MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by flashpoint9999 | 2025-07-02 12:12:32+00:00
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by TeMPOraL | 2025-07-02 12:13:20+00:00
> I read somewhere, but cannot find the source anymore, that all written text prior to this century was approx 50MB. (Might be misquoted as don't have source anymore).

50 MB feels too low, unless the quote meant text up until the 20th century, in which case it feels much more believable. In terms of text production and publishing, we're still riding an exponent, so a couple orders of magnitude increase between 1899 and 2025 is not surprising.

(Talking about S-curves is all the hotness these days, but I feel it's usually a way to avoid understanding what exponential growth means - if one assumes we're past the inflection point, one can wave their hands and pretend the change is linear, and continue to not understand it.)
by dylan604 | 2025-07-02 12:14:07+00:00
You say movies while a sibling comment mentioned media. However, more and more movies are not shot in the USA. Productions have been moving out of Hollywood for a really long time, and some of it is in other states, but more and more are leaving the US altogether. This is why Trump shot off that late night tweet/truth about placing tariffs on movies made outside the US. The only thing the US still has on movies is the mystique of Hollywood. The ability to shoot a film is not unique to the US at all
by Trenthug | 2025-07-02 12:14:21+00:00
Was developing a descriptive model of consciousness based on information theory for submission in an essay writing competition.

The goal is to enumerate aspects of consciousness in a definite and objective manner and try to reach a coherent description of it.

The paper might seem to share elements with karl friston's definition of modelling brains as Bayesian inference machines,usage of amount of information measures in Tononi's IIT and Wittgenstein's private sensations (qualia) in his private language There are some other subtleties which might seem like novel arguments about it.

There is a thought experiment with a conjecture , it's something which can't be ascertained individually,it needs third person unbiased perspective,one of the reasons it's being posted here(under the section:Some Thoughts A Thought Experiment)
by shakna | 2025-07-02 12:14:33+00:00
If it's actually validated, according to rigorous principles, it's not a guess, but a system of predictions with a known confidence interval, that allows you to know if you can be sure of something.

Right now, you cannot get that far. And if you happen to... Tomorrow it will be different.

Predicting tides is possible. It requires enormous amounts of data and processing to be sure of it. Right now, we've got tides, but we don't have the data from the satellites. Because the owner is constantly shifting the prompt, for good reasons of their own. So we can't be confident - or we can only be so blindly.
by bluecalm | 2025-07-02 12:15:22+00:00
>>This is not so much about income inequality, but about making sure that the rich actually pay their taxes, or even more proportionally to their wealth when compared to lower income individuals.

Sounds like you want to tax assets. Every country can start doing it right now with assets on their soil. No "global registry of wealthy people" is needed for that. Just look at the assets you control and tax them.
by HamsterDan | 2025-07-02 12:16:01+00:00
It's a monstrous disincentive to increased productivity. If you're a smart, ambitious person who wants to work hard and advance your lot in life, are you really going to stay in Spain knowing that the government is going to take half of everything incremental thing you do?

This is basically inviting your best and brightest to move to the US and other low tax countries.
by mrweasel | 2025-07-02 12:16:20+00:00
> I hope this works.

It won't. Richest people in the world are exceedingly wealth, but they're not that wealthy. I'm not suggesting that they shouldn't be taxed, they should, and much harder than is currently the case. We should move to remove the loop holes used and abused to make people like Bezos appear poor, in the eyes of the tax authorities, but it won't move much in terms of monetary value, because they're not that wealthy.

Let's tax Zuckerberg half of his wealth, that's roughly 2% of the US budget. That's a lot, but you can only do that once, maybe twice. You can certainly tax the wealthiest enough to fund quite a bit and if you pick the right things you can do a lot of good. It's just not enough to reshape society, which seems to be what most think would happen.

What I see as the biggest issue is the amount of societal damage these people are willing to do to amass their fortunes. I don't even care that Bezos is worth $250 billon, if he didn't exploit workers and deliberately destroys other business to accumulate that wealth. Same with Zuckerberg, he can be as rich as he likes, but he can't build that wealth of spying on users and generally being a dick. Musk... He can build all the cars and rockets he like, but stop undermining democracy through financial means.

Taxing billionaires hard won't stop their bad behaviour.
by myrmidon | 2025-07-02 12:16:28+00:00
Sure, but how "heavy" is that redistribution though?

Top 1% paying 30% of taxes sounds like a really rough deal for them at first, but if those 1%ers already own over 30% of your country in the first place (which is the case in the US), then thats barely their "fair share", and you are not really achieveing any redistribution at all.

How can you be certain that the problem is "progressive taxation is not working" instead of "taxation does not help against wealth inequality because it is actually barely progressive"?
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-07-02 12:16:45+00:00
Try Ireland, 48% starting at about 45k.

Fun fact, Ireland has one of the most unequal distributions of income in the EU pre transfers/taxation, and one of the most equal distributions of income after taxes and transfers.

So this stuff sortof works.

More generally, taxation of wealth is generally a good idea, but it needs to be over as many countries as possible to avoid people just moving.

You can accomplish most of the same goals by taxing property, as that's most of global wealth and it's harder to move.

You also need to handle the extreme top of the distribution through some kind of taxation on stocks/investments but property tax gets you most of the way there.
by Maluis | 2025-07-02 12:16:52+00:00
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by rain1 | 2025-07-02 12:16:53+00:00
I can correct mistakes.

> it somehow merged Llama 4 Maverick's custom Arena chatbot version with Behemoth

I can clarify this part. I wrote 'There was a scandal as facebook decided to mislead people by gaming the lmarena benchmark site - they served one version of llama-4 there and released a different model' which is true.

But it is inside the section about the llama 4 model behemoth. So I see how that could be confusing/misleading.

I could restructure that section a little to improve it.

> Llama 405B was also trained on more than 15 trillion tokens[1],

You're talking about Llama 405B instruct, I'm talking about Llama 405B base. Of course the instruct model has been traiend on more tokens.

> why is there such a focus on token training count?

I tried to include the rough training token count for each model I wrote about - plus additional details about training data mixture if available. Training data is an important part of an LLM.
by kgwxd | 2025-07-02 12:17:08+00:00
Right now, there's nearly a 100% chance any "Made in USA" brand is a grift, by direct members of the grifting party. I'm for the idea, done correctly. I'm completely against it in it's current form. They're taking your money rubes. If you want the real thing, you're going to have to help fix the country instead of falling for basic scams, in all areas of life.
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-07-02 12:18:00+00:00
> This is basically inviting your best and brightest to move to the US and other low tax countries.

If you're in tech, you'll want to move to California, where you'll end up paying around 50% marginal, which is much the same as lots of Western Europe. So yeah, you'll make more money but you won't get significantly lower tax rates.
by soco | 2025-07-02 12:18:19+00:00
Today it's also the desire of the customers, as pushed by social media, to follow a fashion changing almost every month. You didn't buy in the 80s stuff to be obsoleted in a few months. And because most of the people cannot afford every few months a new wardrobe made of (halfway) quality items, today's taste requires fast fashion garbage. So here we are, and we can get back to sanity only when we get rid of the influencer-led economy, good luck with that.
by mschuster91 | 2025-07-02 12:19:02+00:00
> I don't think the complex standards are a barrier for a team of people with the capabilities of designing an ASIC.

A barrier not, but the testing effort required to achieve worldwide certification, not to mention the testing effort for interoperability, is enormously expensive.

As for the patents, Apple did just that by buying up what remained of Intel's baseband business and still wasn't able to deliver anything on that front in years.
by shakna | 2025-07-02 12:20:09+00:00
I wouldn't call mass piracy [0], for their own competitive gain, to be a "good" act. Especially when it seems they know they were doing the wrong thing - and that they know that the copyright complaints have grounds.

> The problem is that people don’t realize that if we license one single book, we won’t be able to lean into fair use strategy.

[0] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/libge...
by fsloth | 2025-07-02 12:20:13+00:00
“mapping plain functions → JSON schemas”

In general I’ve found it’s much better in C++ to be verbose and plain rather than succinct and elegant.

Javascript and python lack typing so being pithy&clever in those languages has entirely different implications than in C++.

“How can I express this in the most basic, unsurprising and plainspoken C++” is usually the right question to ask. “How can I make this more elegant” is a question better suited for other languages imho.

The best C++ API when in doubt is a C style API.
by Maluis | 2025-07-02 12:20:30+00:00
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by PicassoCTs | 2025-07-02 12:20:38+00:00
If the latest review of the "end of history" shows one thing- there is always adversarial minds at work. The whole "free world" mindset has collapsed in on itself the moment the us withdrew into isolationism. The world out there, is run by the old landempires gobbling up neighbors again. No progress has been made and to defend against barbaric adversaries, one must keep dependency on them low.

There always is a bill - and business is helping the enemies of liberty to prepare. They are not interested in peaceful coexistence, quite contrary, the conflict is a carrying pillar to upkeep societal/tribal structural integrity. And war & peace is a defector game- only one needs to defect to put the others in the same position as the defector. So "business as usual" with non-free block aligned nations- will always be long-term collusion with the enemy.
by xienze | 2025-07-02 12:20:55+00:00
> So, I’m sorry, why do we want that here (let alone anywhere)?

To the second question, not everything in the modern world is going to be clean and green. If you want things like steel, plastic, computers, etc. there's gonna be some dirty manufacturing involved. No way around it.

To the first, ideally every country wants some amount of self-sufficiency, or at the very least, some amount of redundancy. Remember how badly the world's pants got pulled down during Covid?

And finally -- frankly, not everyone is capable of more than unskilled or semi-skilled labor. Supply-chain redundancy with a side-effect of employing people who might otherwise have very little in the way of employment prospects? That's a good thing!
by rorylaitila | 2025-07-02 12:21:00+00:00
Congrats on the launch! The website and docs are pretty thorough.

This is trying to serve so many different use cases. I think from a marketing perspective it is going to be very difficult. None of the verticals care about any of the other verticals. There will be almost no cross over in your language, docs and content, so your messaging will be defuse.

What segment do you have paying customers today, where is the strongest interest?
by samiv | 2025-07-02 12:21:02+00:00
If the US government is 30 trillion dollars in debt someone is 30 trillion dollars in credit.

The money doesn't disappear. Now the problem is (in the context of United States) that the number #1 and #2 creditors are People's Republic of China and Japan. So the US cannot tax those entities.

But they can tax domestic creditors and wealthy individuals.

"Let's tax Zuckerberg half of his wealth, that's roughly 2% of the US budget. That's a lot, but you can only do that once, maybe twice. You can certainly tax the wealthiest enough to fund quite a bit and if you pick the right things you can do a lot of good. It's just not enough to reshape society, which seems to be what most think would happen."

No, the point is that you can do it over and over again.

Once you put that money into the economy it will flow all around it and most of the money will end up in the same place again. I.e in the bank account of Zuckerberg and it can be taxed again.
by roxolotl | 2025-07-02 12:21:17+00:00
As a typical American teenage boy I had a bout of libertarianism in high school. Atypically however it ended with my reading of Atlas Shrugged. Somehow my take away from the book was that clearly there are limits to selfishness and there’s a point at which everyone is dependent upon the systems they live in. Real selfishness is largely selfless. It just felt so much like a childish fantasy that I took away something I suspect Rand would be upset about.

Regardless I say that to say it bewilders me how easily we, well mostly Americans, fell into this trap of believing that most humans are unnecessary and all that matters is skill at amassing capital. After a certain point not only does the economy of scale break down the whole system collapses in on itself. I’m sure they’ll have a great time pontificating and self aggrandizing in the Gulch while everyone else is doing the real work of rebuilding.
by pyrale | 2025-07-02 12:21:40+00:00
The invisible boundaries did apply, and they still do. The story isn't that he saw that some rules no longer applied, it's that he was willing to go to war about it.

Post WW2, we had gradually managed to build a less violent society, and at some point, some CEOs decided: "You know, the Ludlow massacre and the Bisbee deportation were not that bad". And now, we get the pushback, where some employees think that murdering a CEO in the middle of Manhattan is fair game.

Rules didn't disappear. But people are more willing to go to conflict about them.
by logicchains | 2025-07-02 12:21:55+00:00
Spending money doesn't grow the economy; the economy grows by saving and investment. Punishing people who successfully save and invest by giving money to people who prefer to spend everything they earn leads to less savings and investment, and lower economic growth, as the poor economic conditions of Brazil and Spain demonstrate.

Rich people don't "hoard" the means of production, they create it. Confiscatory policies lead to less business creation; if Gates, Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg and Page had not had the wealth to create the businesses that made them billionaires, those businesses wouldn't exist, the jobs and products they create wouldn't exist. Europe demonstrates this empirically with its complete lack of any big tech companies, a result of its hostile policies and cultural attitudes to entrepreneurship.
by thephyber | 2025-07-02 12:22:02+00:00
How well was Zuck able to use his massive distribution channels to win in his cryptocurrency project, or the Metaverse after that?

Meta has become too fickle with new projects. To the extent that LLAMA can help them improve their core business, they should drive that initiative. But if they get sidetracked on trying to build “AI friends” for all of their human users, they are just creating another “solution in search of a problem”.

I hope both Altman and Zuck become irrelevant. Neither seems particularly worthy of the power they have gained and aren’t willing to show a spine in face of government coercion.
by CodesInChaos | 2025-07-02 12:22:15+00:00
It's about assets on exchanges. Exchanges know who owns the account and where they live.

> To put it simply, the bill, once passed, allows the state of California to seize cryptocurrencies left unclaimed on exchanges for 3 years, which can then be claimed by their owners.

> Notably, the bill earlier mentioned crypto self-custody provisions which have been deleted.
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-02 12:22:30+00:00
Every time a civil war erupts in the middle east there's some warmongers screeching "but what about the <ethnic/religious minority in the relevant country>, we ought to care about them" as a pretext for getting involved.

You are engaging in the exact same. The primary reason academic labs churn out technological advancement for Microsoft, Exxon, etc, etc, is because the tax code makes it preferential to do that rather than run the same thing in-house.

Also, I would like to note the slight of hand you just pulled between education and academia. There is no problem with doctors and lawyers getting their training. But that is absolutely distinct from professional academia. Those people are the customers. They are in and out.

The institutions themselves are absolutely corrupt. It is very comparable to the catholic church scooping up all the wealth in europe in the 13-1500s and justifying it by embedding themselves in mundane parts of society and then screeching "but without us who will do the thing" as if that justified everything else they were up to. (Though to be fair, academia is not the only institution subject to such criticism these days).
by mschuster91 | 2025-07-02 12:22:36+00:00
> Uh? There are Samsung Exynos devices not using a Samsung baseband?

The S23 for example runs a Qualcomm X70 baseband on either a Samsung Exynos or Qualcomm Snapdragon depending on region. Why that's the case (both using a Qualcomm modem and different CPU vendors for the same device), no idea.

> Sadly, the only way I can see to improve this situation, is to increase government's public funding into standardization.

IMHO, the thing that should be funded is the fundamental research. As it is, most research in the RF and codec sector is in private hands, so no wonder that things like patent trolls eventually arose.

But eh, that's not gonna happen, not in the US (for Trumpian anti-intellectualism reasons), not in Europe (we lack the money, the brains and the willpower to cut through the red tape) and not in China either.
by dylan604 | 2025-07-02 12:23:00+00:00
The biggest push of “Made in the USA” that I remember was from Walmart back in the 80s. They were fighting the stigma of selling Chinese goods. So the cheap/poorly made products with that label was fitting. Eventually, even Wallyworld gave up on it and just leaned into the Chinese made products while they offered lower prices because they knew in the end customers only cared about price. The “Made in USA” became a meme back then with people joke the “Made in USA” labels were made in China.

The point is, people say they don’t like Chinese made goods with one side of their mouth while the other side is saying they don’t really care at all as they continue shopping and purchasing these Chinese goods. Walmart and Amazon really laid the groundwork to the point that the SHEIN and Temus of the world happened. Consumers just don’t care about any other than price
by shawabawa3 | 2025-07-02 12:23:04+00:00
it's legible but a very confusing sentence

man-choker is not a word, and choker is a niche garment, why not "necklace" or just "wearable"?

Then it "executes" a question?

and then there's a reference to "both devices" - what devices?

You need to put together a lot of context clues and assumptions to get to: They are probably a diabetic with a glucose monitor and pump, and they want a smart device to analyse the data with natural language (but again, why a choker specifically? Wouldn't a smart watch or something make more sense?)
by bluecalm | 2025-07-02 12:23:10+00:00
>>The western economies are growing (barely) at around 1-2% per year. The wealthy (since pandemic) grow their wealth at 10-20% per year.

Imagine you are in Germany:

-you have a business that has modest profitability of 4% per year (profit/company value)

-your economy grows 1-2% per year

-your inflation is 2% per year

How much do you expect the company value to increase after a year? Right, it's 8 % - exactly how much DAX (German stock index) grew on average during last 10 years.
by ziml77 | 2025-07-02 12:23:43+00:00
> Not am Amazon fan, and please let’s not do the Reddit “understanding something is the same as excusing it” thing.

That's a general social media thing and it's annoying as hell. Means every statement that corrects falsehoods and misconceptions against something that you yourself don't like needs to come with a disclaimer that you don't actually like it.
by pixelpoet | 2025-07-02 12:23:49+00:00
It's possible to render exact Mandelbrot set images using interval arithmetic, see https://mathr.co.uk/web/m-trustworthy.html

About performance: floating point is definitely much faster than integer arithmetic these days, for most comparable operations.

One more point about precision: integer arithmetic is exact, and so if you can work with a reasonably small bound (e.g. [-2,2]^2 for Mandelbrot) then integer arithmetic actually becomes more accurate than FP for the same number of bits.