MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by 1024core | 2025-06-06 21:45:59+00:00
One spring I wanted to checkout the parks near Vegas: Valley of Fire, Hoover Dam, etc. But I stayed in Vegas because the cheapest hotels were there.

Every evening, after a day of hiking, I would walk into a casino, sit down at the gambling machine, insert a $20 bill, and hit "drink service". A few minutes later a free beer emerged, and I promptly hit "cash out", collected my $20 and walked away (after a stop at the free popcorn machine too).

I think I may have come away with more than 80% of their clientele.
by tomrod | 2025-06-06 21:46:00+00:00
This impacts deductable expenses, not profits directly. The labor you pay for internally owned IP related to software must be amortorized. This screwed up an enormous number of business plans because software has more risk than many other endeavors. For small businesses, you basically can't do your own software.

It applies to things like configuring your internal tools too. Good luck at audit time.
by scubbo | 2025-06-06 21:46:06+00:00
> Yellow bus syndrome in action for me today

There's a certain irony to being able to introduce you to the term "Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon" (which is the more-common name for what I assume you're referring to, as Google searches for "Yellow Bus Syndrome" didn't bring anything up for me). Now you know the name, you'll see it everywhere!
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-06-06 21:46:09+00:00
> I see you edited your response after re-reading the summarization.

Just to be clear, the summary is not convincing. I do understand the idea but none of the evidence presented so far suggests that was the reason. The court expected that the data would be retained, the court learned that it was not, the court gave an order for it to be retained. That is the seeming reason for the order.

Put another way: if the incident last year had not happened, the court would still have issued the order currently under discussion.
by rl3 | 2025-06-06 21:46:22+00:00
>Don't dig a hole to hide in, put your lawn chair on the roof and hope you're close enough to ground zero to get a peaceful and dignified end.

If Sarah Connor's dreams taught me anything, it's that there's an optimal middle ground to be had here.

You don't want to be exposed to the flash nor the heat pulse seconds later, because it's pretty much instant blindness followed by your skin melting off.

What you do want is the blast wave that sends large objects plus the pulverized debris with it in your direction, so you probably just get crushed instantly.

I'd only recommend the lawn chair part if you've got a protective suit and flash blinders, in which case the real question is what you're drinking and/or smoking at the time.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-06-06 21:47:20+00:00
My favorite kind of "brainrot" content is "gamer rage" videos where you watch people destroy their setups (or attack mannequin dummies like Pchooly) after getting wrecked on a video game.

BossManJack and his reactions are still worse - because he's built a whole twitch/discord empire around it with his "juicers". When he was in rehab he'd spend the 1 hr with his phone he was allowed per day streaming and losing money online.
by int_19h | 2025-06-06 21:47:24+00:00
Is it really true about "vast majority"? In US, at least, it seems that the number of children with comorbidities such as obesity would actually be pretty high. You could argue that it's still a minority so long as it's under 50%, but I think that closing schools to protect, say, 20% of kids from a virus that can kill them is eminently reasonable.
by akanet | 2025-06-06 21:47:30+00:00
People often say this about vr, but I think the truth is that consumers of adult videos are not motivated enough and the production costs outweigh the benefits. The demo scenes here were each captured on about 20 cameras, each carefully synchronized and rigged to be out of each other's lines of sight. Add the expertise and time to train the models (still more like pets than cattle) and we're getting into movie ticket territory and away from tube site
by ape4 | 2025-06-06 21:47:37+00:00
Yeah, the man page says:

WARNING: select() can monitor only file descriptors numbers that are less than FD_SETSIZE (1024)—an unreasonably low limit for many modern applications—and this limitation will not change. All modern applica‐ tions should instead use poll(2) or epoll(7), which do not suffer this limitation.
by ImJamal | 2025-06-06 21:47:53+00:00
A fetus has the exact same DNA as the adult it will become. That fetus' father's sperm does not.

> A second glass of wine on a rainy evening is part of human development.

You are just being obtuse. We aren't talking about that sort of development and you know it. We are talking about a toddler becoming an adolescent and a teenager becoming an adult.
by jcrawfordor | 2025-06-06 21:48:24+00:00
It should be understood that the largest impact of the Starfish Prime test, knocking out streetlights, was the result of a very specific design detail of the street lights that is now quite antiquated (they were high-voltage, constant-current loops with carbon disc arc-over cutouts, and the EMP seems to have caused some combination of direct induced voltage and disregulation of the constant current power supply that bridged the carbon disks). The required repair was replacement of the carbon disks, which is a routine maintenance item for that type of system but of course one that had to be done on an unusually large scale that morning. The same problem would not occur today, as constant-current lighting circuits have all but disappeared.

In the case of the burglar alarms, it is hard to prove definitively, but a likely cause of the problem was analog motion detectors (mostly ultrasonic and RF in use at the time) which were already notorious for false alarms due to input voltage instability. Once again, modern equipment is probably less vulnerable.

Many of the detailed experiments in EMP safety are not published due to the strategic sensitivity, but the general gist seems to be along these lines: during the early Cold War, e.g. the 1950s, EMP was generally not taken seriously as a military concern. Starfish Prime was one of a few events that changed the prevailing attitude towards EMP (although the link between the disruptions in Honolulu and the Starfish Prime test was considered somewhat speculative at the time and only well understood decades later). This lead to the construction of numerous EMP generators and test facilities by the military, which lead to improvements in hardening techniques, some of which have "flowed down" to consumer electronics because they also improve reliability in consideration of hazards like lightning. The main conclusion of these tests was that the biggest EMP concern is communications equipment, because they tend to have the right combination of sensitive electronics (e.g. amplifiers) and connection to antennas or long leads that will pick up a lot of induced voltage.

The effects of EMP on large-scale infrastructure are very difficult to study, since small-scale tests cannot recreate the whole system. The testing that was performed (mostly taking advantage of atmospheric nuclear testing in Nevada during the 1960s) usually did not find evidence of significant danger. For example, testing with telephone lines found that the existing lightning protection measures were mostly sufficient. But, there has been a long-lingering concern that there are systemic issues (e.g. with the complex systems behavior of electrical grid regulation) that these experiments did not reproduce. Further, solid-state electronics are likely more vulnerable to damage than the higher-voltage equipment of the '60s. Computer modeling has helped to fill this in, but at least in the public sphere, much of the hard research on EMP risks still adds up to a "maybe," with a huge range of possible outcomes.
by const_cast | 2025-06-06 21:48:49+00:00
It's really quite simple, and we don't even require proof, just logic.

It's plainly true that less masking, less isolation, and less vaccination leads to increased risk of death or injury to Covid. Therefore, having more content promoting those things must lead to increased risk of death or injury to Covid.

We really don't need to over-intellectualize these things. Saying things that are just not true, which increases someone's risk, results in lives lost.

It would be the same as if I made a PSA telling people to not wear a seatbelt. Or to not wear sunscreen. But if I did that, there would be zero dispute, no? So I think we all understand the concept.
by jacob019 | 2025-06-06 21:50:45+00:00
That's true for Flash 2.0 at $0.40/mtok output. GPT-4.1-nano is the same price and also surprisingly capable. I can spend real money with 2.5 flash, with those $3.50/mtok thinking tokens, worth it though. OP is an inference provider, so there may be some bias. Open source can't compete on context length either, nothing touches 2.5 flash for the price with long context--I've experimented with this a lot for my agentic pricing system. Open source models are improving, but they aren't really any cheaper right now, R1 for example does quite well performance wise, but it uses a LOT of tokens to get there, further limiting the shorter context window. There's still value in the open source models, each model has unique strengths and they're advancing quickly, but the frontier labs are moving fast too and have very compelling "workhorse" offers.
by wvenable | 2025-06-06 21:50:52+00:00
That actually reinforces my point: there is no affirmative right to privacy, only reactive liability structures. If someone hacks Safeway, they’re prosecuted not because you have a constitutional or general right to privacy, but because they violated a criminal statute (e.g. the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act). That's not a privacy right -- it's a prohibition on unauthorized access.

As for Safeway selling your data: you're admitting that it's on the individual to opt out, negotiate, or avoid the transaction which just highlights the absence of a rights-based framework. The burden is entirely on the consumer to protect themselves, and companies can exploit that asymmetry unless narrowly constrained by statute (and even then, often with exceptions and opt-outs).

What you're describing isn't a right to privacy -- it's a lack of one, mitigated only by scattered laws and personal vigilance. That is precisely the problem.
by int_19h | 2025-06-06 21:51:01+00:00
> Sweden is widely recognized as the example to absolutely not follow in handling pandemics.

Is it? There were some very scathing attacks on their COVID policy back in the first two years of the pandemic, but when you look at more recent retrospectives that have the benefit of hindsight, it seems that they didn't actually do worse than countries which went full lockdown.
by jchw | 2025-06-06 21:51:21+00:00
> It was the Windows 9x days, so of course you could also just royally screw things up by just writing to whatever memory or hardware you felt like, with few limits.

You say that, but when I actually tried I found that despite not actually having robust memory protection, it's not as though it's particularly straightforward. You certainly wouldn't do it by accident... I can't imagine, anyway.
by phatskat | 2025-06-06 21:52:55+00:00
> To be fair, I think he thought he could save us.

Depends on who “us” is. Musk and his close friends? Sure. The rest of us? Well, in his view, the majority of humanity is a stepping stone to a future for his lineage to live on through space travel and colonization. This isn’t an exaggeration, though I don’t have my sources on this handy as it’s been a while so take it with a grain of salt. But Musk’s altruism has largely always been about making himself look good, and less about helping people.
by lrvick | 2025-06-06 21:53:46+00:00
If lightning was an open standard then it would objectively be better than USB-C and would likely have won.

Instead Apple chose to make a good improvement on USB-C proprietary, and thus it will die like 8-track, betamax, and minidiscs.

Vendor lock-in is so big of a negative that everyone will pick whatever the least-bad open alternative is.
by aquariusDue | 2025-06-06 21:53:55+00:00
Is water addicting? /s

We can endlessly debate morality, ethics and all that regarding lots of things, but in my humble opinion gambling could be reduced to:

"Would people still engage in those games of chance if there was no monetary aspect to it?"

And then how many of those people who would still engage with them are "notorious" gamblers on whom those games had a clear negative impact (in most people's eyes).
by mikewarot | 2025-06-06 21:54:36+00:00
I see "storage-free"... and then learn it still has RAM (which IS storage) ugh.

John Von Neumann's concept of the instruction counter was great for the short run, but eventually we'll all learn it was a premature optimization. All those transistors tied up as RAM just waiting to be used most of the time, a huge waste.

In the end, high speed computing will be done on an evolution of FPGAs, where everything is pipelined and parallel as heck.
by gavmor | 2025-06-06 21:54:46+00:00
You may get some mileage out of protocols like Agent Network Protocol (ANP), Agent Interaction & Transaction Protocol (AITP), Agora "Protocol Documents" (PDs), agents.json, Airweave, or the Coral Protocol.

AITPs "message passthrough pattern" supposedly enables "progressive" delegation—where a general agent can forward requests to specialized agents.

agents.json may facilitate a sort of progressive disclosure across the "flows" and "links" of multi-step workflows that an agent is guided through, wherein subsequent actions or information is revealed as dependencies are met, limiting upfront information overload.

I've only skimmed the barest details of these protocols, guided by this paper: https://arxiv.org/html/2504.16736v2
by trhway | 2025-06-06 21:55:01+00:00
What i like about US is that compare to other countries (like for example Russia where i'm originally from) there is almost no lying and cheating here. Instead there is a respect of the law and an army of talented creative accountants and lawyers. Remember that stale "multi-used" sandwich served with the drink which by virtue of its existence converted drinking establishment into a food serving restaurant? Not being an accountant, i'd just speculate, out of sheer fantasy, that some hardware chip/gadget added to your software may similarly convert your software development into hardware/gadget one.
by const_cast | 2025-06-06 21:55:10+00:00
> How did we come all this way as a species if we are so fundamentally flawed at basic metabolic regulation?

IMO: because we have always had nowhere near enough food. Agriculture revolution was what, 10,000 years ago? That's a blip.

It's entirely possible in my mind that the same mechanism and behaviors that fuel obesity were actually helpful for almost all of human history. It's just now, like right now, that they're a problem.

And it becomes even more obvious to me when I look at other animals. I look at my cute dog. If I gave him infinite access to food, I have no doubt he'd be dead by the end of the week. Is he stupid? Is he broken? Or was he never intended to be in that situation?
by muricula | 2025-06-06 21:55:11+00:00
That might have been true in the early 2000s when they were growing the Hillsborough Oregon campus but most new fabs are opening in Arizona for taxation and political reasons. I don't have the numbers to back it up, but based on articles about Intel layoffs I believe that Intel has been shedding jobs in Oregon for a while now.

This wiki page has a list of Intel fab starts, you can see them being constructed in Oregon until 2013, and after that all new construction moved elsewhere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_manufacturing_si...

I can imagine this slow disinvestment in Oregon would only encourage some architects to quit an found a RISC-V startup.
by hirako2000 | 2025-06-06 21:56:10+00:00
I admire your patience and calmness in addressing just about every point I made, which I so poorly articulated that I concede we could just say I was wrong. Or was simply wrong, not due at all to poor wording.

And thank you for the extra notes surrounding the divergence. I had not read the original paper (again that is) before shooting my personal interpretation, and poor recollection of what the paper said. I should read it again I may not recognize it.

I haven't read the paper you shared yet. I thank you again for your input plus the couple of refs gave me plenty to spend time scratching my head as something must be just wrong with my current understanding.
by user982 | 2025-06-06 21:56:37+00:00
> Together we'll make X great again!

Oh?

> It's explicitly free of any "DEI" or similar discriminatory policies.

Oh.

> And I know *a lot* of people who will never take part in this generic human experiment that basically creates a new humanoid race (people who generate and exhaust the toxic spike proteine, whose gene sequence doesn't look quote natural). I'm one of them, as my whole family.

Ohhhh.

ndiddy: "From looking at his Xorg contributions on FDo, his technical work amounts to mostly code style changes and cosmetic-level refactors in an attempt to clean up the codebase. In the course of this, he's broken the master branch on multiple occasions and introduced a large amount of churn in the Xorg ecosystem, all while not fixing any bugs or improving anything user-facing. The reason why he started this fork seems to be that his changes pissed off everyone working on Xorg who could review his MRs, so they started piling up without getting reviewed."

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44202935
by dieortin | 2025-06-06 21:56:43+00:00
Quite a few things. For a C++ only project, the biggest ones would be reproducibility and speed. But beyond those, I find it saner overall: the language is way easier to understand (~python), and the model of packages, targets, visibility etc makes it easy to organize and manage a large codebase.

The worst part about Bazel for C++ is that it’s not yet as widespread as CMake or plain old Makefiles so it can be harder to get third party libraries into your project, but that’s changing quite fast with the bazel registry, and you have things like rules_cc that help you run other build systems inside bazel.
by creer | 2025-06-06 21:56:48+00:00
How about the salaries of employees being paid to create a new line of business? Say, the business runs restaurants and you decide to break into the tax software business. Can you avoid taxes on restaurant profits right now in order to build your new unrelated venture. ISFICR, tax law allowed outright deducting of costs of the current business, but not costs for starting a new one. Not deducting the new costs against the old profits.

After that, we can nitpick: should the development costs of new software be encouraged the same as maintenance costs of existing software. If you want to encourage startups, then yes they should. If you want to discourage startups or very temporarily increase tax collection, then no.
by Terr_ | 2025-06-06 21:56:58+00:00
Equivalent: "I'm so sick of these [atheist] cretins proclaiming that [god doesn't exist], and when you drill down to first principles, these same people do not have a rigorous definition of [god] in the first place!"

That's nonsense, because the people obligated to furnish a "rigorous definition" are the people who make the positive claim that something specific is happening.

Also, the extraordinary claims are the ones that require extraordinary evidence, not the other way around.
by CuriouslyC | 2025-06-06 21:56:59+00:00
I'm not going to bother, if I did you'd obviously keep moving goalposts and trying to weasel out of owning your error at all costs. It's not like there's anything you've demonstrated that makes me care what you think, so there's really no point in wasting my time trying to convince you of anything. I'll let your manager in ~3 years do it, when you get PIPd.
by skippyboxedhero | 2025-06-06 21:57:14+00:00
That isn't what is happening.

Earlier this year, sportsbooks lost a lot due to punter-friendly outcomes (a series of favourites winning), and they didn't cut people off. Doing this is extremely bad for business because: people won't come back, and you aren't giving customers the opportunity to lose that money back to you.

So what you are seeing when people are limited is not this but arbing line moves between bookmakers, people bearding for someone else, etc.

One of the articles mentions stuff relating to player behaviour - for example, if you bet on Australian Rules Football, you bet every game for multiple weeks then it doesn't matter if you win or lose, there is going to be a limit - there is a grey area, but the majority of people being limited don't fall into this category. They are just people doing stupid stuff (I have done this, I used to arb line moves 20 years ago in the UK, I have been banned everywhere, it is stupid and I should have been banned).
by cjbgkagh | 2025-06-06 21:57:31+00:00
It stems from the difference in treatment of capital gains and income. Either way it’s deductible, the difference being when it is deductible and how much tax is saved. Capital deductions are typically done later since they require a taxable event.

It’s a fudge to make projections look better to allow congress to pass a budget neutral reconciliation bill with the intent that congress would remove the fudge before the consequences triggered.

Governments in general are pushing for capital gains tax normalization where instead of requiring a taxation event the capital gains tax would be levied yearly. In such a scenario the only difference remaining would stem from the difference taxation rates.
by pusewicz | 2025-06-06 21:58:12+00:00
I meant that the author of DragonRuby is generous. And depending on your use case he might be willing to give you a free copy. Additionally, whenever there is a gamejam related to DragonRuby, he usually gives away free copies to anyone who wants to participate. For you to keep. Nobody said anything about bypassing paying money. Not sure what you were thinking.
by krapp | 2025-06-06 21:59:15+00:00
>I remember when it was presumed that Conservative meant protector of individual freedoms, rights.

Presumed by whom? I've always understood Conservatism to be explicitly Christian in its ideology, opposed to womens' rights, "non-traditional" sexual orientation and gender identity, abortion, multiculturalism, pornography, modern art, rock music, drug use and a litany of other things. The freedom to think and act outside of the box of "traditional American values and culture" has rather more often been championed by progressives and leftists.

Conservatives do support the individual freedom to own a gun, though. For individuals of a certain phenotype.
by floxy | 2025-06-06 21:59:36+00:00
>why did everyone all of a sudden care so much about the price of eggs during the last election?

That seems like a prime example of a small-talk item that many people could relate to, and it just happens to reach viral proportions. I'd say it would be similar to "Polar Vortex":

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=P...
by spacebanana7 | 2025-06-06 21:59:41+00:00
The text of article 5 doesn’t distinguish whether the attack on the NATO state was justified or even whether the NATO state attacked first.

This lack of blaming is partly why Turkey and Greece had to sign at exactly the same time, so that neither could take advantage of being able to attack the other whilst being themselves shielded by NATO.

“The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all…” -

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_110496.htm