MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by metaloha | 2025-07-11 19:46:57+00:00
You're over-thinking it, dark-noodz. Truth is subjective, opinionated, and bears no relation to facts. It is an abstract concept that serves a lot of different emotional purposes - from manipulation by corporate windbags all the way back to how you perceive yourself.

We often conflate "truth" with "comfort" or "validation" because we're human.

When companies want their employees to be "truth seekers", they generally expect employees to act responsibly, honestly, and either willing to go with the flow (truth for the company) or challenge the norms (truth for the individual) - good luck figuring out which one they actually want at any given moment in time.

What is truth? It's what I tell myself to feel better about what I see around me. It changes all the time, reflects and contradicts itself under different circumstances, and rarely matches up with other people's perception of truth.

Truth is what companies and individuals use to justify their actions - not facts, but truths.

It's funny, but you can replace every "truth" above with "lie" and it will remain a truth and a lie.

The only paragraph you wrote that was truthful was the second-to-last one.
by sigwinch28 | 2025-07-11 19:47:07+00:00
Via Wikipedia:

> The developer offered full refunds to the game for macOS and Linux owners regardless of how long they had the game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_League#Free-to-play_tra...

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/rocket-league-ending-mac-an...
by jansan | 2025-07-11 19:47:13+00:00
There were catch bars in the 90s, and Roppongi has been full of assholes as long as I can remember (anyone remember Tokyo Gas Panic?). I have not been to Japan for more than ten years so I do not know how bad it is, but my point is that even in the good old days you could get ripped off as a gullible foreigner (usually by other foreigners).
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by Jotalea | 2025-07-11 19:49:11+00:00
The same thing happened to me, except I was younger and could adapt more easily.

I'm bilingual, I watch and read content in both Spanish (my native language) and English. Back in 2021, I heard that Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" had hit 1 billion views on YouTube. I loved that song back then.

I was really amazed, so I decided to check it out for myself. But to my surprise, the video said “1000 millones de vistas” (millón = million). Confused, I asked myself, “Why do they say the video hit one billion views if it only says one thousand million here?”

That’s when I figured out that billón doesn’t mean the same as billion.

And now, years later, I’m reading your blog post about your experience, and commenting on it in a language that’s not even my native one.
by Klonoar | 2025-07-11 19:50:30+00:00
If you experience this in Tokyo, you're dealing with the fact that it's a truly global city and you're not venturing off the tourist path enough. It's definitely still a thing in some parts of Tokyo to have few-to-no westerners.

Kyoto was never going to be able to deal with the level of tourism that it's currently struggling with, though. My friends and I refuse to even stop there now - and I tried to get some friends who visited recently to avoid it in favor of some other culturally significant spots, but the TikTok trend seems to be incredibly powerful. I don't know if I have the words to express how that interaction made me feel, but it's definitely weird.
by offnominal | 2025-07-11 19:51:36+00:00
I quite enjoyed it. You're in a different part of the world and only have access to lead level data from your local population. You spot an anomaly in a cultural subgroup. Then through extensive guesswork you pinpoint a cause to a specific additive to a spice often consumed by folks in this culture. I would say that qualifies as a detective story.

But anyway, lead chromate is not a pesticide. The level of harm from pesticides containing heavy metals vs lead chromate is different. You're probably much much less likely to see lead poisoning levels in your blood just by consuming food treated only with pesticides.
by bluecalm | 2025-07-11 19:51:37+00:00
It's a good point. Usually farms are on land classified as agricultural and residential buildings are on residential land. It's easy to design a system that values residential land higher (because it's in fact more valuable if you can build residences on it). You wouldn't pay half the taxes until you convert it to residential at which point you should in fact be paying half the LVT (maybe with a few years leeway).
by fingerlocks | 2025-07-11 19:52:24+00:00
I haven’t tried zed and I’m getting old and set in my ways. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it and all that.

So if the claim is that I can get everything I have out of vim, most importantly being unbeatably fast text buffers, and I don’t need a suitcase full of config files, that’s very compelling.

Is that the promise of zed?
by gpm | 2025-07-11 19:52:24+00:00
I mean, you've labelled one big one already with the GDPR covering a significant fraction of the world - and unlike your average analytics "username and email address" sounds unquestionably identifying/personal information.

Where I live I think this would violate PIPEDA, the Canadian privacy law that covers all business that do business in any Canadian province/territory other than BC/Alberta/Quebec (which all have similar laws).

There's generally no exception in these for "open source devtools" - laws are typically still laws even if release something for free. The Canadian version (though I don't think the GDPR does) has an exception for entirely non-commercial organizations, but Bloop AI appears to be a commercial organization so it wouldn't apply. It also contains an exception for business contact information - but as I understand it that is not interpreted broadly enough to cover random developers email addresses just because they happen to be used for a potentially personal github account.

Disclaimer: Not a lawyer. You should probably consult a lawyer in the relevant jurisdiction (i.e. all of them) if it actually matters to you.
by ceejayoz | 2025-07-11 19:52:36+00:00
> I feel like we're having 2 different conversations here.

Yes. You're very focused on real/not-real, but that's not at all the issue.

An artist's depiction for scale (versus a real photo) is fine if it's intentionally drawn to scale. There's no reason to believe ChatGPT did anything here other than go "imagine what would a big beaver look like". The point is "can I trust the reference depiction gives me accurate information?", not "is this a real photo of a living giant beaver?"

> If I put a human in my image standing next to an imaginary creature, or a sci-fi spaceship, or a building I rendered in Blender, am I implying that those things are in fact real?

If you post your worldbuilding art with a "human for reference", assumptions about your imaginary world can be drawn from it. For example, on https://www.deviantart.com/moreorlesser/art/Spaceship-Size-C..., conclusions about the various fictional spacecraft can be drawn. The real-world ISS is put there to help understand the scale.

Does a Star Destroyer exist? No, of course not. Can I assume, in-universe, that it is probably capable of carrying more people than the very real ISS from this graphic? Yes.

> I am providing a reference for scale with something that everyone will recognize.

Sure. You are attesting "these are depicted to scale". As the artist, I must presume you hold facts/thoughts in your head about the items depicted. If you portray a skyscraper-style building as being half the size of a human, I am led to the logical conclusion that your imaginary civilization is made of very small creatures.

> Look, I accept your aversion to AI imagery.

I have no fundamental aversion to AI imagery.

I have an aversion to undisclosed bullshit invented out of whole cloth being dropped into a discussion of a real academic subject.

Something like this is much more useful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44529224
by splix | 2025-07-11 19:53:50+00:00
That's different because in Bitcoin's case there was a clear violation of the specification, of how it supposed to work. So the bug was fixed to make the software working as it intended to be. If there were two node implementations then one would just stop to work until fixed.

In Ethereum's case there were no violation of any specification. In fact there were no bug in the blockchain itself. Just someone took founder's money, they didn't like it and so they decided to get them back. And note that after that, there were bugs in the nodes code that were breaking the spec (which you should compare to the bitcoin's bug), but because of multiple node implementations only some of the nodes stopped and so we don't care about those issues.
by kragen | 2025-07-11 19:53:51+00:00
The X-ray fluorescence tests used in the market spectacle described in the article are very cheap and easy, but they require equipment that is very expensive from the perspective of your average Bangladesh greengrocer. There are other easy and cheap tests for heavy metals that don't require such expensive equipment, but they only work if the metal ions are water-soluble, which lead chromate isn't.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-07-11 19:54:24+00:00
Actually, that report is stronger than you're implying.

It's saying solar + batteries is enough to supply 97% of power cheaper than any other way in sunny locales.

It's possible to get 99.99% of your power with solar + batteries, you'd just need a lot of batteries. The news is that batteries have got so cheap that you're better installing enough batteries to hit 97% and leave your natgas peakers idle 97% of the time. That number used to be a lot lower, and that 97% number will be higher every year.

The other cool thing about that report is that it gives a number of 90% for non-ideal places. Sure solar is cheap in sunny locales, but that solar is cheap in places that aren't sunny is far more exciting to me.
by breadwinner | 2025-07-11 19:54:25+00:00
That's true. In addition to preventing payments, you also have to make a reasonable attempt to cancel service.

Recently in the case of Dish Network, I tried to call to cancel service, and the wait time is 45 minutes. There's no way I am doing that. (They don't let you cancel online or via chat, calling is the only option). Instead I contacted state attorney general's office and they made Dish cancel service.

If you can prove that you made reasonable attempt to cancel service then you're off the hook. In my case Dish sent my account to collections (for the 1 month it took to cancel service) and I wrote them back that I am not paying and why. Never heard back from them after that.
by dylan604 | 2025-07-11 19:54:53+00:00
Yes, that's why it was on the 3rd repair. Apple knew they had issues and replaced it for me before by replacing the entire main board. Twice. The last time I took it in, they would no longer replace for free and wanted $800 for the repair. That was half the cost of modern laptop, so I chose no. I was unaware of being able to disable the GPU like that. I still have it on a shelf, but honestly, I don't see trying to do the hack now but might have considered back then.
by ceejayoz | 2025-07-11 19:55:09+00:00
Avi Loeb got trucks mixed up with aliens, then proudly announced he'd found a chunk of alien metal in the ocean based on that mistake.

https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2024/04/09/was-it-an-alien...

> The signals consisted of so-called Rayleigh waves, high-frequency motions that travel on or just under the surface, and die out quickly as they radiate from their source. These can be generated by earthquakes, but also by human activities, including explosions, electrical signals and vehicles. The sources of these ones seemed to be moving, not stationary. Moreover, they appeared in a definite pattern: several per hour, almost invariably between 5am and 11pm local time.

> The team checked a Google Earth map showing the seismometer and its environs. It was just off the main road to the harbor, near the Manus Navy Health Center. The center seemed to be a locus of activity, with the signals moving back and forth from it, southwest to north―the same orientation as the road. Ekström’s conclusion: the seismicity was coming from trucks bumping along the irregular surface of the road, mostly in daytime, stopping at the health center to deliver or pick up people or supplies, then going back where they came from. That included the purported tremor from the meteor explosion.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/avi-loeb-i...

"Fewer than 1 in 500 stars share such kinematics" means 200+ million in our little galaxy alone.
by bombcar | 2025-07-11 19:55:59+00:00
The dirty secret is that assessments don’t matter overall - just proportionally.

The county or city or whatever has a tax budget of $500 million, and divides it by whatever percentage your house’s assessment is of the assessed whole, and allocates it to you. My property taxes vary without assessment variations, and have gone down on years my assessment has gone up.

Barring anything weird like prop 13.
by vannevar | 2025-07-11 19:56:24+00:00
>they are required to sell to anyone at claimed value + 10%

I like the goal here, but I think a less intrusive way to achieve it would be to charge back taxes at the time of a future sale if the sales price is in excess of the valuation. To ensure the back taxes are paid, they would encumber the title of the new owner, so that in practice the buyer would require them to be paid at closing.
by bluecalm | 2025-07-11 19:56:31+00:00
I think we can't make LVT the only tax. Other good taxes are consumption taxes, pollution taxes, resource usage taxes. You can also add some business revenue taxes like recently popular idea in EU of a digital tax. I would also tax IP protection (if you want to sell your stuff here and have IP/copyright protected we will take % of your sells). I think the worst possible taxes are capital gain tax an corporate income tax. Those should be 0. They only create incentives for various shenanigans and have a lot of other negative consequences.
by adverbly | 2025-07-11 19:56:32+00:00
I would say that this is largely a feature not a bug :)

Let's look at what the author said about this:

> For instance, if a developer owns multiple adjacent parcels and decides to build housing or infrastructure on one of them, the value of the undeveloped parcels will rise due to their proximity to the improvements. As a result, the developer faces higher taxes on the remaining undeveloped land, making development less financially appealing in the first place.

> This creates a counterproductive dynamic: developers may hesitate to improve their land or invest in new projects because they know that any improvements will increase their tax burden on adjacent parcels.

This is exactly correct analysis, but this is good not bad! LVT is preventing hoarding land during development. Of course someone who acts according to the old system's incentives will lose in that model!

First, let's talk about why the existing model is bad though: right now, developers make a huge part of their money not directly from actually building, but from the increase in the land value that happens during construction. This means that developers need to acquire huge sections of land and then only build one house at a time. This is insanely inefficient! It literally prevents anyone else from building in parallel or at lower cost! There is zero competition!

In a world with LVT, a developer would be incentivized to acquire and start work in smaller increments, leaving the door open top more competition and for more companies to enter the space - lowering costs and increasing the speed of construction.
by tptacek | 2025-07-11 19:56:37+00:00
Yes, that is a statistic that does not in fact exist. It may exist in theory, but there is no mechanism in place anywhere to collect it, and there never has been.

Americans should know this intuitively by dint of most of us never having been "officially" IQ tested. Somehow, the notion of reliable national IQ statistics persists.
by 05 | 2025-07-11 19:56:42+00:00
Yeah at this point I don't even bother, just heat up the phone with a hair dryer until it's hot to touch and then rip out the battery, never got one out in anything else but a horribly bent condition. Pro tip: discharge the device to 0% before, so that if it's accidentally pierced during that delicate process it won't set everything on fire. If I ever need to do the same thing with a laptop, I'll try to get my hands on a barrel of sand just in case..
by wavh | 2025-07-11 19:57:27+00:00
Hi!

I recently created a MCP server that communicates with my existing Kanban tool and it has revolutionised my workflow. I use AI heavily at work and now, everything just feel so much more structured. Cursor, the code editor, helps me plan & refine tasks, and then looks at the board and helps me implement the tasks. The big win here is that I can keep the AI on track in a much better way than before. Another big win is that the AI can really help with refining tasks, I can plan together with the AI, it can ask great follow up questions etc. Anyways, I decided to play around with this and created a small "AI first" webbased tool and I think it works really great.

The project is free to use and also open source if someone wants to contribute or just check it out to learn something :)

https://github.com/WilliamAvHolmberg/vibecodementor
by scyclow | 2025-07-11 19:58:16+00:00
The first two arguments he makes here miss the point of a LVT entirely

> An LVT discourages searching for new uses of land

> An LVT implicitly taxes improvements to nearby land

If I find oil on my land, or if someone builds a park across the street from me, then I should be taxed more. The land is more valuable to me! At a 100% LVT I essentially break even. Anything less then that, and I still come out on top.

The only valid arguments in here are the last two. If people buy a piece of property with certain assumptions and the government turns around implements a 100% LVT, then I can understand why they would be upset.

So sure, there are some practical considerations to implementing a 100% LVT immediately tomorrow with no exemptions, and it probably wouldn't raise enough revenue to eliminate all other taxes. But the government could still raise a ton of tax revenue with minimal deadweight loss by phasing in a 75% LVT over 30 years with a handful of common sense exemptions.
by bee_rider | 2025-07-11 19:58:41+00:00
I’m not clear on what the effect actually is. If it is cost reduction, not sure where motorcycles should be on the list (they are probably more costly for life insurance agencies than for health insurance ones…).

I guess I’ve been beating around the bush, but my point is that targeting drugs specifically for this sort of thing would seem kind of, I dunno, puritanical to me (as someone who doesn’t partake). I’d rather just insure everybody and hope they don’t hurt themselves, just out of their own self interest.
by jerlendds | 2025-07-11 19:59:14+00:00
I created OSINTBuddy (https://github.com/osintbuddy/osintbuddy), this project allowed me to break into the software industry despite being a highschool dropout and it's managed to gain a tiny bit of popularity in some niche OSINT communities, this still surprises me haha.

I've been in the process of rewriting/refactoring the codebase these past few months to use Rust instead of Python and Vite instead of create-react-app. OSINTBuddy is a web based version of something like Maltego (https://maltego.com/). I started the project years ago and its currently my main side project although I have a few other ideas I plan to start building starting next year.
by janalsncm | 2025-07-11 19:59:44+00:00
To add some color to the regulatory issue as I understand it, the court ruled that the impact of this rule would be over $100M so they’re required to assess cost/benefits of alternatives and submit them during the public comment period.

I don’t even know what the alternative would be apart from doing nothing. Making it more of a pain for consumers to cancel is zero sum on first order analysis (if I lose a dollar because I can’t cancel the company gets a dollar) but at a second order makes our economy less dynamic by entrenching incumbent companies and making it harder for consumers to allocate their money towards better alternatives.

If a company can trap your money in a labyrinth of process they don’t have to compete on quality or price. Simple as that.
by d4rkn0d3z | 2025-07-11 20:01:08+00:00
In your parlance, in order for there to be "no contradiction or embellishment" between your "Truth" and your "truth" there must be an isomorphic mapping between what entities you deem exist and the symbols you use to reason about them. Furthermore, there must be a logical law of noncontradiction upon which you will erect the notion of things, categories, and concepts. We need not fear embellishment, the most successful physical theories involve forms of existence that are unlike anything related to the human experience, and there was never any reason to think they would be otherwise.

I have no idea what repeating the word truth does to prove a point.
by nwienert | 2025-07-11 20:01:30+00:00
You’re right, but a large part of the reason many come here is to participate in a strongly left wing idea reinforcement operation. HN skews left and votes in brigades to enforce that.

So many times I’ve opted to not refute things because I know it’ll be downvoted to oblivion, and because the community at large doesn’t care to change their views in the slightest.

It’s good for tech news.
by HeyLaughingBoy | 2025-07-11 20:01:37+00:00
Interesting question. Adherence to formal standards might be a good proxy for this, perhaps. Dunno. Just the first thing that comes to mind.

I am in Medical Devices software. Our main compliance requirements are 21CFR and IEC-62304. I know Automotive has MISRA (more coding guidelines than development process, but still) and a handful of other standards. Aviation follows DO-178x, and so on...
by Amezarak | 2025-07-11 20:02:32+00:00
I think actively claiming poisoning is too far. You don't have to do that to not present the story as Problem Solved with a neat little bow tied; I just think like GP there's probably not a really serious evaluation of the underlying issues that led us here, and it's going to crop up again and again in different ways, maybe not tumeric explicitly if monitoring continues.

FWIW I've also been quoted by reporters before, and was really upset. They framed what I was saying to mean exactly the opposite of what I was saying, I assume because it fit the story better - I am 100% certain they understood me at the time, because the full context of my remarks made it very clear and we had a long conversation. So I don't lend much credence anymore to things like "what did the people interviewed in this story actually think about anything."
by mousethatroared | 2025-07-11 20:02:55+00:00
Look your question is not unreasonable and the s answer is interesting, but your tone implies loathing and belittling.

Which maybe we (I also work in "defense") deserve to burn in hell, but who are you to be self righteous? For example, if you ever put up a Ukraine flag sticker you'd be a hypocrite too.