MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by DonHopkins | 2025-07-11 10:55:47+00:00
Again with the sealioning.

Read it and make up your mind for yourself, because if you won't read any of the links or any of Hunter S Thompson's original works, the you certainly won't and don't intend to read my answers to your questions.

Both I and the LLOOOOMM simulation of Hunter S Thompson have directly responded to your posts and questions already.

Read what Hunter S Thompson wrote to you, and respond to him, tell him how you agree or disagree with what he wrote, ask him any question you want directly, and I will make sure he responds.

Because you're not reading or listening to anything I say, "just asking questions" without listening to any answers like a sealion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning
by b112 | 2025-07-11 10:56:57+00:00
All of this seems reasonable, and I see the value in keeping things competitive.

I do have one concern though.

Established markets are more entrenched, and hearing that smaller companies may have "slow and steady growth" here seems excellent.

Yet emerging markets move incredibly fast, and the goal is to discover those trenches and occupy them. Being held back in such a market can be troublesome.

So this is what I'd worry about.
by thyristan | 2025-07-11 10:57:49+00:00
https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%2078/v78... PDF page 289ff (numbered 277).

> In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

> (a) Killing members of the group;

> (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

> (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

> (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

> (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

The tricky part isn't about (a) to (e), it is in "intent to destroy".
by jaredklewis | 2025-07-11 10:58:01+00:00
> At the end of the road. Patient outcome and contentedness compared to others with similar indications.

Well I would first of all remark that this doesn’t seem and to be how it’s normally done as I’ve never been asked to rate my “contentedness” or similar with my medical care.

And where is the “end of the road?” Most medical interventions could be plausibly evaluated at all manner of different intervals.

Also, “similar indications” is doing a lot of work here. Patient outcomes are often influenced more by the individual than the doctor. By the time you bucket all the patients by age, diet, activity level, smoking status, alcohol intake, metabolic health, bmi, family history, etc…buckets are going to be pretty tiny. Clinics and hospitals aren’t that big, there won’t be anything to compare. If you only bucket the most obvious categories like age, you’ll have comparisons, but it will just be noise.
by ben_w | 2025-07-11 10:58:11+00:00
> You're taking 30 years worth of expenses and comparing them to the UK tax intake for one year. I am pretty certain the USSR didn't pay for all that up-front.

Didn't pay all of it ever, that's also the damages of other affected nations after the collapse of the USSR.

So, there was a de-facto if not de-jure default on that cost.

> As a comparison, during the 07/08 financial crisis the UK government bailed out the banks to the tune of $185b and managed to not collapse...

It also owned some of the banks as a result (I was personally affected by this, LLOY shares), it wasn't just a pure cost.
by mkl | 2025-07-11 10:58:12+00:00
The FAQ (https://flix.dev/faq/#:~:text=Dividing%20by%20zero%20yields%...) links to https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/divide-by-zero/, which is more about Pony, but links to https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2020/07/05/division-by-zer... which properly explains that it's helpful for proof assistants to define division by zero, with particular reference to Lean. Really it's defining a division-like function (Lean calls it real.div) that disagrees with division in this one way, and then making "/" use it. It's unclear to me if this is sensible in a general purpose programming language that isn't a proof assistant.
by 0points | 2025-07-11 10:58:17+00:00
> I'd be keen to hear why binding the Cmd-K hotkey makes it feel like cmdk doesn't add value!

You tell me.

Your shell script "cmdk" does not bind the Cmd-K hotkey.

I just commented on the fact that binding that key is optional.

Your script add no value, as you would learn from the fzf docs:

https://junegunn.github.io/fzf/shell-integration/

If I wanted that functionality, I would just bind fzf directly to Cmd-K.
by pieds | 2025-07-11 10:59:17+00:00
> The problem is that you pass DMA, DSA, GDPR, etc. which Google, Apple etc. can fight for years in court and if they have to pay a few billion, so be it.

And how do you compete with the big tech companies without it? It's been decades without anyone being able to do it. Not in Europe and not in the US. OpenAI might have a chance, but they also have billions.

The days where someone could drop out of school and start a company in the garage is over. Cost of living is up, so is competition. Companies need to expand and regulation like GDPR makes it easier to do so instead of having to deal with multiple countries regulation. The US always had an advantage in regulation like the DMCA.

To spell it out, before regulation European companies had to...

Deal with privacy regulation of each country. Which in the EU was supposed to be similar, but wasn't entirely. With GDPR not only is it the same in the EU, but other countries are now following the same model.

Register for VAT in every EU country it sold (enough) products in. Making many not sell to other countries at all until Amazon ate their business. With VAT MOSS you only register in you own country.

Accept many form of payments with many different fees since credit card adoption and cost could vary wildly. With interchange fees capped you increasingly only need to accept common credit cards.

Pay large roaming charges when traveling, making starting services like Uber or Airbnb less relevant since you couldn't assume someone had data in another country.

Try to compete with big tech companies that were charging for access to their platforms while minimizing their taxes through royalty payments, VAT deals and offshore holdings. Giving them a huge advantage. This is still the case, but lesser so.

For actually running a company it is a lot better now.

There are other problems with EU regulations. Some things are natural monopolies or in other ways doesn't do well as markets. Privatization and state-aid rules prevent European countries from effectively managing these areas. Any advantage Europe had over the US in cost of living and public services is rapidly diminishing.
by akoboldfrying | 2025-07-11 11:00:01+00:00
That's better than nothing, but not much better -- many people have an outsize ability to "dress up" any arbitrary thing as a win, and in that case what the interviewer is really testing is a mixture of (1) that person's ability to produce wins, and (2) that person's ability to dress things up as wins.

(As far as I can see, there's no obviously better way to interview executives, since in general their actual day-to-day work -- building relationships and making strategic decisions -- takes months or years to prove out, and in any case the outcomes are heavily dependent on external factors and their ability to read them.)
by Roark66 | 2025-07-11 11:00:09+00:00
I've learned this long time ago. Probably early 2000s when there was the debate about joining the EUR.

I thought the basic explanation about money supply was sufficient, but I can try expanding on this.

A typical medium sized country having its own language that has had its own currency for a long time is much more internally economically integrated than externally. We can simplify this by saying huge majority of businesses take part in economic activity within the country, not outside.

This gives us some basis to consider it in separation to it's neighbours even if they are in a single market (smaller countries have less separation, bigger countries more, many factors influence the depth of separation but it exists strongly in countries like Poland).

So this is why it makes sense to talk in terms of money supply in terms of this "island" of economic activity regardless if it has its own currency or shares another.

The we have certain amount of GDP growth each year. More goods and services are produced each year. But simplifying, let's say you and your neighbor are on an island and you have 52 tokens with witch you trade. You catch fish and he works in a field of wheat. You pay him 52 tokens over the course of the year for his wheat and likewise he pays you the same for the fish (one per week for a price of one token).

Suddenly you find a net on the beach and you don't need to catch the fish with a DIY rod. You can catch 5 fish per week rather than 2 of which you sold 1. Now you have 4 fish per week to sell, but the guy only has 1 token per week. So if you want to sell all your fish you have to drop the price to 0.25. You do double the work (the nets are heavy) you get 4x the fish and yet you get the same tokens and wheat. Not fair. So you don't catch more fish.

This is why we need money supply to grow (or be procured by exports, but let's leave this complex topic for now) if the total of goods and services grows too. Ideally at the same rate or slightly more so goods do not depreciate in price.

I already mentioned one reason why deflation is bad, it demotivates producers from growth. Second reason is many costs are static, so it may send them into bankruptcy if others sell more than them at diminished prices. The third reason can also illustrate why we need some inflation.

The inflation is necessary for people to have an incentive to invest their money rather than stuff them into a mattress. If we have deflation it literally makes sense not to spend your money today, because you will get more goods for it tomorrow. Until everyone does this and prices go so low half of business go bankrupt.

So this is why you need money supply to slightly exceed the GDP growth. This subject can be as simple or as complex as you want. But there are basic truths that work on all levels of complexity. This is one of them.
by roenxi | 2025-07-11 11:00:48+00:00
> Writing a dynamically-typed language does not mean he's an expert in types.

That isn't a reasonable criticism here. To take it to the extreme, it wouldn't be accepted that someone has to be an expert in homeopathy before deciding they want to disregard the approach. It is up to experts to proactively demonstrate the worth of their domain - he's a language design expert and he's saying that he doesn't think the people formalising the type system have proven it generally powerful for designing new languages.

He's not claiming to be an expert in types, in "Maybe Not" he's specifically arguing that in programming languages they are an attempt to solve a problem where we should be looking for a stronger approach. And in this case, that approach is open schemas.
by thomassmith65 | 2025-07-11 11:01:24+00:00
I wasn't familiar with the incident either. At first, I assumed it was Oradour-sur-Glane, which was a similar case but in France. I have seen drone footage of current-day Oradour-sur-Glane on Youtube.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oradour-sur-Glane_massacre
by cheschire | 2025-07-11 11:01:28+00:00
That’s kind of the point of media consumption for most people. They're intentionally or subconsciously avoiding letting their brain achieve that higher order thinking or introspective level of consciousness.

It’s similar to how PTSD patients will often turn the volume up on life both figuratively and literally as they try to drown out the thoughts actively. The vast majority of the western population seems to want to drown out their fears and anxieties with bombastic sports and drama shows.

Media in the bathroom is just another enabler for that unhealthy coping mechanism.
by Y-bar | 2025-07-11 11:02:17+00:00
I agree actually, my use of "medium-sized" was not best, in my personal view a medium-sized company is in the 200-500 employee range. These are definitively larger than that, however I assumed the person I replied to took "medium sized" to mean "significantly smaller than Apple/Google/Amazon/… …but not unknown". Because if I were to pull up a list of thirty unknown actually medium-sized companies pretty much nobody would recognise the names.
Show HN: TUI personal monthly budget planner
by eliasdorneles | 2025-07-11 11:02:52+00:00
I wanted a simple way to manage my monthly budget, and I got tired of trying to bend Google Sheets to do what I needed.

So I built a terminal-based personal budget planning application built with Python and Textual.

Your data is stored locally in a JSON file, keeping your financial information private and accessible offline.

Do you find this useful?
by adaptbrian | 2025-07-11 11:03:00+00:00
As we better understand how the brain works we should be adapting sports based on our new findings. The brain is super complicated and still very much not understood.

I have 2 kids who play competitively and I've enjoyed seeing them wait to do headers tell they were older but ide go a step further, headers off punts should be illegal, that would help the majority of hard headers throughout the game. The gravitional force off a punt has to be much higher than a regular field of play header.

Even at 14 most of the kids are like why head that when I can trap it and get up field under more control.

Most kids who've held off heading tell later I feel like get better at using other parts of their body.

Limiting headers to cornerkicks, or heck, ban headers, I doubt soccer players would care. It's a game of feet anyways.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-07-11 11:03:07+00:00
Trump has already threatened to retaliate if he does that. Said he'll throw whatever value Lula musters up right back at him on top of the 50%. If he does what you're saying, Trump is expected to make ours a 100% tariff.

He's also threatened to apply 100% tax on countries trying to replace USD as their reserve currency, which is exactly what Lula and his friends are once again threatening.

China has a lot of leverage due to the fact they manufacture the USA's technology. We sell commodities. Natural resources and soy.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-07-11 11:04:41+00:00
We're not going back to self sufficient tribal societies. Stuff like semiconductors or iphones wouldn't exist if every country tried to be self sufficient and cut out from trade the countries they don't like.

You'll still be dependent on trading with comunist China and barbaric oil rich countries like Saudi Arabia who beheaded your Journalists, because they have stuff you need and can't get anywhere else, no matter how much you dislike them.

There's idealistic fantasy politic for the political speeches to the unwashed masses, and then there's Realpolitik on which the world actually runs where our leaders do backroom deals with the devil in order for the line to go up.
by scrollop | 2025-07-11 11:04:58+00:00
Saying OP is generous is generous; isn't it obvious that this is intentional? Musk essentially said something like this would occur a few weeks ago when he said grok was too liberal when it answered as truthfully as it could on some queries and musk and trump were portayed in a negative (yet objectively accurate?) way.

Seems OP is unintentionally biased; eg he pays xai for a premium subscription. Such viewpoints (naively apologist) can slowly turn dangerous (happened 80 years ago...)
by KronisLV | 2025-07-11 11:04:59+00:00
> Postgres/ClickHouse/NATS

Maybe throw in a dedicated key-value store like Redis or Valkey.

Oh and maybe something S3 compatible like MinIO, Garage or SeaweedFS for storing bunches of binary data.

With all of that, honestly it should cover most of the common workloads out there! Of course, depends on how specialized vs generic you like your software to be.
by rsynnott | 2025-07-11 11:05:20+00:00
In the late 20th century, Turkey was an EU entrant candidate, and looked in better shape on the democratic, corruption-reduction and economic criteria than some other candidates. Then, of course, Erdogan happened, and that was the end of that. But, pre-Erdogan, "Turkey will join the EU and see the same sort of rapid progress other EU entrant states have" wasn't a ridiculous idea.

The EU can be a relatively effective machine for rapidly dragging countries forward, though a certain amount of cooperation is required.

> The change you need for them to be at the level of Europe is cultural and that takes many generations.

Some of the former Soviet and Warsaw Pact states have seen extremely rapid change and progress under the EU, particularly on democratisation and corruption reduction. Others, not so much; the EU can lead a horse to water, but it has difficulty making it drink if it doesn't want to (notably see Hungary). But you're certainly not talking _multiple generations_.
by surgical_fire | 2025-07-11 11:05:43+00:00
Me and the wife had our only child past the age of 40. Only then our finances were in order that we could properly raise a child, to our own acceptable definition of "properly".

Life sucks in the best of times. I was not going to bring a human to the world so she would suffer, replacement levels be damned.

If I was unable to give my daughter a comfortable life, I would rather have no child.

I think many people would agree with this sentiment. If we want more people to have children in early adulthood, we need a major social upheaval so that people can achieve financial stability earlier in life.

Most people that seem overly concerned with fertility and population replacement, also happen to consistently vote against any policy that could nudge things in a direction where people would be able to achieve financial stability earlier in life.

My answer to that is a vague shrug.
by reliabilityguy | 2025-07-11 11:06:49+00:00
> Before 1945 were there no "countries"?

There were. They had their own government, and were able to have relationships with other countries.

At what point in time Palestinians had their own government and country? I’ll remind you that during the mandate there was no Jordan as well.

> Does it legitimise the invasion of someone's land? I don't think so

Jews also owned land there during the mandate, the ottomans, and even before. Is it okay to take their land?
by KronisLV | 2025-07-11 11:07:08+00:00
> That's what application code is for.

I've seen people who disagree with that statement and say that having a separate back end component often leads to overfetching and in-database processing is better. I've worked on some systems where the back end is essentially just passing data to and from stored procedures.

It was blazing fast, but working with it absolutely sucked - though for whatever reason the people who believe that seem to hold those views quite strongly.
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-11 11:07:45+00:00
Completely ignoring that the point of the bridge was to move a fuckton of traffic and saddling it with a restriction that makes it unfit for purpose if the users behave lawfully is not elegant. It is ignorant to the point of not being distinct from malice. It's like an adult version of one sibling being told don't touch the other and then they get in the others face while saying "I'm not touching you".
by greatgib | 2025-07-11 11:08:58+00:00
In the last 30 years it never was difficult. I remember very well that as a kid it was easy to buy them from kiosks despite being far from old enough. Otherwise there was books, movies on tv, things circulating at school like materials from parents found and stolen by kids...

And let's not even forget that maybe 50 to 100 years ago, "kids" could more commonly be married and have kids under this arbitrary limit of 18 years old and that did not make them crazier adults than what we have now. At that time, 20 was easily already mid life. Still take care to not compare with countries of today were kids are still able to marry young. These are usually retarded countries were kids are clearly forced and abused to do that.
by oaiey | 2025-07-11 11:09:30+00:00
> Assume everything is open now - wouldn't that create chaos?

Yeah, but equal chaos to all. In the end the achievable experience for Samsung and Apple earbuds need to be the same. It does not need to be the best one.

If Apple wants to have the best experience, they should create for each improvement a new API version and tell it in reasonable advance to their competitors to allow them to equal the playing field.
by FatalLogic | 2025-07-11 11:09:59+00:00
I think it's US$21.7 trillion? That's now about 15% of the total global money supply.

So, it's good that the transaction was undone, or 15% of our planet would now be owned by some hacker.

(To be real: if they had not undone the transaction immediately, then the price of Bitcoin would have collapsed, and probably that would have been the end of Bitcoin)
by rockwotj | 2025-07-11 11:10:23+00:00
It’s because vertex is the “entrrprise” offering that is hippa compliant, etc. That is why vertex only has explicit prompt caching and not implicit, etc. Vertex usage is never used for training or model feedback, but the gemini API does. Basically the Gemini API is Google’s way of being able to move faster like openai and the other foundational model providers, but still having an enterprise offering. Go check Anthropic’s documentation, they even say if you have enterprise or regulatory needs go use bedrock or vertex.
by mkl | 2025-07-11 11:10:24+00:00
> The most expensive computer is a lot more expensive than the first PC.

Depends on your definition of "computer". If you mean the most expensive modern PC I think you're way off. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto: "The Xerox Alto [...] is considered one of the first workstations or personal computers", "Introductory price US$32,000 (equivalent to $139,000 in 2024)".
Ask HN: What the project you're most proud of?(Feel free to share a GitHub link)
by FerkiHN | 2025-07-11 11:10:58+00:00
I’ve always been inspired by the projects people quietly build and share on Hacker News — some small, some huge, but all meaningful.

So I wanted to ask: what’s the project you’ve created that you’re most proud of?

It can be something you built recently or years ago. A side project, open-source tool, app, or even an unfinished prototype — anything that makes you think, “yeah, I made that.”

Feel free to share a short description and a GitHub link if you want to show it off. Would love to browse what folks here have made!
by kouteiheika | 2025-07-11 11:11:27+00:00
Yeah, I've read the paper you're talking about, and this was also my sneaking suspicion after seeing the benchmark results, although obviously we don't have enough evidence to be able to conclusively say one way or another so I just didn't mention it.

I certainly hope that is the reason, because then it might also push other frontier labs to provide uncensored models to those who actually want/need them.
by pjmlp | 2025-07-11 11:12:20+00:00
That was exactly during the humble phase when the possible bankruptcy was still not yet fully sorted out.

They were also doing visits to universities showing how great it was the BSD / NeXTSTEP foundations of OS X, for doing UNIX related stuff.

Similar to how NeXT used to position itself against Sun, and other UNIX workstation vendors.

During my CERN stay at 2003 - 2004, they did visits to our IT telling more or less the same.

Had the coloured Macs with OS X Aqua or the iPod failed the market, that was it, yet another footnote of remarkable computing history company now gone.