MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mcculley | 2025-07-11 18:22:03+00:00
I was surprised to see “AAAA”. I didn’t know there were 4 As now.

“AAAA Game Studio shits out another unoptimized clunker” seems a paradoxical statement to me. I would have thought “AAAA” meant “highly resourced” game company. Does it just mean high revenue? Lots of players?
by wk_end | 2025-07-11 18:22:18+00:00
> the CppInterOp approach to cpp interop is completely janky (no pun intended). the approach literally string munges cpp and then parses/interprets it to emit ABI compliant calls.

So, I agree that this sounds janky as heck. My question is: besides sounding janky as heck, is there something wrong with this? Is it slow/unreliable?
by moooo99 | 2025-07-11 18:22:22+00:00
I completely quit buying Apple devices all togehter, but I still occasionally check their website. The SSD upgrade prices are ridiculous and funny, especially since I keep meeting people that are convinced that Apples SSDs are somehow magically better than my 60 EUR Samsung M.2 and the price is hence justified.

The upgrade prices - 13" MacBook Air: 256GB to 512GB -> 256GB for 250 EUR

- 14" MacBook Pro: 512GB to 1TB -> 512GB for 250 EUR

So the Air upgrade is twice the price for what is - as far as I was able to figure out - the same hardware?
by mNovak | 2025-07-11 18:22:24+00:00
>> That Satoshi himself intervened, and did so so quickly, showed that Bitcoin was not as easily hackable as some might have assumed

I don't know if this is the central takeaway I get from this. Moreso it shows Bitcoin dodged a bullet, in that there was still a central figure or group with enough clout to roll back and fork the chain.
by jorvi | 2025-07-11 18:22:26+00:00
It literally is quite that simple. I can tell you from experience via friends and acquaintances that tourists are crushing the locals out of Barcelona and Amsterdam. And I expect the same to be true of Warsaw or Berlin.

And its not just tourists. ASML has completely destroyed the housing market in the Brainport region. They're planning to hire 20.000 more people, but with The Netherlands currently being in one of the most severe housing crises in the world, these expats just end up pushing everyone out of the local housing market because they can overbid on houses / rental properties so much.

ASML has woken up to this and is underwriting affordable housing developments, but only at a clip of 1500 per year. So yeah, the locals are not exactly happy, even if it is good for The Netherlands and EU as a whole.

Frankly, I expect the next decade or two to be about harsh protectionism. People are really, really tired of globalisation eating the world.
by jeffbee | 2025-07-11 18:23:17+00:00
The physical interface controller can exist to that extent, of course. But I think the command interface it should present to the host system should be a physical one, not a logical translation. The host should be totally aware of the layout of the flash devices, and should command the things that the devices are actually capable of doing: erase this, write that, read this.

We already see the demand for this in the latest NVMe protocol spec that allows the host to give placement hints. But this is a half-measure that suggests what systems really want, which is not to vaguely influence the device but instead to tell it exactly what to do.
by 7sigma | 2025-07-11 18:23:32+00:00
> But they did not displace the population. They arrived to the area in the beginning of 1900s. The war of 1948 was much later.

Yes they did, this was the Nakba, as documented by Israeli historians like Illan Pappe and Bennhy Morris

The purchase of the land up to 1948 resulted in only 6% of palestine being occupied and upon Palestinians clamouring for their own state, it was decided to take territory by force.

White supremacy is not really about being white or not. Italians and southern europeans were not considered white in the early 20th century US. Its about who is considered the top of a hierarchy of a racial hierarchy or not.

> Man, why are you like that? Why do you ignore any historical evidence that does not fit your narrative? Why do you apply different standards to jews and not jews in the same situations?

You are talking to a Jewish former zionist, with grandparents who survived the holocaust, who has rejected the myths of Zionism. The narrative is based on historical evidence. I'm applying the same standards to Jews as I would do to Nazis.
by xboxnolifes | 2025-07-11 18:24:01+00:00
The vast majority of the population doesn't do most individual things you could possibly name. There's a vanishingly small set of things you could name that the vast majority of people do without over-generalizing. That doesn't necessarily make them niche.

Most people work, but most people aren't a programmer/barber/chef/construction worker/farmer/etc. Most people listen to music, but most people don't actively listen to <insert any artist below top 100 or so>. Most people use some form of computer daily/weekly, but most people aren't visiting reddit every day, or HN, or a specific youtube channel. Most people aren't a small business owner, but small business owners aren't a niche thing, they are a cornerstone part of the economy.

Add all of these "not mainstream" activity participating people together, and suddenly you have most of the population.
by majormajor | 2025-07-11 18:24:03+00:00
> Everyone thinks that they are being more respectful than average as a tourist, but the hard truth is that the best thing you can do for these places is to not be there at all.

I think this is definitely not true.

And I think oversaturation generally happens because most people don't think that, or think about it at all. They have a checklist of spots to hit, photos to take, things to eat, and they follow it. They'll put up with huge lines, crazy prices, etc. Overcharging isn't terrible for everyone local, of course, but the crowding certainly changes a place. Often not better for most locals.

If you're trying to be respectful I think that rules out following those huge crowds usually. Like, seeing the Mona Lisa is usually a shitty experience, but at least its in a controlled environment. Visiting a trendy vacation spot like Barcelona, on the other hand, is hitting the whole town and frankly ... maybe not that interesting or novel. There are other places out there, many not even that far away from the hotspots. Though you also need to rein in any instinct to show off any other finds or places online, let the local place you enjoyed become deluged.
by lupusreal | 2025-07-11 18:24:12+00:00
Sorry, but that doesn't work. (Your argument, not GPS.)

Relativity was discovered after discrepancies were noticed in observations of Mercury, right in our solar system. Not through observations of distant galaxies. And suppose Mercury was never studied, or in fact never existed; would that make GPS impossible for humanity? Of course not. Relativity is relevant to GPS because it has effects on the scale of GPS, and can therefore be discovered and studied by simply putting very accurate clocks into orbit. Had it not already been known of when GPS was created, it would have been discovered soon after.

In fact, studying very large and very distant things, other galaxies namely, has revealed discrepancies that suggest general relativity might not be the whole story. But is that relevant to GPS? Not in the slightest.
by jsnell | 2025-07-11 18:24:14+00:00
The Claude Code privacy policy[0] is pretty explicit that by default they train on neither the prompts, usage data, or even explicitly provided feedback data (presumably /bug?) that can be used for other product improvements.

> By default, Anthropic does not train generative models using code or prompts that are sent to Claude Code.

> We aim to be fully transparent about how we use your data. We may use feedback to improve our products and services, but we will not train generative models using your feedback from Claude Code.

[...]

> If you choose to send us feedback about Claude Code, such as transcripts of your usage, Anthropic may use that feedback to debug related issues and improve Claude Code’s functionality (e.g., to reduce the risk of similar bugs occurring in the future). We will not train generative models using this feedback. Given their potentially sensitive nature, we store user feedback transcripts for only 30 days.

For understanding what value they place on that data, they do have a program where you can opt-in to have your data be used for training[1] in exchange for a discount on the API rates.

[0] https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code/data-usage

[1] https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/11174108-about-the...
by jfengel | 2025-07-11 18:24:22+00:00
Congress can't. There is too much bad blood. Everything is viewed in through a partisan lens. If you want it, it must be bad for me, somehow.

Nor does it help to have a joint proposal. People who work across the aisle are seen as traitors -- they cannot be trusted to do the vital work of shooting down everything that the other side proposes.

It doesn't matter if the proposal is overwhelmingly supported. You will get very little credit from your constituents even if it passes. As much as people would like this bill, it's nobody's top priority.

Congress is barely able to pass anything. Frequently, it can't even pass a budget -- the basic operation of just keeping the lights on. Everything else is renaming post offices.

The entire point of the civil service is to pass basic functionality off onto a nonpartisan set of functionaries. But those functionaries are now widely considered the enemy, and so that method of accomplishing governance is also blocked. Congress will not re-open it, for exactly the same reasons that governance was blocked in the first place.
by watwut | 2025-07-11 18:24:24+00:00
> so, what else could they be afraid of other than to upset someone else?

People, including teenagers, can and do act in pro-social and non assholish ways for reasons other then fear. Simple as that.

> Now you're going off into la-la land. Did not read the thread confirmed.

I did read the thread. The thread projects fear on them, because quite a few people on HN cant explain teenagers not destroying things or not breaking the "no fire in the park rules" by anything else then the fear.

Quite a few people here assume that since they were jerks, everyone young was a jerk and everyone who is not a jerk must do so out of fear.
by ericmay | 2025-07-11 18:24:39+00:00
Why do you need to have an idea about what’s going on? You could just ask and then talk about it. You’re using social media to skip the initial asking part, but you don’t need to do that.

I can tell you this works because I do it. You’re not missing anything. If you don’t communicate much because of distance either the relationship isn’t that important - so you’re lying to yourself about it, or you should move and live closer together.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-07-11 18:24:51+00:00
Your mind will play tricks on you, the last thing you'll think before the accident is 'this is safe'. In machining a technique to fight that thought is - don't touch anything with your finger that you wouldn't touch with your 'pecker'. With falling asleep while driving you'll often think a little nap wont hurt - an absolutely ridiculous thought in hindsight but you're not working with 100% of your faculties 100% of the time.

There are many activities where accidents are rare but severe resulting in overconfidence. In activities like motorbike riding or gliding aircraft people will convince themselves that they're skilled enough when all that has happened is that they've been lucky, and given enough instances their luck will eventually run out. Knowing the stats can help avoid confusing luck with skill.

I generally study the stats and even I get caught out, usually when working while fatigued so I simply have to refuse to work when that happens - the accidents are not worth it.
by game_the0ry | 2025-07-11 18:25:44+00:00
I have a hypothesis - media production [1] will gradually shift from social medial platforms to individualized (decentralized) platforms [2].

I think there are a lot of reasons for this trend:

* People are becoming increasing distrustful of platforms and there owners.

* The platform algos push a lot of noise and inflammatory content for engagement, something that users are getting fatigue from.

* On the creator side, the professional producers of social media will find it increasingly difficult to monetize from their platforms. In fact, I think the platforms will eventually realize how much power they have over their popular creators and charge the creators in order to have full access to their audiences.

* Additionally on the creator side, they can be banned at any moment with little or no recourse. Imagine being a professional creator on instagram, and one day you are banned for no reason. You lose total access to your following.

So I think the attention will slowly shift away from the platforms, which increasingly just serve as a parasitic middle men, back to creators + their followers (newsletters, blogs, private chat, websites with owned domains, etc).

[1] Whatever people tend to post on social media, whether its images, text, audio, or video.

[2] Blogs, websites, email, owned domains, etc.
by almostgotcaught | 2025-07-11 18:26:03+00:00
i mean it's as prone to error as any other thing that relies on string munging. it's probably not that much slower than the alternative i proposed - because the trampolines/wrappers are jitted and then reused - but it's just not robust enough that i would ever imagine building a prod system on top of it (eg using cppyy in prod) let alone baking it into my language/runtime.
by adverbly | 2025-07-11 18:26:25+00:00
> I content that it is simply not possible to evaluate the "unimproved value" of a given parcel.

How familiar are you with existing property taxes?

It might surprise you that land value estimation is literally already happening at scale.

Also, you don't need to be 100% accurate with the estimation. Even a 50% lvt would be a huge improvement and would mean that you could literally be off by 100% which is extremely unlikely. How many houses do you see selling for twice the listing price?
by mlyle | 2025-07-11 18:26:34+00:00
Reducing carbon emissions means electrifying a lot of things that were not electric before. We are going to need a lot more base generation than we have now.

Large grids, overbuilding renewables, diversity of renewables, short and medium term storage, and load shedding/dynamic pricing are all good starts but IMO won’t be enough— we should scale up nuclear too.
by peterdavehello | 2025-07-11 18:28:46+00:00
In addition to Tranco, I maintain regularly updated lists of the top one million domains from sources like Cisco, Majestic, BuiltWith, Statvoo, DomCop, and Cloudflare. Feel free to check it out: https://github.com/PeterDaveHello/top-1m-domains
by akudha | 2025-07-11 18:28:47+00:00
Maybe everyone does it at some level, but not everyone works in a job that has the potential to wreck other people's lives and freedoms. There should be a higher standard for doctors, prosecutors, cops, judges etc than someone writing a todo CRUD app or a cashier at a bodega.

It is not too much to ask for prosecutors to be a bit more careful, bit more factual, understand the powers that come with their position and use it wisely. If they are not able to do that, they should pick some other profession which has lesser potential to cause damage than law enforcement.

Also - now that the software has proven defective, are they doing to go after Fujitsu or those who tested/signed off on the software? Probably not, maybe they will find a scapegoat at best.
by adverbly | 2025-07-11 18:28:48+00:00
> How, specifically, do they arrive at these assessments.

So is your argument that you don't understand something and so it must be wrong?

There's an extremely large amount of existing material that is used by property assessors available for you to look up to research how they do this. It is a well-established field.

Property assessments have been done across a huge number of countries for decades probably billions of times at this point. There are probably trillions of dollars of capital that flows according to these assessments.
by dfxm12 | 2025-07-11 18:29:32+00:00
US conservatives get no benefit of the doubt thanks to years of racism and racist policy. It is clear that they are reactionaries looking to codify white supremacy.

However, American culture has moved on (a lot) from that though. For several generations, it has been described as a "melting pot" or understood through the lens of The New Colossus mounted on the Statue of Liberty.
by boroboro4 | 2025-07-11 18:29:46+00:00
One way here is to use one hot encoding in first (token length * alphabet length) dimensions.

But to be frank I don’t think it’s really needed, I bet everything really needed model learns by itself. If I had time I would’ve tried it though :)

Bonus content, accuracies for other models (notice DeepSeek!):

- Qwen3-32B: 0.873 / 0.585 / 0.467

- Qwen3-235B-A22B: 0.857 / 0.607 / 0.502

- DeepSeek-V3: 0.869 / 0.738 / 0.624
by johnnyjeans | 2025-07-11 18:29:48+00:00
I'm not surprised to see that Jank's solution to this is to embed LLVM into their runtime. I really wish there was a better way to do this.

There are a lot of things I don't like about C++, and close to the top of the list is the lack of standardization for name-mangling, or even a way mangle or de-mangle names at compile-time. Sepples is a royal pain in the ass to target for a dynamic FFI because of that. It would be really nice to have some way to get symbol names and calling semantics as constexpr const char* and not have to deal with generating (or writing) a ton of boilerplate and extern "C" blocks.

It's absolutely possible, but it's not low-hanging fruit so the standards committee will never put it in. Just like they'll never add a standardized equivalent for alloca/VLAs. We're not allowed to have basic, useful things. Only more ways to abuse type deduction. Will C++26 finally give us constexpr dynamic allocations? Will compilers ever actually implement one of the three (3) compile-time reflection standards? Stay tuned to find out!
by grishka | 2025-07-11 18:30:02+00:00
I keep seeing that argument made but it doesn't make any sense.

Yes, Apple may deserve a cut when a user was acquired thanks to the app store alone. Like in that case when you're an indie developer and the app store putting your app listing in front of potential new users is genuinely helpful. However, to many developers, and especially large ones like Spotify that do their own marketing, the app store is a hindrance. It's an obstacle they need to clear. It provides no value to them.

Spotify is able to "access billions of Apple customers" because Spotify spends millions on ads and because statistically some people who would like to use Spotify on their phone happen to have an iPhone. Apple has no part in this at all. Simple as that.
by ge96 | 2025-07-11 18:30:06+00:00
People talk about getting out of software and doing woodwork Now this... I've actually done DMT one time was crazy and instant the effects but brief. I did it at a dining room table with wooden grain and concentric ring placemats. I remember seeing my arm like wtf is that. And then the grain/rings moving. Even closing my eyes I'd see colors but was over in a couple minutes.

What I had my friend made. Bought some root, had to use naptha to separate it in a fridge then put it (powder) on top of something flammable and smoke it like weed.

Further thoughts:

On a side note/comparison, weed for me it's like. Day to day you're driven by a known process/system. You have to get to work at 9 AM, go to this, then that. Smoking weed you stop and are in the moment, suddenly focused on how vibrant this red shrub is that you normally ignore. I don't smoke weed anymore because it makes me super paranoid like afraid cops are going to arrest me or I can't interact with people as I already have social anxiety. The other thing is it would enforce my delusions thinking some idea was great/fixate on some design (I was trying to use it to come up with ideas to make money).

DMT is like losing steady state/reality, solid things start to move. The colors were not solid for me, it's like when you push your eyes (while closed) and you see flashes of light. This was a long time ago I did it so might not be remembering as well, it was intense though and brief.

I have not done acid or shrooms as I have bad repressed childhood memories and I don't want to get stuck in that for hours.

Did K one time, I just sat on a couch throughout a party doing nothing/sipping on a cup of water.

K2/Salvia that stuff was whack, I felt like I was sinking into a couch when I smoked it in a shed with a buddy and I felt dumb like I couldn't talk correctly.

C and Addy, amazing. I mean if you could operate life like that all the time you'd probably die just because you'd do crazy things like do a jump that you normally wouldn't just because of the overconfidence. But yeah the ability to sit down/cram 12 hrs of work and pass a test, amazing or nail every note on a guitar. The weight loss is great but I found my p would shrink so much it was crazy. At one point started to defecate blood (was just a fissure) so yeah that was a problem. I would use A for times when I couldn't get sleep and would just do these overnighters at a data-entry job.

Also did M before (fake addy) and yeah, that's great for drinking, you can just pound beers/liquor and not feel it. The bad thing is the come downs, you are drained of happiness, can't do anything and it is hard to recover. A way to recover is to jerk off a lot. But yeah I don't do that anymore just because the sadness is crazy.
by almostgotcaught | 2025-07-11 18:30:51+00:00
> LLVM into their runtime

they're not embedding LLVM - they're embedding clang. if you look at my comment below, you'll see LLVM is not currently sufficient.

> [C++] is a royal pain in the ass to target for a dynamic FFI because of that

name mangling is by the easiest part of cpp FFI - the hard part is the rest of the ABI. anyone curious can start here

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-bindgen/issues/778
by toast0 | 2025-07-11 18:31:39+00:00
> Was it a scandal at the time?

Yes. My understanding was it was optimized by reducing precision or something to a visibly apparent degree.

It's different if the driver changes things in ways such that rendered output is the same or at least imperceptibly different. I think there's also a lot more communication between gpu makers and game/engine developers these days; plus a lot more frequent updates.
by greenie_beans | 2025-07-11 18:31:48+00:00
yes i know, that is the "theory" in a logical vacuum. that just reinforces my original point that it will hurt the middle class and only benefit wealthy people. especially since the tax would make the land cheaper (in LVT theory), so when you are forced to sell it you're gonna have to sell at a lower price than you'd like (that is the entire logic of LVT: make land cheaper to encourage more building).

you can't just wave a wand to build housing if the taxes change to LVT. we all know that developers don't build affordable housing. the margins are much more attractive to build luxury housing...it's the incentive structure. housing is expensive to build, and those investors will require an ROI.

terrible idea! the more you look at it, the worse and worse it sounds.