MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vdqtp3 | 2025-07-14 21:17:00+00:00
At this point in human history, is it relevant to the individual whether someone is a criminal? What matters is whether they've injured someone else.

To use the US as an example (I doubt other countries are much better) it's estimated that every adult in the US commits multiple Federal felonies per day[1], Federal law is replete with ridiculous laws[2] and the number of federal laws is uncountable by Congressional Research Service staff. Does it matter at that point?

[1] Three Felonies A Day - ISBN 978-1594035227

[2] https://x.com/CrimeADay
by davrosthedalek | 2025-07-14 21:17:00+00:00
Not having the data readily available slows it down. Having more random and less well targeted actions hit the supporters, so weakens the support. Is that enough? No. But I still lock my door, even if this will only slow down a determined thief.

Additionally, data collected by the government can also be misused by others. So it's still better to not collect unnecessary.
by tpmoney | 2025-07-14 21:17:16+00:00
Seems like all the more reason to put the responsibility and blame on the government. You will never eliminate “influence”, and especially the more power the government has, the more value there is in spending on “influence”. The only possible solution is to hold the government and the representatives responsible for taking actions to the detriment of their constituents. If we give them a pass because “elections can be influenced” we might as well just disband the government and allow governing by the highest bidder.
by sealeck | 2025-07-14 21:17:31+00:00
At some level this is true, but I'm also 98% sure that if you do that, you get far fewer donations. Fewer donations = less money to do good work. This means you can't provide money to support foundation projects (these are quite valuable and promote exchange of knowledge amongst Wikipedia contributors, and also onboard new people to make a better encyclopedia). Eventually not doing this leads to the pool of contributors shrinking, which leads to burnout, and eventually to a slow death spiral.
by burningChrome | 2025-07-14 21:17:39+00:00
I seriously hate this political nonsense.

There's currently 31 states who have bills to ban geoengineering. Its not just red states, there are plenty of "blue states" on the list as well. Painting this as a partisan political issue is just stupid. California is set to join the list as well.

March 2025:

As of this week, 31 out of 50 U.S. states—well over half the nation—have introduced legislation to ban or severely limit geoengineering and weather modification operations. Just days ago, on March 24th, that number stood at 24. Seven new states have joined in under a week, reflecting an undeniable groundswell of public awareness and political will.

https://sayerji.substack.com/p/weve-crossed-the-tipping-poin...
by ImaCake | 2025-07-14 21:17:51+00:00
I just use VSCode with copilot and don't worry about these re-skins. I don't get a lot of time to write code so I certainly don't have time to learn a new IDE for a small boost to my productivity when vscode gets me most of the way already.

If these re-skinned vscode IDEs have any good ideas I'm sure Microsoft will steal them anyway.
by consumer451 | 2025-07-14 21:18:10+00:00
Jensen deserves a lot of derision for this. He is the LLM kingmaker, and gave Musk priority. I believe that deal was made after Musk gave a clear Nazi a salute to the world, twice.

edit: This appears to be an unpopular opinion. I would love to discuss why that is the case, if anyone would care to do so.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-07-14 21:18:13+00:00
"Sooner or later the bubble's gonna burst" and "There's definitely something there" aren't mutually exclusive - in fact they often go together.

It makes me perhaps a little sad to say that "I'm showing my age" by bringing up the .com boom/bust, but this feels exactly the same. The late 90s/early 00s were the dawn of the consumer Internet, and all of that tech vastly changed global society and brought you companies like Google and Amazon. It also brought you Pets.com, Webvan, and the bajillion other companies chronicled in "Fucked Company".

You mention Anthropic, which I think is in a good a position as any to be one of the winners. I'm much less convinced about tons of the others. Look at Cursor - they were a first moving leader, but I know tons of people (myself included) who have cancelled their subscription because there are now better options.
by BizarroLand | 2025-07-14 21:18:13+00:00
I think it's mindfulness.

You can find this in religion, or generic spirituality, or meditation, or any number of activities. Putting in the effort to be aware of yourself in the moment, in your mental context, and in the context of the group you find yourself in, your place in society and in the world, and where you are now and where you want to be before you shuffle off the mortal coil, all of these things are important and matter.

Of course, if you can fully grasp onto all of this at once then you're a better person than I, but it's still a task worth attempting since it can let you meta analyze your life and your feelings and increase the chance that your decisions are made intentionally, which is nice because you have to live with them no matter what.
by JBlue42 | 2025-07-14 21:18:37+00:00
I keep hearing this but what does it mean to be 'behind'? Behind what? What actual innovation are we seeing from Silicon Valley that is improving life for humans? The EU has its faults but at least it's willing to take on big corporations. What does Google 'create' these days - other than vast swathes of ad data to sell people? How is AirBnB even a tech company or Uber? There's too much rent-seeking, gamifying, and destructive real world effects of lack of regulation that even some can help people. We've been through this before with industrialization in the modern world - some benefits, many of which go to a small percentage of people; many detriments, which harm all (such as pollution).

Also, 'tech investment' is such BS these days. Infinite venture capital (or at least in ZIRP days) that has led to little real 'innovation', just more BS gamified adtech. And now the US is ripping down any realistic science R&D. It's Europe's moment to take the reins or lose the opportunity. You don't Softbank or some blood-stained oil money from UAE to do that.
by snapplebobapple | 2025-07-14 21:18:39+00:00
why would they think no enterprise version is a selling point? I can't learn stuff at work and apply it at home easily with this product. if anything proxmox needs a more enterprise option with faster support and it would be a better product for me. The caveat is there needs to be a credible way to keep the opensource open and available, which proxmox has done so far.
by schmidtleonard | 2025-07-14 21:18:49+00:00
Yep, and that's assuming it is tuned to be reactive rather than tuned to proactively build cases against people, which is something that has been politically convenient in the past

> If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him -Cardinal Richelieu

and which the Vance / Bannon / Posobiec arm of the current administration seems quite keen on, probably as a next step once they are done spending the $170B they just won to build out their partisan enforcement apparatus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unhumans
by janalsncm | 2025-07-14 21:19:06+00:00
Most ML problems in real life don’t constrain you to use linear regression or a CNN either. But there will be some metric you need to optimize.

What would take this repo to the next level is to have a reproducible data generation function for each exercise as well as a reasonable metric which must be passed. I don’t see anything that requires my classification auc to be over 0.5 which would be a basic criteria of bug-free code.
by exmadscientist | 2025-07-14 21:20:12+00:00
It really shouldn't be, but part of the site selection process for these things is finding a place with cheap enough power and cheap enough water that you can rip them off by dangling the "jobs!" carrot. So it's not exactly random. And there are enough locations in the US that view providing cheap utilities to their citizens as a benefit (which, when things weren't getting arbitraged on a national scale, was probably a reasonable policy) that they can always find someone.
by Terr_ | 2025-07-14 21:20:21+00:00
> Your data is trapped inside the box that is your program.

Well if we're going to get philosophical about it, "I" happen to be ~30 trillion cooperating boxes known as cells, so say nothing of all the other enclosed, enclosing, or cross-connecting boundaries one might draw.

Keeping the data/molecules/etc. "hostage" is probably to my benefit, as opposed to an, er, Evangelion ending.
by FredPret | 2025-07-14 21:20:34+00:00
There's no simple system that will work on the scale of half a continent and 300M people, and a simple way to prove this is to look at large corporations. There's many of them, they compete with one another tooth and nail, (so there's real pressure to simplify and streamline) and they all suffer from complex internal systems. And they are all dwarfed by the US government.
by jpreagan | 2025-07-14 21:20:37+00:00
I've been using LLMPerf for a while to evaluate the performance of our inference servers (vLLM, SGLang, etc.).

It works great, but I was running into memory constraints while testing large number of concurrent users on some servers, and didn't always find the specific Python version requirements convenient.

So, I rewrote the benchmark aspect of this tool in Rust to get an easy single-line install.

I hope its useful to others as well, and would love to hear feedback if you have any suggestions for improvement.
by Forgeties79 | 2025-07-14 21:20:41+00:00
Have we seen any examples of any of these companies turning a profit yet even at $200+/mo? My understanding is that most, if not all, are still deeply in the red. Please feel free to correct me (not sarcastic - being genuine).

If that is the case at some point the music is going to stop and they will either perish or they will have to crank up their subscription costs.
by fivestones | 2025-07-14 21:21:10+00:00
Yes. It does have physical benefit.

Here’s a study called “Minimum amount of physical activity for reduced mortality and extended life expectancy: a prospective cohort study” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21846575/

From the abstract: “Compared with individuals in the inactive group, those in the low-volume activity group, who exercised for an average of 92 min per week (95% CI 71-112) or 15 min a day (SD 1·8), had a 14% reduced risk of all-cause mortality (0·86, 0·81-0·91), and had a 3 year longer life expectancy.”

Of course 1 mile a day is less than 15 minutes for most people, but that 92 min per week is just 13 minutes 9 seconds per day. I’m guessing with the long runs he’s over this when measured weekly.

There are other corroborating studies too.

Here’s from “Association between Bout Duration of Physical Activity and Health: Systematic Review” (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6527142/)

“Additional evidence was identified from cross-sectional and prospective studies to support that bouts of physical activity <10 minutes in duration are associated with a variety of health outcomes…The current evidence, from cross-sectional and prospective cohort studies, supports that physical activity of any bout duration is associated with improved health outcomes, which includes all-cause mortality.”
by leakycap | 2025-07-14 21:21:16+00:00
> You might as also opt out of [...] that you have to solve for free as a wasted proof of work to the employer to hire you for.

Many if not most self-respecting professionals do opt out of this kind of process, and this is why companies who use these hiring techniques struggle with the talent they attract.

The first place to look when you aren't getting an incredible, stand-out candidate or two is "who said no to us because of our first impressions online and during initial contacts?"

Teams who reflect on this and think harder than "let's not pay them to work and see if they can do the job" will attract better applicants.
by tristor | 2025-07-14 21:22:13+00:00
> Also, the people being hired now for insane sums of money, are being hired because they have deep knowledge in design / implementation of AI models and infrastructure that scale to billions of users.

That's what they want you to believe, and in some cases that's true. Many though are just grifters. They were able to:

1. Gain access to the right people at the right levels to have the right conversations.

2. Build on that access to gain influence focused on AI hype

3. Turn that access/influence into income

That doesn't necessarily imply /anything/ about their actual delivery performance or technical prowess.
by gruez | 2025-07-14 21:22:26+00:00
>On Android, this bypasses VPNs

source?

>You are trusting that this data is not leaked to any third-parties. You cannot verify this, as the data is exfiltrated to servers which you can't verify.

At least on Android you can theoretically disable "google location accuracy" which stops it sending nearby hotspot mac addresses to Google. That's the only public route where google gets your location without you knowingly sending to it. You also imply that mobile operating systems are surreptitiously sending locations back to google/apple even if users have all location related features disabled, but I'm not aware of any evidence this is the case, and this falls into same category as "facebook is secretly listening to you" territory until proven otherwise.
by UncleOxidant | 2025-07-14 21:23:04+00:00
> But we can also argue that dropping some hundreds of millions in VC capital is less immoral than other activities, such as holding that money in liquid assets.

It really depends a lot on how those liquid assets are deployed.

I agree that Apple should have probably done something with their cash hoard like maybe buying or bolstering Intel so that they could have a domestic supply of chips, but apparently Apple has decided that there's just not much else to do with that money right now that would give them a better return? We might not agree with that assessment, but it's hard to call it immoral.
by zkmon | 2025-07-14 21:23:13+00:00
Just came back from work to see all the battering and downvoting. Clam down. I meant Quantum computing using qubits. Apologies for not being specific. Quantum computing itself is also a century old (almost)? Where are we with this?

Jeez - HN is brutal. Even a bot could have understood the context I meant.
by srhngpr | 2025-07-14 21:23:30+00:00
To opt out of sharing your telemetry data in Kiro, use this procedure:

1. Open Settings in Kiro.

2. Switch to the User sub-tab.

3. Choose Application, and from the drop-down choose Telemetry and Content.

4. In the Telemetry and Content drop-down field, select Disabled to disable all product telemetry and user data collection.

source: https://kiro.dev/docs/reference/privacy-and-security/#opt-ou...
by gus_massa | 2025-07-14 21:23:33+00:00
> the "consume" question

My guess is that in some popular depictions black holes are like holes, and things fall in the holes, and even a small black hole can possible fall inside a bigger hole.

A better image is too drops of water on a glass, add some black ink for bonus realism. They merge into a bigger drop. Except, obviously black holes are not filled with water. And the "average density" of the new black hole is smaller then the "average density" of both original black holes, unlike the density of water drops on a glass. So don't take this image too literaly.

(There are some problems to define the "density" of a black hole, but let's ignore all of them.)
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-07-14 21:23:55+00:00
"No censorship" doesn't mean "says cringelord far right shit"

We know for a fact that Elon is meddling directly in Grok's outputs to yield the political valence he personally wants. That is censorship.

Or do you think Grok -- uncensored and neutral interpreter of salience in the universe -- just suddenly gave a fuck about the plight of white South Africans? Absolutely laughable that people can still say stuff like "no censorship" with regard to anything Elon touches.
by jfengel | 2025-07-14 21:24:39+00:00
It's true. DEI is genuinely hard to do well. Your company has to look closely at itself and ask questions that it may not want to answer: Do we have a diverse team? Do we have a diverse customer base? If not, why not?

And as America's motto goes: if it's hard, it's not worth doing. Instead, we can weaponize our incompetence until people stop asking us to make things better.
by simoncion | 2025-07-14 21:25:50+00:00
> But are gigabit speeds really necessary? For me, a 300 Mbps connection is way more than enough for a four-person family.

I'm certain that one could make a sound argument that 300 Mbps is not necessary for that four-person family, and they could make do with a much slower connection. Back in the day, folks would be asking if it's necessary for your Internet connection to be always on. After all, it's no hassle at all to plug the modem into the house phone line and unplug it when you're done!

For me, switching from a 1400/40mbps cable connection to a symmetric-but-variable 300-1000mbps Ethernet connection meant that I was doing the same sorts of things, but often spending much less time waiting for them to complete. Related to that, it also made "content creation"-esque things [0] much, much easier.

[0] Which I'm declaring is a category that includes uploading and downloading huge files while working from home as a programmer/"DevOps" guy.
by nwienert | 2025-07-14 21:25:51+00:00
It’s so much easier for me to prompt by:

- cmd-t fuzzy finding files of cmd-p finding symbols to open the various files that are relevant

- selecting a few lines in each file using fast IDE shortcuts to move and add

- drag and drop an image or other json files into prompt

- not leave the editor im already working on

Not to mention:

- viewing the agents edits as a diff in the editor and all the benefits of easily switching between tabs and one click rejecting parts etc

- seeing the sidebar of the agents thoughts and progress async alongside the code as I keep looking at things

- pausing the agent and reversing back steps visually with the sidebar

- not having to reconfig or setup my entire dev environment for some CLI - for example the biome v2 lsp just works since it’s already working in code which has the best support for these things

And really the list of reasons an editor is far better just never ends. Claude is ok, but I’m way way faster with Cursor when I do need AI.
by immibis | 2025-07-14 21:25:58+00:00
Actually, that's because the USA has the world reserve currency as a result of the former Bretton Woods system, itself a result of World War 2. This allows it to command a large exchange rate premium without having to actually work for it. This is the reason the USA has a larger GDP per capita than every other country except for a bunch of tax havens (which have artificially inflated total GDP).
by ezst | 2025-07-14 21:26:20+00:00
The point that is missed isn't about LLMs adequacy as a NLP technique, it's that they cost you 10000 times more for the same effect (after the upfront set-up), which is why I have my doubts that they will be used at scale, at the center of some large data ingestion pipeline. The benefit will probably be for the out of ordinary tasks and outliers.
by mritterhoff | 2025-07-14 21:26:32+00:00
"In 2021 the CO2 Coalition submitted a public comment opposing climate change disclosure rules by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Coalition asserted "There is no 'climate crisis' and there is no evidence that there will be one," and further "Carbon dioxide, the gas purported to be the cause of catastrophic warming, is not toxic and does no harm." Both assertions are at odds with the scientific consensus on climate change."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CO2_Coalition
by jancsika | 2025-07-14 21:27:03+00:00
> 1. A filtering mechanism after the selection process. E.g., basic civics questions like how many states are there, a background check, and so on. To make sure you don't pick anyone that's compromised or incapable of serving.

This is a famously bad idea for U.S. politics.

Like, if you started a grass roots organization with this as your #1 idea, you'd have to eventually dismantle the entire edifice as 100% of your time would be spent answering questions about how this is different than tactics of the Jim Crow era. You'd also make yourself radioactive to any future grassroots efforts: e.g., "Citizens for an Educated Congress: wait a sec, is this that Jim Crow Guy again?" :)
by quirkot | 2025-07-14 21:27:56+00:00
> In principle, good looks, oratory eloquence, a charming personality, well-connectedness, and personal wealth are not particularly useful to creating and executing government policy.

This ignores the fact that "getting people to agree to the policy" is, in fact, extremely important and highly dependent on charisma, eloquence, and the ability to identify and form influential connections. This position imagines human politics devoid of politics and humans.
by fooker | 2025-07-14 21:27:57+00:00
I don't disagree.

The counterparts of these concepts in the everyday programming world are fairly common sense design patterns that have been in use for fifty years.

The names and the beautiful theory for reasoning about them come from FP languages for sure, but that's the side effect of all PL theory being approached as FP theory, and are not fundamental to the 'functional' aspect of functional programming.
by cryptonector | 2025-07-14 21:28:18+00:00
I've wanted to do just this. I've used libmicrohttpd, and... it's not my favorite. But if you're going to do it in C then libmicrohttpd is probably the best API to use. You get bonus points for using jq :)

If you're also using jq you might as well ditch Jansson and use jq's `jv` API. I highly recommend it.
by underlipton | 2025-07-14 21:28:24+00:00
American medical school tuition is $40k-$70k a year, median monthly household income is about $6.5k. Meanwhile, median household income in Vietnam is actually closer to $650 a month; the population of households earning the lowest amount is quite high, but ~75% of Vietnamese households earn more than $400 a month.

But then, most US households aren't sending their kids to medical school in the US; the income of your average medical student's family is significantly higher than the median here. I'll assume the same is true in Vietnam. Though, if not, and doctors are instead coming from a much more representative sample of the population, good on them; it's better than we've managed.

The differences are colorful but seem to represent a front-loading of obstacles that the US medical education system spreads out on the back end. And there's no higher-earning market to try to get to from here in order to make the math work.

FWIW, the point here is not to lionize Vietnam's system, but to point out how embarrassing that there are any comparisons to be drawn at all between how their schools and one as "prestigious" as JHU operate. And, per the original post I replied to, there are.

Shot: https://www.google.com/search?q=jhu%20retracted%20study

Chaser: https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/higher-educatio...
by ceejayoz | 2025-07-14 21:28:33+00:00
What, this?

https://www.feldesman.com/hhs-announces-major-changes-to-its...

> HHS rescinded its 1998 interpretation of the term (63 FR 41658) and expanded the agency’s interpretation of “Federal public benefit” to include programs, including Head Start and numerous community health-related programs.

Yeah, I'm not inclined to view clear and open violations of a law the same as "the Feds said it was fine for 27 years, including Trump's first term".

You'll need stronger whataboutism than that.