MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bee_rider | 2025-07-02 18:10:14+00:00
It is not any more effort to say “It is an unsubstantiated and unprovable rumor that ICE has deputized proud boys.” It is also a much more accurate reflection of the level of confidence.

If you call somebody’s claim “easily debunked,” that’s a proactive offer of counter evidence. It isn’t Gish gallop to accept that offer of counter evidence.

Anyway, where else is the conversation supposed to go? The post had the offer of an easy debunking and no other content.
by calmbonsai | 2025-07-02 18:10:27+00:00
This was precisely their business model.

The problem was easy/trivial competition from larger brokerage firms. The core IP was all about tax optimization. The same customers who would employee direct indexing already have dedicated accounting services for exactly that purpose and the additional brokerage fees are either sunk costs or de minimis.

To use an analogy, the folks who are hedge fund customers don't care about the lack of liquidity or higher management fees. You can't capture that market on margin, volume, or any kind of flow ancillaries.
by tracker1 | 2025-07-02 18:10:33+00:00
That's largely my own take as well. And while many hate SPAs or client-driven web apps, it reduces the server surface a lot. It should be faster/better... that people make really crappy front ends doesn't mean the tech itself is bad.

There is some really bloated crap out there, and you can create every bit as much bloat on the server as in the client.
Live-Stream: Hacker News "Who's Hiring? (July 2025)" Discussion
by dv35z | 2025-07-02 18:11:24+00:00
Hey everyone - We are reviewing the HN Who's Hiring post, discussing & documenting tech trends, and overall talkin' shop and gettin to know each other.

Join the video collaboration room (most fun!):

https://pop.com/j/531-840-214

Watch the live stream (PeerTube / MakerTube):

https://makertube.net/w/cAL1cRuHCCvvvJW43EDtyu

HN Who's Hiring post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44434576

This can be helpful for job search, and also to to give guidance on what technologies & tools to invest your time in learning.

If this is fun & valuable, we'll do some more code jam sessions.

// JRO
by DontchaKnowit | 2025-07-02 18:11:39+00:00
Ive been doing 3x weekly calisthenics for about 3 years and apart from occasional overuse-tendon-soreness that clears up in about a week, ive never had any problems. In fact im way less prone to injury and an ongoing shoulder issue I had cleared up after getting better at pullups

So, I disagree with you. If you take it slow and listen to your body and maintain good form youre golden.
by pacofvf | 2025-07-02 18:12:23+00:00
After becoming frustrated with the difficulty of implementing reliable and transparent data quality checks, I developed a new framework called Weiser. It’s inspired by tools like Soda and Great Expectations, but built with a different philosophy: simplicity, openness, and zero lock-in.

If you’ve tried Soda, you’ve probably noticed that many of the proper checks (like change over time, anomaly detection, etc.) are hidden behind their cloud product. Great Expectations, while powerful, can feel overly complex and brittle for modern analytics workflows. I wanted something that falls between lightweight, expressive, and flexible enough to integrate into any analytics stack.

Weiser is config-based; you define checks in YAML, and it runs them as SQL against your data warehouse. There’s no SaaS platform, no telemetry, no signup: just a CLI tool and some opinionated YAML.

Some examples of built-in checks:

1. Row count drops compared to a historical window

2. Unexpected nulls or category values

3. Distribution shifts

4. Anomaly detection

5. Cardinality changes

The framework is fully open-source (MIT license), and its goal is to be both human- and machine-readable. I’ve been using LLMs to help generate and refine Weiser configs, which work surprisingly well, far better than trying to wrangle pandas or SQL directly via prompt. I already have an MCP server that works well but it's a pain in the ass to install it in Claude Desktop, I don't want you to waste time doing that. Once Anthropic fixes their dxt format, I will release a MCP tool for Claude Desktop.

Currently it only supports PostgreSQL and Cube as datasource, and for destination for the checks results it supports postgres and duckdb(S3), I will add snowflake and databricks for datasources in the next few days. It doesn’t do orchestration, you can run it via cron, Airflow, GitHub Actions, whatever you want.

If you’ve ever duct-taped together DBT tests, SQL scripts, or ad hoc dashboards to catch data quality issues, Weiser might be helpful. I would love any feedback or ideas. It’s early days, but I’m trying to keep it clean and useful for both analysts and engineers. I'm also working on a better GUI.

GitHub: https://github.com/weiser-ai/weiser Docs: https://weiser.ai/docs/tutorial/getting-started

I'm happy to answer questions or hear about what other folks are doing to address this problem.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-07-02 18:12:25+00:00
Agreed on the last point, V3 is terrifyingly good at narrative writing. And yes, R1 talks itself out of correct answers almost as often as it talks itself into them.

But in general 2.5 Pro is an extremely strong model. It may lose out in some respects to o3-pro, but o3-pro is so much slower that its utility tends to be limited by my own attention span. I don't think either would have much to fear from V3, though, except possibly in the area of short fiction composition.
by godelski | 2025-07-02 18:12:42+00:00
Tbh, that content I'm mostly fine with. My only real issue is that people are making trillions off the free labor of people like you and me, giving less time to create that OSS and blogs. But this isn't new to AI, it is just scaled.

What I do care about is the theft of my identity. A person may learn from the words I write but that person doesn't end up mimicking the way I write. They are still uniquely themselves.

I'm concerned that the more I write the more my text becomes my identifier. I use a handle so I can talk more openly about some issues.

We write OSS and blog because information should be free. But that information is then being locked behinds paywalls and becoming more difficult to be found through search. Frankly, that's not okay
by MangoToupe | 2025-07-02 18:12:46+00:00
> Is it disingenuous to report obituaries without including birth announcements in the same article? Surely only reporting the one gives a skewed view of demographic health.

The point of obituaries is not to give any sense of demographic health.

> News is about reporting new information in a timely manner. When a metric gets updated, it's good to let people know, especially if the new value is unexpected. Many people may have various different uses for this update. It is impossible to give every piece of data anyone could consider useful in a single article. Luckily, that is unnecessary. All that information is publicly available and people can go look it up for themselves at any time.

Sure, but the issue is that the reporting treats the metric as meaningfully representative of accessibility of employment when it's actually representative of who is seeking the unemployment benefit.

> If you don't care enough to look up the metrics that are reported, that's not a problem with the metrics or the reporting.

This seems wildly naive.
by greenie_beans | 2025-07-02 18:13:17+00:00
from the docs:

> Lower levels inherit role permissions from higher levels...When you assign a role at a parent scope, those permissions are inherited to the child scopes

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/role-based-access-co...

so i guess this what you said is confidently wrong lmao like you couldn't even be more wrong:

> Then I'll lay it out: there is no inheritance at all. An identity does not inherit roles and it certainly does not inherit other identities.

i misspoke calling it "identity inheritance" and not "scope inheritance" tho my first comment said "role inheritance" but the fact that there is any sort of inheritance involved at all with my rbac roles is very poor design decision. and the fact that i can misunderstand this and spend hours of company time trying to understand it, and still failing....when this should be an intuitive, 101-level thing for cloud design. but nah i gotta spend time going through like ten different docs piecing together knowledge and pentest my own work and also argue with some guy on the internet who called himself adept at azure and doesn't know this either (which further proves my point!)
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-07-02 18:13:40+00:00
"Tech founders" for whom the "technology" part is the thing always getting in the way of the "just the money and buzzwords" part.

Now they think they can automate it away.

25+ years in this industry and I still find it striking how different the perspective between the "money" side and the "engineering" side is... on the same products/companies/ideas.
by FireBeyond | 2025-07-02 18:13:43+00:00
> Dude, I paid to have stickers and "sheriff cards" to make it less likely cops are going to stop me cos i'm a "friend of the police".

In many states the FOP stickers and cards are almost like "registration". You get the sticker to put on your card and just like vehicle registration, a year to show you're current. The FOP will say that's just to "show your ongoing support", but it's rather hard not to see it as "are you paid up? you don't get to get a sticker ten years ago...".

Various FOPs have also sued or done eBay take downs of people selling the "year sticker".
by MangoToupe | 2025-07-02 18:13:57+00:00
The issue with sausage isn't the processing, it's the preservatives and the choice of meats (and their corresponding nutrients) that go into the sausage.

My understanding is that degree of "processing" is acknowledged to be an imperfect metric, just one that fits easily with EU labeling concerns. I just don't think that's as useful as is advertised.
by timr | 2025-07-02 18:13:57+00:00
A few things:

a) African honey bees aren't domesticated populations, challenging your overall point.

b) A 3 mile separation is not substantial (though I grant you that if most of the bees in any given cluster are introduced, then it might lead to more homogeneity).

c) even within "wild" populations of whatever, you see local clusters of genetic similarity. It's been a while since I took population genetics, but IIRC this kind of local equilibrium was well-covered.

Also, I haven't read the paper, but the abstract sure sounds like what I'm describing -- a sudden population bottleneck leads to rapid evolutionary adaptation in wild populations:

"These findings suggest that genetically diverse honey bee populations can recover from introduced diseases by evolving rapid tolerance, while maintaining much of the standing genetic variation."
by burkaman | 2025-07-02 18:14:00+00:00
Yes, there are a few reasons:

- External pressure, including a high profile boycott campaign, was widespread and widely reported

- Brendan Eich remained a Mozilla employee for years after his donation was first publicly discussed (in the LA Times and on Twitter), with no apparent pressure to leave. The board appointed him CEO with full knowledge of his views and knowledge that they were publicly known.

- There were relatively few public statements from Mozilla employees asking him to resign, and none from executives or board members.

- I think it's unusual for companies to explicitly lie and say "we tried to get them to stay". It might even expose them to defamation claims or something. If the board forces a resignation, they'll just say "they resigned" (which is technically true) and leave it at that.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-07-02 18:14:05+00:00
> I wish there were something that could thwart the “Chromium by default” assumption at large amongst devs...

I don't think that is possible. It used to be that lazy devs assumed people were on IE, these days lazy devs assume people are on Chrome. In the future if there is a new browser with a majority of the market, lazy devs will assume people use that browser. The problem isn't any one browser, it's that some people are lazy and seek out shortcuts rather than doing things the correct way.
by xg15 | 2025-07-02 18:14:23+00:00
Maybe I didn't understand the proposal completely yet, but wouldn't the crawler only have to cooperate (send the right headers, implement that auth framework, etc) if they want to pay?

The standard response to a crawler is a 402 Payment Required response, probably as a result of an aggressive bot detection.

So essentially, it's turning a site's entire content into an API: Either sign up for an API key or get blocked.

The question remains though how well they will be able to distinguish bot traffic from humans - also, will they make an exception for search engines?
by JohnMakin | 2025-07-02 18:15:06+00:00
This law took several years to understand for me. Early on, I'd come into an infra situation and kind of incredulously say stuff like "Why not do (incredibly obvious thing)?" and be frustrated by it quite often.

Usually it's not because people think it can't be done, or shouldn't be done, it's because of this law. Like yes in an ideal world we'd do xyz, but department head of product A is a complete anti-productive bozo that no one wants to talk to or deal with, so we'll engineer around him kind of a thing. It's incredibly common once you see it play out you'll see it everywhere.
by mymythisisthis | 2025-07-02 18:15:09+00:00
I've been thinking about the decline of shop classes. It would be nice if schools just had more stuff; basic proper calipers and micrometers, 3D printers, vinyl cutting machines, fountain pens, Rubik's Cubes, etc.. Somehow the trend of cheap goods just didn't make it to the classroom for whatever reason.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-07-02 18:15:18+00:00
They are officers and they are racist mercenaries.

This is not a new force, they have no new powers. They didn't need to hire new people willing to perform these actions nor train them how to do so.

If you haven't considered this before it should hit you like a hammer to the forehead: where are the resignations? Where are the "good cops" we keep hearing about, what are they doing?

The other federal, state, and local law enforcement officers that are assisting in these actions, where is their principled refusal to violate their oath to uphold the constitution? What statements are their powerful and normally very vocal unions making about all this?
by user395929935 | 2025-07-02 18:15:30+00:00
This makes good sense in my experience. I was struggling socially and academically in college so they proctored an IQ test to look for things like ADHD etc. I scored in the 98th percentile for verbal comprehension. Only 2 years later did I have my first psychosis and was diagnosed with Schizoaffective. Luckily after a few rough years I'm doing well on the lowest dose of an antipsychotic and can function in society again. But there are definitely cases of highly creative or people with strong language skills that the expression goes too far like this post suggests.
by kris-kay | 2025-07-02 18:16:38+00:00
Yes, same! I didn't expect it to need so many tricks to implement. Your intuition is correct, the most resource-intensive part is the blur bit of the backdrop-filter. The higher the blur value, the more neighbouring pixels need to be "consulted" before rendering. Another resource-intensive aspect is continuous repaint as you scroll or as a video background changes the look of the glass.
by ericmay | 2025-07-02 18:16:42+00:00
> Nobody I know buys a new phone until the battery dies on the old one.

Ok, well now you know one. I buy new phones even when they work just fine.

> Are you saying that modern airpods don't do bluetooth? And aren't supported on the iphone 11? People have used bluetooth headphones for 20 years. Why would apply regress?

You're not familiar with the products, are you? Folks buy products like AirPods Pro (https://www.apple.com/airpods-pro/) because they have features that they want which aren't necessarily compatible with older phones, for a variety of reasons.

> > Nearly nine in 10 adults think buying the latest smartphone is a “waste of money”. Research polling 2,000 Britons revealed more than half are “bored” of trying to keep up-to-date with the latest tech. And three in four are no longer willing to pay a fortune to get it. As a result, almost a third intend to spend less on smartphones and other gadgets over the next two years.

Most people say the same thing about social media but can't be bothered to delete the accounts that they supposedly never use. I don't think this is relevant to the main point I made which was that people do in fact use their phones for more than "the basics" and they (not me) justify the purchase of a new phone for new features. Your iPhone 11 isn't the same phone as an iPhone 16. The iPhone 16 has a better camera, has different chips, different and better features, etc. and many folks take advantage of those features.

> The point is it's software, which will run just as fine on a supercomputer from 2 years ago as it will on today. What features does an iphone 15 (14? 16? whatever) have that an 11 doesn't have to allow these features?

If you don't know what the difference is between an iPhone 11 and an iPhone 16, then why are you commenting here? You're basically saying "I don't know anything about these phones, but I am sure that people don't need the new one because it's no different, but I also can't tell you the difference or anything about them". Do you not see how asinine that is?
by wslh | 2025-07-02 18:16:44+00:00
Genuine question: is sharing the location or distribution of information about police presence illegal? I assume this would be treated differently if it involved military positions, but I'm curious about how the law applies in this case.

Waze is another example of an app where users can share information about police presence or roadblocks, while useful to some, could also be seen as having negative implications depending on the context.
by zackmorris | 2025-07-02 18:17:01+00:00
As usual, this is the wrong approach.

The open web is akin to the commons, public domain and public land. So this is like putting a spy cam on a freeway billboard, detecting autonomous vehicles, and shining a spotlight at their camera to block them from seeing the ad. To what end?

Eventually these questions will need to be decided in court:

1) Do netizens have the right to anonymity? If not, then we'll have to disclose whether we're humans or artificial beings. Spying on us and blocking us on a whim because our behavior doesn't match social norms will amount to an invasion of privacy (eventually devolving into papers please).

2) Is blocking access to certain users discrimination? If not, then a state-sanctioned market of civil rights abuse will grow around toll roads (think whites-only drinking fountains).

3) Is downloading copyrighted material for learning purposes by AI or humans the same as pirating it and selling it for profit? If so, then we will repeat the everyone-is-a-criminal torrenting era of the 2000s and 2010s when "making available" was treated the same as profiting from piracy, and take abuses by HBO, the RIAA/MPAA and other organizations who shut off users' internet connections through threat of legal actions like suing for violating the DMCA (which should not have been made law in the first place).

I'm sure there are more. If we want to live in a free society, then we must be resolute in our opposition of draconian censorship practices by private industry. Gatekeeping by large, monopolistic companies like Cloudflare simply cannot be tolerated.

I hope that everyone who reads this finds alternatives to Cloudflare and tells their friends. If they insist on pursuing this attack on our civil rights for profit, then I hope we build a countermovement by organizing with the EFF and our elected officials to eventually bring Cloudflare up on antitrust charges.

Cloudflare has shown that they lack the judgement to know better. Which casts doubt on their technical merits and overall vision for how the internet operates. By pursuing this course of action, they have lost face like Google did when it removed its "don't be evil" slogan from its code of conduct so it could implement censorship and operate in China (among other ensh@ttification-related goals).

Edit: just wanted to add that I realize this may be an opt-in feature. But that's not the point - what I'm saying is that this starts a bad precedent and an unnecessary arms race, when we should be questioning whether spidering and training AI on copyrighted materials are threats in the first place.
by stephendause | 2025-07-02 18:17:18+00:00
One point I haven't seen made elsewhere yet is that LLMs can occasionally make you less productive. If they hallucinate a promising-seeming answer and send you down a path that you wouldn't have gone down otherwise, they can really waste your time. I think on net, they are helpful, especially if you check their sources (which might not always back up what they are saying!). But it's good to keep in mind that sometimes doing it yourself is actually faster.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-02 18:17:43+00:00
I think in another post you mention wanting a $50k ARR, that doesn't seem impossible to me but it is a lot of traffic and you ought to back into how much you'd need [x] how much you make per visitor or impression to make that work.

That said, I made a network of sites that were making about $1k a month of ad revenue at the peak which felt very good. This turned out to be a really great demo which looked like something that fell off a UFO and got a recruiter to call which got me the highest paying job I'd ever had to that point. So a site that doesn't make life changing money can still turn out to be a great career move.
by KaiMagnus | 2025-07-02 18:17:47+00:00
I’ve been starting my prompts more and more with the phrase „Let’s brainstorm“.

Really powerful seeing different options, especially based on your codebase.

> I wouldn't give them a big feature again. I'll do very small things like refactoring or a very small-scoped feature.

That really resonates with me. Anything larger often ends badly and I can feel the „tech debt“ building in my head with each minute Copilot is running. I do like the feeling though when you understood a problem already, write a detailed prompt to nudge the AI into the right direction, and it executes just like you wanted. After all, problem solving is why I’m here and writing code is just the vehicle for it.
by jolmg | 2025-07-02 18:17:55+00:00
A teen can go to the store on their own and consume the cigarettes and alcohol right out the door without the parents knowing. There I can see why the parent would need the collaboration of greater society.

But for a phone? A child/early-teen shouldn't be able to afford a phone nor contract with a cellphone-service-provider being underage. That should be collaboration enough. If they got a phone beforehand, it's because the parents themselves got it for them.

Even considering a mid teen starting work, buying a phone and using it with WiFi, they can only really own things with the parents' approval. They can't really use it enough to form an addiction without the parents noticing and having the opportunity to confiscate it.
by Findecanor | 2025-07-02 18:18:21+00:00
1. In my view, video games that stop working are a part of a larger problem with consumer tech right now, and you've got to start somewhere. Gaming is a hobby for a lot of people now, and therefore the most visible example.

2. Games are artefacts of our modern culture, examples of artistic expression (more or less). I don't think that every game, every song and every movie is worth saving, but who am I to disparage what someone else likes.