MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by FireBeyond | 2025-11-21 04:40:27+00:00
> Seems like an innocent judgement isnt everything we think it is.

The State of Florida will charge you $75/day for your incarceration, even if charges are dropped, dismissed or you are found not guilty.

Not paying these fees is a Class C Felony in Florida, punishable by up to 10y in prison and/or a $10,000 fine.
Show HN: Tablecraft – instant in-browser table converter/exporter
by tultra | 2025-11-21 04:40:40+00:00
I needed something simple to convert small tables back and forth between CSV, Markdown, JSON while debugging scripts, writing docs, or answering Slack messages. Nothing quite fit (most tools are either huge Electron apps or too limited/complex), so I built Tablecraft.

1) Paste any of the supported formats (or start empty)

2) Live preview + light editing (tab to navigate cells, create new rows, etc.)

3) One-click export to CSV, Markdown table, JSON (array-of-arrays or header + rows), or PNG (pixel-perfectish)

It’s deliberately minimal and very much an MVP (some rough edges, mobile support is “works but ugly”, missing features). Still deciding whether to open-source it.

https://www.tablecraft.dev (propagating...)

Feedback/curses/feature ideas very welcome—especially if you actually find yourself using it.
by sneak | 2025-11-21 04:41:02+00:00
> While this has left a long tail of inconveniences, many resolved and some not, I am very confident that using 1 app on my iPhone/iPad will not leak data to another in any case that I am likely to care about as a non-significantly interesting person (political figure, etc).

Log in to YouTube with one Google account. Log in to Google Drive with a different one.

Google knows that both accounts are owned by the same person, because Apple lets Google's apps access the data of the others on the same system.
by HeinzStuckeIt | 2025-11-21 04:41:03+00:00
Strangely, The Far Side is even known here and there on the European continent in translation, even though so many of the jokes depend on English puns that the translators don’t even attempt to work with. The result is weird and inexplicable, but that creates a humor of its own, even if it is different from what Gary Larson intended.
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-21 04:42:09+00:00
I don't necessarily think so. It doesn't have to be this way. The problem is big tech doesn't have any incentive to compete to make the best product because there's no market pressure to do so.

We've failed, over the past ~25+ years to do any meaningful trust busting and allowed monopolies and duopolies to abuse their market positions and destroy any potential competitors.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-11-21 04:42:13+00:00
>They notably do not talk about modifying the systems of governance that have prevented us from accomplishing those goals,

All the Democrat led states have passed a law to change presidential votes to popular vote:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta...

And there isn't much Dems can do about the disproportionate power of a few states due to the Senate, except for start a Civil War.
by brokenmachine | 2025-11-21 04:42:26+00:00
LLMs do not have the ability to make decisions and they don't even have any awareness of the veracity of the tokens they are responding with.

They are useful for certain tasks, but have no inherent intelligence.

There is also no guarantee that they will improve, as can be seen by ChatGPT5 doing worse than ChatGPT4 by some metrics.

Increasing an AI's training data and model size does not automatically eliminate hallucinations, and can sometimes worsen them, and can also make the errors and hallucinations it makes both more confident and more complex.

Overstating their abilities just continues the hype train.
by locknitpicker | 2025-11-21 04:45:02+00:00
> I know a few local people who have only been impacted for the first time by regulations preventing the sale of vapes, and local regulations preventing the resale of used tyres to motorsport enthusiasts. Its the first spark for a lot of people.

Please point out what regulations you speak of, and why they are in place.

For example, vape pen regulation imposes requirements such as maximum nicotine concentration and minimum acceptable purity, and must be child-resistant. Regulation prevents you from trying to sell hazardous vape pens that can and will pose a health risk. What spark does this fire in you?

Or would you prefer to blindly resell things that harm the people around you without being bothered about consequences?
by tyg13 | 2025-11-21 04:45:05+00:00
If you live in a jurisdiction where there is a speed limit enforced by law, you likely have driven above it at some point. By definition, this is a violation of the law. Yet you have observed that you have never been arrested (perhaps never even ticketed?) as a result of this. Is this a logical contradiction? Obviously not. The law isn't always enforced, and not every violation of the law is punished.

I can't speak for where you live, but in America, there are many, many traffic laws. They differ greatly by jurisdiction. Most of them are not enforced. Sometimes explicitly -- for example, in my city, they recently announced they would no longer detain people for specific minor traffic violations -- but usually, it's implicit which go unpunished. It's also selective. By creating an unseen web of violations, the detaining officer is given all the necessary tools to make each stop as painful or as peaceful as they'd like.
by RVuRnvbM2e | 2025-11-21 04:46:35+00:00
This is analogous to calling unix account separation "fragmentation". Why can't I just run all my services as root? It has worked for years!?

The answer is that it is a fragile, unmaintainable security nightmare.

Wayland has separation of concerns to fix that problem, with the tradeoffs described in the blog post.
by m0llusk | 2025-11-21 04:46:52+00:00
> We need a ...

Here's were he loses me. The problem statement is detailed, but proposed solutions need more work. There must be ways to improve the system without abandoning the original intent. There may be way to account for costs, simplify reviews, and so on. Often changing regulations to have specific goals and sunset provisions changes enforcement for the better. Sometimes basic changes like the amount of time allowed for any given step can make a huge difference.

Solving regulatory problems is as real as the engineering and marketing that make products in the first place.
by rootusrootus | 2025-11-21 04:47:12+00:00
AFAIK that is not correct. They are issued by the government. Required by the government to be displayed on the car if you are driving on public roads. But the plate is not physically owned by the government. The biggest distinction seems to be that in some states it becomes part of the car, and in other states it stays with the driver when ownership of the car changes hands (or the owner of the car can choose either option when selling the car).

As an aside, these days I am guessing the latter is the truth in most states. So many specialty and personalized plate options out there that people are going to want to keep for themselves.

Obviously the government does own a small number of plates, of course, because they attach them to government owned vehicles.
by abustamam | 2025-11-21 04:47:42+00:00
When I was pretty early in my career, I inherited a legacy project from the CTO who didn't want to maintain it anymore. We decided as a team that I'd just recreate the project with a modern tool chain.

A few weeks later, the CTO looked at my work and asked why it was missing xyz features from his legacy project, saying that if I'm gonna take a project and rewrite it, it better be at least as good as the old project.

It was a pretty good lesson for me to get early in my career, and I've carried it with me ever since. Don't break or rewrite that which already works.

It's evident that no one at Google ever got that lesson.

NB: I know Google definitely has other reasons for acquiring and killing off Bump — they were probably building a competing technology that was shitty and bump was doing it better and sooner than them so better to buy and kill than to make their own product better. But I think my the lesson from my anecdote still stands from a purely product point of view, and I feel like it should make business sense but apparently you can make bad micro business decisions as long as you can convince shareholders they were good macro business decisions.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-11-21 04:47:56+00:00
> The problem with your laissez-faire fundamentalism is that it ignores the fact that what these organizations claim to "actually trying to accomplish" is actually harmful and has considerable negative impact on society in general.

The article is about a company trying to make an electric "converter dolly" that improves the fuel efficiency of diesel trucks by essentially turning them into hybrids. What actual harm and considerable negative impact on society in general are you referring to in this context?

> Look at the way you chose to frame your fundamentalist opposition to regulation: "paying them to do things that don't make sense". Why do you think that preventing you from doing harm to society "don't make sense"? Is it too much of an inconvenience?

Suppose that there exist regulations that are ill considered or poorly drafted and require things that are not aligned with their ostensible purpose.

> What is not ok is to frame regulations as whimsical rentism from bureaucrats.

How about whimsical rentism from incumbents who want to exclude competitors or avaricious middlemen who want their services to be expensive and mandatory, and capture the regulators to make that happen?

> Why is this all necessary? Because said organizations already have a long track record of causing that very harm to society. Why is this fact ignored?

The subset of the rules that aren't actually necessary aren't actually necessary. Why is this fact ignored?
by windex | 2025-11-21 04:48:42+00:00
Let me explain.

Case 1: You're a high performer, one year into the role. A colleague, who's been around longer but struggled, gets promoted not necessarily on merit, but on their ability to manage up. Your early contributions are quietly absorbed into their promotion case. Once they step into a managerial role, the dynamics shift. Unless you stay quiet and compliant, you’re suddenly less welcome in the team.

Case 2: High Performers: Some managers (even partners) feel threatened when team members build credibility with clients. I’ve seen situations where a client repeatedly requesting a specific consultant backfired on that consultant. At year-end reviews, client recognition turned into a liability, not an asset.

Credit Allocation:In some Big 4 setups, CRM credit allocation is less about contribution and more about visibility and tagging. Accounts are assigned to partners who may not actively engage, yet receive full credit. Technical sales teams, who drive actual deals but don't "own" accounts, often find their impact diluted. In some cases, partners even tag themselves as "owners" of said accounts mid-pursuit to claim credit post-close. At the year end, the actual deal closers are usually running around begging partners for credit. You might end up getting 30% of what you actually closed. This works well for partners as incentives outflow is reduced leaving money on the table.

Event Marketing Shell Game: Large-format partner-led events in places like Goa or Dubai are positioned as knowledge exchange and brainstorming events. Behind the scene Sales teams are pushed hard to invite prospects where the engagement has been going on for months. When those deals close weeks/months later, the event organizers often claim the outcome; regardless of who did the heavy lifting.
by munro | 2025-11-21 04:50:39+00:00
I built an ML classifier for product categories way back, as I added more classes/product types, individual class PR metrics improved--I kept adding more and more until I ended up with ~2,000 classes.

My intuition is at the start when I was like "choose one of these 10 or unknown", that unknown left a big gray area, so as I added more classes the model could say "I know it's not X, because it's more similar to Y"

I feel like in this case though, the broken clocks are broken because they don't serve the purpose of visually transmitting information, they do look like clocks tho. I'm sure if you fed the output back into the LLM and ask what time it is it would say IDK, or more likely make something up and be wrong. (at least the egregious ones where the hands are flying everywhere)
by milst | 2025-11-21 04:50:49+00:00
under the hood messages are sent to Tambo which knows how to use the timeline component (sort of like an LLM tool) and can fill the component's props with whatever data it decides. The actual data at this point is completely generated by the LLM (which seems to be ok for historical data on popular topics.) I should add a tool to allow tambo to fetch data from wikipedia before trying to generate timeline data.

Comparing timelines is an awesome idea, understanding when certain events happened in relation to others is really interesting. Maybe even overlaid in different colors or something instead of separate timelines.

Here's the repo btw: https://github.com/MichaelMilstead/timeline-of-everything
by necovek | 2025-11-21 04:51:03+00:00
While a couple of significant limitations are acknowledged directly in the article (study only on single adults, education evaluation based on remembering it), the most significant does not seem to be called out: it's really measuring a self-reported belief that they struggled (or not) due to (in)sufficient education.

All of those combined makes the article headline quite a stretch: I am mildly confident that a study of the same group (singles 18-98 years old) would find that they struggled with romantic relationships more compared to the random or coupled population, with the same level of sexual education received.
by jakelazaroff | 2025-11-21 04:52:14+00:00
I mean, I am not your enemy with regard to abolishing CBP. But the harms go beyond that. There are many studies that show how being surveilled can affect our behavior and negatively impact our mental health.

With regard to guns, restrictions abound on how you can use them (even in the privacy of your own home) — you need a license to carry them in public, you must lock them up around children, etc. Even though you might believe in some sort of "right to generalized mechanics", in practice most people believe your rights should actually be strictly limited.
by piker | 2025-11-21 04:53:23+00:00
I'm not sure why you think I can't read Chinese, but Xi has been in power for 12 years and as far as I am aware cannot be removed by anyone other than the CCP. Please correct me if I'm wrong. If the people whom he governs can remove him by some kind of democratic process, then perhaps your points are valid. My understanding is that they cannot.

> Socialist democracy must, therefore, be seen as a historic, multi-generational and dialectical process by which conditions that enable increasing parts of society to play an active role in governance are created, nurtured, and defended. China has advanced on this path further than most societies in modern history. From early experiments in village-level organization to building a nationwide process for 1.4 billion people from 56 ethnic groups across a country spanning over nine million square kilometers, this process has come to be contained in a concept called “whole-process people’s democracy” — a practice of democratic governance built on over a century of organizational experience.

This (and the rest of this article) is nonsense propaganda if the above is correct.
by pxc | 2025-11-21 04:53:31+00:00
Yes and no. Some older conventions for dotfiles are a bit messy in that they're not necessarily contained under top-level directories like ~/.config or ~/.local, but the hijacking of non-hidden directories for contents unrelated to their purposes, like using ~/Documents for game saves, is basically unheard of (except for some ports of Windows games that retain this bad habit).

> On iOS/iPadOS nothing happens other than not having the documents you saved in there.

That is, frankly, a ridiculous test for the issue under discussion. Even if everything was stored under a top-level subdirectory set aside for application data in a perfectly orderly way, nuking $HOME would still break things.

Besides all that, hidden directories in the root of ~ are conventional¹ places to store application config files and so on, and can't be mistaken for conventional places to store documents. On most Linux-based operating systems, the conventional place to store documents is (obviously) ~/Documents, which is created ahead of time for all users. That folder doesn't generally end up polluted with things that aren't documents.

> On iOS/iPadOS nothing happens other than not having the documents you saved in there.

If you delete /var/mobile or any of the things that $HOME points to in the context of some app, you'll definitely lose app settings.

The app sandboxing on iOS does something nice by sort of forcing app configuration data to live within conventional directories, but none of that is captured in the "what if you delete ~" test. (The fact that $HOME isn't really directly exposed to the user sort of does; the local files you're comparing to $HOME on Linux are actually $HOME/Media on iOS.)

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1: https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch03s08.htm...

2: https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki//private/var/mobile
by sho_hn | 2025-11-21 04:53:38+00:00
tl;dr Wayland doesn't have a good set of universally adopted input emulation and UI automation protocols yet, which makes a portable UI automation utility with the full scope of `xdotool` impossible to write. Work remains to be done to close this gap.

The X protocols in this area were not very good, but due to there being a single viable implementation you could rely on them being present (similar to using MSIE-only features in that browser's dominant era).
by krackers | 2025-11-21 04:54:12+00:00
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/gTZ2SxesbHckJ3CkF/transforme... explains this more, see the part about mixed state presentation & belief synchronization

>Another way to think about our claim is that transformers perform two types of inference: one to infer the structure of the data-generating process, and another meta-inference to update it's internal beliefs over which state the data-generating process is in, given some history of finite data (ie the context window). This second type of inference can be thought of as the algorithmic or computational structure of synchronizing to the hidden structure of the data-generating process.
by mellosouls | 2025-11-21 04:54:21+00:00
McKinsey a top firm? The report seems to focus on consultancies which are notorious for leeching huge amounts of money from non-specialist organisations by selling "expertise" to low-calibre execs in their clients in what is essentially an entrenched political merry-go-round.

The premise here might have some insights, but is hardly paradoxical (missing from the title posted here); you'd expect low-quality firms to have low-quality practices.
by EasyMark | 2025-11-21 04:54:30+00:00
Isn't that a possibility with a lot of drugs though? I think it depends on the rate and not a "does or does not" type of questions. Now if the drug doesn't help more than a placebo that's clearly a huge negative, but if it has a high rate of success vs placebo then they will make adjustments and watch out for the side-effect (of course) letting patients know it's a possibility and to report if it starts happening.
by komali2 | 2025-11-21 04:55:17+00:00
Exactly.

> In short, the “up-or-out” path of professional life may not just be a cultural phenomenon among top professional service firms but also an efficient response to how reputation is maintained and information flows. What looks like a ruthless system of constant turnover, the researchers argue, is in reality a finely tuned mechanism that helps the market discover and reward true talent.

For people who are fans of this system, I genuinely want to understand how one overcomes the common sense, humanitarian centric rejection of corpo speak like this. Is it about just drinking the koolaid?

Actually there was a discussion about cults yesterday and now that I think about it, I'm seeing all sorts of parallels here: inventing new words and using that to complete redefine reality and transform your fundamental understanding of how the universe works or should work, supplanting with your made up fantasy world and rules that rewards the best play actor.
by diogenescynic | 2025-11-21 04:55:27+00:00
Every job I've ever had started great with a small team who was actually interested in the company and its goals. Then eventually the company scales up, gets acquired, or IPOs or some other sign of maturity and a new group of leadership is brought in from a legacy/Fortune 500 type of company. That new group of leadership brings their own cabal/clique and they only promote themselves and start slowly pushing out the original employees and workers who got the company to where it is... the smart people see what's going on and move on to other companies as it slowly becomes hijacked from within and at the same time 'matures' and becomes a slug and incapable of improving or adapting.
by Rohansi | 2025-11-21 04:55:29+00:00
Look up green bubble bullying - it's a real thing.

> The kid won't get added to group chats because it doesn't really work.

Yes, but exclusion is a form of bullying. Apple is enabling it by making iMessage only work on Apple devices. There are many other messaging apps that are far better than SMS and are inclusive. It's better to encourage everyone to use one of those.

> Don't make a poor kid suffer when there's no reason for it.

It's quite literally the poor kids who suffer from things like this. It's not just fancy phones that they miss out on. Could be clothing brands, games, toys, etc. being used by kids to exclude others. Buying into everything is not a solution.