MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dan-robertson | 2025-07-27 12:08:24+00:00
What a bizarre article.

Even as someone who thinks big private equity acquisitions tend to go badly, I’m not sure this article makes very good points. In particular, lots of blame is levied against bending spoons but not much against the founders, yet the founders arranged to not give employees equity, the founders reneged on their ‘never sell’ promise, the founders did not try to negotiate better severance for the employees that would be let go after the sale, and the founders set the business direction before the sale.

I do feel like there is something to the idea that one should be suspicious of some ‘social good’ messaging from companies as it can often be a way to allow or hide existing inequities, eg paying everyone the same (in cash but not equity) or claiming they don’t need equity as you won’t sell the company (except you do). Amusing that it is the relatively left-wing prosocial German startup scene where the workers get fucked over rather than the SF one though maybe this is outliers or startups choosing employees in Germany with things the other way around in the US.

I think the article also seems to misunderstand the emphasis on growth. The expectation is not for profits to continue growing forever. The expectation is that the growth will happen roughly logistically (until some outside force causes a loss/increase of market share), so under this model a slight slowdown in growth implies that the maximum is nearer, and this maximum has a big impact on the value of the business. If one is hoping to sell the business then maintaining growth is important because it implies something about the size of the market and therefore the valuation. It was the founder’s desire to sell for a high price (alternatively to try to gain network-effects advantage over competition) that drove the growth, not the existence of private equity firms.

Some other thoughts:

As a user, I don’t particularly care about the particularities of how employees in developed countries are treated. The company gets some choice in how it divides its equity and how much revenue goes to paying staff and in what proportions. These things tend to be negotiable for engineers working for software startups (maybe not in Germany??) and these employees negotiating themselves relatively poor contracts isn’t really something I blame on private equity.

I feel like the article implies that capitalism necessarily leads to the way that private equity seems to destroy the communities run by the companies it acquires but I’m not sure that should be true. It seems to me like it ought to be more profitable in the long run to be less destructive (though some of this can look bad to users if they see layoffs as a focus on growth is decreased or the removal of loss-leading products that users like for obvious reasons).
by andy_ppp | 2025-07-27 12:10:48+00:00
I'm not talking about me successfully building an AI that can do better than humans or identify all the worlds heart diseases I'm more looking to have fun and play around with some data (and yes learn more about the domain by doing!). I was maybe a bit too excited about seeing what would happen with a real dataset like this, but it's a hacker news comment not a PhD defence, no need to be so negative. Thanks.
by phtrivier | 2025-07-27 12:11:11+00:00
No mention of pricing in the article ; how much does a battery manufacturer have to pay to source NMC from the "traditional" sources ? How much does the "recylced" version costs ?

(I don't know where you can get that type of infos, and neither SEs no LLMs help, so I must be missing the right keywords :/ )
by bsenftner | 2025-07-27 12:11:23+00:00
The system I worked on had (it's larger now) 100M faces in the training set, and when I was leaving there was a 300M set in the works. We went to lengths to collect and categorize. It's mixed ethnicity that throws a wrench into ethnic categorization. It is ordinary to have people with a half dozen or more racial compositions, and that pretty much wreaks categorization. We (they) also had a a pretty robust liveness detection, and surgical mask detection with a "see through the mask" feature too (available with certain crazy-tech cameras.)
by jqpabc123 | 2025-07-27 12:11:58+00:00
Are you arguing that anyone who would accept and display a precious gem is ineligible for marriage?

No. My point is that anyone who conditions marriage on the size or cost of a diamond is ineligible to marry me.

My wife accepted my marriage proposal without a ring. One was added later --- after other more urgent finances were covered and reassuring her that it would be modest and not overly wasteful.

In other words, this was done strictly because I wanted to --- not as a pre-condition for her acceptance. She says doing it this way was more meaningful.
by johnisgood | 2025-07-27 12:12:59+00:00
You are getting down-voted, but "playing hard to get" has truths in it. The women I rejected keep coming around all the time, whether it is month later, or a year later. That said, I was not intentionally playing "hard to get", it was a genuine rejection. It probably hurts their pride though, especially if they are not used to being rejected.
by perihelions | 2025-07-27 12:13:06+00:00
Putin made a number of incredibly grandiose promises about Russia's progress in space (and in technology and engineering generally), as he dismantled and looted Roscosmos over the past twenty years—gifting away its wealth to oligarch allies. The Russian space capability is a shadow of its former self, barely able to maintain its old Soviet rocket production. Their ISS modules, if you've been following, are quite literally falling apart from negligence—leaking toxic gases and such.

Here's a generic example of the flavor of Russia's non-credible space propaganda—stuff their government says, like Trump, that's an enormous lie, that everyone knows is a lie:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120204103104/http://english.pr... (Pravda: "Russia to send cosmonauts to the Moon this decade" (2012))
by magicalhippo | 2025-07-27 12:13:09+00:00
Will be interesting to play with.

I used lvm cache to put ZFS on top of local NVMe for write-back caching of iSCSI targets, as ZFS has good built-in read caching.

Worked pretty well in the limited tests I did, but it's not magic. Main reason I didn't pursue is that it felt a bit like a house of cards. Though on the positive side, one could always mount the underlying storage, ie partitions serving the iSCSI targets, as a local pool on another machine.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-07-27 12:14:17+00:00
A similar thing happened with the mountain bike-centric mapping app TrailForks. It was created by pinkbike.com and, while a decent app, gets msot of its value from the huge set of largely community sourced GPS data. They then went subscription for most functionality as PinkBike sold to the Outside media company. This happened quite a while ago but a large part of the community is still very upset - including me.
by bsenftner | 2025-07-27 12:14:29+00:00
It allows a class of low quality providers to basically trick people into the industry with products that claim but cannot deliver. Then that customer either abandons, or ponys up the real amount of investment necessary for a real solution, and due to being burned already, they are more diligent in their research. Which the industry wants, because too many knock on tech company doors expecting magic genies to grant wishes.
by klabb3 | 2025-07-27 12:15:20+00:00
> Then there is the obvious Geschmäckle of taking advantage of OSM (a free open source project) while not providing a way to give back to it. For example marking a bridge or path as no longer functional or existent.

Something something paradox of tolerance. I don’t know exactly what type type of conditions should apply to open source data, but this shouldn’t be permitted by the license. I’m leaning more and more towards that permissive licensing (and their popularity) is basically destroying open source ”public goods”.

I’m not anti market by any means. You could provide a service and get paid for well… good service. The problem is the ”digital enclosure” where they own the data, and the social graphs. If the value of the service goes down, the value of their accumulated data remains, and can be sold as private property.

Now that copyright is near dead, due to the fair use loophole for AI, it’s getting much more adversarial, fast. Data will become much more fragmented again.
by rustyconover | 2025-07-27 12:16:39+00:00
I'm not a biologist, but I grew up in West Yellowstone around the time wolves were reintroduced. Their return—and its impact—has been extensively studied by experts far more qualified than me.

That said, I believe wolves had a profound effect on the Yellowstone ecosystem, particularly on elk and deer populations. Before their reintroduction, those species had few natural predators beyond hunters, vehicles, bears, and the occasional mountain lion. The imbalance led to overgrazing and the spread of diseases like Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in elk.
by wolvesechoes | 2025-07-27 12:16:59+00:00
Funny to read replies to your comment. One can be sure that on HN for every single critical comment about Linux viability one gets multiple responses claiming that Linux is perfect and without issues.

Inb4: I have used Linux exclusively from 2019 to 2024. It wasn't that bad but it wasn't flawless. At least once per month I met some issue that took few hours to solve. Currently on Win11, zero problems (yes, I am using pirated LTSC IoT version, how did you know?)
by encom | 2025-07-27 12:17:00+00:00
>I don't really get the Google hate

Easy. Google is basically spyware. It's an advertising company, and their product is you.

>searching for up-to-date relevant product information

I realise I'm not a typical user, but I would never trust Google for any searches hinting that I'm looking to buy something, because the results are almost guaranteed to be inorganic. Someone will have paid Google money to be promoted for "best clothes dryer".
by izacus | 2025-07-27 12:17:02+00:00
I disagree (and have - sadly nonpublic - numbers to prove it).

Also, it costs you VERY little to spend some brainpower to design your product to perform well. I honestly really don't understand why so many developers behave like it's physically painful to think for a bit before starting to bash out code.

Noone expects you to write microoptimizations, but applying basic knowledge learned in CS classes and knowledge you can read in blogs should not be physically painful. And you can do that outright at the start, at __NO__ cost to your development velocity.
by bjackman | 2025-07-27 12:17:05+00:00
You can be in case 1 and find meaning in what you do. That's where the blacksmith is.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with doing a good job for 40 hours a week in return for a salary. Being a competent professional who does quality work is rewarding!

I just think if you're doing work of that nature (which _most of us are_, BTW) you need to recognise it for what it is. Don't burn yourself out trying to squeeze every drop of initiative/creativity/productivity out of yourself. Definitely don't answer emails at the weekend. Don't tolerate under-payment. Don't accept non-legally-binding promises from the boss.

Just deliver the best work you can in the time you get paid for, then stop.
by bee_rider | 2025-07-27 12:17:38+00:00
I’ve used it from probably… 2010 or so, to now. I recall some stuff like WiFi being vaguely annoying in the beginning. But, things seemed to get pretty good post 2015.

You were here for the really hard stuff, and missed the beginning of the good times, I think. Unlucky! Oh well. Welcome back!
by transpute | 2025-07-27 12:17:41+00:00
https://www.androidpolice.com/google-pixel-4-killed-motion-s...

> Regulatory issues were likely a major factor that led to the demise of Soli and Motion Sense on future Pixel models. Soli operates in the 60GHz frequency, which is reserved for military and government use in India.. Many of the Google Pixel 4's Motion Sense gestures are available.. Nest Hub's Soli radar extends far enough to detect when you're sleeping, and to track your breathing.
by asacrowflies | 2025-07-27 12:19:43+00:00
The science is pretty clear on this Im not sure what you exactly are criticizing other than you don't like the vibes or vaguely incredulous? It doesn't take many wolves to change the behavior of nearly every herbivore they prey upon. Which then changes the river bank erosion. Which causes hundreds of more species to change behavior.... Trophic Cascades are not really up for debate .
by firesteelrain | 2025-07-27 12:20:22+00:00
Swimming lessons are taught by the “State”

Florida - http://www.cityofcocoabeach.com/523/Aquatic-Center-ClassesPr...

https://www.melbourneflorida.org/Government/Departments/Park...

- Has financial assistance

https://www.brevardfl.gov/ParksAndRecreation/AquaticActiviti...

https://ymcasouthflorida.org/swim-for-jenny/

https://www.southalabama.edu/departments/campusrec/aquatics/...

- Free for kids

I am certain you can find plenty of examples
by Lebinstacon | 2025-07-27 12:20:47+00:00
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by dwood_dev | 2025-07-27 12:20:52+00:00
32GB is official, but 48GB works just fine.

64GB SODIMMs are now available and there are multiple reports of them working fine with the N305[0]. It is highly likely that it will work fine with the N100 as well.

0: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/1m8fgec/intel_n305...
by wonderwonder | 2025-07-27 12:21:58+00:00
The rest of my life, i see no reason to ever come off. I will of course cycle on and off the steroid level doses for health reasons but I intend to run testosterone in the range of ~200mg / week forever. I am considering doing the same for glp-1 medication. I’ve reached my goal weight but not sure if I see a reason to ever come off of a maintenance dose. I am not fully decided on that yet though. Im in the process of tapering down the glp doses and experimenting to see if the lack of diet control returns.
by soraminazuki | 2025-07-27 12:22:01+00:00
> When all is said and done, the heart of your anger is that women might be "secretly publicizing" (your exact words, lol) things about men

My "heart of my anger" is that this platform actively encourages the likes of JK Rowling to doxx, slander, and harass people. You know, the self-proclaimed advocate for women's safety who nowadays literally refers to transgender women as male sexual predators. The same person who insistently spreads a lie about a cis woman Olympian boxer being a violent man gleefully punching women and stealing medals. Things like this severely harm many innocent people, women included. It disproportionately affects marginalized people the most. It will eventually result in deaths if it hasn't already. Yet the platform is egging such harassers on for profit. Despite you championing it as the true alternative to the justice system, it openly spits on the notion of justice and the rule of law.

But even if what you wrote actually was the core of my argument, which we both know is not, that's also a valid concern as well. If I ever saw a post on social media non-consensually posting photos and personal information of people of any gender, with strangers critiquing their looks and asking about their whereabouts, I'd flag that without a second thought. It speaks volumes about your sense of ethics that you'd mock me for this.

Last but not least, you are again cherry picking and misrepresenting what I've said, after being called out for it multiple times. You resort to diversions and lies instead of making an honest argument because you know what you're advocating for is morally questionable.
by sorenjan | 2025-07-27 12:22:45+00:00
Fun fact about Strava's routing, they don't support ferries, something most other alternatives like RWGPS do. They've been asked for years to support it, just as they've been asked for more than a decade to support multi sport activities, but they don't seem to care. When I was a paying Strava customer I still used RWGPS for routes.
by tialaramex | 2025-07-27 12:23:28+00:00
Professional here also introducing an element that's unexpected. We expect that they'll have more training, they've often done simulator training which is more realistic, they have a lot more hours and so on.

But because it's a job they have much less Plan Continuation Bias aka "Get-there-itis". Flying New York to Dallas? I did that yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that. So if the weather looks bad and maybe we shouldn't, well then I guess we just don't go, I'll go tomorrow, or maybe somebody else will, it's just a job.

GA pilots are notorious for this problem, and it puts them in vulnerable situations where they're one problem away from disaster, as weather is worse than they hoped, things don't happen the way they expected, and gradually they go from "It'll probably be fine" to "I hope I live to learn from this experience".
by constantcrying | 2025-07-27 12:24:03+00:00
>This could be a very big paper if its claims are reproducible. Like approaching attention is all you need big.

If it were it would have the on of the worst title imaginable and include one of the worst abstracts for any such paper.

It seriously is a very big red flag that a paper is doing this much to talk about how important it is. It is also essentially pre-writing the headlines for journalists to use, making this whole thing, at least, look like it is a PR stunt.
by dathinab | 2025-07-27 12:24:12+00:00
the problem is

- presentations inherently have a friction between them being fluent and them being detailed (to some degree that is why they work so well for sells, they make it easy to gloss over the parts you don't want attention on without having to worry someone claims you try to deceive them (if you don't overdo it))

- different people often have different stacks/focus points, so they need more details in different parts of an presentation. In a paper and similar you can decide what part you focus one and which you might skim over.

- language is ambiguous and concise precise writing is hard, presentations kind make that worse by a large factor (purely voice presentations even more so) (like I have seen way to often people leaving a meeting all thinking they have an agreement, but all heaving a subtle but in very important points different understanding).

- theoretically if you do a presentation right you anyway should have a handout with all presentation points + references + some additional details/footnotes etc. The approach described here basically say oh we have that anyway, then let's not bother with the presentation.

in general presentation have good use cases, like selling, shallow overviews, introductions, pitching a vague idea without deciding on implementing them

but for meetings which are about making decisions the traditional presentation approach is in my experience just very risk and backfires very often
by jraph | 2025-07-27 12:24:25+00:00
Caveat: I'm not very familiar with Komoot. I only see it as something that locks seemingly valuable data behind a login and a proprietary application.

> I spoke with a few longtime employees in the aftermath, who described it as a rough and cruel betrayal. > > Komoot, to them, was more than a job; it was a mission and purpose.

If the data and the code is not open (and thus does not truly benefit everyone), and can vanish at a company's whim, it doesn't seem worth it.

> Many had accepted below-average salaries

I reluctantly accept to be paid less if it allows me to have a job that does not go against my values (but will leave as soon I as I find something paid better). What made Komoot so special that you'd accept below average salary?

I hope that, again, some initiative that values open stuff will save the day and make up for the void this event creates.
by firesteelrain | 2025-07-27 12:24:41+00:00
There are still community pools all across Florida - many open for over 40-50 years. County or city ran too.

For example, in Florida: Taylor County (rural) has approximately 25 total public pools and bathing places

In Alabama:

Birmingham’s Parks & Recreation currently operates around 10-11 city‑run outdoor public pools, including Crestwood, Memorial, E.O. Jackson, Grayson, Underwood, Roosevelt, McAlpine, East Thomas. Though not all open every summer due to staffing or budget issues in recent years
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-07-27 12:25:09+00:00
> There's always a billionaire in the US happy to turn a blind eye

What does this have to do with enabling parental controls? You can define an allow list of websites to visit and disallow installing new applications. A billionaire turning a blind eye wouldn’t affect that, except in ways that would be very obvious to the parents like resetting the control settings.
by ndriscoll | 2025-07-27 12:25:38+00:00
My non-expert understanding is that in the short term mDL is linkable to a cert serial, but those are supposed to be regularly rotated. So you might have 2) for a day or whatever the rotation period is. I think I've seen it asserted that it is possible to have a ZKP framework that doesn't require this, but I don't know how that might work.

The age verification bills in the US at least also make it illegal to record that information, sometimes with high penalties (e.g. my reading of Texas's is that it is up to $10k per retained record).
by pi-err | 2025-07-27 12:26:12+00:00
It's ironic that you didn't read a comment before answering.

> it's unclear that Nasa can ever be without that (military and political) oversight

By design, Nasa is probably doomed to get interference.

> If theyd kept their budget and autonomy after the moon landing it looked like they wouldve been building reusable rockets

Pure fantasy. Nasa's interest for reusable vehicles led them to the Shuttle. Even without all the design changes, it would have been a dud.

Due to its nature, Nasa can't freely explore and commit to a design like SpaceX does/did. It draws a concept and freezes it after contractor review, only to find after an already massive investment if it works. Then there's public accountability instead of executive risk taking.

I'd bet the proper way to have protected Nasa would have been to keep it focused on key scientific missions with limited financial exposure. Mars rovers are a perfect case, or most James Webb.

Using Nasa to go back to the Moon or reach Mars was doomed to fail (sort of like it failed post Apollo).