MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 1718627440 | 2025-08-14 18:45:24+00:00
> Some people just enjoy being contrarian.

I have recently posted some critical questions. I didn't do that because I "enjoy being contrarian" (rather me enjoying a discussion). I did that to flesh out, what the benefits of JJ are. I think VCSs are interesting, I think Git has some issues, but in my opinion most problems are caused by a misguided mental models, I haven't/can't tried JJ. Most things I heard were workflows that are claimed are not possible in Git, but are possible and most-times only a few commands. There are other design choices which I disagree with and which might bother me.

("haven't/can't tried JJ" meaning I enjoy running a stable distro, but wouldn't mind compiling it myself. But Rust and Rust software is a fast moving target, so it is a hassle to deal with if you aren't invested in it's ecosystem. Also it violates the GNU standard, which makes it unfriendly for endusers, but this seams to be the norm nowadays.)
by ivape | 2025-08-14 18:45:42+00:00
The chicken nuggets were edging past $5 dollars before the tariffs, during the Biden era. Mcdonalds owns Chipotle so they are well aware of premium pricing for regular food. They applied the same pattern to Mcdonalds, the same way Starbucks once convinced everyone coffee can be as much as $8. This is all before tariffs.

No one's giving tariffs a pass, but we are giving regular people a pass for some reason. It takes people to do all of this.

To further my point, the Gap owns Old Navy and Banana Republic. It's all the same material mostly, but it's tiered pricing (Old Navy cheapest, Gap, to Banana Republic most expensive). Over time, they raised the floor of pricing at Old Navy. Financial engineering is not just happening in the stock market.

The floor for prices on certain things have just gone up with no real reason other than "its about time we raised these prices", and it's happening in a collective way.
by lovich | 2025-08-14 18:46:29+00:00
Massimo did not appear to respond to Apple by trying to compete on compensation with them. The levels.fyi data is showing that they appear to pay their engineers between 140-180 while they are making hundreds of millions in profit.

It seems like Masimo wasn’t bullied because they had less money. They decided to run to the government to protect them instead of doing actual competition
by alistairSH | 2025-08-14 18:46:35+00:00
Two things can be bad at once.

Apple has a massive war chest they can leverage to crush competition in several ways. As a nation and as consumers, we should at least be wary of what they're doing and whether it stifles competition or innovation. Even if the actions are legal.

There's a difference between Apple paying more for engineers in general vs Apple specifically targeting a competitor, acquiring all the talent from that competitor, then using the IP that talent brought to roll out substantially the same product.
by duxup | 2025-08-14 18:47:23+00:00
>Justice Brett Kavanaugh, a member of the court’s conservative wing, wrote a brief concurrence asserting that the Mississippi law is “likely unconstitutional” but said that the internet companies who sued had not “sufficiently demonstrated” that they would be harmed by a temporary order in favor of the state.

That seems important.

More so on the topic:

> an effort the state said is intended to protect children from online predators

I wonder with all this effort, are kids safer with these laws? I believe most abuse situations like this occur where the abuser is someone the child already knows right, not some internet ramdo?

I also think about the internet rando cases I see on my local news and honestly it appears in those cases the parents sit there and say "Watch your kids online, I didn't ... at all.". I'm not sure an unattended child is being saved by these laws.

Seems like a lot of these efforts are futile efforts to shield children FROM the internet, rather than equip them to make good choices.
by alfalfasprout | 2025-08-14 18:47:26+00:00
It's funny always seeing comments like this. I call them "skill issue" comments.

The reality is the author very much understands what's available today. Zed, after all, is building out a lot of AI-focused features in its editor and that includes leveraging SOTA LLMs.

> It's certainly not perfect but it works about as well, if not better, than a human junior engineer. Sometimes it can't solve a bug, but human junior engineers get in the same situation too.

I wonder if comments like this are more of a reflection on how bad the hiring pool was even a few years ago than a reflection of how capable LLMs are. I would be distraught if I hired a junior eng with less wherewithal and capabilities than Sonnet 3.7.
by 9rx | 2025-08-14 18:47:43+00:00
> It's full of people who say things no one familiar with the Bay Area (where YC is from) would say.

Stands to reason. If you are familiar with the Bay Area, implying that you are there, what would you use HN for? You'd simply go outside and run into all the techies and the inane ideas they have to the fullest extent you can handle. Naturally it is going to attract those in flyover places that don't have any kind of meaningful tech scene connection otherwise.
by RiverCrochet | 2025-08-14 18:47:47+00:00
I think a lot of social network problems would be solved if platforms put an orange flag next to profiles that have posted more than 10 times in the last 24 hours, and a red flag next to profiles that have posted more than 60 times in the last 7 days. The total number of flags ever given to an account on the bio would be good as well. No other automatic action, just a visible flag or other symbol.

Being able to temporarily filter out profiles that post too many times (a setting you could change) would also be nice, but it shouldn't be automatic.
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by pablopang | 2025-08-14 18:47:53+00:00
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It's a blog that has more blog posts that you can ever imagine because if you go to a route and it doesn't exists it uses AI to build it and then it exists.

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You can try it with new articles if you want...built with sveltekit, drizzle + SQLite, tailwind (in part), hosted with coolify, and using gpt-oss 20b to generate the articles.
by js8 | 2025-08-14 18:47:56+00:00
I think LLM's chain of thought is reasoning. When trained, LLM sees lot of examples like "All men are mortal. Socrates is a man." followed by "Therefore, Socrates is mortal.". This causes the transformer to learn rule "All A are B. C is A." is often followed by "Therefore, C is B." And so it can apply this logical rule, predictively. (I have converted the example from latent space to human language for clarity.)

Unfortunately, sometimes LLM also learns "All A are C. All B are C." is followed by "Therefore, A is B.", due to bad example in the training data. (More insidiously, it might learn this rule only in a special case.)

So it learns some logic rules but not consistently. This lack of consistency will cause it to fail on larger problems.

I think NNs (transformers) could be great in heuristic suggesting which valid logical rules (could be even modal or fuzzy logic) to apply in order to solve a certain formalized problem, but not so great at coming up with the logic rules themselves. They could also be great at transforming the original problem/question from human language into some formal logic, that would then be resolved using heuristic search.
by landr0id | 2025-08-14 18:47:59+00:00
Did you reach out to `git` commands to make changes to the repo? If you use jj in a colocated repo you should _only_ use jj to manage the repo to ensure it's kept in-sync with jj's data.

If you messed up with jj commands, you can use the op log to fix https://jj-vcs.github.io/jj/latest/operation-log/
by nickthegreek | 2025-08-14 18:48:17+00:00
Really appreciate seeing comments like this on HN. You got me thinking about my own presence online. I decided to use gpt-5-thinking and perplexity's deep research with the same prompt to deep dive on my legal name, find aliases, research those aliases, etc. Then report on positive and negatives findings. Both did a good job and helped me feel a bit at ease. They both noticed that I worked at a place that later had a controversy and knew that I left prior to that but gave actionable ideas on how to answer questions around that during interviews or via linkedin. I think I might set up a perplexity task to run and email this once a month.

I'll probably one seperate ones for my own handles that are not attached to my name to monitor them as well. The panopticon never sleeps.
by 12_throw_away | 2025-08-14 18:48:34+00:00
Well, my steelman argument against regulating this repulsive shit: every time a government says it's going to regulate infotech to protect children, it almost invariably ends up having a chilling effect that ends up restricting children's access to high quality educational and medical information. Even if a law is well-intentioned and equitable, its enforcement never is.

In this case, I'm confident that whoever wrote this section, just checking their hard drive should be sufficient to send them to jail.
by canyon289 | 2025-08-14 18:48:37+00:00
Speaking for me as an individual as an individual I also strive to build things that are safe AND useful. Its quite challenging to get this mix right, especially at the 270m size and with varying user need.

My advice here is make the model your own. Its open weight, I encourage it to be make it useful for your use case and your users, and beneficial for society as well. We did our best to give you a great starting point, and for Norwegian in particular we intentionally kept the large embedding table to make adaption to larger vocabularies easier.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-08-14 18:48:50+00:00
The credit card companies hate it for the obvious reason and then the traditional reason was they would impose contractual requirements or get laws passed to prevent companies from offering a cash discount. People have posted here saying this has been reversed by federal rules, but then you're still left with two reasons.

One, inertia. Companies haven't realized they're allowed to do it now. That'll change over time.

Two, there are ways to transfer "cash" digitally without paying the credit card fees (i.e. ACH), and there are reasons to want to use digital payments -- making payments over the internet being a major one -- but ACH is ancient and it needs some kind of modern open standard in order to do things like make a payment request and determine in real-time whether the source account actually exists and has sufficient balance to make the payment. Various attempts to do that are constantly being made and constantly being fought against by Visa et al.
by jcgl | 2025-08-14 18:48:51+00:00
> Now you can of course debate on what "decenttalized" means, but in a social network easy migration between servers is the crucial feature that would allow the decentralized network to emerge.

I totally agree. However, a lot of people in the fediverse/ActivityPub world apparently (?) disagree, seeing as your domain is tightly coupled to your server, i.e. no name portability. Seems like a wild oversight to me, and getting massive instances like matrix.org and mastadon.social seems like an inevitable consequence.

Lack of name portability implies greater risk when choosing a server. Greater risk when choosing a server means choosing comparatively less risky servers. Choosing comparatively less risky servers means choosing more well-known servers. Thus you have the GMail-ification of the fediverse.
by ModernMech | 2025-08-14 18:49:08+00:00
Yeah, because you pay for the thing and you still can't watch it!

Last year they brought Andor to Hulu and every time I played it on my brand new LG TV, the video would be completely green while I could hear the audio underneath. It only happened to Andor because apparently they had some super special DRM, which ostensibly would restrict people who weren't authorized from viewing it, but had the effect of also preventing authorized people from viewing as well. So in the end, they can't even satisfy willing customers who have their wallets open. Of course they're going to turn to piracy.

Of course, the rights holders got my money and as far as they're concerned, their DRM move was great for the bottom line.
by stouset | 2025-08-14 18:49:58+00:00
There’s no need to be antagonistic. We’re all friends here :)

I am an unabashed jj evangelist and I don’t think they’re lying when they say it didn’t save them any time. Adoption costs might be small but they’re not zero. Some workflows are easy with either tool. And some people just don’t “get” it and struggle to adapt to a different mental model. That’s okay!

> So despite all this chest puffing, an appeal to authority would tip the scales for you?

I think GP was simply saying this would be a clear sign to them that if it’s mature enough to handle kernel developers’ needs, that’s a good sign it’s worth the effort to switch. It definitely would be! I can’t wait to hear if and when kernel developers start switching; it will be a huge positive indicator.
by angmarsbane | 2025-08-14 18:50:17+00:00
I do buy it. There are a significant number of well-off retirees in my apartment complex. From the ones I've talked with, they love it. There's more to life than money, and many of them found their single family homes isolating and the stuff in them burdensome. There's a lot of mental energy that goes into taking care of a home, organizing all of the upkeep etc. They don't have to deal with any of that in an apartment. They don't have to vet repair companies or gardners or compare quotes. Living in our apartment complex they get to talk with a mix of people which keeps life interesting and alleviates loneliness, they get to walk to amenities like pools/gyms that their single family homes did not have, also they're closer to a major airport which makes those bucket list trips less burdensome AND they're closer to top hospitals for treatments. It's more expensive yes, but they're getting a value out of it that is worth the cost to them.
by habitue | 2025-08-14 18:50:37+00:00
Started watching, but "C89 is the safe option for long lived software" kind of turned me off. There are plenty of safe long lived stable languages out there where you dont have to manually manipulate memory. At the very least, this guy should be advocating for Java.

But even that's too far really. Like it or not, "shiny fad" languages like Python & Javascript have been around forever, support for them isn't going away, this should be a non-concern at the architectural level. (Bigger language concerns: is it performant enough for my expected use? Does it have strong types to help with correctness? Can I hire programmers who know it? etc)
by habedi0 | 2025-08-14 18:51:09+00:00
Thanks.

I'm new to Zig myself and created this library because I had trouble verifying the correctness of the code I wrote for a set of complex data structures in another larger Zig project (this one: https://github.com/habedi/ordered). I'm currently experimenting with how to use DbC in Zig, which led to the creation of this library.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-08-14 18:52:50+00:00
As already mentioned, the support for it appearing somewhat less uniform as far as I can tell. Plus I would expect the knowledge that it will be swiftly struck down to discourage efforts.

Of course I would have expected the second point to apply to the GOP as well, yet here we are, so clearly my world model has some inaccuracies in this regard.
by toast0 | 2025-08-14 18:52:55+00:00
Seems to me, it has some value (again, if it's accurate) for letting people know about sleep apnea; especially as part of an overall sleep tracking dodad.

I've got enough mild asthma around me that we have a finger pulseox (or two cause we "lost" one and found it later) and I've started yelling at sick people to check it once in a while. Cause they don't usually think to, but sometimes it lingers and by the time they decide to go into an office, the numbers are pretty low.

Of course, we're not on the Apple bandwagon and stopped wearing watches once we got used to having pocket watches again.
by banannaise | 2025-08-14 18:52:59+00:00
> What do you think this should look like?

Institutions that handle sensitive data that is subject to access regulations generally have a compliance process that must be followed prior to accessing and using that data, and a compliance department staffed with experts who review and approve/deny access requests.

But Facebook would rather move fast, break things, pay some fines, and reap the benefits of their illegal behavior.
by ameliaquining | 2025-08-14 18:52:59+00:00
Oh, this is a specific co-branded card, that's a different thing and one I've seen a bunch of places.

It seems pretty uncontroversial on the internet that American Express has this policy, and I can't find anyone alleging that Dodd–Frank prohibits it. There is a class action lawsuit against American Express alleging that the policy is illegal (https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/zdvxngqeovx/...), but it makes its argument on antitrust grounds and does not cite Dodd–Frank—which it would surely do if there were a plausible argument that Dodd–Frank prohibits this. I don't know exactly how this squares with the text of the FTC's business-guidance page, but that page is a concise summary and doesn't get into all the details of the law, so my guess is that the situations it applies to are somehow different from what American Express is doing.
by canyon289 | 2025-08-14 18:53:18+00:00
To add to the comments, we were not aiming for perfect factuality. Even ignoring the model size, these weights are frozen in time now.

My suggestions here are to hook this model up to a RAG system, then you can rely on an external knowledge store. Or you can try finetuning this model with the facts that are important to you, if you do that it should pick up that new knowledge quite quickly.
by diarrhea | 2025-08-14 18:53:25+00:00
One problem remains: jj makes it a breeze to parallelize work, but descendant changes will then end up with multiple parents. But PRs cannot target multiple target branches at once - so you cannot point them at both at once.

cf. https://jj-vcs.github.io/jj/latest/cli-reference/#jj-paralle...
by pritambaral | 2025-08-14 18:53:36+00:00
> a vowel when it's between two consonants, and a consonant when it's not.

Not a hard rule, honestly.

Some Indian languages exhibit a blurring of sorts with Ye- sounds. E.g., in Telugu, the word for 'How' is 'yela', which is often also pronounced as 'ela'. TBF, Telugu also blurs Ve-/We- sounds similarly.
by AJRF | 2025-08-14 18:54:11+00:00
I've got a very real world use case I use DistilBERT for - learning how to label wordpress articles. It is one of those things where it's kind of valuable (tagging) but not enough to spend loads on compute for it.

The great thing is I have enough data (100k+) to fine-tune and run a meaningful classification report over. The data is very diverse, and while the labels aren't totally evenly distributed, I can deal with the imbalance with a few tricks.

Can't wait to swap it out for this and see the changes in the scores. Will report back
by _swfb | 2025-08-14 18:54:12+00:00
Yeah honestly it really is something I hadn't considered much, especially my old Twitter which I haven't logged into for years and the last posts were when I was in an extremely bad state mentally. I completely forgot about it even existing, but of course whether or not I remembered it doesn't mean it won't potentially hurt my prospects.

It's impossible to know how many jobs I've been turned down for due to my online presence and edgy takes; most of my takes really aren't that edgy or even that out there, but they might be enough make a potential employer think twice.

I just deleted my old Twitter, my Reddit account, and most of my posts on LinkedIn. I don't think any of them were really that bad but I don't really need them haunting me for forever.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-08-14 18:54:16+00:00
Reddit’s fatal flaw is that subreddit mods are volunteers. Sometimes this works well when you get a knowledgable, benevolent individual in the position, but more often than not you get people who want to power trip.

Mods should be in-house, on payroll, and strictly bound to the network’s standards.

This should generally be less of an issue anyway in a system that actively penalizes the sorts of crudely expressed, un-nuanced posts that are typically social media’s bread and butter. Not being able to appeal to basal emotions (“it feels right” is a poor metric) and being required to substantiate views more intelligently takes the air out of a lot of fringe sails.
by krunck | 2025-08-14 18:54:53+00:00
This is just an Internet user license scheme. Unless World ID open sources all their code to verification they can't be trusted. "Trust then verify" does not apply when leakage of personal bio-metrics tied to personal identity is at stake.

A better alternative would allow:

* The end-user to be the single holder of the unique private bio-metric fingerprint ID

* The end-user to generate derived public IDs based on the private bio-metric ID. This should be a one-way transformation.

* The service provider(SP) to hold the public ID in their user account records

* the end-user to provide proof to the SP that the public ID is derived from the private bio-metric ID. This would be the authentication process.

It should not allow:

* any means for any private or public institution to connect personal identity with any public IDs unless the end-user chooses to do so.
by godzillabrennus | 2025-08-14 18:55:47+00:00
I started buying Blu-ray discs and ripping them to my computer, where I run Plex. Why? I had a long-time subscription to HBO Max, but a few years ago, I went to watch Westworld, and it was gone from HBO. I ended up buying a season on Apple for the price of a monthly subscription to HBO. I cancelled my HBO subscription. I realized that second-hand Blu-ray discs of shows were selling for dirt cheap. I spent $40 to buy the rest of the seasons of Westworld on Blu-ray.

Clearly, new shows aren't getting Blu-ray releases, so this won't work for you if you care about new shows. My wife and I are so over the dystopian view from modern science fiction that we started focusing on shows from the late 1900s (80s/90s) to get more of a positive outlook from our entertainment. We are now going through Stargate SG-1.
by yujonglee | 2025-08-14 18:56:00+00:00
Happy to answer any questions!

These are list of local models it supports:

- whisper-cpp-base-q8

- whisper-cpp-base-q8-en

- whisper-cpp-tiny-q8

- whisper-cpp-tiny-q8-en

- whisper-cpp-small-q8

- whisper-cpp-small-q8-en

- whisper-cpp-large-turbo-q8

- moonshine-onnx-tiny

- moonshine-onnx-tiny-q4

- moonshine-onnx-tiny-q8

- moonshine-onnx-base

- moonshine-onnx-base-q4

- moonshine-onnx-base-q8
by sestep | 2025-08-14 18:56:03+00:00
I really like all the concepts and have only heard good things, so I tried it but wasn't able to figure out how to use it as effectively as I can use Git. Specifically, I use VS Code and do a lot of stuff with the IDE's builtin support for selecting specific parts of files to stage, and I was hoping to be able to do something similar for jj split. I asked the Jujutsu Kaizen devs on Discord and they said that isn't currently implemented. They did also mention that VisualJJ might have more what I want, but I'm reluctant to switch to JJ only to have to rely on a closed-source tool.

Are there others who've previously made heavy use of VS Code's builtin Git staging support and have successfully migrated to JJ? Anything I'm missing?