MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Retric | 2025-06-28 03:06:11+00:00
> He wasn’t even talking about the budget deficit until then

His platform required it.

#6 “LARGE TAX CUTS FOR WORKERS, AND NO TAX ON TIPS!” needs smaller government. So it’s the same old platform with a different emphasis.

Or did you think he was suggesting extreme taxes on companies or wealthy people? Deficit spending runs into #3 “END INFLATION”, and he explicitly stated to “PROTECT SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE WITH NO CUTS, INCLUDING NO CHANGES TO THE RETIREMENT AGE”

Obviously the option to not even attempt large tax cut exists, but assuming the attempt was made while also trying to lower inflation the math requires less spending or major new taxes on who exactly?
by andrekandre | 2025-06-28 03:07:43+00:00
anecdotal, but from reading the room so-to-speak of trump supporters around me (and conservative media), it seems like having him (or some other strong person) basically accomplishes the same thing; if a company is "bad" the president will take care of it rather than some bureaucratic agency which they have been told (by the various medias they consume) is unaccountable and corrupt anyways
by thallukrish | 2025-06-28 03:08:36+00:00
Since code is generated by LLM these days, how does specific syntactic constructs like a Symbol which essentially carries the context and can be manipulated with python operators help when compared to a normal python code generated by LLM with all the checks and balances instructed by a human? For example, I can write in this syntax to convert all fruits to vegetables or I can simply prompt an LLM to construct a program that takes a list of fruits and calls a LLM in the background to return the vegetables equivalent. I am trying to understand the difference.
by vkou | 2025-06-28 03:10:52+00:00
> Follow the process

What is the next step in the process? It no longer matters how many times and how hard you win, no precedent will ever be set.

You talk about making better cases and better arguments? Don't you think that the onus is on the government to do that, when they are both doing something entirely unprecedented, and losing every time it goes to court?

The point of checks and balances isn't to make it quick and easy for the executive to illegally overreach. It's to make it hard.

If they want to move quickly, they should stay within the bounds of the law - which is something that Trump in particular, and his regime in general is utterly incapable of.
by transpute | 2025-06-28 03:11:30+00:00
"Thoughts on Rust vs. OCaml" (2020), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24223018

At Rust Chipotle, they have strict rules about the ingredients for your burrito. "White rice with medium salsa, sir? Absolutely not!". You see, medium salsa only goes with brown rice, and you also need to have beans or nothing works. Under no circumstances will they allow you to construct the burrito you think you want, no matter how much you think you want it. Meanwhile, at OCaml Chipotle you can have whatever you like, and it always turns out awesome. But once a month you go for lunch and they'll refuse to make you a bowl, refuse to tell you why, and refuse to let you leave. And when you try to get help from a passerby after being trapped in the store, you realize there's nobody nearby who you can ask.
by nkrisc | 2025-06-28 03:12:52+00:00
More like being able to naturally parse the base 16 value without thinking about it, just like you can parse which of these numbers is bigger without thinking: 4 8

And then having a natural intuition for how the relative mixing of color values should look.

I’d say you could do pretty well if you took your time and thought analytically about it, but some people have just developed a strong intuition for it.

This would be much harder if there was a “none of the above” option.
by manwe150 | 2025-06-28 03:13:14+00:00
The constitution is the supreme law for that: “No Person except a natural born Citizen, … shall be eligible to the Office of President” “This Constitution, … shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any state to the Contrary notwithstanding.”

Curiously also, there is legal scholarly debate about whether judges would have the right to enforce this clause, or only congress: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural-born-citizen_clause_...
by ashdksnndck | 2025-06-28 03:13:34+00:00
The consent screen says “upload it to our cloud on an ongoing basis” and “analyzed by meta AI”. To me that seems like a reasonable level of explanation for non-technical users. Most people don’t know what it means to “train” an AI, but reading that meta is processing the photos in the cloud and analyzing them with AI gives them some picture.

This isn’t buried. The user has to see the screen and click accept for their photos to be uploaded.

Compared to the usual buried disclaimers and vague references to “improving services,” consenting to 1000 things when you sign up for an account, this is pretty transparent. If someone is concerned, they at least have a clear opportunity to decline before anything gets uploaded.

It’s just surprising to me that people look at this example of Facebook going out of their way to not do the bad thing and respond with a bunch of comments about how they doing the bad thing.
by mattsimpson | 2025-06-28 03:14:06+00:00
100% I do this. Damn near every time. Years ago I had a successful project that stalled at version 0.9.5. If it wasn't for the kindness of a user who paid me to finish it to a 1.0 release, I would have never got there. Also, it wasn't the money that was the biggest motivator, it was the commitment I made to her that I'd finish it and the avoidance of shame I'd feel if I didn't get it done.
by apical_dendrite | 2025-06-28 03:14:08+00:00
Typically you accept the risk of surgical complications because the alternative is much worse. Given a scenario where you have an aggressive tumor that will most likely kill you in six months, and surgery presents a 90% chance of gaining you at least a few more years of life, but a 10% chance of serious complications or death, most people would take the surgery. But if it's a purely elective procedure, very few people would take that chance.

If your business has an opportunity to save millions in labor costs by replacing humans with AI, but there's a 10% chance that the AI will screw up and destroy the business, will business owners accept that risk? It will be interesting to find out.
by magicalist | 2025-06-28 03:16:07+00:00
> That is terrible jurisprudence, but at least it’s honest. Sotomayor is overtly stating that she’s made up her mind and will not consider the possibility that maybe the 14th Amendment might mean something other than she already thinks

can you quote that part where she says this or even offers her own opinion? Because the only relevant part

> Every court to consider the Citizenship Order’s merits has found that it is unconstitutional in preliminary rulings

seems like a statement of fact?

(of course, it's also beyond silly to suggest it's bad or even unusual for issued opinions (dissents or otherwise) not to contain, you know, opinions).
by ggm | 2025-06-28 03:16:45+00:00
The revocation is chilling, yes. Australia has regrettably been behaving of late as if ending your prison sentence is not the end, and deporting dual nationals to their native citizenship after sentence completed. It's just cruelty, and in many cases makes externalities of Australian problems.

Some people with no lived experience of "homeland" have been sent "back there" and in related cases, Australian indigenous have been threatened with never having had citizenship because of association with neighbouring countries. The courts came down pretty heavily on that one thank goodness.
by pointyfence | 2025-06-28 03:22:02+00:00
Work is an intersection between what the company wants and what I'm willing to do. I can leave the company, try to change it from the inside and accept the consequences, or adapt to the situation until I can find or create something better.

But I find that whinging that work should fit my worldview becomes dis-empowering quickly. The temporary dopamine hit from getting sympathy venting and believing that the rest of the world is crazy makes me feel like something has changed when nothing has or perhaps will. And that just causes me to feel worse over time.

It's also interesting to see how opinions of what is fair, right, reasonsable, etc start to change as the contributor becomes a manager of a team and then an owner. The individual's context can have a lot to do with shaping the opinion.
by imperialdrive | 2025-06-28 03:22:23+00:00
Yikes. Copy of TL;DR from the Reddit discussion:

Every single bit of data (that you wanted to back up using Active Backup for Microsoft 365) in your Microsoft 365 tenant, could have also been accessed by a malicious actor. The exact period for which this flaw existed for is unknown, but it was fixed by Synology after modzero disclosed it to them. Inspecting the setup process once, of any Synology Active Backup for Microsoft 365 install - gives you the master key to all M365 tenants that had authorised the Active Backup for Microsoft 365 enterprise app.

Source: https://old.reddit.com/r/msp/comments/1lm3z1e/flaw_in_synolo...
by defrost | 2025-06-28 03:26:05+00:00
For any third parties (I'm getting a wee bit old for these diversions) geophysical survey companies (the ones with crop dusters with stingers on their tails, high wing twin props with stingers and wing tips sensors, etc.) have ongoing globally spread about calibration flights for radiometric (environmental ground radiation) surveys.

The surveys are (usually) 200m spaced grid lines 20km (or so) long flown 80m above ground, the calibration flights are stacked lines from quite high up down to ground level so that the post processing can estimate and subtract cosmic radiation "from above" and how it falls off through the current atmosphere (density, humidity, etc. thinning out current gamma inflow from up high).

Such things, if accessed, would fine tune a radiometric exposure by height model in the same way that using the global magnetic model(s) (there are two main ones) can tune up true north magnetic readings .. it's a fine adjustment that only matters to some.

Some working airport that your cross somewhere in the world likely has a hanger full of geophys survey craft (helicopters and planes) .. might be worth chasing up.
Why there's no dominant AI app store yet: The hardware platform thesis
by kevinlikako | 2025-06-28 03:26:09+00:00
Every major app ecosystem emerged alongside hardware that enabled new categories of experiences:

iPhone (2007): Touch interface, GPS, camera, accelerometer → Instagram, Uber, Angry Birds

Steam (2004): Powerful PCs with broadband → complex multiplayer games

Gaming consoles: Custom chips → exclusive AAA games that drove platform adoption

VR headsets: Spatial tracking → immersive experiences impossible on phones

Smart TVs: Living room + remote → streaming apps optimized for 10-foot UI

Current AI "apps" are mostly glorified chat interfaces because they're constrained by cloud API limitations. You get text-in, text-out because that's what works over HTTP requests.

Companies are already recognizing this constraint:

Apple: New Macs ship with 16GB+ RAM standard, M-series chips with NPUs, explicit "AI PC" positioning

OpenAI: Just acquired io ($6.5B) - Jony Ive's AI hardware startup - the largest "acquihire" ever

Microsoft: Heavy investment in "AI PCs" with dedicated NPU requirements

Google: Pushing Gemini Nano for on-device processing

NVIDIA: Massive push into edge AI chips (Jetson, etc.)

But nobody has executed the full platform play yet: Hardware + killer first-party apps + developer ecosystem.

The pattern suggests AI needs local processing hardware to unlock the next generation of startups:

Real-time multimodal experiences (voice + vision + context)

Privacy-preserving personal AI that learns from your data

Instant response times (not 200ms+ cloud round trips)

Rich interactive experiences beyond conversation

Counterarguments:

"Web apps don't need special hardware" → But the most successful app stores do have hardware differentiation

"Current AI apps are making billions" → From early adopters; mass market adoption requires different UX

"Edge AI chips are shipping" → In laptops/enterprise, but no consumer platform has nailed the ecosystem play

The opportunity: The first startups/companies to ship consumer AI hardware with compelling pre-installed experiences, then open to developers.

Think: What would iPhone's app store have looked like if iOS shipped with only Safari?

Hardware investments suggest this isn't profound. The question is who executes the hardware strategy best.
by throw290348190 | 2025-06-28 03:26:50+00:00
> As a researcher, it was frustrating to see various bypass methods being publicly disclosed while I couldn’t share my own work because I had already reported it to ZDI. After a few days with no updates, I even emailed ZDI to ask if I could withdraw my submission

security@$COMPANY.DOMAIN inboxes are constantly inundated with BS security reports phishing for a payout. The situation has only gotten worse with LLMs.

Expecting a quick response is ridiculous. You should try taking on a role where it's your job to sift through all those emails .
by prydt | 2025-06-28 03:28:04+00:00
My interest in Rust comes from getting frustrated with C's type system. Rust has such a nice type system and I really enjoy the ownership semantics around concurrency. I think that C++ written "correctly" looks a lot like Rust and libkj [1] encourages this, but it is not enforced by the language.

[1] https://github.com/capnproto/capnproto/blob/v2/kjdoc/tour.md
by williamdclt | 2025-06-28 03:29:28+00:00
Hmmm I see what you mean, but it’s more of an abuse of language I think. Both are rgb. If I asked for an rgb id expect any format, it rarely matters (actually id probably expect an hex code _more_, i see it used more often, as its textual representation is well defined whereas the three numbers don’t have a universal textual representation)
by magicalist | 2025-06-28 03:29:36+00:00
> Sure ask for ID

Let's just turn to our national ID system...oh wait...

> But a lot less could go wrong than just letting anyone into the country en mass with no practical way to remove them.

Are you suggesting the only two options are extraordinary rendition to concentration camps in El Salvador with no recourse or instant squatters rights for all foreigners?

> You effectively don't have a country at all under that regime.

Let me offer an existence proof: gestures all around to where we're currently standing
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-06-28 03:30:14+00:00
I think this is at least the third comment I have seen recently complaining about "AI" APIs. As a non-developer, this is difficult for me to understand.

I have had what appears to be the same, or similar, complaint against "Web APIs" for many years when trying to access public iinformation. Not that long ago, websites did not have "APIs". Generally, I still extract information from the public websites rather than use "APIs". This requires no sign up and is guaranteed to work as long as the website exists.

Before "Web APIs", websites did not routinely collect email addresses, track usage, rate limit individuals and charge subscription fees in exchange for access to public information.

Sometimes the "Web APIs" are free but "sign up" is always required. There is email address collection, usage is tracked, "accounts" are rate limited. In the past, some HN commenters also complained that these "APIs" are unreliable in the sense that they can be "discontinued" suddenly for any reason. Anyone depending on them has no recourse.

These "Web APIs" became so common that their rationale went unquestioned. For example, why not let www users download bulk data. In rare cases, this is an option, e.g., some government websites, Wikipedia dumps, etc. But this is the exception not the norm.

In light of these comments complaining about accessing LLMs through Web APIs I am wondering:

Are "Web APIs", "SaaS", etc. now being turned against the people who concertedly promoted these tactics, namely, software developers.

I always saw "APIs" as an easy way website operators could deny access to www users. Like some requirement to have an "account" in order to access public information. Those providing these "APIs" have the data in a format they could provide for download, e.g., JSON, but bulk downloads are not provided. This tactic of charging fees is quite different from how websites operated for the first decades I used the www.

Similarly, LLM providers have details about the models, e.g., weights, etc., in formats they could provide for download. Instead, users are encouraged to "sign up", "subscribe", or whatever, for access to public information^1 through an "API".

1. Assuming the provider obtained the training material from the www, a public resource.
by refurb | 2025-06-28 03:30:29+00:00
True, US politics has no sense of fair play (but I haven’t seen much better in other countries I’ve lived). I would fully expect Rs to complain about it if it used against them.

And it may be overturned, but judicial decisions are based on law to date. So if either party games it to the detriment of the system, I’d assume it would be overturned.
by holuponemoment | 2025-06-28 03:30:38+00:00
Anyone who's dealt with their insane arbitrary account bans knows exactly what's under the hood at Anthropic as a company, a headless chicken pecking at buttons.

I'm a long paying customer, my only usage at all of Claude is for devops IAC and debugging, suddenly out of the blue they decided to ban my account and keep the money. It's unreal.

The response to my appeal said after "lengthy consideration" I had broke the T&C's.
by refurb | 2025-06-28 03:33:12+00:00
It’s an interesting system looking from the outside in.

A party with a majority in power has little to stop any legislation the party decides to pass.

The senate is mostly a rubber stamp. The courts are independent but won’t nullify legislation unless it violates the charter.

MPs can’t not vote with the party unless they want to risk their political career (or it’s a free vote - but that’s reserved for unimportant legislation.

The ruling party can pass whatever the heck they want without much concern.
by apitman | 2025-06-28 03:34:23+00:00
This is actually pretty compelling to me. I think the more support for freestanding wasm modules the better.

I'm working on a custom wasm app runtime and I don't want to have to implement the entire API surface of Emscripten or WASI. The new component model is even more complex. I wish there was more tooling available for using C/Rust stdlib functions for things like reading files or opening a socket, but being able to define your own API to handle the actually operations in the host/module interface.
by thallukrish | 2025-06-28 03:34:48+00:00
Yes. That seems to be the case. While it may not be saving any time compared to generating general python code vs. specific symbolic code, the real value could be that it has an engine to enforce the contract on LLM responses with the library or even do the calls to the LLM as a common piece of code making it less error prone and bringing consistency in the interactions with the LLM.
by AceyMan | 2025-06-28 03:34:50+00:00
>for me its the praise you recieve as children, from significant adults, teachers, parents etc, that set you up to follow through with your dreams.

And this is why modern child psychology de-emphasizes praise.

As it was put to me in one of the attachment parenting classes, "If your children rely on your praise to know if they're doing well, what will they do when you're not around?"

My son is fifteen now, top of his class, loves to study and read, and in his entire life I've never once said, "Good job" to him.

The way you handle it is ask them to reflect on their accomplishment: What do you think about that? How did it make you feel? Etc.

And if you feel like you must use an exclamation, just a "Wow!" is perfect.

As was also shown to us in the classes, children don't seek your praise; they seek your attention (big difference).
The illusion of a zero load time
by AliceHe2003 | 2025-06-28 03:35:03+00:00
Last summer, I started learning web development through an online course called The Odin Project. As I got more comfortable with web standards and user interface design, I decided to build something personal: my own website.

As a content creator with over 1 million followers across Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, and Snapchat, and over 10 million monthly views, I wanted a site that truly reflected who I am. The result is a 4-page website featuring a homepage, about me, portfolio, and sponsor info.

One of my favorite parts is the portfolio page, where I showcase my artwork using a parallax effect. But early on, I ran into a major performance problem: the page took ~30 seconds to fully load. Lighthouse was giving me a performance score of ~20%.

After some digging, I realized the issue—too many large PNG files. I converted them to WebP, a modern image format that uses better compression with minimal quality loss. This brought my score up to ~50%, but load times were still noticeable.

So I optimized further. I used the “useEffects” hook in React to pre-load all WebP image objects after the homepage loads. Since most traffic enters through the homepage (linked in my social bios), this optimization ensured that images would be ready by the time users reached the portfolio.

The result? Lighthouse score over 90%, and near-instant image rendering

Check it out here: https://artbyaalice.netlify.app/
by nobody9999 | 2025-06-28 03:35:18+00:00
>That's not new. It's called a circuit split, and generally results in the cases being combined when SCOTUS hears them to sort out the difference.

Absolutely. As it should be.

The problem here is that the SCOTUS decision under discussion here makes it less likely (perhaps quite unlikely) that the SCOTUS will even be asked to "sort out the difference."

That's because their ruling today made it clear that if you're not a named plaintiff in a suit against the government, you are not subject to/protected by any ruling on that case, unless and until, a SCOTUS ruling sorts it out.

And since the prevailing party has no standing to appeal (only the "losing" party -- party as in plaintiff/defendant, not political party), if the Executive Branch doesn't appeal, SCOTUS will never see such cases -- thus leaving the Executive branch to do literally anything with impunity outside the realm of the circuit court involved.
by jacknews | 2025-06-28 03:35:34+00:00
It's talking about building a 'friend compound', so of course there will be an in and an out group.

It's one thing to agree with a bunch of friends to live close-by in a particular city, but something quite different to create a 'friend compound' or 'bestie street', ie something obviously exclusive.

And I begin to wonder if 'friend' is a cover of some kind. Are these swinger communities? Or hasidic enclaves, or mormons or whatever?
by dafelst | 2025-06-28 03:38:31+00:00
Rust (without use of `unsafe`) eliminates several entire classes of bugs (including bugs that comprise the majority of security related memory safety issues) while providing performance comparable to C/C++.

That is really all there is to it - it is just the better option for systems programming by almost all available metrics, and I say this as someone who has been coding C and C++ professionally for coming up on 25 years.
by somat | 2025-06-28 03:39:06+00:00
Can confirm, Working programaticly with XML is not really that bad, there is a well formed query syntax(xpath), the dom api just works.

Until some joker decided to employ xml namespaces, then everything turns ugly real fast. I am not sure I can articulate why it is so unpleasant, something about how everything gets super verbose and api now needs all sorts of extra state.