MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by giantg2 | 2025-07-19 00:21:19+00:00
The real answer here is that montecarlo prediction of how many issues/tickets/whatever get closed at the team level is all your PM needs.

If someone is suspected of not meeting expectations, then that is up the manager. At that point you would need to see what areas everyone contributes to, how that aligns with the performance policy, and which metrics might be useful for measuring those things. Of course you need to also try to evaluate bias in all that.
by theuirvhhjj588 | 2025-07-19 00:22:01+00:00
You keep saying it's not a relevant figure, but that is absurd.

Factorisation is one of the few problems that we know are in BQP \ P. You could make the argument that we're not at a stage where running Shor's alg. on integers is feasible hence integers don't capture the progress in the field... but that's perhaps too much honestly for a field that is riding on a bubble.
by kabdib | 2025-07-19 00:22:44+00:00
IBM was not able to. Story from a friend-who-claimed-to-be-there:

In days of yore, Visa did processing on IBM iron. The iron in question took a while to boot, and time is very definitely money to Visa and they wanted to speed up reboots (e.g., after a crash). Saving seconds = $$$.

Visa to IBM: "Please give us the source code for the <boot path stuff>, it's costing us money."

IBM: LOL

Visa to some big banks: "Please tell IBM to give us the source code for this, it's costing you money."

IBM, a little later: "Here's a tape. Need any help?"
by smittywerben | 2025-07-19 00:24:40+00:00
A user's attempt to send a sticker reveals Valve's misguided implementation of the Y combinator, where Steam App and Steam Chat exist only to question each other's purpose.

The sole defender of this system, a user who bought a game from Steam on their mobile device, completely unaware of any Steam app, maintains that the portable wallet vacuum works as intended.

It's too late. Negative convergence of the Dyson vacuum's warranty appears inversely proportional to Gaben's proximity to retirement. The Y-combinator is reaching criticality.

The Steam Chat app opens.

Sent from my Steam™ (Claude x Gemini "Dew It Right" 2025 Black Edition).
by Sniffnoy | 2025-07-19 00:25:00+00:00
This is all really cool, but is getting new singularity theorems really a positive sign? Like, my understanding was that it was generally hoped that an improved, quantum theory of gravity would eliminate such singularities -- that such singularities were generally considered to be non-physical artifacts that occur in GR due to its deficiencies at the most extreme scales (where quantum gravity would be relevant), not that they are in fact real and physical. So I'd consider it a better sign if these predicted black holes, which we see, but without singularities!
by kindkang2024 | 2025-07-19 00:25:31+00:00
> The thing that makes humans nearly unique in the animal kingdom is structured language.

But what is “structured language”? I would argue it’s just another layer of naming—naming applied to already named names.

If animals have the ability to map leopard, snake, bush, tree in reality to names in their naming system, then why can’t they apply that ability again—create a new name like ‘leopard-bush’ or ‘snake-leopard’, simply by combining the existing solid names in their system? (Similarly, words like “in” could also be added.)

You might say they can’t—because they lack grammar rules. And I’d argue the issue runs even deeper: they don’t have a valid naming system to begin with, nor the ecological fitness or incentive needed to develop further naming.

If they can name ‘leopard’ within a valid system, that name should be reusable. They should be able to work on those names—as objects themselves. The process is the same. It requires the same abstraction: treat a thing as a nameable unit, then name it again. And that already starts to look like compositionality—or grammar.

The real difference is that humans ended up with a robust naming system. We got lucky—we gradually invented stable symbols that let us name on top of previous names. We could write them down, save them, pass them on—and then build new names on top of that naming recursively, iteratively, and divisively.

And that’s likely where the fitness gain came from. It’s a lucky, genuine self-bootstrap story.
by sothatsit | 2025-07-19 00:25:38+00:00
> but as any user knows they are top tier at instruction following, highly reliable and predictable

This is spot on. Reliability is really the #1 priority for me when it comes to coding agents, and Sonnet, and especially Opus, really deliver on it. It makes such a huge difference when it comes to agents. Anthropic really nailed it on this.

My process has become: get Opus to generate a plan, use o3 to help me review the plan, and then get Opus to implement the plan. This works extremely well for me, and is the first time where I've felt AI being actually useful for coding anything more than small prototypes.
by yongjik | 2025-07-19 00:25:41+00:00
To be fair, it's hard for the Dems to do anything effectively when a sitting president attempts to overthrow an election, fails, and then half of the voters think "You know what, I want that guy to lead our country again."

Not that they're blameless, of course - they had four years to throw Trump in prison, did nothing, and now we're reaping the result. But the problem goes much deeper than the Dems being incompetent. In a functioning democracy, voters aren't supposed to elect someone who literally committed treason, just because the alternative is "unlikeable" (what the fuck does that even mean, next to Trump).
by maxbond | 2025-07-19 00:26:20+00:00
Why do payment processors do stuff like this? Is there some regulation that requires them to? I get that they don't want to process fraudulent transactions, but I'd think the response to a higher percentage of fraud from some industry would be to charge them more. It doesn't make sense to me why they would be concerned about the content of games, as long as everything is legal and the parties concerned aren't subject to sanctions.

Some of these games seem completely abhorrent, and probably illegal in more restrictive jurisdictions, but not the United States. And I've not seen any suggestion they're funding terrorism or something. So I'm perplexed.
by intended | 2025-07-19 00:27:22+00:00
We can actually show that the American public are lied to, and continue to be lied to.

Yes - I can get the point you are making - “democracy for me but not for thee” is BS. Sure!

But the evidence is that theres one media network which is simply selling whatever story works, along side a 50+ year effort to kill trust in institutions. We can even show that the republican machinery gave up on bipartisanship - hell, it’s even public knowledge.

But that wouldn’t make a whit of a difference to voting patterns, or your point. Because your point doesn’t need to be based in the long history of complicated malfeasance that rots all English speaking democracies. It’s anchored in your current state and argument.

So yeah, people voted.
by cogman10 | 2025-07-19 00:27:28+00:00
> Inaction the border

Biden had an identical border policy to Trump term 1. Dems even tried to strengthen ice towards the end of Biden's term.

The fact that you think he was weak on the border really shows that Dems trying to out Republican Republicans on the border is a bad move. They should have been pushing for immigration reform and better/faster routes to becoming documented.

> letting the woke crowd run rampant with their nonsense

What does this mean?

> selecting a VP that if ever tasked with running for President--wasn't likely to win.

That's pretty typical. The much bigger problem is Biden ran while knowing his polling was in the gutter. It was him running with sundowning symptoms.

Harris's problem was that while knowing about Biden's unpopularity, she refused to distance our distinguish herself from him in any way.
by StableAlkyne | 2025-07-19 00:27:43+00:00
What's going on over at Intel anyway?

This happened recently with Scitkit-Learn Intelex, which was a drop-in replacement for some parts of sklearn that was a bit faster. One day, the Intel channel on Conda just stopped working (and I learned that Anaconda loses the will to live when a random channel you installed one package from is unavailable) and another organization took over Sklearn Intelex.

No communication could be found on Google connecting them to Intel (whose only news around the package was announcing the initial release a few years ago), you had to read the Git issue history to find people talking about the transfer.

I still have no idea what even happened to their Conda channel after the sudden disappearance. The complete lack of communication just left a bad taste in my mouth...
by guelo | 2025-07-19 00:28:10+00:00
It's not going away with a whimper, the supreme court is killing it on purpose. There are laws that created departments that the president does not have the power to destroy. There is also the impoundment act that forbid a president from redirecting or not spending appropriated money. These laws are being ignored because the supreme court has gone full partisan.

One study estimates that the Supreme Court will be "conservative" [1] for at least the next 100 years. If Dems don't try to do something to represent 50% of the country that is panicking then they're complicit.

[1] tearing down hundreds of years of precedent is not conservative, this is an extremist court.
by OutOfHere | 2025-07-19 00:28:41+00:00
There are at least three concerns from demineralized or acidic drinking water:

1. Drinking demineralized water results in an obvious multi-mineral deficiency, considering that we actually rely on drinking water for meeting a meaningful subset of our calcium, magnesium and other mineral intake. Even moderate supplementation won't correct it -- it takes a double dose to prevent it under RO.

2. Demineralized water causes minerals to be leeched from the body, also from the bones. This is to balance the water. It would also stress and deplete the bicarbonate reserve of the body to neutralize its acidity.

3. The extreme solubility of demineralized water unnaturally increases the absorption of heavy metals from foods and supplements which would otherwise go unabsorbed.

As for acidic water, it's straight-up bad for the kidneys, bones, and the spleen. It will boost the odds of kidney stones, weak bones, and a deteriorating immune system. Try measuring the urine pH to realize the effect. Granted, bicarbonate will buffer it, but the body's capacity to do this is fairly limited.
by o11c | 2025-07-19 00:29:25+00:00
That one must be defended, since it was abuse of real people happening at scale and with full knowledge thereof, and PornHub's status-quo response was at best "do nothing and hope it goes away". Mind, the Justice Department also went after them (and won), so we can't even resort to "CC networks shouldn't be the ones enforcing this." At what stage of a court case is it appropriate to expect third parties to start breaking their business relationships with the defendant?

The weird part about the first-world sexual liberation mindset (usually said about feminism, but not limited thereto) is that it actively ignores how massively abusive sexual liberties very often and easily become.
by jimt1234 | 2025-07-19 00:29:37+00:00
IMHO, it's already too late for the midterms. In fact, it's probably too late for the 2028 presidential election, too. Democrats need to connect, and that connection isn't from showing up, out of nowhere, three months before an election and taking policy. The connection starts years before the election, by associating oneself to the things the voters also associate with. I think one of the most brilliant things Trump ever did was to get involved with WWE. That started the connection with Rural America. It was long before he ran for president, and it wasn't boring policy talk. It was, "Look at me! I'm your guy! I'm into wrestling, just like you!" Now, this is nothing new - Clinton played the sax on Arsenio Hall. But I think the Democrats are just terrible at it. And here's a great example: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMIuyMQRAq1
by andrekandre | 2025-07-19 00:30:10+00:00
> Elections have consequences and now people are gonna have to live with it.

yes they do, but it seems dems favorability are fading [0]

> People stayed home or decided to vote against their own interest.

it seems like the democrats standard mode of operation is to always wait for the opposition to screw up everything (2008, 2020) and then anoint some weak candidates (2016, 2020, 2024) and run on "we're better vote for us" and then get run over at the next election cause they didn't do much as expected (and their horrible messaging) [1]

the democrats need to clear out their decrepit leadership or its just gonna continue to slide worse and worse

[0] https://www.newsweek.com/congressional-democrats-favorabilit...

[1] https://thehill.com/homenews/3846305-democrats-have-a-messag...
by patcon | 2025-07-19 00:30:24+00:00
> the unintellectual border-line savage illiterates fulfill their chaotic fantasies that you truly do get a backward bumble fuck country

it's ok if you don't have energy to understand otherwise rn, but please know that there's more to it than this. to understand is the only way out that's not total war.

and yes, i'm angry too.
by Nifty3929 | 2025-07-19 00:31:00+00:00
Yes, but one usage is less ambiguous than the other.

"French villages" - From two to all, with a bias to "many"

"Some French villages" - From two to less-than-all, with a strong bias toward a relatively small percentage.

Removing the word "some" very much changes how that title will be understood by a native English speaker. Except for me, because I've started to assume that this type of manipulation is the default and so whatever the title claims, the reality will be much less interesting or meaningful or profound.
by CamperBob2 | 2025-07-19 00:31:14+00:00
"Even the very wise cannot see all ends." And these people aren't what I'd call "very wise."

Meanwhile, nobody in China gives a flying fuck about regulators in the EU. You probably don't care about what the Chinese are doing now, but believe me, you will if the EU hands the next trillion-Euro market over to them without a fight.
by lxgr | 2025-07-19 00:33:13+00:00
Very good details on why just bolting on an LLM isn't that trivial I hadn't really considered before, thank you!

But regarding Apple not wanting to admit that client side compute isn't enough: Haven't they essentially already done that, with Private Cloud Computing and all that? I believe not even proofreading and Safari summarization work fully on-device, at least according to my private compute privacy logs.
by j45 | 2025-07-19 00:33:34+00:00
I took a bit of time to figure out how I arrived at the impression I have. Happy to arrive at more clarity collectively, even if it is me.

1. "OR" allows 3 use cases

- internal business purposes (which is commercial behind the scenes),

- non-commercial (this reads to me like if there's customer facing access to n8n, etc),

- personal use (home lab, learning, hobby projects, etc).

For me, the internal business purposes is the first and main reason I would look at it, where n8n is a tool among other tools in the stack all being used for some of their functionality.

From: "Limitations / You may use or modify the software only for your own internal business purposes or for non-commercial or personal use. "

https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/blob/master/LICENSE.md

2. Substantial - This feels like skinning n8n to make a product is meant to prevent. If there's an existing business solving their issues and either it's not substantially n8n, and the n8n part isn't a product, service, or module being sold, it could be OK.

This reads like if the complex functionality of your solution is being executed in connected systems external to n8n that it helps route through, the weighing of substantial is clearly outside.

"Our license restricts use to "internal business purposes".

In practice this means all use is allowed unless you are selling a product, service, or module in which the value derives entirely or substantially from n8n functionality. "

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Small workloads - You are correct in if it was an n8n process being packed and sold, even at small workloads, it could be a licensing issue. Conversely, if the small workload wasn't a process being sold to users.

Commercial quoting - Makes sense, again. If I want to write a workflow in n8n and just skin it, i'm substantially using their software. To me, n8n can't do everything I need so I can't imagine a scenario where that I'd hit that, but absolutely other use cases could. Additionally, the commercial license seems to be for enterprise customers - maybe an option for small business/startup (headcount, or revenue) could be available. Seems reasonable enough, and have seen it with other tools.

If substantial n8n use generated that kind of profit, I'd be happily paying for it to make sure it sticks around and is supported. It's like having an entire n8n dev team to keep n8n running for less than the cost of a developer. But I'm not there.

For me, it's rare that I would rely solely on one tool that heavily. Having base inputs (especially for AI) in text form and feeding it up so different layers could be refactored to other tools over time (such as n8n's orchestration), there can be scenarios where the work is already substantially outside of n8n. At the same time, I look at tools like n8n for what they can do, using them as is, out of the box only, and not modifying them at all, because it then can receive updates.

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by Tadpole9181 | 2025-07-19 00:33:38+00:00
I describe the law of and linked to a government website of the Netherlands.

> And I said politicians are talking about changing the laws.

No, you said "there are plans". What you did not say is that one party leader made an insane comment in a campaign cycle met with so much backlash it took less than a day to radically change to "with 0% under €500.000" and has still been unilaterally mocked by opinion makers, politicians, and media.
by AdieuToLogic | 2025-07-19 00:34:37+00:00
> I am genuinely curious who can actually threaten Visa (I do not think it is Valve).

Visa is a clearing house whose members are banks. Think of it like a payment router between issuers (banks) and processors (banks).

Only sponsored organizations can directly use the "Visa rails", where "sponsor" is defined as a bank, a bank subsidiary, or an entity previously sponsored by one of the other two.

This is also the case for MasterCard and Discover. "Traditional" American Express is different though.

> Amazon, Walmart, Target and then increasingly unsure.

Those merchants use banks or one of their subsidiaries for processing credit card transactions. Most large merchants do as well in order to minimize their discount rate as well as other transaction fees. Smaller merchants often use ISO's or VAR's for business specific reason, knowing both ultimately transact with a bank or one of a bank's subsidiaries.
by sothatsit | 2025-07-19 00:34:47+00:00
FWIW, people report that Grok 4 is not very good at coding, and xAI admit this themselves when they said they will be releasing a separate coding model in "the next few weeks".

Also, Google does have Gemini CLI, OpenAI does have Codex CLI, and then there is Aider which can support any model. I think the big difference is that Anthropic's models are the best for this use-case right now, and Anthropic has the Max plan which makes a massive difference to the cost of using Claude Code compared to competitors (although the Gemini CLI has insane free tiers).

I'm not sure how this will play out in the future, because it seems to me that Claude Code does not have much of a moat beyond Anthropic having the best coding models right now, and them offering model usage at heavily discounted prices.
by pyuser583 | 2025-07-19 00:34:58+00:00
Yeah they are … he’s really cooky in a narrow and specific way.

Frankly tried reading his stuff, and it becomes gibberish. At one point he calls his political philosophy Jacobitism, which was a real ideology at some point, but it bears no connection with anything else bearing the name.

He’s basically just repackaged Thomas Carlyle with some interesting personal anecdotes.
by kristjansson | 2025-07-19 00:35:25+00:00
You're not wrong, but not all values of big are equivalent.

e.g. volume of the worlds oceans is ~1e21 L and annual global energy production is ~3e16 Wh = ~1e20 J

1e20/(1e21*4e3) = 0.000025 ΔC

So even all world's energy production dumped into the ocean as waste heat is a minuscule direct effect. It's all in the second order effects of generating that energy...
by ethan_smith | 2025-07-19 00:35:48+00:00
Shor's algorithm still requires O(log(N)³) qubits and O(log(N)²log(log(N))log(log(log(N)))) operations to factor N, which is why these satirical "records" highlight the absurdity of focusing solely on factorization milestones rather than addressing the exponential scaling challenges.
by bb88 | 2025-07-19 00:36:20+00:00
The treasury sells bonds that mature after X years. So I suspect something similar could happen. But further there could be refinement if the radioactive isotopes could interact chemically in ways that gold couldn't.

Then they could sell pure gold, and then hold the crap gold for 20 years and sell that later.

BTW, I was at Teardown.
by Aurornis | 2025-07-19 00:36:37+00:00
> The article calls out “certain adult games” which is vague.

A Quick Look at the list has me wishing I hadn’t thought to look at the list.

I suspect the vague “certain adult games” was chosen because it makes it sound more controversial. If the headline was “Valve removed incest-themed games under pressure” there would be a lesser reaction.
by Covingtastic | 2025-07-19 00:37:32+00:00
Honestly, this whole Visa/Mastercard control thing feels a lot like realizing you’ve been following rules that don’t really fit you. It’s tough to break out of it. But FedNow is an interesting option. It lets banks move money instantly, 24/7, with no card networks involved, so less hassle with the content policing. It’s not a magic fix (still early days, only works in the US), but it shows there’s another way if you’re willing to step outside the old patterns. Sometimes that’s what you need to actually move forward. And no I'm not a Fednow shill. Has anyone tried Kagi btw? ;)
by Razengan | 2025-07-19 00:37:39+00:00
Sort of a related tangent:

Some of the best gaming time in my life has been on handheld consoles, even when the games were available on PC or TV.

I wish there was a modern platform (not just a hobbyist Raspberry Pi kit or something) in the Switch or DS form factor, that boots straight into a coding environment like the legendary Commodore 64 and other "computer-consoles" of that era, with a central app store for indie devs to publish to for free. Add in dedicated support from a game engine like Godot, and I think something like that could spark a renaissance of solo devs/buddy teams experimenting with new game ideas and stuff.
by intended | 2025-07-19 00:40:48+00:00
American voters always look to the Dems and Republicans as if it’s a symmetric game.

So, one party puts up a person who encouraged and insurrection, has no coherent policy, ZERO moral standing, had security documents in a toilet, ran a crypto pump and dump scheme on the day of his inauguration, and wins.

But ALL of those things are not meaningful.

If one team comes to play football, and the other team brings in a posse of clowns who don’t play football, and the clowns win - then the game you are playing isn’t football. Hell, both teams should have fielded equally outrageous clowns. (This is what happens in completely corrupt nations, and America’s likely fate)

Playing a better game of football, is not as important as figuring out how the other team’s moves are legal.

In all earnestness - The question people really need to ask is not how the Dems lost, it’s how Trump ran in the first place.