MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-06-11 12:36:00+00:00
That may be true, but it doesn't make the customer's claims not true. What Google did was counter-intuitive. That's a fact. Pointing at some fine print and saying "uhh actually, technically it's your stupid human brain is the problem, not us! we technically are allowed to do anything we want, just look at the fine print!!" does not make things better. We are human beings; we are flawed. That much should be obvious to any human organization. If you don't know how to make things that don't piss off human beings, the problem isn't with the humans.

If the "preview release" you were using was v0.3, and suddenly it started being v0.6 without warning, that would be insane. The only point of providing a version number is to give people an indicator of consistency. The datestamp is a version number. If they didn't want us to expect consistency, they should not have given it a version number. That's the whole point of rolling release branches, they have no version. You don't have "v2.0" of a rolling release, you just have "latest". They fucked up by giving it a datestamp.

This is an extremely old and well-known problem with software interfaces. Either you version it or you don't. If you do version it, and change it, you change the version, and give people dependent on the old version some time to upgrade. Otherwise it breaks things, and that pisses people off. The alternative is not versioning it, which is a signal that there is no consistency to be expected. Any decent software developer should have known all this.

And while I'm at it: what's with the name flip-flopping? In 2014, GCP issued a PR release explaining It was no longer using "Preview", but "Alpha" and "Beta" (https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2014/10/new-release-pha...). But the link you showed earlier says "Alpha" and "Beta" are now deprecated. But no PR release? I guess that's our bad for not constantly reading the fine print and expecting it to revert back to something from 11 years ago.
by drysine | 2025-06-11 12:36:19+00:00
Not at all.

"Prior to the emergence of Kievan Rus' in the 9th century, most of the area north of the Black Sea was primarily populated by eastern Slavic tribes."

Likewise Lithuania was a union of Baltic tribes.

Later Lithuania grabbed the territory of Kievan Rus' when it was greatly weakened by the Mongol invasion.[0]

"The grand duchy expanded to include large portions of the former Kievan Rus' and other neighbouring states, including what is now Belarus, Lithuania, most of Ukraine as well as parts of Latvia, Moldova, Poland and Russia."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_invasion_of_Kievan_Rus%...
by Gerardo1 | 2025-06-11 12:36:25+00:00
There's no way to know who's funding it (but being at least state subsidized is highly likely), and you we don't really know how much it cost (but in any case it's still less than OpenAI is spending).

On the other hand I'm aware of no credible accusations of deepseek fudging benchmarks whereas OpenAI has had multiple instances of independent parties not being able to replicate their claimed performances on benchmarks (and not being honest and transparent about their benchmarking).
by throawayonthe | 2025-06-11 12:37:03+00:00
i assume you can just use it[0] in your project and then build (using bun) for cf workers[1]

[0] https://bun.sh/docs/api/s3

[1] https://hono.dev/docs/getting-started/cloudflare-workers \ (https://bun.sh/docs/api/workers ?)
by craigbanach | 2025-06-11 12:37:57+00:00
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by eadmund | 2025-06-11 12:38:16+00:00
> A “planned order” was to replace the “senseless chaos” of the world.

The trouble with this is the implicit assumption that planned order is better. If there’s a plan, then there must be a planner, who is after all only human. He’ll have his own biases, his own emotions. And he won’t have all the information he needs. He might plan a kitchen which works really, really well for a family of four, but will it work for a bachelor? Will it work for Orthodox Jews, who need separate dairy and meat ovens, sinks, countertops, dishes and utensils?

Will it have room for innovations such as toaster ovens and smart pressure cookers (e.g. the famous Instant Pot)? What about when culture changes and show kitchens become a thing?

On the other hand, the so-called ‘senseless chaos’ of the world means treating each particular installation as its own thing.

> The notion of a regularly constructed reality corresponds to the principles of functionalism and rationality conditioned by industrial production processes. Both objects and people were to conform to these principles.

There’s another problem: demanding that people conform to the principles of industrial production processes. Every one is different in his own way — there is no average man. And it’s a short, terrible step from a system which demands that people conform to one which destroys those who don’t.
by notahacker | 2025-06-11 12:38:26+00:00
> Those examples seem quite unrelated to one another. The first reads as admitting intentional fraud and deceit, the second reads like dealing with imposter syndrome. I'd love to know the prompt.

Yeah. And to read the rest of each of the stories it generated...

Both paragraphs are simply short excerpts which involve no actual narrative, never mind the stuff that LLMs are typically weak at (maintaining consistency, intricate plotting and pacing, subtlety in world and character building) which in the context of stories are far more important to improve than its phrasing.

The fact that the "improvement" apparently eliminates a flaw in the first passage ("gentle vibrations that vibrated through my very being" is pretty clunky description unlikely to be written by a native human; both paragraphs are otherwise passable and equally mediocre writing) by implying apparently completely different (and frankly less interesting) character motivations makes me doubt that it's actually iteratively improving stories rather than just spitting out significant rewrites which incidentally eliminate glaring prose issues.
by d0100 | 2025-06-11 12:38:48+00:00
Weird narrative of Mister M being famous because Brazilians "loathe deception more than anyone"

He got famous because everyone loves magic, and even more when you explain magic tricks

But most importantly, and what the author fails to mentions, it was because at that point in time anything on TV got famous, because TV was the only visual media we had that was "free"
by exDM69 | 2025-06-11 12:39:03+00:00
Green woodworking is an entire field of its own. Not very common in industrial scale but it was a common method a few centuries ago.

Examples of things where green woodworking is common: spoon carving, bowl turning, chair making, etc.

The idea is that wood is worked while green to make 80% finished blanks, which are dried slowly for some months or years before finishing the rest of it. This gives less distortion to the shape as it dries. And the drying times are faster because it's all small pieces at that point. The time from tree to product is shorter.

It is an almost extinct craft but it is a lot of fun for woodworkers not under schedule pressure.
by wilkinsonsmooth | 2025-06-11 12:39:30+00:00
I worked for Apple Support over the phone for a while and had to deal with people's photos issues. And let me tell you that the way iCloud photo syncing works is basically only to lock people in. It's just convoluted enough that the average user won't have a good idea of where exactly their photos are stored. Especially when they run out of space on their phone (very easy to do when 128gb is still the base storage space). The UI makes it seem like the only option is to buy iCloud storage and once you're paying for storage then it really makes it unclear how you could access your photos on anything other than an Apple device.

That alone is enough to lock most users in to the ecosystem. The idea of figuring out how to transfer all your photos to an Android device is too much work for most people.
by growse | 2025-06-11 12:39:36+00:00
> Replying to some sibling comments asking why anyone wouldn't want to use systemd.

I get why some people don't want to use systemd. That's fine.

I really don't understand why this group of people are so passionate about broadcasting this opinion to anyone within earshot. They don't like a piece of software, great! They've got different values! Use something else!
by pcpuser | 2025-06-11 12:39:40+00:00
There's so much I disagree with in the beginning but the ending is what actually grinds my gears. You make it sound like systemd manufactured this monoculture somehow. This is also the point I've seen people throw in a comparison to some closed-source org with money to burn and questionable morals.

Systemd was chosen by distros and users across different communities because it solves hard problems better than the others. We can debate about why that is, but the maintainers of Systemd aren't running smear campaigns against other open source projects. Often systemd is the subject of such ire.

They chose to solve hard problems and people adopted it. It's not anything more sinister. It's definitely not an "un-auditable mess". It's written in well formatted C with structure, good tooling, and an open community. You can disagree with the ideology but that's open source for you.

Additionally and away from my point, I believe that Systemd won our because they chose to embrace some complexity to solve really hard problems. Let's not pretend that a modern "init" does only system initialisation by calling shell scripts and then disappearing.
by em-bee | 2025-06-11 12:43:52+00:00
what are you trying to suggest? that they are doing to much already? and if they were to do less they would have time? wouldn't that then lead to the same situation, that they would like to work on some of the things they are working on now but could not because of lack of time?

also we don't choose all our commitments. family, work, friends, etc are commitments we can't just give up. it comes down to choice and priorities, and the problem is that we have more things we find interesting than we can focus on.

but i consider that a good thing. i know that whenever i retire or am unable to continue some of my interests there will be others that i can pick up instead. i know that i won't be bored...
Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application
by kenrick95 | 2025-06-11 12:44:15+00:00
Hi HN,

In the past ~8 months, I have been working on a side project that helps me plan my travels. While most months saw no or little progress, in the past ~3 months I have been adding tons of features to support my next big trip later this year.

I've written in my blog on the feature set [1] but in short they are:

- Timetable view of activities, accommodations, and day plans

- List view and map view of them

- Commenting on them

- Expense tracker

- Sharing and collaboration with friends

The source code is also available on GitHub [2]

This is an example of a view-only trip: [3]

So far, I think I'm satisfied with the features and is progressing really well in my travel planning.

Let me know what you think! Thanks!

[1] https://blog.kenrick95.org/2025/06/ikuyo-plan-your-next-trip...

[2] https://github.com/kenrick95/ikuyo

[3] https://ikuyo.kenrick95.org/trip/2617cd98-a229-45d4-9617-526...
by gilbetron | 2025-06-11 12:44:25+00:00
There's a bit of a flaw in the "don't need graphs and UIs to look at your data" premise behind this article: sure, LLMs will be great ... when the work great. When they fail, you need a human there to figure it out and they will still need the graphs.

Furthermore, while graphing and visualization are definitely tough, complex parts about observability, gathering the data and storing it in forms to meet the complex query demands are really difficult as well.

Observability will "go away" once AI is capable of nearly flawlessly determining everything out itself, and then AI will be capable of nearly anything, so the "end of observability" is the end of our culture as we know it (probably not extinction, but more like culture will shift profoundly, and probably painfully).

AI will definitely change observability, and that's cool. It already is, but has a long way to go.
by Gerardo1 | 2025-06-11 12:44:58+00:00
I don't love that this is the conversation and when these models bake-in these silly scenarios with training data, everyone goes "see, pelican bike! super human intelligence!"

The point is never the pelican. The point is that if a thing has information about pelicans, and has information about bicycles, then why can't it combine those ideas? Is it because it's not intelligent?
by billmcneale | 2025-06-11 12:45:23+00:00
> Are you going to be OK with that just because it's some corpo doing it and not the government?

If I willingly let them in my home and I knew they were going to do that? I don't really have the option to complain, do I?

Your analogy doesn't make sense. People buy the game, Denuvo is clearly advertised on it. They have the option to not buy the game. Period. It's not overreach if I willingly accepted the reach.

> So to sum it up, DRM is always anti user in many senses.

How do you reconcile this claim with the fact that Denuvo games sell by the millions every month?
by dagw | 2025-06-11 12:45:52+00:00
On the flip side, I find that often python for example can go too far in the other directions with huge kitchen sink libraries that depend on other huge kitchen sink libraries. To the point where installing the most popular library for calculating the area of a 2D polygon requires installing a fast Fourier transform library. If you want a single quite simple image processing function, you're all of a sudden installing advanced graph algorithm and signal processing libraries.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-06-11 12:46:50+00:00
> And I mean I genuinely do not understand what you are trying to say. Couldn't parse it.

It’s always worth considering that this may be your problem. If you still don’t get it, the only valuable reply is one which asks a question. Also, including “it’s not that complicated” only serves to inflame.
by jerf | 2025-06-11 12:48:20+00:00
I've had this done at a sufficient variety of different places that I don't think it's advertising.

I'm also not particularly convinced any advertisers would pay for "Hey, we're going to direct people to just drive by your establishment, in a context where they have other goals very front-and-center on their mind. We're not going to tell them about the menu or any specials or let you give any custom messages, just tell them to drive by." Advertisers would want more than just an ambient mentioning of their existence for money.

There's at least two major classes of people, which are, people who take and give directions by road names, and people who take and give directions by landmarks. In cities, landmarks are also going to generally be buildings that have businesses in them. Before the GPS era, when I had to give directions to things like my high school grad party to people who may never have been to the location it was being held in, I would always give directions in both styles, because whichever style may be dominant for you, it doesn't hurt to have the other style available to double-check the directions, especially in an era where they are non-interactive.

(Every one of us Ye Olde Fogeys have memories of trying to navigate by directions given by someone too familiar with how to get to the target location, that left out entire turns, or got street names wrong, or told you to "turn right" on to a 5-way intersection that had two rights, or told you to turn on to a road whose sign was completely obscured by trees, and all sorts of other such fun. With GPS-based directions I still occasionally make wrong turns but it's just not the same when the directions immediately update with a new route.)
by stavros | 2025-06-11 12:48:48+00:00
The Xreals are the only ones I've tried, so I don't know how they compare, but I have trouble with fit. I have trouble in general, because of my nose bridge being too wide, but even when I put the glasses right against my forehead, I still can't get the entire screen in focus, the edges are blurry.

I really wish the screen were smaller and more to the center, then they'd be perfect. I guess it depends on whether you want them for games (the important stuff is usually in the centrer) or for work (the important stuff is usually at the edges).

I really like the focal distance, though, it's around 5m away and pretty comfortable for the eyes.
by bettercaust | 2025-06-11 12:49:18+00:00
No one is contesting the role of nutrition, working conditions, and sanitation in infectious diseases generally. What I asked was: what evidence is there that this is a significant contributor to infectious disease in countries like the US? (I should clarify that I'm referring to present-day US, because we're discussing in context of MAHA which is present-day US)

Yes, measles death rates had dropped precipitously (fortunately), however incidence (new cases) had only dropped a little. It wasn't until the vaccine was introduced that incidence dropped to nearly zero[1]. Yours is a common anti-vaxx talking point, and one that seems to neglect that death is not the only negative outcome from measles. It's understandable to take the talking point at face value when it appears to be scientifically-supported, though this is a good example of how a talking point uses a cherry-picked fact and reframes the issue for a presupposed conclusion (that vaccines are unsafe or ineffective), because the origin of that talking point had no interest in comprehensively informing people but converting them to believers.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/measles-cases-and-death-r...
by x0xrx | 2025-06-11 12:49:21+00:00
I gotta be honest, I don’t find it particularly hard to read. I like how it makes it feel like there is “depth” to the screen, and when I focus on the top layer (eg Notification Center) the background falls away.

I can personally see how others would find it hard to read, just really doesn’t bother me. I can imagine being unconvinced that anyone really finds it to be that bad, and thinking it’s just HN contrarians being annoying, as usual.
by _factor | 2025-06-11 12:49:22+00:00
110% this.

Real web search is disappearing locked behind large datasets unavailable for normal users. The AI screen ensures you’re fed exactly what they intended while siloing off the web more and more to block competition. All the while signing exclusivity deals which should realistically be illegal (try finding current Reddit results anywhere but Google).

AI based interaction makes it much easier to manipulate users into buying your items as they add a layer of human-like trust on top of the machine. It won’t be long before prices are hidden behind LLMs generating prices based on who you are. I’m already noticing ChatGPT becoming more and more enthusiastic about any product it thinks I have the potential of buying. Try asking it if something is a good deal, 9 times out of 10 it will say, “Yes, go for it.”

We don’t want to live in a proprietary world where LLMs exist. This technology needs to be open. The search data needs to be open and not walled off to only monopolies. This is an inflection point.
by yupitsme123 | 2025-06-11 12:49:24+00:00
My neighborhood was severely damaged. Many people left and never came back and many stores never reopened. I live in an apartment building which could easily be compromised and then I'd be a sitting duck for whoever wants to break into my apartment. The riots got out of hand because folks were afraid to implement law and order.

Ironically, we had protests yesterday, the police came out in huge numbers and as far as I can tell everything was peaceful. The protesters got their protest and the rest of us got to keep our lives and property.
by andruby | 2025-06-11 12:49:27+00:00
Thank you for writing this akoculu.

I remember the incident and what stuck me most is how, for me, this was a clear example of a community (Javascript) that depended too much on dependencies (pun somewhat intended)

I don't know why so many people put so much blame on you. You unpublished a package with 11 lines of code [0]. I don't think you fully understood the frustration it would cause. And you mentioned that in the post.

> NPM didn't show usage stats, and there was almost no activity on Github. As a user, it was impossible to know the impact of unpublishing packages

The root cause imo isn't akoculu unpublishing the package. In my opinion that lies more in the over-reliance on dependencies, the npm policies and maybe also build systems not caching/vendoring code.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npm_left-pad_incident#Backgrou...
by billmcneale | 2025-06-11 12:49:27+00:00
> I don't believe that "whenever [I'm] playing and enjoying a game" it was "most likely" created thanks to Denuvo

I never made that claim, please reread what I wrote, but here is my point again.

When you play a game from a publisher, they were able to create it because their previous games sold well. Therefore, anything that allows games to sell well is a positive for the entire gaming community, creators and players.

Denuvo is an important part of this picture, but it's obviously not the only one.

> And then there are people like me who simply refuse to play any game which uses Denuvo. There are thousands of excellent games out there, why should I waste time on those which treat me as a thief?

That's great, and I do that as well. And this is one of the reasons why Denuvo is not anti-user: everyone has the choice to not support it.
by tamassimond | 2025-06-11 12:50:55+00:00
Just to clarify slight misunderstanding the variants without parent ID aren't from the initial batch it just didn't carry over to the next batch. You can see "897ccd25-4776-4077-a9e6-0da34abb32a4" emerges from batch 5. Apologies probably should make this clearer. Appreciate feedback on blog post!