MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by flyinglizard | 2025-09-05 22:49:05+00:00
No, it's not because of that. It's because:

1. You want to control spend - there are budgets. 2. You want to control accounting - minimize the number of vendors you work with. Each billing needs to come with an invoice, these need to be managed, when a developer leaves you need to cancel their seat etc. It's a pain. 3. You want to control compliance - are these tools safe? Are they accessing sensitive data? Are they audited? 4. You want to control interoperability between teams. Can't have it become a zoo of bring-your-own stuff.

So free tools get around all of these, you can just wing it under the radar and if the tool becomes prominent enough then you go fight the war to have it adopted. Once there's spend, you need to get into line. And that line makes a lot of sense when you're into 30 developers, let alone hundreds.
by blargey | 2025-09-05 22:49:20+00:00
Since it's apparently all denominated in stock, and vesting is conditional on multiplying the stock price 7.5x over the next decade*, every misgiving over the current valuation should make this package all the more worth it to shareholders (who the board is supposed to represent).

*or at least the sort of operational milestones that make for the kind of pithy headlines that prop up the stock price
by PufPufPuf | 2025-09-05 22:49:23+00:00
> I literally just aliased docker=podman in my shell and carried on with life.

Thanks, I hate it. It might look fine at first but once you need anything more advanced than running a hello world container, it falls apart. Fun fact, there is no set of flags that would correctly build a multi-platform image on both Docker and Podman -- I found out the hard way.

I guess Podman may work if you go all in on it, but pretending that it's a drop-in replacement for Docker will bring you only pain.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-05 22:49:24+00:00
This might go down (I think) to be one of the most influential court cases to happen then.

We really are getting at some metaphysical / philosophical questions and maybe we will one day arrive at a question that just can't be answered (I think this is pretty close, right?) and then AI companies would do things freely without being accountable since sure you could take to the courts but how would you come to the decision...?

Another question though

So lets say that the nyt vs openAI case is going on, so in the meantime while they are litigating (lets say), could OpenAI still continue doing the same thing while the case is going on?
by Ekaros | 2025-09-05 22:49:28+00:00
>They paid for the books after getting caught, the other companies are paying for the copyrighted training materials

Are they paying reasonable compensation? Say like with streaming services, movie theatres, radio and tv stations. As a whole their model is much close to those than individuals buying books, cds or dvds...

You might even consider Theatrical License or Public Performance License. Paid even if you have memorized a thing...

LLMs are just bad technology that require massive amount of inputs so the authors cannot be compensated enough for it. And I fully believe they should be. And lot more than single copy of their work under entirely ill-fitting first-sale doctrine does.
by neilv | 2025-09-05 22:49:39+00:00
> The civilians appeared to be diving for shellfish when they inadvertently came across the detachment of SEALs as they splashed ashore at night, the Times reported. The American forces opened fire, killing all those aboard the small fishing vessel, the report said, without specifying the number of casualties. [...] A classified Pentagon review later concluded the killings were justified under the rules of engagement, the report said.

Can someone explain?

Were they believed to be militants? Were they recognized as civilians but they took up weapons? Is there a rule that you can kill a non-militant who might raise the alarm to militants, even if not at war? Were there unusual orders in effect for this mission? Something else?
by schmookeeg | 2025-09-05 22:50:13+00:00
I have a dryer outlet that caught fire charging our little i3. I'm not sure why GP said "some countries" -- I'm in the US. The heat warped the plastic just enough to bridge one leg of the power socket to ground. It got pretty melty before the house breaker stopped things.

The torched outlet was installed specifically to charge prior homeowner's EV and was only 3 years old.

I moved to an EV-rated 50A outlet which can handle the duty cycle. We have charged two EVs off of it and so far so good. It has a cute little green logo on it and costs 5x as much as a typical NEMA plug. :) Weighs about 5x as much too and grips the grizzl-e plug very tightly and with much larger contact areas.

I'm a believer.
by FireBeyond | 2025-09-05 22:50:22+00:00
I've made plenty of remarks already but this got me:

> [Bi's husband] blamed the hospital, not Smith, but told me that the litigation is “her grieving process.” He tried to stay out of the legal stuff so that Bi couldn’t blame him too.

How utterly fucking sociopathic do you have to be to sue (and not just sue, she's angling to try to have the surrogate charged with murder) as part of your grieving process. Fuck the single mom trying to help you, you don't care, as a multimillionaire VC.

Even her husband is scared, to the point he's on record as saying he doesn't want his wife blaming him for the surrogacy loss? There are a multitude of issues here.

> Next, Bi iMessaged a photo of Leon’s corpse to Smith’s 7-year-old son’s iPad.

Oh, this kind of fucking sociopath.

> Bi isn’t anti-surrogacy—in fact, she frequently advises other investors who are pursuing it and sends me links to startup after startup

Coming up next, the next unicorn, funded by this VC to help control every moment of your surrogate's life.

This is a really good read on this story: https://www.fridaythings.com/recent-posts/wired-surrogacy-ci...

> The couple hired a second surrogate to carry a fetus for them, this one a girl who’s now 11 months old. Bi characterized that pregnancy as easy and smooth to Nietfeld. In fact, the surrogate, Chelsea Sanabria, had gestational diabetes and both placenta previa and placenta accreta. During delivery, she hemorrhaged, losing 5.4 litres of blood. She needed an emergency hysterectomy to literally save her life. Imagine how little you have to care about another person to characterize that as ‘easy.’
by HaZeust | 2025-09-05 22:50:44+00:00
Living in Denver and having gone to Bentonville, I definitely see the similarities - but they're very much in 2 different leagues. Coors holds the economy up here a lot though; and everything in the hometown of Coors (Golden) is only owned by like 3 families - Coors, Foss and Rooney.
by nomel | 2025-09-05 22:50:45+00:00
Why do you think HN is a place to engage in a productive (necessarily means resulting in something) discussion that would improve BART? Do you think this audience is in any way qualified to discuss the monetary or tech troubles of a uniparty government run service?

Instead, we could have an interesting discussion, maybe even one involving technology, that nerds would enjoy!

You don't have to be an activist wherever you go. In fact, it's almost alway inappropriate soap boxing/virtue signaling.
by rappatic | 2025-09-05 22:51:07+00:00
I don’t know how these were advertised when originally sold, but I think products like these ought to clearly display a minimum sever lifetime. Something like “Nest connected thermostat, with 10 years of guaranteed cloud connectivity” displayed relatively prominently on the packaging. Otherwise, if the vendor can arbitrarily remotely yank access to a key feature, then the consumer is being sold a false bill of goods.
by walterbell | 2025-09-05 22:51:12+00:00
Is there a list of devices which have been rescued or extended by open-source software?

Lyrion Music Server (formerly Logitech Media Server) is open-source server software for Squeezebox audio players, https://lyrion.org/

Tasmota is open-source firmware for ESP8266 and ESP32-based devices, https://templates.blakadder.com/preflashed-stand.html & https://github.com/tasmota

Some IP cameras have open firmware replacements.

Some Chromebooks are supported by mainline Linux.
by Eduard | 2025-09-05 22:51:17+00:00
that all is most basic bookkeeping, I cannot take the argument "$x/user × every employee adds up" serious.

Also, latest with 20 employees or computers, someone in charge of IT (sysadmin, IT department) would decide to use a software asset management tool (aka software inventory system) to automatically track, roll out, uninstall, monitor vetted software. Anything else is just unprofessional.
by tgma | 2025-09-05 22:51:31+00:00
You have to take into account the fact that iPhoto app has had many iterations. The binary plist stuff is very likely the native NSArchive "object archiving (serialization)" that is done by Obj-C libraries. They probably started using protobuf at some point later after iCloud. I suspect the unicode crap you are facing may even predate Cocoaization of the app (they probably used Carbon API).

So it would make it a set of historical decisions, but I am not convinced they are necessarily bad decisions given the constraints. Each layer is likely responsible for handing edge cases in the application that you and I are not privy to.
by braincat31415 | 2025-09-05 22:51:53+00:00
Geneva Convention articles allow targeting civilians only when they directly participate in hostilities. Other than that, a willful killing of civilians is always a war crime. The Pentagon setting its own rules of engagement does not change anything.

Following the same rules, civilian defender in the US will find him/herself in prison very quickly. Ability, opportunity and intent will not be proven by stating that the defender felt threatened.
by lapcat | 2025-09-05 22:51:57+00:00
> Weird! Sorry to hear that commenting (including on HN) didn't make this person any friends. It has made me a bunch of friends, including some very close in-person ones. I don't think I'm an oddball in that regard!

You're #1 in karma on HN, so you are a kind of oddball: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders

Also, Chicago is 3rd most populous city in the United States, which likely helps, because your odds of "meeting" someone online who happens to live in your city is higher than people who live in less populous areas.
by hn_acc1 | 2025-09-05 22:51:58+00:00
Agreed. The other problem is connectivity - if you aren't close to a hub you can actually get to, and that BART didn't connect south along the east bay until very recently.

I once looked at how long to get to work by public transit (~20 miles each way) - it was estimated at 1.5 hours each way (multiple buses + some walking), and costing ~$12-15 each way (15+ years ago). It took 25 minutes each way to drive on a good day, 45 each way on a bad day. Worst case was ~60 minutes to get home.

On average, it would take 2+ hours less PER DAY to drive, and cost $5-10 less, calculating driving cost at $0.50/mile. Plus I could go on my own schedule, no walking in the rain, etc. There was very little "win" for public transit in any way.
by tialaramex | 2025-09-05 22:52:07+00:00
The FAQ answers: "Is the Mojo Playground still available?" by pointing me to the playground, but, the playground itself says "Playground will be removed with the next release of 25.6"

As a FAQ answer to "is this available?" pointing me to a thing which says it will be removed at some unspecified point sort of misses the point. I guess maybe the answer is "Not for long" ?
by stevage | 2025-09-05 22:52:15+00:00
> Nearly 470 sections of guardrailing were stolen in the last fiscal year alone in L.A. and Ventura counties, costing the state transportation agency $17,000 to replace, the agency said.

This implies that the total value to the thieves is pretty tiny.

Actually hang on...that must be an error. Do they mean $17,000 each? That seems too high, but $36 each seems way too low.
by darknavi | 2025-09-05 22:52:31+00:00
CCS1/2 (DC Fast charging) and J1772 (AC "Slow" charging) share a port on most cars. That is, the CCS plug uses the entire plug and the J1772 part uses just the upper portion of the plug.

The AC "slow" charging in the US only needs to support two-phase power (residential power is two phase) and the EU (and others?) generally need to support three-phase power.

NACS is just better in North America (versus CCS1) because it's smaller and much easier to physically handle, but the AC "slow" charging pinning only supports two phase power.
by icedchai | 2025-09-05 22:52:37+00:00
I'm not sure why he didn't use a subdomain of his wildeboer.net domain for his home lab? I put all that stuff under lab.example.com (where example.com is an actual domain that I own, of course.) One nice thing about this is you can then use letsencrypt with a DNS-01 challenge and get real TLS certs for it.
by ggm | 2025-09-05 22:53:54+00:00
This reminded me of watching "little big man" on a nascent Sony portable tv-radio-cassette where the TV was a 4" tube, along the side (ie not flat face on the biggest surface) because tv tube production methods demanded a minimum length front-to-back to get coils around the "gun"

So I was watching Custer's charge from left to right, across about 3" of travel. Fantastic! The future is now. Only 4kg of pluggable, luggable break-your-arm heavy device. This was the end of the 70s. Boomboxes were big anyway.
by xp84 | 2025-09-05 22:54:06+00:00
Oh really? Weird. I did need to do some developer API key thing to get mine in HA, and it's awesome. All sensors and controls work great[1].

Since it's Homekit compatible though, you can go that route. HA easily discovers anything HK compatible as soon as you connect it to your network. So you connect Ecobee to HA with the HomeKit protocol in lieu of connecting it with Apple's stuff.

[1] ...and anything's better than the asinine on-device UI that Ecobee "updated" to a couple years ago (ask yourself: what would a foolish inexperienced "uX dEsIgNeR" do to ruin a plain old thermostat UI? It's that.)
by foota | 2025-09-05 22:54:38+00:00
Yes, see https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sq... and https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sq.... Very pleasant compared to normal SQL.

Table-valued functions (I think these are not exclusive to GoogleSQL?) are also very nice. Every time I see scripts with a long block of with statements part of me dies inside.
by bri3d | 2025-09-05 22:55:09+00:00
I think the ease of direct connection helps, but there's also a big difference in terms of permanence and frequency/volume. While on IRC people were frequently running bouncers or logging bots that eventually posted to the web, it still felt ephemeral and therefore more authentic. The same goes for Discord - much as the demise of the traditional web-indexed phpBB forum is lamented, I feel that people more frequently act like "themselves" in spaces that don't feel as permanent, regardless of if they actually are or not. Plus, most active IRC and now Discord users just post a lot more messages than, say, an average HN user, so there's a lot more socializing to be done.

For whatever reason, public Discords just don't seem to work the same way as IRC did, though. I've had great luck seeding Discord servers with friends from elsewhere (real life, forums, shared activities, etc.) and making friends as the group grows, but I've never really jumped into a random Discord and made a friend the way I did on IRC. I can't really figure out what the difference is, but it's one of the little things I miss that I haven't been able to put a finger on.

Overall though, I've made plenty of friends online, even in the last few years and even as I get older and the Internet changes. The original article really didn't resonate with me at all, which actually made it even more thought provoking for me - I can't imagine making 16 years worth of posts without a single direct connection.
Show HN: PlanEat AI, weekly meal planner with smart shopping lists
by torianyk | 2025-09-05 22:55:51+00:00
Hi HN, I am Valerii, solo founder of PlanEat AI.

Long days running my startup studio meant dinner was a daily decision loop. I tried popular apps, but none planned a whole week around time limits, allergies, and tastes, then produced one clean list for the store. So I built PlanEat AI.

What it does • Personalizes a weekly menu to diet, allergies, dislikes, meals per day, and cooking time • Generates one consolidated shopping list with grouped categories and deduped quantities • Lets you swap any dish and instantly recalculates the plan, recipes, and list • Focuses on simple healthy eating, no calorie tracking

Tech Flutter and Dart, Supabase Postgres and Edge Functions, a small LLM layer for recipe ranking, StoreKit for subscriptions.

Looking for feedback on

Onboarding flow and preference capture

Menu quality for different diets and time budgets

Shopping list grouping and naming

Integrations you would want next

Happy to answer questions and share more details.
by zamadatix | 2025-09-05 22:55:51+00:00
I've always felt it makes sense to either use a forwarder you trust or just operate the root zone yourself. Going to the root zone dynamically is certainly the most technically correct, but if your goals involve either "independence" or "retaining some measure of the performance of using forwarders while still resolving things directly yourself" then you can just pull the root zone daily and operate your own root server https://www.iana.org/domains/root/files. Of course, IANA would rather you just use DNS as technically correct as possible because, well, that's what they exist for, but they don't attempt to roadblock operating your own copy of the root.

It's hard to go much deeper than that in practice as the zonefiles for TLDs are massively larger, massively more dynamic (i.e. syncing once a day isn't usually enough), and much harder to get ahold of (if it all, sometimes).

Regardless of how you go about not using a forwarder, if that's the path you choose then I also heavily recommend considering setting up some additional things like cached entry prefetching so recently used expiring entries don't get "hitches" in latency.
by gerdesj | 2025-09-05 22:56:11+00:00
It Still Does Nothing.

The sheer luxury of two B channels at 64kBps each and if you were cunning, the D channel at 16k (I wasn't cunning and didn't bother)! Yay, double phone charges if you raised the second channel. That was a BRI. A PRI was lots of channels (30) and an even more eye watering bill.

A customer dumped their BRI that was acting as a backup to SIP n that about six months ago. That's the last one I know of.
by plantain | 2025-09-05 22:56:21+00:00
>We live very well in the EU. We don’t have to have millions in savings in order to retire. Strong worker protection. Plenty of time off. Low crime rates.

We'll see how that pans out when the baby boomers finish retiring. Europe ate it's children to feed the retirees.

https://www.politico.eu/article/france-francois-bayrou-wakin...
by benreesman | 2025-09-05 22:56:29+00:00
I'm in kind of a different place with it on the inference side.

I've got these crazy tuned up CUDA kernels that are relatively straightforward to build in isolation and really where all the magic happens, and there's this new CUTLASS 3 stuff and modern C++ can call it all trivially.

And then there's this increasingly thin film of torch crap that's just this side of unbuildable and drags in this reference counting and broken setup.py and it's a bunch of up and down projections to the real hacker shit.

I'm thinking I'm about one squeeze of the toothpaste tube from just squuezing that junk out and having a nice, clean, well-groomed C++ program that can link anything and link into anything.
by lllllm | 2025-09-05 22:56:44+00:00
common crawl anyway respects the CCbot opt-out every time they do a crawl.

we went a step further because back in old ages (2013 is our oldest training data) LLMs did not exist, so website owners opting out today of AI crawlers might like the option to also remove their past contents.

arguments can be made either way but we tried to remain on the cautious side at this point.

we also wrote a paper on how this additional removal affects downstream performance of the LLM https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06219 (it does so surprisingly little)
by xp84 | 2025-09-05 22:56:56+00:00
The shameful part is that the only thing that even remotely (no pun intended) needs a server to even be online, is the out-of-home control, just for NAT traversal. It should be free to Google for these to have at least in-home smart functionality forever.

Well, that, and the moving target of updating an "app" every year for all the breaking changes Google and (especially) Apple do to the mobile OS. Although honestly I'd rather have a QR code that links you to a PWA hosted on the thermostat itself.
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-09-05 22:57:10+00:00
I used to bike about 3 and 1/2 mi to work and back.

This was right in the middle of a major city. It was so nice to just basically not have to deal with traffic. I was faster than cars at that point.

I never got a fat tire enough to do the snow, so I would ride until I absolutely couldn't anymore. If it was 15° or Fahrenheit or less, I'd still ride. I would just bundle up like I was skiing.

It was a pretty small office, so I could just roll my bike up to my cube and leave it in there.

And when it was lunch I could go further faster.

Modern e bikes are even better. Commute farther, carry more stuff, sweat less, hills/headwinds don't matter.

There should be so much more bicycle commuting these days with e-bikes.

Rain does suck though.
by WaltPurvis | 2025-09-05 22:58:17+00:00
I believe Tesla bulls are banking on robots, robo-taxis, and other products. Surely nobody believes Tesla's consumer car business is poised to grow. (Given the history of under-delivering, etc., I wouldn't bet on Tesla dominating robotics or any other field, but as I understand it, this incentive package has no particular downside for shareholders.)
by vb-8448 | 2025-09-05 22:58:29+00:00
It depends, if you have to retrain existing models using new data(basically updating the cutoff date) it will cost you much less than today ... and I'm pretty sure today they are aiming for speed and "intelligence improvement" and not training efficiency.

The only scenario where the training cost won't decrease is in case the limit of the scaling law is not yet reached, or they discover new approaches. But from what we have seen this year, it doesn't seem to be the case.

PS: Plus, we are still not speaking about the elephant in the room: ads. Today's revenues are basically from API usage and subscription, but we all know that at some point ads will come in, and the revenues will increase.
by kennywinker | 2025-09-05 22:58:33+00:00
I’m almost certain that anybody arrested yesterday who turns out to be working illegally will not be a direct employee of hyundai. It’ll be sub-contractors and sub sub contractors.

So yeah, doing business in the US sucks. Crooked US companies hire illegal workers to bump their margins, work gets stopped, you get blamed, a bunch of legal workers go to jail for a bit, a bunch of undocumented workers get deported, and nobody in charge of hiring at the US contractors experiences any kind of accountability. Win for USA tho?
by spchampion2 | 2025-09-05 22:58:43+00:00
Judging from the comments I've seen, nobody believes this because RFK has completely shot his credibility, and I don't blame them either.

But it turns out there may actually be some emerging evidence to support this. This recent Harvard meta-analysis [1] from just last month looked at 46 different studies and suggested that there may actually be something happening here although it's not conclusive. Correlation but not yet causation.

Nobody should be making policy on this yet, but it's the kind of thing that I would allocate some research dollars to if I hadn't just fired all of the competent researchers.

1 - https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/using-acetaminophen-during-pre...