MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gtsop | 2025-10-26 16:56:38+00:00
> To some engineers this is a bitter lesson, they chose to be engineers precisely because they don’t want to manage. AI inside one IDE will only get you so far though, so you start a second IDE and a third.

No, we chose to be engineers because someone has to actually do work and deliver stuff while everyone plays with the new toy.

Here is the question that no hype-driving AI coding enthusiast has answered so far on HN, or anywhere: Show us what what did you build in 3 months that we would have built in 3 years?

I still haven't got anyone to answer this, maybe this will be a first.
by crazygringo | 2025-10-26 16:56:46+00:00
It strikes me as more unreasonable for you to demand that companies to give you things for free. Honestly, it strikes me as some kind of feeling of entitlement, and I don't know what you think justifies that.

And if you're paying them a monthly subscription for iCloud storage or Apple TV or something, I don't see what that has to do with a Maps. You don't get Apple TV for free if you pay for iCloud either. Different services are different services.

Do you think restaurants should just always give you a free appetizer every time you walk in because sometimes you order entrees there?
by almaira | 2025-10-26 16:57:14+00:00
I've been looking for this too. It seems to me as though all the ide's are trying to sell the llms as a service or trying to lock you in by downloading llms through their ide. I have been downloading llm's from huggingface as gguf files and would like to use those downloads (and running them through https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui). It is possible to run those llms as a local api using something like llama-cpp-python (https://pypi.org/project/llama-cpp-python/) and would prefer to use something like that method. Zed (https://zed.dev/), which is now available on windows might be able to do it, but i'd rather use something (foss) that doesn't have a pricing model (the development focus will always be upon those who pay). tbh i'm getting a bit sick of changing ide's, as their support changes, and really would prefer not to use (microsoft) visual studio code which seems to be cornering the market. Starting to think i'm going to try to learn emacs, with https://github.com/karthink/gptel looking as if it would meet my needs.
by cogman10 | 2025-10-26 16:57:38+00:00
It's not clickbait. The article provides exactly what it says.

The only debatable part is that it's not all of Africa. But otherwise it's a very accurate description of the whole article.

Clickbait is "You won't believe the art that came out of this continent!" or "Look at the wild things artists did to attract an audience!".
by kakacik | 2025-10-26 16:57:39+00:00
I never claimed I live a perfect life, but I am trying my best and calling things proper names, even if they are ugly and harmful (in my opinion) yet feel good. Too much time spent in HN comments can be harmful too obviously, mind easily falls for addictive behavioral patterns. Although for me its probably best really good usable information from all aspects of life gained vs time spent ratio for all discussed. And spending 0-30 mins daily, usually during work, commute or similar empty time rather than reading some outrage-filled news is something I am fine with.

Is what I describe so unreachable for you that you make your words make sound... unkind?

I am also doing these passions while helping raising 2 small kids: hiking, sport climbing, via ferratas, skiing, ski touring, diving, and recently abandoned paragliding due to brushing death in pretty bad accident. Those take way more time and effort than coming here. I spend almost 0 time in front of TV, don't have consoles, play like 1 game per 2 years, offline and on desktop PC only (last one was Baldur's Gate 3).
by Spivak | 2025-10-26 16:57:49+00:00
The total number of clusters. Determining this algorithmically is a fun open problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determining_the_number_of_clus....

For the data I work with at $dayjob I've found the Silhouette algorithm to perform best but I assume it will be extremely field specific. Clustering your data and taking a representative sample of each cluster is such a powerful trick to make big data small but finding an appropriate K is an art more than a science.
by Azelphur | 2025-10-26 16:58:00+00:00
First off disclaimer, I'm one of the people Hypfer has banned/abused, I'm also a friend of Raptors.

I agree with you that open source developers face harassment, I've seen it happen myself. But, in this case, things are the other way around. Hypfers behavior is awful, there are threads full of of people on reddit that Hypfer has been rude / abusive to. There's an entire discord server with 85 members and counting, the majority of which have been on the receiving end of harassment and just want to talk vacuum modding. Don't believe me? search "site:reddit.com hypfer" on Google and start reading, there's piles of it. Running an open source project does not entitle you to abuse people. There's no other open source project that I can say "just chuck site:reddit.com <developers name> into Google and start reading, you'll find them harassing people."

Of course, I'm also a victim. They accused me of gaslighting them, told me I was stupid, banned me and then spent days after ridiculing me in the Telegram group with thousands of members. I saw screenshots likening educating me to taking a 4 year old to university, and another saying something akin to "I pity the spouses of the people I've banned here", while also playing the "woe is me" card claiming that I asked them to implement HTTPS support when I explicitly stated the opposite. This stuff is extremely clear harassment. To be clear, I did nothing to provoke this behavior, I was asked why I thought HTTPS support on the robot was a good idea, I explained, got banned because Hypfer didn't agree. Hypfer then wrote a FAQ on the subject. Any engineer well versed on the topic would tell you the majority of the stuff in the FAQ entry is wrong.

Since my ban, I've learned that my story is a common theme, users will join the telegram for support and ask questions, only to be abused, banned, and then publicly ridiculed for days afterwards. Even more clear cut things like "Docs say that if X happens I should ask on the Telegram group, I did and immediately got banned". I've received countless messages from users who have been on the receiving end of this harassment.

This situation makes for a terrible example of harassment open source developers face, because in this specific case, there's more harassment towards the users than from them. If you want a nicer example, I'd suggest going and looking at the Jellyfin devs or something, they definitely receive their fair share of unwarranted shots from users.
by thisisit | 2025-10-26 16:58:10+00:00
> That opens up greater margin for local production.

It opens up a larger profit margin for local producers for sure. Production? Maybe. Maybe not. Because there is no incentive to produce more or better. Because the cheap bad faith actor is gone and prices can now match the export price or be just slightly below it.

>but the effect of outsourcing to bad faith actors has pushed the working class out of balance, they simply have no way of competing internationally unless by accepting a step downgrade in working and living conditions

> What you see as customer paying more is cause by government letting this shit go on for too long, and now the correction is ugly. But it not like its not needed, and at some point needs to happen before it reaches the breaking point.

You don't seem to see the contradictions in both these statements. If the prices go up and working class isn't paid as much for their effort then it is for naught. The failure hasn't been to continue outsourcing, failure has been to improve wage conditions - because market was supposed to correct it or worst case it is "socialism" to even try and raise wages.

But as always people want to test economic theories for themselves and they should. See if their lives improve under a capitalist government which is going to trample on their rights.
by brettatoms | 2025-10-26 16:58:11+00:00
I created Clojure Land. The idea is to be more comprehensive than curated and to be able to discover rather than recommend any particular project.

If a repo has been archived on GitHub then I do show a lock icon on the card. Some projects that have been completely abandoned have been hidden from the list but I've been reluctant to be the gatekeeper of what projects should be removed. I was kind of hoping that if a project owner considered their project dead then they would create a PR against the Clojure Land repo to remove or hide the project from the list.

Most of the tags came from the sections on https://www.clojure-toolbox.com/ and I'll admit they are a bit arbitrary and I would happily accept any help to make them better organized.

As always, PRs are welcome: https://github.com/brettatoms/clojure.land
by TechSquidTV | 2025-10-26 16:59:00+00:00
I pirated for many years until Netflix had everything when I was in high school. Roughly around the time I got a job I stopped pirating games and bought everything on Steam. There is still some annoyance with other launchers besides Steam but, I endure.

Its been a long time now but probably around when South Park left Netflix, I started pirating again. Now I have a massive Plex server and home lab dedicated to piracy. AND I STILL PAY ~$20/m for Usenet lol.
by btilly | 2025-10-26 16:59:05+00:00
From that article, I can tell that there are farmers, and farmer groups, who are pissed off for good reason. But Trump carried rural counties by 93%. Given how well his general polls have held up, I am highly dubious that most farmers in most rural counties have turned against him.

Given the way that all media (across the spectrum) have been slipping, I will not take any story based on anecdote as indicative of anything other than the biases of the one selecting the anecdotes. Give me a poll. And the polling shows that his base is strong.
by paul7986 | 2025-10-26 16:59:18+00:00
Yeah past few years 95% of all the content I watch is through YouTube. All the studios just need to put 50% or more their content on there! I haven't subscribed to any streaming service in a few years. YouTube is free on my Roku TV, through Firefox on my TV/Mac Mini set up (wireless mouse as remote) and on my phone.
by dontlaugh | 2025-10-26 16:59:28+00:00
I paid for hardware advertised to run Maps without ads. I am literally entitled to that. Apple makes plenty of money on hardware for that to be a minor expense compared to their profits.

If they were really greedy, they could require a subscription for Maps. I might even accept that.

I will not accept ads. I paid quite a lot extra specifically to avoid ads.
by mgh2 | 2025-10-26 16:59:51+00:00
Wouldn't mind if they are not intrusive in user flow while using the app, unless the user intentionally search for it, they should not be shown unsolicited. It could also be a cool feature if businesses show deals to get customers in the door, turning the experience like a treasure hunt.

Google Maps sometimes shows ads while searching for a bike route, which can be dangerous when on the move. These are unsolicited. Hope Apple can design advertising the right way without violating user experience.
by gjm11 | 2025-10-26 17:00:49+00:00
The text claims "Always at least one exploding head" and the number of exploding heads in the 20 posters shown is zero. It lists a number of "favourites from the genre" not one of which is actually shown. The text, as you might surmise from the previous two points, has the definite scent of LLMs about it.

The net effect of this is that, while I can look at the pictures and admire them (if that's the word) I have no idea whether I can trust anything in the actual text, since any given claim might just be an LLM confabulation.

(Which is too bad, since on the face of it it seems quite interesting, and probably many of the things the LLM has generated are in fact true.)

Less of this, please.
by kakacik | 2025-10-26 17:01:22+00:00
Look, there are way more harmful ways to spend time than those creative games you mention. It can be even net positive for many, especially compared to more mind numbing activities.

I just hate seeing them in hands of kids who should get development pressures from anything but glowing interactive screens, and generally folks who form addictions very easily (I am simply on the opposite side for whatever reason, when comparing to many peers in various drugs but also general mental habits... but I feel if I fell for it hard enough my defenses would weaken across the board, probably permanently).
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-26 17:01:27+00:00
> Even if you subscribed to them all you'd still not have everything

And even if you could get all the video itself, it's not guaranteed you'd get the right video+audio+subtitles combination that you want, as everything seems to be negotiated separately.

So while one service could offer the right audio and the right video but not the subtitles you want, another service could have the right video and the right subtitles but instead be dubbed without original audio.

It became a whole mess for people and eventually it was again simpler to just resort to piracy for the even the slightly technical consumers.
by zkmon | 2025-10-26 17:01:35+00:00
Monopolistic online platforms such as amazon, youtube, netflix arise due to quantum nature of the internet. Lack of spatial location. lack of time duration, lack of distance, instant multiplicity with identical copies are all quantum things attributable to information at speed of light. For life on Earth, locations, distances, time durations, lack exact copies are natural. So Internet directly interfers with everything that is natural. Platforms like Amazon can spawn millions of virtual workers attending to the needs of every customer. This conflicts with natural limitations of traditional businesses and thus destroys decentralization and localization that is vital to human life.
by crazygringo | 2025-10-26 17:02:09+00:00
> I paid for hardware advertised to run Maps without ads.

Show me where their advertising says their hardware runs Maps without ads, where they make that claim. Because I've certainly never seen it.

Again, you know Apple Maps works on web browsers too? It's not only for Apple devices. You don't need to pay Apple a dime.

I really don't know what contract you're imagining where you think you've "paid quite a lot extra specifically" to Apple and they promised you no ads in Maps in exchange.
by lysace | 2025-10-26 17:02:17+00:00
I heard that both sides of the ongoing civil war (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar_civil_war_(2021%E2%80%...) work with these criminal organizations to secure foreign revenue for weapons purchases - but that it is primarily a junta-driven thing.

And that the people running them come from PRC Chinese organized crime (triads).
by im3w1l | 2025-10-26 17:02:36+00:00
It's ironic that even when the subject is resistance you are looking for a master to tell you what to do. If you want to be free there must be a choice and for there to be a choice there must alternatives.

How *could* we have resisted? What were our options?

This is not just a theorethical complaint. I think there were in practice many different things you (in the plural sense) could have done that could have worked adequately. Too many things to list here, you can look up how other people protested in the past.
by pengaru | 2025-10-26 17:03:07+00:00
It's true... but such an awful double edged sword.

I have quite a bit of experience as an auto mechanic, and love using youtube to find footage of something I'm considering doing or some item I'm considering buying. Just the effort+time savings alone is a game changer. Previously I would download FSMs for something I was considering acquiring to see what it's really like to work on / maintain / something of the internals, to minimize risk of buyer's remorse.

However, most the videos I find of people DIYing things are utter trash when it comes to actual guidance. The readily available footage of internals and failure modes is super valuable, but most these videos will do more harm than good when actually listened to. It's a whole lot of the blind leading the deaf. And the youtubers generally speak authoritatively about things they're clearly doing incorrectly to anyone experienced.

We had the same problem in the web forums era, but the conveniently accessible instructional video format strikes me as far more problematic. At least in the web forums it was entirely a conversational text format, so you were already in the context of reading comments, and the discussion would usually call out idiots immediately front and center. In the youtube videos, especially viewed on mobile, the comments are something you must seek out past the ads, must mode switch from watching tv to reading something, and are usually filled with morons anyways.
by jll29 | 2025-10-26 17:03:34+00:00
This is a good point.

I paid many movies on iTunes, and there's no way to access that content anymore, certaily not from my Linux (main) machines.

Also, people who "bought" 1984 on Amazon only to see it disappear from their Kindle will not have been amused.

Nobody likes to have things they spend money on cluttered across 20+ services with changing subscription fees and licensing terms. It's a mess.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-26 17:04:03+00:00
Let me pay $0.1 for each episode I watch, make everything available and route to the right entity that should be paid and then offer one cross-platform client that everyone pooled their efforts into. And since we're dreaming, make it a open collaboration with a FOSS client too.

I'd predict most of the piracy would again disappear quickly as long as it's better, faster and has virtually everything people wanna watch. Basically replicate what Spotify did, but more open, so closer to what Grooveshark tried to do I guess.
by pstuart | 2025-10-26 17:04:22+00:00
I think that's a fait accompli -- it's merely a matter of who has access to the data.

The funny thing is that the clear anti-democratic leanings of our technolords are based upon not trusting the vote of the masses has unfortunately been somewhat validated (case in point: the current admin). There's just one small problem: the technolords themselves have only one vision and skill: enshittification in the quest of personal enrichment.

China has a very scary model of societal control, but at least they know how to invest in the country as a whole.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-10-26 17:04:37+00:00
> People would install 10-20kW worth of solar, overproduced massive amounts of energy in the summer and then in coldest part of winter (with heat pump COP dropping below 2), people expected to draw 4-10kW of power for heating and pay close to nothing all year round.

So this is more or less the exact same position that I'm in in northern New Mexico. We have 6.7kW of ground mount PV; we generate roughly 3x what we need in the summer, and roughly 1/3 of what we need in the winter (air source heat pumps for heat). Overall generation is close to 100% of our annual use.

In some ways I agree with the analysis but there are some mitigating factors. We live in an old adobe home that requires almost zero cooling during summer. For better or for worse, most new construction in the area is stick frame wood construction which even with reasonable insulation requires cooling during the summer. Guess who provides the power for that?

New Mexico is in a good position to combine solar PV with wind and be able to meet base load demand more or less continuously. It likely requires storage facilities that are on the order of 5-7 days of load, which would be enough to bridge most gaps in generation.

Our local utility actually provided two options for metering: one was what you're calling net metering, the other was credits for surplus on a monthly basis, with the credits generally being priced slightly below the purchase cost for the same energy. I would have been happy with either - the latter is perhaps fairer. However, they also stipulated that if you took credits, they could claim your PV as part of their own PV-adoption goals. So we took net metering instead.
by goodthink | 2025-10-26 17:05:19+00:00
Three score and seven years old. How old are you? Good insane or bad? lol I can't infer it from the comment. Here are links to my 3D, multiuser, "coin-toss as a service" apps: https://chalculator.com/gaas/?world=cutcards https://chalculator.com/gaas/?world=diceroll User: croquet Pas: yadayadayada

Let the bot scraping begin.

(These were the impetus for the BA strategy. Some of the assets are large. And they were getting downloaded A LOT. Not anymore.)
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-10-26 17:05:21+00:00
That’s why we drastically limit collection of PII.

It really seems to be unusual, for folks to limit data collection. I’m always surprised, when folks seem surprised at how little we collect (and we don't actually "collect" the data, as it never leaves the server, and we don't really do anything with the bit we have. It's just enough to give the user a unique ID, and allow other users to anonymously contact them).

It does make administration and forensics a bit more challenging, but that’s our problem; not the user’s.
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-26 17:06:35+00:00
> probably around when South Park left Netflix, I started pirating again

Unrelated, but fun example as South Park is probably the only show on TV that also let people watch the entire show (-latest seasons it seems) for free online! https://www.southparkstudios.com/seasons/south-park

Been like that (in many places) for many many years at this point too :)
by captainkrtek | 2025-10-26 17:06:49+00:00
The cycle of:

Cable TV

Cable TV with a million add-on packages, eg: “oh you want to watch hockey? Thats extra. Oh you want this channel too? Different add-on”

A couple streaming services

Tons of streaming services with a mess of territorial ownership, eg: Thursday night football on Amazon, other games on different services.

We just took the cable + tons of packages model and instead ended up with a ton of services.

These days I just have HBO, Netflix, and pay for ESPN for Hockey, and even those 3 feel ridiculous. I can see why piracy is easier and more appealings
by CaptainOfCoit | 2025-10-26 17:07:55+00:00
> I bet if something like that happened, it'd quickly soar to $0.2 an episode in the next year, then slowly creep up more and more

Yeah probably, until they find the point where more people leave because it's too expensive than they'll earn by raising prices, then they'll oscillate or find a new direction. Isn't that how capitalism is supposed to work?
by jeffbee | 2025-10-26 17:09:36+00:00
I have to say this tells us more about you than it says about Google. I never see such recommendations. The theories that I would look into if this were happening to me, which I reiterate it certainly is not, would be in the following order: perhaps you've installed an extension that is inserting content into your life; you are using anonymization techniques that mix your identity with that of other people who are interested in such content; you share a household with such people; you watch content that you do not realize is associated with right-wing content.