MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by phendrenad2 | 2025-08-13 23:54:12+00:00
I just missed those days. But what most people miss about it was not necessarily that everyone had their name attached (or easily findable). What people miss about those days is the quality of discussion online. Because it wasn't a random sampling of the population, it was a sampling of the most tech-savvy academics from around the world.

I don't know about you, but I think I prefer the knock-on effects of internet-for-everyone.
by kube-system | 2025-08-13 23:54:18+00:00
> And that was well-documented in the initial post.

I mean, there was some documentation. I don't know if it was well documented.

There's like 160 million reasons why the other company has better documentation.

Ultimately, the a point of holding a trademark is to give you some legal firepower. Going up against the company with $160 million, you're pretty much screwed anyway.

Their best bet in this scenario is to just use the name anyway and not piss them off. There are plenty of organizations, even very for-profit companies, that use the same name and don't have any problem with it because it's not confusing anybody or pissing anyone off.
by russellbeattie | 2025-08-13 23:54:26+00:00
What are the reasons that Python can't implement the same sort of module/packaging system as NodeJS? That seems to work well enough.

Executing a Python script in the same directory as some sort of project.json file that contains all the complicated dependency details would be a pretty good solution to me. But I'm probably missing a whole bunch of details. (Feel free to educate me).

In general I really dislike the current system of having to use new environment variables in a new session in order to isolate Py scripts. It has always seemed like a hack with lots of footguns. Especially if you forget which console is open.
by foobarbecue | 2025-08-13 23:54:36+00:00
Hm, the only reuse of municipal water I know is using treated sewer water for watering plants. I don't think any US cities recycle water back into a potable water system -- have you heard of that happening anywhere?

(I don't remember how this relates to the original argument)

Edit: oh if you meant "data center" by "municipal" then I guess! I thought you meant city drinking water
by _rkcg | 2025-08-13 23:54:54+00:00
lovely said! I think that's the right way to see things. somewhat forces me to give up on the mark, because nobody and nothing really cares about that in a few weeks, if not even days. On the other side, among the good things that you share while you are on this planes is making sure we live in justice. And I can't stop thinking about this being injustice. I could be entirely wrong though.
by GuinansEyebrows | 2025-08-13 23:55:04+00:00
i'm not talking about whether i think palantir or its employees are good or bad.

"They do not and did not understand or like machines more complicated than a forge-bellows, a water-mill, or a hand-loom, though they were skilful with tools." - Concerning Hobbits

The Scouring Of The Shire is the account of anti-industrial direct action, for Iluvatar's sake.
by sunnydiskincali | 2025-08-13 23:56:27+00:00
> You wrote a lot of words to say very little.

Substantiate this.

> weird name choice but whatever

I don't think this kind of snarky potshot is in line with the commentary guidelines. Perhaps you could benefit from a refresher?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#comments

> Thanks to subtyping, no contortion needed

I see the same degree of contortion, actually. Far more noisy, at that.

> No need to use 7 more lines to create a separate, unrelated type.

You're still creating a type, because you understand that a sum-type with a different set of cases is fundamentally a different type. Just like a class with a different set of inheritance is a different type. And while it's very cute to compress it all into a single line, it's really not compelling in the context of readability and "write once, use many". Which is the point you were making, although it was on an entirely different part of the grammar.

> Great analogy, except for the fact that someone from the Java team explicitly said they're drawing inspirations from ML.

ML didn't invent ADTs, and I think you know it's more than disingenuous to imply the quotation means that the type-system in Java which hasn't undergone any fundamental changes in the history of the language (nor could it without drastically changing the grammar of the language and breaking the close relationship to the JVM) was lifted from ML.
by kypro | 2025-08-13 23:56:31+00:00
To be fair they did stop a guy on a skateboard the other day, fined him £300, and gave him 6 points on his non-existent license, https://x.com/JamesHarvey2503/status/1955215331959394764

People act like the UK is lawless and people can just steal bikes from public bike rakes, steel food from stores, or even turn up on UK shores illegally and be given 4* hotels, but presumably this isn't true given how strictly they enforce almost completely irrelevent stuff like a dude on an electrified skateboard.
by throwmeaway222 | 2025-08-13 23:57:44+00:00
I feel like in the last 20 years of professional programming, I spend 90% of my time fighting with frameworks the most. Something not working? Spend two days figuring out why. Now days I would rather write an entire form/multi-part parser that works specifically with my use-case instead of fighting another dependency that has API changes all the time.

Maybe with AI we're going to be at a point where all the libraries are locally developed - no need to use someone's framework or library when everything can just be described and code emitted.

Goodbye npm, maven, pip, go mods
by peterleiser | 2025-08-13 23:58:19+00:00
You'll probably like Whisper Live and it's browser extensions: https://github.com/collabora/WhisperLive?tab=readme-ov-file#...

Start playing a YouTube video in the browser, select "start capture" in the extension, and it starts writing subtitles in white text on a black background below the video. When you stop capturing you can download the subtitles as a standard .srt file.
by DemocracyFTW2 | 2025-08-13 23:58:21+00:00
FWIW I can recommend Bundeswehrkrankenhaus Berlin, very good urology clinic there. Not sure if there's any chance for you since it's another country, but they're rather accepting and I'd say once there's patient with a life-threatening condition in their emergency they'd rather put them through the CT and into their surgical room rather than waste time. I feel a little shocked that your father is under palliative.
by muzani | 2025-08-13 23:58:37+00:00
I ran a coffee cart once. The money simply doesn't add up unless you have economy of scale like Starbucks.

In software, you're being paid to work on a project that loses millions of dollars per year, until it becomes a unicorn then starts to make millions of dollars per week. A guy who can improve ad click rates by 0.1% is worth several millions. Even without the economy of scale, the profit margin is 90%

In the food industry, you're buying a steak for $10, selling it for $20. But there's labor, rent, utilities, etc. Very often it boils down to $18 costs for a $20 steak.

But your competitor just quit his job to become his own boss. His dad and wife thinks he's an idiot and should just stick with the corporate job. They all put down half a million dollars on the restaurant. The numbers differ, but it's usually half the price of large house in the area. He's losing $1000 per month, but on some months he makes $2000. He'll probably get divorced if he calls it quits, so he's plodding on hoping for more profitable months. He works 14 hour shifts with his wife and will do so until he's 70.

Some of these people are immigrants. Home might be at war. They have no way back and no other skills than cooking. The kids go to school and come home and prep stuff in the kitchen. They're not playing games or chatting on the internet. They're helping mom and dad eat.

In a free market, restaurants are the losers. They're the least efficient way to turn time into money. Even washing cars has a better profit margin.
by int_19h | 2025-08-13 23:59:28+00:00
When was that ever a part of the definition? It was part of the early Unix culture, sure, but even many contemporary OSes didn't ship with compilers, which were a separate (and often very expensive!) piece of software.

OTOH today most Linux distros don't install any dev tools by default on a clean install. And, ironically, a clean install of Windows has .NET, which includes a C# compiler.
by Steltek | 2025-08-13 23:59:30+00:00
Speak for yourself. I can't wait for my Pebble to arrive so I can junk drawer my awful Garmin watch. The UI is dreadful to the point that I can't believe no one else notices. Like, doesn't anyone else notice how hard it is to get it to wake up the backlight so you can read the screen? I can shake my hand like I'm a paint mixer and it does nothing.

And that's not even talking about the software bugs that destroy a full battery in moments.
by Sanzig | 2025-08-13 23:59:42+00:00
Eh, the problem with AES is side channel attacks in software implementations. They aren't necessarily obvious, especially if you're deploying on an oddball CPU architecture.

This standard targets hardware without AES accelerators like microcontrollers. Now, realistically, ChaCha20-Poly1305 is probably a good fit for most of those use cases, but it's not a NIST standard so from the NIST perspective it doesn't apply. Ascon is also a fair bit faster than ChaCha20 on resource constrained hardware (1.5x-3x based on some benchmarks I found online).
by zamadatix | 2025-08-13 23:59:48+00:00
At least the GB200s OpenAI purchased have CX-8s, but it's very possible (perhaps even very likely) most of the millions of GB200s deployed PCIe 5.0 using CX-7s given the SuperMicro spec sheet.

Edit: found this SemiAnalysis post saying as much https://x.com/SemiAnalysis_/status/1947768988467138645/photo...
by Viliam1234 | 2025-08-14 00:00:15+00:00
There are entire books written by former cult members. Some examples (I just copied the list, didn't check each one of them):

"Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape" by Jenna Miscavige Hill

"A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology" by Mike Rinder

"Blown for Good: Behind the Iron Curtain of Scientology" by Marc Headley

"Satan Created the Cult: Memoirs of an Escapee" by Mona Vasquez

"Escape" by Carolyn Jessop

"The Witness Wore Red" by Rebecca Musser

"Breaking Free" by Rachel Jeffs

"Stolen Innocence" by Elissa Wall

"The Sound of Gravel" by Ruth Wariner

"Daughter of Gloriavale" by Lilia Tarawa

"My Life in Orange" by Tim Guest

"Crazy for God" by Christopher Edwards

"In the Days of Rain: A Daughter, a Father, a Cult" by Rebecca Stott

"Cartwheels in a Sari" by Jayanti Tamm

"Seductive Poison" by Deborah Layton

"Hollywood Park" by Mikel Jollett

"Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope" by Megan Phelps-Roper

"Crisis of Conscience" by Raymond Franz

"Leaving the Saints" by Martha Beck

"Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult" by Michelle Dowd

"Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show (While Also in an Actual Cult)" by Bethany Joy Lenz
by nymoli | 2025-08-14 00:00:52+00:00
As a family with a single working parent, it eventually can be very stressful.

If your friends are dual income, they may be going to the gym, paying for private school, and buying a second home- you probably won’t.

You may think that you can live with that or that it’s a wash because of the high cost of day care, after-school care, and camps, but you’re giving up years of continuous work experience, and during that time you won’t be putting as much away into your retirement funds.

As you get older, your parents rely on you, so you can’t fall back on them. Your family members and friends will die off and be affected by disease. You’ll become obsolete at work, and you won’t be able to take time off to retrain nor afford to pay for the additional education.

I’ve been stressed out for years because if I lose my job or get injured, and both have happened, there’s no one to take care of my family.

I love my family, and I love that our children had more support because one of us stayed home.

But, I wouldn’t suggest to anyone to have a single income family if you have a choice.
by kube-system | 2025-08-14 00:00:56+00:00
I don't know about the EU, but in the US a registered mark only gives you the presumption that's valid. But those presumptions can be challenged in court.

Of course, if you can't prove to the examiners that you even have a right to the mark, you're probably gonna have one snowball's chance in hell of a time proving that someone else's use of it is invalid in court.
by paradox460 | 2025-08-14 00:01:18+00:00
A "better" solution (and the term better is doing a lot of heavy lifting here) is to implement something like steam points, akin to what Microsoft did 20 years ago for the Xbox. Now payment processors just see people paying for steam points, not what's actually being purchased.

There's no need for it to be distributed or any of the other aspects of crypto, steam is the issuing and accepting authority, and no one else matters, as far as steam is concerned
by zamalek | 2025-08-14 00:01:57+00:00
This happened at a previous employer of mine: the Nintex acquisition of K2. Not long before the acquisition, employees were offered the "opportunity" to purchase their vested options. I didn't invest, but my friend did (so I'm not sure what the details are). They had the power to band together and cause major problems for the deal (I want to say they could outright block it, but I might be hallucinating that). Once they began to organize they were quickly bought out - no details on how much, though.
by packetlost | 2025-08-14 00:02:24+00:00
I agree with this, but as someone who occasionally shoots film I'm still very sad about it. There's still reasonable demand for film, I can walk into my local Target and pick up Fujifilm Fujicolor Superia 200 for $10 a roll. It's just really hard to scale down a business without imploding, but I firmly believe Kodak could have had a future as a boutique film supplier if they wanted to. It just wouldn't be super profitable.
by rayiner | 2025-08-14 00:02:39+00:00
The problem is that temporary worker programs are a bait and switch. It’s impossible to send people back after they’ve been here for a decade. Any notion that the PERM adjustment is another opportunity to double check will be hard to water down the process for the initial H1B visa grant. And then the PERM check will be gamed.

That is, in fact, how the State Department turned the H visa category (created in the 1960s) became a de facto permanent immigration visa long before the 1990 immigration act. It just kept adding administrative exceptions to make it easier for people to stay.
by freehorse | 2025-08-14 00:02:58+00:00
They were not using it commercially (if I understood correctly) and that was not the point of dispute. The point of this post is that under EU regulations free software can be trademarked, but as there is no reason or payment info to track locations of its users, it could not prove that it was actually used within the EU. The evidence issue was about the location of the users and whether an FOSS project in the EU can realistically have a trademark based on the rules that supposedly allow it to have.

The problem is that this way it seems like an impossible battle. Even if you get location data of stuff like downloads (which is not sth you normally get if for example one clones the repo anyway), you cannot prove the software is actually used, unless you use analytics in the software itself. This sounds important for FOSS in the EU.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-08-14 00:02:59+00:00
That was in 1975. It took multiple decades for digital camera technology to become cheap and practical for the mass consumer market, and another decade or two before it was good enough to be taken seriously by professionals.

There was no upside at all in being first with this particular invention. No lessons to learn, other than "Keep working on this and try to grab all the patents, even though they will expire before anyone cares."
by chickenzzzzu | 2025-08-14 00:04:00+00:00
My reaction to this information is, anyone is welcome to build a city. I don't think the government should block you from it. I'll even pay part of my salary to keep you there.

But do not come looking to me to adopt your way of life. Furthermore, if that means that you in turn shut off my sewer and electric and police and etc, I have absolutely no problem with that.

Thanks to technology, it has never been easier for me to have my own self contained sewer, my own solar panels, my own well/water delivery.

Yes you can say these things are inefficient, but as always life is a spectrum. Does your apartment have its own heat producing unit? Why aren't you using the soviet style centralized heat system that heats the whole town? They don't even have thermostats-- just open a window!

Trust me, I don't want any of your hand outs, I'm sorry I receive them at all. And I'm sorry that SFH people mess up your zoning on purpose playing dirty politics games. I don't support any of that, and I'm happy to let my house drop in value. But my land is my land, and anything one inch outside of that is not.
by ryukafalz | 2025-08-14 00:05:37+00:00
There's secure enclave chips and there's the software you actually run on them, and convincing those who can provide you with tokens to do so with your own hardware/firmware. I'm sure this involves a lot of compliance work and it seems to be "contact sales" pricing all around. Too much for a small project like this!

Although this has gotten me looking into what exactly is required to implement mobile payments, and it's given me some clarity. This doc in particular: https://www.uspaymentsforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/E...

It reads to me like the entity you need an agreement with is a "TSP" (token service provider), and they are at least the sort of organization that you can get a quote from. I don't know if you or the TSP needs an agreement with each bank, but given the relatively slow rollout of Apple Pay support between banks I assume someone somewhere in the chain does.

I can't see the actual specifications though, it costs at least $850/yr as an individual to view them. I did find an old FOSS EMV implementation, but I don't know how much of the spec this implements/what compliance work would be required to use something like it in an actual product: https://github.com/JavaCardOS/OpenEMV

So, thanks for sending me down this rabbit hole. It was somewhat informative at least. :)
by some_furry | 2025-08-14 00:05:47+00:00
> Meanwhile, to the surprise of some of my friends on the political left, large swathes of the political right (though not the most extreme fringes), in my lived experience as an LGBTQ person in Texas (which to be fair, may not be entirely representative of the rest of the country), hold more of a "live at let live" philosophy that, paradoxically, is more tolerant of LGBTQ+ persons with nuanced views than the political left is.

Texas has more registered Democrats than Republicans, interestingly enough.

(But neither Democrats nor Liberals are leftists.)
by protocolture | 2025-08-14 00:05:54+00:00
>It's a war, not a genocide. Gaza is under seige.

It can be 2 things.

>Hamas should unconditionally surrender but they prefer to put their children in harm's way than to surrender.

"Surrender" means leaving their kids with more of the same until the next flashpoint. Israel has orchestrated a no win scenario, and some people forced into that place have decided they would prefer violence now instead of later.

>what has happened to all the Jews in Jordan, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Afghanistan since 1950?

Some have been forcibly removed. Some of those countries also worked with the zionists to relocate those people willingly to palestinian land.

>Hamas simply needs to surrender in this round of the war they started. But they won't unless they control Jerusalem.

"Hamas wont stop until they are in a better position to defend palestinians" isnt the amazing argument you might think it is.
by ackfoobar | 2025-08-14 00:05:56+00:00
> Substantiate this.

You never gave an example how sum types in Java/Kotlin cannot do what "real" sum types can.

>> weird name choice but whatever

> snarky potshot

Sorry that you read snark. What I meant was "I find naming this 'Bound' weird. But since I am translating your example, I'll reuse it".

> You're still creating an unrelated type

How can a type participating in the inheritance hierarchy be "unrelated"?

> I see the same degree of contortion, actually. Far more noisy, at that.

At this point I can only hope you're a Haskeller and do not represent an average OCaml programmer.
by lmeyerov | 2025-08-14 00:06:09+00:00
if you s/counterculture/maker/g , so less about anti and more about doing, i'm with the others -- it's just bigger, with some individual subcommunities having ossified while new topics have opened their own new shiny & vibrant communities

ex: ai village was a new weird thing just a small number years ago, but now that ai is the #1 topic at blackhat (commercial side), it even has its own big event that overshadows blackhat proper . imo that's a success story for defcon fostering doers.
by peterleiser | 2025-08-14 00:06:53+00:00
Check out https://github.com/jhj0517/Whisper-WebUI

I ran it last night using docker and it worked extremely well. You need a HuggingFace read-only API token for the Diarization. I found that the web UI ignored the token, but worked fine when I added it to docker compose as an environment variable.
by Taek | 2025-08-14 00:07:01+00:00
1 operation per second would refer to cryptographic signatures. If you are doing Chacha, the speeds are more like 1 mbps. AES is probably closer to 400 kbps.

An uncompressed video stream at 240p, 24 frames per second is 60 mbps, not really something an IoT device can handle. And if the video is compressed, decompression is going to be significantly more expensive than AES - adding encryption is not a meaningful computational overhead.
by Chrisjackson4 | 2025-08-14 00:07:14+00:00
You are right on some of these points. We have been working on this project for over a year now and take every piece of feedback seriously. We have logged all the feedback from this version 2.0 launch and have begun to work on a massive overhaul, that of which will include a much cheaper/free method to view the content. As well as better quality content, our team has been working with students at Georgia tech & other universities to begin this process.

Thanks for your feedback, and thank you for helping us make EconTeen better.
by amluto | 2025-08-14 00:07:25+00:00
What do you mean “transactional”? Do you mean that a reader never sees a state in Iceberg that is not consistent with a state that could have been seen in a successful transaction in Postgres? If so, that seems fairly straightforward: have the CDC process read from Postgres in a transaction and write to Iceberg in a transaction. (And never do anything in the Postgres transaction that could cause it to fail to commit.)

But the 3 minute thing seems somewhat immaterial to me. If I have a table with one billion rows, and I do an every-three-minute batch job that need to sync an average of one modified row to Iceberg, that job still needs write the correct deletion record to Iceberg. If there’s no index, then either the job writes a delete-by-key or the job need to scan 1B Iceberg rows. Sure, that’s doable in 3 minutes, but it’s far from free.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-08-14 00:07:46+00:00
>If you don't have any cycles to spare, you can upgrade to an MCU that does have cycles to spare for less than $0.50 in small batches, and an even smaller price delta for larger batches.

The monetary cost is most likely not the problem. Tacking on significant additional work is bound to consume more power and generate heat. Tiny devices often have thermal and power limits to consider.