MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lelandbatey | 2025-04-16 05:48:39+00:00
I am indeed aware that in such situations, since the depositor has not publicly and loudly declared their intent to deposit that money into my account, nor informed me that they will be depositing that money into my account, nor has the depositor published a contract that I've engaged with stating they need to send me that money, that such a situation would be interpreted as an accident by any reasonable person, including the legal system.

However, we are talking about a system where a party has loudly and publicly stated that they'll move money under certain public conditions and a third party has walked up and said, "I meet those conditions, I am owed said money", and the computer dutifully agrees. We are currently looking at the foolish party who has entered into a contract trying to get out of that contract because they no longer like it's terms. Unfortunately for them, human law mostly sides with contracts, even when those contracts are represented in code.
by epistasis | 2025-04-16 05:49:14+00:00
What commercial company is going to "fund" this? It's such a strange idea, disconnected from the real world. You may as well say "companies can start doing road maintenance, as they are so reliant on them for their very existence."

And perhaps if there had been more than a days notice, some consortium could be pulled together, but who's going to pay? Why would private companies do this, how do they profit? CVE program was the roads that everybody could drive on.

The basic lack of understanding of how the world works is killing the US. Why do people think we have such a massive GDP? Where do people think that comes from? We've given control of everything in society over to our dumbest and greediest members that have no clue about how anything works.
by transpute | 2025-04-16 05:50:05+00:00
Following your comment's reference leads to a claim of NVD needing 300 to 550 million (?!) per year, but only receiving 4 million in funding. If anyone has pre-2024 data on NVD or MITRE CVE funding, that would be helpful, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43701532
by Nevermark | 2025-04-16 05:50:52+00:00
It takes strong and complex social glue to create a place where millions can safely follow their own self-interest.

Which means anyone whose wisdom matches their self-interest is going to understand that different things have very different efficiencies at different scales.

And some things happen to be dramatically more efficient/person and more effective, the larger the scale they can be coordinated at.
by orwin | 2025-04-16 05:51:15+00:00
What's funny, and it might be because of the translation, but I first thought her book where all entrepreneurs are hidden away in a sort of parallel country was a dystopian satire and a joke about some people sense of self importance. Then I learned about her (and when the book was written too) and realised her book was to be read as it was written, 'seriously'. Which makes it silly, but a funny story.
by bigiain | 2025-04-16 05:51:37+00:00
I'm not certain, but I suspect this'll work out better for Monoprice than it does for individuals.

I _think_ Monoprice will pay the couple of hundred dollars "per package" fees for the pallet or container full of cables they bring in, amortising that cost over thousands of items. They'll still get charged the 145% tariff though, but they'll probably cost something like 3x rather than 10x. (Until they work out that they no longer compete with individuals buying from AliExpress/Temu/Shein, or probably even with side hustle Fulfilment by Amazon micro-importers).
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-16 05:52:35+00:00
> It doesn't serve the goals you think it should

I maen, what are their goals? To make more money? Yes, stupid to crash the economy just to insider trade. Power and influence? Yes, it's stupid to overextend too fast. Ask 99% of regines from human history (Rome, Soviet Union, Great Britian). Ideaological warfare? Yes, it's stupid to outright declare constitutional war on day 9x out of 1400.

What are their goals?

> the people who are pursuing corruption don't care about maximizing aggregate economic performance, they care about maximizing their power over others, which is isn't the same as "economic performance"

well they should have. Again, Bread and circuses. Mess with people's money and they get neither.

Again, stupid move. This could have been an easy, silent, calculated takeover in the course of two years. Instead they just swung a hammer at the house and are frustrated that people are yelling at them.
by philipisik | 2025-04-16 05:55:43+00:00
Really thoughtful comment! Thanks for taking the time.

Yeah, figuring out the right business model around open source is always a balancing act. And it’s never done. We started Tiptap by monetizing some of the more complex editor extensions, but with the launch of cloud services, we’ve gradually shifted that line to “cloud vs non-cloud,” like you said. Still, that line keeps moving as the ecosystem grows.

Your point about one-time payments for solo developers or indie founders makes a lot of sense. Honestly, we've been actively thinking about such an offering for quite a while and how to make Tiptap more accessible without giving up on sustainability.
by asacrowflies | 2025-04-16 05:56:52+00:00
Many USA states make it illegal to boycott Israel including my own. You can no longer protest them in university which is a time honored american tradition predating the Vietnam war.They very much DO have an overt oversized control of western politics ,police,and institutions.. If anyone should be getting these crazy deportations, should be these Israelis who consistently spout unamerican rhetoric and undermine the fundamental principals of our nation. While claiming ethnic and religious superiority.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-16 05:57:56+00:00
>is a ruthlessly effective strategy. If you don't do what he wants, he'll starve out you and your underlings until either you give up or the people beneath you revolt and replace you with someone who'll do what he says.

He really screwed up the "people beneath you" part with his "effective strategy" . The people beneath him wanted at best lower prices and at worst stronger deportation. As it is, they are the ones suffering the most from these economic policies (because blue states tend to have more funding to weather this BS) and he decided to go full mask off on the idea of deporting US citizens. These aren't popular actions nor views, outside of the most fringe supporters (who aren't enough to carry such a narrative).
by NotAnOtter | 2025-04-16 05:58:10+00:00
Your overall point might be correct but your example does not prove your point.

A Makrov chain is just the path taken through the course of a markov process. The terms 'chain' and 'process' are sometimes conflated in this context, but this is the most common distinction I've seen. As such you can run a markov process for some number of steps N times, and then ask how many generated chains contain the property you are interested in. The process is memoryless but the chain is the result of the process and therefor contains memory.

I agree 'Random walk' is a superset of 'a markov process', but IMO when someone says Random walk - they normally make assumptions that qualify it as a markov chain. Therefor it's useful as a teaching to just call it a random walk.
by panny | 2025-04-16 05:58:39+00:00
>which is why most people choose driving or something else

Most people in the US have never ridden the Amtrak. Not even once in their lives. Source?

https://www.newsweek.com/more-americans-taking-train-ever-pa...

Amtrak set a record in December, the most passengers ever in a year. 32.8 million. If every single one of those rides was a different person instead of repeat riders, that would still be less than 10% of the total US population.

Yet 83% of the population supports more investment in Amtrak.

https://www.masstransitmag.com/rail/press-release/53068546/a...

It doesn't sound like the US population uses cars by choice to me. It sounds like they're forced to use cars, because their area has little or no Amtrak service.

I rode the Amtrak an average of twice a month last year, and the train was delayed/late only once. That's much less frequent than traffic jams I'd say. You waited for a bathroom? Okay, was there a big line or something, because otherwise that's gonna be like 5 minutes at most. It takes far longer than 5 minutes to find an off ramp with a service station and then get back to traveling. When compared to air travel, there is always a line when you need to use it because there's typically only 2 toilets for each cabin section of the plane. And everyone is loaded up on the complimentary beverage at the same time.

Are Japanese passenger trains better? Yes, of course they are. The cars are cleaner, the ride is smoother, train fare is paid with an IC card, platforms are level with the train so you don't need to drag luggage up stairs. I would love to see Amtrak improve to the level of Japan. But I'll still take Amtrak over driving/flying in the US any day.
by HaZeust | 2025-04-16 05:58:42+00:00
There are, of course, many people with memories of 4chan that precede that of mine (oldf*) - I could only even articulate what I was seeing on 4chan at the age I was around 2014. But by 2015 - with only 1-2 years of experience on the site - I noticed a drastic downturn of the authenticity in posts and comments that I was used to. Then, I saw quality of topics and speaking points go down in 2020. And finally, I saw the social fabric of 4chan itself go down essentially right after Omegle was shut down. By mid-2024, I couldn't even trust it for contrarian or less-conventional (or, frankly, brutally honest) viewpoints of topics they purported to care about.

And honestly, as things got better in my life and I went out to be more recreational, I went from going on 4chan once a day - to once a week - to once a month - and finally, to only when I wanted to see edgy takes on divisive current events.

I'll miss all that, despite all it lost over the years. And I'll miss the element of design and mannerisms in its userbase. It required an upfront investment to even understand how to engage with, and a "lurk moar" attitude. RIP.

Edit: It was also very crazy watching small groups of people turn insider-jargon into mainstream terminology. I'll also never forget watching the thread of QAnon's conception in real-time. Crazy stuff originated there - both in substance and meaning.
by transpute | 2025-04-16 06:00:23+00:00
Do you have any visibility into pre-2024 funding for the NIST NVD and MITRE CVE programs?

MITRE CVE/CWE contract, $29M for 2024-2025, https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_70RCSJ24FR0000018...
by gnabgib | 2025-04-16 06:01:00+00:00
Let's Encrypt generates ~7M certs/day[0], a cert is only good for 90 days (~a quarter) so let's use 90 days as a window.

7M/day * 90 = 620M/quarter

So that's ~2.5B certs issued per year (knowing that these are often reissues, but you get the notification each time you approach the expiry).

Assuming only one message (not what happens, you get more than one notice.. especially if you let it expire, you get at least two follow up messages) per cert:

2.5B * $.1/1000 = $250K/yr

Some users don't provide email addresses, some don't provide valid ones (doesn't mean their infra doesn't have to try to contact, at least for the first expiry), some use a renewal script that renews before the email (9 days prior to expiry I think?), some don't care to renew (I'm sure LE is used in throw away cases where they don't care to renew, but the 3+ emails were still dutifully sent).

But for 1 email per issued cert it's > $20k/month to send these messages with SES pricing.

There's also the TLS validity halving (well.. 90 days -> 47 days) looming, which in some way helps with the revocation servers, but would also double their (former) email costs. And then there's future proposals that would half or ever quarter that lifetime again (once again multiplying their email costs). At some point LE would just be an Amazon SES support system (like DVD-Netflix was for postal services).

[0]: https://letsencrypt.org/stats/
by switch007 | 2025-04-16 06:01:20+00:00
I feel most people have absolutely no idea that the US had its very large boot in the UK's face with our face in the mud for much of the post WW2 period, and still has. We had to dance exactly to their tune.

It annoys me no end to read so many comments to the effect of "why didn't they just pull themselves up by their bootstraps?". Not that I'm saying there were not any economic failures by various British governments over the years.

Honestly, so many Americans have no idea about their country's foreign policy. I guess you have to be on the receiving end of their short stick to understand
by bilalq | 2025-04-16 06:02:18+00:00
This looks really cool. We've been using Graphite for a long time now, and been pretty happy with it. It was a huge step up from base Github review workflows, and the AI reviewer does point out real issues from time to time.

I watched your demo vid and the two things that stuck out to me were the summarizing of changes, grouping of file changes by concept, and the diagram generation. Graphite does generate summaries of PRs if you ask it to, but it's an extra step that replaces the user authored PR description. I see that you have stacked diff support too.

I probably don't want to spend the time/energy to migrate my team off Graphite anytime soon, but would be interested in evaluating mrge. Is the billing per reviewer of PRs or by author of PRs? And how long is the free trial? I'm always reluctant to sign up for limited time free trials because I don't know if I'll actually have time to commit to assessing the tool in that time window.
by potamic | 2025-04-16 06:02:35+00:00
Sure, more equity is more motivation, but you cannot make an absolute rule neglecting all context. If someone spent a year building and testing ideas, took a risk to work without pay, it's not unreasonable to expect a greater share in equity. Investors will do better to look at capabilities and creds to understand the value that a founding member is bringing in rather than a number on a table. Besides, as long as we're pulling arguments from our bottoms, one could also argue that equal equity will promote ego conflicts and cause founders to play power games vying for superiority between themselves.

The question VCs should be asking themselves is, would they be willing to offer same valuation on a series B round compared to their series A? You know, because it's only been an year and all the work is ahead of them, and you want to ensure new investors are also valued and in it for the long haul. That rarely happens. Investors always seem to maintain transactionality for themselves while advocating magnanimity for others. And founders/execs tend to do the same when dealing with their employees, which speaks about a larger problem in human class dynamics.
by musicale | 2025-04-16 06:02:53+00:00
> A lot of what used to be consumer electronics exists on everyone's smartphones. No more clock radios, walkmans, boomboxes, tape decks, VCRs, DVD/CD players, landline phones, etc. I would bet Bluetooth speakers have essentially replaced home stereos for many.

I still seem to use a lot of electronics: bluetooth and wired speakers, headphones and earphones, power strips and adapters, USB cables and gadgets, SSD enclosures, phone accessories, game systems, all sorts of computers, tablet/e-reader, monitors for computing/gaming/video, musical instruments and amplifiers, functional and decorative lighting, chargers for everything, networking/WiFi stuff, automatic cookers, etc. RadioShack and Fry's used to sell those things.

It's a shame that the maker/DIY electronics revival turned out to have limited appeal, because I'd like to visit a store that had Raspberry Pi and other microcontroller boards, components for real-world interfaces and robotics, 3D printers and supplies, etc.

In addition to the electronics components aisles at Fry's, I miss their PC component section. And their convenient return policy. I'm surprised that there aren't more shops for PC customization. I also wish there were a shop where you could put together your own custom mechanical keyboard, picking out switches, keycaps, etc.
by Nevermark | 2025-04-16 06:03:18+00:00
I agree, given the right definition of “capitalism”.

Unfortunately “capitalism” has two quite different meanings. Which are rarely clarified in use.

Capitalism with a big C, a too common overarching ideology, gets bent to mean whatever the greedy, unethical and rich want it to mean so they can get more money.

But small c capitalism, evolving from both practical and ethical foundations, is a system so useful it has multiplied the benefits of civilization. But it is just one such system.

It can’t do everything, it needs other independent systems (justice, dispute resolution, rules of clarity, risk & trust limiting systems, for starters) to work, and extending it to places it doesn’t work causes great harm.

(Like when perversely applied to those enabling systems, in big C form, as is happening now.)
by grncdr | 2025-04-16 06:04:00+00:00
> Since XHP executes on a server that emits HTML, the most that you can do relatively seamlessly is to replace parts of an existing markup with the newly generated HTML markup from the server by updating innerHTML of some DOM node.

It’s a very long post so maybe I missed it, but does Dan ever address morphdom and its descendants? I feel like that’s a very relevant point in the design space explored in the article.
by SirHumphrey | 2025-04-16 06:04:39+00:00
And here lies the problem. Even from a libertarian perspective DOGE is counterproductive because maintaining a system is much more cost effective than starting it anew.

Especially when you cut something recklessly, figure out in month that you need back that capability right now and have very little leverage to negotiate with private providers.

When you look at the last cutting effort in the Clinton administration the difference in jarring.

Combine that with the fact that with a few exceptions DOGE has been cutting the most cost effective programs (i can’t think of a better bang for buck science program than NOAA) it’s saved very little vs the amount of pain it has caused.
by epistasis | 2025-04-16 06:05:46+00:00
In public spaces like this, though on the face of it the argument might appear to be with the toddler, it's also about batting down the idiocy and not letting it swamp out basic common sense and reason.

Bluesky has a different tact that also works: block and hide and don't engage. However in forums like HN, where earnestness and questions are so prevalent, leaving these baiting questions and statements unanswered instead leaves them as bastions of the mind rot. Because these toddler-level arguments are being repeated daily through propaganda channels all over the internet, and if they are never answered, the constant swarm of propaganda takes in even more people.
by benbridle | 2025-04-16 06:05:57+00:00
Oh neat! Thanks for the link, I hadn't heard of fasmg before.

It looks like fasmg builds up from the byte level, so it would only work for architectures that use 8-bit words. Torque builds up from the bit level, so it can assemble code for architectures like in PIC microcontrollers, using word sizes of 12 or 14 bits.

However, fasmg does allow a lot more control over the syntax of the language. The documentation shows some pretty powerful string manipulation that's used to parse real x86 assembler code, which makes sense given the purpose of it. Torque doesn't allow overriding the syntax to that degree, the macro invocation syntax is baked into the assembler.

One thing that intrigues me about fasmg is how it handles circular dependencies in expressions [0] (search for 'circular'). Currently in Torque it isn't possible to use a label reference inside a predicate, because the predicate evaluating one way could insert additional code, moving the label and causing the predicate to evaluate the other way [1]. But in fasmg it's possible to use the result of an expression as part of its own calculation.

[0] https://flatassembler.net/docs.php?article=fasmg

[1] https://benbridle.com/projects/torque/roadmap.html
by russellbeattie | 2025-04-16 06:06:44+00:00
Remember, DOGE has nothing to do with money or "efficiency". It's a pure ideological dismantling of the Federal government aimed at eliminating oversight, regulations, assistance and entitlements as envisioned by ultra-conservatives for decades.

This isn't speculation or hyperbole, it's specifically laid out in their published plans: By hobbling or outright eliminating federal agencies responsible for executing the laws passed by Congress, the administration can circumvent the democratic process and impose their extreme vision of limited government on the country, regardless of popular support.

The U.S. system of government relies on established norms as much as it does law. Conservatives realized that they can ignore precedent with impunity if they had an executive willing to do so. They then spelled out exactly how, and are now enacting that plan.

Then SCOTUS's decisions last summer turbo boosted their agenda. The ruling that only Congress can hold the President legally accountable essentially means executive power is unchecked if the legislature is unwilling or unable to Impeach and convict. The President can now confidently ignore the law and judicial orders with a veneer of legality. And this is what he's doing.

(The fact that all this just so happens to benefit Russia after their decade long campaign to destabilize their opponents in the West is a topic for speculation.)

DOGE is about permanently altering how our country works modeled on the right wing worldview, plain and simple. Since that's their overall goal, they're not concerned where they swing the wrecking ball - it's all going to get destroyed eventually.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-16 06:08:33+00:00
If you're a free speech absolutionist (your argument was simply "kicking off got more intense"), it shouldn't matter what speech was said to get kicked. Politcal or not, it's all speech.

So the only way to retort the bans tripling is if you think Most people banned are not humans. Which is possible, but unlikely given current speculations that Twitter is 80% bots.
by ItsBob | 2025-04-16 06:08:34+00:00
Side note... I just went to the Figma website there (never used it before, had no idea what they did) and they have one of my pet hates: They changed the cursor to some dark stylized thingy! Leave it alone!

It's so off-putting! Why do they do that?

Oh, my other peeve is messing with scrolling but they didn't appear to do that, at least!
by 9rx | 2025-04-16 06:08:53+00:00
They do care at the time the laws are created, else what would motivate the laws to be created? It is true that laws can often languish on the books long after sentiment has moved on.

Representative democracy simply introduces a messenger, allowing democracy to happen locally even where the people are spread over large areas. The people at the local level carry out democracy locally and the product of that is compiled with the products from other locales by the messengers. The action of the messenger is recorded to ensure that the will didn't change in transit. It doesn't introduce a dictator to invent laws for you like you seem to suggest. It is still by the action of the people.

I mean, it can introduce a dictator if the people forget to participate in democracy. Someone will rise up and take charge if everyone else completely ignores what is going on. That might be what you are imagining. But you don't really have a democracy (representative or direct) if the people are not active participants. A democracy in name only isn't actually a democracy.

While an assumption of a democracy was made for the sake of discussion, it was recognized that the world is bigger than democracy.