MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by svieira | 2025-07-24 14:43:53+00:00
> > Also, if you choose to not pay the Maintenance Fee, but find yourself returning to check on the status of issues or review answers to questions others ask, you are still using the project and should pay the Maintenance Fee.

I think this is going to hard against the "economy of gift" and isn't going to play well in the end. If they were hosting their own forum / mailing list, charging to access the community would make sense. But the forum is hosted by a company that gives it away for free. The people posting are posting freely (and may not be associated with the project). Some of the people posting answers are members of the project, but some are not. If the maintainers get an answer from someone else are they obligated to pay the answerer a maintenance fee?

I would limit this to "if you find yourself asking about an issue or posting an issue", since those are points where you are looking for help not just from the community at large, but from the maintainers in particular.
by cubefox | 2025-07-24 14:44:03+00:00
This is an important point:

> For example, LLMs can aid in improving readability and grammar, which might be particularly useful to those for which English is not their first language.

I don't know whether this has been empirically confirmed, but I have the strong belief that a manuscript with poor grammar, by a non-native English speaker, has a much higher probability of being rejected than the same manuscript but copyedited by something like Grammerly or a SOTA LLM.

Ideally writing style should matter much less than the quality of the research, but reviewers are not just influenced by objective criteria but, unconsciously, also by vibes, which includes things like writing style and even formatting.
by calibas | 2025-07-24 14:44:07+00:00
I thought the license was still owned by Microsoft?

https://github.com/wixtoolset/wix?tab=License-1-ov-file#read...

Also, the exact wording is:

"a EULA on binary releases (including those published to GitHub and NuGet.org) requires payment of the Maintenance Fee"

I'm not a lawyer, but doesn't that mean that I can compile the code myself to circumvent the Maintenance Fee, and give the binaries away for free?
by taeric | 2025-07-24 14:44:17+00:00
Reminds me of a video I saw recently that pointed out the absurd number of calories professional athletes burn. Upshot of that video was that you almost certainly can run to lose weight. Just don't expect it to be an easy task.

At a personal level, I can also say that it is flat out hard to eat large amounts of food if you are staying active. The stereotype of wanting an after meal nap is legit.

It is also somewhat interesting to see other places try and contend with just how much food your average person in the US has at their ready disposal.
by dylnuge | 2025-07-24 14:44:43+00:00
Which is a very intentional (and successful) marketing ploy by companies to get users to not care about them. It sounds like a boring technical thing instead of "we need your permission to let massive advertising networks track you around the internet" (consent isn't needed for site functionality; you can use cookies and never mention it if you don't use them for tracking).

Unfortunately this is a challenge with regulation; companies find a way to break the spirit of it as much as possible while following the letter. It's better that companies need consent to track us than not, but consent managers are dark patterns designed to deeply annoy us at the prospect of saying no.
by Bluestein | 2025-07-24 14:45:17+00:00
Spot on.-

(But but but, said business has:

- Begun to make inroads in the military industrial complex

- Been deemed critical to national interests, including economic

- Been avowed (rightly or not so) as part of a multigenerational revolution

... so, in essence, "too critical to fail" - so it gets a "bailout".-
by epistasis | 2025-07-24 14:45:19+00:00
I don't think the current Republican leadership has any opposition at all to handing over lots of government money to large business to do things!

The problem is that they are far too incompetent and have zero clue about tech, and only understand real estate, that simplest of business that can be executed with mere lizard-brain intelligence.

Tech is also about small startups disrupting large giants, which is completely antithetical to current Republican leadership ideals, where the wealthiest get all gains, regardless of who does the work.

It will take many years of full-on Democratic leadership to reconfigure the Republican Party back to a somewhat innovation-friendly business party. Meanwhile the Democrats, under Biden, were by far some of the most business-friendly politicians we have seen in perhaps a century, spurring massive investment in factories and industry, mostly across red states. But because it's a politically incorrect fact, it never gets reported.
by saghm | 2025-07-24 14:45:43+00:00
It's a subjective thing, but to me, having the usage be intuitive even if it means doing a custom implementation is a bit less intuitive is still "simpler". A person in their first day of writing Python code can use `s == "some_string"` and it will work like they expect, and they typically will only need to learn about `__eq__` when they've spent a lot more time writing Python code. With Java, they might literally have to learn that `s == "some_string"` won't work the way they expect and that they need to use `.equals` instead.

JavaScript has an entirely different level of issues, where at first glance it _looks_ like `==` works the way you'd expect, and the issues start cropping up when you accidentally rely on assumptions like equality being transitive. I agree that this is much worse than Java, but it doesn't change the fact that Java still doesn't strike me as the simple, straightforward language you tout it to be. I'd argue that the measure of how simple it is to learn a language should be measured both by how quickly you run into behavior where you need to start caring about the underlying implementation and by how intuitive (or unintuitive) the underlying behavior you need to care about is. At least with regards to comparing equality, Python beats Java by that measure because it abstracts away the concerns about how to define equality from the concerns about how to actually perform the comparisons, and Java beats JavaScript because the extra knowledge you need to be able to compare equality correctly being way more straightforward.
by boringg | 2025-07-24 14:45:46+00:00
Depends on the goal is. If you life is full of shocks then build for shocks. If you life is not build for shocks it makes sense to optimize for your existence. You certainly don't want to overfit the model as you are describing but you don't want to build a life around expecting shocks when none arrive. As with all things, it is a balance.
by motohagiography | 2025-07-24 14:46:20+00:00
the act of writing takes raw experience, puts it in front of the eyes, and then filters it back through your critical faculties so you can refine and reason about it. the iteration makes it higher quality thought.

making writing valuable is another skill (see this evergreen lecture from the university of chicago leadership lab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFwVf5a3pZM)

however when I encounter people with low written or verbal acuity, they have to survive somehow, so it's wise to observe what tools of cunning they tend to reach for.
by ianloe666 | 2025-07-24 14:46:23+00:00
I've been frustrated with WebSocket debugging for years. I looked for extensions that could intercept and simulate WebSocket traffic, but found nothing.

So I built WebSocket DevTools - a Chrome extension that:

- Intercepts and modifies WebSocket messages in real-time - Simulates messages from both client and server sides - Captures all connections even when DevTools is closed - Works like the Network tab but for WebSocket traffic

The extension injects a proxy into pages when they load, intercepting traffic at the browser level. It integrates with Chrome DevTools as a native panel.

Try it (Chrome Extension): https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/websocket-devtools/...
by Barrin92 | 2025-07-24 14:46:26+00:00
It ought to be obvious. A chocolate donut, large Frappuccino or pick your unhealthy food of choice are about equivalent to half an hour of running. Given how many people throw in a snack like that several times per day good luck burning that off with exercise.

One of the most straight forward things to lose weight is just limiting yourself to two or three actual meals, black coffee, tea, etc.
by rwmj | 2025-07-24 14:46:28+00:00
"major security risks" as in Terminator style robot overlords, or (to me more likely) they enable people to develop exploits more easily? Anyway I fail to see how it makes much difference if the models are open or closed, since the barrier to entry to creating new models is not that large (as in, any competent large company or nation state can do it easily), and even if they were all closed source, anyone who has the weights can run up as many copies as they want.
by greatgib | 2025-07-24 14:46:29+00:00
From their point of view the issue is that automatic update happened without each update to be approved and tested.

But the upstream issue not under their control is that the systemd update or behavior during update should not have broken things like that. Especially not with stable releases.

And to be clear, accident can happen but it is not the first time. It is quite common.

Once they totally bricked systems by accidentally wiping the nvram partition of computers.
by cogman10 | 2025-07-24 14:46:33+00:00
> no reason Intel couldn’t do the same.

Intel is doing the same. IDK if they are working on new fabs at this point, but the last few generations of chips from intel have used TSMC.

My expectation is that Intel might still run fabs, but they'll be mostly contracting them out to people who want cheap ASICs and 10 year old fab tech.
by xyst | 2025-07-24 14:46:37+00:00
Can’t recall the last time I used `curl … | bash` to install anything on personal or remote devices.

Switched to nix + home-manager as a package manager to replace defacto package managers on some operating systems (ie, darwin uses macports or homebrew).

In cases where the package isn’t available in nixpkgs, can create my own derivation and build it from source.

If I am super paranoid, spin up sandboxed vm with minimal nixos. Use nixos-anywhere to setup vm. Install/build suspicious package. Then do reconnaissance. Nuke the vm after I am done.

Nix, like any other software, isn’t fool proof. Something is likely to get through. In that case, identify the malicious package in nix store. Update your flake to remove/patch software that introduced it. Then nuke the system completely.

Then rebuild system using your declarative system configuration without malicious software.

Is nix for everyone? God no, there’s a massive learning curve. But I will say that once you get past this learning curve, you will never need to install anything with this pattern.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-07-24 14:46:49+00:00
I have been, rather lazily I suppose, trying to tweak my diet in such as way as to lose weight; and with little to show for it.

I'm not sure that there is much if any processed food still in my diet (maybe just the English muffin in the morning?). I stopped buying/drinking soda pop decades ago (a low-hanging fruit indeed — I lost almost 10 pounds within a month of making that dietary change alone).

And since I have tried little things like switching to peanut butter that contains only peanuts (no salt, no sugar, not palm oil — sure, I have to stir it when I open it for the first time). I've moved to whole grain bread. Other small changes like that I can't remember right now.

I still have a BMI that's too high.

The only time I have significantly lost weight was when I was prepping for intestinal surgery nearly a decade ago. I was at the time worried that eating too much would literally kill me (I was worried about bursting my intestine) that I ate very small portions for each meal.

I'm not sure why I can't change my habits such that I continue to eat those small portions (now that the fear is gone).
by nine_k | 2025-07-24 14:46:58+00:00
AFAICT, the fee applies if you're using binary releases, or if you open issues, and are also generating revenue from the project. Apparently you can grab the sources and build the binaries yourself (as per the OSS license), never ask for support (by reporting issues), and still have to pay nothing, even in a commercial setting.

It looks a bit similar to the RedHat model: they release open-source software (Linux kernel is GPL2), but you may want to buy their binary releases and support.

Not so rarely companies would not mind paying a small amount to help support the OSS projects they depend on. This may give CTOs an easy way to expense such support, even though becoming a GitHub sponsor is more involved than many would like; I hope Wix will introduce even easier options (Open Collective, its own non-profit, etc).
by gitremote | 2025-07-24 14:47:16+00:00
Unions help level racial and gender pay gaps. The framing that this is because high skilled workers are compensating low skilled workers, that the current situation is meritocratic and white men are naturally superior, is implicitly white supremacist and misogynist. We didn't push back on this, because we tried to find common ground with the other side who never had anyone or any social obstacle challenge this framing of natural hierarchies. However, the consequence now is that fascism is mainstream and part of the government, which thinks DEI is about hiring low quality people.
Show HN: YouTubeTLDR – A lightweight, self-hosted YouTube summarizer in Rust
by milkshift | 2025-07-24 14:47:37+00:00
There are many commercial YouTube summarizers, but I couldn't find an open-source one that truly fit my needs. So, I built YouTubeTLDR: a simple, self-hostable solution that uses the Gemini API without much bloat.

I went with a synchronous approach + threading which was a nice break from Tokio.

It is Bring Your Own Key, but the key is sent to the server for each request, which is something I might revise in the future.

There is a demo on https://youtubetldr.onrender.com/
by Insanity | 2025-07-24 14:47:45+00:00
Can't say this is too surprising, given Musks' behaviour over the past months.

The association with Tesla as a product is less desirable as a result. And I guess in the US, his initial alignment with Trump didn't sit well with Democrat-leaning customers, and now he flipped against Trump, which won't sit well with Republican-leaning customers.
by hbn | 2025-07-24 14:47:58+00:00
Well, it's a "free if you're not generating revenue" model which is similar to JetBrains' recent "free for non-commercial use" releases of their IDEs, and I believe Docker does something like that too.

And famously WinRar which will nag you to upgrade every time you open it but doesn't actually force you to buy it, but expect enterprises will if they don't want to risk lawsuits.
by iLoveOncall | 2025-07-24 14:48:21+00:00
This is a very editorialized headline. They didn't say the costs are worth it.

They said the resiliency of the supply chain has to be taken into account, as was seen during COVID. I don't think anyone would argue that 20% extra cost forever is worth the resiliency to black swan events like COVID that will happen 2 or 3 times in the company's lifetime (if that).

I also think people forget that Taiwan is a first world country. It's not like we're comparing US manufacturing costs to Pakistani manufacturing costs.

I'm not gonna argue that the cost isn't worth it for the US government, of course it is (they pay nothing and get more jobs and in-house chips), but AMD the company doesn't care about that.
by mecsred | 2025-07-24 14:48:44+00:00
Its all anecdotal all the way down, so here's another grain of salt to add to the pile.

(Calories in - calories out) is correct enough to be the single most reliable metric, and will serve you right 99% of the time. My "one level deeper" understanding is that there are a few transfer functions applied to calories in. So of the technically available calories you eat, how much does your body absorb. Then, when the calories are biologically available, how does your body spend them?

So the idea would be, if you eat the pizza at the right time you reduce calories in. Either you will digest less calories, or your body will allocated them differently at different times of the day.

Unfortunately these things aren't really measurable so it's very hard to separate from hearsay.
by cardanome | 2025-07-24 14:48:45+00:00
> There is also no reason why feminism would need to support LGBT?

Because lesbian, trans and generally queer women exist?

Even if you were to only care about cis hetero women, it is silly to think that transphobes will only keep attacking trans women. As lot of cis women have been "transvestigated", have been harassed in bathrooms for "looking trans" and so on.

So even cis women will ultimately suffer if no one speaks up against bigots. The window of what they are allowed to wear, look like, how they are supposed to behave gets smaller and smaller.

The enemy is the same. The same patriarchal reactionary ideology that wants to punish any difference to the imagined norm. Ultimately it is a class war and the rich pricks are winning.

It is liking saying "why should I defend Jews, I am not a Jew.". Sure they might not come for you first but they will come for you eventually. United we are strong. Divided they will get us one by one.

If you are pretend to be feminist but throw your trans sister under the bus, you are a traitor not a feminist.
by 30gd4n | 2025-07-24 14:48:50+00:00
'People buy cars to drive them' : how long did you own your last EV car ? enough to pass the limit for the EV to become interesting ? You think all Tesla & BYD owners do that ? Don't think so ! So in the end your ownership (and 95% of the other) of an EV was more CO2 intensive than equivalent ICE because you don't keep it enough to become efficient. And don't talk about second hand use because this is clearly not the way our society is going; it's all about buying new stuff and changing cars every couple of years; huge hyprocrisy when you say that EVs need time to become more efficient than ICE.

'I'm sorry you can't be bothered to read your own link. This is in the footnotes as a source for it:' just click on the damn link, use google trad, find the paper and READ (not just troll as if I didn't) the recycling chapter by yourself ! It does not include real-world data, it's theoretical/research data IF batteries were recycled in EU/US with up to date processes. As of today 2025 all batteries are 'recycled' (joke..) in China/India by underqualified people with a CO2 cost WAY higher and this is NOT taken into account in the study. So yeah I'll say again : real recycling, the one we do right now IS NOT ACCOUNTED FOR !

Useless discussion anyway, you don't add any argument or source, just trolling on my words, nice !
by tpoindex | 2025-07-24 14:48:52+00:00
MX Linux for the win. Debian based, but defaults to 'init'. Booting with systemd is an option. Just enough systemd-* running to make things easy and seamless.

$ ps agxf|grep 'systemd' 607 ? S 0:00 /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd 2201 ? S 0:00 /sbin/cgmanager --daemon -m name=systemd 2726 ? S 0:00 /lib/systemd/systemd-logind

Also can install Nvidia or AMD video drivers.
by carlosjobim | 2025-07-24 14:49:59+00:00
If somebody is a person who demands to get something for nothing from complete strangers and then get mad when they don't - well that person has very low value as a human until they can find enlightenment. These guys are definitely not in the majority of people.

There are reasonable reactions in this situation: Either be grateful that you got something for free, or accept that you were misinformed and pay what is asked, alternatively leave.

But let's be honest about this particular situation: The visitor had checked the event online, maybe first with ChatGPT and then on the official website. They noticed that the AI had made a mistake and thought they could abuse that to try to get in for free.

Everybody who works with the general public for restaurants, hospitality, events or retail recognize this kind of "customer", who are a small minority which you have to deal with sometimes. There are some base people who live their lives trying to find loop holes and ways to take advantage of others, while at the same time constantly being on the verge of a massive outrage over how unfairly they are being treated.
by ryandrake | 2025-07-24 14:50:35+00:00
Ironic, because macOS's package management system is supposed to be the simplest of all! Applications are supposed to just live in /Applications or ~/Applications, and you're supposed to be able to cleanly uninstall them by just deleting their single directory. Not all 3rd party developers seem to have gotten that memo, and you frequently see crappy and unnecessary "installers" in the macOS world.

There may be good or bad reasons why Homebrew can't use the standard /Applications pattern, but did they have to go with "curl | bash"?
by epistasis | 2025-07-24 14:51:19+00:00
Agreed, and that's my point: US companies only valued ICE skills, which has left them weak and vulnerable now that the truly valuable skills are in batteries and looking for efficiencies with a far simplified rest of product.

By treating batteries as a component roughly on par with an air filter, US manufacturers have lost out on multiple R&D cycles and put themselves in such a poor strategic position that it's unlikely they will be able to survive without major restructuring.
by tester756 | 2025-07-24 14:51:34+00:00
ISA is irrelevant

It's like saying that programming language syntax/keywords are better than the other.

Everything is about compiler, lib, runtime, etc.

https://chipsandcheese.com/p/arm-or-x86-isa-doesnt-matter

Also some people say that RISC-V is the way to go
by post_break | 2025-07-24 14:51:35+00:00
Having lost 40lbs in the past couple of years, diet and walking have been key. It's just so much easier to burn fat by not eating it, than it is to try to burn it off with exercise. You'll find that burning 500 calories on a treadmill feels like an eternity, but eating one chocolate chip muffin? You can do that and gulp down a big glass of milk in 5 minutes like it's nothing.
by boringg | 2025-07-24 14:52:20+00:00
The best thing I saw was some Kia beating a Ferrari on a race test on instagram. What was great about it was the the commentary. The comments were all about how beautiful a ferrari was and no longer about its exceptional performance (which is the original raison d'etre) - and a lot of nostalgia complaining about how EVs are going to be the death of beautifully engineered cars.

Yes I know the KIA is only faster during acceleration and theres more to cars than acceleration/top speed that ... but the commentary was too funny. It made ferrari look like a car from the past.
by janosch_123 | 2025-07-24 14:52:24+00:00
For DIY EV conversions (I built some cars) you usually hook up the "regenerate braking" to the brakelight switch.

So as soon as you tap the brake pedal just a little, you start regenerating and see the amps flow back into the battery (I have a little display on my dashboard). Only when you press the pedal further, do you start engaging the friction brakes.

I have no statistics on brake pad differences because we didn't build enough cars/didn't cover enough mileage to measure, but it is obvious that you would cut down on brake pad usage.

Everything I know about EVs and the tech behind it I share on: youtube.com/@foxev-content