MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lorenzohess | 2025-07-02 05:44:34+00:00
Leaving aside the author's unsubstantial introductory diatribe, he does not properly evaluate the "popover" footnote implementation, which is the clear solution, nor does he compare it with his three alternatives.

Regarding the popover:

> We could try to solve that problem by dynamically pulling the content from the footnotes and displaying it in a popover. In some browsers (including yours) that will display like a tooltip, pointing directly back to the footnote marker. Thanks to modern web features, this can be done entirely without JavaScript.

> But this is still shit! I see good, smart people, who'd always avoid using "click here" as link text, littering their articles with link texts such as 1, 7, and sometimes even 12. Not only is this as contextless as "click here", it also provides the extra frustration of a tiny-weeny hit target.

The claim that footnotes are "contextless" is not sound. One cannot attribute the "contextlessness" of "click here" hyperlinks to footnotes because footnotes and hyperlinks fundamentally differ: footnotes are simply placeholders for additional text and do not call the user to action.

Perhaps the author meant that a footnotes's form, i.e. a number or symbol, doesn't provide context for the note itself. While this claim is sound, it is irrelevant because a footnote link shouldn't need context; the sentence provides it.

While the claim about a "tiny-weeny hit target" is sound, the author fails to consider alternatives. Increasing font size or wrapping the link in brackets would help the problem.

Regarding popovers vs. the three proposed alternatives: i) parentheses; ii) `note`; and iii) `<details>`:

1) All three options are more distracting because they occupy more space. And (ii) and (iii) add color. And I'd guess that readers are more likely to unintentionally skim (ii) or open (iii) because they're primed by other websites. All these modes of distraction run contrary to the purpose of the footnote. In fact, a footnote occupies the minimum space possible.

2) Option (ii) adds lots of unseemly vertical space to the webpage.

3) Option (iii) moves the webpage text below the note up and down. This interferes more with the reading experience than does the static popover.

4) Options (ii) and (iii) are not portable over copy paste. If you copy a webpage with these elements into another file, you'll have to manually rearrange them to appear as actual footnotes.

5) All options, as implemented by the author, eliminate the key-value nature of footnotes. One cannot refer to a particular parenthetical, `note`, or `<details>` because they aren't numbered. While (ii) and (iii) could be numbered with no problem, numbered parentheticals start to look weird.

6) All three options give footnotes more visual presence than they should have. Particularly (ii) will make the footnote seem like the most important quote of the article. Footnotes should be out of eyesight most of the time, just like feet.
by ggm | 2025-07-02 05:44:43+00:00
They're targeting a pharmacological H2S donor, not exposing people to stink bombs.

Can we not go full horse worming tablet on this please

https://www.osha.gov/hydrogen-sulfide/hazards

Note the effect on asthmatics in particular. Funny doses for many people eww stinky is.. really bad for some.
by Grimblewald | 2025-07-02 05:46:21+00:00
Yup, but that being said, Llama is GPLv3 weather Meta likes it or not. Same as ChatGPT and all the others. ALL of them can perfectly reproduce GPLv3 licensed works and data, making them derivative work, and the license is quite clear on that matter. In fact up until recently you could get chatGPT to info dump all sorts of things with that argument, but now when you try you will hit a network error, and afterwards it seems something breaks and it goes back to parroting a script on how it's under a proprietary license.
by hansvm | 2025-07-02 05:46:23+00:00
> The reason Machiavellianism is stupid is that the grand ends the means aim to obtain often never come to pass

That doesn't feel quite right as an explanation. If something fails 10 times, that just makes the means 10x worse. If the ends justify the means then doesn't that still fit into Machiavellian principles? Isn't the complaint closet to "sometimes the ends don't justify the means"?
by angst | 2025-07-02 05:46:28+00:00
“I don’t think Sam is the guy who should have the finger on the button for AGI.”

- Ilya Sutskever, Co-founder, co-lead of Superalignment Team , Departed early 2024

- May 15, 2025, The Atlantic

Anyway, I concur it's a hard choice as one other comment mentions.
by dodomodo | 2025-07-02 05:46:54+00:00
there are many practical benefits:

1. naturally async

2. each server and the editor itself can be written in its own language and runtime easily

3. servers can just crash or be killed because of oom errors and your editor won't be affected

4. in a lot of languages it is easier to write a server then to call/export c abi

5. the editor can run in a browser and connect to a remote server

6. you can have a remote central server

all of those things are done in practice
Ask HN: Is promoting a self-hosted event not ok by HN standards?
by chbkall | 2025-07-02 05:47:38+00:00
My wife does children's book readings with adults from a psycho-socio-emotional lens. She uses children's books as a medium to open up and hold spaces for conversations on complex themes specially mental health. I thought about helping her promote her work by sharing the links for these events on HN. One of the posts just got flagged and I was wondering if this kind of promotion is looked down by HN folx.
by adityaathalye | 2025-07-02 05:47:48+00:00
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by saxenauts | 2025-07-02 05:48:52+00:00
I am building a graph memory too, and I agree with you. It is almost useless to generate triplets, and instead generate nodes that are usually statement strings. And can extend up to a short paragraph too.

I have strong opinions that memory should be a graph + vector hybrid. The vector store can store and index information as a cognitive fragment( ex. all things related to my house), and can keep editing it as a set of statements, while that node can be associated with other nodes (ex. my renovation plans, budgeting, etc.), because those are separate fragments. I am also using LLM to consolidate and find new patterns across the connected memories

> But one problem I see with these memory systems is that they can reduce interest on a topic once we put it in the KB.

Can you elaborate please?
by ggm | 2025-07-02 05:48:56+00:00
No passwords, no 2FA. SIM swap is not impossible in Australia but it's a harder barrier than the USA. Many of us have 2FA outside of phone number, (I have totp on qff) so while this is highly displeasing at this stage I personally feel it's mostly privacy risk.

Professional and public Liability insurance in the supply chain is going to get a lot more expensive before this kind of risk goes away.

If there's a higher risk than I appreciate, I would appreciate understanding it. They mention MFA bombing, can't deny there's a possible hole there.
by happymellon | 2025-07-02 05:49:37+00:00
Indeed. Most modern UI is awful, hiding options behind opaque menus.

If you make a UI on a desktop, and you are considering a hamburger menu then stop.

How are your users going to figure out how to do anything? A hamburger isn't descriptive.

The best I've seen generally of this paradigm just have their file/edit menus behind the burger. At least then its just one level of indirection.
by rswail | 2025-07-02 05:49:44+00:00
Of course, but are you aware that there are already cross-country agreements that allow these systems to work, for example, UPI is accepted in Singapore?

https://support.google.com/pay/india/answer/13949170?hl=en

There are also alternatives like WePay, AliPay, LINE Pay and other wallet providers that are generally accepted across Asia.

The use of the Visa and MC networks is primarily a US/EU/APAC environment, where the alliance of bank issuers has controlled that market for decades.

This is essentially a "legacy" network, with a lot of issues related to the interchange and other fees, as well as any number of 3rd parties, hidden from the consumer, that "clip the ticket" of each transaction.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-07-02 05:49:56+00:00
> One of the curious things about Twitter pre-aquisition was that underage content somewhat frequently stayed up for months while discriminatory remarks were generally taken down rapidly. Post acquisition such content seemed to disappear approximately overnight.

This isn't evidence that they have a system for taking down content without a huge number of false positives. It's evidence that the previous administrators of Twitter were willing to suffer a huge number of false positives around accusations of racism and the current administrators are willing to suffer them around accusations of underaged content.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-07-02 05:51:02+00:00
Yeah, everything in the same bundle is what I'm going for. Except it's not a bundle that is offered and gatekept by some platform, but rather one that emerges from the participation of users while they interact with each other or with artists.

Whether I received the content via a browser, over bittorrent, or on a USB stick should have no bearing on whether I'm able to

- reward its creators

- assess the content's trustworthiness based on whether I trust those creators
by chartered_stack | 2025-07-02 05:52:18+00:00
Well is the loss of training data from customers using self-hosted Llama that big a deal for OpenAI or any of the big labs at this point? Maybe in late-2022/early-2023 during the early stages of RLHF'd mass models but not today I don't think. Offerings from the big labs have pretty much settled into specific niches and people have started using them in certain ways across the board. The early land grab is over and consolidation has started.
by nxobject | 2025-07-02 05:52:22+00:00
That's a useful comparison since it gives some insight to some important differences: part of the difference might be an order of magnitude increase in clock speed (say from 15 MHz to 133+ MHz); another might be an increase in I/O speed. A final one might be memory pressure - classic Mac OS applications conservatively specified memory to reserve in advance since they shared the same memory space, and a lot of purging/reloading of nonessential relocatable resources might be happening.
by ggm | 2025-07-02 05:55:22+00:00
Many fine drives on British roads laid over or alongside Roman ones. The A68 is said to be one. Bits of the A1. Watling Street.

I tend to think "stick to straight lines" was more pragmatic genius than a curse. Doable with tools available for surveying of the time, easy to communicate to staff and labour.

Modern Australian roads in the bush have inexplicable kinks, 100km of direct, then a bend. I think Fred on the tractor got bored.
by bigyabai | 2025-07-02 05:56:05+00:00
I like Figma. My disappointment is that I know it's a transient tool. I grew up learning Photoshop, a tool which I now never use because it is expensive and neutered. And Sony Vegas, which is also expensive and pointless when free alternatives do the same thing. And now I can add Figma to the list of tools I learned but will likely never touch for even a free project. Which makes me sad! I like it.

This business model isn't sustainable for individuals, so they're going to naturally be upset. If the B2B market is more lucrative for Figma then they have every right to optimize for it, but they're going to pay the cost in user goodwill. Many startups go through this process.
by ashdksnndck | 2025-07-02 05:56:20+00:00
The whole point of bundling is that you combine many things together because the marginal cost is zero. If you pay for YouTube premium, you are also paying for all of the videos on YouTube that don’t interest you. That’s irrelevant as long is there is enough content you want. The fact that the bundle includes a music app you don’t care to use is the same way, it doesn’t detract from the value proposition.
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by shellfishgene | 2025-07-02 05:56:56+00:00
Kim asked me, “Do you know what the function of an estuary is?” [...] “This is where salt and freshwater meet and purifies the water so that it can flow as freshwater into the country,” Kim explained. “Isn’t that remarkable?”

That would indeed be remarkable if it were true, do I just not understand what this is supposed to mean?
by gen6acd60af | 2025-07-02 05:57:19+00:00
This one?

>Claude's output was thoroughly reviewed by Cloudflare engineers with careful attention paid to security and compliance with standards.

>To emphasize, this is not "vibe coded". Every line was thoroughly reviewed and cross-referenced with relevant RFCs, by security experts with previous experience with those RFCs.

Some time later...

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4pc9-x2fx-p7vj / CVE-2025-4143

>The OAuth implementation in workers-oauth-provider that is part of MCP framework https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-mcp, did not correctly validate that redirect_uri was on the allowed list of redirect URIs for the given client registration.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-07-02 05:59:10+00:00
> But this goes back to the original argument: maybe if you can't avoid causing harm then you shouldn't be allowed to operate?

By this principle the government can't operate the criminal justice system anymore because it has too many false positives and uncaptured negative externalities and then you don't have anything to use to tell Facebook to censor things.

> Facebook and its ilk have massive profits, they can afford more moderators.

They have large absolute profits because of the large number of users but the profit per user is in the neighborhood of $1/month. How much human moderation do you think you can get for that?
by Taek | 2025-07-02 05:59:14+00:00
It's weird to hear Sam Altman call the employees of OpenAI 'missionaries' based on their intense policies that seem determined to control how people think and act.

Imagine if in 2001 Google had said "I'm sorry, I can't let you search that" if you were looking up information on medical symptoms, or doing searches related to drugs, or searching for porn, or searching for Disney themed artwork.

It's hard for me to see anyone with such a strong totalitarian control over how their technology can be used as a good guy.
by docdeek | 2025-07-02 05:59:20+00:00
> Speaking from the university’s hilltop astrophysics lab, AMU President Eric Berton likened the situation to that of European academics who fled persecution by Nazi Germany both before and during World War II.

> As most of the researchers who attended Berton’s speech had not yet signed their contracts with AMU, they requested anonymity to protect their stateside research positions if they ended up not being admitted or declining the offer.

I'm not sure the comparison is apt. I can't imagine many Jews in fear for their lives and fleeing the Nazis deciding that the offer of refuge wasn't quite to their liking.
by ashdksnndck | 2025-07-02 05:59:27+00:00
For the examples you gave, there is a lot of marginal cost to provide more of the product. ChatGPT and your utility would be bankrupt if they gave infinite usage. Although ChatGPT’s consumer product is flat rate (users greatly prefer that model), rumor is that they lose money if you use the big models a lot, and they do cap usage.
by rooftopzen | 2025-07-02 06:00:07+00:00
If I’m following correctly, this drama is like a Netflix series (and I agree, crazy stuff we couldn’t make up). If it’s only the Trump admin policies here, yeah it’s crazy bold (and which I state the ethical implications of).

Science fiction plot twist could involve anything completely crazy in the bill no one notices by having to use an LLM to read and that is open to interpretation enough to be only decided by the courts later.. I didn’t look for anything hidden and vague; but how would one really know lol.
by tomhow | 2025-07-02 06:00:47+00:00
I know this must be a crappy feeling, but it's against the guidelines to complain about this here. My personal recommendation is that if you strongly believe you're a fit to work at the company, find ways to connect with key people there and demonstrate credibility. Some effort and self-confidence can make all the difference sometimes.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44436467 and marked it off topic.
by retsibsi | 2025-07-02 06:00:58+00:00
I think this discussion of "Friday week" has people talking at cross purposes, and there may not be any real disagreement. It's an idiom, and if you're part of a (sub-)culture that has this idiom, its meaning is unambiguous. But if it's unfamiliar to you, you can't be expected to deduce its meaning from first principles.

Someone upthread mentioned "half ten", which is similar: if you're familiar with the idiom, you know it unambiguously means half past ten, but if you're not, you can't be sure that it doesn't mean 9.30 (or, for the literalists among us, 5.00).

Anyone telling you that you're wrong for not understanding it, or that you should start using it even though those around you are unfamiliar with it, is being silly; but I don't think anyone here is doing that.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-07-02 06:02:11+00:00
>on top of the air cooling effects of evaporation

I think you meant to say *on top of shade* because blocking the sun is the main effect here (the geometry makes more sense too!)

Less confusing phrase from abstract which implies that the 0.5deg evaporative cooling is almost a rounding error:

during the day, trees provide significant shade by intercepting solar radiation, reducing mean radiant temperature (up to 16 °C)
by sbysb | 2025-07-02 06:03:44+00:00
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by jaffathecake | 2025-07-02 06:04:04+00:00
> Perhaps the author meant that a footnotes's form, i.e. a number or symbol, doesn't provide context for the note itself.

Yes. I was referring to the uselessness of the linking text being a superscript number, which is as bad, if not worse, than "click here".

> While this claim is sound, it is irrelevant because a footnote link shouldn't need context; the sentence provides it.

It doesn't. The sentence gives you information about the general topic, but not about the content of the footnote, and if it's worth visiting. Whereas the note & details examples have a heading that describes the topic of the supplementary content.

> 1) All three options are more distracting because they occupy more space. And (ii) and (iii) add color. And I'd guess that readers are more likely to unintentionally skim

Are they too distracting or too easy to ignore? Make your mind up!

> In fact, a footnote occupies the minimum space possible.

Using smaller text is a bug, not a feature.

> 2) Option (ii) adds lots of unseemly vertical space to the webpage.

Vertical space is cheap. And in the example it's hardly lots.

> 3) Option (iii) moves the webpage text below the note up and down. This interferes more with the reading experience than does the static popover.

It only moves it down, and then you can read the content in flow.

> 4) Options (ii) and (iii) are not portable over copy paste. If you copy a webpage with these elements into another file, you'll have to manually rearrange them to appear as actual footnotes.

That's a feature, not a bug. Content is in the correct order.

> 5) All options, as implemented by the author, eliminate the key-value nature of footnotes. One cannot refer to a particular parenthetical, `note`, or `<details>` because they aren't numbered.

So? They have headings instead.
by btilly | 2025-07-02 06:05:52+00:00
Yes, Democrats turned on tech. But this did not just randomly happen.

For at least a decade, the New York Times (which Krugman wrote for) had an editorial policy that all articles on tech had to be critical of tech. This created a blatantly and obviously biased narrative that was picked up by sources on the left. That created an environment where Democratic leaders were politically rewarded for beating up on tech.

Ironically, this happened in a period where tech itself was bending over backwards to try to appease those on the left. The Twitter Files revealed a regime where tech was working with Democratic operatives to censor views that are widespread among Republicans. Some of those views were clearly problematic. But the censorship itself was even more problematic.

While it does indeed seem likely that Trump's instability will be bad for big tech, it is not obvious that Trump will be worse than where Democrats were heading. It was truly a choice between two evils, and the evils that tech had been dealing with were pretty bad.