MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by aspenmayer | 2025-08-12 14:18:01+00:00
The scene in question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNC3OciAF3w

I do find their phrasing you quoted somewhat concerning, as it's sort of a loaded question begging.

They are using a sort of rhetorical device to narrow the nature of opposition to their concerns as presented in a such way that might seem manipulative to you due to it being persuasive in tone, but perhaps due to the argument/appeal not landing, you find the setup as deployed unconvincing, which I think is part of the nature of your opposition, if I may be so bold as to assume.

I don't know how OP would write the same kind of piece without trying to appeal to your intellect and beliefs about AI, but they might not have needed to assume that we don't already agree with them, or that if we disagree that it's for the reasons or in the ways that they say.

On the other hand, I think you might be underestimating the explanatory power of TFA, as think pieces like this generally are prospective in their perspective.

But on the grasping hand, I think you're onto something here:

https://www.kompyte.com/blog/overcoming-sales-objections-sto...

> Before-after-bridge (BAB). The BAB methodology is another popular framework among sales-converting copywriters. The first two parts of BAB are similar to the "How it started/How it's going" meme.

> 1. Start with a "before" snapshot of something or someone in their version of hell.

> 2. Quickly go into the ultimate solution for whatever was paining that person -- here is where you add your dramatic flair in BAB. Talk about how much this "after" stage is idyllic, magical, heavenly, etc.

> 3. End the story by talking about the "bridge" that linked the before and after stages. That bridge should be your product or service.

All things considered, this may be a good post even if it is content marketing for the company they work at, but at least they mention that upfront instead of waiting until the end of the article.
by Smeevy | 2025-08-12 14:18:08+00:00
You make over $500k annually and you can't afford a house? I call shenanigans.

Your pearl clutching about government waste seemed weird to me until I read your links. Manhattan Institute? You're citing positions from right-wing think tanks after Project 2025?

Unless you need guidance for how to kidnap gardeners or stop women from voting, anything coming these organizations is dangerously ridiculous.
by jFriedensreich | 2025-08-12 14:18:28+00:00
rxdb has a toxic license and tried to do too much in too many different ways and does things like have open source components that are just working worse and are slower. its something that a lot of people were appalled by including me. they also changed so much it was hard to keep track of how things actually worked.

pouchdb is definitiely the OG local first database, and it inspired rxdb and was the core of it for a long time. it has definitely flaws mainly the developer ergonomics and not very up to date and non homogenic ecosystem. my feeling is non of these issues were the reaason rxdb parted ways, they could just have decided to > contribute < by fixing them and improving, but that would not have allowed them to create moat that they can enforce users switching to pro feautures with.
by burnte | 2025-08-12 14:18:36+00:00
> It really makes me believe that the models do not really understand the topic, even the basics but just try to predict the text.

This is correct. There is no understanding, there aren't even concepts. It's just math, it's what we've been doing with words in computers for decades, just faster and faster. They're super useful in some areas, but they're not smart, they don't think.
by freejazz | 2025-08-12 14:18:45+00:00
>Continuing to focus on me does nothing to substantiate your position.

Lol, it's not my position. It's the law. They were held liable. You kept making the focus on yourself, bringing yourself up for no reason, and then even more perplexingly, denying that you did it.

>Multiple automakers are making similar marketing claims as Tesla as their level 2 classified technology improves. Tesla is not even remotely alone in any of this. They're just ahead. Meanwhile FTC has done nothing on this front for a decade.

I haven't seen that and no one seems to be close to what Tesla outright implies with "autopilot".

>Is a decade not long enough to take action? What's acceptable in your opinion?

The fact that regulators should take action is not incongruous with the fact that Tesla is reckless and negligent. Both can be true. No one forced Tesla to do anything so no one else is responsible for their behavior.

>Everyone that cares about autonomous vehicle safety and thinks Tesla is not doing enough to protect drivers. You'll find plenty of lawyers stating that tort law is the only way to settle ADAS cases right now.

Jeez. I guess it's everyone else's fault but Tesla's when it's clear that everyone else thinks Tesla is behaving poorly.

>Dunk on Tesla all you want, but that's not going do anything to further road safety.

Yawn. This comment thread isn't doing anything to "further road safety" how obnoxious of you.
by tmm | 2025-08-12 14:18:47+00:00
This one[1] has a meeting space that can be closed off from the rest of the store, with a TV or projector, and I’m pretty sure they’ve got a copier or at least an all-in-one printer.

[1] https://maps.app.goo.gl/47RMhPAGNHXSnED9A
by cryo | 2025-08-12 14:19:05+00:00
For personal projects: GIT barebone repositories + Wireguard to access them from all my devices.

OSS work is mirrored to Codeberg and SourceHut. For actions I try to make sure that local builds, and cross compilation to Windows, macOS, armhf and arm64, is always working to not soley depend on Github Actions.
by mrtksn | 2025-08-12 14:19:05+00:00
Or have actual public places? The Cafe's are there to serve coffee, it's just courtesy as business model to let you hang around in the premises and when the business model starts to fail in some way they adjust it.

After university, the most I miss is the actual places that are mine to use and are made for hanging around or working and not necessarily consuming anything.
by echelon | 2025-08-12 14:19:15+00:00
It's 100% the network, not the tech.

You can have 1:1 parity with any company or product, but unless you have their word of mouth distribution and adoption, you will lose. Every time.

People in aggregate, as crowds, are relatively static and inflexible. Once they learn a fact once, it sticks. You cannot unteach that without lifting metaphorical mountains. The first mover with escape velocity wins.

The amount of energy needed to undo that is massive.

You'll have fringe 0.01%ers adopt some other tool, but they'll never carry enough gravitas to bring the entire network with them.

Anecdotal evidence:

- Github, Facebook, and Reddit have never been unseated

- Instagram has never been replaced, only supplemented

- Twitter/X has only lost steam due to extremely bad press, an unwanted name change, and a huge effort from Meta (which leveraged traffic and synergy from Instagram). And even then, it's still well within the public zeitgeist. Bluesky and Mastodon didn't even make dents.

- Google has never been displaced (granted, Google pays a lot of money to maintain defaults and maintain a web "pane of glass" monopoly, redefine the address bar as a search bar, etc.)
by ploxiln | 2025-08-12 14:19:29+00:00
Debian maintainers in 2009 did not let it slide, they did fix it in 2009 ... but it came back, twice! (and it seems not many cared about StarDict in 2015 to fix it promptly that time)

> the same kind of problem was reported by Pavel Machek in 2009 and again by "niekt0" in 2015. The 2009 bug was solved by patching the application's default configuration to disable networked dictionaries. That appears to have worked for a time, but the YouDao plugin, which was added in 2016, does not respect the configuration option. The 2015 problem was not fixed until August 6 of this year (although the package was removed from Debian for unrelated reasons for a few months from 2020 to 2021). That fix just removed the stardict_dictdotcn.so plugin, which also sent translation requests to dict.cn and was later subsumed by the YouDao plugin, from the package.
by dkarl | 2025-08-12 14:19:55+00:00
I grew up in a hot climate spending a lot of time outdoors, and I was educated about staying hydrated from a young age.

Still, like you, when I get symptoms of dehydration, I don't feel any intuitive connection with the need to drink, and I often don't feel any urge to drink at all. I have to remind myself to drink even though I don't want to.

It's weird. You'd think something so essential for life would have a better regulator.
by tantalor | 2025-08-12 14:19:55+00:00
"Stranded" implies he is physically stuck, but the article contradicts itself on several points.

> "I remain in Antarctica awaiting approval for my departure flight"

> He was not forced to stay there, only to remain in Chilean territory

> He must also leave the country as soon as conditions allow

> Guo’s plane “does not have the capabilities to make a flight”

As a reader, it's hard to understand exactly what is happening. This is very poor reporting.

The most interesting detail in buried in the last paragraph:

> The prosecutor’s office said Guo must also pay all costs for his “aircraft security and personal maintenance” during his stay at the military facility. He also needs to cover all expenses for his return.

So the real reason he is "stranded" is extortion.
by donatj | 2025-08-12 14:20:01+00:00
Explain what about Gmail is "highly interactive" because I'm genuinely not seeing it. You receive like an email a minute? There's a Web 1.0 form for sending emails. Where's this "high levels of interactivity"? It's a form and a list of emails that updates occasionally.

It's literally basic web 2.0 junk from the early 2000s, the UI has barely changed since it launched.
by debussyman | 2025-08-12 14:20:44+00:00
> who then build quite a lot of snowflake software

So close! People building snowflake software is a consequence of it not being a generalizable problem, not the cause of it. Everyone organizes their notes/todos differently, and though the variations may seem slight, they are best solved by a blunt and unopinionated tool.

> It takes some time to get used to

Non-starter. A text file is the hammer of the digital world
by reissbaker | 2025-08-12 14:20:46+00:00
I don't think that's an accurate read of our privacy policy. What you've left out is:

These third-party service providers are prohibited from using personal information for any other purpose and are contractually required to comply with all applicable laws and requirements, which may include Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards if they are processing payments.

We use third parties like Stripe and Clerk, and by nature of using those services, your information is disclosed to them. This is an extremely common clause in privacy policies, and one we need to have unless we roll everything ourselves. We're much more private than using, say, OpenAI, DeepSeek, Anthropic, or most popular LLM services.
by gottorf | 2025-08-12 14:21:18+00:00
> Cherry picking. Urban core vs. rural population.

The GP elsewhere in the thread pointed out that in like-to-like comparisons of Washington, DC against peer world cities, it fares really poorly in violent crime.

> Post-pandemic peak in a highly disrupted workforce

I doubt that the people who are committing crimes were disrupted from the workforce.

> DC's violent crime rate is around one third of where it was in the 90's

Both things can be true: DC used to be worse in violent crime, and today's violent crime is still unacceptably high.
by kqr | 2025-08-12 14:21:45+00:00
This was nice! I tried with my five year old using nuts and bolts as chips. They got it right away and we quickly upgraded to two cards. The three year old also wanted to join but they had no idea what they were doing. (Cargo culting the motions with no correlation to hand strength.)

Come to think of it, we also did not ante but used blinds instead. That way I could put him in the small blind and open up by asking "do you think your card is higher than mine? if so you need to call the current bet of 2."
by icy | 2025-08-12 14:21:53+00:00
https://tangled.sh is an atproto (same tech as Bluesky) git collaboration platform. https://blog.tangled.sh/intro

We have a more advanced PR flow (stacking, round-based reviews), jujutsu support and we just launched our new CI system. Come join! https://tangled.sh/signup. The goal is to be the new town square for collaborating with friends and open source communities.

It's built fully in the open (https://tangled.sh/@tangled.sh/core) and we have a neat little community built around it on our Discord https://chat.tangled.sh.

Last night was a ton of fun with the sudden influx of users thanks to the GitHub news. :)
by woodrowbarlow | 2025-08-12 14:22:12+00:00
it depends on which network effects you want to benefit from. if you want your project to have visibility or attract contributors, then yeah. (although, mirroring your project to github can still accomplish a lot of that.) but if you want to benefit from forge tooling, like the ecosystem of github actions, then there are pretty good efforts to match API compatibility -- e.g., the gitea action runner can work with most github actions.
by kstrauser | 2025-08-12 14:22:30+00:00
Well, Forgejo’s Actions are very similar to GitHub’s: https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/user/actions/actions/

If you want to run a process after each push to a branch or merge into main or whatever, you describe it in a YAML file in that repo. Configure some workers to run those actions and off you go! I use it for things like running tests and applying Terraform changes.
by bdcravens | 2025-08-12 14:22:33+00:00
I haven't downloaded it in 10 years or more, but I know I've downloaded it (and WinZip) a few dozen times. Back in the day I even had a paid license.

I do reject the idea that "nearly nobody downloads .zip files anymore". It's still pretty common. Crafters using Cricuts and engravers regularly download zip files of fonts, etc. Fedex/UPS package up invoices of a certain size, or consolidated billing accounts, in zip files. Etc.
by wmaxlees | 2025-08-12 14:22:47+00:00
Hi HN, author here.

After fixing a bug in my last post, my PPO agent's performance improved, but it was still far from the baseline. I suspected the entropy bonus—the hyperparameter that controls exploration—was poorly tuned.

My old habit would've been to just blindly guess new values. For this blog, I'm committed to a more systematic approach. So, I decided to build a "visual diagnostic toolkit" to understand what different entropy levels actually look like in practice.

The post is a deep dive into the visual signatures of agents with too much and too little exploration, using things like entropy heatmaps and plots of action probabilities over time. One of the most interesting discoveries was how misleading average rewards can be for high-entropy agents and why looking at the variance is crucial.

I'm documenting my whole journey of learning RL research from scratch and would be happy to answer any questions about the JAX/Flax implementation or the visualization techniques.
by ezst | 2025-08-12 14:22:56+00:00
Flash was terrible for producing documents, I suppose, but for highly interactive things, nothing matches it, even today (we are getting close in terms of what the web is capable of, performances are getting good, but the tooling and implementation effort/complexity is ridiculous in comparison).

I don't think it's so much a question complexity than a question of using the "right tool for the job". Web technologies were never designed for that, never engineered to be extensible. Web apps is a hack, it's terrible, and that's all because of politics.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-08-12 14:23:17+00:00
I remember that myself.

When people bought a new W98 PC, which was often the first computer for so many consumers, it really did perform quite similarly to earlier-adopters' W95 PC's that were already in action.

The specs on the newer hardware were so much better which made up for it, and progressive sluggishness of Windows was swept under the rug for mainstream consumers, continuing to an extent today. You know, like a snail without a shell ;)

This is why in the '90's when Grove was running Intel and Gates was running Microsoft, professional geeks coined the phrase: "What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away." They didn't wait until WindowsME to say this.

It wasn't really worth it for mainstream apps, but if you had a challenging Office 97 workload, with or without VBA, something like live "real-time" data acquisition, or god forbid any type of ML or simulation, the best improvement you could get was to wipe W98 off the HDD and start fresh with W95. It always has seemed like there was some uncalled-for obstacle to prevent easily installing a previous version of Windows on a new PC though.

Even now this still works to an extent, buy a new mainstream W11 consumer PC, install W10 in a regular ordinary Microsoft dual-boot configuration and see for yourself.

Most people would have so much SSD space left over they could even try a triple boot, how about that W10 ISO from 2015 if you really want to emphasize the difference in how much less sluggish things could have been now. Woo hoo. Plan to stay off the internet when booted to this one, in Device Manager you could even pre-emptively disable the ethernet & wifi.

Of course try it on a HDD if you haven't done that in a while, to see how that feels compared to earlier Windows when you were using nothing but HDDs.

Windows 8.0 is also still fairly installable in new PC's if you want to see what it was like when they had one of their many brilliant engineers taking focused responsibility to achieve faster boot times in particular.
by estearum | 2025-08-12 14:23:27+00:00
Huge portions of the United States do in fact have a very similar relationship with their water companies, because their water companies are given water rights by the relevant state governments.

I think if someone decided to save money by shutting off water to Phoenix or Los Angeles, they will have some portion of the relevant blood on their hands. That's especially true if they did so with zero effort toward a smooth transition.
by mhitza | 2025-08-12 14:23:34+00:00
It's not only discoverability, but also the need for accounts.

At some point I made very tiny contributions to OSS projects that had their own Gitlab hosted instances.

Sure a password manager makes it tolerable, but what about having an anonymous way of opening up PRs (subject to owner moderation of course)?

Use the author name and email for a virtual identity and when the PR request is accepted (not merged) force an email address validation for the PRer so that comment interaction can happen via email.
by bgwalter | 2025-08-12 14:23:40+00:00
Fun article:

"Known vulnerabilities are showing up at alarming rates because of these tools. It's just getting worse due to vibe coding and AI coding assistants," he said. "If you wanted to know what it was like to hack in the '90s, now's your chance."

I agree with everything except I assume hacking was more fun in the 1990s.

"It's the '90s all over again," said Bargury with a smile. "So many opportunities."

Hacking has been democratized!
by matltc | 2025-08-12 14:23:59+00:00
Seeing lots of commenters say they dumped their entire position in SP500. That is probably not the best move

I also felt overexposed to tech and about 80% of my stock portfolio was US total market or SP (basically the same)

I have been dollar-cost averaging slightly out of those positions and into other small-/mid-cap funds. I have decreased my stock allocation as well and moving toward bonds and CDs, which are returning around 4.5-5% guaranteed.

Interested to hear what others who speculate that SP overdue for correction might be doing
by fbd_0100 | 2025-08-12 14:24:11+00:00
Agree on most points. However as someone who has worked on new aircraft I can tell you that friction/mis-communication/finger-pointing between airframe and powerplant manufacturer is a huge issue. There is a common saying in the industry, that you should never design a new airframe and a new powerplant at the same time. Each new aircraft certification program should be one or the other
by dhosek | 2025-08-12 14:24:54+00:00
What I think is wild is that Indo-European languages have developed articles at least four times: in Greek (apparently from a weak demonstrative) with only the definite article, in Romance languages from vulgar Latin with both definite and indefinite articles, distinctly in Romanian where only the definite article exists as an enclitic (suffixed to the noun), and in some, but not all, Germanic languages, perhaps under the influence of vulgar Latin, but I’ve not been able to trace it in my meagre attempts to research the topic.
by cesarb | 2025-08-12 14:25:06+00:00
> If someone started reading all the package descriptions and READMEs we're meant to be thoroughly familiar with when Trixie was released a few days ago, they'd still be reading them.

That used to be viable back in the late 1990s and early 2000s when I first used Debian. It would take an afternoon of going through all the packages in dselect (does anyone here still remember dselect?) and marking the ones you wanted to install, and around the same amount of time going through every option on the kernel's menuconfig to precisely tailor the kernel to your specific hardware configuration (things were much less dynamic back then).

Nowadays, there are simply too many packages and kernel configuration options to go through (also, does anyone still use dselect?).
by austin-cheney | 2025-08-12 14:25:17+00:00
> I haven't seen anything like that. 99.9% of applications I interact with are just a series of simple CRUD operations.

The painful reality is that this is true, but only at work.

There is so much that you use written in web technologies that are no CRUD. Some of that is Electron apps like VS Code and some of it is applications packaged in docker containers. Almost all of this non-work and non-CRUD stuff is open source. If you aren't writing code outside of work, where its only CRUD, your perspective of the universe is about 2mm wide. That is where the Dunning-Kruger starts to set in and why all this shit gets reinvented every couple of years. Its easy to think that: 1) you are awesome and 2) the world is painful when your perspective of the universe is only 2mm wide.

For everybody else, these things that most developers complain about really aren't painful enough to warrant any call to action because there are other things that bring substantially greater pain.
by mickael-kerjean | 2025-08-12 14:25:22+00:00
I work on exactly this kind of app, and it’s open source: https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash.

It’s a Dropbox-like file manager that instead of owning your data integrates with your existing storage, authentication, and authorization systems. Under the hood, there’s a lot going on, very recently I added plugins to handle various kind of file types that are not typically handled by browser, we're talking > 100 kind of file types handled entirely in the browser for niches like astronomy, data engineering, GIS, 3D models, dev and even embroidery patterns