MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tartoran | 2025-07-11 21:08:25+00:00
Well, if you use LLMs to write a book and claim to be a writer that is crossing a line. A writer doesn't just write the book, they do a lot of thinking over the concepts of the book and their writing style is somewhat unique to themselves. It's deceiving to prentend you're not using AI when you are. And if you are that's fine as long as you disclose it.
by in_cahoots | 2025-07-11 21:09:17+00:00
I asked my Bengali friend, who grew up in a lower-class family in rural Bangladesh. This is something he learned about in schools in the 90's. The test isn't easily available, but it's not like this is a surprise to the Bangladeshi community.

The analogy would be if someone came to the US, found salmonella on some produce, and wrote some breathless article about how they found the 'culprit'. This is business as usual masquerading as a longform news piece.
by andy99 | 2025-07-11 21:09:57+00:00
Imo, a lot of the magic is also dataset driven, specifically the SFT and other fine tuning / RLHF data they have. That's what has separated the models people actually use from the also-rans.

I agree with everything you say about getting the experience, the infrastructure is very important and is probably the most critical part of a sovereign LLM supply chain. I would hope there will also be enough focus on the data, early on, that the model will be useful.
by singron | 2025-07-11 21:10:18+00:00
It depends on if you are getting Heap Only Tuples (HOT) updates or not. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/storage-hot.html

In this case, you might have enough dead tuples across your heap that you might get a lot of HOT updates. If you are processing in insertion order, you will also probably process in heap order, and you can actually get 0 HOT updates since the other tuples in the page aren't fully dead yet. You could try using a lower fillfactor to avoid this, but that's also bad for performance so it might not help.
by gruez | 2025-07-11 21:10:26+00:00
>Sure, I could send it in for a battery replacement. and not have a phone for a week or two, and get my phone back or maybe not.

There's walk-in replacements in select countries:

>Starting July 21, 2025 battery replacement will be available:

>At walk-in repair centers in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, Singapore, Japan, and India.

>[...] Additional battery replacement capability is expected in Japan, France, some other parts of Europe, and Australia soon.
by strangattractor | 2025-07-11 21:10:43+00:00
Yes my entire retirement is in "gov't currency" called US dollars and Stocks.

I asked for specific evidence or instances of corruption or unfairness. Making an accusation (gov't is corrupt) without evidence or example and saying something is true repeatedly is not a substitute for actual evidence. There are many documented cases of money laundering and wash trades with Bitcoin. These same activities are done using fiat currencies, but in the US at least BT (before Trump), they were illegal and people doing it were subject to criminal investigation. I do agree that there are many gov't policies that have lead to inequities in the distribution of the money that should be addressed.

Bitcoin will only make a fixed number of Bitcoins but they forked Bitcoins into 2 separate coins years ago which some might consider as printing more Bitcoin since everyone got a copy of their existing coins. New ShitCoins are minted to scam people on a regular basis. If anything the barriers to printing too much money are lower with Crypto because it is so easy to make a new coin type. Have you invested in any NFT's lately? What about coin front running? [0]

[0] https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/argentina-main-stock-...

Thinking Crypto is not subject to corruption is very naive.

>"If you don't think the government is corrupt, I don't know what to tell you. " If you cannot explain of give examples then I have to assume you don't really know - it is your opinion. I am sure people living in certain deeply corrupt countries - Russia comes to mind - like Bitcoin because their countries currencies are unstable and access to other currencies is limited. That said the reason they like it is BC can be exchanged for stable currencies to buy things. If those stable currencies did not exist BC would be useless for them also.
by aspenmayer | 2025-07-11 21:11:08+00:00
I suspect it’s a deliberate strategy in other venues. I see a lot of comments on HN that seem like they’re rage/troll/flame bait to cause a line of inquiry they are advancing to be flagged/downvoted, but if done as intended, their reply will be divisive enough that the troll trigger man isn’t identified as a troll, but they induce trolling in others.

Anyone Can Become a Troll: Causes of Trolling Behavior in Online Discussions

Justin Cheng, Michael Bernstein, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Jure Leskovec

> In online communities, antisocial behavior such as trolling disrupts constructive discussion. While prior work suggests that trolling behavior is confined to a vocal and antisocial minority, we demonstrate that ordinary people can engage in such behavior as well. We propose two primary trigger mechanisms: the individual’s mood, and the surrounding context of a discussion (e.g., exposure to prior trolling behavior). Through an experiment simulating an online discussion, we find that both negative mood and seeing troll posts by others significantly increases the probability of a user trolling, and together double this probability. To support and extend these results, we study how these same mechanisms play out in the wild via a data-driven, longitudinal analysis of a large online news discussion community. This analysis reveals temporal mood effects, and explores long range patterns of repeated exposure to trolling. A predictive model of trolling behavior shows that mood and discussion context together can explain trolling behavior better than an individual’s history of trolling. These results combine to suggest that ordinary people can, under the right circumstances, behave like trolls.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5791909/
by MaxBarraclough | 2025-07-11 21:11:42+00:00
Firefox reader mode works ok for me. Chromium tells me there was 2.5mB of downstream traffic to load the page, rising to 4.3 if I scroll to the Recommended from Medium spam at the bottom of the page. That would be appalling if the bar weren't so low.

I'm reminded of The Website Obesity Crisis, [0] where the author mentions reading an article about web bloat, then noticing that page was not exactly a shining example of lightweight design. He even calls out Medium specifically.

[0] https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm , discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34466910
by ericmay | 2025-07-11 21:12:21+00:00
> The agency of Americans is also contributing to this reccuring.

I’m going to push back very, very hard on ascribing any sort of blame on anyone other than those who are committing these acts. Least of all the American taxpayer, regardless of whether or not dismantling USAID is a good idea.

If the rest of the world is so helpless that all hope depends on Americans to solve even problems such as this and it’s our fault for not doing so, then I don’t want to hear a peep about us taking any other actions in the world that we deem just. You can’t have it both ways.
by jlhawn | 2025-07-11 21:12:36+00:00
This goes back to my top-level comment: the assessment of your property should not be based on sales of nearby property but on observed rental values. Just because your neighbor has sold their plot and the new owner has the intent to build 99 houses on is so far inconsequential ... we have yet to observe any actual rent increases and likely will not until those houses are actually constructed and rented/sold themselves. Only then can we accurately observe the potential rental value of your adjacent land.
by jpc0 | 2025-07-11 21:13:10+00:00
Takes this with a massive grain of salt but my experience with Google Code CLI recently, we pay for google products but not others internally, I can’t change that decision.

I asked it two implement two bicubic filters, a high pass filter and a high shelf filter. Some context, using the gemini webapp it would split out the exact code I need with the interfaces I require one shot because this is truly trivial C++ code to write.

15 million tokens and an hour and a half later I now had a project that could not build, the filters were not implemented and my trust in AI agentic workflows broken.

It cost me nothing, I just reset the repo and I was watching youtube videos for that hour and a half.

Your mileage may vary and I’m very sure if this was golang or typescript it might have done significantly better, but even compared to the exact same model in a chat interface my experience was horrible.

I’m sticking to the slightly “worse” experience of using the chat interface which does give me significant improvements in productivity vs letting the agent burn money and time and not produce working code.
by micromacrofoot | 2025-07-11 21:14:20+00:00
This seems to be be becoming an increasing problem in many places, there are a number of protests that have popped up in Madrid, Venice, Hawaii, Mexico City, Lisbon...

I can't blame them really, I've been kind of disgusted by the behavior of tourists I've seen in some places to the point where I think I won't travel much to major cities any more. What happened to trying to blend in?
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-07-11 21:14:35+00:00
Under an LVT, almost all of the value of the surrounding improvements would be considered part of your land value, since even an empty lot in their vicinity would benefit from the surrounding improvements. Thus, a 100% LVT would capture 100% of the value someone might gain from the presence of those surrounding improvements. In the worst case, you personally benefit far less from those improvements than a typical renter would (e.g., bike lanes if you don't own a bike), so their presence is a net negative to you.

That's why income taxes are less than 100%. But some people advocate for a 100% LVT very seriously.
by wavemode | 2025-07-11 21:15:06+00:00
> But deep down I know that I don't belong here, and that Japan would prefer to be a homogenous society without expats like me. And I hold no hard feelings toward them for that.

I get what you're saying, but I also marvel at how completely contrary this is to the "freedom of movement" ethics of the West. I mean, someone who holds this same opinion in Europe or America would be considered a Neo-Nazi.
by TacticalCoder | 2025-07-11 21:15:58+00:00
> But I really wonder whether we've lost something by not making more of an effort to use resources more frugally.

On the desktop we definitely lost responsiveness. Many webpages, even on the speediest, fatest, computer of them all are dog slow compared to what they should be.

Now some pages are fine but the amount of pigs out there is just plain insane.

I like my desktop to be lean and ultra low latency: I'll have tens of windows (including several browsers) and it's super snappy. Switching from one virtual workspace to another is too quick to see what's happening (it take milliseconds and I do it with a keyboard shortcut: reaching for the mouse is a waste of time).

I know what it means to have a system that feels like it's responding instantly as I do have such a system... Except when I browse the web!

And it's really only some (well, a lot of) sites: people who know what they're doing still come up with amazingly fast websites. But it's the turds: those shipping every package under the sun and calling thousands of micro-services, wasting all the memory available because they know jack shit about computer science, that make the Web a painful experience.

And although I use LLMs daily, I see a big overlap between those having the mindset required to produce such turds and those thinking LLMs are already perfectly fine today to replace devs, so I'm not exactly thrilled about the immediate future of the web.

P.S: before playing the apologists for such turd-sites, remember you're commenting on a very lean website. So there's that.
by dudeinjapan | 2025-07-11 21:16:34+00:00
Growing up my friend’s dad was a conservative christian and a frequent caller into conservative talk radio shows. There was a state referendum to legalize marijuana, so I asked what he thought. “Of course it should be legal. It says right there in Genesis—God said: I give you every herb bearing seed upon the Earth. What could be more clear-cut than that?”
by OptionOfT | 2025-07-11 21:16:49+00:00
I have a couple of shades with Somfi motors, and got one of those Bond bridges with it, to connect it to Home-Assistant.

Except you cannot add stuff to that bridge without registering the device to your account. The resale value of the device drops to zero once their server dies, as you cannot add it to a new account, or add new devices to it.

The 1 redeeming factor is that you can control the devices that you have set up in an offline manner.

But I'm still on the lookout for a fully-functional ZWave to Somfi bridge.

And articles like this actually show that I was right in returning my ceiling fan that was Home-Depot-Data-Collecting only. Now I have a more expensive, but HomeKit capable Hunter (which is absolute hell to set up).
by almostgotcaught | 2025-07-11 21:17:21+00:00
> For a solo dev, I'm not yet sure this is actually viable, but I will give it more consideration.

look i'm not trying to shit on your project - i promise - i know calling you out like this publically almost requires a political kind of response (i probably shouldn't have done it). i agree with you that as a solo dev you can't (shouldn't) solve this problem - you have enough on your plate making jank great for your core users (who probably don't really care about cpp).

> As I said before, basically any query builder or codegen takes some form of string generation.

i mean this is a tautology on the level of "everything can be represented as strings". yes that's true but types (as you mention are important) and all i'm arguing is that it's much more robust to start with types and end with types instead of starting with strings and ending with types.

anyway you don't need to keep addressing my complaints - you have enough on your plate.
by louiskw | 2025-07-11 21:17:34+00:00
Yes I generally cherry pick the easier 50% of my backlog and work on those with Vibe Kanban, and the other 50% is still manual or happens with coding agent but with a human-in-the-loop.

This is a bet that coding agents will continue to get better, and this feels like the right time to try and figure out the interface.
by in_cahoots | 2025-07-11 21:19:00+00:00
But for anyone who knows the Bangladeshi community this isn't a surprise at all. Neither the source nor the way it wakes its way into immigrants diets. Every time my Bengali friends visit Bangladesh they take an empty suitcase to fill with spices, sweets, and the like. The adulteration has been going on for decades.

I feel like the article should have been written from that perspective- an outsider discovering how a different community operates and polices itself- instead of from the perspective of some Western saviors uncovering a new problem.
by projectazorian | 2025-07-11 21:19:09+00:00
> But even in Kyoto, go off the beaten path a little, and you will find much to delight you!

Extremely true. I just got back from Japan and I was very pleased by how little effort it took to get off the tourist trail, even in Kyoto. Of course some popular attractions are still worth seeing and for those, visiting around opening is usually enough to avoid the worst of the crowds. (If you're flying in from the US there's a good chance jet lag has you up at 5am anyway, so this is an effective strategy even for non-morning people.)
by cloverich | 2025-07-11 21:19:13+00:00
> Again, this is.. biden or kamala or clinton?

The state of the left in general, which is effectively what led to Kamala (a bad candidate) leading the Democratic Party instead of someone that had a more legitimate chance of winning. The example I provided was the (otherwise smart) people I know saying "We just can't have a woman candidate" as though _that_ were the reason she lost. It's difficult to have that conversation - they look at you like a complete jerk when you suggest... no that's not the reason she lost. Which is what OP was getting at.

> Is it intolerant to refuse to consider the idea of deporting 65 million american citizens of latino descent? What is the correct response for this in your world?

What is the intent of this exactly? This isn't the issue swing voters I know of reference in thinking Biden / D's were bad on immigration. They would refer to the surge in (illegal) immigration.

> I'd have to ask, were people voting based on what democrats actually did, or what they were told they did?

One of (or the?) Kamala's first network appearance involved her opening with responding to "What would you do different" with "Nothing in particular... and I was involved in a lot of the important decisions". It is difficult to even imagine what would lead to her saying such a thing if not an echo chamber but, certainly that kind of thing impacted a lot of swing voters. 2020-2024 was a very bad time for a lot of people. You need to tackle that head on.
by steveBK123 | 2025-07-11 21:19:16+00:00
Right, I'm 100% against the dismantling of our foreign aid programs, USAID included..

However, the world playing both sides of the coin on "US World Police" being bad when it does stuff but also bad when it doesn't do stuff is part of how we end up where we are.

It's a minuscule part of our budget, but an easy sell for right wingers to say "well the world isn't grateful for it and its all a bunch of waste so we are killing it" then get if not majority support, less than 50% disapproval.
by SpecialistK | 2025-07-11 21:20:55+00:00
I've just finished CF swapping a PowerBook 1400cs/117. It's a base model with 12MB RAM, so there are other bottlenecks, but OS 8.1 takes about 90 seconds from power to desktop and that's pretty good for a low-end machine with a fairly heavy OS.

Somehow the 750MB HDD from 1996 is still working, but I admit that the crunch and rumble of HDDs is a nostalgia I'm happy to leave in the past.

My 1.67 PowerBook G4 screams with a 256GB mSATA SSD-IDE adapter. Until you start compiling code or web surfing, it still feels like a pretty modern machine. I kind of wish I didn't try the same upgrade on a iBook G3, though...
by citizenpaul | 2025-07-11 21:21:40+00:00
I once worked at a job where an entry level person started crashing any meeting they were allowed in an not thrown out of. I mean people would literally say why is person X in this meeting? And they would just stay there.

So how did this end? Well despite literally ignoring and not in any way doing their actual job because of this, they were promoted to management.

So yeah, meetings are about reinforcing mgmt power above all else.
by h0rv | 2025-07-11 21:22:33+00:00
I've been using d2-mcp in Cursor with Claude Sonnet or Opus (o3 was not great). Cursor provides project structure and details (depending on the level abstraction you want in the diagram) to give really great results.

Before creating d2-mcp, Claude would give okay diagrams, but giving it the ability to "see" what it created, gives it the ability to see its own mistakes and fix them, and optimize for human readability.
by 59nadir | 2025-07-11 21:22:45+00:00
We surely shouldn't need a whole minute, 3 seconds should suffice? ;)

Jokes aside, if 20x was on the table for any kind of meaningful work we wouldn't need to wait for much of anything, entire parts of industry would be invented and technically reworked by now. It's most likely ~1.25x for what is mostly trivial work that approaches 95% boilerplate and zero actual design work.

If you read calrain's posts the 20x number is taken from the "fact" that sometimes (not consistently or most of the time) something that was estimated at 2 weeks or 80 hours (who knows what it was and how that number came to be?) took 2 hours instead. That's not just some minor detail; it's just not a sound way of thinking about productivity increases.
by gavinsyancey | 2025-07-11 21:23:30+00:00
My btrfs filesystem has been slowly eating my data for a while; large files will find their first 128k replaced with all nulls. Rewriting it will sometimes fix it temporarily, but it'll revert back to all nulls after some time. That said, this might be my fault for using raid6 for data and trying to replace a failing disk a while ago.
by lerno | 2025-07-11 21:23:33+00:00
A dangling pointer will generally still possible to dereference (this is an implementation detail, that might get improved – temp allocators aren't using virtual memory on supporting platforms yet), but in safe more that data will be scratched out with a value, I believe we use 0xAA by default. So as soon as this data is used out of scope you'll find out.

This is of course not as good as ASAN or a borrow checker, but it interacts very nicely with C.
by decimalenough | 2025-07-11 21:24:36+00:00
> The aircraft achieved the maximum recorded airspeed of 180 Knots IAS at about 08:08:42 UTC and immediately thereafter, the Engine 1 and Engine 2 fuel cutoff switches transitioned from RUN to CUTOFF position one after another with a time gap of 01 sec. The Engine N1 and N2 began to decrease from their take-off values as the fuel supply to the engines was cut off.

So the fuel supply was cut off intentionally. The switches in question are also built so they cannot be triggered accidentally, they need to be unlocked first by pulling them out.

> In the cockpit voice recording, one of the pilots is heard asking the other why did he cutoff. The other pilot responded that he did not do so.

And both pilots deny doing it.

It's difficult to conclude anything other than murder-suicide.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-07-11 21:25:43+00:00
Nice. I'm afraid I simply assumed, like other "frameworks", it was going to entail wandering all over StackOverflow, etc.

Still, when I simply told Claude that I wanted the pins to group together when zoomed out — it immediately knew I meant "clustering" and added the proper import to the top of the HTML file ... got it done.
by timr | 2025-07-11 21:25:52+00:00
Yes, agreed. I’m not talking about places like Roppongi or the sketchier parts of Shinjuku and Shibuya, Dotonbori, Umeda, etc., which have always been red light districts.

I’m talking about a more pedestrian type of ripoff, which is simply to overcharge and underdeliver - think of $40 for tough meat, labeled “Kobe beef”, and you’ll get the idea. It’s always been around, but far more prevalent now.
by vvillena | 2025-07-11 21:26:50+00:00
The Spain blackout was caused by a multitude of reasons. Lack of stability was one of the factors, but there were other causes, such as energy generation facilities disconnecting while the oscillations were still under a nominal range, or a generator ordered to become online to induce stability, that started driving the load in the wrong direction. All this was compounded by a distribution network unable to redistribute or at least isolate the problems to individual regions, resulting in a complete blackout.

All in all, it's several things that need to be reinforced. The distribution network needs to be smarter. The energy generation facilities need to be tested through their entire voltage range, so they can be counted upon. And there has to be more voltage inertia available in the network.