MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by riskable | 2025-06-10 13:52:33+00:00
Asylum seekers come to the US to literally escape torture and death. It's not like they're searching for the best freebies. They're looking for someplace safe to live.

Once they get into the US they don't just live off of social services. What the US provides isn't nearly enough for that. So they end up working, their kids go to school, and those kids eventually have children who are US citizens. That's literally the concept that the United States of America was founded upon (after the genocide of the natives). That's the entire intent behind the US Constitution.

By letting people come to the US and stay in the US we're following the founding fathers playbook. It's the founding principal of the nation. That's how things are supposed to work.
by dinfinity | 2025-06-10 13:52:41+00:00
> Do you truly not see how you are actually continuing the trend of shifting the goalpost every time someone is critical about the use of LLMs

A late reply, but the point is that the old models are harder to get good results with, even in agentic mode. Therein lies the "massive difference in outputted code quality between models" I mentioned.

So using the newest models with the right approach quite easily leads to good results, which is what I meant with: "At this point, if your coding experience with LLMs sucks I'd say there is an 80% chance that you're just doing it wrong."

This as opposed to the original final claim made by the person I was replying to: "Just roll the dice correctly."

That implies that it is just about getting lucky with almost random output. It hasn't been that way for a long time, unless you really try to get the LLM to fail.

> With LLMs you need to effectively babysit them on each project again.

Only if you're doing it badly. Document and point the AI at documentation properly. Your onboarding process and documentation should not rely on people anyway. Write Once, Read Many.
by andrewlgood | 2025-06-10 13:53:11+00:00
For most items, there is harmony between GAAP and tax. Even though Section 174 is a tax code item, the implications of it must be properly presented on your GAAP financials. Therefore the auditors opine on it

While one of the biggest differences between GAAP and tax is the depreciation schedules for various assets, the definition of the items is generally the same.
by xkriva11 | 2025-06-10 13:53:13+00:00
I tried do do it in a 16-bit JonesForth-based implemenetation and it required to rename JonesForth CREATE to CREATEHEAD, implement a primitive DODOES and then define these two words:

: CREATE WORD CREATEHEAD DODOES , 0 , ;

: DOES> IMMEDIATE ['] LIT , HERE @ 6 CELLS + , ['] LATEST , ['] @ , ['] >DFA , ['] ! , ['] EXIT
by nyc111 | 2025-06-10 13:53:34+00:00
"What's irrefutably proven is that if you take this particular set of axioms, then these conclusions hold."

This is what I tried to say in my comment. It's the author who talks about the truth of the axioms. I'm objecting to his claim that we end up with "something we can know for sure". No. Your truth depends on your assumptions.
by mschuster91 | 2025-06-10 13:54:03+00:00
> But that was only possible by doing spontaneous 5-20km car rides. For the sim-racing rig, driving a bit farther was necessary.

Yeah, but you don't need your own car for such things. In Landshut for example, there's a car sharing association, and if we would need to go on such a ride we could just rent a car from them, there's always at least five of them available. And on top of that: a move is like what, a once in a decade event?

A car is hundreds of euros a month (the cost of the car itself / depreciation, maintenance, fuel, replacement parts, insurance, rent for a garage plus of course the fuel). It's an incredible waste of money to own a car if all you're realistically using it is once a year for a trip to Italy and once a year to haul some furniture.

The hardcore "car brains" are the worst - so many people who own a car spec it to the demands of their once-a-year vacation trip (and massively overpay as a result) when a cheap Dacia Spring (~17k new) would be more than enough for their daily demands and they could just go and rent a large car for the vacation trip.
by theGeatZhopa | 2025-06-10 13:54:37+00:00
"one model to rule them all.." - while I support your points, the good conversational capabilities and system prompt like "be a friend at all costs" may

a. trigger something

b. support bad ideas, like friends also do in the real ;)

c. develop bad ideas during conversations

and one should also see how much sex/psychological disorders are known nowadays. Surely, among the people using such models as life-compagnions/psychic-dump could be the one or another, who may get into this to deep. We haven't really started yet - may be it goes the ways of Manga: first a niche, then nerds, then broader public, now millions of millions of consumers consume. Some day such models will become mainstream like pokemon go or tamagotchi, and then it will be among the points you named, too.
by pvg | 2025-06-10 13:56:41+00:00
There's a funny bit in that vein in Cringley's Accidental Empires:

“The first volume of Knuth's series (dedicated to the IBM 650 computer, "in remembrance of many pleasant evenings") was printed in the late 1960s using old-fashioned but beautiful hot-type printing technology, complete with Linotype machines and the sharp smell of molten lead. Volume 2, which appeared a few years later, used photo-offset printing to save money for the publisher (the publisher of this book, in fact). Knuth didn't like the change from hot type to cold, from Lino to photo, and so he took a few months off from his other work, rolled up his sleeves, and set to work computerizing the business of setting type and designing type fonts. Nine years later, he was done.”
by Workaccount2 | 2025-06-10 13:56:53+00:00
There a no pieces that don't fit here, except being over the intelligence threshold to understand what was going on.

- He said masks are not effective because they aren't. Surgical masks won't stop much and N95 needs special procedure to use properly. 95% of people clamoring for masks would be healthy unsick people who want protection from the virus, which masks aren't that great at (in general public hands).

- At the time people needed to stay home and medical workers who understand masks and using them properly needed them. There was a huge shortage.

- The number of sick people going out in public, the ones where a mask is very effective (picture a sweatshirt hanging over a garden hose, now spray someone with it) would be very small, requiring very few masks.

- If the public understood that only sick people needed to wear masks -no one would wear a mask- Health officials deeply understand this. You kill your whole program if the public associates masks with being sick.

Fauci had no lies, maybe misteps, but he could not reveal the true motivation of "Wear a mask" (stated in the line abaove) because it kills the whole initiative(as stated in the line above).

So now, lets see who can clear the hurdle:

How do you as a public health communicator get all sick people to wear masks in public?

Fauci was stuck in a game theory problem, and you need some hidden information (which I now revealed) and mild intelligence to understand it
by bityard | 2025-06-10 13:57:05+00:00
In business/investing circles, this is known as "analysis paralysis." There is no limit to the amount of preparation you can do in anticipation of a big purchase or effort, but past a certain point the returns are not only diminishing but substantially negative due to the lost opportunity cost.

In a lot of contexts, taking action with incomplete information is better in the long run than spending a lot of time weighing every decision and taking fewer actions as a result. And there are studies out there that show this.

An example: Not that I advocate individual stock picking, but if you spend 3 months researching the best biomed company stock to buy, you may be decreasing your risk of picking a bad one, but you are just as likely to miss out on 3 months of positive market-based returns that you would have gotten had you just picked _any_ company with a positive balance sheet.
by danaris | 2025-06-10 13:57:40+00:00
FOSS != "makeshift solutions with pieces duck-taped together and inconsistent UX".

Many highly polished, widely-used pieces of software are also FOSS. Firefox, for instance.

FOSS can also be a software suite built by a well-funded international partnership for the specific purpose of making something that can replace Europe's current dependence on proprietary US-based software.

Yes, it's important to try to make sure Europe is in good shape with the software (and hardware) it depends on now, but a solid long-term strategy can—and, IMO, should—include building new packages from the ground up to fill niches not currently well-served by the independent, distributed FOSS community. It's likely to take years to truly come to fruition, but if done thoughtfully it will benefit everyone.
by PleasureBot | 2025-06-10 13:57:55+00:00
The wrestling analogy is exactly how I feel watching Trump since 2016. I feel like I am watching WWE wrestling, and it is obviously fake. The actors are not actually fighting. Except half the country is completely convinced that it is real. Its hard to find common ground or even explain why I think it is fake, because it feels like it would be self-evident to anyone over the age of 12.
by sebstefan | 2025-06-10 13:58:15+00:00
Hey. We're not incapable of effort

If you don't speak the language, but make an article like this (and are actively sharing it), the bar is most definitely above "you gotta get it proofread".

I'm quite sure you're going to get a pretty uniform response from non-native speakers across the globe if you are saying that we are poor little creatures and the world should lower this bar
by zzzeek | 2025-06-10 13:58:20+00:00
not "the poor". immigrants

here's the correct indoctrination message

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/17/us/politics/trump-fox-int...

> Former President Donald J. Trump, in an interview broadcast Sunday, doubled down on his description of immigrants as “poisoning the blood” of the country, language that echoes Hitler.

> “Why do you use words like ‘vermin’ and ‘poisoning of the blood’?” Howard Kurtz, the media critic and interviewer, asked on Fox News. “The press, as you know, immediately reacts to that by saying, ‘Well, that’s the kind of language that Hitler and Mussolini used.’”

> “Because our country is being poisoned,” Mr. Trump responded.
by larrled | 2025-06-10 13:58:20+00:00
Didn’t read them all but that last one in Kern was under Biden,

“This appears to be the first large-scale Border Patrol raid in California since the election of Donald Trump, coming just a day after Congress certified the election on January 6, in the final days of Joe Biden’s presidency.”

It strains credulity somewhat to act as though ICE, whose purpose has always been immigration enforcement, only started enforcing immigration under Trump. I remember hearing about ICE/immigration raids for many decades now in California.

In any event I think the prior’s point was that the current admins’ zealous focus on immigration is mostly optics. The idea is to get California activists to juxtapose themselves on the evening news throwing bricks and Molotovs against clean cut patriotic young servicemen. The American electorate prefer marines to brick throwers, so it’s just easy politics. It’s been the go to gambit of the Trump team for most of his two terms. Immigration is a very popular issue with voters, but not with educated journalists who know most GOP donors like the Koch brothers are free market libertarians who want totally open boarders and therefore despite the voter concern, nothing meaningful will ever happen because immigration enforcement and reform will remain in essence a tool to whip up hysteria in the non-sophisticated. Immigration and deportation numbers don’t lie, and tell most of the story.
by elric | 2025-06-10 13:58:25+00:00
> one of the most consequential decisions you can make in life is the city you choose to live in

It's not always quite as simple as it being a choice. E.g. I might be able to move to SF if I liquidated my assets and applied for a green card, but that's not an easy feat. Where we are born & raised limits that choice to a large extent.
by tobyhinloopen | 2025-06-10 13:58:33+00:00
Many of my prompts include _somewhat_ sensitive details because they're tailor-made for each project. This is a more generic prompt I've been using for my code generation tool:

https://gist.github.com/tobyhinloopen/e567d551c9f30390b23a0a...

More about this prompt:

https://bonaroo.nl/2025/05/20/enforced-ai-test-driven-develo...

Lately, I've been letting the agent write the prompt by ordering it to "update the prompt document with my expressed preferences and code conventions", manually reviewing the doc. Literally while writing this comment, I'm waiting for the agent to do:

> note any findings about this project and my expressed preferences and write them to a new prompt document in doc, named 20250610-<summary>.md

I keep a folder of prompt documents because there's so many of them (over 30 as of writing this comment, for a single project). I have more generic ones and more specific ones, and I usually either tell the agent to find relevant prompt documents or tell the agent to read the relevant ones.

Usually over 100K tokens is spent on reading the prompts & documentation before performing any task.

Here's a snippet of the prompt doc it just generated:

https://gist.github.com/tobyhinloopen/c059067037a6edb19065cd...

I'm experimenting a lot with prompts, I have yet to learn what works and what doesn't, but one thing is sure: A good prompt makes a huge difference. It's the difference between constantly babysitting and instructing the agent and telling it to do something and waiting for it to complete.

I had many MRs merged with little to no post-prompt guidance. Just fire and forget, commit, read the results, manually test it, and submit as MR. While the code is usually somewhere between "acceptable" and "obviously AI written", it usually works just fine.
by zerkten | 2025-06-10 13:58:58+00:00
I've done the same with Windows, but I had a unique bug with Storage Spaces and did some debugging to identify driver issues to include with the report. I guess the reason it was fixed was because there was similar feedback without the debugging on the Windows Feedback app and because the blast radius was small. It was just one .sys file, but even then Storage Spaces is relatively contained.

Compare that to any GUI-related issue. Almost every surface has some kind of unsupported/unexpected hooking or reliance on unchanging elements because some company has built a tool that integrates. They've then sold this to Fortune 500s who explode if Windows blows up their tool. This makes the startup cost for fixing many things very expensive.

If you report issues related to higher profile/usage functionality then you are less likely to get traction because:

* They know about the issue already, but it's a really hard to fix for some reason which may not be obvious to you. All stakeholders are not equal in the decision process hence compatibility concerns win in some situations.

* Even if they decide to fix it, a huge amount of effort has to go into scheduling the fix in a release. Some authority may agree to go fix it and everyone is excited. That's just the start of a painful process to implement and test the fix.
by seanicus | 2025-06-10 13:59:02+00:00
Digression here but, man, Apple knows how to engineer a laptop that will keep on ticking. Every other laptop I've had is depricated in 2 years and virtually worthless by 5. My 2010 MBP isn't even remotely my daily driver but it is still kicking around. Only issue is a dead ram port (and there are some fixes for that I haven't attempted yet).
by anton-c | 2025-06-10 13:59:44+00:00
Yeah I make jewelry and have made some titanium chains by hand. Absolutely brutal to work with. And don't mess up! You need argon atmosphere to weld/solder it.

It was cheaper than I thought to grab a chunk of 99.9 pure from McMaster but dang it's tough stuff. Tools hate it. It's gummy.

Upshot is it can be anodized at home with stuff almost anyone has.
by riskable | 2025-06-10 13:59:47+00:00
The only reason we don't reform our work visa programs for cheap labor is because business owners do NOT want to have to pay these people minimum wage, pay taxes on them, or pay to insure them (workman's comp and similar). That's it. That's all there is to it.

As soon as you institute such a program businesses could get sued for illegal labor conditions, abuses of employees, sexual abuse of employees, violations of contract law, and more. Their expenses for imported labor would probably triple.

Would such businesses close as a result? Maybe a handful would but the real impact would be a huge drop in profits—also known as a greater share of profits going to workers.
by Loughla | 2025-06-10 14:00:39+00:00
And I don't think anyone understands how deeply the destruction runs, even if he is stopped today.

Take his budget proposal for example. It explicitly called for the complete de-funding of TRIO programs. I have worked with multiple TRIO programs at multiple institutions over the years. While I am hopeful that the congress will institute funding for them, but the damage is done. People who have worked for these programs for decades are leaving, because of the uncertainty. These are career professionals who have helped THOUSANDS of kids make a better future. Further, TRIO programs are historically an entry into higher education for first-generation and low-income students not just in terms of being served by the programs, but also being employed by them. Every TRIO program I've worked with has been staffed by low-income first-generation folks. Without this entry into higher education, we will lose these voices in postsecondary education. People start with TRIO then move into hard dollars and off of grants, spreading their experiences across a campus.

The damage is done and we'll be feeling it for longer than my children will be alive.

Subsequently, the thing that really caused my immediate family (hardcore republican) to turn off of Trump was actually his most recent budget proposal and the hearings associated with it. They saw that he was cutting programs that help rural areas more than urban areas and feel betrayed. It takes everything I have in my to not just say "I told you so".

Finally - and completely disconnected, if you want to know how full of shit this administration is - The Secretary of Education said out loud that the (1)TRIO programs were out-of-date, that (2)schools needed to find other ways to recruit students, and that (3)there was no way to measure their success.

(1) TRIO has decades of research supporting their most effective models, and is a thought leader in student support and success for at-risk youth. The current trend of "pathways in higher education" that is sweeping the US is literally just a TRIO model.

(2) TRIO programs are explicitly banned from being used as recruiting tools for their host institutions if they are hosted by a college/university. It is illegal.

(3) TRIO programs submit an annual performance report with multiple measures of success. Any inability by ED to find proof of TRIO effectiveness is because they are incompetent in analyzing the data, not because the data doesn't exist.
by js8 | 2025-06-10 14:00:51+00:00
> All of modern mathematics is conditional.

I am not sure this is true for "all" mathematics. You're still using some metalogical axioms that are always true. In particular, laws of untyped lambda calculus (or any other model of universal computation) are "axioms" that you consider unquestionably true (just like you can consider unquestionable that objective shared mathematical reality exists).
by kstrauser | 2025-06-10 14:01:23+00:00
That was our experience, too. Sales people never update. They just don’t.

One day I asked our CFO something, and watched him log into his laptop with like 4 keypresses. And that’s how we got more complex password requirements deployed everywhere.

Having spent a few years as a CISO, I’m now understand much more about why we have all those pain in the neck controls. There’s a saying about OSHA regulations that each rule is written in blood. I don’t know what the SOC2 version of that is, but there should be one.
by oblio | 2025-06-10 14:01:32+00:00
LOL, in what world do you live in? That's a super good price. How much do you think daily usage of "automated self-driving taxi services" will be? :-)))

Bucharest, a city in a much poorer country, charges about €16 for a 1 month pass for surface transport and €20 for a 1 month pass for the subway. That's about €36.

The average salary in Stockholm seems to be about €46 000. The average salary in Bucharest is less than €24 000.

So €100 per month seems about fair for what I assume is a pretty solid public transport network in a place with far more disposable income than Bucharest.

Edit: Switzerland is famous for having a very well run public transport system. The Zurich monthly pass for all zones is about €250 per month... Yeah, Zurich has higher incomes for sure. Stockholm probably has a decent rate for public transportation. Privatizing it won't help, like it didn't in many places in the world (see England).
by thinkingtoilet | 2025-06-10 14:01:38+00:00
Colin Kaepernick protested very peacefully and people were irate. The vice president went out of his way to just to walk out of a game. Let's stop with the "I'd be ok if it was a peaceful protest" nonsense. The protests in LA were peaceful until the military showed up. It was intentionally escalated because they know people will believe anything they see on TV. The burning cars didn't happen until after the military started a war.
by vel0city | 2025-06-10 14:01:55+00:00
These actions are rare. And the fines are more slaps on the wrist instead of any real action.

ACSI fined $2M for the same amount paid as wages to illegal labor. How much profit did they make from that? Sounds more like the cost of doing business than any real crushing fine.

Put the management of these companies in prison for ~~knowingly~~ recklessly hiring illegal labor. Make it likely they will be audited and caught. Make it easier to get a work permit That will solve a lot of illegal migration.
by tzs | 2025-06-10 14:02:13+00:00
In the quoted case it would not make a difference if the data storage service was EU owned and controlled because the warrant is asking Microsoft to supply the data.

Microsoft can do that by simply using the normal data retrieval API that data storage service makes available to all its customers. To the data storage service the API call Microsoft will make to get the data the FBI wants is no different than the thousands of other API calls Microsoft is making daily to store and retrieve data.

What using an EU owned and controlled data storage service gets you is that you don't have to worry about non-EU law enforcement getting your data by forcing the data storage service to give it up directly to them.
by bloomingeek | 2025-06-10 14:02:13+00:00
If my attitude toward my dog is that she depends on my mercy to survive, then I am a monster with no feelings or morality. (Yes, I am responsible for her well being as a responsible owner, and rightfully so.)

Whether she understands how we feel about her isn't the point or the definition. She seems happy and doesn't live in any kind of fear, and that makes all the difference to us. Anything else is just picking fly scat out of pepper.
by ajb | 2025-06-10 14:02:31+00:00
Not disagreeing about the risks of AI here. But the thing is, there are correct ways to do things in court. But this guy's strategy was to improve his negotiating position, pre-court. That sounds like it's a lot more to do with assessment of risk, assessment of your adversaries strategy, and business position. Which are all matters that totally aren't solely the province of lawyers. In effect, that means that the lawyers should have been doing what he got the AI to do.