MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by IAmGraydon | 2025-05-27 13:41:34+00:00
What is the Biden Covid response you're referring to? The trillions of dollars that were printed during Covid were mostly done under Trump's term, and the delayed inflation during Biden's term were mostly due to this. Here's the Fed balance sheet for reference:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL

As for treasuries, you have to realize that the primary risk for bond holders is inflationary risk. In fact, high inflation environments make this "risk free" investment very risky indeed. Tariffs will drive inflation. There is little doubt about that as retailers have directly stated that they will raise prices. This force alone will be enough to cause bond yields to rocket. Add on top of that the fact that Trump loves to absolve himself of debt and leave the lenders holding the bag and has even spoken about doing this with some government debt, and you have a recipe for treasuries being seen as utterly toxic. The government will have a very hard time raising money across all maturities, and will have to really sweeten the deal to entice lenders in the future.
by leo_dard | 2025-05-27 13:42:57+00:00
Supporting a project doesn't always mean donating money; contributions can take many forms.

You can offer your time, coding skills, feedback, design expertise, or simply help by spreading the word. In a world overflowing with information, visibility is a valuable form of support.

Choosing to boycott what doesn't align with your values is often underappreciated but can be very impactful.

Personally, I prefer to reshare and promote the projects I believe in. It's not about financial contributions—it's about increasing their reach. Sometimes, that's what makes the most significant impact.

Here are a few projects worth highlighting: Monero, ProtonMail, Briar.
by bc569a80a344f9c | 2025-05-27 13:43:18+00:00
Anycast is a very different beast, though. Anycast is just unicast but you announce the same IP space from multiple destinations, and the network figures out how to get a packet to the closest one. If one of those destinations fails, it just goes to the next closest one.

Unicasts, multicasts, and broadcasts all actually work differently underneath and require specific handling by network equipment. Anycast is just a special case of unicast and generally speaking network equipment is completely unaware of it.
by nabla9 | 2025-05-27 13:44:34+00:00
Needless to say, the title does not describe the research correctly.

Here is the actual research:

https://www.nber.org/papers/w33311

>This paper addresses why some countries in Europe and Asia with moderate fertility levels in 1980s, have become the “lowest-low” nations today (total fertility rates of less than 1.3), whereas those that decreased earlier have not. Also addressed is why the crossover point for the two groups of nations was around the 1980s and 1990s.
by StalwartLabs | 2025-05-27 13:44:38+00:00
I want to clarify that Stalwart can absolutely be compiled without any proprietary code. All you need to do is omit the Enterprise feature flag during compilation [0], and what you get is a 100% AGPL-3.0 build. The Arch package removal wasn’t because the software suddenly became non-free, but rather due to a packaging requirement: Arch needs a clean separation of the Enterprise code from the source tree, and that’s something we haven’t done yet (it will be implemented as a script). The delay isn’t due to any unwillingness to comply, it’s simply been a matter of prioritization. Over the past few months, the focus was on delivering major features like WebDAV support. That said, I'm still fully committed to resolving the packaging issue because we want Stalwart back in Arch as much as you do.

It’s also worth noting that only about 5% of the codebase is Enterprise, and that small slice helps fund ongoing development and expansion of the team [1]. As much as I'd love to be completely sponsor-funded, the reality is that open source projects still need to cover real-world costs. For what it's worth, Stalwart has received two NLNet grants [2] [3] to support open protocol work, which hopefully reinforces our commitment to open source.

So while the optics of this situation may look rough from the outside, I promise it’s not some “open source in name only” kind of thing. It’s just one of those painful balance acts between building features, maintaining packages, and paying the bills.

And hey, if you're heading back to Maddy, no hard feelings. But the door’s always open if you want to give Stalwart another shot down the road.

[0]: https://stalw.art/docs/development/compile [1]: https://stalw.art/compare/#faq [2]: https://nlnet.nl/project/Stalwart/ [3]: https://nlnet.nl/project/Stalwart-Collaboration/
by layer8 | 2025-05-27 13:45:08+00:00
At that time iOS had the luxury that its higher-DPI variant was exactly twice the original resolution, so up- or downscaling of non-vector graphics worked well. (Similar for macOS.) Moreover, the original iPhone resolution was already relatively hi-DPI, meaning that accuracy on the individual pixel level wasn’t as important as on the typical 96-DPI desktop screen.
by SketchySeaBeast | 2025-05-27 13:45:23+00:00
If you're old enough to remember dot-com you're old enough to remember when low code and WYSIWYG were both supposedly the death knell for developers.

Sure it not yet happening doesn't mean it won't ever happen, but it also no evidence that it will. When the latest apocalypse cult fails to predict the end of the world does that make you more or less convinced that the world will end the next time someone yells it? The longer this future developer apocalypse is delayed the less credible it seems.
by gosub100 | 2025-05-27 13:45:52+00:00
Keep in mind if you found a profitable algorithm today, you would have to put a lot of care into concealing your bets. Casinos in the US will ban you from playing if you consistently win. And if they catch you structuring your bets they can deny your payout on winning tickets. You might get away with it for a year or so, but in any sportsbook, if they see your face daily and figure out you're consistently winning, (and not just playing for entertainment) don't expect it to last.

Edit: this was a great video about online casinos and several accounts of people who were blocked for winning too much or structuring at in-person casinos:

https://youtu.be/unksvJ1JfDE?si=u1tUH285geBykfrC
by diego_moita | 2025-05-27 13:45:53+00:00
Wow! Each recording is better than the other!

As a non-musician sometimes I have difficulty on following Bach's contrapunctus, particularly on orchestral and organ works.

I like how most recordings here slow down the tempo, allowing us, the ignoramus, to follow the melodic lines.

If you like this approach I highly recommend a few recordings of the Brandenburg Concertos with slower tempo made by an orchestra in St. Petersburg under a maestro called Alexander Titov.
by neallindsay | 2025-05-27 13:45:59+00:00
The picture at the top of the article seems to be a bad (AI-generated, I assume) illustration of the Gartner Hype cycle. There are supposed to be five stages, but the text at the bottom doesn't line up with the graph because it is missing the "peak of inflated expectations" while the graph seems to be missing the "plateau (of) productivity" stage.
by unethical_ban | 2025-05-27 13:46:05+00:00
TCP/IP affects every networked application and endpoint on the internet.

BGP runs the internet routing "in the background" and you only need to know it if you're an internet service provider or work in a large org managing the network. If you didn't learn network routing, you aren't going to learn BGP.

Put two or three VMs (OpenBSD has OpenBGPD daemon) onto a shared virtual switch and addresses in 172.31.255.0/24, connect the VMs. Also each of the VMs should have at least one other interface onto unique virtual switches with their own network (172.31.1.0/24, 172.31.2.0/24, etc).

Then set up BGP to redistribute connected routes.
by Divyansh_13 | 2025-05-27 13:46:30+00:00
Hey there, I am Divyansh

I am 13 Years Old ans Solo Developer from India. My father is a property dealer. One day, he came to me and said, "The business is not going as well as it could be." I asked, "What's the problem?" He replied, "I don't have many properties left to sell." I suggested, "So, why not buy some more?" He explained, "I don't have enough money to purchase another one. I was thinking of buying properties with my friend, but he's not agreeing." I responded, "First, sell the properties you have, and then buy more." He said, "Most of my properties are not in prime locations, and the properties in those areas are much more expensive."

With this in mind, I realized there are plenty of platforms to sell owned properties, but none that provide the needed funds. I thought about creating a platform where users could list properties they are willing to buy or develop, and where investors interested in putting their money into real estate could come together
by wkat4242 | 2025-05-27 13:46:36+00:00
Hmm I often buy 3 or 4 2L bottles and in my experience that is wayy too heavy for paper bags.

And my water, I buy it in 6-packs of 2L, they come plastic-wrapped with a handle so you can carry them more easily. The tapwater in my city is not drinkable.
by throwanem | 2025-05-27 13:46:46+00:00
Sure. And if any particulate emitted by an ultrasonic humidifier could be dangerous enough to shorten your life by ~10% with consistent use or 50 minutes per roughly 8-hour night's sleep as this timecuber of yours appears to claim, then I should think the tire and brake dust burden anywhere near an actively used road would be not just instantly but flagrantly fatal.

I'm aware of the hundred thousand words spent justifying the idea. I will consider reading them once I've been convinced to ignore the result of this trivial - and I do use the following phrase with careful consideration aforethought - sanity check. You'll more likely give the goalpost another kick, though, I suspect.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-05-27 13:47:15+00:00
I would like the reverse: an LLM sales interaction ingest platform I can refer sales emails and phone calls into, where the SDR interacts with the platform to gather all of the information and I don't have to interact with the sales folks.

Why should I talk to sales? That is what the robot is for. Copilot for Procurement.
by merksittich | 2025-05-27 13:47:16+00:00
Speaking of performance wall: The Claude 4 results were added to the Aider LLM Leaderboard [0] yesterday. Opus 4 is clearly below Gemini 2.5 Pro at almost twice the price. Sonnet 4 fares worse than Sonnet 3.7, with the thinking version of Sonnet 4 being somewhat cheaper than its 3.7 counterpart.

[0] https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-05-27 13:47:24+00:00
I've still never seen an even vaguely coherent writeup of why they need nuclear for AI.

And, assuming they did need it, what do they plan to do when the nuclear startup their CEO has as a side-gig is experiencing the average nuclear project cost overrun of 100% and average time overun of years. Which is probably a low ball for a first of a kind nuclear gadget.
by JeremyNT | 2025-05-27 13:47:45+00:00
I guess tacking on "with MCP" is the 2025 version of "on the blockchain" from 10 years ago?

> Never trust the LLM to be doing access control and use the person requesting the LLM take action as the primary principal (from a security standpoint) for the task an agent is doing.

Yes! It seems so obvious to any of us who have already been around the block, but I suppose a whole new generation will need to learn the principle of least privilege.
by crmd | 2025-05-27 13:47:59+00:00
An EULA and an Employee Handbook serve different legal purposes.

The reason handbooks for example say “downloading or transmitting copyrighted material on the company network is strictly prohibited”, is so if a copyright holder attempts to sue the company for an employee’s illegal actions, it can prove it had taken reasonable steps during training to inform employees that the action was strictly prohibited, and their asses are therefore covered.

I’m speculating that the system prompt may serve a similar legal function: even if the LLM did transmit copyrighted song lyrics, we are not liable because as you can see right here in the system prompt we told it not to do that.
by fluidcruft | 2025-05-27 13:47:59+00:00
iirc Siemens developed their own, but Philips MRI came via acquisition of Picker. Ultimately while there are some electronics and power similarities, I think the nature of healthcare products and services don't integrate well with management of the rest. MRI is just one part of the healthcare portfolio. Siemens has also spun off its healthcare business recently.
by throw10920 | 2025-05-27 13:48:01+00:00
> So, you need administration, and lots of it. The system is so horribly fragmented that all hopes of efficiency are lost.

You're misattributing the cause of the complexity. The cause of the complexity is not due to the existence of private insurance, but the fact that it's changed from being insurance, that insures you against catastrophic financial loss due to an expensive surgery (that is, risk pooling), to a subsidization layer that permeates all healthcare, including routine visits to the doctor. That is what causes the complexity, because then you're right, that change evolves a massive amount of paperwork that imposes huge burdens on small businesses.

> Every single detail - multiplexed across thousands of insurers.

This is false, intentionally or not. Smaller practices rarely interact with more than a dozen insurers or so insurers, by the very nature of the fact that they're small, so this is off by about two orders of magnitude.

> A single-payer solution is orders of magnitude more simple, and thereby more efficient.

...and by "single payer" you mean the patients, right?

I have several years of working with a large federal government. Unless you're referring to a small state like Finland, the idea that a large government managing healthcare payments will make things "orders of magnitude more simple" is so naive as to be beyond laughable. The government makes even the most simple things (filling out paperwork to be reimbursed for staying in a hotel for a single night) insanely complex, and take far longer, and use far more resources (funded by taxpayers), than it does in private industry.

Yes, you're right that the interface between the medical practice and the insurance system becomes less complex when you have a single insurer, but the actual handling of claims becomes orders of magnitude more complex with the government, so the claim that it'll become "more efficient" is an extreme stretch.

If you live in the US, it's already trivially false, as it's extremely easy to see how incredibly inefficient many of the federal agencies are (I'm not going to use non-Western countries as other examples). Those agencies perform necessary functions, which is why they still have to exist, but anyone remotely familiar with the US government knows how bad of an idea it would be for it to handle health insurance. If they manage to figure out how to manage bureaucracy at a large scale, then single-payer health insurance becomes feasible. But until then, any suggestion of it is either extremely naive or flatly malicious.
by armchairhacker | 2025-05-27 13:48:21+00:00
My take:

- Make “homework” ungraded. Many college classes already do this, and it has been easy to cheat on it way before AI by sharing solutions. Knowledge is better measured in exams and competence in projects. My understanding is that homework is essentially just practice for exams, and it’s only graded so students don’t skip it then fail the exams; but presumably now students cheat on it then fail exams, and for students who don’t need as much practice it’s busywork.

- Make take-home projects complex and creative enough that they can’t be done by AI. Assign one large project with milestones throughout the semester. For example, in a web development class, have students build a website, importantly that is non-trivial and theoretically useful. If students can accomplish this in good quality with AI, then they can build professional websites so it doesn’t matter (the non-AI method is obsolete, like building a website without an IDE or in jQuery). Classes where a beyond-AI-quality project can’t be expected in reasonable time from students (e.g. in an intro course, students probably can’t make anything that AI couldn’t), don’t assign any take-home project.

- If exams (and maybe one large project) aren’t enough, make in-class assignments and projects, and put the lectures online to be watched outside class instead. There should be enough class time, since graded assignments are only to measure knowledge and competence; professors can still assign extra ungraded assignments and projects to help students learn.

In summary: undergraduate college’s purpose is to educate and measure knowledge and competence. Students’ knowledge and competence should be measured via in-class assignments/exams and, in later courses, advanced take-home projects. Students can be educated via ungraded out-of-class assignments/projects, as well as lectures, study sessions, tutoring, etc.
by kunzhi | 2025-05-27 13:48:30+00:00
> But if you need to do actual work you want maximum information density. You want icons that are easy to tell apart by color, not some sleek minimalist grey in grey.

IMHO Photoshop is still the classic example of this. The UI can feel overwhelming at first, like dropping into a helicopter cockpit. But once you start getting a hang of what you're doing, anything more "minimal" just feels like dumbing things down for the lowest common denominator.

From what I've seen in large enterprises, it's also why OG users are so attached to their mainframe terminal UIs. Yes, it's very hard to learn, but once you've developed some facility, everything else feels unusably slow.

I've never had a bad experience designing like I respect the users intelligence. Humans are insanely smart and capable, treat them that way and good results occur.
by arghwhat | 2025-05-27 13:48:32+00:00
Your home residential battery is not an entire parking garage full of EVs, so looking at their pipes and pressures is not relevant.

Those pipes are dimensioned to be able to suppress fire in every parking booth of an entire parking garage full of EVs, each of which packing more of a punch than most residential battery installations. While it cannot handle every car being on fire, it needs to handle any car being on fire when it goes off.

This is orders of magnitude more powerful than what you need for a small residential setup. Have a professional evaluate what system is best - if they suggest a sprinkler system, which they might, I am sure they would understand the capacity of your residential water supply and suggest upgrades (new piping to mains or buffer tanks) as needed.
by jordanb | 2025-05-27 13:48:48+00:00
I'm on the other side of the fence in BigCo and from where I'm sitting we're not hiring any Americans because we're in the middle of the biggest outsourcing push I've ever seen.

The take seems to be "if your job can be done from Lake Tahoe it can be done from Bangalore". What's different this time around is the entire tech organization is being outsourced leadership and all. Additionally, Data Science and other major tech-adjacent roles are also affected.

For us, our hiring rate for tech and tech-adjacent rolls has been zero in one US for several years. 100% is attributable to outsourcing. 0% to AI.
by fschuett | 2025-05-27 13:49:10+00:00
Would be great to have English translations for the 1917 Code (esp. the canons regarding "what is a marriage", ... ). Right now I use Gemini for searching through the Latin text, it "works", but it would still be a decent value-add. Just in case the maintainer sees this. Also, semantic matching of 1983-1917 canons would be nice.
by bee_rider | 2025-05-27 13:49:11+00:00
Minor tangential quibble: I think it is more accurate to say that to be human is to have opinions and convictions. But, maybe being CEO is a job that really requires turning certain types of opinions and convictions into actions.

More to the point, I was under the impression that current super-subservient LLMs were just a result of the fine-tuning process. Of course, the LLM doesn’t have an internal mental state so we can’t say it has an opinion. But, it could be fine-tuned to act like it does, right?
by worldsayshi | 2025-05-27 13:50:18+00:00
The amount and sophistication of sailing ships increased considerably as steam ships entered the market. Only once steam ships were considerably better in almost every regard that mattered to the market did the sailing ships truly get phased out to become a mere curiosity.

I think the demand for developers will similarly fluctuate wildly while LLM:s are still being improved towards the point of being better programmers than most programmers. Then programmers will go and do other stuff.

Being able to make important decisions about what to build should be one of those things that should increase in demand as the price of building stuff goes down. Then again, making important technical decisions and understand their consequences have always been part of what developers do. So we should be good at that.
by dominicrose | 2025-05-27 13:50:23+00:00
You can still buy the console that can read physical games and buy the physical games and never plug it on the internet, right? But I guess most people, like me bought a numerical version and plugged it to the internet. Then you're a few clicks away from a monthly subscription or from buying new games. They really don't have any incentive to brick your console except if you pirate the games. They don't earn money on the console by itself.
by JoshMandel | 2025-05-27 13:50:39+00:00
Last week I tried Google's Jules coding agent and saw it requested broad GitHub OAuth permissions --essentially "full access to everything your account can do." When you authorize it, you're granting access to all your repositories.

This is partly driven by developer convenience on the agent side, but it's also driven by GitHub OAuth flow. It should be easier to create a downscoped approval during authorization that still allows the app to request additional access later. It should be easy to let an agent submit an authorization request scoped to a specific repository, etc.

Instead, I had to create a companion GitHub account (https://github.com/jmandel-via-jules) with explicit access only to the repositories and permissions I want Jules to touch. It's pretty inconvenient but I don't see another way to safely use these agents without potentially exposing everything.

GitHub does endorse creating "machine users" as dedicated accounts for applications, which validates this approach, but it shouldn't be necessary for basic repository scoping.

Please let me know if there is an easier way that Ip'm just missing.
by jerf | 2025-05-27 13:50:51+00:00
The S in MCP stands for security!...

... is probably a bit unfair. From what I've seen the protocol is generally neutral on the topic of security.

But the rush to AI does tend to stomp on security concerns. Can't spend a month tuning security on this MCP implementation when my competition is out now, now, now! Go go go go go! Get it out get it out get it out!

That is certainly incompatible with security.

The reason anyone cares about security though is that in general lacking it can be more expensive than taking the time and expense to secure things. There's nothing whatsoever special about MCPs in this sense. Someone's going to roll snake eyes and discover that the hard way.
by hermitcrab | 2025-05-27 13:51:16+00:00
>The NoCode/LowCode Revolution

Visual programming (NoCode/LowCode) tools have been very successful in quite a few domains. Animation, signal processing, data wrangling etc. But they have not been successful for general purpose programming, and I don't think they ever will be. More on this perenial HN topic at:

https://successfulsoftware.net/2024/01/16/visual-vs-text-bas...