MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jjk166 | 2025-07-14 04:06:25+00:00
> There is not a world where we decide to restrict purchase by age in meatspace but throw up our hands and say “whelp we just can’t have digital ID presentation that would ruin society I guess we should give up on digital age verification and just let kids do whatever”

We've been living in exactly that world for decades without issue.

It makes perfect sense for meat space to be treated differently from the internet. A downloaded picture of a cigarette can't be smoked. The only thing that can happen on the internet is the exchange of data, and an ID requirement for that is absurd.

> there are much more “legitimate” use cases for ID verification that happen entirely online with no meatspace concerns like banking and underwriting etc. so it’s somewhat a straw man to get hung up on porn

Amazing how those use cases have survived for these decades without such a law. If I don't need to send a copy of my ID every time I sign into my bank account, what possible argument could be made for the requirement I do so to watch porn?

> Whether the restrictions are justified or not or stupid or not, we’ve decided they should exist

No, we have not collectively decided they should exist. Plenty of laws exist which are unpopular either because of the goal or the execution. Even if a law has majority support, that doesn't mean the minority can't argue against keeping or expanding it. A restriction being unjustified or stupid is a very good argument for not doing additional unjustified or stupid things to enforce that law. It's rather silly that there is a federal law forbidding leaving the country with more than $25 in nickels but it's on the books. Ensuring this law is thoroughly enforced with universal mandatory cavity searches looking for rolls of nickels would be indefensible.
by bowsamic | 2025-07-14 04:06:27+00:00
I’ve had this experience specifically with Wolt in Germany: sat in a busy restaurant with sit in diners waiting 2 hours for their meals while the kitchen seemed to be catering for a constant stream of Wolt drivers.

And the real kicker is that of course since this is Germany all the negative reviews have been sued away, including my wife’s very moderate 3 star review. Of course German restaurants will claim it is libel if you write that you had to wait for your food
by aetherspawn | 2025-07-14 04:06:45+00:00
I am an automotive components supplier and I’ve always wondered how automotive giants are staying open or even turning any profit at all (1)

Between this, Nissan and a dozen others, I guess there’s a lot of running-on-debt going on.

1: it’s so difficult with the latest round of laws making a very high level of ADAS mandatory. Huge spend in R+D, particularly software and vertical integration, and then again huge spend on the physical car electronics.
by SlowTao | 2025-07-14 04:07:49+00:00
For most people that is very true, I have seen it repeatedly.

I don't know what my secret is, I lost 100lb and have kept it off for a good 5 years now. But it is a bit of an uphill battle. If I wanted to, I could easily just give in to temptation and slip right back but it hasn't happened yet.
by gpm | 2025-07-14 04:11:17+00:00
"Responsibility" doesn't help the person who goes to prison based on the "evidence" of the bullshit report that the jury decided to believe. Or the person who goes to prison when the bullshit report should have exonerated them, but didn't. Or in the other direction entirely a victim whose abuser goes free because of the bullshit in the report.

Ultimately accuracy in police reports is a high stakes endeavour, it's not a place to be putting bullshit generators.
by ares623 | 2025-07-14 04:11:34+00:00
I'm sure there's an order of magnitude difference between living in an RV for a few days _knowing_ it's temporary (or at least hoping it is), vs living in one knowing it's permanent. You make completely different choices and take on a different mentality.

It's like all the UBI tests. It's not meaningful if the participants know the UBI will stop after a certain period.
by friggeri | 2025-07-14 04:11:38+00:00
Having experienced them, those runs were surprisingly not awful. In such cases I’ll jog a very slow mile, paying really close attention to what my body tells me (if I can walk, I can shuffle a mile or so). If anything, the act of getting out of the house and accomplishing something has more than once given me a morale and energy boost while sick.

The actually awful runs I’ve had are more of the "type 2 fun" kind (running in the desert, grueling trail runs), or the occasional hungover run before I quit drinking.
by maxglute | 2025-07-14 04:12:53+00:00
Delivering smart munitions at relevant scale is key to winning wars, news at 11. "Drones" are just that proliferated to squad level. I suppose it does represent completing the smart munitions onion, but ultimately it's about using better munitions at standoff distances, i.e. being on the outer layer to asymmetrically bleed your adversary. If you're fighting on the same layer, i.e. symmetrically, be prepared bleed.
by naasking | 2025-07-14 04:13:57+00:00
Another poster up thread identified the exact problem: async/await contexts are not first-class values, they are second class citizens. If they were values then you could just stick the context in a struct/class and pass that around instead, and avoid having to refactor call chains every time something changes. It's their second class status that forces the "colouring" into the function signature itself at each point. This is also why ordinary first class values do not introduce colours, ie. you can hide new values/parameters inside other types that are already part of the function signature, thus halting the propagation/vitality of the change.

Of course, if these async contexts were first class citizens then you've basically just reinvented delimited continuations, and that introduces complications that compiler writers want to avoid, which is why async/await are second citizens.
by hliyan | 2025-07-14 04:16:34+00:00
This is one of the most harmful attitudes to come out of otherwise smart people in Silicon Valley. Dismissing any effort that does not bear immediate, tangible fruit, failing to follow a chain of causality to long term benefits and discounting the intellect of people working on such efforts.

For example, a similar attitude would have dismissed J.J. Thompson's work on cathode rays and electrons in the late 1800's, and would have seen his intellect directed to steam engines and steel work. That would have seen a delay in the very technology ecosystem that enabled the parent to post their comment.
by langfo | 2025-07-14 04:17:32+00:00
I started as an apprentice electrician at 16 years old way back in the late 1980's for a large company. I believe the reason I was successfully offered the apprenticeship was due to bringing to the interview my completed and working LED VU meter Dick Smith electronic kit (big in Australia at the time). It was something real they could hold and look over. I remember them spending a fair amount of time looking over my soldering, cutting of component legs and wiring. Then asking a few basic electronics questions. Something real pre-internet to stand out from the crowd :-)
by dathery | 2025-07-14 04:17:49+00:00
> Lina Khan and the US government in general blocked all kinds of tech acquisition and merger to the point that companies got creative and as a result many Windsurf employees got screwed. On the other hand, it's totally normal that a handful companies control our food supply chain.

Lina Khan's FTC also successfully sued to block the Kroger-Albertsons merger...
by jasonm23 | 2025-07-14 04:19:15+00:00
It's more that media searches for an ending, endlessly.

But cannot accept it's own.

Bluesky and Mastadon supply a place, separate from the toxicity of "attempted narrative control"

Labeling Bluesky as toxic, is an irony beyond the pale, but... it'll float with that ecosystem, where everything is transactional and a "better crafted lie" is the endless goal.
by woodruffw | 2025-07-14 04:20:10+00:00
That's a calling convention, with indirection. You need some kind of capability token for this kind of asynchronicity scheme; it doesn't matter how you get it, but it needs to be there.

To be clear, there's nothing wrong with this; it's just another way to encode capabilities/effects.

> what is the color of the function that took the vtable?

It has the I/O effect.
by stevekemp | 2025-07-14 04:22:17+00:00
I live in Finland, and while it is not universal it is extremely common for IT-companies to have a working-language of English.

The country is small and hires both immigrants, and people who specifically relocate to start working at the English-only companies, as well as local candidates.

Learning Finnish will obviously make your life easier, in many many ways, but companies themselves do not seem to expect or require it.
by ram_rar | 2025-07-14 04:23:47+00:00
Can someone help me understand how many companies are generally needed for healthy competition, as opposed to a market being considered fragmented or monopolistic? To the untrained eye, having 5 players might seem like a reasonable level of competition and suggest a functioning market. Personally, I’ve always seen food delivery as a premium service rather than an essential one — so it makes sense that there's a higher cost for the convenience of having a burrito delivered to your door in near real time.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-07-14 04:24:30+00:00
Even the subtitle of this article basically enforces that fact:

> Why is my $8 burger $23 after fees - An average reddit user

As you say, it's a private taxi for your burrito. When you factor in the labor costs, gas/car maint costs, and the amortized cost of providing the service, it's hard to see why anyone would think $15 for an on-demand delivery in a major urban area is abnormal.
by Natsu | 2025-07-14 04:24:36+00:00
I've read more than just this particular writeup. See also: https://ian.sh/mcdonalds

> During a cursory security review of a few hours, we identified two serious issues: the McHire administration interface for restaurant owners accepted the default credentials 123456:123456, and an insecure direct object reference (IDOR) on an internal API allowed us to access any contacts and chats we wanted. Together they allowed us and anyone else with a McHire account and access to any inbox to retrieve the personal data of more than 64 million applicants.
by craz8 | 2025-07-14 04:24:41+00:00
I have 2 measurable ones on Zepbound.

My lowest sleeping heart rate is now at least 10 beats higher than before starting (it comes down during the week to about 10 over)

The night after taking the injection my sleep is crap, and the heart rate is 5+ higher again

I have lost 20lbs since mid March with no real effort, and we’re about to do some blood tests for specific cholesterol numbers, which was one of the reasons to try this out.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-07-14 04:27:47+00:00
>> Any company which has earnings beyond those of operating costs is a concentration of wealth by definition.

For context, here is the second sentence related to the above:

Whether that wealth is distributed to shareholders, kept as retained earnings, or otherwise transferred to specific entities is irrelevant.

I believe this relevant to the below.

> Let's say I buy $20 worth of art supplies, and I paint a landscape and sign it with my moniker, "bright". Since "bright" paintings are very rare and go for a million bucks each, I now have created a million bucks of value. Who did I transfer the wealth from? Nobody. I took nuttin from nobody. Yet I have become wealthy.

This scenario is not relevant to "big business", but instead describes a sole proprietorship with an assumption of a known fungible value. It also does not account for consumable goods and/or transient services. In any event, by your own definition below:

> Let's say I sell it to you for a million bucks. Did I take your wealth? Nope. I traded a million dollar painting for a million bucks. You are exactly as wealthy as you were before.

Either you have not "become wealthy", as you "traded a million dollar painting for a million bucks" or the effectual value of money exceeds the purchase value of the "million dollar painting". Both cannot be true.

Back to my statement of corporate earnings beyond operational costs being a concentration of wealth. I believe we can agree on the following:

- Any for-profit company has as its purpose the goal of accounts receivable (AR) exceeding accounts payable (AP) over time.

- There are a limited number of recipients regarding profit distribution for any given company.

- Those having no direct or indirect ownership of a given company do not receive profit distributions.

If we agree on the above, then the larger the profits, the larger the distributions. Since the set of people qualifying for profit distributions are less than the set of all people having no investment relation to the company, it follows that said profits are enjoyed by fewer entities than those strictly involved in the AR side of the ledger.

Hence a concentration of wealth into the organization.
by 0x457 | 2025-07-14 04:27:48+00:00
Huh?

You have the following call stack (top to bottom): a -> b -> c -> d

Function "d" does IO, so a, b and c need to pass that IO down. It's the same as with async in terms of virality.

If I understood correctly, the main benefit here is that you don't have to dance around "can I call this function or is it going to block async runtime reactor?"

I would pick async/await style over this because (I think) extra function argument is higher visual load than "async fn".
by opo | 2025-07-14 04:29:00+00:00
>The faction that currently runs the Democratic party is the centrist, deficit-reducing, foreign-intervention-when-necessary party of Reagan/Bush.

How are you defining "deficit-reducing"?

>Over the four years of President Biden’s term – from January 2021 through January 2025 – we estimate that he approved $4.7 trillion in new ten-year debt through legislation and executive actions.

https://www.crfb.org/blogs/how-much-did-president-biden-add-...

That rate of debt increase is neither responsible or sustainable - though such irresponsible behavior has now been adopted by both parties. Both parties seem to have become radicalized and are catering to their worst instincts.
by noah_buddy | 2025-07-14 04:30:24+00:00
Respectfully, if this guy has been doing it for ten years, it’s obviously not so bad as you make it out to be. It’s not a grind set mentality, it’s just one guys choice to exercise in a certain manner.

I am a runner. I train at what is probably the 80th percentile for longer distances, so I am by no means an expert. But I do understand that if you are running 7 miles a week, most of the time, your body isn’t going to be that beat up, especially if you are taking it slow.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-07-14 04:31:04+00:00
"If people don't agree with Google move, the only correct course of action is to ditch Chrome (and all Chromium browsers)."

Is it OK to use non-Chromium browsers that send search query data or other behavioural data to Google by default

"Hit them where it hurts and take away their monopoly over the future direction of the web."

Let's say, hypothetically, the company behind a particular non-Chromium browser is Google's business partner and dependent on Google for its continued existence

And that Google can effectively pull the plug on this non-Chromium browser at any time for any reason

Would choosing this particular browser be a correct course of action to "hit them where it hurts"
by krackers | 2025-07-14 04:31:36+00:00
Although thinking a bit more, even constrained to only output dots, there can still some amount of information passing between each token, namely in the hidden states. The attention block N layers deep will compute attention scores off of the residual stream for previous inputs at that layer, so some information can be passed along this way.

It's not very efficient though, because for token i layer N can only receive as input layer N-1 for tokens i-1, i-2... So information is sort of passed along diagonally. If handwavily the embedding represents some "partial result" then it can be passed along diagonally from (N-1, i-1) to (N, i) to have the COT for token i+1 continue to work on it. So this way even though the total circuit depth is still bounded by # of layers, it's clearly "more powerful" than just naively going from layer 1...n, because during the other steps you can maybe work on something else.

But it's still not as powerful as allowing the results at layer n to be fed back in, which effectively unrolls the depth. This maybe intuitively justifies the results in the paper (I think it also has some connection to communication complexity).
by tsimionescu | 2025-07-14 04:33:28+00:00
You can also think about it the other way - if a drug caused you to lose 10-20% of your body weight, and you're now at a good body weight after 2 years, why would you want to lose another 10-20% body weight?

I understand that's not really how it works, but people often go very much by feel more than anything else.
by lazide | 2025-07-14 04:35:19+00:00
So we both agree, he was deported while he was here legally.

And notably, the reason the gov’t has been giving for doing that deportation appears to not be the original illegal immigration offense you seem to think it is - but an apparently purely fictitious claim that he was in MS-13 (including a doctored photo of tattoos presented by Trump).

So to repeat, it seems quite obvious that ICE didn’t deport him because he was here illegally in the past (a Judge had prevented that previously), that he was here legally when he was deported (on a Immigration Judge’s orders even), and that the evidence presented as to why he was a member of MS-13 was clearly faked - but still presented as the truth by the President himself to the public. Ala ‘Iraq WMD’.

And the second example is the President threatening to make a born and raised US citizen stateless and ‘deport them’, which is also blatantly illegal eh? Constitutionally, that isn’t even supposed to be a thing.

The LACK of concern here is what appears to be unjustified. Are there probably completely normal and legally justified deportations still going on? I certainly hope so! But the concern here is that the President (ICE’s boss) is sending a very clear message that it is not only not required, but apparently undesirable, that these deportations be legal.
by adgjlsfhk1 | 2025-07-14 04:35:37+00:00
Yeah that's quite short. Healthy weight loss is typically in the ~.5-1 kg/week, while this is an extended period at 2-4x that rate. The effect that will have will largely depend on what your starting weight is, but unless you're starting significantly north of 140kg, it seems like the amount of muscle (and maybe bone density?) loss would be pretty severe.
by lazide | 2025-07-14 04:35:42+00:00
Generally true - if not stolen, then they would need to lie on the SSN appliation (no permission to work, but some other approved purpose, but then use it when working). It would be easy to cross-reference SS/IRS tax records on this front too. [https://www.ssa.gov/ssnumber/ss5doc.htm#work2].

They have to have those stolen SSNs (or one acquired fraudulently) to get on a W2 payroll, and there is no legal way to get a SSN like that if you aren’t here legally. SS and federal programs explicitly go after anyone with those stolen SSNs if they try to withdraw funds. I imagine California is not as friendly to it either, if you really dig in. But they happily accept contributions.

And it would be trivial to modify the system so those folks couldn’t get on the payroll in the first place by requiring new employee information be submitted and verified to prevent this - last I checked it was actually explicitly illegal to do that however. Though the data is required to be kept handy in case of a raid/inspection by ICE by the employer.

I don’t think anyone is claiming being here illegally is GOOD. Rather that the system benefits from doing things that way (in the sense of illegal folks paying in, and generally unable to withdraw), and things are structured to enable this at the benefit of companies, the US gov’t, etc.

‘illegals’ as far as I can tell are definitely not sitting at home fat on SS benefits. Rather the opposite.
by K0balt | 2025-07-14 04:38:02+00:00
Ive not seen that kind of mistreatment of people, but I’m sure it happens especially in situations of extreme class disparity.

Where I live it’s extremely laid back- it’s rural, 50 minutes from Santiago and an hour from puerto plata.

We have a coffee plantation that I pretend to run, but I spend most of my time working on tech and improving our micro-grid and water micro-utility systems.

Lots of avocado and fruit trees, cacao, etc. there are several houses and a bunch of cabanas we have built here since 2018, a couple of parks, a lounge, trails etc. we moved a whole project here during Covid, so we built out the campus a little bit to accommodate that. It’s a very campo vibe, but with modern conveniences and systems.

If you come by this way, let me know.

Where is casa del campo located? Was the town Sosua? I’ve always thought of Sosúa as being mostly German expats, but TBH I typically avoid those kinds of places in favor of the Latino culture, so I wouldn’t really know.

There’s island culture and Latino culture here, as well as enclaves and barrios of a lot of nationalities. Santiago has some very euro feeling neighborhoods - but that’s immigrant communities, not expats.

Unfortunately a lot of expats prefer spend their time commiserating with other expats about whatever isn’t the same as it is back in their country lol, so I tend to avoid that scene and mostly associate with more established families and people.

I like the Cibao area, more of a Castilian vibe, Spanish colonial, and not so much island culture. It’s not that island culture is bad, it’s just that it centers around hospitality, entertainment and tourism, so a white guy often isn’t looked at as a person so much as an opportunity.

I think that’s pretty universal across where I’ve been all over the world, port towns and tourist hotspots all have that same vibe.
by disconcision | 2025-07-14 04:38:39+00:00
i'm not convinced takeover is a fair description. its true that functional languages are over-represented in the more theory-laden subfields, but this is in on small part because functional languages are easier to reason about. 'reason' here is not intended in any prescriptive sense, just in the sense that they are more mathematically circumscribed. proving anything in an imperative language is going to mean proving it in the purely functional fragment of that language first and then drawing the rest of the owl, so when someone wants to try something new they're probably going to try it in mice first.
by anovikov | 2025-07-14 04:40:56+00:00
Ironically, there's no M2 expansion going on since Covid days and M2 to GDP is back to what it was pre-Covid and overall didn't even increase much at all even since GFC. It's only 1.5x of what it was at the bottom in 1997 when cost of capital was much higher than today. I think this concern is misplaced.
by duskwuff | 2025-07-14 04:43:00+00:00
> There is a similar trend in India with Aryuveda/Unani.

It might actually be worse. There's a strong religious/nationalist element to some Ayurvedic promoters in India which vociferously rejects any kind of scientific rigor - the attitude amounts to "if Western science says Ayurveda is wrong, Western science must be wrong". TCM doesn't seem to attract the same degree of dogmatism.
by BrendanEich | 2025-07-14 04:43:26+00:00
I was a cofounder of MDN (originally "DevMo"), and we did not use Opera or other materials, we used Netscape's DevEdge content which was released to us. You may be thinking of a later reformulation to unite with others outside Mozilla. See

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/about#our_journey