MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by renewiltord | 2025-07-05 21:26:58+00:00
Trains are shaped like penis, bus is shape like penis, skyscraper is shape like penis, rocket is shape like penis, now Amazon logo is shape like penis? Why are all Americans always looking everywhere for shape like penis. Every time.

"Hello, American, look at this pencil"

"Pencil?! Shaped like penis!"

"Hello, American, look at your hands"

"Oh my god! That is five penises a hand!"

Constantly searching for penis everywhere. Is there reason for this? It is not as common elsewhere, but American is always constantly searching for penis. If not provided, American will construct it out of household objects. Desperate for penis, American will find it even in intangible objects like logo.
by aimeric | 2025-07-05 21:27:00+00:00
A substantial mythology has formed around the soundtrack's creation. One of the prevailing notions is that the sounds were generated by torturing and electrically overloading the "cybernetic circuits". There's evidence that this is simply artistic misdirection.

In reality, the music was carefully crafted and performed - with an emphasis on performance, rather than random events and sounds. (The genre of "Krell music" went off at a completely wrong tangent in this regard...)

It's unfortunate that Bebe Barron downplayed her own compositional technique and creative input in order to bolster this mythology.

The research is focused on the nature of the Barrons' cybernetic circuits. Using digital equivalents of these circuits, the aim is to recreate the title track, using only the techniques that were available to the Barrons in the 1950s.
by codingdave | 2025-07-05 21:27:46+00:00
> How do you generate interest in your B2B software in current state of AI?

Stop saying "AI". People care if you solve a problem of theirs - that is all. When anything in your emails says "AI", you become noise, and get ignored. Partly because people are getting tired of it, but partly because if the only differentiator of your product is AI, then they can do it themselves with ChatGPT or some other LLM and do not need your product. If you lead with "AI", it tells people that you don't have much else to say.

(...and now is the time when as a sales person, you start telling me all about your product is different and how it is way more than just ChatGPT, because, because, reasons, reasons. As your audience, even if you are telling the truth, I've already lost interest.)

So stop saying it. If you are solving a problem, just say so.
by jeroenhd | 2025-07-05 21:27:46+00:00
It's a cultural difference. However, I feel like it's important to point out that selling sex isn't illegal, buying is. That means you won't be locked up for selling sex, the risk is on your customers.

And while OnlyFans can technically be used to sell any digital content, it is mostly selling (softcore) pornography, which is obviously sex work. Categorising it as "digital content" or "a private service" may work to skirt around the American laws that outright criminalise sex workers, but it's not fooling anyone.

Another point of note is that quite a few European countries struggle with human trafficking problems in the sex trade, even in countries where prostitution is completely legal. It's not like human traffickers haven't figured out that OnlyFans is an easy way to make money if they can manage enough accounts. There are also less obvious problems, like people who are strapped for cash and desperate, doing things they otherwise wouldn't and will later regret.

Personally, I think sex work should just be regulated like normal work and the Swedish approach ("Nordic model") is counterproductive. While I think online sex work should be treated the same as offline sex work, I think banning it is moving in the wrong direction. It's still not as bad as criminalising sex workers themselves, of course.
by LarsDu88 | 2025-07-05 21:29:54+00:00
I used to think all these rural areas voted their values over their wallets, but I'm starting to not be so sure any more.

You see this in both Russia and the United States, where these rural and ethnic minority areas of seem to gladly send their children off to war. Liberals like to think this is some sort of quasi-genocidal policy when it applies to the Buryats or the Tuvans, but if you watch the videos of the guys shipping off to war, their happy and smiling.

They are happy because they are getting a paycheck! Same deal with illegal immigration in the United States. Christian values are to "do unto others as you would have done to yourself", but Christian conservatives all vote to brutalize immigrants and cut social services (which are all subsidized by California anyways!). Why is this?

It's because going to war is a way to get a paycheck in an arguably less shameful way than living off the dole, and kicking illegal immigrants out is kicking out the competition for low wage jobs.

People absolutely are voting for their wallets, but in such a way that they don't live with the shame of taking handouts.
by Aloisius | 2025-07-05 21:30:23+00:00
I understand hyperbole is a useful rhetorical device, but it's very hard for me to take anyone who uses it seriously or trust anything they say at all.

And it really doesn't help develop trust when the citations used to support one's points directly contradicts them (like that bit about Amazon providing real-time surveillance from Ring doorbells to police without owners' knowledge - the one and only thing I decided to read the source for which said quite the opposite).

It's a shame too since I'm sure the author had some good points, but I have neither the time nor energy to research every single claim made to see which ones aren't bullshit.
by zoobaloo | 2025-07-05 21:30:40+00:00
Having grown up in Hawai'i, I know both people who worked in the observatories (or who reserve time on its telescopes for academic work), as well as people who have opposed the continued growth of facilities on the mountain.

While this became a salient topic in the media during the proposed TMNT telescope construction, there's an angle to all this that has been lost in the national media. Some of the voices quoted as opposed to development tended to be the loudest, and in my opinion least reasonable, ones. These arguments tended to hinge on Native Hawaiian identity politics and cultural grievances - while there might be something there, such statements could come across as close-minded, and I think they mischaracterized the debate as about science and progress versus NIMBYism and indigenous rights.

The more legitimate concern has been the State of Hawai'i's general mismanagement of development on the mountain, and the failure of its relevant Board of Trustees to fulfill their contractual obligations. Many private/public construction projects in Hawai'i have the unfortunate tendency to turn into haphazard federal cash grabs: the exploding costs and years-behind-schedule rail system in Honolulu is a good example, and there's a fair argument to be made that the thirteen telescopes on Mauna Loa have followed a similar pattern. Some of these were legally supposed to have been cleaned up years ago.

As mentioned, I know people who've used some of the telescopes for research and I don't think many people in the islands question the value or substance of their work. I also personally prefer it to local government's addiction to developing tourism. At the same time, I think there's a fair debate that's less "we don't like scientists," and more "please clean up your old messes like you promised."

This is all tangential to TFA, and I doubt the current federal administration cares about it. I'll still be curious to see how this plays out. Pulling funding could hurt efforts to responsibly steward the site, which would be bad. At the same time, it could discourage the Board of Trustees from continuing to chase the next federal money hose opportunity in a questionably sustainable way.

In an ideal case, those involved will find a way to continue pursuing research, while those managing the site will pursue a more organized, transparent, and responsible development plan for the land in question.
by hadlock | 2025-07-05 21:30:47+00:00
> 1. The number of sets per year increased too much, there are too many cards being printed to keep up

My local shop has an entire wall of the last ~70 sets, everything from cyberpunk ninjas to gentlemen academic fighting professors to steampunk and everything in between. I think they are releasing ~10 sets per year on average? 4 main ones and then a bunch of effectively novelty ones. I hadn't been in a store in years (most of my stuff is 4th edition from the late 1990s) I did pull the trigger on the Final Fantasy novelty set recently though, for nostalgia's sake.

But yeah it's overwhelming, as a kid I was used to a new major set every year and a half or so with a handful of new cards. 10 sets a year makes it feel futile to participate.
by biodiscus | 2025-07-05 21:30:48+00:00
Thanks for the * and your cool suggestions!

There are already big "do-it-all" CLI libraries like "yargs-parser" (85 kB), "meow" (419 kB), "minimist" (55kB), etc.

Flaget is intentionally minimal — small size is the killer feature. I want to keep it as compact as possible without bloating it with rarely needed functionality.

The e18e community focuses on optimising npm packages by replacing heavy dependencies with smaller alternatives.

Still, some of your ideas are very useful, and I may add:

- Named positional

- Nested options

But others are outside the scope of a small library like this.
by lukeschlather | 2025-07-05 21:31:09+00:00
I am interested in buying hardware that can run the full DeepSeek R1 locally. I don't think it's a particularly good idea, but I've contemplated an array of 5090s.

If I were interested in using an EV to haul particularly heavy loads, I might be interested in the Hummer EV and have similar questions that might sound ridiculous.
by bee_rider | 2025-07-05 21:32:24+00:00
I guess they could have meant “cheat” as in swindle or defraud.

But, I think it is worth noting that the task is to make sure the paper gets a thorough review. If somebody works out a way to do good-quality reviews with the assistance of AI based tools (without other harms, like the potential leaking that was mentioned in the other branch), that’s fine, it isn’t swindling or defrauding the community to use computer-aided writing tools. Neither if they are classical computer tools like spell checkers, nor if they are novel ones like LLMs. So, I don’t think we should put a lot of effort into catching people who make their lives easier by using spell checkers or by using LLMs.

As long as they do it correctly!
by theshrike79 | 2025-07-05 21:32:29+00:00
The problem with MCP is that it's not composeable.

With separate tools or command snippets the LLM can run one command, feed the result to another command and grep that result for whatever it needs. One composed command or script and it gets exactly what it needed.

With MCPs it'd need to run every command separately, spending precious context for shuffling data from MCP tool to another.
by no_wizard | 2025-07-05 21:33:04+00:00
This is the reality.

I have moved anything I don’t need quickly off Amazon as much as reasonably possible, and I do avoid some things from Amazon as well, but for too many things they’re the cheapest and fastest option, or the 2nd cheapest and fastest option.

Also if I think there is a reasonably high chance I’ll return an item, I also go through Amazon, because they haven’t once in 20 years I’ve been using them giving me an issue, charged a restocking fee etc.

Other online shops simply don’t match enough of these Amazon value prop to sway me over
by ajross | 2025-07-05 21:33:55+00:00
> Canceling my Prime account mainly meant I bought less stuff overall.

Which sounds like an agreement with my point, no? Buying stuff without Amazon was in aggregate "more expensive" for you in the broader sense of value that includes effort/experience/whatever. So you didn't.

And, bravo? I'm all for efficiency and reasonable asceticism, and likely agree with you about the general consumerist bent of our society.

All I'm saying is that constitutes an argument in FAVOR of Amazon as a retailer product, and not an indictment.
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-05 21:34:45+00:00
Myself I can't stand the media blitz that tries to talk up Prime Day every year.

I like hunting for bargains as much as anybody, I love checking out the used games at Gamestop or items on clearance at Best Buy, not least the reuse center at Ithaca where I might find a cassette or Video CD deck with karaoke features or a minidisc player.

Prime Day seems to be just a waste of time. I don't see any attractive prices on anything I want to buy. So many web sites scour Amazon for good deals and can't find any. It's a snoozer.
by LarsDu88 | 2025-07-05 21:35:02+00:00
The youth leave because there is no future in those rural and former manufacturing areas of the country. The solution by the current administration is to weaken the dollar, but this is basically robbing everyone... when the dollar goes down by 15%, its the same as torching 15% of everyone's money -- same as inflation.

The correct solution is to tax the disproportionately wealthy oligarchs of those coastal vampire companies... the tech monopolies which implicitly levy taxes on all online transactions (Google's 30% cut on android apps, Google's 70% cut on all advertising, Steam's 30% cut on all PC games, Amazon's cut on all online shopping transactions), then reinvest that money into rural industries to make manufacturing competitive. Instead the solution has been to levy a tax on all consumers over all trade, which tends to make local manufacturing less competitive over the long run.
by ahofmann | 2025-07-05 21:35:17+00:00
You wrote this: 'Google says "not a security vulnerability", quickly fixes without attribution'.

I'm talking about this. In your "answer" you talk about something else, that just has nothing to do with what I was talking about.

You do this in other threads here. This isn't helpful, or constructive.

Nobody will, or can, help you while you behave like this.
by drillsteps5 | 2025-07-05 21:35:28+00:00
I can't speak intelligently about how close AGI really is (I do not believe it is but I guess someone somehow somewhere might come up with a brilliant idea that nobody thought of so far and voila).

However I'm flabbergasted by the lack of attention to so-called "hallucinations" (which is a misleading, I mean marketing, term and we should be talking about errors or inaccuracies).

The problem is that we don't really know why LLMs work. I mean you can run the inference and apply the formula and get output from the given input, but you can't "explain" why LLM produced phase A as an output instead of B,C, or N. There's just too many parameters and computations to go though, and the very concept of "explaining" or "understanding" might not even apply here.

And if we can't understand how this thing works, we can't understand why it doesn't work properly (produces wrong output) and also don't know how to fix it.

And instead of talking about it and trying to find a solution everybody moved on to the agents which are basically LLMs that are empowered to perform complex actions IRL.

How does this makes any sense to anybody? I feel like I'm crazy or missing something important.

I get it, a lot of people are making a lot of money and a lot of promises are being made. But this is absolutely fundamental issue that is not that difficult to understand to anybody with a working brain, and yet I am really not seeing any attention paid to it whatsoever.
by SlowTao | 2025-07-05 21:35:41+00:00
This statement is not an attack on your character or being just a broad generalization.

The biggest addiction of the modern era is convenience. Once people have it, it is very difficult to give up. We are all addicted to this, we aren't running this site via the letters column in a newspaper, because of convenience. But it also means we tend to ignore the negatives of said services.

Your point of them winning because they're the best, that can also be true. But because of that and the convenience addiction they provide, we let them get away with all the other stuff.

I'm not saying this is an excuse to use Amazon, I have never used it. I am just saying it is a hard hurdle for some to overcome.
by swat535 | 2025-07-05 21:36:18+00:00
Who defines objective morality here ?

If you’re going to argue the majority, then I’ll remind you that the majority had no problem with slavary either not too long ago in Western nations.

If you’re goning to argue democratic values, then I’ll remind you that many brutal dictators also rose to power by the same values.

So put another way , by which definition of morality are we drawing this diagram?
by Enginerrrd | 2025-07-05 21:36:50+00:00
That's certainly how CA gun laws are. They're almost all performative and make things very annoying or expensive for legal owners but do very little to dissuade illegal use. Yet, if you own guns and do anything with them, it can be surprisingly easy to accidentally commit a felony while otherwise being a responsible owner. Which... is just not how felonies should work.
by coredog64 | 2025-07-05 21:38:24+00:00
It’s right there in the second paragraph of the WaPo(!) story that Ring owners opt in and can decline to share data.

Does Rekognition perform poorly? Maybe it does, but it’s a best effort service, not a police officer in a box. That AWS was shamed into not selling it to law enforcement doesn’t mean law enforcement won’t have access to facial recognition, only that the vendor they choose isn’t capable of being embarrassed by bad PR.
by wqaatwt | 2025-07-05 21:38:24+00:00
Whom gets to decide and determine who is “most vulnerable”?

Also when it comes to the Nordic countries it’s rather hypothetical, considering that they (+Estonia) have one of the highest rates of drug overdose related deaths in the EU. Surely they would have adopted different policies on that already if their goal was protecting the most vulnerable rather than puritanical moralism?
by ryandrake | 2025-07-05 21:38:33+00:00
> Most governments and states in the world actively encourage this by giving tax relief to small businesses, and then other types of incentives.

At least in the USA, I don't think there is any need to "incentivize" going into business via the tax code. Most people who can afford to own a business already do, and many people who really can't afford it still try! "I'd love to start a business and try to make a bunch of money, but those darn taxes are stopping me!" - said no US entrepreneur ever. They're not doing it for these small tax incentives, but they are certainly taking advantage of them whenever they can.

So it seems like we are simply incentivizing activity that's already going to happen and allowing people who were already going to do it anyway to have that activity be not subject to taxes.
by dickstrawng | 2025-07-05 21:39:09+00:00
Just a quick note before my post here: computer science and computer programming aren’t the same thing. CS is more about theory — algorithms, computation, logic — while programming is a skill you can use with or without a formal CS background.

That said, I know someone who started learning programming around 43. They enrolled in a local government-sponsored technical program that partnered with companies to offer internships. They trained hard, took an internship, and worked their way in — even though it took them over 3 years before they saw any meaningful income.

Now, about five years later, they’re doing well: they’ve earned several certifications, built a strong cv, and landed work at a company with a big name. On paper, they look impressive — even compared to me, and I’ve been programming since I was 13 and working professionally since 17.

But here's the thing: that path takes grit. They didn’t save much during those early years and had to stick it out for a long time before things clicked. Unless you’ve got real motivation and curiosity driving you, it might be a frustrating ride. If you do have that passion, though — go for it. Just do it with eyes open, and don’t expect shortcuts. this guy was passionate about money and he was always crap on interviews but he went through the internship route and now he's doing fine. I started at 13 but I didn't start making six figures until I was 20.

Remember: Even Hodor could not clear an interview these days, despite being perfectly aligned to his job role, but he got hired long-term via practical execution. and well, spoiler alert- his fate is pretty much every programmer's fate. To be eaten alive by.... LLMs?
by hinterlands | 2025-07-05 21:40:59+00:00
Because most of the "loopholes" aren't actually loopholes: they are created for a specific reason under some specific economic theory. Most often, to encourage people to make certain types of investments, avoid double- or triple-taxing certain activities, etc.

We just almost never talk about it in neutral terms: why was this policy implemented, what are the pros and cons, etc. Instead, it's just political talking points to get people to the voting booth.
by throw0101a | 2025-07-05 21:41:16+00:00
> Never read the Martian but I was told it was the same thing.

The Martian was actually originally published in a serialized form, one chapter coming out every so often.

> It didn't start out that way though. "The Martian" began as a series of self-published chapters on Weir's personal blog.

> Then Weir decided to put the book on Amazon, selling it for the website's lowest possible price ($0.99).

* https://archive.is/https://www.businessinsider.com/how-andy-...

> Having been rebuffed by literary agents when trying to get prior books published, Weir decided to put the book online in serial format one chapter at a time for free at his website. At the request of fans, he made an Amazon Kindle version available at 99 cents (the minimum allowable price he could set).[9] The Kindle edition rose to the top of Amazon's list of best-selling science-fiction titles, selling 35,000 copies in three months, more than had been previously downloaded free.[9][11] This garnered the attention of publishers: Podium Publishing, an audiobook publisher, signed for the audiobook rights in January 2013. Weir sold the print rights to Crown in March 2013 for over US$100,000.[9]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_(Weir_novel)#Publi...
by PaulHoule | 2025-07-05 21:41:19+00:00
My take is that Walmart.com comes pretty close. When I was driving through Pennsylvania two weeks back I saw a huge Walmart.com warehouse right next to an Amazon warehouse. The last mile delivery service of the two seems close to identical (though Walmart+ disingenuously offers "free" delivery from my local store that expect you to tip the driver. [1])

Amazon often costs 5 cents less and you might find that all the issues of Bocci the Rock are at Amazon and one is missing from Walmart, but Walmart is taking the fight to them.

For photography stuff in particular, I buy from B&H, Adorama or direct from vendors such as Red River Paper. Often the prices are better than Amazon and the service is much better (e.g. the owner of the later has schooled me on details of papers and printing that most people couldn't imagine)

[1] Not against giving the tip, just against saying I don't like the comparison against free shipping from other vendors.
by stevenicr | 2025-07-05 21:42:05+00:00
looks very cool, I could use this. Given how much I have watched all sorts of automated things hammer websites on multiple servers, I believe everyone should use something like this.

Had a hard time finding the premium version price, aka pro - saw $170 and thought to myself, I don't know. Then I saw it was a monthly fee.

$1500 per year, and I'm not sure what 10 services even means, for me I'd probably need more, and I wouldn't spend 1500 on it if it was a one time lifetime.

I get that I am not the target market. I just wish it was faster to find that out.

Glad I didn't waste more time looking at the cool features.