MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by majormajor | 2025-07-11 18:40:59+00:00
It still happens.

The less wealthy the family, the more likely you'll see it.

So your aggressive taxes will hit those people - displacing additional generations, not just the land-owning-but-otherwise-fairly-poor retiree - before it will hit the stereotypical middle class boomer retiree.

Outside of CA's Prop-13 territory, the multi-generational shabby-old-home-owners pay less taxes currently than their richer neighbors who moved more recently and renovated or expanded. The land value of both is going up, but the improvement value is lower for the poorer family. So now you'll get rid of the improvement value and even it out for both, which will hit the poorer land owners the hardest.
by sandreas | 2025-07-11 18:41:10+00:00
Thank you for your opinion. Well... it did not just fail. Cryptsetup mounted everything fine, but the BTRFS tools did not find a valid filesystem on it.

While it could have been a bit flip that destroyed the whole encryption layer, BTRFS debugging revealed that there was some traces of BTRFS headers after mounting cryptsetup and some of the data on the decrypted partition was there...

This probably means the encryption layer was fine. The BTRFS part just could not be repaired or restored. The only explanation I have for this that something resulted in a dirty write, which destroyed the whole partition table, the backup partition table and since I used subvolumes and could not restore anything, most of the data.

Well, maybe it was my fault but since I'm using the exact same system with the same hardware right now (same NVMe SSD), I really doubt that.
by delecti | 2025-07-11 18:41:11+00:00
> sell to anyone at claimed value + 10%

But the point of LVT is that it doesn't include the value of the stuff on the land. A house can easily be worth more than 10% of the land it's on, my house is valued at about twice that of the land, or 20x what your plan would require me to accept for the house.
by citizenpaul | 2025-07-11 18:41:15+00:00
There is a rather famous book written on this subject.

Catch-22.

In order to be given disability you must jump through so many hoops that no one whom is actually sick could complete them. Or how in unemployment you must prove you must spend your time proving you are looking for a job so you cannot spend you time actually looking for a job. My personal fav because its almost universal is sick-day policies that codify 100% abuse of sick days because people are punished for not using them because some people were "abusing" their sick days.

In the case of the book to be discharged from military service they must prove they are insane which no insane person could complete.
by ricardo81 | 2025-07-11 18:41:32+00:00
The LCOE of solar/wind is the cheapest but it does not seem to be common knowledge. The lack of common knowledge often is some kind of polarised political beliefs, from what I've seen

Marginal pricing seems to be a large part of the problem when the general public do not see the benefit of this green revolution that's been going a long time.

In the UK part of the payment is for social/environmental factors. It's about time the state awarded people that have already done that instead of paying marginal prices.
by canucker2016 | 2025-07-11 18:43:01+00:00
from https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/07/a-mess-of-its-own-ma...

Pixel 4a units contained one of two different batteries, and only the one manufactured by a company called Lishen was downgraded. For the Pixel 6a, Google has decreed that the battery limits will be imposed when the cells hit 400 charge cycles. Beyond that, the risk of fire becomes too great—there have been reports of Pixel 6a phones bursting into flames.

Perhaps your Pixel 4a had a non-Lishen battery? But if Google degraded your battery perf as well, then I have no idea.
by o11c | 2025-07-11 18:43:20+00:00
> the lack of standardization for name-mangling, or even a way mangle or de-mangle names at compile-time.

Like many things, this isn't a C++ problem. There is a standard and almost every target uses it ... and then there's what Microsoft does. Only if you have to deal with the latter is there a problem.

Now, standards do evolve, and this does give room for different system libraries/tools to have a different view of what is acceptable/correct (I still have nightmares of trying to work through `I...E` vs `J...E` errors) ... but all the functionality does exist and work well if you aren't on the bleeding edge (fortunately, C++11 provided the bits that are truly essential; everything since has been merely nice-to-have).
by krapp | 2025-07-11 18:43:58+00:00
My person in deity, the American government is currently run by anti-vaxxers, white supremacists and UFO grifters, and was elected by people who believed the weather was controlled by Jewish space lasers, COVID vaccines were full of mind-control chips and the Democratic Party ran a sex cult under a pizzeria. You need to update your priors.

It's become de rigueur to virtue signal how radically untethered one is to consensus reality, to the point that even on Hacker News, which is ostensibly full of rational people, you'll get ostracized far more for believing in the mainstream narrative than for questioning it.
by Jeaye | 2025-07-11 18:44:03+00:00
Hey! I'm here and receptive.

I completely agree that Clang could solve this by actually supporting my use case. Unfortunately, Clang is very much designed for standalone AOT compilation, not intertwined with another IR generating mechanism. Furthermore, Clang struggles to handle some errors gracefully which can get it into a bad state.

I have grown jank's fork of CppInterOp quite significantly, in the past quarter, with the full change list being here: https://gist.github.com/jeaye/f6517e52f1b2331d294caed70119f1... Hoping to get all of this upstreamed, but it's a lot of work that is not high priority for me right now.

I think, based on my experience in the guts of CppInterOp, that the largest issue is not the C++ code generation. Basically any code generation is some form of string building. You linked to a part of CppInterOp which is constructing C++ functions. What's _actually_ wrong with that, in terms of robustness? The strings are generated not based on arbitrary user input, but based on Clang QualTypes and Decls. i.e. you need valid Clang values to actually get there anyway. Given that the ABI situation is an absolute mess, and that jank is already using Clang's JIT C++ compiler, I think this is a very viable solution.

However, in terms of robustness, I go back to Clang's error handling, lack of grace, and poor tooling for use cases like this. Based on my experience, _that_ is what will cause robustness issues.

Please don't take my response as unreceptive or defensive. I really do appreciate the discussion and if I'm saying something wrong, or if you want to explain further, please do. For alternatives, you linked to https://github.com/Mr-Anyone/abi which is 3 months old and has 0 stars (and so I assume 0 users and 0 years of battle testing). You also linked to https://discourse.llvm.org/t/llvm-introduce-an-abi-lowering-... which I agree would be great, _if/when it becomes available_.

So, out of all of the options, I'll ask clearly and sincerely: is there really a _better_ option which exists today?

CppInterOp is an implementation detail of jank. If we can replace C++ string generation with more IR generation and a portable ABI mechanism, _and_ if Clang can provide the sufficient libraries to make it so that I don't need to rely on C++ strings to be certain that my template specializations get the correct instantiation, I am definitely open to replacing CppInterOp. From all I've seen, we're not there yet.
by ac794 | 2025-07-11 18:44:07+00:00
I see what you're saying and agree that we probably would have noticed the discrepancies in GPS positioning pretty quickly if we had tried to make it work without knowing about general relativity (GR). But it took _Einstein_ the better part of a decade to develop GR. Even if he hadn't existed, GR still would have had to be discovered by scientists using public funding. What company would pay someone to work on this problem for 10 years without a guarantee of success?

I also don't think there is a strong correlation between studying things close-by, e.g. in our solar system, and how useful the finding will be. Our next break through in particle physics may come from studying dark matter, black holes or quasars. Maybe that will help us build even better computers? Or faster than light communication? We don't know where the treasure is buried!
by searine | 2025-07-11 18:45:13+00:00
Exactly, we need a label, maybe call it "Nutrition Facts" or something like that which lists all ingredients.

We'd need a way to enforce it though. Maybe make the farmers pinky-swear not to lie on the label because it is cheaper to lie than tell the truth? Do you think that would be enough?

If only there was some kind of group ... or administration even ... specifically tasked with making sure foods are unadulterated. Of course we can't have that though, because that would be regulation and businesses are perfect special little angels and would never ever lie. God forbid we place an evil burden like regulation on a business poisoning all of south-asia with lead.
by fsckboy | 2025-07-11 18:45:29+00:00
>In Europe we don't have much fossil fuels, so our "hippiness" is not really a choice

this argument relies on the false-but-widely-held idea that "natural resources" are commercial wealth and if you don't hold them you are poor. Look at Japan, has very limited natural resources and not hippies but has built a world-class economy on knowledge work. Look at resource rich 3rd world countries, why are they poor?

If Europe needs oil, they can buy it, it's completely fungible and sold at auction in huge volumes every day. The reason for the switch to wind and solar is the global warming argument, not the "we don't have our own oil" fallacy.
by bigyabai | 2025-07-11 18:45:54+00:00
Apple won't upgrade the storage for you aftermarket, as far as I'm aware. There's no tax you can pay them to take your current machine and bump the spec.

Frankly, this is exactly the sort of head-up-ass attitude that will end with Apple being smacked around by investigatory commissions like what happened to John Deere and Microsoft.
by returningfory2 | 2025-07-11 18:45:59+00:00
I think there’s a zero sum fallacy in play here. For example you say “Those fancy resorts take all the prime real estate” but many resort towns in Mexico like Cancun were literally invented out of thin air for international tourism. The alternative reality is not “Cancun for the locals”; the alternative reality is no Cancun.

In general we have the ability to expand the amount of available housing/hotels/etc. to meet increased demand. It’s not a zero sum game.
by iLemming | 2025-07-11 18:46:07+00:00
> vim and Emacs are not equipped to handle.

You clearly don't have a slightest idea of what you're talking about.

Emacs is actually still amazing in the LLM era. Language is all about plain text. Plain text remains crucial and will remain important because it's human-readable, machine-parsable, version-control friendly, lightweight and fast, platform-independent, and resistant to obsolescence. Even when analyzing huge amounts of complex data - images, videos, audio-recordings, etc., we often have to reduce it to text representation.

And there's simply no tool better than Emacs today that is well-suited for dealing with plain text. Nothing even comes close to what you can do with text in Emacs.

Like, check this out - I am right now transcribing my audio notes into .srt (subtitle) files. There's subed-mode where you can read through subtitles, and even play the audio, karaoke style, while following the text. I can do so many different things from here - extract the summaries, search through things, gather analytics - e.g., how often have I said 'fuck' on Wednesdays, etc.

I can similarly play YouTube videos in mpv, while controlling the playback, volume, speed, etc. from Emacs; I can extract subtitles for a given video and search through them, play the vid from the exact place in the subs.

I very often grab a selected region of screen during Zoom sessions to OCR and extract text within it and put it in my notes - yes, I do it in Emacs.

I can probably examine images, analyze their elements, create comprehensive summaries, and formulate expert artistic evaluation and critique and even ask Emacs to read it aloud back to me - the possibilities are virtually limitless.

It allows you to engage with vast array of LLM models from anywhere. I can ask a question in the midst of typing a Slack reply or reading HN comments or when composing a git commit; I can fact-check my own assumptions. I can also use tools to analyze and refactor existing codebases and vibe-code new stuff.

Anything like that even five years ago seemed like a dream; today it is possible. We can now reduce any complex digital data to plain text. And that feels miraculous.

If anything, the LLM era has made Emacs an extremely compelling choice. To be honest, for me - it's not even a choice, it's the only seriously viable option I have - despite all its drawbacks. Everything else doesn't even come close - other options either lacking critical features or have merely promising ones. Emacs is absolutely, hands-down, one of the best tools we humans have ever produced to deal with plain text. Anyone who thinks it's an opinion and not a fact simply hasn't grokked Emacs or has no clue what you can do with it.
by infinitifall | 2025-07-11 18:46:08+00:00
I'm put off by how this is framed as a detective story. Pesticides that contain heavy metals and other carcinogens are a well known issue, with India (and South Asia more generally) being the worst affected.

> You'll never guess the culprit

Not knowing about turmeric comes off as deeply ignorant when a billion people consume it as part of their daily diet.

> They don't know that this is harmful for human health

Let me assure you that they absolutely do and they couldn't care less. This also makes it seem like poor clueless farmers are to blame while mega-corporations that process, package, market and distribute these spices are never given even a passing mention!
by tonymet | 2025-07-11 18:46:20+00:00
if spending is 90% lower than today, coming up with revenue is trivial.

Until 16th amendment, Federal revenue was from excise tax. Income, fees, capital gains were not necessary.

So degree matters. Of course you're going to have to keep inventing new tax revenue streams if spending is 6-10x more than it should be.

We may keep the property tax, but talking about tax revenue absent of spending is like talking about how to deal with a headache caused by a nail in the head, without addressing the nail.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-07-11 18:46:50+00:00
Sure, the point is X would have been operating under unusual foreign influence from Musk qua U.S. official (and influenced by other powers) in France. It’s not clear Musk broke French law. But it shouldn’t be hard to show X did, since there is zero chance they did the sort of siloing enterprises routinely do to protect against such fuckups.
by ajsnigrutin | 2025-07-11 18:47:09+00:00
> I'm very excited for solar. In Europe we don't have much fossil fuels, so our "hippiness" is not really a choice. 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.

> The coolest thing about solar is that the devices to capture the fusion energy in the skies are manufactured, unlike other options being built. I'm not anti-nuclear but I don't like its extremely long building phase.

What do you do during a windless cloudy day or (any) night? No solar, no wind, no nothing. Small clouds, large power fluctuations, and you get grid failures.

Yes, sure, nuclear takes 10 years to build, and 10 years ago, people like you were complaining about the same things, and same for 20 and 30 years ago. If we didn't listen to the "it'll take 10 years..." 10, 20, 30 years ago, we'd have a lot more nuclear power now, that also works at night.
by nativeit | 2025-07-11 18:47:53+00:00
I graduated high school in 2001. During the summer before my freshman year, I signed up for the soccer team. We trained 6-hours/day, 6-days/week during the summer. I thought it was grueling, but I also understood that was part of what made our team one of the top contenders in the state. Even still, we were very much in the shadow of the middling football team.

But I put up with it. Summer in the rural south in the 1990s could be a deeply boring affair, without something to occupy us. I was easily in the best shape of my life at the end of the summer (I could run 11-miles in about an hour without stopping). But then, after school started, I met someone else who enjoyed the same obscure punk music I did, and who owned a drum set, and quickly decided I wanted to play music much more than spend all day every day on the soccer field. So before the first game, I quit the team. I think they went on to do pretty well. My band was terrible, but we had fun.

I guess my point is that—in 1997, at a rural school in the south that very much cared mostly about the football team, playing soccer in high school was still a full-time commitment.
by lubujackson | 2025-07-11 18:47:58+00:00
I'm guessing because this is basically an AI for Dummies overview, while half of HN is deep in the weeds with AI already. Nothing wrong with the talk! Except his focus on "do everything" agents already feels a bit stale as the move seems to be going in the direction of limited agents with a much stronger focus on orchestration of tools and context.
by yorpinn | 2025-07-11 18:48:12+00:00
Welp, I ought to stand on business I suppose, I think social media communities are too big. I think it would be less toxic if we were balkanized into smaller communities, and interacted with people of unlike minds in a more considered and intentional way. As it is, it becomes a free for all for dunking on people. Small communities of like minds can become too insular, ideas need to be challenged, but they also need space to grow and develop in a friendly environment.
by ericmay | 2025-07-11 18:48:42+00:00
You’ll have even deeper connections if you have more things to talk about and genuine curiosity about the novelty of those things instead of “already knowing the questions to ask” - good lord are we robots or something?

> The idea that you can tell them that their relationships aren't important is so chauvinistic and inappropriate. You ought to take a step back and reflect before commenting further, that's out of line.

Save this stuff for someone who cares because it’s not me.
by jlaiwejrlij | 2025-07-11 18:49:38+00:00
Social media is why we can't have nice things

I left Austin in 2020 and the social-media-powered tourism boom there from 2010 on was insane. In a decade, the entire east side of the city went from low income black and hispanic families to airbnbs and sterile cinder-block condos and bars. Downtown went from old dive bars and music venues in old brick buildings to high-price-but-not-high-quality residential high-rises and FAANG skyscrapers. South Congress went from kitschy shops and local restaurants to glass and steel instagram food factories. All the things I loved about it in the early 2000s are gone.
by yorpinn | 2025-07-11 18:49:49+00:00
There is no evidence their curiosity is ingenuine, that's your image of them but it doesn't have a basis in reality. It's based in your biases and preconceptions about social media.

I'll refrain from criticizing you for being a chauvinist if you agree to take that behavior someplace else, because it's not for this community. Save that for some toxic no-holds-barred social media. Maybe think on whether your actions are contributing to the social media environment you decry.
by runarberg | 2025-07-11 18:50:05+00:00
Not really a relic. Reinforcement learning is one of the best model for learned behavior we have. In the 1950s however cognitive science didn’t exist, and behavioralists thought they could explain much more with their model than they could, so they oversold the idea, by a lot.

Cognitive science was able to explain stuff like biases, pattern recognition, language, etc. which behavioral science thought they could explain, but couldn’t. In the 1950s it was really the only game in town (except for psychometrics which failed in a way much more complete—albeit less spectacular—way then behaviorism), so understandably scientists (and philosophers) went a little overboard with it (kind of like evolutionary biology did in the 1920s).

I think a more fair viewpoint is to claim that behaviorism’s heyday in the 1950s has passed, but it still provides an excellent theoretical framework for some of human behavior, and along with cognitive science, is able to explain most of what we know about human behavior.
by pxc | 2025-07-11 18:50:11+00:00
This is a cool app! I'm happy to play with it. Some feedback:

1. The lack of a dark mode is an accessibility issue for me. I have a genetic condition that causes severe light sensitivity and special difficulty with contrast. The only way for me to achieve sufficient contrast without uncomfortable and blinding brightness is dark mode, so at present I can only use your app by disabling dark mode and inverting colors across my phone. This is of course not ideal because it ruins photos in other apps, and I end up with some unavoidable very bright white "hotspots" on my phone that I don't normally have when I can just use dark mode. Relatedly, the contrast for some of the text in the app is low to the point of being practically unreadable for me (getting enough contrast with it similarly requires cranking up the brightness). :(

2. I tried downloading a few other models, namely Jan Nano and SmolLM3, using the GGUF link download functionality, but every time I select them, the app just immediately crashes.

I understand that the chat app on the Play Store is basically just a demo for the framework, and if I were really using it I would be in charge of my own theming and downloading the required models and so on, but these still seem worth fixing to me.
by aitechtutorials | 2025-07-11 18:50:31+00:00
I ran into persistent install issues while trying to get the VACE AI plugin working inside ComfyUI. The plugin wasn’t recognized properly after installation, and most troubleshooting approaches didn’t help.

Eventually, I found a working fix using Gemini CLI, a new tool that helped bypass the faulty install path. After replicating it a few times, I documented the steps in a short video walkthrough for others dealing with the same issue.

Here’s the video guide: https://youtu.be/BmGJZSRFLJw

The guide includes:

The exact install error behavior

Gemini CLI steps that resolved it

How to confirm the plugin is working correctly in ComfyUI

Would love to hear how others are solving plugin or pipeline install issues like this — especially in newer modular tools like ComfyUI.
by gavinray | 2025-07-11 18:51:14+00:00
I dissolved 20mg of 4-AcO-DMT in 1mL of bacteriostatic water in a sealed, sterile vial and then injected it intramuscularly into my glute.

(If you do this, make sure you inject the upper-outer quadrant. The closer to your midline you go, the further the risk of you hitting a nerve.)

If you're very experienced and want to do it for novelty's sake, go for it; I'd warn you, but anyone considering this should know what they're likely in for.

Nearly immediately after injection, I became so filled with vibrating, psychedelic energy I thought my soul was going to be ripped from my body. I had to clutch the edge of the sink, trying not to vomit while staring at the exploding fractals swirling in the metallic reflection.

It only lasts about 2 hours. I'd not particularly rate the experience as "good".