MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anonnon | 2025-11-18 04:17:22+00:00
> The Bill Clinton entity is interesting.

Not really. After Epstein got convicted in 2008, he set about trying to rehabilitate his image, to be seen as a philanthropist, a patron of science, and (perversely) a supporter of women and girls. He hired reputation management consultants to help carry out the project, with one of the models they used being Mike Milken (of Drexel infamy), who ultimately secured a pardon from Trump. A lot of prominent people, knowingly or not, served as "useful idiots" in this project, often due to financial incentives that were not wholly selfish. For example, the MIT and Harvard scientists whose labs and research he funded, and who visited his island for science-themed retreats. Clinton was probably another of Epstein's useful idiots, being lured in through his Clinton Global Initiative and the promise that Epstein, with his ample wealth, could help greatly expand it.
by ranger207 | 2025-11-18 04:18:12+00:00
If your config language doesn't have its own control flow then it's going to get a meta layer added on with control flow. Like, what do you do if this service has a different hostname in staging versus prod? Or connects to a different DB, or whatever. Either have one template file and give it a values file when you go to deploy it, or have two fully-written out files... which becomes annoying when you have to make sure you keep them in sync across two or more environments, often leading to a hacked on and poorly implemented templating system anyway (eg, Helm)
by slater | 2025-11-18 04:18:27+00:00
> Keep on telling yourself that

I will!

> data doesn’t lie

$5 sez you have some data that just so happens to confirm your biases, and i bet there's also some data that says masking actually did help. Utterly pointless arguing this nonsense, in the end it always just turns out to be speed-runs to some tedious conspiracy theories.
by maest | 2025-11-18 04:20:11+00:00
> I try to grab an outside shopping cart to leave the world slightly less chaotic than when I entered; which is all we can do in life, perhaps

I lived in several European countries for many years. I then moved to the US a few years ago.

The US strikes me as a less civilised country, in the sense that people, on average don't return the shopping cart. In the first year after I moved, I kept returning the shopping cart, but, after seeing many others not do it, I stopped. I stopped even though I agree it is the right thing to do because I felt like a fool every time I did it. Other people decided their time is too important to return the cart, so why should I be the sucker who does it?

This isn't the only example of uncivilised behaviour I've noticed in the US. Here are other examples: bypassing a long queue of cars only to merge into the lane at the last possible second, skipping red lights if no cars are around, stopping in the middle of the sidewalk and forcing other to walk around me, not saying "you're welcome", not giving up my seat on public transportation to e.g. old people, littering.

Every time I see someone break these markers of civilised society, makes me less likely to abide by them next time.
by mindslight | 2025-11-18 04:20:11+00:00
The incoherence is not with itself, but rather failing to address the messy realities of the real world. Like kids wanting to satiate themselves with easy dopamine hits before having self-discipline or work ethic that makes them seek out harder things.

The 80% figure I meant is not that I think this is applicable to 80% "of learning" or something, but rather trying to convey to you that I greatly sympathize with where you seem to be coming from. I'm mostly self-taught as well, even in college my classes were basically spent reading ahead the next chapter in the textbook to occupy my interest (and doing homework due in my next class), while half-listening to the lecture to confirm what I already knew (from reading ahead the previous class).

But still I think it would be naive to assume that all kids can do without most structure.
by adastra22 | 2025-11-18 04:20:25+00:00
This is well known and studied. I’ve produced and field tested an alternative, close to optimal adjustment algorithm and the code for a soft-fork transition. This could enable a set of miners to get “pre-agreement” on transaction ordering in an out of band forward block chain while they work to fight down the difficulty of the old chain.

https://freico.in/forward-blocks-scalingbitcoin-paper.pdf
by shrinks99 | 2025-11-18 04:20:46+00:00
What a bummer. It seems like what they're asking for here (a written agreement that users will be able to access 3rd party app stores) would be a win win win for Core Devices, Rebble, and users. Core Devices gets to look like a super good guy (ideally driving interest in the product), Rebble gets to look like a huge winner maintaining something for the community (as they are), and users get an open ecosystem.

There's still a chance for a win here, but looks like the door is closing.
by Vexs | 2025-11-18 04:20:58+00:00
I don't think _anyone_ who's buying the new pebble watches is to some degree not interested in software, and probably pretty interested in open-source community work. It's a wildly niche userbase, and this sort of thing is going to put crazy pressure on Eric and co, I imagine.

Still keeping my preorder, but damn dude this kinda sucks.
by intended | 2025-11-18 04:21:06+00:00
The “trick” you are referring to, requires you to care about other people in the first place.

As I recall, the section this came up was when they were coaching.

This does feel like another instance of how people have a deep instinctual grasp of social interactions, but a shallow ability to articulate the moving parts in detail.

I think the analogy was “everyone know how to use the flush, but they can’t explain the mechanisms behind it”
by itishappy | 2025-11-18 04:21:22+00:00
Oh, I still feel a bit high. Particularly when I start taking them after a hiatus. Or up the dose.

Anyway, here's what Huxley's had to say:

> ... I have talked to pharmacologists about this matter, and a number of them say that it’s probably quite possible that it may be possible to, by pharmacological means, which will do no harm to the organism as a whole, to increase the span of attention, to increase the powers of concentration, perhaps to cut down on the necessity for sleep, and the various other things which may lead to a very considerable increase in general mental efficiency.

No high mentioned. Remarkably accurate to my experience.
by abhorrence | 2025-11-18 04:21:28+00:00
I'm torn here. I love that Rebble folks have kept things alive. I also love that Eric underwent the effort to make new hardware.

I'm also a bit sad that this is the first we're hearing of this tension, because it likely would've changed my decision to purchase a new Core 2 Duo watch, and I would've preferred this sort of falling out happen before a lot of devices have been purchased.
by sandspar | 2025-11-18 04:21:33+00:00
Having social power is like owning a gun. Yes it's nice to have it and not use it. But there's often a temptation to use it. And if you use it incorrectly then someone can get hurt.

You spend years honing your skill with a weapon and then you stop using it.

The hard part is feeling like your weapon isn't being used. But you need to accept that disuse can be good. Otherwise you end up hurting people.

Basically, don't treat people like toys.

The author's next step will probably be to find places where he can go at full speed. Perhaps grief counseling, the clergy, hospice visits, or something along those lines.
by spijdar | 2025-11-18 04:22:17+00:00
That settings menu gives you two relevant options:

1. The ability to delete specific conversations,

2. The ability to not use "conversation memory" at all.

It doesn't provide the ability to forget specific details that might be spread over multiple conversations, including details it will explicitly not tell you about, while still remembering. That's the point -- not that it's using summaries of user conversations for memory purposes (which is explicitly communicated), but that if you tell it "Forget about <X>", it will feign compliance, without actually removing that data. Your only "real" options are all-or-nothing: have no memories at all, or have all your conversations collated into an opaque `user_context` which you have no insight or control over.

That's the weird part. Obviously, Google is storing copies of all conversations (unless you disable history altogether). That's expected. What I don't expect is this strange inclusion of "prohibited" or "deleted" data within the system prompt of every new conversation.
by m463 | 2025-11-18 04:22:31+00:00
Looks like it went from Apache license to dual AGPLv3 and commercial.

I think apache is fine for commercial use.

It seems to me the terms of the apache license weren't followed? In there it says to include the apache license file, not throw it away.

(I am not a lawyer)

AGPLv3 seems decent - if you run it on a server, the users of that server can get the software I think.
by Terr_ | 2025-11-18 04:22:53+00:00
I think there are two factors:

1. "Help customers buy crap" is one of the vaguely plausible use-cases which excite investors who see the ads, even if it isn't so exciting for actual customers.

2. The ideas seem sourced from some brain-trust of idle-rich, rather than from the average US consumer. Regardless of how the characters in the ads are presented, all of them are somehow able to prefer saving 60 seconds even if it means maybe losing $60 on a dumb purchase or a non-refundable reservation at the wrong restaurant, etc.
by zdc1 | 2025-11-18 04:22:56+00:00
I would also add that people generally try too hard with small talk. It's SMALL talk. Tell them about the new brand of jam you put on your toast this breakfast. Ask them what they had for breakfast. Or recount your last trip to the grocery store.

Trying too hard kills the fun of the interaction. You're really just getting a ball rolling. Who cares where it starts, just see where it goes.

Also, as TFA also mentioned, it's not what you say but how you say it. >80% of the value of the interaction is just (non-verbally) showing you're happy that they're there.
by wnevets | 2025-11-18 04:23:10+00:00
> So why? Like why would someone pay to take a game down?

esports gambling and winning tournaments is big business.

> During the Fortnite Championship Series finals, a pair of pro players may have utilized denial of service attacks to disadvantage contesters [1]

[1] https://fortnitetracker.com/article/1087/ddos-scandal-from-c...
by viraptor | 2025-11-18 04:23:14+00:00
SIP is the right protocol. I'm just saying you don't need a SIP library, but a SIP proxy/server. In a similar way that when you want to handle some web requests you want for example Apache and not LibHTTP.

OpenSIPS will do what you need. But configuring it requires a bit of reading. There's no easy way in the VoIP world unfortunately.
by frfl | 2025-11-18 04:23:55+00:00
Honestly I'm tried and didn't expect this thread to blow up like this.

People can use whatever they want. They're adults. I don't wanna debate. I just shared my random opinions.

If I had the choice, since I have a free Macbook laying around right now, I'd slap Linux on it and be happy - unfortunately doesn't look like Asahi Linux is quite ready yet for me to do so, few missing things. I ran Linux on a Intel Macbook (which I also didn't purchase, was given to me) for all of university and I was a happy camper.

That being said, would I buy a Mac voluntarily - nope. I'd rather buy a Thinkpad, install Linux, and I'm set for a decade honestly.
by lmm | 2025-11-18 04:24:34+00:00
That's an extremely weird way to think about it. The same logic applies to anyone doing any job - whatever money you spend on yourself could be spent saving lives instead, if you really want to think about it that way. There's no reason that people working for an effective charity should feel more guilty about their salaries than people working for any other job - if anything it's the opposite, since salaries usually do not reflect the full value of a person's work.
by cortesoft | 2025-11-18 04:24:46+00:00
Well, in order to be a notorious supporter of EA, you have to have enough money for your charity to be noticed, which means you are very rich. If you are very rich, it means you have to have made money from a capitalistic venture, and those are inherently exploitive.

So basically everyone who has a lot of money to donate has questionable morals already.

The question is, are the large donators to EA groups more or less 'morally suspect' than large donors to other charity types?

In other words, everyone with a lot of money is morally questionable, and EA donors are just a subset of that.
by ahmeneeroe-v2 | 2025-11-18 04:25:19+00:00
Don't presume too much about the US Navy's fleet decisions. Using that same logic you could presume that smaller, aged and poorly maintained fleets are advantageous for naval supremacy since that appears to be the choice of the US Navy for a couple generations now.

Or you could presume that the complete inability to build a merchant marine fleet was also a strategic advantage!
by userbinator | 2025-11-18 04:26:28+00:00
Maybe this is just me showing my age, but I don't understand why reinvent everything when you could just go back to something like HTML 2.0 or even 3.2 with some minor changes. I probably hate what happened with the "modern web" as much as the Gemini developers, but going full NIH is unlikely to be a good solution when there's an existing "unmodern web" to develop for, and as a bonus, can be experienced even with a modern browser.

Never underestimate interoperability.
Show HN: Waitinglist.to – Let Founders Focus on Building
by ivanramos | 2025-11-18 04:26:44+00:00
Built this so founders can focus on what matters: building.

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Features:

Unlimited projects Custom URLs for each waitinglist Email export (CSV)

Pricing: $49/year

Curious what HN thinks.

Any feedback welcome.
by windexh8er | 2025-11-18 04:28:26+00:00
Looks cool. Also looks like it's not self-hostable. Is that correct? For a tool like this I want to deploy it where I need it and (at least for me) a SaaS option is a deal breaker.

The only thing I've found similar to this as of late is AutoKitteh [0]. This looks like it is somewhat in the same competitive space, but with less features / flexibility. How would you say you compare and did it not fulfill the problem you originally had?

[0] https://autokitteh.com/
by Klaus23 | 2025-11-18 04:28:32+00:00
Once again, we have the situation where someone uses an Apache or BSD licence, only to then wonder why others do exactly what the licence allows. If you want others, especially companies, to play nice, you have to make them do so. Use GPL or AGPL.

Let's hope Rebble doesn't get steamrollered. They did good work when the original company failed its users.
by alterom | 2025-11-18 04:29:11+00:00
>youre very close to freeing yourself but the speed has an iron grip on your thoughts , i wish you all the best and hope that things may settle down

Oh my. I was going to ask if you've drank a glass of methanol to argue that Adderall and speed the same thing, as I suggested... but judging my the content of your comments, you might have had more than one already.
by cortesoft | 2025-11-18 04:29:14+00:00
Eh, I think my decades of experience writing my own code was necessary for me to develop the skills to be able to precisely tell the AI what to build, but I don't think I need to (always) write new code to know how to know what I need.

Now, if the thing I am building requires a technology I am not familiar with, I will spend some time reading and writing some simple test code to learn how it works, but once I understand it I can then let the AI build from scratch.

Of course, this does rely on the fact that I have years of coding experience that came prior to AI, and I do wonder how new coders can do it without putting in the work to learn how to build working software without AI before using AI.
by gruez | 2025-11-18 04:29:21+00:00
If the evidence is strong enough, sure. But as much as I like a "the elites are pedophiles" witchhunt, given that the Biden administration sat on it, it's probably safe to conclude the evidence isn't great. The Trump administration is trying to get another wack at it, but given their recent history of investigations, it's probably safe to conclude that's purely politically motivated than some cold case that got cracked.
by bigshik | 2025-11-18 04:29:37+00:00
Nice work—this hits a real pain point with Parquet. My main use case is debugging partitioned datasets on S3 with schema drift and skew, where I care about: which files/partitions have schema mismatches, weird row-group stats (all-null, out-of-range, huge skew), and doing that via metadata only.

Right now parqeye looks mainly single-file focused. Do you have plans for a “dataset mode” that takes a dir/S3 prefix and surfaces per-file/row-group summaries (row counts, min/max, null %, schema diffs vs a reference file) using just Parquet stats so it scales to tens of GB? Or do you see parqeye intentionally staying a single-file inspector?
by perihelions | 2025-11-18 04:29:40+00:00
You can examine their modern military maps; there's many of them (staged) in backgrounds of random KCNA photos. I.e. this "big board",

https://www.rferl.org/a/korea-evacuation-kim-/24951984.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/who-north-koreas-secretiv...

I don't know why one wouldn't expect their military to have modern cartography, in the internet era.
by itishappy | 2025-11-18 04:30:35+00:00
Not Soma! From a talk by Huxley:

> ... I have talked to pharmacologists about this matter, and a number of them say that it’s probably quite possible that it may be possible to, by pharmacological means, which will do no harm to the organism as a whole, to increase the span of attention, to increase the powers of concentration, perhaps to cut down on the necessity for sleep, and the various other things which may lead to a very considerable increase in general mental efficiency.

https://www.organism.earth/library/document/realizing-human-...
by TheAlchemist | 2025-11-18 04:30:40+00:00
It's mentionned in the article later:

"If you are old enough, or possessed of a certain kind of disposition, you may be thinking, Wait a minute, aren’t you describing Enron? And uh, in some sense, yes! Enron’s whole thing was special purpose vehicles with extremely speculative valuations that were used to take on debt, Luria notes. But Enron lied about what it was doing, and that’s fraud and illegal. (It also got up to other illegal stuff besides.) Nvidia’s relationship with CoreWeave is all happening in plain sight. So are all the relationships with the other neocloud companies. It kind of seems like the tech company version of the GameStop open pump-and-dump."

To answer your question - not unique to AI spending boom - this kind of things was right there for recent major bubbles.
by frfl | 2025-11-18 04:31:38+00:00
Well, guess you're married to Windows if those are your requirements. Proton runs most games these days[1] (but not all). Apparently older Windows app/games run better on Proton/Wine than Windows (better citation needed) [2].

[1]: https://www.protondb.com/explore

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1kjib0y/is_th...
by MathMonkeyMan | 2025-11-18 04:31:50+00:00
I don't know much about militaries or nuclear reactors, but I know that reactors are used in some submarines and in some aircraft carriers -- situations where you want a vessel to to remain at sea for long periods of time without refueling, and weight is not a primary concern.

That's pretty niche, though. Think about trucks, tanks, aircraft, generators for outposts, etc. It might be cool if you could safely package a zillion nuclear reactors for those use cases, Terminator style, but I'd guess that reactors are a better fit for centralized, permanent power generation.
by sgentle | 2025-11-18 04:31:57+00:00
Getting strong The Scorpion and the Frog vibes from this situation. Unfortunately, this is just the nature of a profit-maximising entity. Profit is the gap between how much it can take and how little it can give. It concedes nothing without a demand. Why would it?

The playbook isn't exactly a secret. What you might describe as a "classic walled garden enshittification trap", Peter Thiel and Sam Altman would describe as "monopoly (affectionate)": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REKbaA6USy4 – "proprietary technology, network effects, economies of scale", exactly by the book.

I think the bias towards optimism is commendable but I hope this is the wake-up call the community needs to treat "your love is valuable enough to build a business around" as the Faustian bargain it is and keep Core Devices on a short leash. They want to own you, not work with you. It's their nature.
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-18 04:33:46+00:00
> The ideas seem sourced from some brain-trust of idle-rich , rather than from the average US consumer

I think it says more about the economy currently. The "average US consumer" is the wealthy right now. Just 10% of the population, the highest earners, drive nearly 50% of consumption currently and that number is growing.

That is the new average US consumer, hence the ads and use cases targeting a more well-off demographic. Everyone else has been left behind.
by AlexandrB | 2025-11-18 04:35:24+00:00
Behind a NAT.

Can't remember a single problem with the described setup and I've been using the internet since dial-up was the only option available.

Getting hacked when you don't have any open ports (thanks to NAT) is and was pretty unlikely - what was more likely is some kind of drive-by exploit in Flash or IE. The biggest problem I experienced with old Windows was general instability in the form of BSODs and driver compatibility problems.
by dhx | 2025-11-18 04:35:33+00:00
Take for example Chongqing, China which is one of the world's cloudiest and most overcast cities[1]. Easily confirmed by lack of cloudless satellite imagery.[2] You could get the forecast correct most of the time by just assuming it will be cloudy.

What is more interesting for meteorological forecasting is the time-sensitive details such as:

1. We know severe storms will impact city X at approximately Ypm tomorrow. Will it include large hailstones? Severe and destructive downdraft / tornado? What path will the most damage occur and how much notice can we provide those in the path, even if it's just 30min before the storm arrives?

2. Large wildfire breaks out near city X and is starting to form its own weather patterns.[3] What's the possible scenarios for fire tornadoes, lightning, etc to be formed and when/where? Will the wind direction change more likely happen at Ypm or Y+2pm?

I'm skeptical that AI models would excel in these areas because of the time sensitivity of input data as well as the general lack of accurate input data (impacting human analysis too).

Maybe AI models would be better than humans at making longer term climate predictions such as "If [particular type of ENSO/IOD/etc event] is occurring, the number of cloudy days in [city] is expected to be [quantity]/month in [month] versus [quantity2]/month if the event was not occurring." It's not that humans would be unable to arrive at these type of results -- just that it would be tedious and resource intensive to do so.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_sunshine_dur...

[2] https://imagehunter.apollomapping.com/search/90e4893eeeaa48a...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulonimbus_flammagenitus