MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mdavid626 | 2025-06-23 14:54:35+00:00
I’m not sure what to say. We can talk about the exact meaning of the words, but it doesn’t really matter. I’m not saying AfD is good or bad, just telling you the facts. AfD surpassed CDU (not the union!) in the latest polls. In the last elections they “won” in east Germany. You can’t block a party, if half the country votes for it. Let’s see what’s coming.
by sota_pop | 2025-06-23 14:54:48+00:00
Very cool. In spite of all the deep learning hype, I’ve got deep (no pun intended) love in my heart for Kmeans and all of the unsupervised algorithms. I built a similar library in C# once upon a time, but your builder pattern is neat. I also didn’t use multi-threading, which is an VERY nice addition. Interested in your spherical and balanced variants. I don’t have intuition for why something like subbing cosine similarity would be meaningful (since you are clustering points and not vectors - although I understand mechanically how it’s carried out). Overall, kudos - looks nice at a glance!
by runako | 2025-06-23 14:55:05+00:00
> Full legalization is coming, one way or another

I used to think this, and it may be true in the very long run. However, the country is clearly in the midst of a long pivot backwards. The current backsliding has been going on for the better part of a decade, and there are no indications that it is near its end.

I guess we'll see.
by Breza | 2025-06-23 14:55:07+00:00
Very well said. Here's a concrete example. After the Charleston church shooting, some members of victims' families forgave their murderer. Should that mean the shooter should have gone free? Certainly not, he was still prosecuted because that is what is good for society.

https://www.wbtv.com/2025/06/17/what-forgiveness-charleston-...
by 8fingerlouie | 2025-06-23 14:55:44+00:00
They fill the same position as a BDFL though.

They decide what gets included in the default distribution, they set the goals and provider sponsorships for achieving them.

So yes, board of directors is probably more fitting.

And then of course you have the people with a commit bit. They can essentially work on whatever they like, but inclusion into the main branch is still up to the core team.

There was a huge debate some years ago when Netgate sponsored development/porting of WireGuard to FreeBSD, and the code was of a poor quality, and was ultimately removed from FreeBSD 13.
by ujkhsjkdhf234 | 2025-06-23 14:55:48+00:00
> You need to separate the politicians from the people. There is always someone willing to say anything to get elected. Of course they never really solve the issues, so long as not solving the issue harms their chances of reelection less than solving it does.

This is the fault of the people putting them in those positions and what I mean by getting distracted by false narratives. If you keep voting for the people who fail to solve the issue then this is what you get.

> I've witnessed the degradation of my own states safety net services as they became inundated over the past ~5 yr as a result of federal policy. It wasn't like this under Obama or Bush. I'd happily go back to whatever that was.

I would love to know your state because I can promise your social programs are not degrading because of immigrants and are degrading because of tax cuts to the rich.
by Yizahi | 2025-06-23 14:55:56+00:00
I wish it happened more in different countries. Your country demands that you are forbidden to bring any items, regardless of how dangerous they are, in the embassy? Apply the same rule to the citizens of that country and only for them. I'm sure they will appreciate being openly discriminated in front of the applicants from the other parts of the world. Your country demands 150-200 dollars for a shitty single time entry tourist visa (yes, I'm looking at you UK)? Charge the citizens of that country the same sum for their visas. Etc. And in reverse - if they are easing or removing absurd restrictions, then reciprocate and ease restrictions in return.
by throwaway843 | 2025-06-23 14:56:14+00:00
Everyone's answering about using it for coding and deep knowledge work.

But what about the opposite: all the other stuff that's surface? Today I had it fill out a calendar, to generate test data meeting specs, to do some simple translation, to proof some reading, to search.

If there's a task that can be directed and it takes less time to direct than do, it's a productivity gain.
by dylan604 | 2025-06-23 14:56:21+00:00
Texas will be the last state in the union to legalize. Last election, Dallas voters decided to decriminalize, and the governor sued to prevent that from happening.

There's a chasm between legalize and banning. Banning would prevent the compassionate use that has already been allowed. This banning is a knee-jerk reaction to those that have found the loop hole carved out in the compassionate use limits still allow for enough THC that recreational use can still be achieved. Rather than restricting the loop hole to still require prescription, they instead want to ban out right
by incomingpain | 2025-06-23 14:56:43+00:00
>After the google+ fiasco I thought Google had learned their lesson about ramming new products down people's throats whether they like them or not, but with Gemini it seems like this lesson has been forgotten.

I had to explicitly enable it multiple times now. I had to enable it to get it on home dot. Then again to get access to the widget.

>I usually am a pretty happy user of Google's products but they have really ruined the experience for me (and on top of that they are charging extra for the privilege of ruining the experience). Is there a way to completely and permanently get rid of Gemini in such a way that my normal workflow isn't continuously interrupted by Google pushing their bug-ridden and unnecessary AI contraption?

Is it really forcing itself on your this much? Like i only interact with it when i want to.

>Any help you can provide will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Buy an iphone?
by dinkusmcgrawkus | 2025-06-23 14:56:45+00:00
This "woman" is so original, she had to use Chat GPT to write her article. So, after decades of letting universities sell kids an "experience" and shoveling them into the mass brainwashing humanities departments, where young woman are taught to hate men by bull dyke lesbian professors this "author" is wondering why men are absent? Married with kids, and a divorce? You can bet the man will be getting the shitty end of the stick. You can bet the man will be paying all the expenses, you can bet the man will be blamed for everything. Look at a woman on the street who's wearing a thong bikini as she goes to pick up groceries? You're an animal who was raping her with your eyes. Want to make a connection with a woman you adore? Oh wait, she's got her checklist of requirements you need to meet before that will happen. And they wonder why.
by _fat_santa | 2025-06-23 14:56:57+00:00
> Supporters of SB 3 argued that a full prohibition was necessary to protect young people from consuming products with high concentrations of THC.

This is a bit like saying: in order to prevent minors from getting their hands on Everlear or 151, we must ban all alcohol in all forms.

> Though that 2019 law does not allow products to contain more than trace amounts of delta-9 THC, it did not establish that same threshold for other hemp derivatives. Critics say the hemp industry exploited that loophole to usher in more than 8,000 retailers selling THC-laced edibles, drinks, vapes and flower buds across Texas.

And here lies the real problem I see, when state governments start banning recreational cannabis and instead have "hemp loopholes", you end up with a much sketchier product for consumers. In Colorado I can go to the dispensary and buy "pure pot" that is just flower that was grown, dried and packaged with no other modification. With these hemp derivatives like Delta 8/9/etc, they distill down the various parts into a chemical form and then spray that shit on hemp flower or add it to other products.

Now the question I ask is: how was it distilled? what chemicals were used in the process? are those chemicals safe? and a million other related questions. With regular pot there's none of that.

And the last thing I'll say on this is it seems that pot has unfortunately gotten tangled up in the culture war here in the US. Lots of folks I see now that oppose cannabis legalization don't really have a specific reason to oppose it, they just do because "pot" is now a proxy for "woke" and "liberal" and they have to own the libs.
by lol768 | 2025-06-23 14:57:02+00:00
How have you found the generation performance? It seems like this should really be a perfect fit for this sort of use-case, and I'd hope the memory footprint and speed are all much more competitive than HTML-based approaches.

The team I'm currently working with are using Gotenberg for things which we can afford to take a little while, and C#/Skia for things which need to be reasonably quick.
by micromacrofoot | 2025-06-23 14:57:35+00:00
I'm not sure why I have to repeat myself, but yes, if we had 100% capacity for renewables in non-cold areas (which we're not even close to, even 80% would be miraculous) we would have decades of more time to solve these issues in cold areas. They don't have to be of equal priority.

We could ignore them completely and focus on the most viable areas and have years and years of work to be done. We are not building nearly as fast as we should.

Minnesota, Russia, Buffalo, et al are not a reason to delay significantly ramping up renewables in other places.

This is not a worthwhile subject to discuss in this context. It's rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic.
by potato3732842 | 2025-06-23 14:57:38+00:00
>I would love to know your state because I can promise your social programs are not degrading because of immigrants and are degrading because of tax cuts to the rich.

Run the numbers on the five bluest states. No matter what definition of "bluest" you use you'll get mine in there somewhere.

You'll never see the issue unless you actually look at nation of origin stats, which are not collected by much of anybody. These people have all been issued state IDs and are state residents as far as the state government cares. But ask any social worker, any administrator, and they will tell you that the demographics being served have changed hugely over the years.

I have people that work for these agencies in my household. I'm not shooting from the hip here.
by Breza | 2025-06-23 14:58:57+00:00
The fact that someone can be temporarily jailed without any evidence or a change to challenge the charges is a painful compromise that the Founding Fathers made to balance justice (they themselves were at risk of arbitrary imprisonment by the Crown) with order (sometimes you see someone running with a bloody knife and you should arrest him before you trace his steps to find a corpse). Police departments try really hard to push what they can get away with, and there are certainly areas where I wish the courts would constrain them.
by danaris | 2025-06-23 14:59:22+00:00
This is basically a stopped clock happening to be right.

AIUI, there's ample evidence that (certain) artificial food dyes can cause various problems. I know that I have anecdotal evidence that they can—even in "blind" situations, where we didn't realize they were in the food until after having problems—cause things like headaches, lightheadedness, and other vague but unpleasant reactions.

I find it frustrating that, as another commenter said, it took an absolute nutter like RFK Jr to make this happen, and also that I have to give him credit for anything positive—but it's pretty clear that this specific thing is, indeed, positive.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-06-23 14:59:57+00:00
Excellent example!

First the strong rebuttal: "Verifiably false information at time of sharing" in this case would mean you have evidence that Fauci knew distance played no role in infection rates, or that a distance other than 6 feet was better, and put out information suggesting 6 feet was correct anyway. You have no evidence of this, of course, because this is not what happened.

The more general rebuttal is that you are revealing exactly the type of "can't be trusted with details" that kneecapped public health communications throughout COVID.

The question is why Fauci selected 6 feet instead of 4, 5, 7, 8 or even 6.1, 6.148, or even 6.489598365983 feet.

The reality is that there's no real reason to select any of these over any other. There's a continuous curve of difficulty of adherence and a continuous curve of transmission reduction.

Any specific number would have been "arbitrary", but very obviously a clear guideline is better than a completely non-actionable "stay as far away as you reasonably can."

This is like hauling out the guy who set interstate speed limits at 60mph and not 59 or 59.5 or 59.84846898 and then blasting him for selecting the "arbitrary" 60 miles per hour.

Does that make sense to you?
by crossroadsguy | 2025-06-23 15:00:19+00:00
> for whatever reason

And the biggest of that is:

——

"Look, I don't know... I really don't know. We're talking about a country's gold, very valuable, very beautiful. And we might freeze it. Or we might not. I mean, who knows? It's a big decision, a very big decision. Some people say, 'Freeze it, Mr. President! It'll be great, the best!' Others, and good people, they say, 'Maybe not, maybe we do something else.' But I'll tell you what, I do like frozen things. They're nice. Very nice. You know, you freeze something, it's solid, it's secure. It's beautiful. It's really beautiful. So we'll see. We'll see what happens. It's all on the table. Believe me."

—-

And you’d still say itself far fetched? :-)
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-06-23 15:00:59+00:00
Well, we are talking about the Texas state legislature. It is going to be prone to narrowly focused dogmatic politicians.

There's some inertia. For a long time, being against cannabis legalization went hand in hand with being "tough on crime". A politician coming out in support of it ran a high chance of being called "soft on crime" by their opponents. There can also be a racial edge due to people who primarily see crime and cannabis as minority-driven problems.
by jantissler | 2025-06-23 15:01:15+00:00
I see you are getting downvoted, but it's still true. An Android app brings in a fraction of the revenue. In case someone wants numbers: Look for the total revenue of Apple's App Store compared to the Play Store and then look for the total number of devices for each. It's a huge difference.

Of course a business will cater to the lucrative platform first or even exclusively.

And now, go ahead, downvote me as much as you want. Won't change the calculus though.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-06-23 15:01:42+00:00
Absolutely, stop subsidizing corn and glucose syrup through ag policy, and tax sugar consumption. Mexico taxed sugar to mitigate obesity to great success. GLP-1s destroy demand (Walmart already sees this in their purchasing data for consumers who are on GLP-1s), but we should also restrict supply by not subsidizing it in the first place. Why are we paying both to make the poison and then treat the poison? Not very capital efficient!

After Mexico Implemented a Tax, Purchases of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Decreased and Water Increased: Difference by Place of Residence, Household Composition, and Income Level - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5525113/ | https://doi.org/10.3945/jn.117.251892

Building upon the sugar beverage tax in Mexico: a modelling study of tax alternatives to increase benefits - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10649495/ | https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2023-012227

USA Facts: Federal farm subsidies: What the data says - https://usafacts.org/articles/federal-farm-subsidies-what-da...

(~40 million acres of corn is used for inefficient ethanol biofuels as well, but I will reserve that rant for another thread)
by beedeebeedee | 2025-06-23 15:02:08+00:00
Both can be true. Dogmatic legislators get voted into office along party lines, but they are not representative of the actual beliefs of most Texans (they appeal to what a lot of Texans think they should believe, but don't actually when it comes to lived reality). On this issue, the governor is aware that a lot of Texans would be in an uproar if they can no longer buy THC legally. This includes veterans and business owners who are considered special classes by the governor. I deeply dislike Abbott, but on this occasion, I think he did the right thing.
by notjoemama | 2025-06-23 15:02:10+00:00
It's not just those incidences though. I think many people have had bad experiences from buying on amazon. Even the shopping process (and this may be the bulk of bad perception) is atrocious. They have a brand filter that is littered with knock off and unknown brands (most I suspect are Chinese). They refuse to include a country of origin filter. We all know why. Reviews have been fake for years, some sellers do little to hide that they've swapped the product on the page to get top rankings for a new product. Product: a plastic step ladder, the reviews: "these bath bombs are so lovely!" Shipping and delivery speed has fallen off for people outside metro areas. Congrats on the vans I guess? Combine that with tertiary problems like scalping, forgery, and lower quality garbage from China, and then fly celebrities into space with subsequent vacuous VSCO-girl like philosophical statements, and its fairly clear why someone's opinion of amazon might be bad. Not to mention their exceedingly poor performance with Prime video. I understand hyperbole is rampant online, but let's maybe agree that water is wet when it is.
by londons_explore | 2025-06-23 15:02:21+00:00
Non-drinkable tap water is mostly due to water not being available 24x7x365. If a water system is turned off even momentarily, the pressure drops to zero, and sewage and groundwater seep into the water pipes, making it unsafe to drink.

Countries with unreliable power grids usually don't have drinkable tap water for that reason.

It can also be because the water isn't treated (ie. it is just rainwater in the pipes). Water treatment actually isn't very expensive though - collecting the water and distributing the water are by far the biggest costs.
by aaaja | 2025-06-23 15:02:36+00:00
> Outside academia, our findings highlight how culturally embedded norms and gender-based expectations shape aesthetic judgments and influence societal perceptions.

> We propose that these biases stem from cultural norms linking femininity with beauty

This is probably it. The "beauty" industry, which almost entirely targets women and girls with its predatory messaging, is a multi-billion dollar market and they do everything they can to promote this as an ideology. To the point where it's become embedded in culture.
by ModernMech | 2025-06-23 15:02:49+00:00
> the LLVM guy thinks like Jonathan Blow with jai?

I would not compare Chris Lattner with Jonathan Blow. Lattner is a person with a reputation for delivering programming languages and infrastructure; whereas for Blow, it seems like an ego issue. He's built a nice little cult of personality around his unreleased language, and releasing it will kill a lot of that magic (running a language project with actual users that has to make good on promises is much different than running a language project with followers and acolytes that can promise anything and never deliver on it).

Lattner has a record of actually delivering dev products people can download and use. Mojo is closed source to make raising money easier, but at least you can actually use it. Jai isn't even available for people to use, and after a decade of Blow dangling it in front of people, it's not clear it'll ever be available, because I'm not sure he wants it to be available.
by colechristensen | 2025-06-23 15:03:38+00:00
This is accepting the premise that something synthetic is automatically worse than something extracted more directly from nature. I'm all for researching and banning substances which are actually harmful, but not for paranoia and the automatic assumption that a certain amount of chemistry turns something "natural" into something bad.

For example carmine is crushed up cactus parasite insects which a very small number of people are vulnerable to extreme allergic reactions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochineal

>much more restrictive on the ingredients that goes into our food

How much human testing of every agricultural product do you want?
by frereubu | 2025-06-23 15:03:38+00:00
This reminds me very much of one of my favourite series on Netflix, Midnight Diner (not Midnight Diner - Tokyo Stories, which is a Netflix remake with many of the same cast, but not as enjoyable as the original in my opinion). Most of the action centres around a group of regulars talking while at a small izakaya in Shinjuku, Tokyo, which is run by someone known only as "Master" and only opens from midnight to 7am. You see a bit of their lives outside, but it always reverts back to the izakaya where they debate on various topics. Given the setting, each episode feels a bit like a theatre play.
by HWR_14 | 2025-06-23 15:03:48+00:00
> What bugs me the most about companies like Kraft is that they could have replaced artificial dyes and ingredients any time they wanted to, but didn't

They had replaced a lot of them already. Kraft's most iconic product (Mac & Cheese) replaced the artificial dyes years ago and this is only the last 10% of their products.

Are artificial dyes actually bad for you?
by willrich89 | 2025-06-23 15:04:10+00:00
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by bluGill | 2025-06-23 15:04:25+00:00
> Do they boil their water? Doesn’t it help with disease?

Maybe. We need to specify what makes exactly makes some water sample unsafe before we can discuss anything. Sometimes boiling helps, sometimes it makes it worse. If your concern nitrates, lead, arsenic, or other things that won't boil, then boiling just concentrates the contaminates and makes the water worse! If your concern is bacteria boiling will kill the bacteria, but the dead cells are still there which may include some poison in the bacteria.

Most filters will not remove the above either. Water is very good at dissolving a lot of nasty things that you don't want in your body (that ability enables a lot of controlled chemistry and thus life as we know it!), and once dissolved it will go through a filter. We again need to know exactly what is in the water before we can discuss if a filter works or not, otherwise we should just assume the filter is not going to make water safe.
by bevr1337 | 2025-06-23 15:04:39+00:00
> Whenever you pine for the old internet stop and think: Do I just miss the freedom of childhood?

This rings very true for video games. I cut my teeth on MUDs then MMOs and find myself craving pleasant social environments. It's easy to blame Discord or other social tools that gobbled up the gaming I enjoyed, but I'm old and all my peers are old, and the truth is I don't have 4 hours to roleplay about werewolf vampire monks.

That said, sometimes things really do change. I do get excited when I find a cool hobby website from a passionate nerd, or something like the MMOndrian game shared here a few days ago. There's more cool stuff than ever, but it does represent less of the general web experience.
by eythian | 2025-06-23 15:05:38+00:00
I thought it was moderately well known. A couple of decades ago a friend would take some red candy when hiking as it could give her (at least the feeling of) a significant short-term energy boost if needed, more than just regular sugar would.

I actually thought that particular red dye was banned where I'm from some time back, though I don't recall why. Allergies perhaps? But that's just a guess.