MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ProAm | 2025-07-19 23:15:55+00:00
Everyone knows the risk. Especially if you get to the level of Redbull Athlete. We all accept it. We'd rather live a full life doing what we want vs the inverse. You dont have to support it but don't demean the people that choose that path. Everyone is the manifest of their own destiny. These folks are stewards of the sports and the potential that is there.
by yawboakye | 2025-07-19 23:15:57+00:00
if i understood the article, these people (1) didn’t make their money in your country, and (2) are not making money in your country. they just happen to reside there. it seems nonsensical to me to tax revenue that was made in foreign land. but people who love and swear by taxes think that more tax revenue can solve world hunger.

if the uk wants tax money on revenue maybe they should incentivize these so-called super-rich to run their affairs from within the uk?
by Jtsummers | 2025-07-19 23:16:02+00:00
The only place "team" shows up in the transcript is here:

> So. Language design is not at all the same kind of work it was thirty years ago, or twenty years ago. Back then, you could set out to design a whole language and then build it by your own self, or with a small team, because it was small and because what you would then do with it was small.

Which is not about OO at all. Got an actual quote or is this link really just an interesting but irrelevant non sequitur?

EDIT: For those coming in later who don't feel like clicking random Youtube links, parent post is referencing Steele's talk "Growing a Language".
by ImaCake | 2025-07-19 23:17:33+00:00
+1 for Reolink. We have a reolink camera hooked into home assistant, the whole setup is local and reolink's API exposes every single feature in home assistant with no additional setup needed.

My house also came with an existing NVR camera network which I can view in home assistant over my router without it ever going to the cloud as well.
by sweetjuly | 2025-07-19 23:17:41+00:00
This is what baffles me the most. It's not just that they're foisting machine translation on people to boost some nonsense KPI, but that they're assuming that everyone speaks only one language. Tech is awfully hegemonic, sure, but it is unimaginable that only oblivious monolingual people worked on this feature. Did they just ignore internal complaints about this before they shipped it? How does a feature even get built like this?
by gdbsjjdn | 2025-07-19 23:17:56+00:00
Agreed. As a comparison Golang was sold as "CSP like Erlang without the weird syntax" but people realized channels kind of suck and goroutines are not really a lot better than threads in other languages. The actual core of OTP was the supervisor tree but that's too complicated so Golang is basically just more concise Java.

I don't think this is a bad thing but it's a funny consequence that to become mainstream you have to (1) announce a cool new feature that isn't in other languages (2) eventually accept the feature is actually pretty niche and your average developer won't get it (3) sand off the weird features to make another "C but slightly better/different"
by silverquiet | 2025-07-19 23:18:09+00:00
> The UK needs to radically reduce its social safety net and simultaneously cut taxes, at least for new companies and small businesses. The only way out is real, sustained, long term growth and innovation. Stealing ever more of a shrinking pie is already running out of steam.

I was under the impression they had done that already.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_government_aust...

Though one can't help but think it wont be radical enough for conservatives until we simply dispose of those unable to work through some dystopic mechanism or other.
by atleastoptimal | 2025-07-19 23:18:15+00:00
On OpenAI's own released papers they show Anthropic's models performing better than their own. They tend to be pretty transparent and reliable in honesty in their benchmarks.

The thing is, only leading AI companies and big tech have the money to fund these big benchmarks and run inference on them. As long as the benchmarks are somewhat publicly available and vetted by reputable scientists/mathematicians it seems reasonable to believe they're trustworthy.
by trod1234 | 2025-07-19 23:18:47+00:00
Regulations exist to override profit motive when corporations are unable to police themselves.

Enforcement ensures accountability.

Fines don't do much in a fiat money-printing environment.

Enforcement is accountability, the kind that stakeholders pay attention to.

Something appropriate would be where if AI was used in a safety-critical or life-sustaining environment and harm or loss was caused; those who chose to use it are guilty until they prove they are innocent I think would be sufficient, not just civil but also criminal; where that person and decision must be documented ahead of time.

> Any country who instituted a regulation like that would see all of the LLM advances and research instantly leave and move to other countries.

This is fallacy. Its a spectrum, research would still occur, it would be tempered by the law and accountability, instead of the wild-west where its much more profitable to destroy everything through chaos. Chaos is quite profitable until it spread systemically and ends everything.

AI integration at a point where it can impact the operation of nuclear power plants through interference (perceptual or otherwise) is just asking for a short path to extinction.

Its quite reasonable that the needs for national security trump private business making profit in a destructive way.
by zug_zug | 2025-07-19 23:19:19+00:00
Yes that's true, but I think a lot of the knee-jerk reaction isn't intended to communicate "Stop researching cancer" it's more intended to communicate "Stop linkbaiting us."

If the title said "Might someday" then that would probably be a more accurate picture of where something at this stage of research is at.

Obviously some people here want to know all up-and-coming possibilities, clinical trials, or longshots because we're nerds about it. But others of us only care about the ones that are already succeeding in people. Having titles differentiate the two can avoid the frustration.
by shivasaxena | 2025-07-19 23:19:26+00:00
To call it a loophole makes no sense to me.

Also, smarter policy would be like what Estonia does

- CIT should only be applicable when dividends are paid. So corporations can reinvest that money in the business and not be taxed on it.

- PIT on dividend income should be 0, since that amount has already been taxed(CIT) and the stock holder has paid his due share on that income as a owner of corporation.
by gpderetta | 2025-07-19 23:19:37+00:00
As mentioned else thread, the problem is not so much that book("false") evaluates to true, which is consistent with a lot of the language, but that int("1") evaluates to 1.

Generally python is much better than some other dynamic languages in avoiding stringly typed confusion, but the convenience of the int from string constructor set expectations that the rest of the language can't sanely meet.

String to type construction should have been relegated to a dedicated syntax in all cases.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-07-19 23:19:45+00:00
I don't think well-argued and well-researched are going to make it.. Mamdani.. even his supporters might find it hard to grasp what's so new about him. He won't inspire edgelords, for starters.

Was just thinking about Chomsky. Almost impeccable cred, he's Jewish, but not a hidden nepo baby, at least not the way Mamdani or Obama are :) I mean "activist parents"

Chomsky is like the "activist theory" version of Gibson.. not enough humanity. Even Graeber falls short, he's like Bruce Sterling, or Stephenson. (Bruce must be fully french-theorified by now ;) We need an Ursula K :) K-theory!

We need a break even from McLuhan, towards Ivan. This-- AI-assisted! --thread gets it started

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44612434

>Illich relates this story: "Recently I was talking to my night-watchman, Marcos, about his 11 year old son who works in a barbershop. I noted in Spanish that his son was still a nino. Marcos answered with a guileless smile, 'Don Ivan, I guess you are right.' I felt guilty for having drawn the curtain of childhood between two sensible persons."

>Thanks Claude for validating my hunch about the late-century subtweet.

We need vitriol so subtle, yet so un(-British)-Canadian(-emigrant)* one tastes it like an elixir !!?? Channel the inner Quebecois if you have to. AI could help. In theory. Prompt: "edgy but not lordly"?

*Referring to McLuhan, Jacobs, Gibson etc. one is not allowed further northwards than Portland :)
by aerostable_slug | 2025-07-19 23:19:48+00:00
It seems like people are missing the fact that it's opt-in from the police to the consumer. It's within the end consumer's control to allow the access or not, so by that standard it's not in any way abuse.

It's not Orwellian overreach or, as the EFF claims a breach of Ring's customers' trust, if the customer gives up the data willingly and knowingly.

And lots and lots of people will.
by mango7283 | 2025-07-19 23:19:57+00:00
1) Why haven't they banned porn game X when they banned porn game Y? -> it's just a matter of time, they've already established that they can pressure to get game x banned, they'll get to game y eventually - also, note that it should be obvious it's much easier to rally support to ban "niche incest/non-con game X" than to rally support to ban "borderline mainstream harem game Y". This is what I was referring to specifically.

2) Why haven't they banned all porn games then they banned porn game X? -> it takes a lot more effort to move the needle here. It's not for lack of trying or lack of will, it's that it's obviously much harder to get traction when you've expanded now to an entire category that includes borderline mainstream titles that will finally get defenders willing to put in the same effort as them.

3) Why haven't they banned GTA when they've banned porn game X? -> First, they've tried!. 2nd, again, same principle -> activists aren't stupid, they know they can win the battle one game at a time, and that they can't win it in one gigantic decisive swoop (conveniently enough though, you can leverage this as well to ensure you have a nice long runway to continue to do your activism and keep it as a wedge issue to push at for a nice long time)

4) Why not ban true crime podcasts when they've banned porn game X? -> see again, look, many. many people listen to true crime podcasts, and many people have also objected to them as exploitative. but why does porn game x get banned and true crime podcast Z not? because, well, duh, again, the amount of effort needed to move the needle on something many people enjoy is that much more! i don't think they don't want to, mind you, but again, it's going to take a lot more effort to get to true crime podcasts when they have a thousand other porn game XYZ's they can to work on

And lets not pretend people aren't also trying to get books banned, again, it's being done at a more selective pace, book by book, not category by category. Why is <random niche hentai> banned and not <50 shades of grey>? well, who is published by a mainstream big publishier and who is published by a niche publisher that doesn;t want to get the whole hammer on them?

Repeat at nauseam.
by mattmanser | 2025-07-19 23:20:00+00:00
The GP is being sarcastic, we have 30 years of evidence.

It shows that trickle down economics doesn't happen.

The harm you're looking for is massively inflated asset prices, for example pushing housing out of the affordable range of normal residents and the actual tax payers.

So the mega rich turn out to be parasites in many ways.
by herval | 2025-07-19 23:20:30+00:00
I'm not sure that's the case, and it's quite easily proven - if you ask an LLM any question, then doubt their response, they'll change their minds and offer a different interpretation. It's an indication they hold multiple interpretations, depending on how you ask, otherwise they'd dig in.

You can also see decision paralysis in action if you implement CoT - it's common to see the model "pondering" about a bunch of possible options before picking one.
by sigbottle | 2025-07-19 23:20:53+00:00
Well I come from the competitive programming sphere, and I would say that IOI is harder than ICPC.

When you don't know that many things, that's when creativity shines, and there are some truly genuinely shocking IOI problems.

ICPC (well, in recent years they've gotten slightly better) is pretty well known as a knowledge-heavy implementation contest. Many teams get the experience that they mind-solved a lot more problems but couldn't implement them in time. Typing up the maxflow template for the 25th time for a series of collegiate-level but ultimately standard reductions isn't that inspiring.

My favorite problems are those you can derive from basic techniques but come up with scaffolding that is truly elegant. I've set some of them myself, which have stumped some famous people you may know :)

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I guess my point is that I can see people feeling about Putnam the same way.
by RunningDroid | 2025-07-19 23:22:29+00:00
Personally I'd look through the brands listed in the Home Assistant integrations, either Local Push or Local Polling :

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/?cat=camera&iot_c...

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/?cat=camera&iot_c...

The documentation for setting up the integrations should also indicate whether there's any cloud involved.
by mgarciaisaia | 2025-07-19 23:23:33+00:00
I've done https://deja.de.hueve.ar/hn for this - it updates every (Argentinian) midnight with HN's frontpage, so I have a fixed amount of stories to read per day, and it stops my compulsion to open HN's homepage without thinking every time I'm bored.

I wanted to do the same for the two local newspapers I read, but I think they have Github Actions blocked so the script can't reach them. And I didn't bother to search for a workaround.

Making things slow again is a good anxiety countermeasure.
by tmh88j | 2025-07-19 23:23:37+00:00
> If casting from a string to a type works with ints and floats, why not with bools? What possible justification is there?

> I'd honestly much prefer bool() threw an exception on receiving a string, rather than act the way it does now.

They serve fundamentally different purposes. bool() is a truthiness check and not a type cast like int() and float(). It seems like a lot of people take issue with the name, because it was called something like istruthy() the discussion about it wouldn't be happening.
by balderdash | 2025-07-19 23:23:46+00:00
I think the consensus view is that they are massive net positive contributors (they still pay a lot in taxes in terms of things stamp duty or VAT, they spend lots of money in the country supporting business and employing people, and they don’t consume much in the way of resources like using the NHS or publicly funded schools).

I think the optics are clearly bad but the question I think people really have to ask is what they rather these people paying something in the country, or nothing at all (because there’s nothing keeping them there if it’s viewed as too expensive to stay)
by folkrav | 2025-07-19 23:24:58+00:00
Comparing my problems to other people’s problems don’t make mine go away. A single purchase hitting a unit of percentage or more of anyone’s income is a large purchase regardless of what they’re making. Professionals being expected to shell out their own money to make their boss money is another problem entirely. A decent laptop is a big expense for me, their tools are an even bigger one for them, and none of these statements are contradictory.
by epcoa | 2025-07-19 23:24:59+00:00
Lua has petered out a bit but it has been used as a scripting and config language for a ton of games and commercial embedded. Not a hobby language, not typically a main implementation language but that doesn’t mean no commercial use. posix/bash shell isn’t a hobby language either, but unless you’re Tom Lord or something (RIP) you’re not doing the entire project in it.

Do realize that luajit for years was bankrolled by corporations.
by sigbottle | 2025-07-19 23:25:32+00:00
Dude thank you for stating this.

OpenAI's o3 model can solve very standard even up to 2700 rated codeforces problems it's been trained on, but is unable to think from first principles to solve problems I've set that are ~1600 rated. Those 2700 algorithms problems are obscure pages on the competitive programming wiki, so it's able to solve it with knowledge alone.

I am still not very impressed with its ability to reason both in codeforces and in software engineering. It's a very good database of information and a great searcher, but not a truly good first-principles reasoner.

I also wish o3 was a bit nicer - it's "reasoning" seems to have made it more arrogant at times too even when it's wildly off ,and it kind of annoys me.

Ironically, this workflow has really separated for me what is the core logic I should care about and what I should google, which is always a skill to learn when traversing new territory.
by marcusb | 2025-07-19 23:26:45+00:00
> Ransomware is really clever these days and if you PUSH your backups, it can also encrypt or delete all your backups, because it has access to everything

That depends on how you have access to your backup servers configured. I'm comfortable with append-only backup enforcement for push backups[0] with Borg and Restic via SSH, although I do use offline backup drive rotation as a last line of defense for my local backup set. YMMV.

0 - https://marcusb.org/posts/2024/07/ransomware-resistant-backu...
by beeflet | 2025-07-19 23:27:33+00:00
I think some combination of both search (perhaps of an offline database of wikipedia and other sources) and a local LLM would be the best, as long as the LLM is terse and provides links to relevant pages.

I find LLMs with the search functionality to be weak because they blab on too much when they should be giving me more outgoing links I can use to find more information.
by coldtea | 2025-07-19 23:28:34+00:00
There's no shared culture anymore around those things.

The majority of people don't listen to anything outside the hits of the year, and for younger people there are no community events, there's no shared platform with any variety (radio is dead, streaming plays either popular hits or your own echo-bubble), schools doesn't teach them (they're more likely to teach some song of the latest shit pop celebrity), and there are in general no mainstream institutions that keep these alive.

But before our current 60-seconds-memory-span such folk songs were part of a canon known and loved for well over a century.
by shivasaxena | 2025-07-19 23:28:38+00:00
Not just rich people. Here in estonia small startups like mine pay minimum tax, and reinvest the rest in company.

> There's been a big shift of rich people avoiding taking pay or dividends. Instead they get paid in stock, and then get interest free loans secured on that stock to actually spend money.

They have a stockholding in a firm, and the firm pays CIT on income earned. That sounds fair.

> The other thing that's happened is that a lot of the mega-rich have lobbied to gradually chip away at inheritance taxes. So again they just pass the asset, paying a fraction of the taxes they'd have paid had they been a "normal" tax payer.

Why should my kids be liable to pay a tax when they inherit my house? That house was bought by my income on which PIT was duty fully paid. Again sounds very fair to me.

> And one of the big things they've got? No capital gains on those stocks when passed to children.

Again sounds fair to me.
by jdietrich | 2025-07-19 23:28:49+00:00
Fabs can and do recover from major contamination events. In 2021, Renesas suffered a fire that destroyed about 5% of their N3 building. It took them just under a month to resume production and just over 3 months to reach pre-incident production levels. Fab decontamination is a major task, but ultimately it's just a very, very thorough cleaning process.

Incidentally, they don't operate at BSL3 - that's a standard for biosafety that has more to do with protecting the outside world from the lab rather than vice-versa. Fabs operate in accordance with ISO 14644.
by phtrivier | 2025-07-19 23:29:37+00:00
Of course, and I'm glad for you and loved ones (and so sorry for your losses)

That being said, would any of this incremental research have been slower, or canceled, or derailed, if the HN articles about intermediate reports of lab experiment on mice had the word "on mice" in the title ?

That's literally all I'm asking for here.
by orwin | 2025-07-19 23:29:53+00:00
I mean, from outside the US, the only thing I've learned from the hunter laptop leak is that he is a coke user, he fuck prostitutes and have a porn-sized penis, which frankly, is the only truly surprising thing and also knowledge I can do without. So unless 4chan became extremely less pro-trump than I remember, I do think it isn't a story.
by al_borland | 2025-07-19 23:30:00+00:00
In terms of subscribers or actual use?

I have YT Premium, so I automatically get YT Music. I would much rather pay less and drop the Music app. I almost never use it and don’t like it. I can’t justify buying for another service on top of this, so I went back to managing a local library and manually syncing all my music to my phone like it’s 2007.

A side effect of YouTube treating music special is that I can’t read comments on the TV for videos that it thinks are music. I find this very annoying. The same video will have comment on mobile or the computer.
by pyman | 2025-07-19 23:30:13+00:00
I spent 10 years teaching computer science and some of my ex-students now work at Google, Amazon, Uber, and Microsoft. They still come by to say hi. It's teachers who inspire change, and we do it by talking about the past, present, and future of tech in classrooms, not online forums.

I like reminding students about Steve Jobs. While others pushed for web apps, he launched the App Store alongside the iPhone in 2008 and changed everything. I ask my students, why not stick with web apps? Why go native?

Hopefully, these questions get them thinking about new platforms, new technologies and solutions, and maybe even spark ideas that lead to something better.

Just picture this: it's 2007, and you're standing in front of Steve Jobs telling him: “You don't understand anything about the web, Steve.”

Yeah, good luck with that. For that reason I'll politely decline your offer to prove how much I know about this topic, but you're more than welcome to share your own perspective.
by mango7283 | 2025-07-19 23:30:31+00:00
They're saying that if things have come to the point that activists can successfully pressure a AAA title like BG3 to be delisted from steam, then they'll worry.

What do BG3 and the title in question have in common? "incest" (though, not non-con, I don't think BG3 has such)

What does BG3 have that the other title doesn't? Critical acclaim and the support of the mainstream. THis is the same issue with GOT.

Why does BH3 have critical acclaim and mainstream support and the other title doesn't? Is this a difficult topic to grasp?