MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tzs | 2025-06-20 19:07:46+00:00
> But I'm sure there are people who are downtown anyway (work there, etc.) and who now don't want to walk back to the garage to get their car and drive somewhere for lunch, so they just walk to someplace close by.

This raises a question: why didn't those people walk to someplace close by before your town closed downtown street parking? Even when their cars were conveniently nearby a short walk to a nearby lunch place should be faster and more convenient than a drive to some distant place.

One explanation that seems plausible is that they did not know of the nearby places. When they are at home and decide to go out for lunch they go to some national or regional chain like Subway or Wendy's or Denny's. There's one of those a reasonable drive from work and so they go there. When the parking change made that a hassle they started paying more attention to non-chain options and noticed the local places.

It would be interesting to try to reintroduce street parking in some form that will again draw in people like you but that would still discourage people who work downtown from just hopping in their cars and driving to a chain restaurant for lunch.
by alomaki | 2025-06-20 19:07:49+00:00
OP here,

Ah, good point. To be honest, interpolation didn't even cross my mind.

The model output wasn't just one number, it was a messy JSON with a 12-week forecast. Trying to average two of those felt like a whole other task, and with the deadline, my brain was just stuck on how to pick the right numbers to cache.

But yeah, it's a really great idea. Will definitely keep it in mind for the next demo.
by OrvalWintermute | 2025-06-20 19:07:53+00:00
As a veteran, now civil servant, I think this is an excellent thing for the US military to do. BIAS: I am a PLTR shareholder and I collab with at least one of the units involved.

Another similar commissioning was the founder of Dragos, Robert M Lee who was previously a Cyber officer in the Air Force.

We need top talent from industry. These highly skilled individuals will be good pickups for the work confronting our nation in securing vital infrastructure and enabling for the future of high performance compute and AI.

https://www.robertmlee.org/back-in-military-service-from-blu...

https://www.dragos.com/team/robert-m-lee/
by why218 | 2025-06-20 19:08:08+00:00
I think that the vast majority of people who complain that these languages are unreadable and who insinuate that people who use and like them are basically just showing off are fundamentally uninterested in the possibility that there are possible positive trade offs to this style but for those who are genuinely interested in why some people like to program this way: Imagine having to do math with no symbols. that means 1+1 is now one plus one. Now imagine having to do that in the context of graduate levels mathematics. I am quite sure nobody calls a2+b2=c2 unreadable as compared to a squared plus b squared equals c squared and I dont know any one who wants to do algebra that way. Well the same principle is why array programmers like this style. I dont expect you to take my word for it im just letting you know what these other weird crazy people see in array languages that you dont. This allows one to think faster and further than they could encumbered but a heavier syntax. Is this way of programming the best no. Should everyone learn it no. Are there trade offs yes. Is it worth your time, quite possibly not. But thats true about literally everything in programming.
by fragmede | 2025-06-20 19:08:26+00:00
With all due respect, and I mean that sincerely as you've accomplished far more than I have, you aren't here for debate. Your viewpoint is stuck in the cold war mentality where Soviet communism was a failure (it did, but that doesn't mean that everything they touched was bad) and America and its brand of Free Market capitalism is perfect (it isn't) and responding to your comments is like talking to a brick wall for all the "debate" that actually occurs. Other long time posters here know better than to engage, but hey, you caught me waiting on Claude.
by gambiting | 2025-06-20 19:08:50+00:00
>>Why would they not be there then?

Funny because I was going to use that exact example as something that absolutely works. I can easily afford the sugar tax where I live, it's been around for a few years now. But when I go to a store and a box of regular coke is more expensive than diet it makes me not pick regular even though the difference is meaningless financially to me.

I understand the same mechanism works with cigarettes and loads of other things - even if you can afford them the increasing price puts you off.

But maybe for a more relevant example - I can comfortably afford parking right in the city centre where I live. But the idea of paying what's being asked for parking puts me off so much I just park at the nearest park and ride and take the metro in.
by ta1243 | 2025-06-20 19:09:06+00:00
Manhattan is at least as dense as London, and land values must be about the same. The market cost of parking in London far outweighs the cost of the congestion charge, so presumably that's the same in New York.

Seems that renting a square foot of downtown Manhattan land is about $60/year. A parking space being about 200 square foot, that's $1k a month if paying the actual rate, just for parking (let alone the road space)

Seems that $200 a month is small when compared to the actual cost.
by some_random | 2025-06-20 19:09:26+00:00
First off, comparing classes in the US to a caste system is genuinely delusional. The US doesn't have a caste system (except where it has been imported by immigration) and if you think it does either you don't know what a caste system is or you are completely out of touch with American culture.

More importantly, no C-Suite executive, Banker, Socialite, or whatever "upper caste" stand in you want to select gives a shit about sitting next to a Janitor on the train. Hell, they don't give a shit about sitting next to a normal sane person who is homeless. The reason so many people who have a choice don't chose to use public transit is because of low quality service (as always), crime, and a very small number of very visible mentally ill people having daily breakdowns in public.

This is a good thing! NotJustBikes is a huge doomer loser, don't listen to him, there's a really straightforward route to making things better.
by penguin_booze | 2025-06-20 19:09:31+00:00
Came here to say exactly this. Someone wearing this in public should be considered as a brazen attempt to record others en masse without consent. In fact, it's worse because it's data being harvested for and siphoned to a third party, in real time, entirely for their enrichment.

We already have enough mass surveillance devices. But I suppose two arguments could be made (1) we don't need more of these, or (2) peak surveillance has already been achieved, and adding one more doesn't make any difference.
by znpy | 2025-06-20 19:10:07+00:00
I get that quote, but there's an aspect to that that has change over the last ~20 years or so and that is the key pivotal point.

> liberals see the faults in society as things that can be fixed

The change in my opinion is that the faults in society is a perfect excuse for extreme rage and extreme anger.

Sometimes talking to some left-wing extremists really sounds like talking to somebody that's been brainwashed.
by threetonesun | 2025-06-20 19:10:25+00:00
I'm not terribly worried about code generated security vulnerabilities, but point 3 feels like a cat and mouse game that most companies won't have the resources to stay on top of, so they'll have to outsource it to one of the existing cloud or AI providers. Maybe that's a reality even without AI but it feels like we're heading towards full on extortion from about 4 major companies.

Also I don't think you covered my biggest concern with LLM security, a company making an Amazon basics version of your business model and claiming "AI did it". I'm 50/50 on that one though, it's also possible everyone things with AI you can go full NIH syndrome and take back all the software that we've handed off to various SAAS providers.
by paulvnickerson | 2025-06-20 19:11:00+00:00
This is a stupid clickbait layer on top of a neutral informative announcement: https://www.army.mil/article/286317/army_launches_detachment...

It's just a way to re-link the military with the tech industry, which is arguably how we won the previous world wars. If the US falls behind, then be prepared to learn Mandarin.
by xp84 | 2025-06-20 19:11:13+00:00
Agreed. To me, it’s like the difference between semi-automatic weapons and automatic weapons. Yes, it’s easier to not have to wiggle your finger on the trigger, but semi-auto is more than enough to be very effective.

It’s very easy to create deceptive imagery persuasion and to astroturf. With or without AI assistance. All you need is a modest amount of money. And with unlimited money and zero accountability thanks to the ‘responsibility laundering’ made possible through PACs… facts no longer matter. Just money, to buy virality, to influence vibes.
by viccis | 2025-06-20 19:11:18+00:00
> And your answer is that it must be a priori knowledge, and are fine with Lean being one. But you don't accept that LLMs can weakly approximate theorem provers?

I said that a hypothetical system that used gen AI to interact with the world (get text, images, etc.) and then a system like Lean to synthesize judgments about those things could potentially resemble "intelligence" like humans possess.

>but I would say that this is also the case with humans

Most of the "solutions" to Gettier problems that I find compelling rely on expanding the "justified" aspect of it, and that wouldn't really work with gen AI, as it's not really possible to make logical statements about its justification, only probabilistic ones.

Wittgenstein's quote is funny, as it reminds me a bit of Kant's refutation of Cartesian duality, in which he points out that the "I" in "I think therefore I am" equivocates between subject and object.
Show HN: wasque – Lightweight Cloudlare Warp Proxy Container for Linux
by MaryJohanna | 2025-06-20 19:11:20+00:00
Lightweight, unofficial Docker container for the official Cloudflare WARP Linux CLI client. Easily expose a SOCKS5 proxy from within a container—no elevated privileges required!

My previous project unofficial WARP client, usque (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43418120) got great reception so far and Cloudflare recently published HTTP/2 fallback support on their MASQUE protocol. I needed a way to run their official clients in a reproducible, lightweight fashion so that's when wasque was born.

It's a really simple docker container that ships their official client and exposes it as a SOCKS5 proxy.

PS: For now the HTTP/2 fallback seems broken for me in their official Linux and Android clients, I already opened a ticket (https://community.cloudflare.com/t/http-2-fallback-doesnt-wo...). But regular HTTP/3 MASQUE works well.
by hansvm | 2025-06-20 19:11:32+00:00
One thing that comes up in the sort of code ML I like to write is a careful attention to memory layout. Cracovians, defined according to some sibling comment as (B^T)A, make that a little more natural, since B and A can now have the same layout. I haven't used them though, so I don't have a good sense of whether that's more or less painful than other approaches.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-06-20 19:11:45+00:00
> USA is sleep walking into something very nasty. I still don't know what it is.

Maybe there's something fast & vicious in the works, but it could just be the merciless grasping at any shred of power these Hostis Humani Generis do.

The big move is writ large. It's multi-front sell off of the enduring value of America. Fullscale assault on schools. Destruction of science and medicine. Giving up on USAID then FEMA. Selling off millions of acres of land.

The network state ideology is that you should have to know someone and be in a network to get anything. If you aren't born into or allowed entrance into a network you get nothing. Reducing what government does to nothing melds well with the Christo-fascist ideology that likewise resents any state not run by and for the church: two sides of the same coin.
by chairmansteve | 2025-06-20 19:13:11+00:00
That was my reaction. Nimbyism is an easy scapegoat, and is a factor, but the problem is much more complex.

For example, there is a rental cartel operating in the USA.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-s...

AirBnB is a factor.
by hayst4ck | 2025-06-20 19:13:54+00:00
No, this is low agency. It wasn't other people that killed democracy. It was our own lack of response to billionaires enshrining money as legitimate political power that killed democracy. Oligarchy and monarchy are the default. Citizens willing to pay the cost of challenging those in power are what is exceptional. It is citizens asserting their own power rather than submitting to unjust power that creates democracy. It is an insistence that law applies to the most rich that creates democracy.

Democracy requires maintenance and responsibility. You can't expect nice things without paying the maintenance cost, and unfortunately, if you challenge power, power answers and it will hurt. If nobody is willing to die for freedom, then everyone will die a slave.

Blaming others rather than looking within fundamentally accepts authoritarianism, it presumes and accepts that others have power over you and that you can do nothing but submit.

Nobody is challenging power. We only have our own selves to blame for our cowardice.
by viamiraia | 2025-06-20 19:13:56+00:00
The Cass review has been widely rejected by reputable medical associations. In addition, reviews of the Cass review have found several flaws and instances of bias: https://bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186...

Don't get me wrong, trans issues do need more study, but this is also an example of isolated demand for rigor. Why the undue focus and criticism of trans healthcare over treatment of other rare medical conditions, which also tend to lack RCTs?

In addition, trans healthcare in Sweden has historically been behind the US. Trans people were forcibly sterilized up until 2013, and trans healthcare underfunded. In Finland the sterilization was required until 2023!
by sanderjd | 2025-06-20 19:13:59+00:00
It's truly fascinating how this thread is full of demonstrations of the exact phenomenon being discussed!

Accused of being unable to reexamine your base principles, you respond:

> rationalists, who are possibly the only meaningful social group in existence to celebrate changing their minds in response to new evidence

Which is exactly the kind of base principle that could use some reexamination.
by jahsome | 2025-06-20 19:14:19+00:00
> Reframing a problem with anything as a human problem is a tautology

I respectfully disagree.

> don’t understand what parent comment is trying to say

They're trying to say Google and those who work there are greedy. I shared my "tautology" to illustrate while OP's point may be largely correct, greed is not unique to Google.
by znpy | 2025-06-20 19:14:24+00:00
> Typically that is the case in large cities, but the opposite is generally true elsewhere. The least fortunate communities in the US are by and large hardcore right-leaning.

As somebody that moved from a small community to a large city, the point that's missing here is that being "poor" in the big city is much much different from being poor in the small community.

Except from complete homeless people, people living in the big city and considering themselves poor are usually way richer (in terms of yearly earnings) than the average small community dwellers.

It's largely a matter of perception.

That's been my experience.
by billconan | 2025-06-20 19:14:30+00:00
I don't quite understand Mojo's decision to use Python-like syntax—honestly, I really dislike it. Aligning code through indentation feels like a strain on my eyes.

Initially (before Mojo's release), I assumed the syntax choice was for better interoperability. Since Mojo is a superset of Python, I thought it could directly call any Python code. But after reviewing some interoperability examples—both Mojo calling Python and vice versa—it doesn’t seem all that seamless or straightforward.

For example, calling Python code from Mojo requires going through a proxy to the Python interpreter, which feels no better than what pyo3 already offers. Plus, Mojo has plenty of compatibility issues when running regular Python code.

So if better interoperability isn't the main reason for sticking with Python-like syntax, the only other explanation I can think of is to attract existing Python programmers. But is syntax really the reason people shy away from GPU programming? There are far more intimidating aspects to it—C++ syntax is probably the least of anyone’s concerns.
by pflenker | 2025-06-20 19:14:41+00:00
Father here with a family of 4. our dishwasher runs multiple times per day and we never hand wash before, and I can tell you that the dishes tend to be very dirty before they go in. They always come out sparkling clean.

Here is what works for us: - keep the salt tank filled as well as the rinsing agent. Don’t use these tabs which claim to have all of this in there combined. - don’t overload the dish washer - clean it regularly. Once per week I take out the sieve at the bottom, clean it (takes less than 5 minutes) and then I use one of these bottles of cleaning fluid with a wax cap. You put it in, start a cleaning program, the wax melts and the fluid does its work. That’s also when I refill the salt and rinsing agent. Total time effort per week: 15 mins.

We have a low mid-tier dish washer, but I had the same results with cheaper ones.
Ask HN: X account hacked again – no email when attacker changed the email? How?
by hadaoaxb | 2025-06-20 19:14:55+00:00
Hey folks, Hey everyone, I’m trying to figure out how this happened and hoping someone here might know more about how X’s (Twitter) system works.

First time, my company’s X account was hacked 2 weeks ago. Totally my fault — I clicked on a phishing email and gave them the password and even uploaded some company documents and my ID. But after 12hrs, X support helped me recover the account, I changed the password, enabled all 2FA options (eventhough I did it from the beginning but hacker bypassed it), and they told me they revoked all sessions. Since then, I’ve only been logging in from the official mobile app and all other staff only got delegated, not login access.

Second time, 2 weeks later (yesterday)— I suddenly get kicked out of the app, all my team delegator members lose access too, and when I try to log back in, it says it can’t find my email. . But this time, I never got any notification from X saying the email was changed like the first time.

My email is totally secure — no sign of compromise, no new login sessions.

SIM is fine. No new logins. I didn’t click on anything sketchy nor install any apps recently since that first phishing attack.

I’m wondering:

1. Can someone change the email on an X account without triggering a notification to the original email?

2. Does X suppress those if someone contacts support and claims the original email is compromised after 2 weeks?

Would love to hear if anyone else has seen something like this or knows how the backend systems work. I'm still waiting on X support, but this is really bothering me.
by brooke2k | 2025-06-20 19:15:55+00:00
Public regulation also course-corrects, it just does so through democracy rather than competition.

I would argue that democracy is a superior method in most instances, because its motives are driven by the motives of the population as a whole, whereas capitalist competition is ultimately driven by exactly one thing: profit for the capital owners.

Where we agree I think is in the assertion that United States government tends to run things very poorly. In my opinion, however, this is not because central planning is inherently bad, but because our democracy is very weak, and we allow politicians to be controlled by corporate interests rather than the interests of the people that they represent.

EDIT: Oh, and for the record I disagree with the take that the US healthcare system is bad because it has too much regulation - but that's an entirely separate discussion that I don't think is worth going into.
by scoofy | 2025-06-20 19:16:05+00:00
It's not just about homelessness though, sure the article is, but the crisis is not. It's about standard of living and making sure we are building a future where people have better lives than the previous generations. We need housing to approach the cost of production for people to build wealth. Otherwise, we will always have rent-seeking by existing homeowners.

Whether we do that by gigantic public housing projects, non-profit coop developments, or markets building housing for profit is almost irrelevant to the point that it's currently effectively illegal to build housing in the vast majority of cities.

We should be looking to Vienna, which has had the most success at keeping urban housing affordable and available. They did so by always building more housing all the time. They're doing basically the opposite of what we do in CA where we fight about which type of housing we should build one or two buildings of. We need to just legalize and fast track housing of all kinds.
by UncleMeat | 2025-06-20 19:16:09+00:00
> I'm sure this has happened, but if I were in that situation I would begin by moving out of one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the world. Go to the library, find cheap cost of living and high job availability place, and get a one way bus ticket there. Literally anything is better than living on the street.

If you've already been evicted then getting anybody to rent to you is extremely difficult. You are going to need not only the first month of rent but also a deposit at this rental in some other city. And it is going to be hard to get a job right away in your new city. Oh, and maybe you have kids who need to be fed.

Where is this bridge money coming from to make this move work? And what happens if it doesn't work?
by h2zizzle | 2025-06-20 19:16:36+00:00
>Leftist analysis can't explain why Bernie out-spent Biden and got crushed.

Haven't we been saying it was stolen through suspect political maneuvering and the compromised nature of mass and social media as it exists today?

As a black person, it was not lost on me the difficulty CNN et al. had in finding black voters to interview, until the nation NEEDED to know that black South Carolinian voters definitely hated Sanders and backed Biden.
by AnIrishDuck | 2025-06-20 19:16:47+00:00
I'll also note that all of this still mostly reinforces your main thesis.

One major issue with central planning is that it usually lacks the internal feedback mechanisms necessary to properly account for all of these factors.

Price signals usually work faster, and thus more efficiently! The USSR even had an economic reform where they introduced mechanisms that could be described as "shadow prices" within their own system [1]. It was the driving force behind one of the independent discoveries of linear programming.

I'd highly recommend "In Soviet Union, Optimization Problem Solves You" [2] and the novel (historical economic fiction, a nerd's nerd literary category if there ever was one) Red Plenty to learn more.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965_Soviet_economic_reform 2. https://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/in-soviet-union-optimiz...