MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by manofspirit | 2026-01-05 03:35:12+00:00
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by yshklarov | 2026-01-05 03:35:33+00:00
It has nothing to do with being easier to work with (at least, not in this day and age). The biggest reason is that minimizing sum of squares of residuals gives the maximum likelihood estimator if you assume that the error is iid normal.

If your model is different (y = Ax + b + e where the error e is not normal) then it could be that a different penalty function is more appropriate. In the real world, this is actually very often the case, because the error can be long-tailed. The power of 1 is sometimes used. Also common is the Huber loss function, which coincides with e^2 (residual squared) for small values of e but is linear for larger values. This has the effect of putting less weight on outliers: it is "robust".

In principle, if you knew the distribution of the noise/error, you could calculate the correct penalty function to give the maximum likelihood estimate. More on this (with explicit formulas) in Boyd and Vandenberghe's "Convex Optimization" (freely available on their website), pp. 352-353.
by cebert | 2026-01-05 03:36:17+00:00
For context, I work in Metro Detroit, where a lot of people have strong ties to the automotive industry. At one non-automotive company I worked for, an executive gave a talk about how we needed to operate more like a “software factory.” I didn’t personally find the message offensive. The intent was to emphasize predictability, quality, and fewer defects by borrowing ideas from manufacturing. These were areas the company needed to address and improve.

That said, the framing landed very poorly with many developers. Some had parents who worked on assembly lines and were pushed to go to college specifically so they would not have factory jobs. For them, the “software factory” metaphor felt dismissive and demoralizing. Morale took a hit, and we eventually saw a noticeable wave of resignations. Some engineers felt that the challenges of software engineering weren’t appreciated my management, and that they saw us a cogs on a line. There were factory jokes made for weeks and months following the all team meeting where this concept was first presented. It was a mess.

This experience was a good lesson for me in how much messaging and metaphors matter. Even when the underlying idea is reasonable, the framing can completely change how it is received. Big, high-stakes messages are worth testing with a small, trusted group first.
by ajsnigrutin | 2026-01-05 03:36:54+00:00
RAM is cheap to make (well, relativly).

Undercutting the competitors is done when a business is working close to cost and a slight anomaly (eg. competitor that doesn't have to make profit, is subsidized or is cheaper for some artificial reason) makes them go out of business.

A stick of ram, made for $10, that used to cost $20 is now $100 due to the AI bubble (numbers pulled out of my ass)... you'd have to bring the prices down to $15 or even less to make those companies fold, but you can earn much more if you sell your ram at $80.
by AdieuToLogic | 2026-01-05 03:37:13+00:00
>> "Lots of English writing has got simpler through ..."

> My first grade teacher told me never start a sentence with but or and.

One of my elementary school teachers also taught me to use past participles, which means the quote from the article should have been written thusly:

Lots of English writing has gotten simpler through ...

It is amusing that an article dedicated to enumerating the degeneration of English prose uses simplistic sentence structure as well as malformed sentences, such as the above.
by jslabovitz | 2026-01-05 03:37:31+00:00
As someone with a workshop full of DeWalt tools, this was a bit concerning!

However, looking into the Dewalt situation (dunno about the other brands), it seems like only certain higher-end tools have Tool Connect+ built-in. (Dewalt's website isn't working right for me, so this isn't definitive.) For other models, it seems you can buy a locking dongle to add it to a given tool.

It seems to be primarily a Bluetooth tracker, which has to be enabled/configured in order to work.

Please do correct me if I'm wrong, but it doesn't look like this is the kind of thing (like, say, HP printer carts) that will phone home and disable itself.
by Ericson2314 | 2026-01-05 03:37:36+00:00
Yes people want to mentally rotate, but that's not correct. This is not a "geometric" coordinate system independent operation.

IMO this is a basic risk to graphs. It is great to use imagery to engage the spatial reasoning parts of our brain. But sometimes, it is deceiving — like this case —because we impute geometric structure which isn't true about the mathematical construct being visualized.
by kamranjon | 2026-01-05 03:37:44+00:00
It's worth noting that the code in question was also open sourced and permissively licensed by the original author as he stated in the thread[1]. I guess this isn't really about licensing at all, just the original author seems to think it was rude, and also doesn't want to accept any of the apologies that have been offered.

[1]: https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/pull/684#issuecomment...
by jeffkumar | 2026-01-05 03:37:57+00:00
I understand the problem with building a caricature of other people, but when it comes to your own contact email list on a platform, you should be able to access that. Essentially, not being able to download that is away for them to prevent you from de-platforming. I argue, that they aren't truly trying to safeguard against automation, that's a disguise for trying to prevent you from de-platforming because then they can't monetize as well if you become independent and use your own direct outreach for your customer list. I'd hope they would have the best intentions, but this process has lead me to believe otherwise.
by GCUMstlyHarmls | 2026-01-05 03:38:10+00:00
I honestly dont know what that means, I've never worked in a big company/corporation. Try and disown it? How does that fit with xlibres anti-corporate control stance? I guess it they push wayland then drop it, we're left with X11 ignored and a non-financially supported alternative?

I guess I just don't get how the third E in EEE plays out in an open source environment.
by gsf_emergency_6 | 2026-01-05 03:38:50+00:00
Given that "both sides" are quick to thow the fascist label, one has to be more specific about the lesson that hasn't been learnt.

Like: "weaponize constitution against executive branch".

https://ash.harvard.edu/articles/why-federal-courts-are-unli...

What you have?

(Some will argue, eg that getting ERII schooled in (nothing but) the subtleties didn't do anything)
by slwvx | 2026-01-05 03:39:11+00:00
Eric Topol has a more useful summary [1] of the peptides, including which have FDA approval and the health effects. Here's a quote:

"Why have peptides become so popular without data to support the promotional claims? This, in part, reflects the challenge and mistrust of the medical establishment, which worsened during the Covid pandemic, but was already showing strong signs of opposition by the wide adoption of supplements (with a very similar lack of supportive data on efficacy and safety) long before 2020. Ironically, anti-vax individuals are against shots with as rigorous datasets as we’ve ever seen (e.g. >70,000 participants in the initial mRNA Covid vaccines randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials released in late 2020) but happy to get injections of peptides for which there are scant if any data to support their use."

[1] https://erictopol.substack.com/p/the-peptide-craze
by Lammy | 2026-01-05 03:40:14+00:00
> we didn’t know how far we’d have to go to find a gas station with electricity

Corollary: carry cash, so you can buy things without depending on Point Of Sale systems being on and able to talk to the payment card networks. My favorite nearby ATM dispenses $100 bills, so I can have several hundred tucked in my wallet without taking a lot of space.
by user_7832 | 2026-01-05 03:42:53+00:00
I agree a rounded view is needed. I just happen to find a lot of discussion online as well as irl to be very demotivating (sometimes bordering on a pitty party, especially on some subreddits), which is why I posted this. Ofc not expecting this to be a "well rounded" analysis - it's a very specific look they wrote about.
by tokioyoyo | 2026-01-05 03:43:57+00:00
Nice read, but the "Unlike most of my friends, who visited Japan in 2025." is funny to me. I go to a bakery/cafe next to me every day, before work at around 8am over here. And all regulars are there by themselves, and sometimes with their family members. Half of the clientele in almost all non-trendy cafes are solo sitters as well.

When I discovered the whole "doing things alone" stuff a decade ago, it felt like a pressure was lifted off me. It's been good. It brings me extra joy when I take people to places that I frequent as well, it just feels like I'm introducing them to my own little spots. Hope you enjoy more of it!
by aragilar | 2026-01-05 03:43:59+00:00
I think there's a distinction between printing existing 40K/other commercial wargame pieces, vs custom pieces for RPGs, scenery and so forth. My in-person D&D games had lots of custom items (including minis of our characters) which were 3D printed, and resin was only used for detailed prints, with FDM used to provide much of the underlying structure.
by robomartin | 2026-01-05 03:45:07+00:00
Ah, my apologies, this threw me off,

> yeah might is right

It sounded like a sarcastic comment meaning characterizing the action as unjustified bullying rather than what it was.

The left's position on what just happened isn't only immoral, it is 100% dislocated from the opinion of the 9 million Venezuelans living in the diaspora as well as almost the entirety of those still in Venezuela. The reason I say "almost" is that there's a small layer (politicians, military, etc.) who were making a living or getting rich from the regime that is now evaporating.

This is historically positive moment in history.
by msla | 2026-01-05 03:45:14+00:00
The problem with Go is that it's single-source. That used to be death, single-source; couldn't get contracts if you were the only one providing a technology. C is multiple-source; even if you limit yourself to modern OSS compilers there's GCC and Clang, each from an independent group.

The trend towards unstandardized languages that only exist as a single blessed implementation, as opposed to languages defined by an official standards document with multiple implementations that are all on the same footing, is definitely an artifact of the Internet era: You don't "need" a standard if everyone can get an implementation from the same development team, for some definition of "need" I suppose.

If your horizon is only 20 years, Go is likely reasonable. Google will probably still exist and not be an Oracle subsidiary or anything similarly nasty in that period. OTOH, you might have said the same thing about staid, stable old AT&T in 1981...
by dabluecaboose | 2026-01-05 03:46:24+00:00
Reminds me of the "discovery" of synchronous fireflies in 1990:

>Scientists got wise to the presence of synchronous fireflies in the U.S. in the 1990’s, thanks to the efforts of Faust, a citizen naturalist. “Growing up in east Tennessee, we called them lightning bugs. They're just part of summer,” she says.

In the early 1990’s, Faust read an article in a science news magazine that said there were no synchronous fireflies in the Western Hemisphere. “I thought, ‘Ours are synchronous – who do I tell this to?’” she recalls.

She wrote a letter to researchers, who came to Tennessee and studied those fireflies for the next twenty years.

[src] https://www.npr.org/2024/05/24/g-s1-935/synchronous-fireflie...

There's a lot of stuff in the world that's unique and special, but isn't common knowledge on the internet. I think more people should go out and look around for themselves!
by ramoz | 2026-01-05 03:46:44+00:00
The difference here is, you type a command into your phone at 3pm. Put it down to go play with your kid for 3hours. Type a new one in at 9pm before bed where you’ve been binging your wife’s favorite show. Then you wake up at 10am to a holistic transformation in your business that would’ve taken months previously in your career. But whatever, another command and it’s off to 11am frisbee.
by ajsnigrutin | 2026-01-05 03:48:49+00:00
> But I think they also make the authentic item _more_ valuable by being so cheap and fake by comparison.

Depends.

Here in the balkans, for some reason, Louis Vuitton bags (the ugly brown one with lighter/gold lettering) have become popular with 'the kids' some years ago.. those bags normally cost as much as a modern laptop, some even much more, but due to chinese manufacturers and local market sellers, you can get counterfits for 10-30eur, depending on the design. Are the materials, seams, zippers, metal parts (well.. metallic painted plastic), etc. worse? Sure. But from far away, it's hard to notice the difference.

Now, due to the huge cost difference between the original and the fake and easily obtainable fakes, most of such bags you see in the street are fakes.

Since it's hard to tell them apart, people just assume it's a fake bag, when they see someone carrying it. I personally know people who are pretty rich and buy expensive stuff "just to show it around", and they don't buy those bags anymore, because no one thinks it's an original bag. A 100k mat black mercedes? Can't fake that. 30k gold watch? Sure it can be fake, but few people wear watches nowaday, even fewer notice them, and very few people assume that the watch is fake. But a 3k louis vuitton handbag? In whatever shopping center or larger cafe/club you go with that, there will be a couple more girls with similar, fake ones.
by Scion9066 | 2026-01-05 03:49:06+00:00
There's already models specifically for things like identifying players in Counter-Strike 2, including which team they're on.

Someone has even rigged up a system like that to a TENS system to stimulate the nerves in their arm and hand to move the mouse in the correct direction and fire when the crosshair is over the enemy.

We are definitely already there.
by wallawe | 2026-01-05 03:49:34+00:00
Eli also went back and changed his original 11 years later response from:

> No problem; just remember that modifying someone else's code does not grant you any copyright to that code.

to

> I don't agree with your opinion that inserting existing code into a template (the API) for a framework (Modernizr) warrants a notice of credit, even with a few changes to the code being inserted.

Seems almost a little crazy to hold onto something that long and return to edit your comment 11 years later.

https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/pull/684#issuecomment...
by ggm | 2026-01-05 03:49:46+00:00
Is this a new kind of "extraordinary rendition" compared to times past? Usually, it would be the CIA rather than the FBI, and it would be with the cooperation of at least some armed force of the economy from which a person is taken.

Or, are there other "precedents" for this operation apart from Noriega?

I believe the action(s) in Panama and Graneda were different, but I am unsure I can say why exactly. Maybe this action is actually .. not novel?
by OptionOfT | 2026-01-05 03:50:05+00:00
iPhones support 8 (or more): https://support.apple.com/en-us/118227#:~:text=You%20can%20h...

Unsure why they say 'or more' and what makes that happen.

2 can be active at the same time.

I can't find how many a Pixel can store at the same time though.
by hedora | 2026-01-05 03:50:23+00:00
From a Pineapple Express a few years back (80+ mph gusts and lots of landslides):

- When putting in rural/exurb solar, make sure you have a secondary charge source for your house batteries. This can be a car or a propane generator, but check compatibility before buying anything. Solar won’t cut it (storms are cloudy), and propane won’t cut it (no roads, and also, there’s probably a shortage of supply and trucks).

- Whatever cell networks people fall back on will effectively be down (as you saw with verizon)

- all emergency services websites should fall back to web 1.0 forms and static images if they take more than 5-10 sec to load. Loading a pile of JS and CSS to load a fake modal that obscures the content affer 5 min of loading at 2G speeds doesn’t count (looking at you PG&E)
by makeitdouble | 2026-01-05 03:52:28+00:00
> my bank/brokerage statements display dates using it, as do tax/pension forms. It's definitely still in heavy use for some very important data.

I have a hunch the internal system doesn't store it in imperial calendar. While those can be very old system, they went through waves of modernization and in particular handling future payment was always a PITA as you couldn't predict what year it would be 5 or 10 years ahead, or even next year really.

Storing a Unix time and doing the conversion at display time is the sanest way to handle it.

Funny thing is,even with that kind of system the conversion tables can still be outdated, and will cause issue like the ones you had with lenient numbering.
by zdc1 | 2026-01-05 03:52:31+00:00
I have a lightweight version of this. I have one playlist called "Story of my life". If I have a song that is consistently stuck in my head, my go-to to kick off a listening session, or otherwise very notable, I will add it to the playlist. This results in a playlist where I have a song for each "season" of my life. I can pick out a song and will often remember what was happening in my life when I added it, and what their general feeling of the time was.

This is all separate from my ever-changing genre-specific playlists that I like to maintain and listen to.
by evilduck | 2026-01-05 03:52:48+00:00
Macs would be the most power efficient with faster memory but an AI Max 395+ based system would probably be the most cost efficient right now. A Framework Desktop with 128GB of shared RAM only pulls 400W (and could be underclocked) and is cheaper by enough that you could buy it plus 400W of solar panels and a decently large battery for less than a Mac Studio with 128GB of RAM. Unfortunately the power efficiency win is more expensive than just buying more power generation and storage ability.
by wpietri | 2026-01-05 03:53:02+00:00
I think this is true for essential complexity. And indeed it's one of the best reasons to release early and often, because usage helps clarify which parts of the requirements are truly required.

But plenty of projects add quite a lot of incidental complexity, especially with technology choices. E.g., Resume Driven Development encourages picking impressive or novel tools, when something much simpler would do.

Another big source of unneeded complexity is code for possibilities that never come to fruition, or that are essentially historical. Sometimes that about requirements, but often it's about addressing engineer anxiety.
by QuantumNomad_ | 2026-01-05 03:54:22+00:00
It’s too bad that WML from WAP is not used anymore.

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

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

WML pages had mostly text and hyperlinks from what I remember and even though it supported images too I think most such basic pages would be readable even if you turned image loading off.
by Laforet | 2026-01-05 03:56:00+00:00
A lot of earlier digital timepieces come with arbitrary date range limits and I have always wondered what is the reason behind such limitations.

For example, a lot of camera date backs (used to physically embed time and date on film) could not be set to any date post a certain year, most commonly 2020 but I’ve also seen 2019 and 2029 as cutoffs. Even models that has a 4 digit year format isn’t immune from this issue, and sometimes it’s possible to bypass it by setting the date to Dec 31 2020, let the it roll over naturally to Jan 1 2021 and you will then be free to fast forward the date.

Maybe it’s similar to the YEAR 10000 bug on modern Windows OS where many internal variables could overflow beyond a certain datum so it would make sense to prevent it in the front end.
by kaycey2022 | 2026-01-05 03:59:37+00:00
Maybe the whole attempt is to bully the current government into giving the Venezuelan/Cuban faction in the US government exactly what they want. They want an entry into the society, and to open it up, maybe among other things.

With this USA is essentially saying that "see I can just walk into your home and no one will stop me, so better do as I say".

I will be surprised if USA tries to land ground troops into that country. Running the country, I suspect, will be extremely ugly for USA. OTOH, if they can just coerce the existing government into giving them exactly what they want, then it would certainly be mission accomplished.

It's all a huge gamble, and will depend on how obstinate the Venezuelan setup is.
by otterley | 2026-01-05 04:00:17+00:00
That someone would be you (I saw that Reddit post).

What you're seeing here is that there's not really a viable market for simple, easily replicable tools. People simply won't pay for them when they can spin up a Claude session, build one in a few hours (often unattended!), and post it to GitHub.

Real profit lies in real value. In tooling, value lies in time or money saved.