MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rayiner | 2025-06-28 17:23:01+00:00
> But in 2024 he continued to used terms like “Drain the Swamp” that directly refer to downsizing government.

In this context, "drain the swamp" refers to downsizing the Democrat-voting civil service. It's chiefly an objection to the fact that, even when a Republican wins, the actual government is controlled by people who hate Republicans and try to undermine the elected administration's policies.

RCP has Trump at 45% approve, 51% disapprove, which is where Obama was for much of his second term. Biden was significantly below that for all but two short periods after 2021. So if people voted for Trump thinking he'd cut Social Security and Medicare and now are disappointed about it, it's not showing up in the polling.

> As to Democrats it’s not a hand wavy standpoint.

It's totally unmoored from reality. The 2022 deficit was $1.4 trillion. The total income of people in the top 1% that year was $3.3 trillion, and they paid $560 billion in income taxes: https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/latest-federal-in....

You could double the federal tax burden on everyone from Facebook program managers up to Mark Zuckerberg and not come close to closing the deficit, much less making room for universal healthcare and free college. But "we'll have generous government services and the rich people will pay for it" is the same sort of innumerate fantasy as "we'll build a wall and Mexico will pay for it."

Every European country today pays for its welfare state with heavy, broad-based taxes on the top 60%. If you're telling people that you can have a European-style welfare state without European-style middle classes taxes, then you're in RFK Jr. anti-vaxxer levels of denying reality.

> ~Half of federal revenue came from companies in the 1950’s today it’s vastly lower.

It was never more than about 30%, during World War II and immediately thereafter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_taxation_in_the_Uni.... It was back below 20% by the mid 1960s. But it's 2025, not 1955. The U.S. doesn't have the leverage to tax trans-national corporations the way it did when Europe's economy was obliterated by World War II.

The massive reduction of corporate income tax as a source of tax revenue has happened across the entire developed world.
by seec | 2025-06-28 17:23:43+00:00
Couldn't agree more. And recently they have mostly increased frequency to stay competitive, at the expense of heat, throttling and to a minor extent battery life (not that much because some efficiency was gained elsewhere).

They look good on specific workflows because they are focused on specific accelerators and code path optimisation that they know is more beneficial to the way most of their customers use their hardware.

But their lead is hardly uniform and there are still plenty of things where they are barely doing better than intel, if at all. And their GPUs that are supposedly good don't perform that well outside of benchmarks, efficient, surely but not exactly something to rave about.

When you look at it from a high vantage point, there have been a lot of compromises to be made to get mostly efficiency/battery life, the transition wasn't cheap and some stuff will forever stay stuck.

With the progress of Intel/AMD it doesn't feel like that big of a win. And this is also why ARM isn't working so well on the Windows side. So much to give up for not that significant gains.

At least we know it was mostly about architecture optimisation and access to better lithography processes. Eventually they will all converge to similar performances and we will regret the code compatibility. Some big software houses (like Autodesk) basically got vindicated for not building software for macOS, it's not a really good sentiment for the Mac long term.

It's not clear if any of it matters because clearly, they would rather sell iPads with a software distribution monopoly in the form of their App Store. Maybe with EU ruling they will change their mind, but I doubt it, as long as they can maintain their marketing...
by xg15 | 2025-06-28 17:24:08+00:00
That's a very good question, and thank you for sharing the experience of your family.

I can't really say.

From what I see here, there is not a lot of discussion in that area. (That was the first time I heard about those refugee camps, but that may just be me)

From what I understand, the discussion for a long time was more about whether Jews would even want to come back to.Germany, after all the other Germans did to them.

German reflection on the Nazi period also happened in multiple stages. From what I know, the initial phase, right after the war, was quite inadequate. Yes, there were the Nuremberg Trials, but both Allies and Germans were interested in quickly getting back to some kind of "normal" and rebuilding the country - the US and the Soviets in particular in preparation for the imminent conflict between them. So a lot of Nazi personnel stayed in office.

I believe, support of Israel in that time was seen as a sort of reparation that conveniently made it unnecessary to engage with the Nazi past on a deeper level. (I did wonder when learning more about the conflict recently, why the Allies didn't designate some are inside former Germany as a Jewish state - let's say the Rhineland. That would have been entirely justified IMO. But of course the question of Israel was already settled at that time.)

There was a sort of "second stage" a generation later, during the Civil Rights movement, where students forced a revisit of the Nazi past. I believe, a lot of the currently known details of the Holocaust are coming from that phase. But I think they didn't say a lot about Israel and just saw it as an emancipatory, left-wing project.

Today, people here are enormously proud that Jewish communities exist again in Germany, though it's understood that it's still a lot less than before the war.

It would be an interesting question how the sentiment of German leadership towards Jews was in the 50s and 60s.
by TZubiri | 2025-06-28 17:24:32+00:00
Damn, I just read this and it's comforting to see how similar it is to my own response.

To elaborate on this, I don't know much about MCP, but usually when people speak about it is in a buzzword-seeking kind of way, and the people that are interested in it make these kinds of conceptual snafus.

Second, and this applies not just to MCP, but even things like JSON, Rust, MongoDB. There's this phenomenon where people learn the complex stuff before learning the basics. It's not the first time I've cited this video on Homer studying marketing where he reads the books out of order https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BT7_owW2sU . It makes sense that this mistake is so common, the amount of literature and resources is like an inverted pyramid, there's so little classical foundations and A LOT of new stuff, most of which will not stand the test of time. Typically you have universities to lead the way and establish a classical corpus and path, but being such a young discipline, 70 years in and we are still not finding much stability, Universities have gone from teaching C, to teaching Java, to teaching Python (at least in intro to CS), maybe they will teach Rust next, but this buzzwording seems more in line with trying to predict the future, and there will be way more losers than winners in that realm. And the winners will have learned the classicals in addition to the new technology, learning the new stuff without the classics is a recipe for disaster.
by SeanAnderson | 2025-06-28 17:25:17+00:00
> I wonder if Rust can reap some of the benefits of arena-based allocation by leveraging its lifetime tracking.

I'm reminded of one positive remark made here: https://loglog.games/blog/leaving-rust-gamedev/#ecs-solves-t...

> The key point being, this allows a language like Rust to completely side-step the borrow checker and allow us to do "manual memory management with arenas" without actually touching any hairy pointers, and while remaining 100% safe. If there was one thing to point at that I like about Rust, it'd be this. Especially with a library like thunderdome it really feels that this is a great match, and that this data structure very well fits the language as it was intended.
by smallerize | 2025-06-28 17:25:25+00:00
I don't think anyone is tracking involuntary holds in real time. The article includes a psychiatrist who says that they have seen more of them recently, which is the best you're likely to get for at least a couple of months after a trend starts. Then you have to take budget or staffing shortfalls, trends in drug use, various causes of homelessness and other society-wide stressors, etc. https://ensorahealth.com/blog/involuntary-commitment-is-on-t...
by seeknotfind | 2025-06-28 17:25:27+00:00
> So I said, imagine you had 10,000,000sub10 grains of sand. Then you could … well, uh … you could fill about 10,000,000sub10 copies of the observable universe with that sand.

I don't get this part. Is it really rounding away the volume of the observable universe divided by the average volume of a grain of sand? That is many more orders of magnitude than the amount of mass in the universe, which is a more usual comparison.
by TZubiri | 2025-06-28 17:26:17+00:00
I wasn't able to find a good source on it, but I read a couple of times that Anthropic (builders of MCP) do astroturfing/shilling/growth hacking/SEO/organic advertisement. Everything I've read so far with MCP and Claude and the hype I see on social media is consistent with that, hype and no value.
by beering | 2025-06-28 17:27:16+00:00
> why is it you can talk endlessly with ChatGPT models (specifically I'm referring to the configuration of the models and the application) about a dangerous delusion but not chemical weapons??

Because exploring my sprituality and meaning in life is not akin to making WMDs? I don’t actually do that with chatgpt, but the line between “accepted spiritual and religious practices” and “dangerous delusions” is hard to draw.
by edanm | 2025-06-28 17:27:26+00:00
I disagree that there are two driving ideologies here that are diametrically opposed.

Hamas's ideology is certainly opposed to Israel existing, but they are not the only Palestinians, and other ideologies can take hold and be supported by the populace (I hope). The Palestinian Authority has been working together with Israel since its founding, after all, and with all the problems it has, it still represents a model that could work, in theory, and they pursue largely diplomatic ways to gain recognition.
by thoughtstheseus | 2025-06-28 17:27:33+00:00
If litigants receive relief through a PI, it addresses their specific harm. Extending it nationwide may be unwanted if other jurisdictions have different views on the policy. The Supreme Court’s ruling ensures relief is tailored to the parties or district, preventing a single district judge from dictating national policy.

While federal law applies uniformly, reasonable people and courts can disagree on controversial issues. Localized PIs allow diverse judicial input and foster a broader dialogue before a final ruling.

Court shopping for nationwide injunctions, common in cases like Obama’s DACA or Trump’s policies, lets one judge halt national policy…

Affirming a democratically elected executive’s mandate, Obama with DACA or Trump with immigration reforms is reasonable and respects the separation of powers.

IMO Congress needs to act more effectively, passing clear laws on issues like immigration to reduce reliance on executive orders and judicial battles.
by lowleveldesign | 2025-06-28 17:28:04+00:00
I understand the burden that too much notes may take on you. I am a software troubleshooter and I used to keep my raw notes of all the interesting cases I encountered. However, with time, this set became hard to navigate. Additionally, when I was rereading my notes, they seemed chaotic and hard to follow. I now prefer to create a succinct summary of a closed case, explaining the taken steps, my thinking, and the solution, so that my future self could understand it :)
by discostrings | 2025-06-28 17:28:45+00:00
Missing vertical taskbar is probably the most egregious omission, but it's not so much they took it away as it is they created versions of a number of Windows Explorer components in a higher-level technology without implementing half the features and shipping it with 50x the number of bugs. I at least weekly (and often daily) run into issues with taskbar icons overlapping one another, menus not coming up when clicked, the tray icons breaking, etc.

Same story with navigating the file system--the new implementation has a multitude of issues, including getting into a state where clicking files to select them only works below a certain invisible horizontal line in the window, windows not refreshing when files have been added/removed, trying to rename a file you just copied being an exercise in frustration with the view refreshing and exiting the rename state 5 - 10 seconds after the copy, the address bar breaking in about a dozen different ways... it's really frustrating software that's a full few tiers down from the quality standard set by Windows 10 and previous versions.

It's gotten slightly better since the initial Windows 11 release, but it still feels like pre-release quality software. I was hoping they'd get it up to release quality and add the important features back by the sunset of Windows 10, but it looks like Microsoft really doesn't care about the quality of the experience of using their UI.

If it were only missing the vertical taskbar as a design decision that would be one thing, but instead it's the very obvious tip of an iceberg of lack of user focus, care, quality, resourcing, and skill. They don't add it back because they know in their current state they're not going to do it well, and the money's in dreaming up new ways of force-feeding trash "news" and promotions anyway, not in helping you get things done and providing a well-functioning tool and bicycle for the mind. What if someone put the taskbar on the left side of the screen, it interfered with them seeing the clickbait brainrot of the widgets "feature", and Microsoft didn't get its average $.0003 for each interaction?
by lupusreal | 2025-06-28 17:29:07+00:00
They've deliberately engineered these language models to suck the user's dick. Besides the obvious and apparently realized potential to cause psychological harm to credulous users, it also makes these language models borderline useless in many cases. You can't ask these models if any of your ideas are good because they'll almost always suck your dick and say your idea is the best idea ever. To get any sort of critical feedback I've take to doing:

> "My friend said [my own idea] but I think that sounds wrong. Can you explain what the problems are?"

What an absolute pain in the ass. Sycophantic bots make me sick.
by bostik | 2025-06-28 17:29:14+00:00
I know - absolutely know - that this is going to be an unpopular opinion, but I believe it deserves to be said:

> People know that the system only caters to the whims of billionaires and tells the rest of us to eat shit.

Things will not change until enough of the people affected are willing to play equally dirty, and rescind any remnants of their morals. Quite some time ago, the French developed a way of keeping the worst excesses of their elite in check. It worked, although it certainly wasn't perfect or pretty. And then Robespierre came along and ruined it for everybody. [0]

We already live in a world ruled by lack of morals. Individuals hanging on to theirs will not make a difference. Sadly.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror
by keutoi | 2025-06-28 17:29:20+00:00
It might be true that I am in a bubble and I am only hearing voices supporting these atrocities.

Democracy need not represent the majority, but if it works against the majority without any repercussions then who is to blame? Will the leadership be held accountable?

This war was started because the government knew they can get away with it. Every citizen is complicit in every crime committed by their government. Don't the citizens enjoy the fruits of crime even after claiming to oppose the actions of their government?
by codegeek | 2025-06-28 17:30:03+00:00
Most VCs (YC included) makes it clear that they invest in people/teams, not ideas or the product. Picking people to fund is mostly a gamble anyway. So a lot of VCs or funds try to maximize their changes of success by looking at indicators like Ivy league schools. It is an indicator if all else is equal. Think of it this way. Would you be more inclined to fund either:

Team A: Ivy leaguers with an unknown idea/product

OR

Team B: No name people with an unknown idea/product or even a reasonable idea but too early to prove scale for VC funding.

So even though YC (and other VCs) doesn't reject people that not Ivy Leaguers (many have been funded), the bar is much higher for those people. It is the unfortunate reality. I personally don't see anything wrong with that. Every VC wants to maximize their chance of success in investing in startups which is already a gamble.
by Sam6late | 2025-06-28 17:30:16+00:00
As with magic mushroom and bipolar disorder, I think there are high-risk people,and we are at an early stage,ChatGPT psychosis is not an official diagnosis but describes cases where AI interactions contribute to delusional thinking and there are high-risk groups, people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or paranoid tendencies.Maybe there will be AI warning labels, mental health filter. Most articles to credible sources have been made into dead links https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/15/1074185/ai-chatb... Dr. John Torous (Harvard Psychiatry)warns that AI chatbots lack the ability to assess mental state and may inadvertently validate delusions. Dr. Lisa Rinna (Stanford Bioethics):argues for ethical safeguards to prevent AI from exacerbating mental health issues.
by pama | 2025-06-28 17:30:29+00:00
I had related questions and checked out the project a bit deeper though I havent tested it seriously yet. The project did start work over a year ago based on relevant papers, before vllm or sglang had decent solutions; it might still be adding performance in some workflows though I havent tested it and some of the published measurements in the project are now stale. Caching LLM kv-cache to disk or external memory servers can be very helpful at scale. Cache management and figuring out cache invalidation is hard anyways and I am not sure at what level a tight integration with inference servers or specialized inference popelines can help vs a lose coupling that could advance each component separately. It would be nice if there were decent protocols used by all inference engines to help this decoupling.
by OutOfHere | 2025-06-28 17:30:35+00:00
This tactic won't work so well anymore in the age of LLMs. With the exception of horror movies like C and C++, is now very easy to learn and work with a new language by learning it on the go while working with it using an LLM. One can and should ask an LLM a dozen questions to explain what is happening. Expertise absolutely still matters, but less than it did before.
by anton-c | 2025-06-28 17:31:19+00:00
I just can't implicate a whole country is bad because their regime is bad. I initially had to pause when you questioned "bad regime, good people" but find I can't say all of Iran or China is bad because of their govt - the countries I most often think of when that phrase comes to mind.

Edit: where do you draw the line? Is an immigrant from a 'bad' country a bad person? Why didn't we try more Germans if what you say about support is true?
by 00N8 | 2025-06-28 17:31:23+00:00
When I'm snowboarding on an overcast day, it can sometimes be hard to see the exact shape & conditions of the snow ahead so I have to slow down to make sure I don't catch an edge on a 'hidden' mogul. I'd like an AR system that used LIDAR/FLIR/etc. to augment my vision to see these features better.

I'm also bad at learning & remembering a lot of people's names at once in social settings, so I'd like a discrete pair of AR glasses that used a local model to add virtual nametags to people in certain situations. (Assuming I controlled the data - I wouldn't like it if this meant data about my acquaintances would be sold behind my back).

So there's at least two potential AR applications I'd be interested in, assuming they could be made to work in a trustworthy & reliable manner for under $1k.
by godot | 2025-06-28 17:31:29+00:00
I realize I must be in the minority of software engineers/tech circles, I do not keep a "personal knowledge management" base.

I do have a personal Notion, but the things I keep in it are like list of restaurants we want to try and haven't yet, list of travel destinations we want to go at some point, the trash collection schedule, things like that. Basically references/bookmarks.

I don't keep reading lists, knowledge I learned, or anything like that in an archive. I rely completely on my own memory in my brain for those. (I also don't open up tabs with intentions of "I'll read this later". Either I read it and close it, or don't. If it feels semi-interesting but long, I just skim it, then close it.)

If anything interesting comes up, I talk about it, typically in a group chat (I have about half a dozen group chats with various friend groups or ex-coworkers groups that are active). If a discussion took place about something, I will likely remember it. If I remember some key points, if something comes up in the future about it, I will remember enough to look it up, whether by Google or by LLM. *

I've lived this way for decades professionally and never found myself missing a piece of knowledge in any context that I wish I had. In other words I don't find a use to keep a personal knowledge base.

For those reading this, maybe it helps you think about whether you need one like this as well. Perhaps like the article author here, you might feel more relieved not having one.

* I also want to note that I operate this way at work / in meetings as well. I find that if I try to take notes during meetings, I can't pay attention fully, and can't digest the information being discussed. It works much better if I don't take any notes at all, pay attention in the meeting, and if there's anything important from the meeting, I try to write it down afterwards (typically in a Slack message) from memory. 99% of the time it works fine and once in a long while I might miss something (but someone else who reads my Slack message would fill out what I missed).
Show HN: Samarium – open-source business management tool for developers
by gioeee | 2025-06-28 17:31:30+00:00
Samarium is a work-in-progress business management system that aims to help small businesses handle basic operations like invoicing, inventory, and customer management in one place. While it's still in active development with many features being refined and added, it might be useful for simple business needs.

The project started as a learning exercise but has grown into something that could potentially help others who need basic business management tools without the complexity or cost of enterprise solutions.
by ethbr1 | 2025-06-28 17:31:33+00:00
Taiwan is a tricky case. The CCP isn't unjustified in making a claim to it. Granted: that claim is contrary to international norms, law, and the population's self determination.

But if China were only threatening to invade Taiwan it would be a gray area.

Imho, their claims in the South China Sea are much more obviously expansionist, given the settled cases against them under international law.

Much easier to see those boiling over into China invading a few populated islands of the Philippines.
by edanm | 2025-06-28 17:31:49+00:00
I just want to point out something important about that article - it's not just talking about children, it's specifically talking about pre-teen children. Hamas recruits many "children" in the sense of under-18s to fight, but that's not true of pre-teen children.

(Btw, I don't necessarily agree that that article proves the IDF is firing on children, there's actually no evidence of that presented in the article. But I want to forestall a common "pro-Israeli" objection that is not true in this case.)