MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-07-02 20:34:34+00:00
I genuinely admire Elon and hope he will get the help he needs. But DOGE, the needless and stupid foray into partisan politics, the drug abuse, the breaking of contracts until he had to be sued at Twitter, the fraternising with white nationalists, the Nazi salute (and lack of an apology)…these are not things people want to associate themselves with.

The top-selling car colours are white, black and grey. Most people, including those with sports cars, don’t want to drive an opinionated car day to day. Even if you agree with Elon’s politics, you may not want everyone in town to know that.

> Tesla just misplayed the market after covid. Their cars are too expensive and too premium, which is what people wanted during covid

People have wanted cheaper cars since Tesla was founded. It’s why Musk won credibility by promising a $25,000 EV.

Then he built the Cybertruck. And instead of recognising that as a failure, Musk doubled down on nonsense, first with a self-driving car with a regulatory cross-section the size of a planet, and then with a semi-focussed robotics push.

Tesla misplayed the market and continues misplaying the market. Musk’s politics now guarantee that it is a hated brand on the right and the left, which creates issues for his plans that require government support.
by ericmay | 2025-07-02 20:34:39+00:00
Let me summarize my thoughts here:

I think we should fund assistance programs for folks to use mass transit (that we also need to build more of and fund more of) instead of having people hop the queue because it leads to negative outcomes for public programs, and it's unfair.

You're free to make of that what you will. If that means you think I support ICE and their current behavior or something, then I guess I do. I don't really care.
by nabramow | 2025-07-02 20:34:44+00:00
Volunteer dev for Couchers here, crazy seeing this pop up here!

Anyway to answer the question, we are totally separate from Couchsurfing.org!

We created Couchers in 2020 after Couchsurfing put up a pay wall, after going for-profit and going downhill for awhile.

We want to keep the original Couchsurfing spirit alive, so we started Couchers.org.
by Dagonfly | 2025-07-02 20:34:44+00:00
The initiative is not even asking you to provide the full functionality of your online-components.

All you should have is a "reasonable effort" EOL plan that allows customers to continue using the parts that can work without the developers support. They even call out "Gran Turismo Sport" as a good example. Sony announced the EOL a year before, and stopped selling micro-transactions. Then they removed the online services while retaining offline support for add-ons and in-game items.

A reasonable EOL plan might be: We'll support the online matchmaking for 3 years. After that we retain the rights to shut down the services providing at least a one year notice. All in-game items and add-ons will be made downloadable for all players 6 months before shut-down. All offline game modes will remain playable using those items as before.
by DFHippie | 2025-07-02 20:34:52+00:00
I was raised Quaker as well and still consider myself culturally Quaker, though I'm atheist and attend Meeting mostly only at weddings or funerals at this point.

What I value most about Quakerism is the emphasis on absolute honesty.

My father took time off college to protest the war -- which war, I'm not certain. He found himself questioning whether pacifism was truly his belief or something he was brought up with. So he enlisted to try out the other side. He didn't actually fight, but was trained as an artillery surveyor. When his superiors suggested he go to officer training school he asked for some time off to think about it, then came back three days later having decided he wanted to finish college and become a psychiatrist. He met my mom at his Quaker college, went back to Meeting, and some years later became a psychiatrist (and died shortly thereafter, not from the psychiatry). I've always thought it was cool that he tested his beliefs like that. His wider family was a bit uneasy with his choices but respected his process.
by nomel | 2025-07-02 20:35:11+00:00
> Adderall is a strong counter to this idea. It is clearly effective per all of the tests it has been through.

That's a good example, because the statement "clearly effective" is absolutely false, as will be stated by a doctor when they prescribe it to you, and can be found in the documentation that comes with the medication. It is not appropriate or effective for some people, and is detrimental for others (accounts of both are found trivially online).
by bentt | 2025-07-02 20:35:57+00:00
Nobody is incentivized to share bad news about the economy. Everyone has a vested interest in the stock market rising, in keeping their jobs, and a shared desire to see things go up forever.

This is why there needs to be some kind of safety net so that the economy is not a proxy for life and death. In the USA, if you run out of money, you are in real trouble. We need to decouple success/failure in the market from personal safety. You should be able to try opening a hot dog stand, have it tank, and still be able to eat and go to the doctor.
by bigyabai | 2025-07-02 20:36:24+00:00
He absolutely is. Again, refer to the nuclear bomb and the unconscionable capital that was invested as a result of early successes in nuclear tests.

That was an actual weapon capable of killing millions of people in the blink of an eye. Countries raced to get one so fast that it was practically a nuclear Preakness Stakes for a few decades there. By collating AI as a doomsday weapon, you necessarily are begging governments to attain it before terrorists do. Which is a facetious argument when AI has yet to prove it could kill a single person by generating text.
by motorest | 2025-07-02 20:36:34+00:00
> The vscode extension can both provisions the resource as well as deploy it.

On top of having to have an Azure subscription, you need to provision:

- a resource group

- a service plan

- a function app

You do not get to skip those with azure.

And by the way, the only time anyone uses vscode to deploy an app, or even visual studio, is to work on personal projects or sandbox environments. Even so, you use the IDE to pick existing resources to deploy to.
by const_cast | 2025-07-02 20:36:38+00:00
> This is basically inviting your best and brightest to move to the US and other low tax countries.

The US is not a "low tax" country, it's just underdeveloped in social services. Which might give the impression the tax rate is low, but it's not - it's very high. Not only are you going to be paying income tax within 10% that of a western European nation, but you also have lots and lots of invisible taxes.

For example, did you know that about 30% of all compensation in the US goes just to providing health insurance and other benefits to employees? One of the downsides of having an underdeveloped health sector is that it's quite expensive.

Or, how about the fact that the average American spends 15% of their gross income just on transportation cost? Turns out having all that underdeveloped transit infrastructure isn't free. We pay for that.
by pk-protect-ai | 2025-07-02 20:39:47+00:00
That's the thing, these meetings are B.S. Engineers need a task, time to think, and write about the solution and its cost. Period. Talking in a room full of people who love to hear their own voices and love to stroke their egos does not actually help engineers do their job. When engineers need to communicate, they communicate with their colleagues. There are tools for such communications that do not require talking and immediate responses. Being reactive (which is what meetings enforce you to do) costs more, as reactive and forced responses will be far more technically unsound.
by Nextgrid | 2025-07-02 20:40:30+00:00
I wonder how much of it is down to the internet changing - similar to the eternal september, or overtourism.

Couchsurfing used to be a relatively niche thing which allowed it to work and thrive. The percentage of freeloaders or bad actors was low enough not to be a problem.

But now with more people being aware of it/its alternatives, the percentage of bad actors would increase too (and maybe not even proportionally to the number of good actors).
by unethical_ban | 2025-07-02 20:40:40+00:00
This is not a dichotomy. Border and deportation reform can coincide with accepting the practical reality of undocumented residents currently in the US.

Republicans allowed this willingly, too.

Ripping apart millions of families and snatching peaceful residents off the streets, out of churches, off of farms and out of courtrooms with masked agents is not the only way.

Separately: Birthright citizenship is a fair topic to debate. What is not normal is pretending it isn't one of the most plain and direct clauses in the Constitution.

There are other paths.
by raron | 2025-07-02 20:40:58+00:00
That's exactly the goal of this.

If you buy something, that will be yours, you can use it as long as you want, you can sold it or it can be inherited from you. (In copyright terms that's a perpetual, irrevocable license.)

If there is only a limited duration you can use something, that's called renting and the duration must be known before you enter into a contract.
by jazzyjackson | 2025-07-02 20:41:15+00:00
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it."

- Brian Kernighan

So if there's a bug in code that an LLM wrote, simply wait 6 months until the LLMs are twice as smart?
by benjiro | 2025-07-02 20:41:35+00:00
I think the correct term is, that unrestricted LLM scrapers have dramatically been increasing the cost of hosting various small websites.

Its not a issue when somebody does "ethical" scraping, with for instance, a 250ms delay between requests, and a active cache that checks specific pages (like news article links) to rescrape at 12 or 24h intervals. This type of scraping results in almost no pressure on the websites.

The issue that i have seen, is that the more unscrupulous parties, just let their scrapers go wild, constantly rescraping again and again because the cost of scraping is extreme low. A small VM can easily push 1000's of scraps per second, let alone somebody with more dedicated resources.

Actually building a "ethical" scraper involves more time, as you need to fine tune it per website. Unfortunately, this behavior is going to cost the more ethical scraper a ton, as anti-scraping efforts will increase the cost on our side.
by immibis | 2025-07-02 20:41:58+00:00
There's a difference between "cybersecurity" meaning the property of having a secure system, and "cybersecurity" as a field of human endeavour.

If your system has lots of vulnerabilities, it's not secure - you don't have cybersecurity. If your system has lots of vulnerabilities, you have a lot of cybersecurity work to do and cybersecurity money to make.
by k310 | 2025-07-02 20:43:00+00:00
Fascist Playbook.

Fascist Playbook. step by step.

10 Small Steps: Executing the Fascist Playbook [0]

The Fascists’ Playbook [1]

[0] https://www.huffpost.com/entry/10-small-steps-executing-the-...

[1] https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/05/08/the-fascists-playboo...
by jmyeet | 2025-07-02 20:43:40+00:00
TSLA continues its years-long trend of not only defying fundamentals. Here are, off the top of my head, the current, serious risks to Tesla:

- Brand damage done to typical Tesla buyers and in countries that subsidize EVs;

- Downturn in sales in Q1 and likely future continued declines;

- Likely loss of the EV tax credit in the US;

- A likely upcoming recession with (currently) one quarter of negative GDP growth;

- Tariff risks;

- Competition, particularly from Chinese automakers;

- Supply chain risks; and

- Risks to the Tesla business in China as political and tariff fallout as the administration seeks to ratchet up a trade war with China.

Yet Tesla still trades at a P/# of 173.

TSLA is a bet on Elon. That's it. But it won't be because of any fundamental success in the business. It'll be a question of how much looting of government coffers it can do.

Elon has realized he needs to diversify the business, hence the robotaxis. My bet is that will never go GA and likely will kill or seriously wound someone and get sued out of existence.
by maypok86 | 2025-07-02 20:44:48+00:00
To be honest, I'm not sure I can recommend anything specific here.

1. How much data do you have and how many entries? If you have lots of data with very small records, you might need an off-heap based cache solution. The only ready-made implementation I know is Olric [1].

2. If you can use an on-heap cache, you might want to look at groupcache [2]. It's not "blazingly-fast", but it's battle-tested. Potential drawbacks include LRU eviction and lack of generics (meaning extra GC pressure from using `interface{}` for keys/values). It's also barely maintained, though you can find active forks on GitHub.

3. You could implement your own solution, though I doubt you'd want to go that route. Architecturally, segcache [3] looks interesting.

[1]: https://github.com/olric-data/olric

[2]: https://github.com/golang/groupcache

[3]: https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi21/presentation/yang-j...
by jesse__ | 2025-07-02 20:44:58+00:00
IMO, many of these are marginal or nonce gains for the huge cost of introducing a network call in the middle of your program.

1. There's nothing stopping you from shoving the library code onto a thread. For something like this request-response style usage pattern, that sounds extremely straight-forward, especially since the previous paradigm was probably an async server anyways. The calling code (from the editor) obviously already had to be support async calls, so no real change there.

2. If $LANGUAGE can be used to write a server, it should be able to build a DLL. I realize this is not practically true, but I also don't support the notion that we should be writing even light systems stuff like this in JS or python.

3. lol. You're telling me you're worried about a process eating 32GB of ram parsing text files ..? If some core part of my editing workflow is crashing or running out of memory, it's going to be a disruptive enough event that my editor might as well just crash. The program I'm working on uses a lot of memory, my editor better not.

4. I guess ..? Barely seems like that's worth mentioning because .. counterpoint, debugging networked, multi-process programs is massively harder than debugging a singular process.

5. Why would I want (other than extremely niche applications, shadertoy comes to mind) an editor to run in a browser? If I have a browser, I can run an editor that connects to a remote machine. Furthermore, the `library-over-http` approach of LSPs doesn't really buy you anything in this scenario that using a single process wouldn't.. you can just send all the symbol information to the browser.. it's just not that big.

6. Wut?
by gavinray | 2025-07-02 20:45:01+00:00
As a follow-on to this:

If you have partial genome data from 23andMe, Ancestry, etc, you can use what's called "genomic imputation" to do a sort of probabilistic gap-filling in your genome.

It's a bit tricky to do yourself, but there are paid services that will run the imputation for you and share the results.

I paid $15 for mine at https://dnagenics.com

---

@codytruscott I signed up for that webinar, I hadn't heard of this tool before, thanks!

Got any other useful links/tools to share by chance?
by pbhjpbhj | 2025-07-02 20:45:05+00:00
If you consider that an LLM has a mathematical representation of how close any phrase is to "china politics" then avoidance of that should be relatively clear to comprehend. If I gave you a list and said 'these words are ranked by closeness to "Chinese politics"' you'd be able to easily check if words were on the list, I feel.

I suspect you could talk readily about something you think is not Chinese politics - your granny's ketchup recipe, say. (And hope that ketchup isn't some euphemism for the CCP, or Uighar murders or something.)
by immibis | 2025-07-02 20:45:26+00:00
And, importantly, the USA spying can actually have an impact on your life in a way that the Chinese spying can't.

Suppose you live in the USA and the USA is spying on you. Whatever information they collect goes into a machine learning system and it flags you for disappearal. You get disappeared.

Suppose you live in the USA and China is spying on you. Whatever information they collect goes into a machine learning system and it flags you for disappearal. But you're not in China and have no ties to China so nothing happens to you. This is a strictly better scenario than the first one.

If you're living in China with a Chinese family, of course, the scenarios are reversed.
by nabramow | 2025-07-02 20:45:34+00:00
Oh hey, volunteer dev at Couchers.org here. How cool to see this pop up on Hacker News!

For the n00bs: I think the best way to explain the concept of couch surfing is to imagine visiting a friend in another city — they show you around, you have a great time, and you crash on their couch, or guest room or whatever. With Couchers, it’s just like that — except you’re meeting that friend for the first time (via Couchers).

Anyway come join us we're fun lol.
by Xmd5a | 2025-07-02 20:45:45+00:00
I don't think this cursory look at the abstracts and first pages of these papers is achieving the effect you intended.

The first quote summarize the findings (page 4) of Tversky & Shafir, 1992. Google indicates this paper has 978 citations.

>is STONE LION a STONE

This is called a typicality test.

Jurafsky, Lecun & two more fellows dropped this paper recently: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.17117 (emphasis mine)

>This work aims to bridge this gap by integrating cognitive psychology, information theory, and modern NLP. We pose three central research questions to guide our investigation: [RQ1]: To what extent do concepts emergent in LLMs align with human-defined conceptual categories? [RQ2]: Do LLMs and humans exhibit similar internal geometric structures within these concepts, ESPECIALLY CONCERNING ITEM TYPICALITY? RQ3]: How do humans and LLMs differ in their strategies for balancing representational compression with the preservation of semantic fidelity when forming concepts?

It would be interesting to try to reproduce Hampton's original experiment on typicality with LLMs and run the same analysis as https://arxiv.org/pdf/1208.2362.

Anyway thanks for the exchange. Running these thoughts once more in my head allowed me to reconsider some stuff I found about Zipf distributions that might tie into the tradeoff between compression and meaning Lecun is talking about.

The quantum zipf stuff is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.06845

It's here too: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1061920806030071

>quantum field theory

Chomsky is working on Hopf Algebra.

https://magazine.caltech.edu/post/math-language-marcolli-noa...
by Dowwie | 2025-07-02 20:45:47+00:00
The Summer after graduating high school is sometimes used to travel, taking extended backpacking trips or other. Couching could be a big hit for this demographic that takes a cultural immersion.

I see 900+ Couchers registered among a few of the New York City boroughs. My impression is that this means someone can live in NYC for an entire Summer, couch-surfing the big city and establishing a real connection with at least 60 hosts. That would be quite an experience, with many stories to share.
by vipul_18 | 2025-07-02 20:46:00+00:00
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by pqtyw | 2025-07-02 20:46:11+00:00
> imagine a former software engineer taking a lower paid job as an IT admin

Is the implication that the software engineer lost his job because of the tariffs? Because all other things being equal (which they are obviously not) tariffs would increase the demand for labor in an non-export driven economy like the US.

> seeking lower cost

Well they certainly aren't supporting increased tariffs if that's what they want.
by motorest | 2025-07-02 20:46:36+00:00
> That was not the point. Parent was complaining how complicated provisioning and deploying through the Azure portal was.

No, I wasn't. I was pointing out the fact that Azure follows an absurd, brain-dead model of what the cloud is, which needlessly and arbutrarily imposes layers of complexity without any reason.

Case in point: the concept of a service plan. It's straight up stupid to have a so-called cloud provider force customers to manage how many instances packing X RAM and Y vCPUs you need to have to run a function-as-a-service app, and then have to manage how that is shared with app services and other function apps.

Think about the backlash that AWS would experience if they somehow decided to force users to allocate EC2 instances to run lambda functions, and on top of that create another type of resource to group together lambdas to run on each EC2 instance.

To let the absurdity of that sink in, it's far easier, simpler, and much cheaper to just provision virtual private servers on a small cloud provider, stitch them together with a container orchestration service, and just deploy apps in there.
by yencabulator | 2025-07-02 20:46:43+00:00
> Just like any other animal that is capable of causing a lot of damage, I would be on alert, and preferably keep my kid away. There is obviously no possibility to react quickly enough to stop a large animal from hurting someone a few feet away.

It's almost as if you don't realize that humans are even larger animals, also capable of causing a lot of damage.
by const_cast | 2025-07-02 20:46:48+00:00
> Just curious: would you defend a company for firing someone for speaking out in support of gay marriage?

Well companies already do this all the time - this is more so the status-quo. I'm not going to pretend the majority are somehow, in some roundabout way, oppressed. Is this person fired for supporting gay marriage, or being gay? Because obviously that's illegal... you can't fire someone for being part of a protected class. Being a republican or whatever is not a protected class, being gay is. One matters, one doesn't.
by zaphar | 2025-07-02 20:47:15+00:00
I agree that article's headline is pretty factual nor are the facts cherry-picked. But "some reporting is biased" is heavily understating the problem. And I hypothesize that the reason there is a leap to "This is biased" today on reporting is because the news media organizations have participated in the cherry-picked facts case to enough of a degree that trust has eroded.

Which is perhaps why organizations are searching for ways to not appear biased and begin to restore that trust. I think the reason the LLM approach is likely to fail is because it is unable to detect the "missing facts" case and can only really advise about sentiment and phrasing. Which is not I think the actual problem that needs fixing.
by Dagonfly | 2025-07-02 20:47:36+00:00
You could pose the same argument against any form of warranty. Why provide/require any warrant for anything if the company might go bankrupt?

Yeah, then it gets messy. That's what the legal system and insolvency procedures are for.

> You could require all games with online components to make their servers runnable by users from the outset

That's the strawman going around. You might not even have to provide EOL support for all online-components. Just use reasonable effort to make offline content playable. The law-making process hasn't even started and people already are arguing against the worst-case, least nuanced regulation possible.