MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nailer | 2025-06-25 00:37:27+00:00
I honestly have no idea whether buy now pay later is considered good or bad. The article is email-walled so I don’t know.

I was fiscally responsible and didn’t buy things on credit. I had a low credit score.

Now I deliberately pat for things on credit then pay them off immediately to have a high credit score.

Maybe we could replace credit score with an actual measure of financial responsibility?
by jihadjihad | 2025-06-25 00:37:43+00:00
Kind of surprised there’s no mention of Fletchers’ Mill [0] here, they’re good quality mills made in Maine. The pepper mills use stainless steel while the salt mills use nylon (corrosion resistance), so you’d have to look elsewhere for salt.

Personally I just dump kosher salt into a salt cellar and call it a day but I am sure there are plastic-free salt mills out there somewhere.

0: https://fletchersmill.com
by bonoboTP | 2025-06-25 00:38:37+00:00
I guess the optimistic take would be that we will get novel, insightful synthesis of disparate fields of knowledge that no human so far was ever able to hold in their mind to contemplate their interrelations. And this will elevate the human spirit etc. The equivalent to the take that the Internet will bring peoples together and foster better understanding and love between people who so far were not in dialogue and this will bring peace and an understanding or how similar we all are etc etc. Not exactly how it played out in the end though. Or how social media and web 2.0 will bring enhanced democracy and transparency and clarity and that the common person will have a voice and so on.

So I'm not exactly naive, but we should then discuss this instead of the red herring of copyright.
by inetknght | 2025-06-25 00:38:42+00:00
"reasonably well" as in... yeah it works. But it's extremely laggy (for comparison, I know people who forwarded DirectX calls over 10Mbit ethernet and could get ~15 frames/sec playing Unreal Tournament in the early 00's), and any network blip is liable to cause a window that you can neither interact with nor forcefully close.

It felt like a prototype feature that never became production-ready for that reason alone. Then there's all the security concerns that solidify that.

But yes, it does work reasonably well, and it is actually really cool. I just wish it were... better.
by Sytten | 2025-06-25 00:39:54+00:00
Since I am the cofounder of a mostly manual based testing in that space we do follow the new AI hackbots closely. There is a lot of money being raised (Horizon3 at 100M, Xbow at 87M, Mindfort will probably soon raise).

The future is definitely a combination of human and bots like anything else, it won't replace the humans just like coding bots won't replace devs. In fact this will allow humans to focus ob the fun/creative hacking instead of the basic/boring tests.

What I am worried about is on the triage/reproduction side, right now it is still mostly manual and it is a hard problem to automate.
by LinguaBrowse | 2025-06-25 00:40:09+00:00
Was wondering how they got hold of "Powdered Milk from 1952 Korean War Rations", but they even answer that!

> COLLECTION LOCATION: > eBay, sold by littlebitoeverythingjoe

Amazing how meticulous they've been, right down to recording the conditions that the package was shipped in:

> SHIPPED IN: > Original packaging inside Ziploc bag > > SHIPPING METHOD: > UPS Overnight

https://www.plasticlist.org/product/37
by colechristensen | 2025-06-25 00:40:59+00:00
>the Republic of Congo as an example, it's currently in an acute crisis as a result of heavy conflicts

It is by no means acute, DRC has been chaotic with war for decades and has likewise been towards the bottom of these kinds of lists of quality of life, an improvement from 2014-2024 is entirely believable because it wouldn't take much.

The news there from 2014 sounds very much like the news there from 2024

https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2014/country-chapters/democ...
by old_man_cato | 2025-06-25 00:42:25+00:00
https://ai-2027.com/research says that:

AI 2027 relies on several key forecasts that couldn't be fully justified in the main text. Below we present the detailed research supporting these predictions.

You're saying the story was written, then the models were created and the two have nothing to do with one another? Then why does the research section say "Below we present the detailed research supporting these predictions"?
by vel0city | 2025-06-25 00:42:41+00:00
Most of my health expenses, sure. Not necessarily all of them, unless I play games and live within allowed limits of tax advantaged savings accounts which might just eat my money at the end of the year.

My vacations, car payments, food expenses, and housing expenses are absolutely not able to be written off. One part of my housing expenses may be able to be written off, but not anywhere near all of them. Some education expenses, but not nearly all. I get $5k of untaxed income for childcare for the year. How many weeks do you think $5k covers for two kids?
by Eisenstein | 2025-06-25 00:43:25+00:00
A top of the line consumer desktop, the Mac Pro, costs $7000. The commonly acknowledged first non-mechanical computer, the ENIAC, cost $400,000, which adjusted for inflation is $6,594,153 (see note). Will AI models follow the same pricing trajectory? Probably not but they no longer cost even close to $100 billion.

Note: 1946 CPI = 19.5, 2025 CPI = 321.465 which makes for an increase of 16.49.
by unstatusthequo | 2025-06-25 00:45:34+00:00
I wish you were kidding but I doubt it given how much taxes are loved on HN. Income taxes are too high as they are. Taxed when you earn, tax when you spend, taxed on property, taxed to use your car, to fill your car or EV, taxed on inheritance, taxed on capital gains, etc. It’s out of control and is making the income division worse. Corporations R posting massive profits, dodging fair tax payments through creative loopholes, and then our lawmakers mis-spend the taxes they do taken. The entire system is broken.

And I really don’t think the EU is a model for tax sanity. Look at eliminating loopholes, not squeezing the average Joe even more than they already are. Their shit salary isn’t even keeping up with inflation. But their taxes sure do.
by gbacon | 2025-06-25 00:45:37+00:00
No royalty contract is getting an author a thousand bucks per sale. If you have to wildly exaggerate to make your point, then the point isn’t compelling.

Books have a resale market. Every “lost sale” isn’t necessarily of a new purchase from a bookstore or Amazon.

Copyright has a place. Rent-seeking authors attacking LLM owners is not a sympathetic case. Said authors are demanding to have their ideas relegated to unknown backwaters. It makes the authors worse off. It makes the community poorer. Cui bono?
by GianFabien | 2025-06-25 00:45:38+00:00
In my experience the bad managers are constantly trying to impress their bosses and curry the next promotion. They treat their reports like serfs who are obliged to burnish their image.

The best managers (very few) I've come across are like a mother bear. Protective of their team, running interference and pushing back on out of scope work, etc.

I've only ever had one manager whose calendar was viewable by his team. If he needed a meeting with you, he would ping by email with the subject and any supporting materials and asking you to block out the meeting time in his calendar. Talk about respecting your productive times.
by calmbonsai | 2025-06-25 00:45:51+00:00
Amen. Every app already has my email and I'm happy to be "marketed to" there so long as I can one-click unsubscribe from them.

I stopped using the Instacart app as it just keeps piling on more and more "offer overlays" that I have to click-away. At least with the web, I can remove them with preemptive HTML parsing and just "view the essentials" to get the job done.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-06-25 00:46:53+00:00
The damage at those wavelengths is just overheating. Your eyes are mainly water with its absurdly high heat capacity compared to pretty much anything in an image sensor. I'd expect eyes to be much more resilient in short duration, high intensity exposures and significantly better at long duration, low intensity exposures. LIDARs have been shifting towards short duration exposures to get higher intensities (for range) in recent years, simply to stay under the class 1 limits.
by whalesalad | 2025-06-25 00:47:03+00:00
Using this is kind of a pain in the butt (looking thru all installed extensions and pasting in the raw name one by one). Could this be packaged as an extension itself, that scans other extensions? Or provide a CLI command to export all of your installed extensions as a list, which you can then upload? Or better, a one liner that will export your extensions to stdin, POST them to your API, and it will return a URL that you can click and load in the browser to explore the breakdown of (potential) issues.
by FredPret | 2025-06-25 00:47:03+00:00
Here's some interesting thinking about different kinds of tax:

https://economicsobservatory.com/which-taxes-are-best-and-wo...

> "Raising the income tax rate has by far the least negative effect on GDP. In the long run, the simulation shows that the economy pretty much returns to baseline levels, with a slight increase in potential output.

The opposite is true for corporation taxes. A rise in the corporation tax rate leads to a severe and negative initial fall in GDP. Potential output also decreases. This leads to lower productivity, higher inflationary pressures and deteriorating economic circumstances in the long run.

A rise in indirect taxes (such as VAT) does not affect GDP quite as badly as a rise in corporation taxes, but it does affect GDP more substantially than a rise in income taxes. Indirect taxes operate largely through the price channel, increasing the prices of goods. By artificially raising prices, demand is curtailed."
by yen223 | 2025-06-25 00:48:05+00:00
The way Google implemented leap seconds wasn't by sticking a 23:59:60 second at the end of 31st Dec. The way they did it was more interesting.

What they did instead was to "smear" it across the day, by adding 1 / 86400 seconds to every second on 31st Dec. 1/86400 seconds is well within the margin of error for NTP, so computers could carry on doing what they do without throwing errors.

Edit: They smeared it from noon before the leap second, to the noon after, i.e 31st Dec 12pm - 1st Jan 12pm.
by dlcarrier | 2025-06-25 00:48:32+00:00
You don't have to use xrandr to create a custom framebuffer with scaling and/or centering, although it is capable of doing so. You can also use Gamescope (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamescope), which works on both X11 and Wayland, and with any GPU.

Traditionally it's used to launch a full-screen application, usually a game, but you can launch your window manager through it, if you want your desktop session to use a custom resolution with custom scaling and/or letterboxing.
by dh2022 | 2025-06-25 00:49:26+00:00
By income taxes do you mean personal income tax?

In any case, corporations benefit from airports / roads / ports / law enforcement / defense / education / etc... which are funded by local / federal governments. So corporations have a moral duty for to contribute to these expenses by paying taxes.

(But it is only a moral duty, and not a legal obligation. So corporations end up paying nothing, or next to nothing.)
by kllrnohj | 2025-06-25 00:49:42+00:00
Yeah this is kinda the big elephant in the room here? They didn't prove what they set out to prove. Yes obviously OpenGL does scaling just fine, the entire point of Wayland is to get the compositor to just being a compositor. They didn't do any scaling with X. They didn't do anything at all with X other than ask it some basic display information.
Ask HN: What is the ultimate secret to growth?
by ottaborra | 2025-06-25 00:49:46+00:00
I've noticed if at all there is any advice that is universally applicable overarching discipline, motivation, ... is growth.

Plain and simple.

The way to grow is so subtle, so easy to miss, negligent from afar and in the long run catches up to you. I've noticed going from someone who used to sweat profusely while ordering food to able to go and talk to anybody. But it didn't come consciously, it came after a long long time of screw ups and medicore experiences and just exchanges I wouldn't have thought led anywhere. It definitely is non linear atleast from my experience. SO I'm curious to know what you folks think is the best way to grow
by heavyset_go | 2025-06-25 00:49:50+00:00
> On Android, however, this is not as easy or straightforward and I cannot think of a way to do this, to be honest. That is why I prefer these programs to have Tor bundled and run the hidden service by themselves with a hardened-enough torrc. Ricochet does this on desktop, which I think is the right way to go about this. SimpleX's server (https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplexmq) should do this.

What I do is run Wireguard on my server with a Tor daemon, connect to the WG network on my phone and then access the SOCKS and DNS proxies the Tor daemon exposes.

That way there is no need for Orbot or running Tor on Android at all.
by xwolfi | 2025-06-25 00:50:16+00:00
On the road you could have killed someone. Your 20$ baby monitor bought from an authorized store you know... whatever happens, it's not gonna kill anyone very directly ...

The main ingredient of crime is intent, whatever you say. A smaller ingredient can be recklessness, but maybe it's the ISPs sending all those millions of empty packets to a single server that should start feeling some heat ?
by gruez | 2025-06-25 00:50:37+00:00
>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?

Because companies, to some approximation, are pass-through entities, so it doesn't make sense to tax them. Most of the stuff you buy are for own use/consumption. Food is an obvious one, but so are movie tickets TV and last year's European vacation. Companies don't do any of that. It doesn't need food, movie tickets, or European vacations. It might buy flight tickets for its employees to go on sales trips or whatever, but it's not for the company itself. Moreover if you're buying stuff for business purposes (eg. you're a contractor and need a flight ticket to go meet your client), you can deduct it too.

More practically, taxing revenue or not allowing companies to deduct expenses would heavily encourage vertical integration. A vertically integrated widget factory will only have to pay such a tax once, but a widget factory that buys its sheet metal from a foundry, which gets its ores from a miner will have to pay the tax 3 times. That's bad for the economy because it discourages specialization and division of labor, which is basically the other pillar of the modern economy.
by Barbing | 2025-06-25 00:50:38+00:00
Why is Microsoft special?

ChatGPT. Perplexity. Google AI Mode. All let you get a message off.

… WAIT! copilot dot microsoft dot com lets you just send a message without logging in.

—

heh, the second result on DuckDuckGo is an MS article: “What is Copilot, and how can you use it?”

Products mentioned in the article, they say:

| Copilot | Copilot app | Copilot for individuals |

And a link for each one. Does Satya squirm when he sees that, but doesn’t have the power to change it?

Also the word “individuals” (allegedly previously mentioned) appears only once on the page.
by disambiguation | 2025-06-25 00:52:08+00:00
"smart" could be defined as: the act of consistently making good decisions - which can further be defined as: effective optimization towards an outcome. (defining the outcome is itself a matter of making a "good decision")

This requires all of: being aware of a given problem, being sufficiently informed of the relevant context (which is further a matter of curiosity, discerning between trustworthy sources, and robust sense making), and finally caring enough to apply any attention and effort to the issue in the first place.

In this regard, almost everyone is "stupid' about everything most of the time. If anyone manages to achieve "smartness" it's usually in a very narrow decision space.

In terms of AI and education, the problem is: the path of least resistance is an optimal one - at least in a greedy sense.

The usefulness of the tool and "smartness" of the user are irrelevant to the core issue - general education is rapidly eroding. This is strongly correlated to (if not outright caused by) the ongoing rapid changes in technology.

The issue is that structured education originally meant: relying on your own wits, which in turn strengthened them. No cheat codes allowed.

This is no longer the case. Not only because of students using AI, but because "the path of least resistance" applies to educators and administrators as well.

Technology will change but educating people remains a fundamental good - to that end, institutions must adapt to make sure every student gets the proper enrichment they deserve. Get cheat codes out of education.
by mindslight | 2025-06-25 00:52:11+00:00
The topic's entire complaint is of people not liking a government action, arrived at by government policy. You made a comment that the "government is not involved". Reading your other comments in this thread, it seems as if your point is to brush aside people's concerns as if they are nonsensical. But that simplistic statement is obviously false, because we are talking about a government order. My comments only seem pedantic because I've had to tediously spell out the details in response to your argumentative wriggling instead of you just accepting that your simplistic statement was wrong.
by westurner | 2025-06-25 00:54:25+00:00
mujoco_menagerie has Mujoco MJCF XML models of various robots.

google-deepmind/mujoco_menagerie: https://github.com/google-deepmind/mujoco_menagerie

mujoco_menagerie/aloha: https://github.com/google-deepmind/mujoco_menagerie/tree/mai...
by mock-possum | 2025-06-25 00:54:37+00:00
I just used an LLM to sleuth out a concurrency issue earlier - I could see what was happening in the debugger, I just couldn’t really see why - asked the LLM to talk me through lifecycle stuff, and boom, first thing it brought up was apparently the answer. Thank you, glorified fuzzy search! Much quicker than pouring through the docs.

I got lucky sure, and sometimes I don’t get so lucky - but it works often enough to have become a part of my regular approach at this point. Why is the thing broke? Maybe the robot knows!
by pxc | 2025-06-25 00:56:08+00:00
When you solve the dependency management issue for shell scripts, you can also use newer language features because you can ship a newer interpreter the same way you ship whatever external dependencies you have. You don't have to limit yourself to what is POSIX, etc. Depending on how you solve it, you may even be able to switch to a newer shell with a nicer language. (And doing so may solve it for you; since PowerShell, newer shells often come with a dependency management layer.)

> any script that needs those things

It's not really a matter of needing those things, necessarily. Once you have them, you're welcome to write scripts in a cleaner, more convenient way. For instance, all of my shell scripts used by colleagues at work just use GNU coreutils regardless of what platform they're on. Instead of worrying about differences in how sed behaves with certain flags, on different platforms, I simply write everything for GNU sed and it Just Works™. Do those scripts need such a thing? Not necessarily. Is it nicer to write free of constraints like that? Yes!

Same thing for just choosing commands with nicer interfaces, or more unified syntax... Use p7zip for handling all your archives so there's only one interface to think about. Make heavy use of `jq` (a great language) for dealing with structured data. Don't worry about reading input from a file and then writing back to it in the same pipeline; just throw in `sponge` from moreutils.

> The language just plain sucks too much

There really isn't anything better for invoking external programs. Everything else is way clunkier. Maybe that's okay, but when I've rewritten large-ish shell scripts in other languages, I often found myself annoyed with the new language. What used to be a 20-line shell script can easily end up being 400 lines in a "real" language.

I kind of agree with you, of course. POSIX-ish shells have too much syntax and at the same time not enough power. But what I really want is a better shell language, not to use some interpreted non-shell language in their place.
by zahlman | 2025-06-25 00:58:11+00:00
... So if the installer isn't going to ignore the version requirements, and thereby install an unsupported package that causes a breakage, then there isn't a problem with "scripts being broken because people didn't pin their dependencies". The packages listed in the PEP 723 metadata get installed by an installer, which resolves the listed (unpinned) dependencies to concrete ones (including transitive dependencies), following rules specified by the packages.

I thought we were talking about situations in which following those rules still leads to a runtime fault. Which is certainly possible, but in my experience a highly overstated risk. Packages that say they will work with `foolib >= 3` will very often continue to work with foolib 4.0, and the risk that they don't is commonly-in-the-Python-world considered worth it to avoid other problems caused by specifying `foolib >=3, <4` (as described in e.g. https://iscinumpy.dev/post/bound-version-constraints/ ).

The real problem is that there isn't a good way (from the perspective of the intermediate dependency's maintainer) to update the metadata after you find out that a new version of a (further-on) dependency is incompatible. You can really only upload a new patch version (or one with a post-release segment in the version number) and hope that people haven't pinned their dependencies so strictly as to exclude the fix. (Although they shouldn't be doing that unless they also pin transitive dependencies!)

That said, the end user can add constraints to Pip's dependency resolution by just creating a constraints file and specifying it on the command line. (This was suggested as a workaround when Setuptools caused a bunch of legacy dependencies to explode - not really the same situation, though, because that's a build-time dependency for some packages that were only made available as sdists, even pure-Python ones. Ideally everyone would follow modern practice as described at https://pradyunsg.me/blog/2022/12/31/wheels-are-faster-pure-... , but sometimes the maintainers are entirely MIA.)

> Numpy 2.0 is a very recent example that broke most code that used numpy.

This is fair to note, although I haven't seen anything like a source that would objectively establish the "most" part. The ABI changes in particular are only relevant for packages that were building their own C or Fortran code against Numpy.
by colechristensen | 2025-06-25 00:58:59+00:00
>You'd never want other companies paying as much tax if they didn't have the profit to back it up. It would bankrupt them.

They do have the profit in that the money they make doing things exceeds the money they spend to do the thing, but though a series of tricks of varying legality and ethics they make it so on paper they do not have "profit" and therefore successfully avoid taxes.

Amazon reported losses for the first 10 years while growing to billions in yearly revenue.

>It would bankrupt them.

It really wouldn't have. While Amazon was growing to dominate retail and putting very many competitors out of business, they were paying 0 corporate taxes. Many companies play these tricks and many people want them to pay fair taxes. If you need to be tax free to break even, you should go bankrupt. Especially in the Fortune 500 region.