MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by amiga386 | 2025-07-11 20:18:54+00:00
Truth (in English law) is merely a defence to an accusation of libel or slander, and it is not an absolute defence. If you say or print true things about a person, that lowers their reputation in the eyes of an ordinary person, and you are motivated by malice, then you have still committed the crime of defamation.

English libel law is an evolution of the former English law known as scandalum magnatum -- "scandalizing the mighty". Basically, if you say bad things about powerful people, those powerful people will crush you with the law.

As an example, Robert Maxwell embezzled millions from his company's pension fund, and also used that money to sue anyone who slighted him - including anyone who said he was embezzling from his company's pension fund. He was never prosecuted for embezzling millions from his company's pension fund.
by bluecalm | 2025-07-11 20:19:59+00:00
Not a very convincing article in my view.

>>Take, for example, the case of surveying land for oil. Imagine a landowner invests significant time, money, and effort into exploring their property to determine whether it contains untapped oil reserves. If they do find oil, the value of their land would skyrocket because the presence of oil dramatically increases its economic potential.

Is the author aware that in many countries the owner of the land doesn't own the resources if they are discovered there? Is the author seriously claiming discovering oil is not profitable under LVT? Does he prefer making people who happen to stumble on oil not pay % of the value of it as tax? (and thus presumably prefers taxing other things). It seems so unlikely to me that someone reasonable would make that argument that I have trouble taking it seriously.

>>An LVT implicitly taxes improvements to nearby land

That's one of the two major points behind it: tax wealth that you got without building it yourself. In other words it limits land speculation.

>>An LVT is unlikely to replace many existing taxes

The argument the author is making here ("government will not get rid of other taxes") applies to any tax discussion and kills it before it even starts.

>>Another major issue is that a full or near-full land value tax would likely establish a troubling precedent by signaling that the government has the appetite to effectively confiscate an additional category of assets that people have already acquired long ago through their labor and purchases.

Yeah but we need to tax something. The alternative is to tax the very labor which must certainly be worse. Land owners are benefiting from work done by others without contributing to it and thus should be taxes accordingly.

>>The concern here—which, to be clear, is not unique to the LVT—is that the introduction of an LVT set at a high rate (especially near 100%)

Amazing, 100% rate for LVT doesn't make sense!

>>For instance, individuals buy stocks, businesses invest in capital goods like machinery, and developers improve real estate—all with the expectation that they will retain most of the value of their assets and any future returns from them. This confidence in the protection of property rights encourages entrepreneurship, innovation, and economic growth.

And yet all of those are taxed in the current system!

The author seems to be assuming the proposed LVT rates are very high (when in practice they would be in low single digits). Remove that assumption and the whole article makes no sense at all.
by bigyabai | 2025-07-11 20:20:30+00:00
"Software legend" might be stretching it. His app was popular, and when Reddit pulled the plug there was discontent, but nothing was really ever resolved. It's more of a software parable against being overly reliant on a single centralized company that can kick your revenue out from underneath you at the drop of a hat. *glares at Tim Cook*

They say you either learn history or are doomed to repeat it.
by benoau | 2025-07-11 20:20:37+00:00
Really just an extension of the "Stop Killing Games" initiative, "Stop Killing Everything Else", even the Belkin devices that will survive through HomeKit are tied to an iOS device with a limited support period! Buy a new everything every 5 - 10 years or your stuff might get bricked or left to fend for itself without security patches. The whole tech industry needs to change.
by phtrivier | 2025-07-11 20:21:02+00:00
LCOE is only fair with storage taken into account, which is hard because storage does not necessarily exist in capacities to make a comparison with non intermittent sources relevant.

The joke is that the LCOE of solar is "Infinity / kWh" at night if the battery is empty, "-Infinity / kWh" at noon if the reservoir is full, and "NaN / kWh" when there is not enough câbles.

That being said, the answer to "which carbon -light electricity source should we build ?" is "YES".

I, too, long for the days where we have batteries massive enough to not even care any more.
by zahlman | 2025-07-11 20:21:14+00:00
And when I look at the link, the part I quoted is the relevant text I see.

In order to get to the part that you're trying to hold me accountable for, I would furthermore have to click onto the commits tab and search through a 93-commit PR.

I thought today I was using a site where trying to think the best of people and propose that someone had taken something out of context, based on the immediately available context having a simpler explanation, would not get me treated like a corporate shill (for a company I don't even care about). Apparently I was wrong.
by tomp | 2025-07-11 20:22:42+00:00
> I see some people campaigning against European green energy or the renewables and it doesn't make sense whatsoever unless you are aligned with Russia or USA.

No, you got this exactly the wrong way.

In fact, it was Russia who initially funded European (German) "green" movement, their main purpose was opposing nuclear (by far the greenest elective source of energy, as evidenced by France's carbon footprint), so that Europe (Germany) would get hooked on Russian gas.

The plan worked brilliantly!
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-11 20:23:26+00:00
If you want to program, computer science is worth it. If I've got one regret in my life (Physics+Math BA and Physics PhD -> software dev) it is that I never took a compilers class. (Though I learned many life lessons like how to work the triggers on an oscilloscope, how tenacious cutting grease for machine tools, not be intimidated by any technical problem, etc.)

Get your money's worth and study a hard quantitative field that will challenge you.

I know many people who got an MBA for whom it was a great career move because it is a hard quantitative degree that will challenge you and get you ready for Fortune 500 or McKinsey or non-profit administration (current boss) or startups (prior boss.) I think a bachelor's in BA is not worth it. If you're interested in that sort of thing you can learn a lot in the school of hard knocks (helping administer a business) or getting an accounting certificate which is a great credential from a money making perspective that will also help you be a quantitative thinker.

An alternate take to the current problem is that everybody is studying CS, my Uni is opening a second CS building but is likely to lay off IT workers soon. People really stopped studying the humanities so maybe it is time, and this too is a field that can really challenge you (employers love a good writer!). There is a shortage of men entering HEAL jobs

https://aibm.org/research/the-heal-economy/

and that work may be AI-resistant.

Personally I think there are a lot of young people who want the bling but don’t have the hustle to get it. The story I want to hear is you came from a poor family, studied a hard major, played football, took care of your little brother, started a business with a big ARR, etc. (Not quite realistic, the coach will lean on you hard to stay focused on the game…) I’m kinda sensitive to signs somebody doesn’t have a good work ethic.
by Silesmo | 2025-07-11 20:23:52+00:00
Can you run long-lived or stateful services (e.g. websockets, streams)? In this initial public beta Heim can only handle stateless services, so you would have to use the usual services such as a key value store or database to store state. However in an upcoming release later this year we will release full support for sateful services that can directly replace containers and kubernetes.

Currently we have a way to pass in secrets and environment variables when you deploy an application and we are working on adding in a full secret store which will load the secrets at the startup of the application and pass them in as env variables to the application. But you can also use existing secret vault services that you are already using.

We actually support running the full experience including the same portal as you get in cloud version of Heim locally all of which is contained in the installer of just ~70 MB.
by AngryData | 2025-07-11 20:24:01+00:00
Could I not make the same argument against you for authoritarian central state rule bullshit? Maybe in some European countries it might actually work alright in their current political climates. But how can you look at the US right now and be like "Yes, we need more centralized and powerful government despite the federal government already wielding far more power than ever before or ever imagined in the past." We have literal centuries full of lessons on why strong authoritarian governments are trash and inevitably result in oppression, corruption, internal conflict, and war.
by andrewla | 2025-07-11 20:24:22+00:00
To expand on this differently -- if we have a model that produces estimates of the "true value of improved land", then we can validate that model whenever property sells. It would be a slow process but if we have a model and the model parameters capture a significant portion of the variance, then we would expect the model to converge over time.

Nobody does this, of course; it is not usually politically expedient to do so for a number of reasons, not least of which is the predictability of taxes for a given parcel. But at least it is theoretically asymptotically achievable. Not so for unimproved land value because the value you are trying to estimate is not an actual quantity.
by 59nadir | 2025-07-11 20:24:33+00:00
> "The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities."

No, they underestimated their own abilities for the most part; the estimates for AI-disallowed tasks were all undershot in terms of real implementation time.

What they overestimated was the ability of LLMs to provide real productivity gains on a given task.
by bigyabai | 2025-07-11 20:24:56+00:00
To be fair, the parent comment did qualify their uncertainty four whole times:

1) "I'm not a security researcher" (ethos; repeal to authority)

2) "I get" (pathos; personal opinion)

3) "distinct impression" (pathos; emotional appeal)

4) "good enough" (logos; implies security is immeasurable/infeasible to prove)

Now, I wouldn't get caught dead endorsing a company that I have to write so many excuses for. But they did warn you!
by eamag | 2025-07-11 20:25:05+00:00
A quick guide on how to not get destroyed right away:

Select a grassland patch somewhere on the edge without many players around, many bots and an access to a see/river. More advanced version would be to start in a center and do more diplomacy later. Send 20% of troops right away when game starts, then move a slider in a bottom left (attach ratio) to 35% and expand every time you get 40% of your population (like 6k, 8k, 10k checkpoints). Avoid PvP. When there are no more free land left, start conquering bots. Try to encircle them, because you will annex them without spending troops, otherwise just try to get ones located on mountains last, because there's a penalty on mountains. You'll get gold every time you finish out the nation, spend this gold on cities first, then ports and some good forts to defend yourself. The shift from PvE to PvP must be deliberate and opportunistic. Only attack when you have an advantage like when they're busy with another war, too expanded. Get some allies because breaking an alliance gives a penalty. Don't rush to conquer as it will make you weak in a short term. Pick a strategy for your mid-game: City-Maxxing - this strategy involves investing heavily in Cities to achieve an enormous maximum population cap. A player with many cities can field a colossal army, aiming to overwhelm opponents through sheer numbers and a rapid troop regeneration rate. This is a land-centric, brute-force approach. Trademaxxing - this strategy focuses on building numerous Ports to create a vast trade network. The goal is to generate immense quantities of gold, which is then used to fund a powerful navy and a large nuclear arsenal. This is a sea-centric, wealth-based approach that aims to win through economic and technological superiority. In the late game build Missile Silos and SAMs in fortified, mountainous locations, break some alliances with a huge attach armies, or break defenses with nukes. To win launch MIRV on a biggest threat and swarm the area
by Jeaye | 2025-07-11 20:25:37+00:00
> i mean it's as prone to error as any other thing that relies on string munging.

This is misleading. Having done a great deal of both (as jank also supports C++ codegen as an alternative to IR), if the input is a fully analyzed AST, generating IR is significantly more error prone than generating C++. Why? Well, C++ is statically typed and one can enable warnings and errors for all sorts of issues. LLVM IR has a verifier, but it doesn't check that much. Handling references, pointers, closures, ABI issues, and so many more things ends up being a huge effort for IR.

For example, want to access the `foo.bar` member of a struct? In IR, you'll need to access foo, which may require loading it if it's a reference. You'll need to calculate the offset to `bar`, using GEP. You'll need to then determine if you're returning a reference to `bar` or if a copy is happening. Referencing will require storing a pointer, whereas copying may involve a lot more code. If we're generating C++, though, we just take `foo` and add a `.bar`. The C++ compiler handles the rest and will tell us if we messed anything up.

If you're going to hand wave and say anything that's building strings is error prone and unsafe, regardless of how richly typed and thoroughly analyzed the input is, the stance feels much less genuine.
by Animats | 2025-07-11 20:25:42+00:00
> I don't think you will find a day where there is no sun and no wind in all of europe.

For the US PJM (US east coast and midwest) and CAISO (California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada) grid areas, total wind power fluctuates over a 4:1 range on a daily basis. Both grids post dashboards where you can see this. Averaging out wind over a large area does not help all that much.
by Balgair | 2025-07-11 20:26:36+00:00
In some of the pro-natal online discourse there is an idea to mortgage the future earnings of children against current childless people. I think I have that right but, honestly, it's a bit confusing of an idea to me. I think these people are saying that we should get banks to give people money now to have kids, contingent upon the banks getting a percentage of the earnings of any resultant children.

Like, such ideas are wildly crazy, clearly. But that seems to be where the discourse is right now in the pro-natalism sphere.

They're looking for just about anything to get fertility rates to change. I've seen ideas float around about Mongolia and how they give mothers special parking permits and feathered caps (?) and how that's responsible for their birthrate anomalies.

The whole scene is just deliciously strange in the way that 1990's UFO boards were too.

What seems to me to be happening is that fertility in humans has a pretty steep fall off. We've attacked some of that with technology like IVF. But it's still very hard to have a healthy baby at higher ages. Like, miscarriages are really traumatic and you're going to get a bigger chance at them as you try when you're older. So it's not just biochem, it's mental too.

However, at the same time, we've increased the life expectancy by a lot, and we're set to do so even more this century. Now, a bit of a jag here. There's this thing called the marriage problem in mathematics. You can only court serially and the number of courtiers is fixed and you can't go back and court people again. So, how do you choose to stop and who with? You might have passed by the best spouse and then be left with a dud. The mathematically best solution is to court the first 37.8% of the courtiers and then marry the next person that beats the ones you've courted. (Look, I know I'm butchering this).

Anyway, my point is that as life expectancy is growing, you get to this point where when it comes to spouses and jobs and cities and all the big stuff in life, that 38.7% of the time you've got to 'calibrate' yourself, that point goes past your fertility window. People are trying to figure themselves out, and since that takes so long now, that point of being mentally 'settled' is past when you can have kids easily.

I'm not really sure we can fix that either. Family is central to being human, we're a social animal. So I think technology is really the only key here.
by Hercuros | 2025-07-11 20:26:45+00:00
> Isn't the stigma desired anyway? It keeps people from going through with it. That's why society deliberately creates and actively cultivates the stigma.

That’s a very optimistic take on how “rational” society tends to be. The thought that “if things are in a certain way in society, then it must make sense (from a moral or societal point of view) for them to be that way.”
by ToucanLoucan | 2025-07-11 20:27:00+00:00
> We just got tech that can write an email, code a simple program, and potentially more.

It does the second thing decently well.

> We got laptops with battery life measured in days that generate almost no heat or noise.

So? Laptop's a laptop. And while they increased the battery life they also took away a ton of the ports and made them spy on you.

> We’ve had some awesome advances in memory safe programming languages.

That one I'll give you. Now if we could just get industry to actually use them instead of putting everything in fucking React.

> All sorts of hacker friendly gadgets like 3D printers and Framework devices are available in more varieties and at lower prices than ever.

That's... kind of exciting, as long as you set aside concerns about microplastics. However the Framework laptop still isn't a mainstream thing and neither is linux, so the vast majority of users are still being ravenously exploited by the tech sector's surveillance industrial complex. I do not consider this a victory until everyone is saved, not just people technically literate enough to innovate themselves out of it.

> Apple and Google are starting to ease up on some of their worst policies and give developers more options for revenue.

Oh wow they're only crushing 29 orphans per hour instead of 30, throw a fucking parade.

> You can criticize things you don’t like but saying it’s all or even mostly bad just seems completely wrong. I think one of the things that makes Reddit (and HN, and X, and some Discords and corners of YouTube) unappealing these days is the extreme toxic negativity about everything.

It IS mostly bad, and I don't say that as some bitter old hacker, I say that as someone who grew up, fell in love with technology, and then watched Big Business Assholes utterly ruin it!

The Internet is nearly UNUSABLE now for anything that isn't motherfucking commerce. Blogs and forums are dead and the majority of social networks are more anti-social than they've ever been. I don't even SEE friends on Facebook anymore, it's just a wall of generated bullshit content trying to either make me horny or piss me off, sometimes both. Instagram is a dead mall. Tiktok is psychological torture. Twitter is open mic night at the Reichstag circa 1941. We're more connected than we've ever been yet somehow I'm less informed on anything I actually give a shit about. If it doesn't make money, nobody will help you spread it around. Except Blusky and Mastadon.

Damn near every application I use daily is now written in JavaScript. Websites run by companies worth billions just don't load sometimes and that's just an understood thing that happens. Apps make my phone hot sending text messages. Every software update has the potential to completely redesign UI's almost always for the worse, and I am unable to opt out in any way. Windows is an utter nightmare to use, practically adware itself now, with parts of fucking EXPLORER written in React because even MICROSOFT can't be fucked to develop software properly now apparently.
by philipkglass | 2025-07-11 20:27:38+00:00
I think that the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence OLMo models are also completely open:

OLMo is fully open

Ai2 believes in the power of openness to build a future where AI is accessible to all. Open weights alone aren’t enough – true openness requires models to be trained in the open with fully open access to data, models, and code.

https://allenai.org/olmo
by nulbyte | 2025-07-11 20:27:51+00:00
Full disclosure, I work for one of their competitors, comments are my own, yadda, yadda.

This makes no sense. The people wanting these FinTech companies to have this data are already customers of JPMorgan (well, them and other banks). So they want to hold their customers' money and take it too? Oh, right. Now it makes sense.
by causal | 2025-07-11 20:28:04+00:00
Something social media proved long before AI is that a significant portion of the population would consume low-nutrition socialization like Twitter all day if it lets the avoid having face to face conversations.

AI lets them remove even having to deal with humans over the Internet. It's a bit like the lengths we go to avoid moving our bodies, despite how much of life's joys require physical exertion.
by SideQuark | 2025-07-11 20:28:08+00:00
> When you have two implementations and a standard you don’t actually have a standard in practice

This simply isn't true. Plenty of standardized things are interchangeable, from internet RFCs followed by zillions of players and implementations of various RFCs, medical device standards, encryption standards, weights and measures, currency codes, country codes, time zones, date and time formats, tons of file formats, compression standards, the ISO 9000 series, ASCII, testing standards, and on and on.

The poster above you is absolutely correct - if something is not in the standard, it can vary.
by jrflowers | 2025-07-11 20:28:32+00:00
It is very much based on religious hokum. While technically you can choose anything as your “higher power” your options are either embrace Jesus (which people in the program tend to be very happy about) or essentially cosplay embracing Jesus, just with a one-word substitution.

That’s why it has been recognized as religious or “based on religious principles“ in court several times. For example, in the court case Inouye vs Kemna it was ruled that NA/AA “has such substantial religious components that governmentally compelled participation in it violated the Establishment Clause“
by tosmith | 2025-07-11 20:29:17+00:00
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