MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by valbaca | 2025-12-09 05:14:52+00:00
You didn't read far enough:

> Dollar General stores have failed more than 4,300 government price-accuracy inspections in 23 states since January 2022, a Guardian review found. Family Dollar stores have failed more than 2,100 price inspections in 20 states over the same time span, the review found.

> Among these thousands of failed inspections, some of the biggest flops include a 76% error rate in October 2022 at a Dollar General in Hamilton, Ohio; a 68% error rate in February 2023 at a Family Dollar in Bound Brook, New Jersey; and a 58% error rate three months ago at a Family Dollar in Lorain, Ohio.

> Many of the stores that failed state or local government checks were repeat violators. A Family Dollar in Provo, Utah, flunked 28 inspections in a row – failures that included a 48% overcharge rate in May 2024 and a 12% overcharge rate in October 2025.

> The Guardian’s examination of inspection failures by the two chains was based on record requests to 45 states and more than 140 counties and cities in New York, Ohio and California, along with court documents and public databases.
by echelon | 2025-12-09 05:15:13+00:00
> This is such a weird lie to insert in the middle of this rant

Either I should have expanded on that or you're not recalling the same period of time I am.

The Obama years were when Millennials went to college. They're when broadband and smartphones proliferated.

This is when IRC and the indie web died. This is when platforms became predominant and when censorship became top-down mandated. This is when "app stores" over "unlimited web installs" won.

Everyone entering the internet during this period entered into a world where censorship was normalized. Where the algorithm started to take over.

Those of us who used the internet before the Obama years remember a vastly different internet.

It's not that it was Obama that did this. It's simply a marker in time to denote confluence of changes and generational coming of age that coincided with it.

What is interesting is that the Trump presidencies swung the pendulum of who was being censored in the opposite direction of the pop culture that had originally adopted the platforms and set the 2010's status quo.

> 4chan

I remember an internet before 4chan.

Their anonymity, ironically, became something of a protest to the platformization of the years that followed.

Wasn't there once a lot of pro-LGBT stuff on 4chan? I avoid it, but I've read that it's a melting pot? Just very extreme?

I'm more concerned about Kiwi Farms type places. I know friends of Near, and bullying is something that irks me.
by nurettin | 2025-12-09 05:16:46+00:00
For me, the cost of motivating myself dropped significantly. I now feel like working on little things that have been pending tasks for ages. A db synch script here , an unearthed project from 12 years ago there , migrating project package versions , finding and fixing incomplete/missing data , refactoring legacy code to be suitable for unit testing , installing a bunch of cron jobs all in a day's work.
by civeng | 2025-12-09 05:17:24+00:00
I appreciate the acknowledgement ofthe 'No True Scotsman' trap. It is easy to define a side by its ideals (e.g., 'The Left is for the poor'), but the reality is that both sides muck it up the moment they take control.

Neither side actually supports the poor because both are funded by and literally are the wealthy masters. The evidence is in the trends/facts that for almost 50 years the wealth gap has only widened, regardless of who is in charge. At some point, we have to accept that the 'which side is right' argument is false.
by whycombinetor | 2025-12-09 05:18:44+00:00
It's a poor metaphor. Real tolerance necessitates intolerance - see Marcuse. What is a browser going to do, send malformed HTTP requests and name-and-shame any server who refuses to respond? Servers vs. browsers is not the same type of relationship as people vs. people.

Not to mention that the author's metaphor is implying that certain types of people are malformed.
by throw234234234 | 2025-12-09 05:20:24+00:00
Indeed. I do wonder if the inventors of the "transformer architecture" knew all the potential Pandora's boxes they were opening when they invented it. Probably not.

No one wants to say the scary potential logical conclusion of replacing the last value that humans have a competitive advantage in; that being intelligence and cognition. For example there is one future scenario of humanity where only the capital and resource holders survive; the middle and lower classes become surplus to requirements and lose any power. Its already happening slowly via inflation and higher asset prices after all - it is a very real possibility. I don't think a revolution will be possible in this scenario; with AI and robotics the rich could outnumber pretty much everyone.
by auxiliarymoose | 2025-12-09 05:21:34+00:00
It is also (nearly) impossible to completely crash a web page. There isn't a main loop that can panic out. No matter where an exception gets thrown, the overall application keeps going and responding to events.

Can't access a network resource? API returns an unexpected error? Library crashes? Browser extension breaks something? Doesn't matter. The user can still view and scroll the page, and the rest of it will probably keep working, too.
by gaigalas | 2025-12-09 05:21:55+00:00
Dude.

HTML4 era was full of parser hacks. Increasingly more and more parser hacks.

XHTML tried to solve that, and make HTML parsing more acessible to everyone. It's not about rigor, it's about making it simpler.

HTML5 goes in the other direction. It formalized all those hacks into very, very strict parsing rules. It's super strict and specific, to the point that only companies with large resources can realistically invest in a proper HTML5 engine.

So, the metaphor does not hold.

You actually don't need a technical-aspect analogue to advocate for better, more inclusive human behavior. It's much better if you don't rely on those. People should not need a spec as a mirror to understand that.
by westoncb | 2025-12-09 05:22:36+00:00
Ah interesting, I missed that possibility. Digging a little more though my understanding is that what's universal is a shared basis in weight space, and particular models of same architecture can express their specific weights via coefficients in a lower-dimensional subspace using that universal basis (so we get weight compression, simplified param search). But it also sounds like to what extent there will be gains during inference is in the air?

Key point being: the parameters might be picked off a lower dimensional manifold (in weight space), but this doesn't imply that lower-rank activation space operators will be found. So translation to inference-time isn't clear.
by wredcoll | 2025-12-09 05:23:56+00:00
> >When you throw slurs and denigrate people's pronouns, your ignorance and hatred does a disservice to history and drives away the next generation of talent.

> I disagree that this happens. At best it discourages a subset of the next generation, but it is not a subset I would like to work with.

Tell me more about this subset you wouldn't like to work with.
by Gigachad | 2025-12-09 05:24:07+00:00
It’s hard to filter the hot air from the realistic predictions. I’ve been hearing for over 10 years now that truck drivers are obsolete and that trucks will drive themselves. Yet today truck drivers are still very much in demand.

While in the last year I’ve seen generated images go from complete slop to indistinguishable from real photos. It’s hard to know what is right around the corner and what isn’t even close.
Show HN: Mapstore-go files-backed store with pluggable serialization/encrypt/fts
by ppipada | 2025-12-09 05:24:43+00:00
- MapStore is a local, filesystem‑backed map database with pluggable codecs (JSON or custom), optional per‑key encryption via the OS keyring, and optional full‑text search via SQLite FTS5.

- It has convenience wrappers for managing files in directories with partitioning.

- I had developed this for managing client side state in my wails app. Key store, config store, or any other state can be handled.
by murderfs | 2025-12-09 05:24:47+00:00
Well, they'd be more functional as insurance, at least! The way insurance is supposed to work is that your insurance premium is proportional to the risk. You can't go uninsured and then after discovering that your house is on fire and about to burn down, sign up for an insurance plan and expect it to be covered.

We've blundered into a system that has the worst parts of socialized health care and private health insurance without any of the benefits.
by tsurba | 2025-12-09 05:25:12+00:00
You can show for example that siamese encoders for time-series, with MSE loss on similarity, without a decoder, will converge to the the same latent space up to orthogonal transformations (as MSE is kinda like gaussian prior which doesn’t distinguish between different rotations).

Similarly I would expect that transformers trained on the same loss function for predicting the next word, if the data is at all similar (like human language), would converge to approx the same space. And to represent that same space probably weights are similar, too. Weights in general seem to occupy low-dimensional spaces.

All in all, I don’t think this is that surprising, and I think the theoretical angle should be (have been?) to find mathematical proofs like this paper https://openreview.net/forum?id=ONfWFluZBI
by tsurba | 2025-12-09 05:25:37+00:00
Edit: actually this paper is the canonical reference (?): https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00810 models converge to same space up to a linear transformation. Makes sense that a linear transformation (like PCA) would be able to undo that transformation.

You can show for example that siamese encoders for time-series, with MSE loss on similarity, without a decoder, will converge to the the same latent space up to orthogonal transformations (as MSE is kinda like gaussian prior which doesn’t distinguish between different rotations).

Similarly I would expect that transformers trained on the same loss function for predicting the next word, if the data is at all similar (like human language), would converge to approx the same space, up to some, likely linear, transformations. And to represent that same space probably weights are similar, too. Weights in general seem to occupy low-dimensional spaces.

All in all, I don’t think this is that surprising, and I think the theoretical angle should be (have been?) to find mathematical proofs like this paper https://openreview.net/forum?id=ONfWFluZBI

They also have a previous paper (”CEBRA”) published in Nature with similar results.
by pcrh | 2025-12-09 05:25:57+00:00
For what it's worth, the decline in use of horses was much slower than you might expect. The model T Ford motor car reached peak production in 1925 [0], and for an inexact comparison (I couldn't find numbers for the US) the horse population of France started to decline in 1935, but didn't drop below 80% of its historical peak until the late 1940's down to 10% of its peak by the 1970's [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_T#Mass_production

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7023172/
by yokljo | 2025-12-09 05:26:54+00:00
A lot of apps people use these days are cloud-first and automatically save all the time, so there's not even a save button to have a floppy icon for! The icon to say that it's synced looks like a cloud, and if you're using a web browser it'll probably have a Download button with a download icon. No floppy disks in sight.

I wouldn't be surprised if there's computer users out there that wouldn't recognise the "save icon".

RIP in peace
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-12-09 05:26:58+00:00
> I may eventually get to the wall label part but this is tough.

Good luck. After the first few paragraphs I thought of a great quote that I heard somewhere: "Twitter ruined my reading skills, but it vastly improved my writing skills."

If you're trying to actually get a point across (vs. writing something that is just read for pleasure) GET TO THE DAMN POINT.
by fsckboy | 2025-12-09 05:27:09+00:00
wow, back in the day, well after the cassette walkman, the FM walkman was actually a BIG DEAL! they didn't even make a 2-in-1, not even an AM/FM! i loved <3 mine

https://www.radiomuseum.org/images/radio/sony_tokyo/fm_walkm...

(i wasn't against cassette walkmans, but i was against carrying enough tapes to mimic the variety of music that they played on the radio)
by tranq_cassowary | 2025-12-09 05:27:15+00:00
He engaged / replied to the people that were talking about both a GrapheneOS dev and an Asahi Linux dev.

Imagine the following: People in a thread made about you start posting death wishes about people you have conflicts with, make bigotted comments about them and on top of that are in general being ableist and hateful towards multiple societal groups (things akin to "I wouldnt trust the GOS dev just like I wouldnt trust a <insert horrible slur agains trans people even though completely unrelated>").

Would you think it makes sense having a friendly chat with these people, as if they are worthy conversation partners? Shouldnt they either be ignored or judged?
by rramadass | 2025-12-09 05:27:16+00:00
GNU Screen + dvtm/mtm + Vim (with some minimal plugins; especially for buffer mgmt) on a large Monitor is what you need to live on the command line :-)

Just have some minimal configs for the above and learn more of the default key bindings/behaviour etc. That way you can easily take the above setup to any machine that you move to.
What's the real bottleneck behind the GLP-1 boom: science capacity or incentives
by d_e_solomon | 2025-12-09 05:27:17+00:00
The public story is “demand is exploding.” But the more interesting question is which constraint actually governs the GLP-1 market: manufacturing cycles, capital allocation, regulatory pressure, or incentive design.

Curious what people here think the true limiting factor is.
by richardles | 2025-12-09 05:28:01+00:00
You're right. We need to keep tabs on the culture for new hires for the reasons you mentioned. LLMs are really good at many onboarding tasks, but the social ones.

I think done right it is a superior onboarding experience. As a new hire, you no longer have to wait for your mentor to be available to learn some badly documented tech things. This is really empowering some of them. The lack of building human context / connections etc is real, and I don't think LLMs can meaningfully help there. Hence my skepticism for the horse analogy.
by Incipient | 2025-12-09 05:29:55+00:00
This whole article has, to be ragebait - surely? It's such a inane piece of writing, the world needs to give less time to anyone that genuinely holds these views. They're entitled to hold them, but they're still wrong.

>It had an intolerant ideology.

Without going into the various reasons why its trash, conforming to a spec is not intolerance, it's success. Imagine the Brooklyn bridge design committee saying "requiring exactly 1 inch plate is intolerance!! You can't discriminate against different thicknesses, all thicknesses are equally valuable!"

What a useless position to hold.
by buildbot | 2025-12-09 05:30:31+00:00
Necro reply - I don't think they actually shipped it with ECC... If you lookup a Z1 mina G1a repair video: https://youtu.be/1i_PfH05ekw?si=MpQ0Uc9QVwhgsFzi&t=267 It has 8 chips, not 10. It needs 10 from true ECC.
by encom | 2025-12-09 05:31:01+00:00
I get the point you're trying to make, but it absolutely is a government solution, because it was obvious to anyone that this would be the result. And there has been nothing done to remedy or even admit their failure. Asking big tech nicely not to be evil has never worked. Besides, there are plenty of cases where websites without tracking have the popups anyway, just to be on the safe side from the wrath of EU bureaucracy.
by Agentlien | 2025-12-09 05:31:04+00:00
As a graphics programmer this doesn't ring true to me.

Using more readable names definitely helps during development. I think the cause of this is twofold.

First, there's a lot of equations used in graphics programming where the canonical names of variables are single letters. If you know the formula a single letter is a good name and it is expected that others reading it also understand it - if you didn't you'd have to read up on the formula anyway.

But beyond that I also think it's a bit of misguided pride. Thinking it's cool to have as minimal inscrutable shader code as possible because that's trendy. It's very common for shaders to be developed with reasonable names and good layout then rewritten before publishing like it was an IOCCC entry.
by godelski | 2025-12-09 05:31:43+00:00
Also note that votes don't just mean agree/disagree. I frequently upvote comments I disagree with and downvote comments I agree with. The votes place the comments in the discussion ranking so plenty of people vote this way.

One example of this is I might like a conversation that's responding to a comment I don't like. But it's a common misunderstanding so I want the conversation to be boosted. Therefore I upvote the comment I disagree with because it's parent to the comments I want to be more visible.

I don't think I'm the only one that does this on HN. And I think doing this can help reduce the repeated comments. In the above example an early common misconception might get downvoted, not seen by others, and then repeated by some, where it can then rise because it's seen by a different subset.

Anyways, I don't think people should vote strictly on agree/disagree
by sroerick | 2025-12-09 05:32:16+00:00
I should note, the scaling I was referring to was transaction processing. Data storage is a little different.

The architecture which I heard described or hypothesized was more akin to Amazon deep storage. More frequently accessed data would be more accessible on "hot" nodes.

Full nodes would effectively, under this paradigm, become cloud storage providers. As a bonus, the problem of how to charge for access is basically already solved, and does not require a complex corporate payment scheme.
by 6510 | 2025-12-09 05:32:42+00:00
edit: He shows a phone with AI on the OS level. It has full control over the phone and takes reasonably complicated voice commands.

Thanks for showing this, what marvel of cooperating software. I specially like the asking dumb questions about the surroundings (the bikes) which is just beyond the cut off point for something interesting enough to do a normal web search.

it's also funny how slow it is eventho it has such beefy specs. I'm sure it takes ages to navigate all the bloated websites.

Since it understands all languages it should probably reply using the same one used by the user. No doubt it will get there.

A 10 yuan fine will be deducted from your account for dropping the milkshake lid on the ground in the park. You also get one formal warning for impersonating a police officer. :)
by recursivecaveat | 2025-12-09 05:33:40+00:00
It can't be done in general. "Hey Gemini, give me an exercise suggestion". When it suggests going for a run, how much of that is real and how much comes from the Nike campaign? Even google will not know the answer to where ads begin and end.

Advertisers might feel a bit weird about paying for something they cannot track, but for eg pharmaceutical companies have been taking doctors out to dinner for forever. Paying to sway the opinion of a communicator instead of paying to communicate is not necessarily new.
by dokyun | 2025-12-09 05:34:00+00:00
What the web runs on is freedom, the freedom to express and disseminate any information one pleases with impunity. That prominent figureheads embrace the hateful ideologies that you speak of is merely a tide of the current times, and will change as soon as they become unpopular, just as they had quit embracing this "tolerance" which was in full force a few years prior. Because they are not about a hate of people, but hate of freedom: hate is merely a pretense, a convenient vehicle through which freedoms can be taken. I think freedom is the most important thing worth fighting for, and you had my support up until now. But then you go on to say that those outside your own window of ideology have no place here. It's much the same methods that the people you complain of employ: to be disingenuous about what you really want-- it's your inability to force your will upon others that you're frustrated with. You have missed the forest for the trees, and the context has already been created for you: you are projecting a battle for the rights of certain groups onto a battle against the rights of all, and you've been turned against yourself. Freedom is something, if you believe in it, you must believe in in its entirety: not almost-freedom, or a convenient sliver of freedom that fits into your own ideological window. You lack the qualifications to exercise tolerance.
by raincole | 2025-12-09 05:34:05+00:00
Thank you. These are right out of my mouth. I mean I'd have made a similar comment if I didn't worry the strong words would get me flagged.

The whole article is weird af. How are tolerating XHTML syntax error and tolerating different sexualities remotely comparable? The metaphor stretches itself so thin that you can see the fallacies beneath.
by Acrobatic_Road | 2025-12-09 05:34:11+00:00
Can confirm. I've bought around 20 cassette tapes over the last 2 years - mostly new releases or re-releases of old stuff from the CD-era. I get way more enjoyment out of tapes than CDs. I think its because they're more hand's on, and I find the sound of my cassette deck soothing.
by saxenaabhi | 2025-12-09 05:34:16+00:00
These aren't 6 different way.

You are talking about something like network layers in graphql. That's on our roadmap for other reasons(switching api endpoints to digital ocean when our main cloudflare worker is having an outage), however even with that you'll need some custom logic since this is doing at least two api calls in succession, and that's not easy to abstract via a transaction abstraction in a network layer(you'll have handle it durably in the network layer like how temporal does).

Despite the obvious downsides we actually moved it from durable workflow(cf's take of temporal) server side to client since on workflows it had horrible and variable latencies(sometimes 9s v/s consistent < 3s with this approach). It's not ideal, but it makes more sense business wise. I think many a times people miss that completely.

I think it just boils down to what you are aiming. AI is great for shipping bugfixes and features fast. At a company level I think it also shows in product velocity. However I'm sure very soon our competitors will catch up when AI skepticism flatters.