MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by smeej | 2025-07-11 18:51:24+00:00
If you're going to do it, you really have to pay attention to your kid(s).

When I was in my early teens, I walked in on my mom going through my brother's toys with a bag in hand to get rid of them. Once I figured out what she was doing, I asked the obvious question, if she'd ever done it to me, and she just nonchalantly asked me if I had ever missed any toys.

I never had. She actually knew which ones mattered and which ones didn't. These days I miss the magic fairy that comes in and gets rid of the things I don't use anymore when I'm not looking!
by breadwinner | 2025-07-11 18:52:21+00:00
One of the ways to prevent unauthorized charges is to use a virtual credit card. Many credit cards provide a way to create virtual credit card based on your real credit card, for example, Citibank [1] and Capital One [2]. Then if the merchant makes it hard for you to cancel, just delete your virtual credit card.

You can specify any expiration date for the virtual card (with at least 1 month validity). You can also set per-transaction limits on this credit card, which ensures the merchant can't charge more than the agreed amount.

[1] https://www.cardbenefits.citi.com/Products/Virtual-Account-N...

[2] https://www.capitalone.com/learn-grow/money-management/what-...
by gregbot | 2025-07-11 18:53:36+00:00
You have quite a few wrong statements in your reply! The french nuclear fleet rolled out mostly in the 1980’s not the “late 70’s” but that’s unimportant. The main issue with your statement the “solar+batteries” doesnt include enough batteries to have reliable power. The amount of batteries installed in. California still depends on fossil fuels to meet demand on cloudy and windless weeks so its not deeply decarbonizing the way nuclear does
by kragen | 2025-07-11 18:53:42+00:00
Your example isn't syntactically valid in Golang. Declarations are statements in Rust too, but not Python, TypeScript, or ECMAScript (which to my surprise does have a "Declaration" nonterminal in its grammar). C++, Java, and C# are half-and-half; in their grammars, some kinds of declarations (in particular, like `int x;`) can be statements, but others cannot.

The distinction hasn't gotten any less clear, but it was already easy to find people in the 01970s who didn't know the difference. You're one of today's lucky ten thousand!

I do frequently encounter people who are failing to solve their problems because they don't know things that were already known in the 01970s, so I think it's worthwhile to study 01970s informatics. Mostly, though, I think it's worth studying the zeitgeist of the 01970s in informatics: some people were making rapid progress on solving fundamental problems, partly because they didn't have certain self-defeating attitudes that are popular in informatics today, such as not caring whether what they say is true or false.
by slaw | 2025-07-11 18:53:50+00:00
Ember is a better source.

EU is ahead of China and US.

EU June Solar power generated 22.1% of EU electricity (45.4 TWh)

China April solar power generated 12.4% of electricity (96 TWh)

US March solar power generated 9.2% of electricity

https://ember-energy.org/latest-updates/wind-and-solar-gener...

https://ember-energy.org/latest-updates/fossil-fuels-fall-be...
by gruez | 2025-07-11 18:53:52+00:00
>As the article highlights, one of the problems with LVT is that your assessment can rise preciptiously through no "fault" of your own, which engenders a strong sense of insecurity wrt your property. That has tax-payer revolt written all over it.

Isn't that an issue with all property tax regimes that don't have the prop 13 carveout, regardless of whether it's LVT or not?
by almostgotcaught | 2025-07-11 18:54:13+00:00
> which is 3 months old and has 0 stars (and so I assume 0 users and 0 years of battle testing)

ah my bad i meant to link to this one https://github.com/scrossuk/llvm-abi

which inspired the gsoc.

> is there really a _better_ option which exists today?

today the "best in class" approach is swift's which fully (well tries to) model cpp AST and do what i suggested (emitting code directly):

https://github.com/swiftlang/swift/blob/c09135b8f30c0cec8f5f...
by webstrand | 2025-07-11 18:54:17+00:00
Around here, there are a bunch of private parks in that you pay a fee to enter the park or you can purchase a membership. The fee is minimal and mostly just serves to maintain the park. These are privately held parks, too, not owned by local or state government.

As far as I am aware, they are able to survive on their membership or visitor fees. But major improvements do take larger donation.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-07-11 18:55:07+00:00
> "Slavery and States' Rights" was a speech given by former Confederate States Army general Joseph Wheeler on July 31, 1894. The speech deals with the American Civil War and is considered to be a "Lost Cause" view of the war's causation. It is generally understood to argue that the United States (the Union) was to blame for the war, and downplays slavery as a cause.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_and_States%27_Rights

https://web.archive.org/web/20180427082228/http://www.civilw...

https://news.wttw.com/2022/07/14/states-rights-supreme-court...

This is simply history. Calling it absurdism indicates a lack of historical knowledge. https://xkcd.com/1053/
by ericmay | 2025-07-11 18:55:23+00:00
> I'll refrain from criticizing your for being a chauvinist if you agree to take that behavior someplace else, because it's not for this community. Save that for some toxic no-holds-barred community like Twitter.

No thanks. You don’t get to define what is toxic behavior nor do you speak for this community or others.

Also, grab a dictionary. Your usage of chauvinist here is incorrect.

> There is no evidence their curiosity is ingenuine, that's your image of them but it doesn't have a basis in reality.

They already said they need information about events to have something to talk about. That’s not how conversations work, nor is it how you establish new friendships or build and maintain existing relationships.

> It's based in your biases and preconceptions about social media.

Well they are biases (yours is showing) but they’re not preconceptions, they are just conceptions.
by ViewTrick1002 | 2025-07-11 18:55:37+00:00
I just dislike lavish handouts to an industry that has spent the past 70 years living on them experiencing negative learning by doing and still expects the public to pay for their insurance.

The plan is essentially locking in energy poverty for generations due to the costs.

Are you not worried about pissing away one of the largest advantages Scandinavia has in cheap electricity? And instead of investing in the future we’re going all in on a dead end industry.
by tines | 2025-07-11 18:55:51+00:00
Engaging with it is different than "learning" though, that's specifically what I was talking about. LLMs seem to be interesting because they're a technology that doesn't encourage you to learn. I know people who talk to ChatGPT, copy code, run it, paste errors into ChatGPT, copy output, run it, etc. They're not really learning anything, they're a glorified console through which ChatGPT can interact with their machine. I'm not saying that that's exactly what happened in your story. I just think that learning will be the exception, not the rule.
by adolph | 2025-07-11 18:56:39+00:00
@patio11's podcast, Complex Systems has two great episodes that discuss much of the context about land value tax and property tax systems in general (from a US perspective).

How we tax property, with Lars Doucet: https://www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/property-asse...

Tax the dirt, with Lars Doucet & Greg Miller: https://www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/tax-the-dirt-...
by agcat | 2025-07-11 18:57:26+00:00
Yes, so i had another cofounder join in, with the previous cofounder exit, so first we sold the shares to the new cofounder at FMV and the company returned the sweat equity to him at FMV. Honestly, the best thing is to get a lawyer who has done these transactions before and once you have amicably communicated let the lawyer take this up, it will drain your energy otherwise.
by teekert | 2025-07-11 18:57:52+00:00
Clicked it again, it says: The link you clicked may have stopped working or the page has been moved.

Can still log in as often as I want into clean browser sessions. Even when I log out, clean the session, tapping the url logs me in again.

And every time FB sends me an email: "Someone logged in from some location, was it you?"
by lukan | 2025-07-11 18:57:59+00:00
I don't think you will find a day where there is no sun and no wind in all of europe. The costal areas usually gave constant wind and the south constant sun.

And we do have and build much more high voltage transmission lines.

And otherwise there is no technical limit to build lots of rare earth free batteries. Once they are common in allmost every household and once electric cars can be used for that, too, I don't see any technical problem.

It takes time and investment of course. And pragmatism till we are there. I don't like coal plants, but I am not in favor of just shutting them down now.
by burkaman | 2025-07-11 18:58:24+00:00
Honestly I don't know, I think it would depend on how long ago the crime was and if there's a credible reason to believe they won't do it again. I do think there's a meaningful difference between "they murdered someone" and "they're a murderer", and in general I do prefer to describe people's actions as opposed to using "they're a ___" labels.
by tialaramex | 2025-07-11 18:58:40+00:00
More, but not as much more as people often naively expect because it turns out converting liquid fuel into motion by burning/ exploding the fuel isn't very efficient on a small scale whereas electric motors are very efficient, so 1TW year of "People driving to work" in ICE cars does not translate into needing 1TW year extra electricity generation if they have electric cars instead, let alone 1TW year of extra network capacity to deliver it.

Where we're replacing fossil fuel heat with a heat pump we don't get that efficiency improvement from motors - burning fuel was 100% efficient per se, but the heat pump is > 100% efficient in those terms because it's not making heat just moving it.

Nuclear is much less popular than almost any generation technology, so you're fighting a significant political battle to make that happen.
by danmarket | 2025-07-11 18:58:46+00:00
I should clarify that I don't think Anthropic will go out of business. Similar to Ed, I am purely looking at this as business analysis and their actions indicate that they are starting to change parameters of their business model.

Comparing Uber to Anthropic is not correct, because their cost models are not the same. Uber has mainly labor cost which is low-skill and high-volume, followed by service costs which are high-skill but low-volume. Which leaves a lot of room for optimization.

Anthropic has very big bills to pay, and those bills will only go up as they scale. In depth analysis of frontier model companies is difficult, since they are private and secretive.
by mrtksn | 2025-07-11 18:59:13+00:00
> If Europe needs oil, they can buy it, it's completely fungible and sold at auction in huge volumes every day

That didn't end well when the oil and gas supplier decided to invade Europe. They even run clips showing how Europe will freeze in the winter and be poor if keep supporting the invaded ally.

Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvdBzZVVovc

If EU wasn't heavily invested in green tech and efficiency, the Russians film might have had become a reality.

Just use the fusion in the skies.
by api | 2025-07-11 18:59:41+00:00
Rendezvous with one of these would be a good use for a NERVA-type nuclear engine (upper stage, not used in the atmosphere).

Also seems like the thing to do, given that we are finding more than one of these now, is to build such a thing and have it on standby and look for one that's inbound so we can launch at the best window to reach it.
by smj-edison | 2025-07-11 18:59:43+00:00
Isn't atheism a rather big umbrella term? There's things all the way from secular humanism to agnostic atheism to new atheism to nihilism. There's many atheists who find purpose in a higher calling, such as taking care of the poor, or wonderment of the universe. Would those not be considered a "higher power"?

EDIT: one more thought: you can even think of a higher power as emergent behavior of individual parts.
by olyjohn | 2025-07-11 18:59:46+00:00
Ironically, these are still the best games for a LAN party. I set up a fleet of old cheap computers running Linux, loaded with all these offline and now open-source games. We had a blast and ended up playing mostly Quake 3 until about 4-5am.

We couldn't play any modern games, because every single person at the party would have had to have a Steam account or some license to the game, and have to log into it on my computers, then sign out when they were done... what a bunch of garbage. Nobody had their Steam passwords on hand.

With Quake3, you could sit down on any free machine and jump into a game instantly. I was also really surprised because some computers had the "official" Quake 3 purchased from Steam on Windows (friends who brought their own computers), some had the open source Quake 3 engine running on Linux, and some had official Linux clients... and they all worked together flawlessly.
by dylan604 | 2025-07-11 19:00:12+00:00
I had a 2011 MBP that I kept running by replacing the HDD with an SSD, and then removed the DVD-ROM drive with a second SSD. The second SSD had throughput limits because it was designed for shiny round disc, so it had a lower ability chip. I had that until the 3rd GPU replacement died, and eventually switched to second gen butterfly keyboard. The only reason it was tolerable was because of the SSDs, oh and the RAM upgrades
by johnnyjeans | 2025-07-11 19:00:35+00:00
> they're not embedding LLVM - they're embedding clang

They're embedding both, according to the article. But it's also just sloppy semantics on my part; when I say LLVM, I don't make a distinction of the frontend or any other part of it. I'm fully relying on context to include all relevant bits of software being used. In the same way I might use "Windows" to refer to any part of the Windows operating system like dwm.exe, explorer.exe, command.com, ps.exe, etc. LLVM a generic catch-all for me, I don't say "LLI" I say "the LLVM VM", for example. I can't really consider clang to be distinct from that ecosystem, though I know it's a discrete piece of software.

> name mangling is by the easiest part of cpp FFI

And it still requires a lot of work, and increases in effort when you have multiple compilers, and if you're on a tiny code team that's already understaffed, it's not really something you can worry about.

https://en.m.wikiversity.org/wiki/Visual_C%2B%2B_name_mangli...

You're right, writing platform specific code to handle this is more than possible. But it takes manhours that might just be better spent elsewhere. And that's before we get to the part where embedding a C++ compiler is extremely inappropriate when you just want a symbol name and an ABI.

But this is besides the point: The fact that it's not a problem solved by the gargantuan standard is awful. I also consider the ABI to be the exact same issue, that being absolutely awful support of runtime code loading, linking and interoperation. There's also no real reason for it, other than the standards committee being incompetent.
by dimal | 2025-07-11 19:00:42+00:00
You chose oil for your example, but what about natural gas? If Europe needs natural gas, they can just buy it… and give money directly to their enemy, Russia. Just buying what you need isn’t without second order effects. The second order effects of solar and energy diversification are more palatable than directly funding an enemy.

“Look at Japan”. Ok, let’s look. They attacked the US in 1941 because of the US oil embargo. Their current situation is predicated on the US continuing to be the world’s policeman, ensuring that shipments get from point A to B. There will come a time when that assumption will not hold.

Things change.
by 1024core | 2025-07-11 19:01:03+00:00
> but in my opinion, the most rewarding point of travelling is: to sit with, and spend time with The Other ...

I didn't grow up with grandparents, so I have a natural affinity for grandmas. Some of my most cherished moments have been interacting with old ladies in places like Cinque Terre, Portofino, Brussels, Tokyo, NYC etc. I like to walk around the neighborhoods, off the beaten track, and if I get a chance to interact with an old lady, even better.
by evanelias | 2025-07-11 19:01:06+00:00
With manual coding, the big dopamine hit comes at the end of a task - that's your internal feeling of reward for completing something.

I would think this could contrast with agentic coding, where the AI keeps generating code, and then you iterate on this process to get the AI to fix its mistakes. With normal human code review, it takes longer to get revisions and can feel like a slog. But with AI that's a much tighter loop, so maybe developers feel extra productive from all these dopamine hits from each interaction with the agent.

When manually coding and in flow state I'd think it's a more consistent level of arousal, less spiky. Probably varies by person and coding style though, which might also explain why some people love TDD and others can't stand it?
by osxman | 2025-07-11 19:01:20+00:00
This is a great new AI 'Mistral Medium' model from Mistral, I used it in Zed editor today via Mistral API – and will keep on using this. It brings great code suggestions, improvements and explanations. Worth to give it a go.

Note: should be configured manually in Zed at time of this writing but then works like charm. (Use devstral-medium-2507 or devstral-medium-latest)
by ath3nd | 2025-07-11 19:01:32+00:00
> Well you’re basing your conclusion on a 2 year blip of not being able to stop LLMs from hallucinating.

LLMs can't truly reason. It's not about hallucinations. LLMs are fundamentally designed NOT to be intelligence. Is my Intellij autocomplete AGI?

> Like the agi will be slightly mentally stupid at this one thing and because of that it’s not AI even though it blows past some Turing test (which in itself will be a test where we moved the goal post a thousand times)

I can only respond with a picture

https://substack.com/@msukhareva/note/c-131901009

> We’ve been moving at a breakneck pace and the progress has been both evolutionary in nature and random chance.

Yes, I enjoy being 19% slowed down by AI tooling, that's real breakneck pace.

https://www.infoworld.com/article/4020931/ai-coding-tools-ca...

Just because this breed of autocomplete can drown you in slop very fast doesn't mean we are advancing. If anything, we are regressing.
by babypuncher | 2025-07-11 19:01:55+00:00
Don't forget what happened in Utah last year.

In 2018, voters passed the Better Boundaries ballot initiative, requiring our legislature to adopt non-gerrymandered congressional maps. In 2020, the legislature passed a law that effectively ignored the results of the initiative, and they drew even more gerrymandered maps after the census.

We sued the state, and last summer our Supreme Court unanimously agreed that, per the state constitution, the legislature does not have the power to unilaterally gut laws passed by ballot initiative after the fact.

So the legislature haphazardly put together their own ballot initiative that would have amended our constitution to give them the authority to ignore the results of ballot initiatives. This was put on our ballots, but our Supreme Court came through unanimously again, saying that the text of the initiative was grossly misleading and that they did not meet the constitutional requirement to notify the electorate far enough in advance of election day. This initiative was on our ballots as they had already been printed, but the results were not counted per the Supreme Court's order.

My state government is still fighting tooth and nail to kill Better Boundaries before the 2026 election. None of these lawmakers give a single shit about the will of the people.
by returningfory2 | 2025-07-11 19:02:28+00:00
I feel like tourist places are “weirdly concentrated” as you put it. When I was Florence the center was obviously super busy, but walking only 15 minutes in one direction there seemed to be almost no tourists around (of course, the area I was in didn’t have any sights). It made me think that maybe there’s a bias to the feeling of overtourism because people think about the one part of the city where all the tourists are.
by hbn | 2025-07-11 19:02:43+00:00
A lot of serious engineers would love to work in an environment that isn't the HR-reigning office politics bullshit standard of the past decade or two.

I don't even really like Elon but I bet the engineers at X are having a better time in their day-to-day than the ones at Meta or Google where all their work is constantly roadblocked by red tape, in-fighting, and PMs whose only goal is to make it look like they headed something important to get themselves promoted. Elon's at least got a vision and keeps it a top priority to be competitive in the AI space.
by bestthrowaway | 2025-07-11 19:02:47+00:00
That's an interesting way to put it. I was overemployed from 2021 to 2024. I worked two full-time start-up jobs (well, a W2 job and a full-time contract position that was for all intents and purposes a full-time W2 job, just that it paid me without the deductions and such). When one company shut down, I continued doing contract work but not at a full-time capacity.

During my tenure at both companies, my higher-ups liked my performance so much that when it was time to select people for raises/promotions/rate increases etc, I was among the few selected. I took this as a sign that my half-performance was valued enough to earn me more money so I wanted to stay like this forever. Alas, it didn't.

I'm extremely fortunate that everyone was pretty flexible. If I couldn't make a daily standup (or whatever regular meeting), I'd just say I can't make it and no one would ask why. Same if I had to leave a meeting early. As long as I got my stuff done, no one complained.

And really, that's what I appreciated the most. I'd happily work for either single one of these companies simply because they just respected everyone's time and treated everyone like adults. I acknowledge that I was technically taking advantage of this trust by working a separate job, but I cannot stress enough how happy my employers were with my half-performance. So as you mentioned, it's either give full-performance to one company for half-pay (or well, regular pay I guess), or give half-performance to two companies for double-pay. The economics made perfect sense, and because the companies felt good about the value they were getting from me for their money, I didn't feel guilty.

But it did make me think -- how many other people are giving full-performance to a company when half-performance would be satisfactory, if not exemplary? Especially now in the age of AI where many people are more productive than ever, why couldn't companies consider a full work-week 20 hours a week instead of 40, if they can still extract the same value? I think most individuals would be so much happier to work under those circumstances, and if they wanted to fill in the rest of the 20-hour week with another job they could, and not have to play this game.

I mean, the obvious answer is obvious, but a guy could dream.
by BruceWok | 2025-07-11 19:02:59+00:00
Kimi K2 is our latest Mixture-of-Experts model with 32 billion activated parameters and 1 trillion total parameters. It achieves state-of-the-art performance in frontier knowledge, math, and coding among non-thinking models. But it goes further — meticulously optimized for agentic tasks, Kimi K2 does not just answer;