MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrpound | 2025-07-19 13:45:12+00:00
What a bunch of facile garbage. For one thing, this idea that loss isn't really about the person who died...it's about YOU is insulting. Oh, they were no longer required for YOUR "task" so the system culled and "reassigned" them. The rest is just a series of weak surface level mappings from the infinitely complex domain of human existence into some HTTP status codes and ridiculous parallels to LLM interactions (which itself is a mere subset of the domain of AI).

The worst part isn't the anthropomorphizing of AI, it's the reduction of human agency and experience into a series of passive interactions within a constrained domain that forces you to reorient every thought and action toward this stupid extended metaphor.
by 1718627440 | 2025-07-19 13:45:53+00:00
The internet was created in the military at the start of the fossil era, there is no reason, why it should be affected by the oil era. If we wouldn't travel that much, because we don't use cars and planes that much, the internet would be even more important.

Space travel does need a lot of oil, so it might be affected, but the beginning of it were in the 40s so the research idea was already there.

Atomic energy is also from the 40s and might have been the alternative to oil, so it would thrive more if we haven't used oil that much.

Also all 3 ARE heavily regulated and mostly done by nation states.
by necovek | 2025-07-19 13:45:53+00:00
The idea behind Zig approach which is only being implemented is to extend concurrent code to be executable outside the coroutine context, making it trivially serializable when that's possible (thus the networking example).

In general, the heavy lifting should always be moved to the lower level infrastructure (compiler, standard library, RDBMS system in case of ACID guarantees...) — leaving developer his brainspace for the business logic.

This requires minimum "function coloring", and I'd prefer if Python took that approach instead.
by sigmoid10 | 2025-07-19 13:45:58+00:00
While I usually enjoy seeing these discussions, I think they are really pushing the usefulness of bayesian statistics. If one dude says the chance for an outcome is 8% and another says it's 16% and the outcome does occur, they were both pretty wrong, even though it might seem like the one who guessed a few % higher might have had a better belief system. Now if one of them had said 90% while the other said 8% or 16%, then we should pay close attention to what they are saying.
by rvz | 2025-07-19 13:45:59+00:00
> Does AGI mean that it is free to operate and has no hardware / power constraints?

It is that and an autonomous system that can generate $100BN dollars in profits. (OpenAI and Microsoft's definition of AGI)

So maybe when we see a commercial airplane with no human pilots on board but an LLM piloting the plane with no intervention needed?

Would you board such a plane?
Show HN: I built an AI agent that helps me invest
by haniehz | 2025-07-19 13:46:26+00:00
A while back, I built a simple app to track stocks. It pulled market data and generated daily reports based on my risk tolerance. Basically a personal investment assistant. It worked well enough that I kept going.

Now, the same framework helps me with real estate: comparing neighborhoods, checking flood risk, weather patterns, school zones, old vs. new builds, etc. It’s a messy, multi-variable decision—which turns out to be a great use case for AI agents.

Instead of ChatGPT or Grok 4, I use mcp-agent, which lets me build a persistent, multi-agent system that pulls live data, remembers my preferences, and improves over time.

Key pieces: • Orchestrator: picks the right agent or tool for the job • EvaluatorOptimizer: rates and refines the results until they’re high quality • Elicitation: adds a human-in-the-loop when needed • MCP server: exposes everything via API so I can use it in Streamlit, CLI, or anywhere • Memory: stores preferences and outcomes for personalization

It’s modular, model-agnostic (works with GPT-4 or local models via Ollama), and shareable.

Let me know what you all think!
by iainctduncan | 2025-07-19 13:47:57+00:00
I do technical diligence on companies getting purchased or invested in, largely by private equity. Previous to that I was a developer for 15 years (still am, but open source now). One big one not touched on in the article is the cost of security updates. I see this all the time... companies that are in a bad position because they have too many dependencies and have wound up unable (for business reasons) to dedicate adequate resources to keeping them all current, and then end up with past EOL deps with published vulnerabilities. This – literally – costs them a lot at acquisition time. The purchaser (who is typically very risk averse) factors in all the cost to get things up to date and takes it off the price. This can be very significant. (looking at you, React et. al!)

On the other hand, I've seen companies where they used as little in deps as they could get away with, and they wind up in very strong positions. There really is a big labour cost in chasing the latest versions of underlying frameworks when those move too fast.
by Newlaptop | 2025-07-19 13:48:59+00:00
Where does the money go though?

Europe has its own problems, and US instability will magnify them. The last 20 years have shown that China is essentially uninvestible for foreigners. Japan maybe offers relative stability but without growth. Commodities might seem like a safe haven, but will decline in value in a recession.

For the pension funds, insurance companies, and sovereign wealth funds who hold the hundreds of billions of dollars of US debt instruments, what are the realistic option? Buy billions in gold? Invest in Japan, South Korea and India? Bet on a European turnaround? Yolo it on fartcoin?

I'm not sure what the safe haven is when America goes bankrupt.
by gus_massa | 2025-07-19 13:49:43+00:00
In the IMO, the idea is that the first day you get P1, P2 and P3, and the second day you get P4, P5 and P6. Usually, ordered by difficulty, they are P1, P4, P2, P5, P3, P6. So, usually P1 is "easy" and P6 is very hard. At least that is the intended order, but sometime reality disagree.

Edit: Fixed P4 -> P3. Thanks.
by zkmon | 2025-07-19 13:50:00+00:00
This is an awesome progress in human achievement to get these machines intelligent. And this is also a fast regress and decline on the human wisdom!

We are simply greasing the grooves and letting things slide faster and faster and calling it progress. How does this help to make the human and nature integration better?

Does this improve climate or make humans adapt better to changing climate? Are the intelligent machines a burning need for the humanity today? Or is it all about business and political dominance? At what cost? What's the fall out of all this?
by jfengel | 2025-07-19 13:50:02+00:00
Is there that much smoking in hotels? Do they charge more for smoking rooms?

A number like 84x suggests that it's basically zero now. That kinda makes sense. The only one who would notice is the cleaning staff, and relying on their word for "it smelled like smoke" sounds like a way to get a chargeback. They'd call you on it only if they were forced to take the room out of rotation to air it out.

So maybe there are a lot of people smoking just a little (perhaps a joint), and getting away with it. That might make a number like 84x work.
by catlikesshrimp | 2025-07-19 13:50:07+00:00
Yes. A pathologist can know if there was a catasthropic event like the natural rupture of an artery (e.g. stroke, heart attack) In vivo events evolve differently than post mortem ones, e.g. strangling a dead body shows differently than strangling a person to death.

More recently, he might have been wearing a vital signal monitor that kept logs.

Nowadays probably the latter.
by jact | 2025-07-19 13:50:16+00:00
Hypatia’s murder had very little to do with religious conflict against a free thinker and everything to do with class alexandrian class politics.

https://historyforatheists.com/2020/07/the-great-myths-9-hyp...

Bruno’s execution was of course evil and wrong but it’s also wrong to depict him as some kind of martyr for science and that the Catholics were setting back intellectual progress. Bruno was not a scientist, he was a mystic. He did not carry out experiments to try to prove his beliefs nor even believe in the ability of math to explain nature. The conflict that lead to his death was between two different religious/mystical traditions and not between “intellectualism” and religion. If he were alive today he would be more comparable with Deepak Chopra than a real scientist

Christians simply did not “extirpate” knowledge of the hieroglyphs or “scatter Egyptian priests.” Hieroglyphs were already falling into disuse since they were the writing system of a tiny elite of priests. There was no abolition or persecution of the hieroglyphic using class. The fading of hieroglyphs has its roots in the Hellenization of Egypt centuries before Christianity began. As Egyptians became Christian, the Coptic script came to be dominant for writing the Egyptian language. In the same way very few people bother to learn how to write JCL anymore, very few people were interested in retaining knowledge of hieroglyphs.

There’s an implicit idea here too that Christians were some kind of foreign interloper in Egypt instead of being themselves Egyptian — this is simply not the case. Egypt was one of the early hotbeds of Christianity and the modern-day Copts are essentially the people most closely culturally and genetically related to the ancient Egyptians.
by zettabomb | 2025-07-19 13:50:23+00:00
I know what I'm talking about, I am a professional working in electrical engineering. Please don't insinuate that I don't, it's unnecessarily insulting.

If you have two power supplies at different voltages and connect them together, there will be a finite resistance through the cable and Ohm's Law applies. Current will flow. With a low resistance and big enough voltage difference, there will be a significant current, and it can trip the supply. This is not difficult to achieve.

The rectifier you're referring to is the flyback diode in that case. But now as you've said yourself, the power supply will shut down if the voltage coming in is too high, which is frequently due to either a polyfuse or an efuse tripping. So it sounds like you're just arguing to argue, while actually agreeing with my point. You said "nothing will happen", but if one shuts off, something has happened.

I don't need to test this, I have done it. I also have quite literally thousands upon thousands of other engineers, books, universities etc backing me up, and you do not. Connecting two USB supplies together is a bad idea and will likely result in one switching off. Don't do it.

Either way, I'm done trying to convince an amateur. Feel free to do what you want.
by scarface_74 | 2025-07-19 13:50:57+00:00
Delta has never had set prices and this is fake outrage. Airlines have used algorithms since deregulation in the 70s to set prices. The “algorithm” use to be simpler based on “fair classes”. A fair class is not a simple - Main, C+ and FC. Two people sitting in main can have different fair classes.

https://www.alternativeairlines.com/fare-basis-codes-explain...

Of course as computers have gotten more sophisticated, the machine learning/revenue optimization rules have too.

For instance it costs less for me to fly Delta from MCO (Orlando) -> ATL -> SJO (San Jose Costa Rica) than it does our friends to fly from ATL -> SJO when we are both flying the same second leg.

There are other tricks to like booking a Delta flight via AirFrance or Virgin Airlines domestically cheaper.
by tialaramex | 2025-07-19 13:51:46+00:00
Leases often work this way. In theory it's illegal in the UK (for a home, businesses are assumed to be big boys who can negotiate on equal footing) but it's still pretty common to be charged when you move out. Specifically UK law says "reasonable wear and tear" is just an expected cost of people living in a house you let to them - so e.g. they're going to wear out carpet after some years, but a cigar burn is not OK, the walls won't look pristine but there shouldn't be graffiti, that sort of thing. They should vacuum floors but it's not reasonable to expect dust to magically vanish from every nook.

In practice in many cases you move out leaving the place very habitable, you get told they "had" to clean up your mess, and it's a suspiciously round number like £80 and they have plenty more "necessary" charges like this. In theory in the UK they're required to provide receipts showing their actual expense, but in practice they're looking at this as free revenue and most of their clients can't fight back.

I was buying, freeing me from the obvious revenge if I say "Fuck you" but there were a lot of other things to do for the move and having fought them down from the original outrageous fees they wanted I gave up although I did get as far as reporting them to their regulator and threatening legal action. In hindsight I'm quite sure I could have got to $0 and possibly also got the most senior woman who was straight up lying and clearly had done all this many times removed from the register of people fit to let out properties, but I didn't and I feel bad about that.
by esafak | 2025-07-19 13:52:06+00:00
Python has the astral ecosystem now, and it is good. What is wrong with evolution?

Getting it right from the beginning is best but you can not throw in the towel if it is not.

I would submit packages for Ubuntu if it were easier. I did it once ten years ago and it was unpleasant. I do it regularly for macports on MacOS.
by Zigurd | 2025-07-19 13:52:52+00:00
Red Bull athletes list: https://www.redbull.com/us-en/athletes

The dead ones appear to have been removed from the list, and from all other mentions on the website. Quickly, too. Somebody's got that in their job description.

I no longer find it entertaining to watch sports where there is such a high risk of death, or lifelong impairment, from brain injuries, for example. I used to love ski movies. But too many of the people in the credits are dead now.

Apart from things like unconscionable contracts, I wouldn't restrain people from extreme sports. I'm sure a lot of of them die in their beds. I just don't find it entertaining to watch.
by maxlin | 2025-07-19 13:53:50+00:00
That's like saying vacuum tubes are only one option in the radio market.

The quality of connection is so much better, and as you can get a starlink mini with a 50GB plan for very little money, its already in the zone that just one worker could grab his own and bring it on the rig to use on his free time and to share.

Starlink terminals aren't "infrastructure". Campers often toss one on their roof without even leaving the vehicle. Easier than moving a chair. So, as I said, the geostationary legacy system immediately becomes entirely obsolete other than for redundancy, and is kinda irrelevant for uses like browsing the web.
by ajsnigrutin | 2025-07-19 13:53:51+00:00
Sure, but beef tastes good. I mean.. there are better ways to eat beef than mixed with soy at mcdonalds, but still...

What benefit does an individual get from downloading tens of megabytes of useless data to get ~5kB of useful data in an article? It wastes download time, bandwidth, users time (having to close the autoplaying ad), power/battery, etc.
by dangus | 2025-07-19 13:55:32+00:00
I agree, but it’s usually not an “all else equal” situation when it comes to alternative products.

Customers would rather play a buggy/janky game like the Elder Scrolls series, Minecraft (especially early in its lifespan, not really so much anymore), or Ark (the dinosaur game) than play a polished bug-free game with boring gameplay.

Or as another example, customers would rather deal with the ugly UI and slow UI performance of Autodesk Fusion than use a more polished/native feeling application that isn’t as powerful for design work.
by crinkly | 2025-07-19 13:55:58+00:00
100% agree with this.

My second degree is in mathematics. Not only can I probably not do these but they likely aren’t useful to my work so I don’t actually care.

I’m not sure an LLM could replace the mathematical side of my work (modelling). Mostly because it’s applied and people don’t know what they are asking for, what is possible or how to do it and all the problems turn out to be quite simple really.
by mrkramer | 2025-07-19 13:56:10+00:00
>Chargebacks of legitimate purchases on most large platforms are extremely rare. Most will be from stolen cards.

I never used ecommerce back in the day on the internet but I can imagine that ecommerce fraud was widespread. And that's why excluding other reasons Satoshi invented Bitcoin[0].

I wonder if cryptocurrencies didn't exist would someone nowadays burn the midnight oil to figure out P2P crypto coin since modern payment solutions are fairly good.

Tbh I think Satoshi invented technology around which he wanted to build products unlike Steve Jobs who said that you first need to figure out the product then build technology.

[0] "Completely non-reversible transactions are not really possible, since financial institutions cannot avoid mediating disputes. The cost of mediation increases transaction costs, limiting the minimum practical transaction size and cutting off the possibility for small casual transactions, and there is a broader cost in the loss of ability to make non-reversible payments for nonreversible services. With the possibility of reversal, the need for trust spreads. Merchants must be wary of their customers, hassling them for more information than they would otherwise need. A certain percentage of fraud is accepted as unavoidable. These costs and payment uncertainties can be avoided in person by using physical currency, but no mechanism exists to make payments over a communications channel without a trusted party" https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
by wright-goes | 2025-07-19 13:56:18+00:00
Access to banking is indeed critical, but when? And for 2FA, which accounts, and when? As bank apps become more invasive and they also fail to offer substantive 2FA (e.g. the forcing of text messaging as a 2FA option falls outside my risk tolerance), I've segmented my devices' access.

The ability to transfer funds is something I'm now fine doing via a dedicated device with a dedicated password manager account, and I'm fine uninstalling banks' apps from my phone and dis-enrolling cell phone numbers.

Given the wanton collection and sale of my data by many entities I hadn't expected (naivety on my part), I've restricted access to critical services by device and or web browser only. It's had the added bonus of making me more purposeful in what I'm doing, albeit at the expense of a convenience. Ultimately, I'm not saying my approach is right for everyone, but for me it's felt great to take stock of historical behavior and act accordingly.
by jebarker | 2025-07-19 13:56:39+00:00
IMO questions are to math as leetcode questions are to software engineering. Not necessarily easier or harder but they test ability on different axes. There’s definitely some overlap with undergrad level proof style questions but I disagree that being a working mathematician would necessarily mean you can solve these type of questions quickly. I did a PhD in pure math (and undergrad obv) and I know I’d have to spend time revising and then practicing to even begin answering most IMO questions.
by guilhas | 2025-07-19 13:57:42+00:00
In Arch if I needed something updated today you would have done

> pacman -Sy

> pacman -S package_name

Leavig the rest system unchanged

In Nixos

> nix-channel --update

> Add package to /etc/nixos/configuration.nix

> nixos-rebuild switch

Which would update everything

Maybe we could do

> nix-channel --update

> nix-env -iA packagename

But I am not sure which version would be installed. And it would definitely go against the purpose of using nixos

> nix-shell -p package_name

It is also quite cool for trying packages without installing permanently
by pelorat | 2025-07-19 13:59:23+00:00
> Do you have a suggestion for how the GDPR site could implement this differently so that they wouldn't need a cookie footer?

Well, it's a information-only website, it has no ads or even a login, so they don't need to use any cookies at all. In fact if you look at the page response in the browser dev tools, there's in fact no cookies on the website, so to be honest they should just delete the cookie banner.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-07-19 13:59:32+00:00
That's not what will happen. The ad tech companies will pivot and start selling these services as neutral helpers, when in fact they'll use their knowledge of your schedule, preferences, and income to spend money on goods and services you don't really want.

It will be controlling and disempowering - manipulative personality-profiled "suggestions" with a much higher click rate than anything we have today.

And the richer you are, the more freedom you'll have to opt out and manage your own decisions.
by ath3nd | 2025-07-19 14:00:03+00:00
So where is the revolution then? How can it be both a revolution and not a magician at the same time?

At the same time when studies are coming out that experienced developers are losing 19% of productivity using AI tools, it makes me question whether it's not a devolution. Especially considering how widely unprofitable is for Claude to be run at scale where it's at least a net neutral for the average dev, where is that revolution you are talking about?

Is it the same revolution like NFts or blockhain or whatever web3 was, cause I am still waiting for those?
by rhelz | 2025-07-19 14:00:14+00:00
// In ST there is apparently an infinite energy source running //

Think about a server farm, which rents out cpu time for linux servers. Sure, you have to play for energy, land, and labor. But are you saying that somehow implies that linux would have to be BSD licensed instead of GPL licensed?

I agree, energy, land, and labor are things which we don't have infinite supplies of, and therefore we need some way to ration them and distribute them efficiently. But I don't see what bearing this has on software licensing.

// If a user hostile descision is made //

Yeah, I don't see what this has to do with BSD vs. GPL or any other software license. I mean, Microsoft has been "boiling the water" forever.

// cant imagine this succeeding. Just look at the slowly shrinking market share of BSD. //

So the answer is not releasing things under the GPL? I don't quite follow the argument here, would you care to clarify?
by DaSHacka | 2025-07-19 14:01:07+00:00
> Republicans not always do what the electorate wants. > > Abortion, gun control and releasing the Epstain list are have popular support but the are against it.

No they're not, though? At least, amongst their voterbase. The Epstein files are the first truly bipartisan issue I've seen, the other two are very strictly partisan issues, and most Republicans/Conservatives I know do not want either.
by fauigerzigerk | 2025-07-19 14:02:18+00:00
Then we clearly disagree on what they should be doing.

And this is the crux of the problem. The law helps a tiny minority of people enforce an extremely (and in my view pointlessly) strict version of privacy at the cost of misleading everybody else into thinking that using analytics for the purpose of making usability improvements is basically the same thing as sending personal data to 500 data brokers to make money off of it.
by progbits | 2025-07-19 14:03:10+00:00
We just set chart version equal to image version, they live in the same repo and are released and built together (and the chart is only published after successfully publishing the image, so it's always valid). The chart allows to override the image version but we almost never do that, it's for emergencies.

Replacing with hash is a neat idea, might start doing that too.