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I case you're wondering, HF = Hugging Face

• markdown 2mo ago
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  • tempfile 2mo ago
    Surely you can just google this.
  • swiftcoder 2mo ago
    The biggest platform for the distribution of open-weight models
  • rob74 2mo ago
    It's the machine learning platform that started with "developing a chatbot app targeted at teenagers" (according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugging_Face https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugging_Face), which helps explain the weird name (which still makes me think more of one of the development stages of the xenomorphs from Alien than of the emoji, but that's probably just me).
    • nyeah 2mo ago
      It's definitely not just you :)
      • smallmancontrov 2mo ago
        I have it bookmarked as just the emoji because whenever I write the text I still think about the alien spider.
  • gertrunde 2mo ago
    For context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997548 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997548
  • coldtea 2mo ago
    If you're not familiar with such overall big players, would anything help short of looking at some 101 first?
    • soblemprolver 2mo ago
      I am familiar, yet used this comment to confirm my initial assumption. Abbreviations carry unnecessary cost on the side of the readers. There is always the chance that there is another shorthand for something else that is important and so there is a need to double check interpretations. So thanks for the comment and no, a 101 wouldn't even help with this problem.
      • tough 2mo ago
        if you google "hf hack" the first result is OpenAI post-mortem official blog post so...
        • witrak 2mo ago
          Lol! Does it matter? Using an unclear acronym in the first reference to an object, besides adding energy waste (for the execution of unnecessary searches by users unfamiliar with the subject), may only give the author of the comment the thrill of "being well informed, an insider".
          • bethekidyouwant 2mo ago
            Wtf is a coca-cola?
          • Barbing 2mo ago
            Curse of knowledge. / Unsafe assumption. Some users feel IP address, ISP, and LLM are clear. Fewer of those users will also reference HF. I have had to stop myself and type out Hugging Face. HR perhaps? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
      • coldtea 2mo ago
• littlecorner 2mo ago
  Every time I read Hugging Face, my brain first jumps to facehugger from Alien. I really wish they chose a different name...
  • tessellated 2mo ago
    Same here. The creature seems more fitting than the emoji too.
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  • rob74 2mo ago
    Actually I wrote something similar yesterday as a reply to the (since flagged) comment below. Glad to see that more people have this association. But apparently the founders of Hugging Face didn't have it, or else they probably would have chosen some other "friendly" emoji for their startup (which initially developed a chatbot for teenagers - that makes the choice of name feel even creepier if you ask me).