MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by renewiltord | 2025-07-22 05:44:31+00:00
This is just like the way some people decided that "Blue Check" should be an insult on Twitter. Occasionally people still say it but almost everyone ignores it. Fads like this are common on the Internet. It's just like any other clique of people: a few people accidentally taste-make as a bunch of replicators simply repeat mindless things over and over again "slop" "mask-off moment" "enshittification" "ghoulish". Just words that people repeat because other people say them and get likes/upvotes/retweets or whatever.

The "Blue Check" insult regime didn't get anywhere and I doubt any anti-LLM/anti-diffusion-model stuff will last. "Stop trying to make fetch happen". The tools are just too useful.

People on the Internet are just weird. Some time in the early 2010s the big deal was "fedoras". Oh you're weird if you have a fedora. Man, losers keep thinking fedoras are cool. I recall hanging out with a bunch of friends once and we walked by a hat shop and the girls were all like "Man, you guys should all wear these hats". The girls didn't have a clue: these were fedoras. Didn't they know that it would mark us out as weird losers? They didn't, and it turned out it doesn't. In real life.

It only does on the Internet. Because the Internet is a collection of subcultures with some unique cultural overtones.
by TFYS | 2025-07-22 05:46:18+00:00
> Philosophically, if someone gains their wealth from people voluntarily giving them money in the free market, this is the most noble possible way to earn a fortune there is

People can be manipulated so that they give you money "voluntarily", but I wouldn't call that noble. Probably trillions of dollars are spent trying to manipulate people in various ways to try to convince them to give their money to the wealthy. Some of the most brilliant minds of humanity are working on how to use human psychology and technology to get people to do what they want. When an individual is up against that, I wouldn't call it entirely voluntary.

> The capitalist system has brought all of humanity higher than ever dreamed of by the wealthiest kings in centuries past.

All of humanity? No, millions still die of hunger. That's because their needs are invisible in a capitalist system, while the wants of those with wealth get the attention of everyone.
by seec | 2025-07-22 05:47:58+00:00
Well it's a VC backed venture by and for rich SF people. There are plenty of products like that posted on HN, the kind that only make sense if you really make a shit ton of money and have already "solved" most downstream problems in your life (it goes for business stuff too).

So yeah, this is what you get. At the price sold, whether you are vegetarian, vegan, or anything else is largely irrelevant; you have to be rich first and foremost.

And if we are talking about the product "qualities", it does not make a lot of sense: as a meat eater I cannot fathom people who pretend it's anywhere near close to the real thing, it's much dryer, does not have the burger flavor and disintegrate much like vegetables do.

And the nutritional profile isn't very good as well, as you explain. If I have to eat a lot of fat and associated carbs with my protein, it might as well be cheaper beans/veggie stuff.

All that being said, I'm not a very big fan of the plant-based protein (like tofu) stuff either. It's rarely cheaper than meat, always has a chewy like texture (sometimes it feels like you are eating rubber) and can only taste what you prepare it with. I have a friend who worked at high-end restaurants who became vegetarian and prepared it many times for me, it has never been any good. It's also heavily processed and requires a lot of water/heat to make (it also requires a lot more energy/effort than meat to prepare afterwards) and lacks many other nutrients meat naturally has.

I doubt meat is cheaper only because of subsidies, to me it seems like nature is extremely efficient and we have a truly hard time competing with it.
by fouc | 2025-07-22 05:49:06+00:00
iPhone 6s and 6s Plus (2015) - First to introduce 3D Touch iPhone 7 and 7 Plus (2016) iPhone 8 and 8 Plus (2017) iPhone X (2017) iPhone XS and XS Max (2018) - Last models with 3D

Interesting that the iPhone SE 2nd/3rd generation with iPhone 8 form factor do not have 3D touch but "Haptic touch" instead.
by fragmede | 2025-07-22 05:49:26+00:00
Thinking "nearly everyone" has that precise definition of AI seems way more sloppy. Most people haven't even heard of OpenAI and ChatGPT still, but among people who have, they've probably heard stories about AI in science fiction. My definition of AI is any advanced computer processing, generative or otherwise, that's happened since we got enough computing power and RAM to do something about it, aka lately.
by shahzaibmushtaq | 2025-07-22 05:49:51+00:00
Earning $150000 + 1 viral product sold for 6 figures over the last 5 years isn't that bad in terms of experience which can help grow Refgrow faster using organic SEO and marketing.

I guess all those ideas that never made $1 were because of the "If you build it, they will come" marketing approach.
by bigbuppo | 2025-07-22 05:50:24+00:00
Cut their CEO some some slack. He's a thought leader/rocket mogul/ISP guy/social media but wants to make it a bank for some reason dude/former government sort-of-official/professional gamer/full time twitter shitposter that's also starting a political party and who is responsible for fathering over a dozen children. On second thought, I think I see the problem.
by timewizard | 2025-07-22 05:51:39+00:00
> Zip code 94107 is located in San Francisco, California, specifically in the Potrero Hill neighborhood. It is part of San Francisco County. There are approximately 163 homes for sale in this zip code, with prices ranging from $338.6K to $5M, according to Realtor.com. The minimum combined sales tax rate for 94107 is 8.63%, according to Avalara. The per capita income in 94107 is $124,681.

It is interesting that knowing your zipcode I might have predicted your response.

> I am a piece in an instrument for humanity to comprehend the Universe.

For a lot of people, if their data is being used as a benefit, then they should be properly compensated for that. They're more likely to be trying to comprehend how to keep food on the table.
by yhoiseth | 2025-07-22 05:52:05+00:00
Sarkar argues that “AI shaming arises from a class anxiety induced in middle class knowledge workers, and is a form of boundary work to maintain class solidarity and limit mobility into knowledge work.”

I think there is at least some truth to this.

Another possible cause of AI shaming is that reading AI writing feels like a waste of time. If the author didn’t bother to write it, why should I bother to read it and provide feedback?
by ffsm8 | 2025-07-22 05:53:36+00:00
Yes, we had lengthy discussions in itops (I had a admin role when LE was launched) about it.

The team lead couldn't get over the slogan "devops, automating downtimes since 2010" whenever someone wanted to add a new nonessential automation that does things on prod servers.

I mean he wasn't completely wrong, it was a non essential automation with high risk and very little reward (<1h saved every 2 yrs), which is why we never switched to LE for our main site, only internal tooling was allowed to use it
by lelanthran | 2025-07-22 05:54:18+00:00
> In the end, what's the difference between a log and a metric?

The goals. The goals of the activity is the difference.

The goal of logging is diagnostics and trouble-shooting (when did this break, how often do we see this type of failure, etc).

The goal of metrics is to aid in capacity planning (are we close to running out of RAM, do we exceed 80% CPU too often, etc).

> You and the other commenters have given me the vocabulary to dig more into this area on the internet though.

Read this first; it is a short read (taxonomy of logging, basically): https://www.lelanthran.com/chap10/content.html
Show HN: A P2P Contribution-Based Protocol for Civic Trust
by mzk_pi | 2025-07-22 05:54:20+00:00
Most governance relies on centralized control and monetary incentives. This protocol enables decentralized civic trust using non-monetary contribution signals.

It tracks: - contribution history - accumulated prestige - system activity

These are integrated using a harmonizing logic that evolves over time and converges toward π, representing systemic equilibrium.

Designed to support self-organizing communities, with concepts inspired by biology and open collaboration.

Full documentation and mathematical specification here: https://github.com/contribution-protocol/contribution-protoc...
by dlcarrier | 2025-07-22 05:54:30+00:00
More so, there's diminishing returns above a reasonable speed, and below a reasonable amount of lag, and gigabit speeds are well past that point, but for many ISPs the lag is fixed and before that point.

Which is to say, every major telco offers faster speeds than the majority of their subscribers will ever use, often even on their bottom-teir plans, but a significant portion of ISPs have enough lag to affect their users, even on their top-tier plans.

If you're trying to push telcos toward offering a more useful product, don't set a goal for them to offer higher speeds, which are already high enough for the vast majority of customers, but instead push for low latency, which most telcos cannot provide even between the customer's equipment and the telco's equipment.

Fiber providers have excellent latency, and of course that's what you should get if it's an option, but many subscribers are stuck with telcos that use DOCSIS over a cable network or LTE over a cellular network, and nothing can be done to reduce the latency for current generations of those protocols, but there's no technical reason the protocols couldn't have lower latency, so pushing telcos toward offering lower latency could make it happen, creating an actual useful improvement.
by tomhow | 2025-07-22 05:54:44+00:00
Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by epolanski | 2025-07-22 05:54:57+00:00
I am just back from Japan and I am not going to lie, I think they are great in how they both value their traditions and history but as a society they only look forward.

Sure, they might be economically less wealthy than they used to 30 years ago, but in practice you see them being bold in their projects and developments 24/7. Their cities are forward looking, more efficient, developing higher so less people need to commute it's a necessity that eventually will kill many of these older districts, but so be it if it spares tens of thousands from commuting every day.
by seec | 2025-07-22 05:55:06+00:00
You are the one making an oversimplification.

The type of food you get from animal agriculture is nowhere near the same thing as what you get from large scale plant agriculture.

On top of that, what you harvest from plant agriculture needs enormous amounts of processing and requires a whole lot of modern machinery and a very complex supply chain. And at the end of it the nutritional profile of your output is not at all the same, you can get closer by adding even more processing, that requires even more supply chain wizardry, more energy and more secondary input but suddenly you are not really more efficient than the animal farm; how shocking...
by aaronmdjones | 2025-07-22 05:55:25+00:00
Ferromagnetism. A 24-carat gold necklace would not be sucked into the machine for example, while a 7-carat gold necklace would (that contains steel, which contains iron). However, any kind of metal can be less dangerous for other reasons. For example, (pure, 24 Ct) gold, while not ferromagnetic, is an electrical conductor (like almost all metals), and so will heat up with the eddy currents passing through it. This could cause burn injuries if you are wearing it.
by sherr | 2025-07-22 05:55:44+00:00
"Hardware support for Linux PCs is poor and lacks the manageable of Windows PCs with Active Directory and GPO, or JAMF for Macs. Enterprise software usually doesn't support Linux. Linux PCs are uncommon for personal use and corporations don't want to train users how to use Linux."

I would dispute the "hardware support" comment. Linux has pretty good hardware support nowadays. And "enterprise" software is a vague term here. For desktop Windows, of course Microsoft will have that covered every which way, but for things such as authentication, authorization and security, Linux has a place. A comment about adding "Redhat" to the mix is not talking about desktops (necessarily) but servers and security.
by somenameforme | 2025-07-22 05:56:17+00:00
He said it was the difficulty in proving the safety. There's an informative article here. [1]

NASA likes parachutes because they've always used parachutes. SpaceX likes retropulsive landings because Mars is their goal, and Mars' atmosphere isn't dense enough for parachutes. It's also safer for the crew in nominal operation and enables a much higher degree of rapid reuse, relative to NASA's traditional operation of taking a salt water bath in the ocean.

So they could go through the [very reasonable] extensive costs and testing involved in proving the safety of the retropulsive landings, or just go old school, strap a few parachutes on and work on getting crew to the ISS (which was the goal at the time). They chose the latter and with the plan of getting back to retropulsive landings later, which they also did. Parachutes remain the main landing mechanism for the Crew Dragon, but it now also has retropulsive landing capabilities to be used in case of a chute failure.

[1] - https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2024/10/dragon-propulsive-la...
by cyberax | 2025-07-22 05:56:26+00:00
> This is not true, I don't know if you live here or why you repeat it.

Population by year:

2019: 978,763

2020 high estimate for Jan 1 (996,369) - https://austin.culturemap.com/news/city-life/01-15-20-austin...

2020: 961,855 (Census, low mark)

2023: 979,882

2024 (estimated high mark): 986,928

So yes, the population cratered from a high in early 2020. This brought down prices with a 2 year lag, as owners started to get rid of empty units. The prices will come right back up now, that the population is recovering.
by joules77 | 2025-07-22 05:56:38+00:00
Qatars native population is 1/5th of Manhattan, but has survived the 2017 blockade from the rest of the (much larger and richer) Gulf States, has the largest US mil base, pisses Israel off with Al-Jazeera, wangled hosting the world cup, gets involved in every peace negotiation, Gaza rebuild etc etc. In comparison on the complexity scale, what Anthropic and its customer do are pee wee league bs.
by Yokolos | 2025-07-22 05:56:38+00:00
What do you mean Eastern Europe? The only one meddling is Russia, which is why Eastern Europe wants to join NATO. To protect themselves from an aggressive neighbor who started the end of the Cold War with invading a former satellite state. If Russia wasn't so eager to revive its imperial ambitions, there would be no interest in joining NATO.

Russia invades Georgia

Poland and the Baltics join NATO

Russia: Surprise Pikachu
by TeMPOraL | 2025-07-22 05:59:31+00:00
People don't look businesses up on Facebook or X much here either, and yet many times I've witnessed my SO break through being stonewalled by some business with just a simple line, delivered in calm voice: "okay, I'll take it to Facebook, we'll see if you like a drama there" (or "X" more recently). Just like that, 90% success rate, and no actual public drama on social media.

Don't know how that works. It's Poland, approximately nobody here even used Twitter, nor do they use X - and yet, businesses big and small seem super sensitive to that.
by komali2 | 2025-07-22 05:59:38+00:00
> Is it worse if the alternative is another authoritarian?

Yes, the USA shouldn't be meddling in the domestic affairs of other countries to action its proxy cold war against a rival super power.

I acknowledge that the USA determined this was a correct course of action in order to strengthen its hegemony, and the hegemony of global capitalism, however it was still unethical and in opposition to the needs of people in the USA.
by sivers | 2025-07-22 06:00:06+00:00
to save you a lookup:

The Arabic text "رجمة نانسي قنقر" translates to English as: "Nancy Qanqar's translation" or "Translation by Nancy Qanqar"

"رجمة" means "translation" and "نانسي قنقر" is the name "Nancy Qanqar"
by wredcoll | 2025-07-22 06:00:17+00:00
This article convinces me that what he wants to do is easier in jj, I just don't understand why he wants to do it.

My quick summary is that in one case he's try to avoid "extra" commits and in another case he's trying to re-order some commits. In my usual work flow, both of those problems would be handled by the git-rebase-squash I do after the feature works.
by dandiep | 2025-07-22 06:00:42+00:00
Whisper is unusable IMO because of the hallucinations. Widely documented. Removing silence from audio clips helps, but even then it will auto correct grammar, translating bilingual speech, etc. Improved in the latest audio models but not solved [1]

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43427376
by MoltenMan | 2025-07-22 06:02:13+00:00
> I think it's the type of thing that the mere awareness of it counts a lot to counterweight the problem.

I'm unfortunately not too optimistic about this. There are plenty of things that are bad for you that everyone is aware of: not exercising, eating junk food, spending all day online, etc. But so many people do these things anyways; the human mind is incredible at cheating itself to make things easier on itself, and I don't think this is an exception.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-07-22 06:03:08+00:00
There's a beautiful game between SF and Lc0 (a few months ago) where Stockfish thinks it's winning, while Lc0 has a lock on a draw. Lc0 then proceeds to sack 4 pieces and draw, but SF (with NNUE) only "sees" the draw 2 moves into the position.
by wtallis | 2025-07-22 06:05:51+00:00
> and may-or-may-not end up in the same original thread

That sounds like a problem stemming entirely from a decision to share a ring among multiple application threads. Is there a good reason to do so? Each thread that needs to do IO can have its own ring, and submitting IO to another thread's ring seems like unnecessary complexity. The ring buffers are intended to be single-producer, single-consumer.
by essnine | 2025-07-22 06:05:52+00:00
This is a good read. I remember first using eventlet for writing concurrent code, and then having to do a bit of mental adjustment when moving to asyncio.

Another piece of writing I found useful for perspective at the time was What Color is Your Function?[1], which I bumped into after looking at the Node.js model of concurrency and being confused.

[1](https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-...)
by Daishiman | 2025-07-22 06:05:55+00:00
This is very nice. The syntax occurs in ways that are consistent with how it's used elsewhere. The desugaring is clear. No weird gotchas. The proposed use cases are very common and actually suffer from there being "more than one way to do it", which goes against the grain of the language. The proposal seems clearer, more concise, and more idiomatic than the alternatives.

I will say that even after using Python for over 15 years, the syntax for nested list comprehensions has a rather... incomprehensible order.
by satisfice | 2025-07-22 06:05:56+00:00
This paper presents an elaborate straw-man argument. It does not faithfully represent the legitimate concerns of reasonable people about the persistent and irresponsible application of AI in knowledge work.

Generative AI produces work that is voluminous and difficult to check. It presents such challenges to people who apply it that they, in practice, do not adequately validate the output.

The users of this technology then present the work as if it were their own, which misrepresents their skills and judgement, making it more difficult for other people to evaluate the risk and benefits of working with them.

It is not the mere otherness of AI that results in anger about it being foisted upon us, but the unavoidable disruption to our systems of accountability and ability to assess risk.
by BrandiATMuhkuh | 2025-07-22 06:06:53+00:00
I was just building a SharePoint integration for some enterprise customers (I do RAG on their data) and I find it brutal, that now, I have access to all their SharePoint data for all SharePoint sites. Even the ones I don't want to index. And I even use user login over admin/service key login.

AFAIK, the Oauth claims of SharePoint don't allow specifying particular projects only. (BTW: same counts for platforms like ACC/BIM360)
by bigbuppo | 2025-07-22 06:07:17+00:00
You are doing your job well, and for that I salute you.

However, you highlight the real problem with ad-supported tech. It creates perverse incentives that makes the world an objectively worse place for most just to sell another ad. It justifies actions and data collection that would be illegal if it were anything other than a large corporation peforming that activity. At some point in history the words, "just trying to make my quarterly numbers", will be looked at with the same level of horror and shame as a similar phrase was over 75 years ago.
by degamad | 2025-07-22 06:07:29+00:00
A few different options, depending on the client. One went to a competing "commercial off-the-shelf" product. Another hired a company to build a system in a low-code application platform running on .NET.

Yet another went to a different mainframe system that they already had. They had multiple systems (both mainframe and Unix) which did similar jobs due to acquisitions over the years, and they moved the still-active customers from the most expensive mainframe to one of the cheaper mainframes.
by Black616Angel | 2025-07-22 06:08:22+00:00
> “Anybody who’s got a hosted SharePoint server has got a problem,” said Adam Meyers, senior vice president with CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity firm. “It’s a significant vulnerability.’’

Senior VP at CrowdStrike, so a professional in destroying large amounts of systems.

> cybersecurity firm

Sure, might as well call it that.
by rachofsunshine | 2025-07-22 06:08:30+00:00
This article feels (several times) longer than it needs to be to make its point, but the comparison between Roblox and Minecraft in particular feels emblematic of the past 15 years.

Minecraft has user-generated content and is a highly social game. But what it isn't is optimized. Notch has plenty of personal failings, but he isn't a businessperson or a product manager, he was just a guy making stuff he thought was cool and fun. He wasn't sitting there tracking conversion rates. He didn't have a dashboard indicating average Time-To-Diamonds for new players, and he certainly wasn't creating a platform where thousands of others could all optimize in parallel.

Roblox, on the other hand, is optimized. And predation is, at least in part, an emergent property of a business optimizing its metrics (and of its employees optimizing theirs). No product manager ever got fired for increasing revenue or improving user retention, so they just continually do things that do that - in ways that throw other things under the bus, because those things are not their job.

It feels emblematic because that same parallel-optimization-turned-predation has been happening to everything else, too. It's why your Pizza Hut pizza sucks now, it's why you can't buy a TV that doesn't track you and insert ads, it's why you can't get takeout without having to go "no, I'm not tipping, skip >:(", it's why the front page of CNN is full of crystal-woo-level health advice, it's why almost everything you eat is meant to push overconsumption, it's why a toaster from 1965 still works but one from 2019 doesn't, it's why every phone and Windows update installs shitty mobile games and Facebook, and on and on and on.

Games just make it obvious because the optimizations are (mostly) visible. And even then, for every example you see, there's another you don't.