MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Ray20 | 2025-06-10 19:02:13+00:00
>This is why regulations and regulators with teeth are vital in a capitalist system.

Why do you separate regulators from describing incentive system? The incentive system is also woven into them, and if anything, the incentives for regulators go in a much more sinister direction than for any capitalist company.

Profit-seeking companies are forced to satisfy customers that have their economic freedom. But what about regulators? Their primary incentive is to remain in a position of power, their primary tool for achieving their goals is forcing.

The economic freedom of all agents is a powerful disincentive. And even with it, we see abuses by capitalist companies. But what about regulators, whose disincentives are much weaker, and whose main tool, moreover, allows them to destroy even this weak disincentives? Fixing capitalism's incentives with regulators is like curing a cold with cancer.
by bruce511 | 2025-06-10 19:02:54+00:00
I've lived under GST and I've lived under VAT. As a consumer, VAT is a million times better.

Firstly, GST was added at the till. So something is marked as $5 on the shelf, ends up costing more than $5 at the till. Bonkers.

VAT is included in the delivery price. Says $5.99 on the shelf? You get a penny back from $6.

From a shop owner point of view, VAT is also a lot easier to administer. You don't care if the customer is VAT registered or not. That's their problem, not yours. GST was a headache. Some stuff goes yo end users (so collect tax) others goes to resellers (so dont). Here's a shocking outcome - rampant tax fraud... (fraud with VAT is still possible, but the tax loss is only on the vendors markup.)

Obviously different jurisdictions do VAT and GST differently, but when I travel to the US it feels like the stone age.
by ofalkaed | 2025-06-10 19:02:58+00:00
They are purposeful, I don't think Pemulis ever gets one thing right in the novel. His explanation of Annular Fusion is a good example, unless you also want to make the case that Wallace got the made up science wrong as well. Pemulis grew up in a place where he was generally the smartest person around and was able to bluff his way through life without much effort. Then he got a scholarship to somewhere with actual expectations and standards but Pemulis kept on with his lazy ways. Pemulis is probably smart but his laziness and arrogance keep him from ever achieving his own intelligence, he is forever lobbing but is a bit too slow to get to the net in time.

Vast majority of character's are well explained and the answers are all in the novel, just need to look at their childhood and upbringing.
by swsieber | 2025-06-10 19:03:12+00:00
Hobby electronics & robotics. I can make an LED blink on a ESP8266 (it's been a while), but that's it. I'd like to get more familiar with a multimeter, figuring out broken kids toys, etc. but it's a bit daunting. Maybe there's too many options and not enough constraints. I'm not sure.
by taurusnoises | 2025-06-10 19:03:16+00:00
As someone who's very much on the outside of the Apple / Android debate (though I've never owned an iPhone, I do use a Mac and an iPad), and as someone who's relatively tech illiterate, how does this announcement read in light of Apple's latest liquid glass stuff, and the pushback I'm seeing from almost every angle. Is this Google announcement at all in response to the negative reaction Apple is getting? Does what Google is saying here get anyone excited? Maybe even excited enough to switch over?
by schroeding | 2025-06-10 19:03:24+00:00
Ah. Thanks! Since the letter only calls it "reconciliation bill", I didn't make the connection. Not an American here, oops. Maybe creating "mega bill bundles" isn't the best idea in general. ^^'

I still think this specific reversion / change, for itself, would be something you can lobby for, though. It itself doesn't do harm, the push to include it in this specific bill may do (if it is the thing which tips the scale for it to be accepted).

This "tax cut" is (and was) simply the status quo in most western countries for virtually all businesses, e.g. in the EU. It itself is not immoral, as long as you see developers as normal office workers, which they IMO are.

The existence of silicon valley giants and their faults notwithstanding.
by esafak | 2025-06-10 19:03:40+00:00
Excel is for playing with data that is already aggregated. You don't see any data scientist in a tech company reaching for spreadsheets. Business analysts use them, maybe, because they work with the raw data rolled up by the engineers.

How are you even going to ingest the data you want to visualize from the database it's in otherwise? It won't fit on your computer as is. You need something like Tableau to query and inspect it.

edit: Sure, let the finance people have their spreadsheets, but don't let that stuff anywhere near engineering and data science. It's a major anti-pattern.
by Kirby64 | 2025-06-10 19:03:42+00:00
> What people fail to realize is the calories on the label aren't the calories they are actually getting. Those on the label are the calories for the substance found by burning it in a lab. Calories absorbed are quite different, and depend on the method of preparation and personal factors. Different methods release different percentage amounts to be taken up by your body in digestion.

Bomb calorimetry is not how calories on a package are determined today. Individual constituent macros are used to determine calorie content, accounting for fiber and thermic effects of digestion. Calorie metrics on foods are largely accurate, when used for caloric intake reasons.

> If you are getting ravenously hungry or nauseous , you are starving yourself, and this can damage your metabolism, and it won't result in long-term weight loss. You lose metabolically active tissue over fat which adapts to lower BMRs.

"Starvation mode" is a myth. If you are in too great of a deficit, sure, you will lose muscle in addition to fat, which can lower your metabolism... but it's not going to somehow damage you forever. If you weigh less, you burn fewer calories... just a fact of life.

> I've weighed my food out to get that daily calorie count. Here's a mindblower. I can eat 2700 calories of fats, and protein in a 60 30 ratio keeping carbs at 20g for the day, and I will on average lose 1-2 pounds a day, and this is done after the transition where water weight drop off has already plateaued (the weight loss isn't water weight, and its mostly not muscle mass either).

Nobody is losing 1-2 pounds of weight a DAY in any sustainable way. You might be able to pull that off for a little bit, but unless you're morbidly obese that just isn't happening for any reasonable period of time.

> Each pound is 3500 calories. My BMR is supposed to be 2200 for my weight and height/body composition. How am I in what amounts to an effective 9700 calorie deficit with no exercise, and no hunger?

BMR is not the same as TDEE. Most people's BMR is substantially lower than their actual caloric expenditure. It would not surprise me at all that you could lose weight at 2700cal/day if you have a BMR of 2200. You are likely in a caloric deficit.
by panzi | 2025-06-10 19:03:45+00:00
I understand that it is convenient for running small snippets like that, but I don't really think it's worth the risk. And putting it into a config file is different, IMO. You don't get tempted to do some bad string interpolation there, because you can't, unless the config file format has support for that, but then I criticize that. If you need to pass things to such a snipped do it via environment variables or standard IO, not string interpolation.

If you say you don't make such mistakes: Yeah, but people do. People that write the code that runs on your system.
by Szpadel | 2025-06-10 19:03:55+00:00
how do you sample it behind the scenes? usually best of X means you generate X outputs and you choose best result.

if you could do this automatically, it would be game changer as you could run top 5 best models in parallel and select best answer every time

but it's not practical because you are the bottleneck as you have to read all 5 solutions and compare them
by alliejanoch | 2025-06-10 19:04:12+00:00
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by gklitt | 2025-06-10 19:04:24+00:00
> I agree, I feel like the authors are underestimating the effect the new AI is already having on the concept of local software crafting

Coauthor here -- did you catch our section on AI? [1]

We emphatically agree with you that AI is already enabling new kinds of local software crafting. That's one reason we are excited about doing this work now!

At the same time, AI code generation doesn't solve the structural problems -- our whole software world was built assuming people can't code! We think things will really take off once we reorient the OS around personal tools, not prefabricated apps. That's what the rest of the essay is about.

[1] https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/#ai-as...
by const_cast | 2025-06-10 19:04:42+00:00
I'm not lying - it's very overblown because of course it is. I have friends in LA right now. They're mostly just outside listening to music and dancing.

Obviously, such a narrative is very boring. So we don't see it. In reality, though, the damage is quite small. Similar to BLM in the past, in which almost all protests saw no damage at all.

And, elephant in the room - there's a 0% chance that the fucking marines are going to de-escalate anything. You think Trump wants less violence, less destruction? No, he wants MORE of it.
by heavyset_go | 2025-06-10 19:04:46+00:00
> (sound design? instrument tracking? mixing? mastering? god help you live sound?)

This minus live sound, and I stick exclusively to MIDI controllers.

> and the distro and applications you use?

I'm on EndeavourOS, which is just Arch with a GUI installer + some default niceties.

I came from using Reaper on macOS, which is native on Linux, but was really impressed with Bitwig Studio[1] so I use that for most of everything.

I really like u-he & TAL's commercial offerings, Vital, and I got mileage out of pages like this[2] that list plugins that are Linux compatible. I'm insane so I also sometimes use paid Windows plugins over Yabridge, which works surprisingly well, but my needs have been suited well by what's available for Linux.

There's also some great open source plugins like Surge XT, Dexed & Vaporizer2, and unique plugins ChowMatrix.

> I wouldn’t mind reasons to try Linux again (Ubuntu Studio ~8 years ago was my last foray).

IMO the state of things is pretty nice now, assuming your hardware and software needs can be met. If you give it a try, I think a rolling release would be best, as you really want the latest Pipewire/Wireplumber support you can get.

[1] https://www.bitwig.com/

[2] https://linuxdaw.org/
by mschuster91 | 2025-06-10 19:04:48+00:00
> Yes I did notice, and do the numbers and results that we are talking about not apply to them?

They do but still I'm not willing to give these two multi-billion dollar megacorps a hall pass for penny pinching with deadly results when our car industry shows that better ways of doing things exist.

Not everything needs to be done by the typical Silicon Valley strategy of "move fast, break things" - especially not when the things being broken are literal human lives.
Show HN: State of the Art Hallucination Detection
by dylananderson7 | 2025-06-10 19:04:56+00:00
We are pretty excited to release the latest update of our ChatGPT hallucination detector This brings an update to the method based on the research paper "SelfCheckGPT" It consists in running suspicious queries multiples times and analyse the variation in results It is self-referential: it does not require any eternal call to a fact-check database that constantly needs update and can apply to documents that are not verifiable in the public domain We are super excited to give access to non technical users to this advanced technique Let me know your thoughts.
by trhway | 2025-06-10 19:04:57+00:00
>IF they are a manager, then they are managing people.

Not really. For example for L1, a visa for managers and executives, managing people isn't a hard requirement, instead it may be "employee’s ability to manage an essential function of the organization at a high level, without direct supervision of others", and thus project managers and architects and even senior engineers make the cut.

Handling capable AI agents would seem to fit if those AI agents perform "an essential function of the organization" and you manage them "at a high level, without direct supervision of others".
by gowld | 2025-06-10 19:05:14+00:00
> I thought my intellectual friends (and especially girlfriends) would think it was cool that I actually read the whole thing

Interesting though, considering the popular meme among women, that men think reading IJ makes them look smart.

https://reductress.com/post/why-im-waiting-for-the-right-man...

https://www.reddit.com/r/davidfosterwallace/comments/evsylv/...
by alex43578 | 2025-06-10 19:05:29+00:00
If your argument against immigration regulation and enforcement boils down to “we’ve only been doing it for 120 years”, that’s got some pretty rough consequences for welfare, civil rights on the basis of race, and even the income tax, right?

If you want to go back to a pre-1900s American system and return to that national fabric, sure! Repeal the NFA and free our 2nd amendment. Repeal the income tax and welfare state, and go back to funding the government via tariffs and excise taxes (the liberal media sure convinced some people tariffs were an anathema to America, right?).

Your idealized “America the melting pot” thrived on the basis of people actually working for what they had, both immigrant and 3rd generation American; rather than sitting around drawing Social Security, disability, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, WIC,TANF, EITC, and housing assistance. I think you’re on to something!
by krona | 2025-06-10 19:05:34+00:00
As someone interested but unfamiliar with the state-of-the-art of GPU vector rasterization I struggle to understand how the method described here isn't a step back from the SLUG algorithm or the basic ~100 lines of glsl of the vector texture approach of https://wdobbie.com/post/gpu-text-rendering-with-vector-text... from nearly a decade ago (albeit with some numerical precision limitations.)

Is the problem here that computing the vector texture in real-time is too expensive and perhaps that font contours are too much of a special case of a general purpose vector rasterizer to be useful? The SLUG algorithm also implements 'banding' which seems similar to the tiling described in the presentation.
by jesol | 2025-06-10 19:05:38+00:00
I don't know anything about electronics design, but I'm really into backpacking so a high efficiency battery system with a solar panel is really interesting to me. I came across this project[1], and wanted to improve upon it for my usecase. I want to add the ability to have multiple 21700 cells in a lightweight charger, instead of a single cell with a builtin USB charger. I want to learn more electronics, but it definitely feels like a multiyear process, and it'd be nice to shortcut it for the projects I'm interested in.

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/myog/comments/1k3stln/ultralight_13...
by tptacek | 2025-06-10 19:05:42+00:00
The original version of this post also mentioned, and was in fact motivated by, a fatal flaw in encrypted email that everyone who has used it at scale has experienced, which is that participants will reply to encrypted messages with unencrypted responses that quote the original (whether or not a reply quotes the original doesn't change how devastating this problem is, but sort of highlights how insane the system is).

So I think the metadata argument is dispositive. I agree with you that it's difficult to compose a coherent threat model that leaves metadata exposed the way SMTP does.

But the core argument of the piece is that encrypted email makes security concessions nobody would make if e.g. the wire for the down payment on their house was at stake, or if they were organizing against an oppressive state-level adversary. If encrypted email is unsuitable for those scenarios, then it seems more important to keep it from being used there than it does to accommodate the interests of people who using it for other reasons.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-06-10 19:05:55+00:00
It was his first sentence, seems like it was in reference to your statement. In any event, it applies equally to both of you.

Not sure what your complaint is, I'm as happy to discuss the incel condition as I am to hear yet another HN lolbertarian try to explain that taxation is theft because if you stage a standoff with the IRS you might get shot. That doesn't make your comment any higher quality.
by motorest | 2025-06-10 19:06:03+00:00
> Trump would not have won if Dems had not escalated illegal immigration 2020-24.

Do you actually have any source to support your claim? I mean, MAGA nuts have been swearing for over a decade that there was a torrent of illegal immigrants arriving each day into the country, and that somehow democrats were to blame, but even after Trump's fascist push with it's forced deportations of everyone including US citizens without due process the numbers barely reached 100k. And now we're seeing Trump's ICE thugs mobilizing a small army of agents to assault Home Depot parking lots?

Where are all those illegal immigrants?
by ActorNightly | 2025-06-10 19:06:08+00:00
> LaPook, March 8: There’s a lot of confusion among people, and misinformation, surrounding face masks. Can you discuss that? > Fauci: The masks are important for someone who’s infected to prevent them from infecting someone else… Right now in the United States, people should not be walking around with masks. > LaPook: You’re sure of it? Because people are listening really closely to this. > Fauci: …There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask. When you’re in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better and it might even block a droplet, but it’s not providing the perfect protection that people think that it is. And, often, there are unintended consequences — people keep fiddling with the mask and they keep touching their face. > LaPook: And can you get some schmutz, sort of staying inside there? > Fauci: Of course, of course. But, when you think masks, you should think of health care providers needing them and people who are ill. The people who, when you look at the films of foreign countries and you see 85% of the people wearing masks — that’s fine, that’s fine. I’m not against it. If you want to do it, that’s fine. > LaPook: But it can lead to a shortage of masks? > Fauci: Exactly, that’s the point. It could lead to a shortage of masks for the people who really need it.

Its not waving hands.

Im really curious why you hold that opinion though. Do you not care that much about what the actual truth is? Like do you hear/read about how Fauci said opposing things supposedly, and just don't care enough to check the facts? Or is there another reason why you believe he is contradicting himself.
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by 12_throw_away | 2025-06-10 19:06:27+00:00
I mean, I'm pretty happy with the arrangement. People who buy day-1 bugfests for full price have to deal with awful DRM. But if you wait a year or two, then the most egregious bugs get fixed, it goes on sale, and the intrusive DRM is gone.

Of course, this means that casuals like me get a much better experience than their core, dedicated, day-1 customers ... but really, that sort of contempt for your core audience is a foundational principle of AAA these days.
by Asm2D | 2025-06-10 19:07:00+00:00
Blend2D has C-API and no dependencies - it doesn't even need a C++ standard library - so generally it's not an issue to build it and use it anywhere.

There is a different problem though. While many people working on Vello are paid full time, Blend2D lacks funding and what you see today was developed independently. So, the development is super slow and that's the reason that Blend2D will most likely never have the features other libraries have.
by k310 | 2025-06-10 19:07:22+00:00
Why, I remember every f/stop, focal length and shutter setting! But seriously, I travel mostly to take photos.

> “The main benefit of using a camera is the ability to go back and look at the photos you take, and you will often see things in the photo that would otherwise have been lost to time, which is something that our experiments don’t take into account.” said Lurie. “If you aren’t going to be looking back at your photos, then try to be more in the moment and simply experience the event without photographing it.

Bingo. A photo captures (nearly) infinite detail that the eye and brain miss entirely. A serious photo is an interaction between photographer and subject, and in my opinion expresses that interaction. So, when I see selfies and giggly group photos in Yosemite or other spectacular places, I don't scoff. That's the photographers expression of the experience.

Does anyone just take photos and never review them? I looked over some old photos from the 50's of family and elders I don't even recall, but, crappy as they are, overexposed and taken with Brownie Reflex cameras. They WERE reviewed, albeit with little or no personal recollection or context.
by dijksterhuis | 2025-06-10 19:07:38+00:00
digital signal processing for synths and audio stuff.

maths :/ brain hurt.

i did some digital signal processing in my phd but i need to go through and implement a bunch of things from scratch to learn/relearn and it’ll just be a bit of a grind. i’m avoiding doing that by working on data file parsing / project management utils for the elektron octatrack instead, which is useful, but tangential to what i want to do.

long term would be rad to build software for old synth hardware and the like. sort of like midiquest, but without the price tag.
by Imnimo | 2025-06-10 19:07:52+00:00
This is an interesting way of squeezing extra feedback from raw text, but I'm a little skeptical that it's the best way to spend training flops. It feels like most "next tokens" are pretty low information (even after filtering for entropy like they do). Does it make sense to spend a bunch of compute on a reasoning trace on them? Maybe if you're harshly data limited, but not compute limited?