MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by spongebobstoes | 2025-06-25 00:10:44+00:00
idk, if you try something like o3-pro, it's definitely smarter than a lot of people I know, for most definitions of "smarter"

Even the chatgpt voice mode is an okay conversation partner, and that's v1 of s2s

variance is still very high, but there is every indication that it will get better

will it surpass cutting edge researchers soon? I don't think in the next 2 years, but in the next 10 I don't feel confident one way or the other
by EnPissant | 2025-06-25 00:13:24+00:00
That's a very poor summary of this: https://x.com/curtis_yarvin/status/1921526333739319458

A better summary might be:

Yarvin tells Scott that today’s populist right is too weak to fear, while the real authoritarian danger comes from the prestige-driven institutions that already steer American life. His shift since 2008 isn’t a sell-out but a recognition that the fuel of mass democracy has run low and that the managerial regime’s ongoing failures are the greater evil.
by smadge | 2025-06-25 00:13:43+00:00
I believe you are interpreting “business need” as “commercial need” when I think it’s more like “what is your business here?” Purely anecdotal, but when I visited Moffett Federal Airfield to visit the aviation history museum there I asked the security guard at the gate checking my ID if I could ride my bike around the base afterwards. He said I needed a business purpose to being on the base and that visiting the museum was a business purpose but biking around aimlessly wasn’t.
by asadotzler | 2025-06-25 00:14:06+00:00
Fair means the same playing field, the same rules, the same consistent outcomes from all the corporations subject to these laws and regulations, and not just one of them who does the right thing. Exercizing loopholes is the opposite of fair. It puts those with the best cheating strategies ahead of those who play by the rules. Because you can catch the ref with his back turned doesn't make you a fair player.
by kevindamm | 2025-06-25 00:15:24+00:00
It seems obvious to me, too, when considered in terms of available capital providing means for experimenting with unproven ideas.

But I think the opposite may legitimately be the intuition for people of generations before ZIRP and the notion of inventiveness when resources are scarce or you're simply out of work. You can see it in the themes of many movies and other media in the 80s and early 90s, too, the hero arc of the inventor down on their luck. I think the idea carried forward for people in their formative years then.
by samus | 2025-06-25 00:16:45+00:00
Shouldn't production models already do this? They already tend to use tokenizers with complex rules to deal with a lot of input that would otherwise be tokenized in a suboptimal way. I recall a bug in an inference engine (maybe llama.cpp?) because of an implementation difference in their regex engine compared to the model trainer. Which means that the tokenizer used regex-based rules to chop up the input.
by osmsucks | 2025-06-25 00:17:37+00:00
Perhaps. I scanned the list and most of them sound like interesting projects that I would like to tackle at some point (or that I have tackled in the past for "fun").

Honestly, I think I was in your same position until recently, then I had some time off work thanks to the newborn and decided to start a "simple" coding project. Since it was purely for fun and to challenge myself, I decided to try and avoid bringing in any dependencies and wrote everything from scratch. This made it much larger and more complex than I had initially anticipated, but despite that (or, maybe, because of that?) I longed for those few hours when I could tinker on my project. Coding suddenly became fun again.

Maybe you're just a bit burnt out?
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-06-25 00:18:24+00:00
My ultimate goal is that authors/publishers get paid a little bit of something rather than a massive nothing (because the all-or-nothing subcribing to individual websites isn't happening).

I feel this issue echoes digital piracy, which I was happy to cease until there were dozens of individual platforms created. If you make it easier to not steal than to steal, less people will steal (is my premise, at least).

For background: I am a blue collar electrician, not a techie. I just want a simple method of paying for consumed news — without having to pay for access to an entire newspaper (which I only want to read ONE article).
by currymj | 2025-06-25 00:18:45+00:00
thanks to training data + this being a popular benchmark, they're pretty good at grinding through symbolic mathematical derivations, which is often useful if you want an explanation of a mathematical concept. there's not really a better tool for this job, except for "a textbook which answers the exact question you have".

but from time to time, doing this does require doing arithmetic correctly (to correctly add two exponents or whatever). so it would be nice to be able to trust that.

i imagine there are other uses for basic arithmetic too, QA applications over data that quotes statistics and such.
by pnw | 2025-06-25 00:18:56+00:00
For consumer products the DMA focuses on companies with at least 45m monthly active users in the EU. They also exempted some categories that might otherwise qualify e.g. the DMA doesn't appear to cover video gaming consoles because they are "special purpose hardware".

You can see the list of covered companies at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Markets_Act#Identified...

It's basically Apple, Amazon, Google, Meta, Bytedance and Microsoft.
by whiskyontheice | 2025-06-25 00:19:22+00:00
Hey!

What's the best Streamlit alternative for you? Here's the ones I've got for the moment. Gradio Reflex NiceGUI Davia Dash Voila Appsmith Shiny Panel Marimo

Would love to know which one you're using and why ! Also let me know if I'm missing one :)
by sneak | 2025-06-25 00:19:24+00:00
Loopholes are the definition of playing by the rules.

Laws are not enacted in spirit, they are drafted, voted on, and enacted in text. What the law says is what matters, not what people assume it wants to achieve.

To claim that complying with the law exactly as it is written is unfair is, quite frankly, undemocratic and an outright rejection of the rule of law.
by jkelleyrtp | 2025-06-25 00:20:17+00:00
You basically need to wrap your program's `tick()` function. Otherwise you might be in the middle of malloc, hot-patch, and your struct's layout and alignment changes, and your program crashes due to undefined behavior.

The goal is that frameworks just bake `subsecond::current` into their `tick()` function and end-users get hot-patching for free.
by jug | 2025-06-25 00:20:19+00:00
Yeah it’s really annoying how opaque they are about the model there. Always just ”GPT 4 based” or ”GPT 4o based” if you dig in their blog archives. Makes one unable to check it against benchmarks or see when it’s updated. Setting expectations. Is it a distill? Lower precision quant? An old revision? Who knows.
by jackschultz | 2025-06-25 00:20:23+00:00
My brother in law curls. Asked him about this and he said that it's been coming for a while, the men's teams at Canadian nationals has a self imposed a ban on them, and for amateurs it doesn't really affect them since they're not good enough to have it make a difference. Seems like it means it's not that big an issue and players aren't arguing to keep them.

Now golf on the other hand has a much bigger equipment issues if people want to see some big time drama.
by vladxyz | 2025-06-25 00:21:01+00:00
It's this. I make the analogy to playing a game with a controller. At some point you stop thinking what combination of physical button presses and holds you need to have your character go from a running start to a crouch-jump, you just think in terms of goals for you want your character to accomplish. vim motions put you in the same sort of connection with the text you're editing.
by kalleboo | 2025-06-25 00:21:24+00:00
OS X could do it, they actually used to support enabling fractional rendering like this through a developer tool (Quartz Debug)

There were multiple problems making it actually look good though - ranging from making things line up properly at fractional sizes (e.g. a "1 point line" becomes blurry at 1.25 scale), and that most applications use bitmap images and not vector graphics for their icons (and this includes the graphic primitives Apple used for the "lickable" button throughout the OS.

edit: I actually have an iMac G4 here so I took some screenshots since I couldn't find any online. Here is MacOS X 10.4 natively rendering windows at fractional sizes: https://kalleboo.com/linked/os_x_fractional_scaling/

IIRC later versions of OS X than this actually had vector graphics for buttons/window controls
by CGamesPlay | 2025-06-25 00:22:26+00:00
You should definitely show the vulnerabilities you found on the front page, instead of showcasing low scores given to popular extensions. Claiming that "rust-analyzer" is "High Risk" is a strong turn-off from me thinking your service is useful (why? because it contains shell commands in the form of "taskDefinitions", and because it uses a dependency to parse ANSI sequences that hasn't received a commit in the past 90 days).
by kristopolous | 2025-06-25 00:23:21+00:00
https://itep.org/55-profitable-corporations-zero-corporate-t...

Some examples:

> Food conglomerate Archer Daniels Midland enjoyed $438 million of U.S. pretax income last year and received a federal tax rebate of $164 million.

> The delivery giant FedEx zeroed out its federal income tax on $1.2 billion of U.S. pretax income in 2020 and received a rebate of $230 million.

> The shoe manufacturer Nike didn’t pay a dime of federal income tax on almost $2.9 billion of U.S. pretax income last year, instead enjoying a $109 million tax rebate.

If you think this is the same as someone putting $7k into a 401k then you are acting in bad faith and we have nothing productive to discuss.
by gruez | 2025-06-25 00:24:50+00:00
"intended use-case" is just more fuzzy language. They probably thought everyone would buy mutual funds, rather than 3X leveraged Nvidia ETFs. Does that mean buying such ETFs (and making bank) mean you're not paying "your fair share"? Or for something more down to earth, what about meme stocks and bitcoin treasury companies, both of which are technically companies, but are definitely not what the authors of the bill had in mind.
by echelon | 2025-06-25 00:25:44+00:00
ChatGPT is better, but Google owns all of the panes of glass (for now).

We've never seen a "Dog Pile vs Yahoo" battle when the giants are of this scale.

It'll be interesting to see if Google can catch up with ChatGPT (seems likely) and if they simply win by default because they're in all of the places (also seems likely). It'd be pretty wild for ChatGPT to win, honestly.
by carlosjobim | 2025-06-25 00:25:49+00:00
That rich guy in your example probably values price discrimination just as much as you do, because he - presumably not being a cheapskate - can just pay more and know that all the conveniences he wants will be there for him. And then he goes back to thinking about his next genius business plan, because it's not worth his time looking for the best bargain. So both win.
by jaffa2 | 2025-06-25 00:25:50+00:00
you make the point very well! You can still remember, what, 20 years later ?

On the nokia you'd press the button and it would cycle through the options. Once you knew all the words you could type really very fast indeed, and blind.

Someone asked about custom words below. You could definitely add custom words. I think you had to switch out of T9, key the word the old way and then switch back then 'add' to dictionary, but once in it would stay in the dictionary. I'm sure the amount of memory for custom words was quoted in marketing material at somepoint.
by gruez | 2025-06-25 00:26:05+00:00
>could count housing expenses, food expenses, education costs, healthcare, entertainment, vacations, vehicle purchases

That's what the standard/itemized deduction is supposed to represent. The problem is that we obviously can't let you deduct everything, because if you can deduct everything there would be nothing to tax, aside from savings. And you really don't want to tax savings because savings (also known as "investment") is what makes the modern economy possible.
by frollogaston | 2025-06-25 00:27:52+00:00
I actually only like working on software that has a real use, at least to myself. The coolest is when I spin something up fast at work and people start relying on it.

Same goes for my car, it's satisfying doing inexpensive fixes to keep it running. Wouldn't want some mid-2000s BMW project that's stuck in the garage half the time.
by bonoboTP | 2025-06-25 00:28:15+00:00
Yes. And from the article "That Anthropic later bought a copy of a book it earlier stole off the internet will not absolve it of liability for theft but it may affect the extent of statutory damages." Sounds reasonable (except for the "stole" and "theft" language -- a copyright violation is a copyright violation, not theft, not stealing).

If the actual model was trained from the unauthorized copies, and then they post-hoc bought the books, that doesn't retroactively cancel the initial copyright violation. As I understand they did not retrain the model using the OCR'd scans
by jodrellblank | 2025-06-25 00:29:08+00:00
> "What is a loophole?"

"A way of avoiding or escaping a cost or legal burden that would otherwise apply by means of an omission or ambiguity in the wording of a contract or law." - The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

What they're describing is corporations using legal strategies to mitigate their tax burdens that you or I cannot do. Lobbying is legal, but you or I cannot lobby to any useful degree. Big-box store companies build their stores to be short-lived buildings, then will only sell them with a contract that says the next occupant cannot be a big-box store, then argue that since value is determined by what someone else will pay and nobody will pay much for the end of life of a short-lived store intended to be a shop but which now cannot be a shop, so their stores are low value and comparable to empty stores, therefore they shouldn't pay much tax on them. "In Wisconsin, new Gov. Tony Evers says his budget proposal will close the dark stores loophole in the state"[1].

> "Legally avoiding taxes isn't cheating."

Try arguing that you would only sell your houses with a stipulation that nobody can live in it, therefore you should pay the same taxes and rates that an empty lot would pay, and see if you still think that "legal is the same as right and fair".

[1] https://slate.com/business/2019/02/dark-store-theory-big-box...
by kccqzy | 2025-06-25 00:29:13+00:00
> The bitter truth is that fractional scaling is impossible.

That's overly prescriptive in terms of what users want. In my experience users who are used to macOS don't mind slightly blurred text. And users who are traditionalists and perhaps Windows users prefer crisper text at the expense of some height mismatches. It's all very subjective.
by shaldengeki | 2025-06-25 00:29:45+00:00
No, you're wrong. They wrote the story before coming up with the model!

In fact the model and technical work has basically nothing to do with the short story, aka the part that everyone read. This is pointed out in the critique, where titotal notes that a graph widely disseminated by the authors appears to be generated by a completely different and unpublished model.
by energywut | 2025-06-25 00:30:31+00:00
I most certainly cannot deduct housing, food, entertainment, vacations, or large purchases.

> The problem is that we obviously can't let you deduct everything, because if you can deduct everything there would be nothing to tax, aside from savings.

This is the point the parent poster is making. We say that it's ok for corporations to deduct everything, but not the people? Why are we ok with that?
by lmm | 2025-06-25 00:32:38+00:00
The factoid that they make all their profit off of loyalty programmes is just a repackaging of the fact that they make pretty much no money overall. So you can pick any one part of the airline operation, account for it in a way that makes it profitable in isolation, and go "oh ho airlines really make all their profit from fuel price arbitrage between different countries" or what have you, and it's sort of true but not really reflective of reality.
by MindSpunk | 2025-06-25 00:32:52+00:00
The quantity of people on this site now that care about GPUs all of a sudden because of the explosion of LLMs, who fail to understand that GPUs are _graphics_ processors that are designed for _graphics_ workloads is insane. It almost feels like the popular opinion here is that graphics is just dead and AMD and NVIDIA should throw everything else they do in the bin to chase the LLM bag.

AMD make excellent graphics hardware, and the graphics tools are also fantastic. AMD's pricing and market positioning can be questionable but the hardware is great. They're not as strong with machine learning tasks, and they're in a follower position for tensor acceleration, but for graphics they are very solid.
by petedoyle | 2025-06-25 00:33:04+00:00
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA), in cooperation with U.S. Space Force and U.S. Northern Command, conducted a flight test on June 23, 2025, in which the Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) at Clear Space Force Station, Alaska, successfully acquired, tracked and reported missile target data to the Command and Control Battle Management and Communications (C2BMC). This was the radar’s first flight test tracking a live Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) representative target. More: https://www.mda.mil/news/25news0006.html
by quantadev | 2025-06-25 00:33:18+00:00
I haven't tried GPT-4.1 yet in VSCode Copilot. I was using 'Claude Sonnet 4' until it was struggling on something yesterday which 3.7 seemed to easily do. So I reverted back to 3.7. I'm not so sure Sonnet 4 was a step forward in coding. It might be a step back.
by cynicalkane | 2025-06-25 00:33:19+00:00
Unironically yes. The reason people want taxes on profits is they think large, powerful companies are a threat... but if you think that, why tax money that large, powerful companies don't waste?

The other reason is to tax the rich, but you can do that by simply taxing the rich directly. If we fear powerful companies, we can put some sort of scaling size tax on the largest ones.
by agarren | 2025-06-25 00:33:27+00:00
> but from time to time, doing this does require doing arithmetic correctly (to correctly add two exponents or whatever). so it would be nice to be able to trust that.

It sounds weird, but try writing your problem in LaTeX - I don’t know why, I’ve found a couple models to be incredibly capable at solving mathematical problems if you write them in LaTeX.
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-25 00:33:34+00:00
Before Tesla the assumption was that electric car technology was difficult so between high costs and low performance the first product was going to be something utilitarian like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1

and the genius of Tesla what that they realized that lithium-ion batteries would enable a car that was desirable, that the market could start with sporty vehicles that are luxurious in some sense. Had anyone else wanted to make luxury EVs they should have tried 20 years ago, or even 10 years ago. That ship has long since sailed.
by nomel | 2025-06-25 00:33:56+00:00
Are you sure you’re reading what I wrote fully? Getting pip, or any of them, to ignore all version requirements, including those listed by the dependencies themselves, required modifying source, last I tried.

I’ve had to modify code this week due to changes in some popular libraries. Some recent examples are Numpy 2.0 broke most code that used numpy. They changed the c side (full interpreter crashes with trimesh) and removed/moved common functions, like array.ptp(). Scipy moved a bunch of stuff lately, and fully removed some image related things.

If you think python libraries are somehow stable in time, you just don’t use many.
by soupbowl | 2025-06-25 00:34:08+00:00
I have a done select logging in Canada for fire and bug control reasons. It can be done, the results were always great looking and also heavily reduced fuel for fires.

Forests need management it is simple, we let mother nature do it with fire or humans need to step up.

I was heavily protested in Canada while doing this, it was impossible to talk to protestors about why the thinning was needed.
by vel0city | 2025-06-25 00:34:13+00:00
> That's what the standard/itemized deduction is supposed to represent.

If they wanted you to deduct housing costs they'd just let you deduct housing costs. Instead they play games about mortgage interest deductions because they want to incentivize certain kinds of living arrangements over others and give handouts to some voters but not others.

I agree the idea of only having households pay taxes on savings is pretty much untenable with existing revenue structures and would be disencentivizing things we want to incentivize. Just pointing out how corporate taxes just seem pretty absurd from what households pay in comparison.

Let's imagine two groups of people. One group gets a bonus and takes that money to go on a cruise. Easily 30%+ of that money gets taken by income taxes (including FICA). The other group gets their company to just pay for them to go on that cruise as a team building exercise/corporate summit/planning meeting/whatever you want to call it. That's negative taxes in the end, the cost of the business operating, it's a cost that offsets revenues. Good luck getting that audited and declared taxable.

Totally seems fair.
by gerdesj | 2025-06-25 00:36:52+00:00
I've recently updated a Python script that I originally wrote about 10 years ago. I'm not a programmer - I just have to get stuff done - think sysops.

For me there used to be a clear delineation between scripting languages and compiled languages. Python has always seemed to want to be both and I'm not too sure it can really. I can live with being mildly wrong about a concept.

When Python first came out, our processors were 80486 at best and RAM was measured in MB at roughly £30/MB in the UK.

"For the longest time, ..." - all distros have had scripts that find the relevant Python or Java or whatevs so that's simply daft. They all have shebang incantations too.

So we now have uv written in Rust for Python. Obviously you should install it via a shell script directly from curl!

I love all of the components involved here but please for the love of a nod to security at least suggest that the script is downloaded first, looked over and then run.

I recently came across a Github hosted repo with scripts that changed Debian repos to point somewhere else and install ... software. I'm sure that's all fine too.

curl | bash is cute and easy and very, very insecure.
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