MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by _fat_santa | 2025-07-11 15:21:41+00:00
IMO it's not that travel is to cheap, it's that social media has created "hot spots" around the globe.

Take a random example: 5 cute coffee shops around Paris, all of them have that Parisian vibe that tourists are looking for but one of them had an influencer walk in and make some content. Now that one shop is all over the internet and tourists are flocking to it, creating huge lines and overwhelming the business, while the other 4 shops sit at roughly the same level of popularity as they did before.

The problem I see isn't that travel is democratized, it's that people are lazy at planning their trips and just go on social media and find these "hot spots" instead of actually doing their homework or heck even a little exploring around the city.

And I get it, planning a trip and actually doing your homework is hard, it's much easier to get on TikTok and have the entire itinerary planned in one afternoon than spending weeks researching spots on your own.
by carlosjobim | 2025-07-11 15:21:44+00:00
Openness is not a concern for the people who buy Apple devices, and probably not for the public at large. It certainly is no concern to me, I need a machine which works so I can get stuff done. For a MacBook that means opening the lid. For a Windows laptop that means plugging it in, opening the lid, waiting for half an hour for the system to update while it is unusable and hogging all the bandwidth at this time, etc.

Smart phones took over from personal computers, because people want something which works and they hate having to fiddle with their device, trouble shoot and fix things. They don't care that they can't install an Arch Linux terminal on it or download torrents. And if they need something more pro, they go for an iPad or a Macbook when they can choose. Openness is only important for programmers and people who love to mess with their device, not for the public at large.
by devonsolomon | 2025-07-11 15:21:45+00:00
The problem is… When (if) we pick up the phone today it’s because we want to speak to a human.

Most people, avoid phone calls if possible.

If I get a call and it’s an AI, I, like everybody else, is putting down.

If I’m picking up the phone to call a company, it’s because I can’t achieve what I want to on their website.

These AI phone calls are as or more limited than the website.

There is a use-case for voice AI - most of these demoes really miss the mark with “we’re going to replace your call center”.

If founders had any idea how much performance matters in a call center, and how hard it is to achieve, they’d focus on a use case better served by voice AI.
by jexe | 2025-07-11 15:22:15+00:00
Incidental gatekeeping by leaving it on the black market isn't the way to keep it safe, quite the opposite - that poses a lot of dangerous risks.

Bringing it into the light under thoughtful consideration and openly discussing and encouraging harm prevention is the only way to make this safe. Everyone should have the right to to exploring this if they want to, and there should be plenty of open discussion, research, and education. I really appreciate the open-source approach here, the spirit of this movement feels like the right thing for humanity.
by vouaobrasil | 2025-07-11 15:22:30+00:00
Same thing with LinkedIn for me specifically. I heard that it could be a great way to get a job. But then I tried it, was inundated with AI slop, and contacted by recruiters from companies that sounded dreadfully boring. And when it came to nearly 100% of the people I encountered there who were actually active, I'd rather freeze to death than work with them.
by suddenlybananas | 2025-07-11 15:22:34+00:00
>I said if Chomsky wants to tackle mainstream ideas he needs to show why they are wrong. not just say they are popular and are therefore wrong

That is not the argument he is making.

>This is a poor argument to make about Chomsky as just like Chomsky's argument it does not tackle an idea, just the one who is making it

Because it is not meant to tackle a specific claim but rather the media environment in general. I'm astounded at how much faith you have in the media.

Chomsky is making the proposition "often the media misreports or doesn't report on important things" which is far from claiming "everything mainstream is false because it is mainstream".
by bee_rider | 2025-07-11 15:22:49+00:00
I guess they aren’t very widespread anymore, but should this cover police who ride motorbikes? Or farm/ranch workers (they might ride ATVs)?

I guess we could do something like:

<normal coverage> - <adjustment for risky behavior> + <adjustment for pro-social outcomes>

But I think we will have trouble puzzling out the last term!
by duxup | 2025-07-11 15:23:24+00:00
Same with coding, pretty much everything.

I've met some folks, even taken classes from some people who are involved with some important frameworks and so on, all great experiences ... and yet their social media posts about coding are just pithy garbage, even when they try to say something important.

At times the profession and social media posts straight up seem at odds where I think "I get why this limited number of words plays well on social media, but it's not correct... and I think it even indicted the opposite of what the words originally meant."

Social media doesn't really make for a good communication channel for anything except social media.
by imtringued | 2025-07-11 15:23:42+00:00
A lot of people don't see religion as a self replicating cultural program that benefits its biological host. It provides answers for the unanswerable. It is like L_2 norm based regularization in machine learning. You need an answer and there are many solutions, so you have to have a criteria for picking one.

Turns out in the last few centuries a lot of unanswerable questions have found answers rooted in scientific progress and the new answers conflict with the previous answers, which by their very function as placeholders could not have been correct.
by jmclnx | 2025-07-11 15:24:04+00:00
For my personal use, I have no need for ZFS on Linux (ext4) or *BSD (UFS/ffs).

I have been playing with NetBSD for a bit and I discovered their FS has a log parameter, using that on mount to me makes their file system almost as good as ext4. Interesting to me it is not advertised too much.
by teekert | 2025-07-11 15:24:21+00:00
Yesterday I got a mail from Facebook: "*Woman_I_have_known mentioned you on Facebook".

Haven't used FB in years, mail looks legit, I get kinda curious. I tap it, and am immediately logged in, in DDG browser (which has 0 cookies when closing)!

To top it off, she didn't mention me, she mentioned some #tag on some stupid lottery for a van.

It's so disrespectful. So dirty. I know they don't give a * about me, but do they have to put it on so thick?
by randysalami | 2025-07-11 15:24:28+00:00
I tried to build something similar but in a peer-to-peer fashion and for humans + AI. It was supposed to be like a Kanban board that could scale to any team size and use Planning AI to ingest/match/monitor work realtime across teams and agents. I ran out of steam and couldn’t get funding but here is the prototype version:

https://postwork-alpha.vercel.app/

User: maryann.biaggioli@astarconsulting.com

Pass: Test1234!

I never got to a point where I actually integrated AI agents (weren’t as good at the time) but it’s cool to see it working in the real world!
by spacemadness | 2025-07-11 15:24:29+00:00
Not to mention all the people on HN arguing we’re close to AGI because LLMs sound like humans and can “think”. “What’s the difference?” they ask, not in curiosity but after already making a strong claim. I assume it’s the same people that probably skipped every non engineering class in college because of those “useless” liberal arts requirements.
by derektank | 2025-07-11 15:24:30+00:00
Do you believe you can determine the true value of improved land, given how illiquid a market it is? Obviously, the last sale price provides some true information about the value, but it could literally be a decades old number. Do you believe states and municipalities shouldn't update property taxes for a parcel of real estate unless it's sold? I think we've seen from CA's experience with Prop 13 that this creates pretty distortionary incentives.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-11 15:24:41+00:00
The common way to use LinkedIn is to create a profile, keep it updated, and then ignore the platform until you need to use the job search function.

The majority of people on LinkedIn aren't posting and interacting with things all day.

To be honest, most people I know consider being highly active (posting) on LinkedIn to be a potential warning sign for a hire, because it's associated with people who will spend more time hustling on LinkedIn for their next job than working for your company.
by jmclnx | 2025-07-11 15:24:50+00:00
>We’re Light-Years Away

Needs to be pointed out :) If I move billions of Light-Years from here I will be able to create AI :) A Light-Year is distance, the title should say maybe "decades away".

But I fully believe her argument, I think kids being born today will not see any real AI implementation in their lifetime.
by greenie_beans | 2025-07-11 15:24:55+00:00
all of my favorite hiking areas in the birmingham, alabama area were privately owned. churches have public areas that you can enjoy as a non-member of the church. i'm sure we could think of more

edit: oh i just realized a huge one in my daily life: the intervale in burlington is owned by the intervale center but the community garden is managed by the city's parks & rec. also there are a ton of public trails on that private property.
by ajross | 2025-07-11 15:24:56+00:00
Again I think we're talking past each other. I'm saying "traditional filesystem-based storage management is not performance-limited at scale where everything is in RAM, so I don't see value to optimizations like that". You seem to be taking as a prior that at scale everything doesn't fit in RAM, so traditional filesystem-based storage management is still needed.

But... everything does fit in RAM at scale. I mean, Cloudflare basically runs a billion dollar business who's product is essentially "We store the internet in RAM in every city". The whole tech world is aflutter right now over a technology base that amounts to "We put the whole of human experience into GPU RAM so we can train our new overlords". It's RAM. Everything is RAM.

I'm not saying there is "no" home for excessively tuned genius-tier filesystem-over-persistent-storage code. I'm just saying that it's not a very big home, that the market has mostly passed the technology over, and that frankly patches like the linked article seem like a waste of effort to me vs. going to Amazon and buying more RAM.
by v5v3 | 2025-07-11 15:25:05+00:00
Many people don't understand kids.

Kids don't care about a comfortable life, as long as they are loved and supported.

I've worked with Devs in the west who came from tiny rural villages in India, and with love and support got into the leading universities in India and did well.

Lots of middle class western kids get screwed up, despite 'having everything'.

Money, a bedroom not shared with a sibling and so on do not matter to a child.
by pydry | 2025-07-11 15:25:18+00:00
>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.

LVT is for building property or occupying land. Mineral rights are under many if not most legal systems treated separately from land ownership (e.g. they are auctioned off) because unlike land, oil wells eventually run dry.

This does not seem like an honest criticism of LVT, because it deliberately blurs land and mineral rights.

>This is important because it implies that, under an LVT, landowners with large plots of land are disincentivized to create any improvements they make to one part of their property, as it could trigger higher taxes on nearby land that they own. 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.

A problem with not having LVT is that you aren't incentivized to make improvements to land that you own. Without LVT if I'm lazy I can just build a car park on highly valuable city center land I inherited and collect fees, still making a tidy profit. With LVT I need to A) develop it to its actual potential, B) sell it to somebody who will or C) eat losses.

That's the kind of market discipline we are currently lacking which the author of this piece apparently does not want.

On the other hand, a developer who builds 10 houses on one plot of land is not going to magically make 10 houses on another plot of land double in price.

>Even in its simplest "naive" form, the LVT has a narrow tax base. The reality is that the vast majority of global wealth is created through human labor and innovation

This last criticism is A) wrong and B) only applies to single taxers, not proponents of LVT.
by eitally | 2025-07-11 15:25:52+00:00
Perhaps a solution is to create "LVT Zones" in metro areas, and perhaps replace current residential / commercial / agriculture / industrial zoning with them?

And LVT that replaces zoning basically just lets the highest bidder do whatever they want with the land. An LVT that augments zoning could perhaps be tenable but I would argue that in VHCOL areas there's already something of an LVT in place. My SFH in San Jose is assessed as having equal value for the 8800sqft as it is for the house built on it. What I wonder is how the actuaries and policy makers responsible for assessing property values for county taxation actually do that, and how much of the formula is already based on land value.
by duxup | 2025-07-11 15:26:05+00:00
The pattern of active LinkedIn posters has a weird thing where it gives off strong vibes of that one person at work who seems to have their hands in everything, but actually accomplishes nothing except to toot their own horn.

In a general sense I'd love to hear about what people do, see where people I've worked with ... work and do now. LinkedIn should be the place I can do that right? And yet LinkedIn feels like such an artificial place that I would want nothing to do with the most active people posting as far as working with them.
by xhkkffbf | 2025-07-11 15:26:10+00:00
Why? Hold outs, zoning, greedy politicians and more. I drove through a blighted neighborhood. There were 60-70% unkempt houses and maybe 10-15% in great shape. Some won't want to move for their own reasons and they'll refuse to sell. Some will just be trying to get more money. Others will be sincere. It's very hard to unsubdivide land.

And then there are the zoning and city regulations which naturally resist. You would think they would welcome a new taxpayer, but they're really in love with the regulations that someone wrote decades ago. The odds of getting them to bend is anyone's guess, but in most cases a bribe or ten is going to be required.
by stego-tech | 2025-07-11 15:26:16+00:00
Between the fight over AI, shifting geopolitics reigniting old conflicts, an overly-centralized technology industry, a lack of meaningful innovation from a consumer perspective, and the immense precarity of modern work in general, it feels like we’re at the start of the end of a cycle.

I’m noticing more people taking stock of what’s actually important to them and taking a stand on their values. This is good in the long run, but in the immediate it results in a lot of binary/black-and-white decision-making that results in dustups and conflicts between groups who would normally be allied behind common goals.

All of this is to say that I expect we’ll see many, many, many more of these types of posts in the future, as everyone remembers they can choose to shape their engagement with technology, and that naturally includes the right to disconnect from it - not out of any sort of anti-technology position itself, necessarily, but simply from realizing that a specific thing isn’t something they need or are interested in, and that’s okay.

Props to the author for being so clear about their engagement with social media, their background, and their thought process. If it encourages more folks to reassess their own relationship with social media (or any technology), I’m all for it.
by bentt | 2025-07-11 15:26:27+00:00
As a parent, what my wife and I see is that when the kids have access to the internet, they socialize on the internet. When they don't have access to the internet, they socialize in real life. Most often it's just a question of convenience. It's a pain in the ass to get together. It used to be the only way.

Another thing is that parents just don't leave their kids alone any more. My sister's son is almost 20 and she's still thinking about his goings on even when he's at college. This might be nice in terms of feeling loved, but independence is almost required to bring partying back.
by sfpotter | 2025-07-11 15:26:55+00:00
Hey, I'm sorry, but such a blanket statement is pretty weak on its own. I'm interested in your perspective. Can you provide some concrete details that support your point? Because the people I know feel like AI in the classroom is inevitable and that they don't have much power in the face of the authority that wants to impose it on them, which would seem to contradict what you're saying.
by interpol_p | 2025-07-11 15:27:10+00:00
Google engineered and maintains the system that allows you to install APK files. This is my point. The fact that they have developed a security model around APK updates is exactly what I'm talking about.

If Apple wants to offer something similar, now, they are going to have a lot of work cut out for them.

You're not thinking this through, it's not a magic button Apple presses. They are going to have to develop a ton of frameworks just to get something like installable APKs.

Apple allows developers to use iCloud and Maps for free. Presumably because you distribute through the App Store. So if they allow for side-loading they're going to have to lock down and split their App Store "services" into a separate framework — hey, sounds familiar? Just like Google Play services.

Separating out all of Apple's authentication layers, paid and cloud services, and ensuring apps can be cleanly distributed without dependencies on those things it not a trivial engineering exercise.

I'm not trying to imply that Apple should not comply with the DMA. I believe they should. I also believe that it would be a seriously complicated thing to extract their App Store services from their developer APIs in such a way that people could develop against a baseline SDK sans Apple services.
by n4r9 | 2025-07-11 15:27:47+00:00
When I sit and observe my thoughts and feelings I find a complex mix of desires. Some that are immediate/basic/short-term vs some that are conceptual/nuanced/long-term. The eventual course of action is a delicate compromise. A lot of the time I'd rather just veg out than - say - go for a run or do some writing. But I might do the latter anyway because I recognise that it'll usually help me feel much better in 2 hours time.

I guess the upshot is that "I'd rather be doing..." is not actually very simple at all IMO.
by duxup | 2025-07-11 15:27:58+00:00
I wonder if Facebook has slowly began to lean into the scammer email pattern where ... they really want the people who are ok with these patterns so they can hook them in other equally scummy ways.

Perhaps social media companies are not interested in anyone who wants to manage their feed or is looking for somethings specific, they want to point their product AT you, not have you use it.
by raphinou | 2025-07-11 15:28:00+00:00
Although I didn't consider this attack possibility (thanks for raising it!), I think we are reasonably immune to it or able to detect it with the way we manipulate and store the JSON (though completely avoiding it seems not attainable, at one point the client has to trust the response it gets from a server, am I right? Otherwise I'm very interested in pointers to learn more!)

World visible teams and users might be a way to define our multi-sigs members. But we would still need a JSON file for others characteristics of the multi-sig. I'll keep an eye on foks as if it becomes a good fit, it might let us concentrate on our service and not on key management intricacies. My email is on my HN profile, in case you want to notify me of advancement fitting our use case.
by deaddodo | 2025-07-11 15:28:10+00:00
You can deny entry on a non-discriminatory basis. E.g., a bar can kick out an individual Black American for being a nuisance or otherwise troublesome, they can't kick out a black guy for wearing blue (unless it's a blanket ban and reasonable, such as it being a theme bar) or being black.

This is why the signs are always phrased as "we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone/any person".

As with most things though, this is just the minimum federal regulation and states will handle how far they take it differently. There are jurisdictions that wouldn't touch a "no tattoos" policy with a ten-foot pole at the risk of a lawsuit. While there are others that are more lax.
by lossolo | 2025-07-11 15:28:12+00:00
> You assume that the system prompt they put on github is the entire system prompt. It almost certainly is not.

It's not about the system prompt anymore, which can leak and companies are aware of that now. This is handled through instruction tuning/post training, where reasoning tokens are structured to reflect certain model behaviors (as seen here). This way, you can prevent anything from leaking.
by wglass | 2025-07-11 15:28:14+00:00
Fair enough! Guilty of that attitude, no doubt. I note the corrections in the message above re emphasis on Woz/Jobs.

I think mostly I was annoyed at the emphasis on how the computer is untouched and unused, which seemed the antithesis of the spirit of those early days.

Having said all that, I really felt an urge to bid, though no doubt it's 10x what I can afford.
by scubakid | 2025-07-11 15:28:16+00:00
I think there's a certain type of engineer that actively prefers working in a small team where you can make an outsized impact and wear many hats. I'm one of them lol.

I wonder if you could bring on just one really good dev who matches that description vs scaling up to a larger team. In many cases, a very small team of A+ players can beat a large team of B players.

Although it sounds like you're saying marketing/distribution may have played a larger role in your trajectory? In hindsight, do you think focusing your team-building efforts on the marketing side would have been a better strategy?
by daveguy | 2025-07-11 15:28:26+00:00
It is quasi-deterministic (sans a heat parameter) and it only ever responds to a query. It is not at all autonomous. If you let it do chain-of-thought for too long or any sort of continuous feedback loop it always goes off the rails. It is an inference engine. Inference by itself is not intelligence. Chollet has very good reasoning that intelligence requires both inference and search/program design. If you haven't read his papers about the ARC-AGI benchmark, you should check it out.
by derektank | 2025-07-11 15:28:32+00:00
Property taxes are attractive because land doesn't move (unlike other forms of wealth) and it's easy to account for by tax collectors. There's also zero dead weight loss as you can't create more land. Taxes on land improvements are unattractive because they disincentivize owners from investing in their property. This leaves us with taxes on unimproved land being a very attractive option funding the government.