MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by waldohatesyou | 2025-07-31 23:45:36+00:00
I don’t agree with this take, we’re overly simplifying the nature of housing here. It depends on the housing mix as well. If the vast majority of the pro-housing prices crowd is heavily invested in single family residential then they should favour widespread upzoning and deregulation of apartments because that would increase the value of their SFHs through two mechanisms: 1) presumably single family homes will be destroyed so any remaining single family homes become more valuable and 2) every single family home is now a potential townhouse or high density building which increases the value a developer would pay for it.

Are there any serious objections to that line of reasoning?
by strogonoff | 2025-07-31 23:45:46+00:00
> But now go compare a FF 80mm with the same aperture as your 50 or similar lens used on the APS-C. The depth of field will be shallower on the FF.

I did not see it becoming shallower after moving to FF, but then I was using different lenses on FF (cheaper older manuals). That probably sums up what I mean.

Sure, when you account for crop and adjust for the same framing then DoF will in fact be deeper on the crop practically. However, even more practically, there are small and affordable f1> lenses made for crops, whereas the brightest 100mm I used on FF is f2.8 or so because going lower they are really big and/or really expensive. So, for equivalent cost/size/weight, you may have easier time getting shallow DoF on a crop if you buy lenses specifically for crops (which admittedly limits your choice of glass).
by lastcoyotes | 2025-07-31 23:45:53+00:00
I love that people share historical pioneers in electronic music, but I'd also want to add some artists of the last decade who really pushed new directions and visions. The PC Music collective/label has been one of my favorite bunch of artists. AG Cook, Danny L Harle, Finn Keane (FKA EasyFun), and all of their tangential collaborators outside the label have been making such awesome computer music.
by BoiledCabbage | 2025-07-31 23:46:11+00:00
> If everyone could live where they wanted to live, then ya, why wouldn't everyone want to live in the best cities?

Best is different for different people. Some people it means close to beaches, for other it means cultural institutions, for others it means lots of tech companies, for others it means wide open spaces.

Land is eventually limited, but there is tons of variety available of what people like.
by _carbyau_ | 2025-07-31 23:46:30+00:00
I have suspicions it may be a "passive" vs "active" experience difference. My argument as below:

Watching TV when I was younger with PAL/NTSC stuff I suspended disbelief as I could, let imagination fill the missing details, and enjoyed the stories. More resolution doesn't change that process. See shaky-and/or-quickcut cam fighting scenes for example.

Playing games, reading/typing words onscreen etc as might be done on a monitor rather than a TV. You are expressly paying attention to the finer details. Resolution helps with finer details.
by dannyobrien | 2025-07-31 23:46:33+00:00
I've been involved in a lot of discussions about "what is journalism? what do real journalists do?", and the best response I've heard was from Ian Betteridge (of Betteridge's Law fame), who told me "Journalists pick up the phone." It may have already dated as a pithy description, but the idea of literally calling[1] people to fact-check or dig deeper is a low bar that a surprising amount of current journalism doesn't clear. And I say this as someone who has definitely done the non-journalism: just writing an opinion, or a column, or blog post, or whatever. Or, perhaps most insidiously, when you have a thesis for an article and you just collect the (partial) facts you need to flesh out that thesis.

I know why people blame the internet, the drop in rewards for journalism, the pressures to churn out text, that has led to. But I'd also emphasise that it's a vocational skill that not everyone is built for, or trained to do. But it's as Thomas says, that scarcity means that it's still as valuable (and recognisable) as it always was.

[1] Or emailing -- but emailing, and emailing, and emailing, then calling, and emailing again until you get an answer.
by xnx | 2025-07-31 23:46:50+00:00
> and since most politicians at a high level usually own one or more houses,

That's a factor, but the bigger deal is that eligible homeowners ar 50% more likely to vote than eligible renters, and that doesn't even count that many renters are not event eligible to vote!

https://nlihc.org/resource/new-census-data-reveal-voter-turn...
by JonChesterfield | 2025-07-31 23:47:06+00:00
Both branches are executed and the result merged, in single basic block fashion, which the code coverage tracker doesn't understand.

OK, sure. That could be fixed at the code coverage level - you're looking for something along the lines of store the select mask (as opposed to the bit branched on).

Could report it in similar fashion to the mcdc coverage, would look a bit like check each bit in the word is set or clear on some execution. Probably a reasonable extension to implement.
by soulofmischief | 2025-07-31 23:47:31+00:00
Where does it end?

My friend's brother got fired for saying something at work, except HR would not tell him what it was he said. Instead, they gave him a pamphlet filled with "problematic" phrases and suggested alternatives; it was many pages and may or may not have even contained his particular unsanctioned phrase. Who knows.

Included in the pamphlet were phrases such as (with minimal paraphrasing) "that falls on deaf ears", which offends the deaf community, "this is a blind spot", which offends blind people, "we're coming up short on that", which offends short people, "that's a tall order", which offends tall people, and more.

I'm really hard pressed to accept that on the off chance someone gets upset about their height because someone uses distance or length to compare two concepts in a work meeting, that it should be anyone's problem other than that person.

I feel similarly about words like "dark", or "whitelist/blacklist", which have documented nonracial etymology, etc. At some point we draw the line, but we draw it to reject absurdity, not to embrace it.

I'd much prefer we spend all this time and organizational effort actually tackling racial inequality, dismantling racial infrastructure, implementing reparations, etc. instead of finding ever more ways to pat ourselves on the back for minimal effort.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-07-31 23:47:39+00:00
another moronically flippant response, and no, discussing -on a "hacker" tech news site no less- the nuances of a unique technology that effectively works as a hack against the deeply controlled playing field of financial transactions, is not "propaganda". The sheer ignorance and dismissive naval gazing about crypto on this site is pathological among some, a sort of childish resentment that strays far from rational consideration.
by handbanana_ | 2025-07-31 23:47:58+00:00
I mean they would provide it--you would think this is something the AI coding businesses would be highlighting. "Here's an app tends of thousands use every day built with our AI tools!"

Heck they did it with languages for the longest time. Here's twitter, we built it on Rails, everyone use Rails! Facebook, built on PHP, everyone use PHP! Feels weird that if these AI tools are doing all this work that no one is showing it off.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-07-31 23:47:59+00:00
Scott hasn't really thought this one through. He's writing as though this technology is going to have massive society-wide impact, but that's actually quite impossible. Because:

- As he notes, only ~2% of children in the US are born via IVF, and in many other countries that fraction is even smaller.

- IVF is already very expensive. Adding +$50k or even +$20k to its cost will seem unreasonably burdensome to most people, especially as...

- The embryo you select, at exorbitant cost, is not likely to survive! Attrition rates, at every step of the process, are significant. "Most people who go through IVF, regardless of their age, do not have a baby after one cycle." https://www.varta.org.au/resources/news-and-blogs/how-likely...

At best this will be a niche IVF-add-on that appeals to the LessWrong/FHI crowd, but that's probably as far as it goes.

And we should hope so. Not because of the ethical concerns raised in the post, but because if this stuff is normalized fertility rates are sure to drop even further into the abyss. When it costs $100k just to have a child that can compete on fair footing, far fewer people are going to bother. (IVF x2 = $30k, screening and embryo selection x2 = ~$20-50k, medical treatment etc. = remainder.) What's more, people may even abort children who were accidentally conceived naturally.

Kids used to be free. Hell, they used to work on your farm or in your workshop. Now they are a massive cost burden. This sort of thing is part of the problem -- crashing TFR with no survivors.
by d4rkp4ttern | 2025-07-31 23:48:20+00:00
For what it’s worth, several months ago, in Langroid (an agent framework that works with any LLM) we added an adaptor using FastMCP that translates between Langroid’s Tools and MCP tools, so effectively it’s a way to connect any LLM to any MCP server.

Https://github.com/langroid/langroid

MCP integration:

https://langroid.github.io/langroid/notes/mcp-tools/
by Havoc | 2025-07-31 23:48:53+00:00
Bit of a “why does this exist” product to me.

If you’re going to use pcie lanes anyway then stick a m.2 at the end of it to benefit from mass scale of nvme drive production.

I also have a general distrust of sd cards and their write levelling. Maybe just rotten luck or fake ones but they never seem to last
by AHTERIX5000 | 2025-07-31 23:50:57+00:00
I have the same issue. I've disabled "Find My" feature and uninstalled everything that kept showing up as battery draining apps. My iPad loses about 20-25% of battery every night and there is nothing showing up in battery details anymore.

I'm pretty sure the problem would go away with a factory reset. Just like it with old Windows installations, except you had a better change debugging those...
by zer00eyz | 2025-07-31 23:51:32+00:00
So we are still solving the same issues that DAP did 35 years ago. We're still dragging x500 around.

> Integration remains a persistent challenge

Modern architecture looks like a fractal of those early Unix/mainframe systems. We smashed the good ideas apart and are now trying to glue them back together over the network. But it is choice that creates many of the "challenges" and to what end?

> AI-driven risk analysis and zero trust in your identity infrastructures without overwhelming operational complexity?

Im not sure that this is a good end, but the real answer is to start removing complexity. There is a host OS acting as hypervisor, then a guest OS running your containers (with their own OS variations)... maybe it's time to strip out some of the layers...
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by gurachek | 2025-07-31 23:53:07+00:00
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by JonChesterfield | 2025-07-31 23:53:32+00:00
I blame the "we won't recompile anything ever" stance from the financial organisations for the breakdown. It means C++ cannot fix mistakes, even when they harm performance, under the general name of "abi stability".

Thus there is an opening for a faster language. And still for a safer one. And for an easier one to use. So all C++ has going for it is inertia. It's moribund unless the committee reconsider their stance on intentionally losing the performance competition.
by llm_nerd | 2025-07-31 23:53:54+00:00
One, with an onerous significant set of conditions. Effectively that the PA govern all of Palestine (both areas), Hamas disarms, etc.

Israel claims this "rewards Hamas", which is utterly grotesque and is a continuation of the "anything we want to do is justified because of October 7th" position that government has held, and which is no longer sustainable for anyone with humanity to accept.

And the truth is that Hamas will not agree to Canada's conditions, but hopefully it does a tiny bit to move the needle for the people of the area to understand how they need to move forward.
by ofalkaed | 2025-07-31 23:53:57+00:00
That price range will suit most players and many of these contemporary lower end guitars even have decent pickups with a sort of jack of all trades compromise, massive improvement over the low end pickups of the past. The next notch up in quality mostly is improved hardware and pickups tailored more to a style/sound, instruments for the performer who plays a lot and these instruments are generally a good value for those sorts. Above that it is questionable but there are some amazing instruments that justify their price, spending $2k on a guitar is not that expensive in the grand scheme if it is the right guitar for you and is the one which will be with you for life. We have a great range of instruments to pick from these days.
by tptacek | 2025-07-31 23:55:30+00:00
The premise here is investors that just continually buy up all the supply, even as supply continues to increase, in the hopes that some day housing, the single largest asset class in the United States, will reach the limit of all possible supply? You don't feel like this is "spherical cow" calculating? The amount of investor-owned housing in most metro markets is a rounding error, and the amount of vacant investor-owned housing is smaller than that.

The logic you're using here depends on deliberate vacancy; as soon as you concede that investors let out properties, you force them to compete in the market for housing with all the other supply.
by jrockway | 2025-07-31 23:55:37+00:00
Yeah, there is a lot of shadiness going on these days. I don't think tips should be requested in any sort of transaction where the employee gets paid more than minimum wage. Restaurants always had this weird system where you could avoid paying your employees if they were tipped, so it was drilled into everyone's head "you're stealing from poor innocent workers if you don't tip 20%". But this is not the case for most workers, and so tips should be truly for exceptional service in cases where the job position is on a normal pay scale.

This isn't to say that I don't tip when not required to or that I only tip people I think are being underpaid, but ... things have gotten a little out of control. If I feel like tipping, I'll tip. I do not need a prompt suggesting anything when it's not coming out of the employee's takehome pay.

I hate to say it but I think some government regulation is required here.
by rashidae | 2025-07-31 23:55:46+00:00
Some business problems look hard, cost a lot to fix, and yet are surprisingly easy to solve—if you know how to look.

This post introduces the idea of the Asymmetric Leverage Zone (ALZ):

When perceived difficulty × available budget is high, but actual effort is low.

We use this to identify opportunities where small teams can deliver outsized value. Includes a simple scoring formula, pattern recognition cues, and real-world examples (e.g. tax software, no-code, cloud migration).
by osigurdson | 2025-07-31 23:56:47+00:00
So the AI on their side will detect the AI on my side, determine that it is AI and hang up?

I don't know if there is anything to back up the hypothesis that they indeed want their systems to be horrible. It is possible, but sometimes, I want to pay more (buy more insurance coverage, etc), so sometimes our goals are actually aligned yet it is still a painful process. Therefore, I think it is more likely that the problem is competence.
by DrewADesign | 2025-07-31 23:57:27+00:00
> For the novice, it's great at unblocking and expanding capabilities. "Good enough" results from novices are tangible. There is no doubt the volume of "good enough" is perceived as very low by many.

For personal tools or whatever, sure. And the tooling or infrastructure might get there for real projects eventually, but it’s not currently. The prospect of someone naively vibe coding a side business including a payment or authentication system or something that stores PII— all areas developers learn the dangers of through the wisdom gained only by experience— sends shivers down my spine. Even amateur coders trying that stuff try old fashioned way must read their code and the docs and info on the net and such and will likely get some sense of the danger. Yesterday I saw someone here recounting a disastrous data breach of their friend’s vibe coded side hustle.

The big problem I see here is people not knowing enough to realize that something functioning is almost never a sign that it is “good enough” for many things they might assume it is. Gaining the amount of base knowledge to evaluate things like form security nearly makes the idea of vibe coding useless for anything more than hobby or personal utility projects.
by dgl | 2025-07-31 23:57:33+00:00
Unless you're using ECH (encrypted client helo) the endpoint is obscured (known keys), not concealed.

PS: HAProxy definitely can do this too, something using req.ssl_sni like this:

frontend tcp-https-plain mode tcp tcp-request inspect-delay 10s bind [::]:443 v4v6 tfo acl clienthello req.ssl_hello_type 1 acl example.com req.ssl_sni,lower,word(-1,.,2) example.com tcp-request content accept if clienthello tcp-request content reject if !clienthello default_backend tcp-https-default-proxy use_backend tcp-https-example-proxy if example.com

Then tcp-https-example-proxy is a backend which forwards to a server listening for HTTPS (and using send-proxy-v2, so the client IP is kept). Cloudflare really isn't doing anything special here; there are also other tools like sniproxy[1] which can intercept based on SNI (a common thing commerical proxies do for filtering reasons).

[1]: https://github.com/ameshkov/sniproxy
by rconti | 2025-07-31 23:57:35+00:00
Looks like it changed in 1988 due to a state supreme court ruling about a 1975 law. The law said the tips were the "sole property" of the employee and couldn't be counted by the employer as wages.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-11-01-mn-628-st...
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-07-31 23:57:41+00:00
At least the current version of the code has a ton of limits on what can be labeled tips, and the benefit phases out completely around $150k, and is only applicable to professional that traditionally receive a significant portion of income from tips - so it's not like you're going to have billionaires and PE fund managers paying themselves from their companies tens of millions in bonuses labeled as "Tips" and not paying any tax.

~90% of tipped workers REPORT less than $61k in income already. At that income, you're barely paying much income tax anyway.

This is just a trick to make people think they wouldn't have to pay social security and Medicare - which is the main tax they're paying - when in reality, ~90% of tipped workers will get next to nothing.
by asdefghyk | 2025-07-31 23:58:00+00:00
RE ....on the GHM's trustworthiness...

I understand they are controlled by Hamas ?

So it is implied they (Gaza Health Ministry GHM) would be seeking to reduce the number of Hamas fighter deaths that are in the count.

Youth combatants ( aged below 18 year old ) would be included in Child count.

I saw a article that used demographics to question and analyze the count, Can not find it now.

On another note Ive noted Media outlets tend to publish articles supporting one side or the other.

It seems all? sides hate each other and want to kill all the other side(s) It seems to me the situation going back decades will not allow fighting to stop
by susiecambria | 2025-07-31 23:58:49+00:00
Buying a house is more than an "investment" though: It's achieving the American dream. And while this dream might have been a farce, it's like everything else in that you hear it enough combined with not understanding the economics and policies underlying home ownership and the lie is reality.

And let's not even get to your point about hedges. I don't know many people that can define it let alone consider housing as a hedge.
by chromanoid | 2025-07-31 23:59:46+00:00
Well, at least I assume that currently indie movies are also somewhat defined by budget and technical limitations. With GenAI you will be able to film an action scene with your smartphone in an empty warehouse that will later look like an authentic full street in Medieval Bagdad. GenAI will remove constraints. Constraints that may have led to creativity by themselves, but those constraints also led to constraints in audience and artistic outcome. Imagination will be the limit. And I don't think we will need labels like "organic" to make collaborative efforts with actual actors more accepted than AI only productions, because good actors bring more to the table than just their face and stature.
by tptacek | 2025-07-31 23:59:48+00:00
Drug costs are also a small percentage of the national health expenditure, which is dominated by procedures delivered in hospitals and outpatient clinics. I don't accept the logic you're using for drugs, but we don't reach that question until we figure out why the single largest health expenditure in the United States has no impact on health insurance costs, which are the primary way Americans interface with the health insurance system.

If that expenditure does impact health insurance costs, then the rebuttal given above about increasing the supply of doctors not improving affordability fails.

If you google [National Health Expenditure spreadsheet], there's an annual spreadsheet that has includes an incredible amount of detail about where we spend money, broken down in a variety of different ways.