MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by thaumasiotes | 2025-06-09 17:54:58+00:00
The other responses have the right idea, but in more detail:

All congressional bills receive an estimate of their budget impact over the next ten years. Whatever happens after ten years doesn't count.

The politics are that a bill should have no budget impact within that ten-year window. As an uncharitable stylized example, you'd propose to start paying random subsidies to constituents immediately in the amount of $200M / year, forever. 8 years out, you also plan to raise taxes on somebody else, someone who would never vote for you in a million years, in the amount of $1B / year, which may or may not fade out after two years. This is a bill with no budget impact.

It doesn't matter, to you, whether that spike in collections for years 9-10 actually happens or not. If you failed at targeting it exclusively to people you hate, you might prefer that it doesn't.
by bheadmaster | 2025-06-09 17:55:00+00:00
> also the link at the bottom of the page is pretty much why I ditched Go: https://go.dev/blog/error-syntax

Funnily, it's also one of the reasons I stay with Go.

Error handling is the most contraversial Go topic, with half the people saying it's terrible and needs a new syntax, and half saying it's perfect and adding any more syntax will ruin it.
by 9d | 2025-06-09 17:55:52+00:00
Full link and relevant quote:

https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/docu...

> Moreover, AI may prove even more seductive than traditional idols for, unlike idols that “have mouths but do not speak; eyes, but do not see; ears, but do not hear” (Ps. 115:5-6), AI can “speak,” or at least gives the illusion of doing so (cf. Rev. 13:15).

It quotes Rev. 13:15 which says (RSVCE):

> and it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast so that the image of the beast should even speak, and to cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain.
by TachyonicBytes | 2025-06-09 17:55:55+00:00
Yes, this is exactly where I am going. The LLM also has an advantage, because you can give it the context of the audio (e.g. "this is an audio transcript from a radio show about etc. etc."). I can foresee this working for a future whisper-like model as well.

There are two ways to parse your first sentence. Are you saying that you used whisperX and it doesn't do well with diarization? Because I am curious of alternative ways of doing that.
by os2warpman | 2025-06-09 17:56:00+00:00
>Their users acted like assholes, their admins did nothing about it, so I decided I didn’t want to talk to them anymore.

It has been my experience that the more vocal someone is about free speech rights the more likely it is that they are only vocal because they want to use those rights as a shield against criticism of their bigoted, annoying, or anti-social behavior and they want to criticize people for distancing themselves from the bigotry.

To them free speech is mandatory listening-- to them, no matter what.
by listenfaster | 2025-06-09 17:56:18+00:00
A great read, and an objective breakdown of the real world cost of living. Thank you. I'm surprised and kind of grossed-out how criticisms here of the word homelessness have skewed the spirit of the peace.

I read empathy with those in crisis. In Seattle, WA, USA there are many encampments applying what you're learned by doing, and your risk mitigation thoughts unpack this. You have the clear advantage of fallback support, which of course makes this an experiment as opposed to anything more, as you say in the title.

Re: being disappointed in many of the comments here: If you're looking for a culture-war point to make, you can find it. Please don't always go there - consider that the author may not be aimed in the direction you perceive. I recommend listening to David Foster Wallace's "This is Water" speech on YouTube or elsewhere - way better than Infinite Jest.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-06-09 17:56:18+00:00
Because it wasn't bad enough. Look at the fervor it's causing now - now imagine if it was worse.

In politics it may seem like a good idea to create these time bombs because they can't imagine them going off but sometimes they do and here we are. The pied-piper strategy with the basket of deplorables was supposed to make it easier for Hillary to win 2016 but she didn't so we got the bomb going off instead.
by JavierFlores09 | 2025-06-09 17:56:19+00:00
I seldom use it myself, but I frequently see people sharing compiler explorer snippets to compare generated assembly on discord conversations about LLVM in just about any native language discord (but mainly the Rust official one), which may sound like a rare occasion, but it happens more often than you'd think. My impression is that it is definitely in the thousands, but it being a service that I've only seen used for quick comparisons rather than in-depth analysis, I can't tell whether it is much more than that
by timr | 2025-06-09 17:56:20+00:00
Exactly the same for me...now whenever I hit something like "oh god, I want to change the purpose of this function/variable, but I need to go through 500 files, and see where it's used, then make local changes, then re-test everything...", I can just tell the bot to do it.

I know a lot of folks would say that's what search & replace is for, but it's far easier to ask the bot to do it, and then check the work.
by mdp2021 | 2025-06-09 17:56:25+00:00
Addendum, because of real time events:

I am reading in a www page (I won't even link it, because of decency):

> The authors[, from the psychology department,] also found that ... dialogues with AI-chatbots helped reduce belief in misinformation [...] «This is the first evidence that non-curated conversations with Generative AI can have positive effects on misinformation»

Some people have their beliefs, but they can change them after discussing with LLMs (of all the ways). Some people are morons - we already knew that.
by Peacefulz | 2025-06-09 17:56:37+00:00
I personally think that the fact that violent people exist shouldn't diminish our values regarding privacy and/or anonymity. I don't think you should accommodate messages such as the one WitchKing shared...but I think if you value privacy, your priority should be removing the user and the content, and not appealing to the Feds. Don't make it a safe space for either party, because neither of them are on your side.
by jwarden | 2025-06-09 17:57:10+00:00
> levels the playing field by a factor of 10 versus the starting point.

Let's say there were only 10 poor people that contributed to the pipes. The total funding would be $10,000 -- a subsidy of $9,000. So 10x multiplier both for the pipes and the art.

Then let's also say that the marginal utility of $100 for a poor person is equivalent to the marginal utility of $1,000,000 for a rich person.

So we have the same number of contributors for each project, but a much higher marginal utility-per-dollar for lead pipes. But the socially optimal funding would be at the point where the marginal utility-per-dollar are equal for both projects (per the Equimarginal Principle).
by rainworld | 2025-06-09 17:57:18+00:00
No, you’re still not getting it. This “double standard” is a figment of your imagination, it doesn’t exist. Roughly every country on Earth acknowledges Ukraine’s right to self-defense. A large number of them is materially supporting Ukraine.

They are free to defend themselves till the bitter end. No one is stopping them. And, theatrics aside, support isn’t ceasing either.

But they’re not winning. There’s no right to that.
by jasonthorsness | 2025-06-09 17:57:21+00:00
Go is great for command-line tools because of library support and fast-starting single-binaries. While most of the benefits in the article are also shared with JavaScript, I wonder if the CLI advantage will help and whether command-line agents will become a thing ("grepllm"?)

The language of agents doesn't matter much in the long run as it's just a thin shell of tool definitions and API calls to the backing LLM.
by davidcbc | 2025-06-09 17:57:35+00:00
> You especially should not trust an app that does not do any research on the accuracy of it's algorithm or claims to be "consistently accurate" as many of them do currently.

Your website says:

> SnapCalorie is the first app where you can take a picture of any meal and get an accurate calorie count and nutrition in seconds.

So which is it? Can you get an accurate calorie count of a meal from a picture or not?
by sorentwo | 2025-06-09 17:57:42+00:00
Absolutely!

Elixir's lightweight processes and distribution story make it ideal for orchestration, and that includes orchestrating LLMs.

Shameless plug, but that's what many people have been using Oban Pro's Workflows for recently, and something we demonstrated in our "Cascading Workflows" article: https://oban.pro/articles/weaving-stories-with-cascading-wor...

Unlike hatchet, it actually runs locally, in your own application as well.
by micromacrofoot | 2025-06-09 17:57:49+00:00
asked in another way: where are all the aggressive offshoot breeds from pitbulls? there are a wide variety of short-legged dog breeds; corgis, dachsunds, basset hounds, scotties, bulldogs... there's an enormous variety there... yet we're to expect that aggressive dogs are limited to a very specific appearance (seriously, an order of magnitude higher than almost all other breeds)? the data absolutely stinks

there are multiple other factors (social, socioeconomic) that are a better predictor of behaviors that can also be applied to humans
by Brian_K_White | 2025-06-09 17:57:54+00:00
"I don't have a verbal name, just this graphical symbol"

"Ok. Steve it is then."

As far as I'm concerned, by failing provide something usable himself, he waived any right to ownership or interest, and everyone was free to apply whatever placeholder label they want when they need to refer to him. It's no longer any of his business. He opted out of having any say in it.

In other words this is not a Dayta vs Dahta situation.

I'm lucky in that I have no reason to refer to him for any reason that doesn't involve his music or performances from the time when he was still named Prince, so as far as I'm concerned, for all of those references at least, it's still valid to refer to that artist by that name, and it doesn't matter that some other artist exists at some other time. It's a Prince album, a song written by Prince, Prince played pretty great guitar in a special one time, etc.

I bet he still collected royalty checks that Prince earned and retained ownership of all his posessions and copyrights even though he was supposedly not Prince any more. Oh I guess Prince, while still Prince, had the right to gift everything to the new person same as to a child or anyone else, but then that comes with a pretty big tax which I bet he didn't pay at the time of this massive transaction.
by codethief | 2025-06-09 17:59:21+00:00
> Her problem is that BMBL is down 92% and they need to tell investors that they’ll all be rich again

Is this also why Bumble has undergone so many drastic changes in recent times? I always thought they must hired some new & overzealous product managers that didn't actually understand the secret sauce that had made their product so successful in the first place. Either way, it seems the usual enshittification has begun.
by mellosouls | 2025-06-09 17:59:30+00:00
Ach, great writer of operational background stories; his logistical build-up takes up almost the entirety of Dogs of War for instance. Strangely riveting accumulation of preparation notes considering it would probably be unenticing if describing, say, conference planning rather than a military coup!

I'm not sure earlier books like that would pass these days without considerable liberal angst; that one for instance celebrates a certain lost kind of man of action with a brute uncompromising view of the mercenary perspective of the world.

For lovers of intelligent action novels though like me, he's one of those writers I always considered a sure bet when taking a punt with an Audible credit. RIP.
by elictronic | 2025-06-09 18:00:05+00:00
The Republican Party is actively antagonistic to any legislation from the Democratic Party basically.

You need a 60% vote or you need to take away someone else’s pie. Medicaid/medicare/social security are current contenders based on Republican planning.

The bigger issue is Republican voting districts gain less from putting it back in place. Most software devs are on the coasts and Denver.
by jmward01 | 2025-06-09 18:00:41+00:00
A combination of engines generally gets the best WER with additional cost. hosted whisper + gemini 2.5 flash lite with custom deconfliction based on what each one does best is a reasonable path. Gemini does general conversation and silence better than whisper v3 large but whisper v3 large does better specialty vocab. Of course both after and before the merge, common transcription errors are fixed with a dictionary based lookup (that preserves punctuation, etc). This combo stays multi-lingual and is pretty cheap but is complex. There are better single source transcription vendors out there but they generally fail to either provide multi-lingual, or to provide timing info or are ridiculously expensive, or or or... I think the next gen of multi-modal models will make this all moot as they will likely crush transcription. Gemini shows that direction right now. OpenAI does a bad job of it but is in the game. Anthropic is surprisingly not really engaged in this yet (but they did just announce real time audio so they gotta be thinking about it).
by xp84 | 2025-06-09 18:01:04+00:00
> Google the concepts of "customer service," "standing behind your product," and "brand reputation."

They're probably satisfied with their reputation with their customers, who are advertisers. The corporate IT folks who buy their G Suite products are also their customers, but overall the majority of the users of Google's software are not their customers, and Google cares about them the same way I care about how the gasoline in my car feels.
by actinium226 | 2025-06-09 18:01:28+00:00
Only if you assume that the 900k in costs is exclusively the salary of 5 engineers. Realistically you will employ other people and have overhead costs like rent, etc., and I assume that other non-salary costs (health insurance, etc.) aren't included (b/c I assume health insurance, like rent, is a company-wide overhead cost and that companies aren't expected to carve out what portion of that is going to the software folks but what do I know?).

But if we more realistically assume it's 3 software folks at 200k, then the taxable profit is 580k (100 profit + 3*(200k salary - 40k ammortized))
by abeppu | 2025-06-09 18:01:51+00:00
> The core question is to what extend software constitutes an asset or consumption.

Isn't part of the problem with our industry that, even it is an asset, its value can be hard to determine even for a long time after you've written it, and it may be pretty weakly related to how much you paid to build it?

- you might have spent a lot on developers last year but next year you find out that you're the new Quibi and no one wants to use your product

- you might have had a small, tight team and what you built turns out to be hugely valuable (like instagram or whatsapp)

- ... and to the degree that the software is part of a valuable business, how do you really assign value to the software as versus the go-to-market plan, the partnership/distribution agreements, etc that helped make the business succeed?
by jerf | 2025-06-09 18:02:11+00:00
If it had a larger learning base, quite possibly.

Erlang possibly even more so. The argument that pure code is generally safer to vibe code is compelling to me. (Elixir's purity is rather complicated to describe, Erlang's much more obvious and clear.) It's easier to analyze that this bit of code doesn't reach out and break something else along the way.

Though it would be nice to have a language popular enough for the LLMs to work well on, that was pure, but that was also fast. At the moment writing in pure code means taking a fairly substantial performance hit, and I'm not talking about the O(n log n) algorithm slowdowns, I mean just normal performance.
by floxy | 2025-06-09 18:02:28+00:00
Doesn't this kind of make sense if software is an asset? If your company purchases a seat of Oracle or Solidworks or Windows 11 or whatever. I don't think you can expense that all at one time, you have to amortize over the useful life of the software, just like if it was a physical printing press or a backhoe. Similar if you were making a software program for sale or for use internally, there is the upfront costs associated with making the software, and then it gets used/sold for the next X number of years. And software never wears out, unlike a tractor; that's at least why physical goods are amortized over a finite life. Probably the biggest problem is that this conceptualization of software might be 20 years out of date.
by chermi | 2025-06-09 18:02:33+00:00
While I largely agree, I don't think it's quite correct to say AI generated blogs contain no new information. At least not in a practical sense. The output is a function of the the LLM and the prompt. The output contains new information assuming the prompt does. If the prompt/context contains internal information no one outside the company has access to, then a public post thus generated certainly contains information new to the public.
by zoogeny | 2025-06-09 18:02:48+00:00
I read it as claims the article was making. I too was confused, but perhaps that is just the communication?

I think the article was going for a comparison between extrinsic motivation (which they seem to claim the original quadratic funding requires) and intrinsic motivation. It seems they just chose a poor example. The article attempts to quantize the expected reward for the extrinsic motivation ("They each expect to experience €6,000,000 worth of individual utility") while it fails to quantize the expected reward for the intrinsic motivation ("But in the selfish scenario, total utility is 3 times higher, because the utility is experienced independently by each contributor, whereas utility of saved lives is experienced only once by each of the cancer patients).

I believe, it has to do with their narrow conception of "experience". I don't know how any rational person could expect to "experience" €6,000,000 worth of art as my first criticism. Now, it would be fair to say that the implication that the wealthy benefactors expect that experience could be seen as a criticism of quadratic funding. But to roll with that ludicrous expectation for the sake of argument and then to fail to give a similar expectation of reward from the experience of saving 60 lives is not a fair argument.

If I can "imagine" the benefactor expecting €6,000,000 worth of experience for knowing the art is on display at the local museum, I could "imagine" the benefactor expecting some non-zero-euro amount of experience for knowing 60 people survived cancer.

If we quantify the "experience" in euros for the first scenario, it seems unfair not to quantify the "experience" for the second scenario. In this case it is about being consistent in argument, which the article fails to do.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-06-09 18:03:01+00:00
Well, a larger issue seems to be that this whole idea is premised on taxing an unrealized gain. If I create a painting, I don't owe any taxes on it until I sell it. If the world decides that I'm Picasso and my sneezing on a canvas means it's worth $50 million, it still won't be true that, after I sneeze without covering my mouth and some spittle lands on one of my blank canvases, a government official shows up to my house to force me to sell it so that I can pay the taxes I owe for creating it.
by 9d | 2025-06-09 18:03:06+00:00
I forgot to say the second part:

Using AI is the same as code-review or being a PM:

1. Have an ideal abstraction

2. Reverse engineer an actual abstraction from code

3. Compare the two and see if they match up

4. If they don't, ask the author to change or fix it until it does

5. Repeat steps 2-4 until it does

This is incredibly not fun, because it's not a creative process.

You're essentially just an accountant or calculator at this point.
by ryandrake | 2025-06-09 18:03:19+00:00
> Now, what happens when you give those same children access to an LLM that can do essentially ALL their work for them? If I'm right, those children will increasingly lean on those LLMs to do as much of their schoolwork/homework as possible, because the alternative means they have less time to scroll on Tik Tok.

I think schools are going to have to very quickly re-evaluate their reliance on "having done homework" and using essays as evidence that a student has mastered a subject. If an LLM can easily do something, then that thing is no longer measuring anything meaningful.

A school's curriculum should be created assuming LLMs exist and that students will always use them to bypass make-work.
by cube2222 | 2025-06-09 18:03:32+00:00
Fwiw, spotlight in MacOS seems to be getting a major revamp too (basing this on the WWDC livestream, but there seems to be a note about it on their blog[0] too), pushing it a bit more in the direction of tools like Alfred or Raycast, and allegedly also being faster (but that's marketing speak of course, so we'll see when Fall comes).

[0]: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/06/macos-tahoe-26-makes-...
by Terr_ | 2025-06-09 18:04:09+00:00
There's a risk they'll try to break the Senate rules outright [0], by pretending that certain promised-to-be-temporary tax cuts now cost $0 to extend.

To put it in domestic terms:

* [January 1st] "Honey, I want to rent a Ferrari, I did the math and it fits if it's just one month! Pleeeeeease?"

* [February 1st] "Oh, that? It's the Ferrari rental-fee for the next month, don't worry, it's an existing expense, it's already part of our regular budget, so clearly we've proven we can afford it. We'll just have to cut back on insulin for the kids."

[0] https://www.americanprogress.org/article/senate-republicans-...
by dragonwriter | 2025-06-09 18:04:12+00:00
> Trump is violating the Posse Comitatus Act which prohibits anyone from using the Army or Air Force for law enforcement

... It only prohibits this veing done without specific statutory authority. In addition to provisions of the Insurrection Act, specific statutory authority for Presidential use of the National Guard specifically for, among other purpose, executing the laws of the United States is found in 10 USC § 12406 regarding federalizing the Guard [0], which is the basis cited for the recent mobilization. So, the argument that it is violating Posse Comitatus requires arguing as well that the invocation of § 12406 is invalid. There is an argument for that, as § 12406 explicitly requires orders for its purposes shall be issued through the Governors of the states involved, so the argument is that, by bypassing the Governor, Trump is acting outside of the cited statutory authority of § 12406, and therefore also violating Posse Comitatus.

The problem with that technical argument is that it probably achieves nothing in practice even if it works, as the conditions for invoking the Insurrection Act encompass those for § 12406, allow federalizing any of the universal militia (including the Guard) and not just the Guard, and do not require orders through the Governor of the State [1], so if there were found to a legal issue, a new order with the same effect founded in 10 USC § 253 instead of 10 USC § 12406 could immediately be issued.

[0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/12406

[1] compare 10 USC §§ 252-253 [2][3] to § 12406 [0]

[2] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/252

[3] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/253
by addaon | 2025-06-09 18:04:43+00:00
> That's trying to put a material value on software, and doing it based on the salaries of developers is as crazy as valuing it in lines of code.

Software clearly has material value. For software that is built, not bought, the company building it clearly values it exactly enough to pay the salaries of the software developers building it. What other estimate of its material value is better than the one that the company purchasing it is demonstrably willing to pay?