MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by inferiorhuman | 2025-09-05 22:25:33+00:00
There isn't much different about bart.

Basically everything on BART is unique to BART. Odd loading gauge. Odd track gauge. Lightweight aluminum chassis so none of the aerial infrastructure is designed to carry a heavier, more traditional car. Multi-part wheels with aluminum hubs to make extra noise. Non-standard traction voltage so BART struggled mightily to find replacement thyristors for the old cars. BART still struggles to keep their electric substations running. The original signaling system makes some sense, but trying to replace it with another NIH product in the 90s made zero sense. The original trains had glass with compound curves and BART could not find a vendor who could reliably recreate them. The current trains indicate ADA seating with the color green, reserving blue for the regular seats.

If it can be made differently or done differently BART will absolutely try to do so.

the real problem is thinking they are different or that they need to innovate.

Yep NIH is a huge problem for BART.
by privatelypublic | 2025-09-05 22:25:33+00:00
Did you miss the "also" how about "adjacent"? I won't pretend to understand the legal minutia, but reading the settlement doesn't mean you do either.

In my experience&training in a fintech corp- Accepting a settlement in any suit weakens your defense- but prevents a judgement and future claims for the same claims from the same claimants (a la double jeopardy). So, again- at minimum- this prevents an actual judgement. Which, likely would be positive for the NYT (and adjacent) cases.
by 9rx | 2025-09-05 22:25:34+00:00
I've certainly spend half-hours of precious mental energy writing a comment because I was having fun writing it. Like watching TV from before, perhaps cleaning the house instead would have been a better use of the time, but It is what was enjoyable in the moment, and sometimes you can allow yourself to have some fun doing arbitrary things. I don't really see that as being dumb, but to each their own, I suppose.
by wyum | 2025-09-05 22:25:37+00:00
I think you and the article actually agree and you are arguing only with their use of the word "development."

The article uses "development" to refer only to the part where code is generated, while you are saying "development" is the process as a whole.

You both agree that latency in the real-world validation feedback loop leads to longer cycles and fewer promising solutions and that is the bottleneck.
by mrob | 2025-09-05 22:26:02+00:00
UI animations actually do have one valid use: clarifying UI state changes to third parties.

When you're the only person using the computer, UI animations are pure time-wasting anti-features. You obviously know how the UI state changed because you're the one who requested the change. If the UI state changed without your explicit request, that's a bug that needs fixing. But somebody viewing your screen remotely can't see which keys you're pressing, and they don't know what you intend to click on before you've actually clicked it, so to them UI state changes can be surprising. Animations can help them follow what's happening.

Of course, animations should be disabled by default, because most computer use is not performed for an audience, but having the option to enable them is occasionally useful.
by Aachen | 2025-09-05 22:26:14+00:00
The difference between English, Dutch, and German Wikipedias is also very interesting. I used to never open the Dutch one unless there was a near-zero chance of the English one having any article on the topic at all (like how to make vlaai or idk). It has way fewer articles, has virtually no references for anything, is written more casually by fewer people, and everyone who needs information in the Netherlands speaks English (under 55yo) or German (over 55yo) or both (those in border-nearing retail) so nobody bothers

(Even tinier is the Limburgian dialect that have their own Wikipedia. It seems to mostly be an exercise in how to write this spoken language than to make actually useful articles with unique content. Literally nobody can read that who can't also read Dutch, since it has no spelling or even a dictionary that'd work for more than a few square kilometres. But I digress)

The Germans on the other hand, I've been amazed that there exists, not infrequently, articles in German with more information than in English. It seems like such a shame to me to put all this effort into a niche language, yet it's there. There are well-maintained silos of information out there if you know where to find them!
by speed_spread | 2025-09-05 22:26:17+00:00
Car companies cannot figure what to develop and how to develop it. They could develop 1000% faster and would still get it wrong. Mostly because they see software as a cheap alternative to metal and rubber and developers as degenerate primadonnas - i.e. not true engineers.

Sonos decided they wanted to centralize their architecture so they could tap into it to make extra surveillance money. They trashed things that worked perfectly and replaced them with a cloudshit architecture that nobody asked for and that _cannot_ deliver the same low-latency, quality experience as before. They could have developed things 1000% faster, they would have just drove a cliff sooner.

Even if people could write apps instantly, nothing would prevent them for being stupid and greedy.
by Telaneo | 2025-09-05 22:26:32+00:00
The 'make friends on the internet' age as it was back then is probably largely over outside of select niches, but I still find fulfilment in commenting and discussing matters within more niche topics. Within those, it's still fairly likely that I'm not actually talking to a bot, and that they're not a complete knobhead who isn't discussing in good faith. Hacker News gets there sometimes, but it can still spill over into the bad discussions that have now flooded mainstream social media.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-05 22:26:36+00:00
Could you please share how its illegal under international law and why I couldn't do it for cars or commodity goods.

Some resources would definitely help me out here!

Also I think that I doubt how enforceable this is in tech industry as for the most part, they are selling a service and each service is different and thus have different price points and therefore the company should have the ability to decide prices technically.. so if they want to sell at a loss, theoretically nothing stops them from selling the service at a loss.

But I feel like the same logic applies to commodity goods. If two parties want to decide that they want to buy/sell at lower prices, why does the govt. interfere b/w them? Does this not impact their rights/freedom?
by bananamerica | 2025-09-05 22:26:45+00:00
This is a “crônica” about my relationship with computers in Brazil in the 1990s.

The crônica is a uniquely Brazilian format that emerged in Brazilian newspapers in the 19th century. The crônica is very short. It is characterized by a mix of fact, subjectivity, and often fiction that is supposed to reflect or say something about reality (this one has no fiction). Oddly enough, I wrote this crônica directly in English. It was an interesting experience to write something so profoundly Brazilian in English.

Crônicas are often slice-of-life.
by ninetyninenine | 2025-09-05 22:27:02+00:00
No it’s not. Bart is just really bad, and don’t blame lack of civil engagement. We don’t have time for this shit. Plenty of countries have good public infrastructure without the need for everyone to be engaged.

It’s like saying crime is a problem in this world because of your lack of engagement in stopping crime.

Bitching on HN is one small form of engagement I can afford and I’m hoping at least one bart official sees it and realize what a shit job he’s doing or one government official sees it and realizes what a shit government official he is and changes something. Minuscule hope but why not.

Instead we get random people who will only benefit from fixing the bart actually trying to defend it as if it’s their favorite sports team.
by OJFord | 2025-09-05 22:27:13+00:00
Even like this where it's not just not 'joined-up', but not even independent cursive characters? This is just printed characters, as GP says, this seems particularly relevant because I'd think the hardest part of doing this with cursive handwriting would be all the combinations of the ways different letters flow together - if you restrict yourself to independent characters then you remove that problem.
by vel0city | 2025-09-05 22:27:13+00:00
It's funny he mentions Buc-ees, as on the last couple of road trips with my non-Tesla EV buc-ees was a common charging stop where it was just pull up, plug in, and tap my credit card.

In fact, I haven't had to use an app for a DCFC in several years. They either work with plug and charge or take payment directly on the dispenser.
by jjtheblunt | 2025-09-05 22:27:15+00:00
same here. had 2 nests and 2 ecobees. the only ecobee quirk i find after 9 years of ecobees is that the weather calculation is way off if you live near microclimates. i'm not sure if they use your postal zipcode, or use a map from IP address to more accurate weather, but it's normally showing weather from 10 miles away.
by jazzyjackson | 2025-09-05 22:27:18+00:00
Libraries aren’t just anarchist free for alls they are operating under licensing terms. Google had a big squabble with the university of Illinois Urbana Champaign research library before finally getting permission to scan the books there. Guess what, Google has the full text but books.google.com only shows previews, why is an exercise to the reader literally
by nomel | 2025-09-05 22:27:21+00:00
Why is this downvoted? It's a simple fact of physics that's been fully understood for literal centuries, taught in high school [1]. For a given heat exchanger size, evaporative cooling will always win (well, unless it's raining), with drastically lower thermal resistance.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_heat_capacity
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-05 22:27:52+00:00
Oh the last thing you want is DMs. On every platform I am on that has DMs whether that is Instagram or Mastodon or whatever, I get approached by people who say something like "Hey!" or "How are you doing today" and if I humor them they want to move the conversation on to Signal where there is less of a paper trail. So far as I could tell it is these people

https://www.economist.com/weeklyedition/2025-02-08

Right now I am trying to deprogram a rather isolated friend who seems to be sucked into this, it is so frickin' hard to get through to a person who has been seduced, has a crush on somebody, and who has accepted a sob story.

If it is not that, there are all the people who are maybe promoting their onlyfans profile or maybe they're just trying to click on a virus, but either way it is awful. I've been cataloging features that are "expressions of hostility" on BlueSky profiles and one of the most common is "No DM" and it is so common and the people who use it are relatively normal otherwise that we don't treat it as a red flag.

If I was starting out a new platform I'd have a ground rule of never supporting DMs because they are a hotbed of fraud and trouble.
by verdverm | 2025-09-05 22:28:06+00:00
META wants to be the Android of smart glasses because they know it will be the next dominate form factor when we have desirable devices (also why they are starting with less hardware but a form factor people feel comfortable wearing in public)

Android XR is coming out with Moohan next month, if Visor ever comes out, it is believed that will eventually by on AXR. Apple still seems hobbled since Jobs left
by neilv | 2025-09-05 22:28:11+00:00
> I write with the vague hope that some unique expression of myself makes some tiny difference to this universe.

I used to have to talk more on Internet privacy.

Now I feel like enough people are talking about that one, that I usually don't have to.

In more recent years, it's been pointing out the latest wave of thievery in the techbro field -- sneaky lock-in and abuse, surveillance capitalism, growth investment scams, regulatory avoidance "it's an app, judge" scams, blockchain "it's not finance or currency or utterly obvious criminal scheme, judge" scams, and now "it's AI, judge" mass copyright violation.

There's not enough people -- who aren't on the exploitation bandwagon or coattails-riding -- who have the will to notice a problem, and speak up.

Though more speak up on that particular problem, after the window of opportunity closes, and the damage is done, and finally widely recognized. But then there's a new scam, and gotta get onboard the money train while you can.

That ticks me off, and I can type fast.
by anonym29 | 2025-09-05 22:28:15+00:00
I speak from what was nearly a universal set of experience of my peer group during my teenage years. Hell, I literally threw sleepover parties where my friend group would stay up all night to watch censored Girls Gone Wild infomercials, and this was in a relatively strict Christian household where my friends' M-rated Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 games would be confiscated by my parents at the door and returned to them when they left.

I was literally looking up Zero Suit Samus fan art on my Wii's web browser when parents put parental control software on the computer.

When I was grounded from all computer usage, I'd pull up Catie Minx photoshoots on a first-generation Kindle, with the e-ink display that had image update latency measured in seconds.

All of my friends would go to these extents and more to access this kind of material. I was introduced to dumpster diving by a friend for this reason. I had another friend who got caught for shoplifting adult magazines from a bookstore.

I don't think the motivation and ingenuity in seeking adult content is generationally restricted or particularly unique at all, it seems to be true for every guy I know, including those who were born in the 50s, 60s, 70's, 80s, 90s.

I genuinely cannot comprehend the thought process of people who truly believe that a few targeted lawsuits at major porn sites is going to make a dent in what might be one of the strongest behavioral drives hardcoded into the human genome.
by anonymars | 2025-09-05 22:29:08+00:00
I would posit that a society of reasonably well-off people would be less likely to steal guardrails for drug money than a society with a lot of poverty.

I would guess certain voting patterns would be different too, for that matter.

Perhaps part of that is: what underlies the inequality? Are folks getting wealthy by good old-fashioned hard work? Or something else?
Ask HN: Freelancers, what features matter most in invoicing software?
by ahmadhamza19 | 2025-09-05 22:29:14+00:00
I’m curious to hear from freelancers here:

– What do you consider must-have features in invoicing software?

– What do you think existing tools often get wrong or overcomplicate?

I’m trying to understand real workflows, not just feature lists, so any examples from your own experience would be helpful.
by gpm | 2025-09-05 22:29:17+00:00
I don't much like the idea of settling in stock, but I also think you're looking for criminal law here. Civil law, and this is a civil suit, is far more concerned with making damaged parties whole than acting as a deterrent.

I understand that intentional copyright infringement is a crime in the US, you just need to convince the DOJ to prosecute Anthropic for it...
by mycall | 2025-09-05 22:30:02+00:00
> Any contents blocked by the current robots.txt is removed retroactively from the entire 2013-2024 range of the training dataset

Why not check historical versions of the robots.txt (e.g. archive.org) and contain the retroactive cutoff to a certain date range, parsing the robots.txt accordingly? That might increase the corpus size within legal and fair use boundaries.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-05 22:30:03+00:00
That's exactly the point of the author.

Amazon crushed all other retail in the first place and therefore, now all other retail can't provide some stuff and you buy them from amazon

That isn't good.

Man I am thinking of this as an ouroboros. Amazon got big because they crushed all other retail and they crush all other retail because they are big.

I think that the ouroboros that I am talking about should be known as the monoboros (get it? I am trying to have some fun by mixing monopoly and ouroboros, I hope you don't mind it)

Or just call this ouroboros a monpoly, man. it hurts me sometimes that you can't bring change in this world because of the way the world is right now and that bad things can happen in this world and its far far from perfect. I don't get how you guys or even anyone stays optimistic, I really wish to be a optimist logically but I can't come to that conclusion other than the fact that hey I run on emotions and bad emotions lead to bad things happening for me personally so I need to shut down bad emotions just so that they happen better for me. But that seems a little like running away from the truth. Should I feel okay running away from truth?
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-09-05 22:30:31+00:00
To each their own, but the idea of an internet connected thermostat (at great expense!) never made sense to me. A $20 Honeywell lets you program 4 regions per day (waking, day, evening, night) and will be fine almost every day of the year. Has a battery backup and never failed me.

I guess it would be cute to get some analytics dashboard, but that’s about where my interest ends.
by vel0city | 2025-09-05 22:30:31+00:00
As someone who has gone on many EV road trips over the years, I've never had an issue of rolling into a random charging station and not having the right kind of plug. All I've had to do is avoid Tesla stations, all the other brands have worked with my car. And now that I got a Tesla DC adapter that I keep in my trunk, I can do fast charging at a decent chunk of the Tesla stations.
by inferiorhuman | 2025-09-05 22:30:44+00:00
I can only think of NYC as having a better payment system as they were first movers on tap-to-pay adoption and it's basically fully adopted.

Portland's TriMet had tap-to-pay well before New York.

I was in Paris in the last year and I don't think public transit payment was better.

The multi-stage turnstiles at the RER stations… ugh.
by awesome_dude | 2025-09-05 22:30:49+00:00
It could also be that, that's the kind of world we really live in.

Most of the discourse that we see is where groups of people are intersecting that wouldn't really meet in the real world because of the echo chambers we keep.

The Americans are often saying that they only see that crank uncle, or their liberal nephew or niece, at thanksgiving, and, honestly, it's the same for the rest of us around the world - we're normally only exposed to the very different viewpoints at family gatherings.

IRL we try to avoid conflict, and try not to associate with people that hold views that are vastly different to our own, so much so it's considered "unprofessional" to have the discussions at work that would show how different everyone's (political) viewpoints are in the workplace.
by hedora | 2025-09-05 22:31:53+00:00
Apparently the tariffs are at least partially to blame.

According to the article, metal prices are now artificially high, so this sort of crime is more attractive.

I’m worried about what happens if we don’t get another FDR (this is one of the premises of The Man in the High Castle, which is likely to age better than most sci fi TV series).

FDR’s New Deal saved the entire planet from a descent into Nazism and Japanese imperial rule, and also set the stage for the scientific and economic advances in the post war period (including the moon landing, internet, etc, etc).
by jazzyjackson | 2025-09-05 22:31:59+00:00
Books.Google.Com was deemed fair use because it only shows previews, not full downloads. Internet Archive is still under litigation iirc besides having owned a physical copy of every book they ever scanned (and keeping a copy in their warehouses) they let people read the whole thing.

I’m surprised Google hasn’t hit its competitors harder with the fact that they actually got permission to scan books from its partner libraries and Facebook and OpenAI just torrented books2/books3, but I guess they have aligned incentive to benefit from a legal framework that doesn’t look to closely at how you went about collecting source material
by carstenhag | 2025-09-05 22:32:22+00:00
MasterCard leaked address + full credit card data about 90.000 people in Germany. Everyone that signed up for a lawyer (that was paid 15% of a possible payout) got 250-300€, including me. If only 10.000 signed up, it's already 2.5 millions.

https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/mastercard-zahlt-kunden-...
by maxbond | 2025-09-05 22:33:16+00:00
The expectation that Internet social spaces are massive "town square" style spaces where strangers interact but remain strangers is recent, circa maybe 2012. We can go back and forth about the precise year but early online spaces like BBSs, Usenet, IRC and traditional forums were relatively small and close knit. Couples holding real marriage ceremonies in the multiplayer role playing game where they met is a tradition older than the term "MMORPG" (they were getting married in eg LambdaMOO).

Everyone comes to online social space looking for some kind of connection, friendship or otherwise.
by lllllm | 2025-09-05 22:33:36+00:00
martin here from the apertus team, happy to answer any questions if i can.

the full collection of models is here: https://huggingface.co/collections/swiss-ai/apertus-llm-68b6...

PS: you can run this locally on your mac with this one-liner:

pip install mlx-lm

mlx_lm.generate --model mlx-community/Apertus-8B-Instruct-2509-8bit --prompt "who are you?"
by CSSer | 2025-09-05 22:35:46+00:00
I used to have a Honeywell wi-fi thermostat. It looked like any other thermostat you've ever seen, except you could connect it to a home hub. It was nice because you could exactly what you're describing, but you could also do it in the app.

What made it worth it was being able to turn off the air or heat when you weren't home automatically. Now all or the "AI training" garbage? Yeah, forget that. I used to work in an office with a nest and it was torture if you showed up too early if stayed a little too late.
by MBCook | 2025-09-05 22:35:52+00:00
> Winning means taking away the ability for fans to spread viral / subliminal advertising for WB via the art they create.

Would it? Creating art as an individual of copyrighted stuff is already legal. No one can stop me from drawing Superman.

I’m not trying to profit off it, like Midjourney is. Fans can still make their own art.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-09-05 22:36:39+00:00
> Being one of the richest persons in the world and still having to kiss ass.

They don't have to and they don't like the taste of it, but they get so much more for a simple kiss that it's a no-brainer for them - they're all good, calculative businessmen.

Homework assignment: Where does the lot they get come from?
by dgacmu | 2025-09-05 22:37:00+00:00
I really appreciate mine. My big use case is that we go away for a week or two over winter sometimes and turn the house down to 55F. The radiators take quite a while to heat the house back up from that temperature, so I turn the temperature back up remotely the morning before we fly back.

That said, I'm quite annoyed that Google is nuking my perfectly functional thermostat, and I will be buying an Ecobee to replace it, and integrating it with home assistant.
by nomel | 2025-09-05 22:37:11+00:00
> And for that you need a band-limited signal.

Luckily, we live in a physical universe, where such mathematical oddities, like infinite bandwidth signals, cannot exist, so this isn't an actual issue. Any signal that that contains infinite bandwidths only exists because it has sampling artifacts. You would, necessarily, be attempting to reconstruct errors. There are many "tricks" around dealing with such flawed signals. But yes, you can't fully reconstruct impossible signals with FFT.