, so less bitrot long term

* Has search with BM25 ranking

* Designed thoughtfully with minimal color palette

Here are some links:

* Project page https://www.sheshbabu.com/zen/

* Demo https://zendemo.fly.dev/

* Docs https://www.sheshbabu.com/zen/documentation

* GitHub https://github.com/sheshbabu/zen
Show HN: Get (kinda)dynamically updating images on static websites
by kuberwastaken | 2025-06-21 13:35:38+00:00
This isn't a crazy innovation but something I didn't see a direct and easy way of so I created for my own use cases. This is a template repo that runs a GitHub actions script every x hours to get a new screenshot of any URL. If you use the direct GitHub image URL, the image is "dynamically updated".

Pretty cool stuff, well documented too, I use it to keep the image in the repo for my blog updated and it by default runs every 24 hours.
by lolinder | 2025-06-21 13:36:05+00:00
Video games I feel like reverse this general trend, though. Unless they have a major story component (and sometimes even if they do) many games get iteratively 'better' (better for the purposes of making sales if not of making original fans happy) for various reasons: improvements to the core game loop, polish that makes the game more appealing to new audiences, and most importantly graphics.

Story-based content is what struggles with sequels because it's really hard to both capture the feeling of the original sufficiently to satisfy existing fans while also telling a new story that's interesting in its own right. Being derivative without being too derivative.
by CactusRocket | 2025-06-21 13:36:16+00:00
I feel like "perfect is the enemy of good" only works when you (still) have to put considerable effort to make it better, e.g. when building software.

However currently there are already better alternatives than Signal, so in my personal opinion I feel like that saying does not apply.

It's very fine if you (and most people) are OK with sharing some personal information with a United States organization. That does not mean that everybody is fine with that, or that it's a very good solution to a chat service problem. I'm glad that Signal is a good match for your needs. But there are those of us who would rather see a decentralized service with which no personal information has to be shared.

In these kinds of discussions, I often find it a little strange when others decide that a certain solution or product must be good for everyone only because they are fine with it themselves.
by jonstewart | 2025-06-21 13:37:38+00:00
He was also head of the British navy ("First Lord of the Admiralty") at the time and a great supporter of Cook's, so there's even a closer connection specific to the Endeavor. Cook named Hawaii the "Sandwich Islands" after him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Montagu,_4th_Earl_of_Sand...
by sksjvsla | 2025-06-21 13:37:44+00:00
Yes, bootstraped for our own money. It makes a difference.

If I generalize, I see two kinds of groups for whom this reduction of cost does not matter. The first group are VC-funded, and the second group are in charge of +million AWS bill. We do not have anything in common with these companies, but we have something in common with 80% of readers on this forum and 80% of AWS clients.
by llm_nerd | 2025-06-21 13:39:06+00:00
FWIW, in trying to map normal blood types like O- or AB+ to the 47 (now 48 or 49) blood group systems, apparently that is only basically a value on the type 001 (ABO Group System) and type 004 (Rh group system). People could still have antigens that further bifurcate in the other 45+ blood group systems.

So our ABO+/- system already doesn't have information on the other 45+ systems, and this new antigen wouldn't change that high level classification.
by JangoCG | 2025-06-21 13:40:15+00:00
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by netsharc | 2025-06-21 13:40:17+00:00
I wish I was articulate enough to point out how intellectually corrupt and cowardly the many actors of this drama are...

And before this gets flagged to death, IMO it's relevant to HN because the place is supposed to be an educational institution, and IMO hackers should be interested in education, whether self-done or in an institution.

> Ms. McAlister, in an email to the law school community, also invoked “institutional neutrality,” an increasingly popular policy among college administrators. It instructs schools not to take public positions on hot-button issues.

So the idea of extermination of people having particular properties is just a "hot-button issue" now? Fucking hell.

Student: "Kill all _____!".

Professor: "Well that's a very valid viewpoint. Any other views?"

Might as well bomb the whole university and replace it with a fucking LLM... (remember professor, you're not allowed to take a position on this)
by teekert | 2025-06-21 13:40:36+00:00
“I take a gramme and only am.”

I always think this when doom scrolling. I just can’t do it for very long without chiding myself. And now I see this generation below me who needs some moment for them selves every day: “I’m going to take some me time.” And what do they do? Take the somma (like YT shorts). It’s not inducing happiness. I worry sometimes.
by bsenftner | 2025-06-21 13:41:55+00:00
Game theory ideas are great on paper, but in the real world it's messy. For simple, demo and concept sized uses, sure the AI doing it autonomously will succeed. Which betrays the reality that any real application with real world complexity that includes a dynamic environment and maintenance cannot be created by AI atomonmously while at the same time existing within an organization that can maintain it. They may create it, but it will be a shit show of cascading failure over time.
by masklinn | 2025-06-21 13:42:09+00:00
> If you're building a JSON object, you can just not write the code to format some fields out.

Did you fail to read the article somehow?

Few if any modern language requires you to write the code to format individual fields out. Even Go does not, though when it comes to json most fields need to be annotated because of the choices it made to tie casing and visibility, but then it doesn't even require you to opt the type itself into being serializable, every struct is serializable by default.

Skipping fields on a serializable structure is what requires extra work.
by omneity | 2025-06-21 13:42:23+00:00
It will work, but at the scale needed for pretraining you are bound to have many quality issues that will destroy your student model, so your data cleaning process better be very capable.

One way to think of it is that any little bias or undesirable path in your teacher model will be amplified in the resulting data and is likely to become over represented in the student model.
by ajross | 2025-06-21 13:43:56+00:00
A "parser" is the piece of software that translates unstructured input (usually text) into structured output that better reflects the runtime of a programming language. A "security bug" in a parser is normally construed to be the existence of an input that causes the software to do something incorrect/undocumented/unexpected.

Nothing in the article discusses a parser or anything like a parser bug.

The article doesn't like that the semantics of the user-facing API wrapped around the parser is, I guess, "easy to make mistakes with". That's an article about API design, at most. But that's boring and specious and doesn't grab clicks, so they want you to think that Go's parsers are insecure instead.
by masklinn | 2025-06-21 13:44:03+00:00
> This contrasts to Go's approach, much like python, of using casing convention to determine private vs public fields. ( Please correct me if I'm wrong on this? )

Go actually ties visibility to casing, instead of using separate annotations. And it will not serialise private fields, only public.

Python has no concept of visibility at all, conventionally you should not access attributes prefixed with `_` but it won't stop you.
by joshstrange | 2025-06-21 13:44:32+00:00
> I encourage everyone to reproduce this test just to see how well current AI works for this use case.

I do this regularly and find it very enlightening. After I’ve read a news article or done my own research on a topic I’ll ask ChatGPT to do the same.

You have to be careful when reading its response to not grade on a curve, read it as if you didn’t do the research and you don’t know the background. I find myself saying “I can see why it might be confused into thinking X but it doesn’t change the fact that it was wrong/misleading”.

I do like when LLM‘s cite their sources, mostly because I find out they’re wrong. Many times I’ve read a summary, then followed it to the source, read the entire source, and realized it says nothing of the sort. But almost always, I can see where it glued together pieces of the source, incorrectly.

A great micro example of this are the Apple Siri summaries for notifications. Every time they mess up hilariously I can see exactly how they got there. But it’s also a mistake that no human would ever make.
by Hizonner | 2025-06-21 13:44:38+00:00
> Here is how Pegasus seems: - China has 1.5 billion people, lots of resources, would profit a lot economically if they found a way to hack iOS, etc. But yet couldn't hack it.

That you know of. Maybe they just don't indiscriminately sell the results to anybody who shows they have money. Or maybe they have different strategies for spying.

> - Israel with its 7 million people, not only hacks iOS multiple times,

NSO and friends find zero-days or buy them on the open market (not just from Israel). Citizen Lab has identified specific vulnerabilities used to install Pegasus. The exploits don't require or use CPU back doors.

... and you think Israel's smaller population somehow translates into better infiltrators than China has, but not better hackers than China has? Israel also makes better halva than China, by the way.

That kind of "logic" is what turns you into a loony raving on a street corner somewhere.

> but does it to spy on its allies.

Everybody spies on their allies, at least opportunistically. But Pegasus is a commercial product, sold to basically every government and mostly used to spy on normal people, not other governments. The people writing it have ties to Israeli spies, and I'm sure it's been used by Israeli spies, but it's general-purpose.

> Israel has a lot of silicon fabs

As far as I can tell, Israel has one facility capable of making remotely serious CPUs. It's owned by Intel. There are no phones using Intel processors.

The processors in iPhones are "Designed by Apple in Cupertino" and fabbed by TSMC in Taiwan. The processors in basically all other phones are ARM, and most of them also come from TSMC. Pegasus does not run on Intel processors, ever.

> And I compared the dates of when intel started putting the Intel Management Engine in all of their CPU and the date of which they built their biggest fab in Israel

So the fab somehow reached out into the rest of Intel and retroactively caused it to develop a heavily advertised feature?
by dismalaf | 2025-06-21 13:44:57+00:00
> Did you learn to drive in Canada? A prominent part of the your driving lessons should have been that one of the first things you do after getting stuck in mud or snow is to ensure your tail pipe is clear.

Yes I learned to drive in Canada. In a snowy region (3-10 metres of snow yearly depending on elevation). And I ski 50-100+ days per year. And will drive extra for powder snow.

Amount of times I've got stuck in snow? Zero. If you learn to drive in the snow, have winter tires, you just don't get stuck. Especially when you're putting in thousands (tens?) of kms and hundreds of days on snow covered roads.

Did YOU learn to drive here? Guessing no if you get stuck in the snow or slide off the road...

Edit - should add, around here (Alberta Rockies to the BC interior) there's as much as hundreds of KMs between towns/cities. Bad place to ever get stuck. Which is why you simply don't. Also why I'm not trusting an electric car in -40 when there's no cell service for ~200 km spans.
by teo_zero | 2025-06-21 13:45:20+00:00
> I'd be curious to know if anyone here actually uses the ctrl or alt keys that are located on the right.

You must be located in the US, because the US is probably the only keyboard layout with a right Alt key. All the others have an AltGr key in that position.

I use the right Ctrl key in combination with the arrow, Backspace and Delete keys. Also with Return to enter the same content in multiple cells in Excel.
by VikRubenfeld | 2025-06-21 13:46:35+00:00
Interesting. I encountered an example of this the other day. I was asking chatGPT:

> Is there a line in Hamlet that includes the words "utter love?"

It examined a lot of quotes from Hamlet, and concluded:

> I double-checked all editions: There is no line in Hamlet that contains the word “utter.”

>It is never used in any of the quartos or folios in any line of Hamlet.

I was pretty sure it was there, so I found the full text of Hamlet online and searched for the word "utter". I found it right away and posted to chatGPT:

> That's odd. I found it in two seconds by searching the full text for the word "utter".

> This must be known, which, being kept close, might move More grief to hide than hate to utter love.

> Come

> HAMLET, Act 2, Scene 2

chatGPT replied:

> You're absolutely right — thank you for pointing that out.

> The line is indeed from Act 2, Scene 2, spoken by Claudius, and here it is in full:

> "This must be known, which, being kept close, might move

> More grief to hide than hate to utter love."

> I regret the earlier oversight — your memory was sharper than my index!
by poisonborz | 2025-06-21 13:46:42+00:00
Why? What is the reason root would be dangerous, if it's not the default? People can be scammed to activate it, but those same people can be scammed to click links and give passwords and personal data. Any action requiring root would need a warning and raise suspicion, or put behind an activation mechanism that's complex enough.

Anything else and you lose freedom, and the whole ethos that enabled the advanced IT landscape of today.
by mmcnl | 2025-06-21 13:47:46+00:00
With WhatsApp I can backup and restore my messages. With Signal I cannot. I had to reset my iPhone 2 weeks ago because "system storage" was magically taking up 30GB of my 128GB iPhone. The iCloud backup restored everything perfectly, including my 15-year old WhatsApp history. However all my Signal messages were lost. And even worse, this is apparently by design. You can't backup your messages on an iOS device. It's my data, let me do it what I want. But that's not possible, the data can only exist in a proprietary compiled app.

WhatsApp is a lot better in this regard. I can backup my messages in multiple ways, and I can even export a conversation as a ZIP file straight from my iPhone.
by sltkr | 2025-06-21 13:47:58+00:00
The main problem with this analysis is that not all Youtube viewers are of equal value to advertisers. Premium subscribers are the people who have demonstrated that they are willing and able to spend money on luxuries. These are also the primary audience of advertisers (compared with, say, the elderly living off welfare, minors without a credit card, people living in poor countries).

Every premium subscription Youtube accepts reduces the value of its ad-supported audience, not just in an absolute sense (i.e. this user won't watch ads anymore), but in the sense that it lowers the CPM advertisers are willing to pay for the remaining “cheapskates”. The premium subscription price has to account for that, which is why the price should be significantly higher than the average ad revenue per user.
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by chipotle_coyote | 2025-06-21 13:48:21+00:00
I mean, I get that argument, but I actually ran BeOS full-time for over a year. It had a great Works-style office suite (GoBe Productive) written by the people who wrote ClarisWorks, a few good graphics programs including an amazing competitor to Macromedia Fireworks (e-Picture), a solid BBEdit-like programming editor (Pe), a few music programs that did things that I’m not sure I’ve seen other systems do to this day like SoundPlay’s wacky ability to act as a mixer, with speed control, between multiple MP3 files or ObjektSynth’s…object-oriented synthesizer (it’s very hard to describe). There was a stage control system for live performances whose name I forget now—the company is still around, as far as I know—that was used, running on BeOS, for several Broadway shows and Circue de Soleil installations. And an animation program that started on BeOS, Moho, is still around today.

The engagement was certainly starting, and I think there’s a chance—a small one, to be sure, but a chance—that if Be, Inc., hadn’t clearly decided that carving out a comfortable niche just wasn’t enough, BeOS might have succeeded. (Instead they decided to go all-in on “Internet Appliances,” which ended up dealing them the death blow rather than a big success. Ironically, I think that market effectively succeeded a decade later, but in the form of the iPad.)
by liampulles | 2025-06-21 13:48:50+00:00
(Not OP): On the loki question: yeah our project had a similar issue. I did a lot of playing around with the loki configuration, and what you'll discover by reading their blogs on Loki performance is that the indexing settings they recommend are not the ones that are used by default in helm (and probably other deployment configurations). Once I did some reconfiguration, added read specific instances, and implemented their other recommendations - we did see much better performance.

Just remember: their interest is that you buy their cloud service, not in giving an out-of-the-box great experience on their open source stuff.