MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nsingh2 | 2025-04-15 02:28:41+00:00
Seems like this could also be explained by short memories. Most westerners, me included, have never lived through true tyranny, we don't know the signs and probably are just too comfortable coasting along, thinking what we have now won't suddenly disappear [1].

We can read history, but it's nothing compared to actually living through it. And I think most American voters don't know their history, and don't bother to inform themselves either, which makes things much worse.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_effect
by gavmor | 2025-04-15 02:30:26+00:00
I've been using an LLM as DM Assistant for almost a year, now, by way of EchoDelphi[0], a tool we built at a public weekend hackathon[1].

It listens to the game, then sends the transcript for inference. I've been prompting the LLM to generate "threats" and "setbacks" based on the current scenario, and that way I always have something handy when the dice[2] indicate fortunes' turn.

I use this for about three hours a week, 50+ weeks in a row. Pretty good for a weekend hack!

0. Https://EchoDelphi.github.io

1. Thank you Hacker Dojo, Mtn. View

2. https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FyXSpsn-z28/WgfgacmVdtI/AAAAAAAAA...
by typeofhuman | 2025-04-15 02:31:12+00:00
This is such a great move by this administration. The Executive branch has been doing this for a long time across the nation. They use funding to pull strings and execute their views. This latest move is ad absurdum and the whole country will see how ridiculous it is that the President can demand a university (or any other body) do this or that... well guess what folks, you're right, and it has been going on for a long time. Look at the Dept of Education next. It needs to stop. The federal Executive Branch is way too large it is breaking the idea of independent states - incubators of ideas and democracy.
by fastball | 2025-04-15 02:34:38+00:00
Yeah my numbers were made up, 40% of strike price does sound more reasonable (and obviously provides less leverage, but still some). It being pre-tax also helps with leverage vs taking cash.

Another benefit of the company's options is that they have a 10 year term, vs most market options which expire in < 1 year. You can get LEAPS but those are still max 2-3 years.
by mauvehaus | 2025-04-15 02:37:43+00:00
Counterpoint on RV centered "campgrounds": they have sweet amenities like a grill, a pool, laundry, and often a building with some air conditioning and some books previous guests have left behind.

Not an every night kind of thing, and you're unlikely to find much in the way of grass to put a tent on, but I stayed at one with another guy who was bike touring and we get like kings for the night.

When you're digging holes in the national forest to shit in, it doesn't take much!
by kolbe | 2025-04-15 02:37:56+00:00
We can quibble about the definition of "the administration", but the head of it a man who can pardon whomever he pleases for any federal crime he pleases. The very fact that any of these historical charges weren't instantaneously mooted with a pardon is self-evidence to me that all of these prosecutions were of former members of the administration who had fallen out if favor of the actual administration.
by alex1138 | 2025-04-15 02:38:05+00:00
I take one thing out of the Musk acquisition that goes beyond just being buying a product, which is that there was a real problem under Jack Dorsey that they were banning people for explicitly ideological reasons, significantly for covid "misinformation", that wasn't. Including doctors/researchers, and qualified people to speak who went away from the mainstream narrative. Like, one of the first things he did was take Jay Bhattacharya (coauthor of Great Barrington Declaration) and show him he had been put under a blacklist by the old regime of Twitter

I think the reason this gets ignored is because there's too many people on a certain part of the political spectrum where they see covid censorship as a nothingburger when actually it was a massive problem and whatever else people think of Elon I don't think you can take away from him that the situation was intolerable
by WalterBright | 2025-04-15 02:41:05+00:00
> Their assets pass to their heirs with a stepped up cost basis

LOL, the stepped up basis gets hit with the inheritance tax.

> The heirs can liquidate whatever's needed to pay off the loan and incur no tax.

The loan and the interest payments and dont forget the inheritance tax.

> Normal people can't do this.

Yes, they can borrow money, die, the inheritors pay off the loan with the stocks, and then pay estate tax.
by triceratops | 2025-04-15 02:41:07+00:00
You don't pay back the loan. You die, your assets pass to your heirs, and their cost basis is stepped up. The heirs sell some of the assets to pay the loan back. They don't have capital gains because of the stepped-up cost basis.

That's the gist I got from reading https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyBorrowDieExplained/comments/1f26...

There are finer points I don't understand such as:

1. Is the stepped-up cost basis available to the estate or only to the heirs? If it's to the estate, it's easier for the bank to trust they'll be paid back.

2. If the heir gets the stepped up cost basis, what legal guarantees does the bank have that the heir will pay the loan back?

And probably a lot else. I assume there's expensive lawyering and accounting involved in setting it up, so it isn't cost-effective unless you have a certain amount to shield from taxes in the first place.
by juped | 2025-04-15 02:42:08+00:00
I'm not a fan of dishwashers. You have to handwash the dish, then put it through the dishwasher, then handwash it when it comes out. It seems a lot easier to just handwash it once at full effort.

Now, this article suggests that the first handwashing can be skipped with contemporary detergents, which is useful information if true, though I think it wouldn't help in the social situations the article talks about since it makes it look as though you're cutting corners.
by infogulch | 2025-04-15 02:42:15+00:00
Half a year after that talk Wolfram appeared on a popular podcast [1] to discuss his book on the Second Law of Thermodynamics [2]. That discussion contained the best one-sentence description of entropy I've ever heard:

> Entropy is the logarithm of the number of states that are consistent with what you know about a system.

[1]: Mystery of Entropy FINALLY Solved After 50 Years? (Stephen Wolfram) - Machine Learning Street Talk Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkpDjd2nHgo

[2]: The Second Law: Resolving the Mystery of the Second Law of Thermodynamics - https://www.amazon.com/Second-Law-Resolving-Mystery-Thermody...
by makeitdouble | 2025-04-15 02:42:18+00:00
We can't claim that _everyone_ knew. But it was obvious to anyone paying attention, and also to all of us who bailed out of facebook as they became more toxic.

The actual simple photo sharing site was Flickr.

Instagram was seen from the start as a SNS with photo sharing as a pretense. The other SNS were already photo centric either way.
by coffeecat | 2025-04-15 02:42:34+00:00
shrug

I hear that sentiment a lot, but it doesn't seem right to me. My salary is pretty close to the median plumber's income, and my family's effective tax rate last year came in at... 1.6%. And that's with all retirement account contributions going toward Roth accounts. If we'd chosen to contribute to traditional IRA/401k accounts instead, the EITC and child tax credit would easily turn our tax bill negative.
by signatoremo | 2025-04-15 02:42:36+00:00
What is considered a "good healthcare plan"? Can you compare American insurance plans with Europe's ones?

92% of American had health insurance in 2023. Some people may have more than one insurance plans, thus the total number below is greater than 100%.

Of the subtypes of health insurance coverage, employment-based insurance was the most common, covering 53.7 percent of the population for some or all of the calendar year, followed by Medicaid (18.9 percent), Medicare (18.9 percent), direct-purchase coverage (10.2 percent), TRICARE (2.6 percent), and VA and CHAMPVA coverage (1.0 percent).

https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2024/demo/p60-28...
by dylan604 | 2025-04-15 02:42:46+00:00
It's similar to sales vs dev in software. Sales are always prioritizing new features to attract new users instead of fixing the known issues that are pissing off your current users.

New feature attracts new users and allows for fancy press releases. Nobody cares about press releases about an existing product getting a bug fix are become more stable.

Our society is nothing but "ooh look, shiny!" type of short attention span
by Xelynega | 2025-04-15 02:43:24+00:00
> You could do that. But then you need to explain to the LLM how to do the work every time you want to use that tool

This reeks of a fundamental misunderstanding of computers and LLMs. We have a way to get a description of APIs over http, it's called an open API spec. Just like how MCP retrieves it's tool specs over MCP.

Why would an llm not be able to download an openai spec + key and put it into the context like MCP does with its custom schema?
by alganet | 2025-04-15 02:43:56+00:00
You can use Wikipedia in many, many ways.

"Source of reliable information" is one of them.

"Source of how a topic has changed over time" is another.

"Source of what disputes are more common regarding specific parts of each article" is another.

And so on...

Even if most people don't actually do that and trust every small bit of information (like the original amount of hair of some classical composer had), some other people will in fact track and try to understand the path of that information and whether is truthful or not, relevant or not.

Maybe one day LLMs will allow that kind of thing as well. I don't know. Currently they don't offer that choice.

Does that answer your question?
by mdaniel | 2025-04-15 02:45:12+00:00
I hadn't heard of PDDL before but to save others the click on x.com, this is the Xeet:

> This PDDL planning example is much more interesting than what MCP purports to be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_Domain_Definition_Lan...

> Imagine a standard planning language for model interconnect that enables collaborative goal pursuit between models.

> Maybe I'll make one.
by PaulHoule | 2025-04-15 02:46:21+00:00
Built a PC with a top-of-the line AMD CPU, it's great. AMD APUs are great in dedicated gaming devices like the XBOX ONE, PS 4 and 5 and Steam Deck.

On the other hand I still think of Intel Integrated GPU in "that thing that screws up your web browser chrome of if you have a laptop with dedicated graphics"
by r14c | 2025-04-15 02:46:25+00:00
I'm with you on a lot of this, but you might want to think about how circular this statement is: "until American's realize we aren't exceptional because we are American, but because our forefathers lived out American values" and then read a lot more American history before it gets deleted.

What's troubling to me is that we can't easily own our history, even while we are asserting the necessity to stay grounded in reality.
by NaOH | 2025-04-15 02:47:10+00:00
The linked video starts with footage from onboard Columbia as it begins re-entry. It was a bit of luck that this was recovered. As the story was told in a PBS NOVA episode on the Columbia disaster, people were sent to follow-up on any information received about potential shuttle debris.

So a couple of these guys were somewhere in rural Texas, at the side of the road after a visit to someone who'd reached out, when one of the guys sees what looks like a cassette tape on the side of the road. He picks it up, notices it's a little different than a music cassette tape, and decides to add it to the collected debris even though he has no idea it's Columbia-related.

Edit: Here's the transcript from the NOVA episode. William Harwood, a CBS reporter, is speaking:

During the search for wreckage, I interviewed a guy who one day was... they'd gone out, because people were calling in, you know, "There's debris here. There's debris there."

And these guys, they'd sent somebody out to check out everything. And these two guys went to this house, and it turns out whatever it was it was nothing or something. And they walk back to their truck, and they're on the side of a country road in Texas. And they're standing by the back of this pickup truck, and one of the guys looked down on the side of the road, between the asphalt, where there's a little gravel and then grass. He sees this cassette.

And it looked like a, like an audiocassette, you know? Like it's Texas—it'd be country and western music or something. But it was a little thicker than an audiotape. And he picked it up, and he said, "You know, that's interesting."

It didn't look like an audiotape. And he put it in the bag just for the heck of it, and they turned it in. And that was the tape from the flight crew's own video camera that Laurel Clark was using during re-entry to film the crew.
by epistasis | 2025-04-15 02:48:00+00:00
Thanks for understanding. I think the responses other than yours here are making me reconsider how invested my research group is in Python. I think we will be doing far more Rust and R components in the future to explore the nature of language stability and package stability.

Just this week I had difficulty integrating the work of a team member because they used some new typing features only available in Python 3.13, but we have many library dependencies on numpy < 2, and in their great wisdom somebody decided that with Python 3.13 there would be no more precompiled wheels of numpy < 2. Meaning arduous multiple-minute compilation for any new venv or Docker build, even with uv. This sort of pointless version churn, wasting many valuable research hours on investigating the chains of dependencies and which libraries are ready or not, to serve the whims of some software engineer that decides everyone must update working code to novel APIs, is not something that I experience in other languages.

Hopefully Python Steering Council members reconsider the motivation of continual churn, but it's much harder to get promoted and get acknowledgement for judicious tending of a language than it is to ship a bunch of new features. Combined with fear over Anaconda charges, Python is quickly becoming a very unfriendly place for science, or anybody else that values function over form.
by hamstergene | 2025-04-15 02:50:12+00:00
This is super cool and will really help anyone studying how to build their own storage engines.

A note: the table that describes the data structures (Field # | Description | Value) should also list the data type (uint8 uint16 int32 text etc.). If it's an enum ("Table Leaf"), reference other possible enum values. If its length depends on another field, reference that field No.
by WalterBright | 2025-04-15 02:50:46+00:00
> If somebody cares about progress and is highly motivated, they should remain highly motivated to create incredible products and services, whether that buys them unchecked power or not

If you tax their money away, they have that much less capital to invest.

> It is absolutely right to correct this game through appropriate progressive taxes.

Only if you don't like electric cars, cheap space rockets, cheap global communications, and enabling people with spinal injuries to need a lot less help.

> Certainly hoarding more wealth than Smaug is a crime of grave injustice against humanity. For the mind completely sold to capitalism, this is impossible to understand. But people come before wealth and power.

Nobody hoards wealth. They invest it. Nobody has a Smaug hoard. There are no Scrooge McDuck cash vaults.

I suggest you check out what happened under communism in the Soviet Union, China, Cambodia, Cuba, etc., under communism where people came before wealth and power. Your ideas sound good in a textbook and in the classroom, but they just don't work in the real world.
by Taniwha | 2025-04-15 02:51:04+00:00
Wow! that 1st amendment doesn't really work anymore.

When I lived in the US on a green card (for 20 years) I was leary about political activity, there were never any obvious rules against it, and I was in this "taxation without representation" state so had to find outlets other than voting in order to have a say about how my taxes were spent (I'm from NZ where people with green card equivalents are very much allowed to vote)

Seems like this guy was doing all the right things, even applying to become a citizen - I guess the american dream has rather soured under an authoritarian government
by jmtulloss | 2025-04-15 02:52:07+00:00
I think you could argue the other side too... All of these models do better and worse with subtly different prompting that is non-obvious and unintuitive. Anybody using different models for "real work" are going to be tuning their prompts specifically to a model. Aider (without inside knowledge) can't possibly max out a given model's ability, but it can provide a reasonable approximation of what somebody can achieve with some effort.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-04-15 02:52:59+00:00
I mean, while this is the only correct response, it could still cost Harvard around $9 billion, which isn't chump change, even for Harvard.

And while I agree and have been disgusted with Harvard's slow slide to demanding ideological conformity over the past decade plus (e.g. https://www.thefire.org/news/harvard-gets-worst-score-ever-f...), I believe they have made some belated changes in the right direction over the past year.
by triceratops | 2025-04-15 02:54:13+00:00
> LOL,

I assumed you asked a question to learn something. If you're not interested in learning, please continue believing that everyone gets the same tax system. Otherwise keep reading.

> the stepped up basis gets hit with the inheritance tax.

There's no federal inheritance tax. Only some states have it. You're thinking of the estate tax.

If you read the link I posted: https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyBorrowDieExplained/comments/1f26...

it has a fairly detailed explanation of how it's a completely different ballgame above a net worth of $300m. Grantor trusts allow sidestepping estate tax and...

> The loan and the interest payments

"The loan" otherwise known as "income" because that's what it really was. Income that would normally have been derived by selling assets. Obviously it has to be paid back. No one said it's free money. Only that it's (largely) tax-free money.

The interest payments are lower than the income tax would've been on the same amount of income.

> and dont forget the inheritance tax.

You mean estate tax. Explained above.

> Yes, they can borrow money, die, the inheritors pay off the loan with the stocks, and then pay estate tax.

Not in the same way, and not nearly as effectively.

If there are specific inaccuracies with https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyBorrowDieExplained/comments/1f26... I'm open to learning.
by OptionOfT | 2025-04-15 02:54:28+00:00
Santa got me Windows version for Christmas 1997 after I saw it on tv in some video game show.

I was stuck for 3 months in the cave in the very first level.

Eventually someone told me that I could get answers on the internet (what's that?), which meant biking to the library and paying a certain amount (maybe 20BEF?) per 30 minutes to use the internet.

The solution came to me on a website called Game-Revolution!

Oh, and there is a bug in the game that if you save while underwater, your breath bar resets upon loading. Very handy in level 7.

And lastly: while the re-releases aren't remasters, they invoke a nostalgic feeling that I rarely get.
by deepsun | 2025-04-15 02:55:02+00:00
It's clear you never lived in an authoritarian country. It's not how it works.

There are teams who's job is to serve their leaders. And leaders make their demands (like close up the dissent, stop "misinformation" spread etc). So teams are very incentivized to live up to their demands, show increasing number of "work" done (e.g. # jailed, # websites closed etc). And they get pretty good salary and are constantly hungry for work and to show their loyalty. They are typically way more people than needed for that job, and their qualifications are pretty low on average, but government spend incredible resources on them, so there are some bright minds as well.

After this article they will be obliged to close the hole at the very least to prevent snitching by a competitive team. If lucky, present it as a win to higher command, before the other team does.

I remember in one authoritarian country they made a coordinated effort of Bureau of Investigations + Traffic Police + Field Police just to capture one rogue teenager who drew a graffiti supporting opposition leader somewhere in second-rate town like half a year ago. I wrongly assumed all those involved have better things to do than to waste their time on graffiti, but they really did it.
by sidewndr46 | 2025-04-15 02:55:12+00:00
According to the article:

"The goal is to minimize risks from outdated certificate data, deprecated cryptographic algorithms, and prolonged exposure to compromised credentials. It also encourages companies and developers to utilize automation to renew and rotate TLS certificates, making it less likely that sites will be running on expired certificates."

I'm not even sure what "outdated certificate data" could be. The browser by default won't negotiate a connection with an expired certificate
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-04-15 02:55:13+00:00
> after they determined that it was impossible to get him back

This phrasing buys into the Trump admin's narrative.

They did not determine that it was impossible to get him back. They have chosen to not pursue it. They refuse to define the agreement between the US and El Salvador sufficiently for anyone to know what is or is not possible through that path. They also seem to refuse to use political or financial influence to go beyond whatever that agreement may define.
by doesnotexist | 2025-04-15 02:56:36+00:00
"CT scanning became widespread in the 1980's. Cancer incidence is flat to slightly decreased since then. I'm not sure their risk model matches reality. Many of these models are based on extrapolation from higher radiation exposures and there may be a fundamental issue with how they estimate risk." https://x.com/NathanRuch/status/1911803050857050502

From the paper itself: "We projected future lifetime radiation-induced cancer risk using the National Cancer Institute’s Radiation Risk Assessment Tool (RadRAT) software version 4.3.1, which utilizes risk models from the National Academy of Sciences’ Biologic Effects of Ionizing Radiation (BEIR) VII report for 11 site-specific cancers ... using a more recent follow-up of the Japanese atomic bomb survivors and pooled analyses of other medically exposed cohorts."

So I wouldn't hang my hat on the claim "that CT examinations in 2023 were projected to result in approximately 103,000 future cancers over the course of the lifetime of exposed patients."

Are CTs without risk? Of course not but quantifying that risk isn't easy with the data and models we have available. We should be glad that the authors are trying to do so but also be cautious about publicizing their estimate as an eye-catching headline. Since most who read the headline will over interpret it as an established scientific fact that meets a higher level of evidence than has actually been met.
by anon7000 | 2025-04-15 02:57:30+00:00
Are you going to have an OpenAPI client for your local git CLI? Now every tool you might use needs an OpenAPI compliant HTTP server? Sure, if the problem is “how to get AI to talk to web servers,” I could understand this angle. But the problem space is bigger than that, and the goals are different. So having a more effective “protocol” makes sense