MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by fsckboy | 2025-07-28 19:20:00+00:00
(I wish non-Americans wouldn't spend all their time tripping over themselves to try to insult Americans. If you didn't feel so insecure about yourselves and resentful of the success of others, you wouldn't feel such a need to justify your existence.)

In this case, however, it's your poor English to blame. In English when you talk to another person, that other person can be called the other party. It's not an attitude, it's a very neutral term.
by cs02rm0 | 2025-07-28 19:20:07+00:00
Personally I've known people moving to Portugal, Malta, Cyprus, Australia, New Zealand, France, Spain, the US, Singapore. There's obviously a variety of factors that go into the choices people make and certainly no perfect choice.

For me, it'll be the UAE. Instinctively, some people will probably attack that choice, which is fine. I've lived in the Middle East previously, it's not perfect to say the least and I have some personal history with that, but I understand the choice I'm making. One thing people won't like is the headline tax rate, but I probably won't come out ahead there initially as cost of living is quite high - it'll cost me about USD 70k just to put three kids in school. Accommodation is also quite expensive, private healthcare also needs paying for, but at least you get what you pay for then.

Where the tax situation is appealing though is that then I'll be incentivised to earn more beyond those high living costs, where I just don't feel I am in the UK. Sun and swimming works for me too. Job adverts there are absolutely rammed with literally thousands of applicants and I'm hearing from recruiters that a lot of people from the UK and wider Europe are trying to head in the same direction. I'll be working for myself though.

I likely won't see out my days there. I'd imagine we'll retire to somewhere on the Med, my wife would prefer NZ but I don't think that works for me. The US is perhaps desirable, but it seems quite hard for a Brit to get into unless they happen to have a job with a company there. We'll have to see.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-07-28 19:20:56+00:00
>It's fundamentally the same

It's a thin line of wisdom and conservatism, but an important distinction. People in these positions work on billion dollar software, so they can't just try out every idea that comes to mind in prod. But that's exactly what tends to be proposed: big multi month initiatives, not some prototype to test over a sprint.

The important question I learned to ask was "what problem am I trying to solve". One aspect of this thin line tends to be a muddy answer to this question. When you can only suspect and make grand showings instead of showing pragmatic use case you may not in fact be iterating, but experimenting.
by thorum | 2025-07-28 19:21:06+00:00
The long term is unlimited access to local LLMs that are better than 2025’s best cloud models and good enough for 99% of your needs, and limited access to cloud models for when you need to bring more intelligence to bear on a problem.

LLMs will become more efficient, GPUs, memory and storage will continue to become cheaper and more commonplace. We’re just in the awkward early days where things are still being figured out.
by bluGill | 2025-07-28 19:21:11+00:00
What if it is unclear. I cannot tell 100% if a girl between 12 and 32 is over 18. maybe I can be right 75% of the time but I can think of two girls at the extreems that I was way off (that is a girl I guessed was 12 turned out to be 27 and a different girl I guessed at 32 won an under 16 race). Fake ids are all over (because 18-20 year olds want to drink at college).

ontil we legally give payment processors a pass for enabling money for crime they will be very careful about grey areas.
by itsalotoffun | 2025-07-28 19:21:15+00:00
Vibe pricing. That's all this is. "Pay us $200/mo and get... access". There's no way to get a real usage meter (ccusage doesn't count). I want an Anthropic dashboard showing "you've used x% of your paid quota". Instead we get vibe usage. Vibe pricing. "Hey pay us money and we'll give you some level of access but like you won't know what, but don't worry only 5% of our users will trip the switches" bullshit. Someone else in this thread nailed it:

> sounds like it affects pretty much everyone who got some value out of the tool

Feels that way.

But compared to paying the so-called API pricing (hello ccusage) Claude Code Max is still a steal. I'm expecting to have to run two CC Max plans from August onwards.

$400/mo here we come. To the moon yo.
by Asooka | 2025-07-28 19:21:18+00:00
Now go and find how much opposition there was to such laws when the Democrats were in power. Spoiler: it's negative. Whenever Democrats inherit a law like that from Republicans they expand its scope with giddy abandon as the media and their "vote blue no matter who" followers stand by and clap.

My thesis isn't that Democrats write those bills, my thesis is that there is never effective citizen resistance against government overreach when Democrats are in power. People can only be free when they are fighting the government and people only fight Republican governments, ergo we must vote Republican to keep the fight going. Both sides are our enemy, but one side enjoys a much larger cult following that will never attack it.
by Twirrim | 2025-07-28 19:21:24+00:00
> For example Stack Overflow used to handle all their traffic from 9 on-prem servers (not sure if this is still the case). Millions of daily users. Power consumption and hardware cost is completely insignificant in this case.

They just finished their migration to the cloud, unracked their servers a few weeks ago https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/07/16/the-great-unracking-sa...
by favorited | 2025-07-28 19:21:26+00:00
Which mainline compilers or runtimes use a generated parser? I know that CRuby does, though they've recently standardized on Prism as their public AST, and it's possible that they'll switch to Prism for parsing eventually. I know that Go used to, as well as ancient versions of GCC.

It seems that, from the outside looking in, ~all significant PL projects end up using a hand-written recursive descent parser, eventually.
by kelseyfrog | 2025-07-28 19:21:55+00:00
> Payment processors as gatekeepers is absurd, even worse the entire system is completely opaque.

This is what the end-game of unspooling government functions into the private sector looks like. The decision still has to be made, but rather than petitioning representatives to arrive at a democratic solution, we have to appeal to corporations and fight public opinion turf wars where optics and boycott pressure are the levers of change for our collective rights.
by usernamed7 | 2025-07-28 19:22:31+00:00
I'm sure it's way more than 5%, ISP's pulled the same thing with bandwidth caps to shame people.

Part of the reason there is so much usage is because using claude code is like slot machine, where SOMETIMES it's right, most times it needs to rework what it did, which is convenient for them. Plus their pricing is anything but transparent as for how much usage you actually get.

I'll just go back to ChatGPT. This is not worth the headache.
by hnfong | 2025-07-28 19:22:33+00:00
> it's been authoritarian, chauvinistic (both internationally with imperialism and domestically via the aristocracy), and theocratic, ever since Harold Godwinson

This. The UK was a band of feudal kingdoms that somehow managed to create an overseas empire. The empire is now gone, and the feudal kingdom is struggling to transform itself into a modern nation.
by frollogaston | 2025-07-28 19:22:43+00:00
It's analog though. Presumably the shape of the image matters, like horizontal lines are easier than vertical, it's not just a bitmap. He made the point of how many KB you can store in the song, but is it right? There are different conceivable ways to store binary data in that. I have no idea how efficient it'd be to get something 99% reliable.
German founders: is it possible to do bookkeeping by yourself?
by frabia | 2025-07-28 19:22:51+00:00
I'm opening a UG as I'm getting more interest in my SaaS (yay!). However, I'm going the bootstrapped way, and it really hurts having to pay a tax advisor 100+ euro/month, mostly just to upload some data to the Finanzamt. I will just make a couple of customer invoices per month, plus I pay for those 2-3 software tools - nothing crazy.

Is having a tax advisor really the only way? I've seen some tools to keep track of invoices etc, but most seem to still need a tax advisor for the last step. Is there any way to learn about this myself? Any tip is appreciated.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-07-28 19:22:55+00:00
Not necessarily if you consider the level of paranoia of these companies regarding controlling how their devices are used, as well as the tech sectors growth at all costs mantra.

There's also the argument that if tiny percent can do it, could it start to catch on and slowly grow to a larger percent?

More so in an economic environment where spending $2,000 on a new phone every year is decreasing in popularity, especially when the differences between model X and model X+1 have to squinted at ever harder to determine.
by bluehatbrit | 2025-07-28 19:23:36+00:00
I've done this for so many issues in the past and not once have I had anything more than an automated reply. Often those replies then go on and reference a totally different bill that I'm voicing an opinion on. This isn't all just one MP either, I've lived in many different areas of the UK in recent years and most of them have flipped parties at some point or another.

Maybe this is the "Westminster Bubble" the journo's keep talking about. Whatever it is, MP's seem very reluctant to interact with their constituents unless they're campaigning for re-election. At that point they'll turn up on your door step in the middle of the day, expecting a half hour conversation.

How is a citizen meant to adovcate and voice their opinions when their representivies, and every candidate looking to replace them, refuses to engage?

This isn't really a specific question, or a critism on your point. It's just venting on my experience in recent years. Maybe someone else has had a more positive experience they'd be interested in sharing?
by Telemakhos | 2025-07-28 19:23:36+00:00
Alternatively, the failure of government here is not in their failure to regulate porn but in their failure to regulate Visa and Mastercard properly and thus deprive the payment processors of the opportunity or excuse to run "star-chamber-esque" processes. If non-cash payment rails are now a necessity to run a business, then access to them has to be a right. The payment processors need to be required to allow every business to accept money through their service, for the same fee as any other business is charged. Otherwise payment rails become a de-facto government in that they gain the power to license or prohibit businesses at their caprice.
by volkk | 2025-07-28 19:24:01+00:00
No it's not. It's like an all you can eat buffet stating you can eat as much as you want and feed your friends and the homeless outside for a one time fee, and then realizing that the economic model made 0 sense to begin with and need to either state that you're only allowed to eat what you personally can, or increase the price to something that can sustain the amount of food being removed from the buffet.
by okaram | 2025-07-28 19:24:05+00:00
This heavily heavily depends on the population you choose, given the difference in sexual habits.

As a data point, the paper below shows 1,213 out of 18,401 high-risk people in France got infected in 4 years (and 260 out of 31,992 with the previous gen prep, it seems this one reduces it by ~10x again)

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2...
by KronisLV | 2025-07-28 19:24:05+00:00
I personally take an issue with them expecting that your usage would be more or less consistent throughout the month. Instead, I might have low usage throughout most of the month and then an 11 hour binge a few days, which in most cases would involve running into rate limits (either that, or just token limitations for inputs).

That's why using the API directly and paying for tokens anything past that basic usage feels a bit nicer, since it's my wallet that becomes the limitation then, not some arbitrary limits dreamed up by others. Plus with something like OpenRouter, you can also avoid subscription tier related limits like https://docs.anthropic.com/en/api/rate-limits#rate-limits

Though for now Gemini 2.5 Pro seems to work a bit better than Claude for my code writing/refactoring/explanation/exploration needs. Curious what other cost competitive options are out there.
by flkiwi | 2025-07-28 19:24:36+00:00
It's not exactly the same thing, but imagine my complete surprise when, in the middle of a discussion with Copilot and without warning, it announced that the conversation had reached its length limit and I had to start a new one with absolutely no context from the current one. Copilot has many, many usability quirks, but that was the first that actually made me mad.
by zarzavat | 2025-07-28 19:24:45+00:00
I agree. I'm on the base plan, yet to hit any limits. The bottleneck is my ability to review the code it writes, and to write prompts detailed enough for the output to be useful to me.

I assume that the people hitting limits are just letting it cycle, but doesn't that just create garbage if you don't keep it on a tight leash? It's very eager but not always intelligent.
by smsm42 | 2025-07-28 19:24:55+00:00
I know a number of places where you were rewarded for "rightthink" and could be imprisoned or murdered for "wrongthink". Most of them had been countries having "People's Democratic" or "Socialist" or something in that vein in their names. I'm sure that's also a pure coincidence having nothing to do with those systems. Though, to be fair, modern followers of those doctrines made a serious headway to implementing the same approach in countries which don't have such words in their names and even considered "capitalist", so I assume in a short while you'd have another excellent argument - that freedom of speech also wasn't particularly suppressed by totalitarian (which is, all of them) socialist governments, it's just something totally separate. Which always happens under socialism, but that's just a coincidence, and it was a wrong socialism anyway, under the right one it won't happen.
by mcswell | 2025-07-28 19:25:06+00:00
No, it tries to maintain a full tank of hot water, like other 50 gallon water heaters. I think the just-in-time ones are under your sink. They have their advantages too, I guess.

It's 240v, uses a double circuit breaker, so you need to check your circuit breaker panel to make sure you have two places open.

Our utility company had a special deal--we paid only $240 for the heater, although installation was around $3k (they brought an electrician to run the wire from the panel).
by robocat | 2025-07-28 19:25:13+00:00
Yes, but why do they want to be integrated with a maps App?

If it can work as a background App then why not? And if you're in charge of the Google Maps App, you know you'll get blamed for draining the battery and transmitting location data continuously.

It smells like someone in Belgium is lying or is looking for a scapegoat excuse.

The reasoning just doesn't sound right, technically.

Is there an international standard API for this? Perhaps one used mostly for emergency services? Neither Google nor Apple would want to code crap in for every single country's weird features.
by belter | 2025-07-28 19:25:18+00:00
The real bottleneck isn’t Jevons paradox, it’s the Theory of Constraints. A human brain runs on under 20 W, yet every major LLM vendor is burning cash and running up against power supply limits.

If anything pops this bubble, it won’t be ethics panels or model tweaks but subscription prices finally reflecting those electricity bills.

At that point, companies might rediscover the ROI of good old meat based AI.
by Wowfunhappy | 2025-07-28 19:25:32+00:00
I'm probably not going to hit the weekly limit, but it makes me nervous that the limit is weekly as opposed to every 36 hours or something. If I do hit the limit, that's it for the entire week—a long time to be without a tool I've grown accustomed to!

I feel like someone is going to reply that I'm too reliant on Claude or something. Maybe that's true, but I'd feel the same about the prospect of loosing ripgrep for a week, or whatever. Loosing it for a couple of days is more palatable.

Also, I find it notable they said this will affect "less than 5% of users". I'm used to these types of announcements claiming they'll affect less than 1%. Anthropic is saying that one out of every 20 users will hit the new limit.
by adtac | 2025-07-28 19:25:43+00:00
this is just XMPP and it has been around for years before Slack was even a thing

Slack won anyway for the same reasons most centralised, commercial, closed sourced products often win: less fragmentation, more marketing, stronger network effects, simpler onboarding for normies, richer integrations, and most importantly, an enterprise sales team that actually showers
by myaccountonhn | 2025-07-28 19:26:14+00:00
It does feel like modern designs are treating everyone like children. UIs have immense spacing and big fonts, icons always accompany text, company branding tends to have strong bold contrasty colors. Adjacent stuff like music are ostensibly getting simpler.

It makes me think that if they designed adult books today, they would be like children's books. One sentence in a big font and one image per page.

Doesn't have to be bad, but I worry we lose discipline and our cognitive abilities decline when everything is spoon fed.
by alibarber | 2025-07-28 19:26:16+00:00
I moved to Finland from the UK and found exactly the same thing you mentioned in France. Plus extra layers of beauracracy (there's no national health service, there are public hospitals that send a bill to the public insurer and you get a bill for an excess unless you are absolutely down-and-out. Either way, a nice job program for public administrators). Prescriptions are far more expensive than the UK (your co-pay on them is something like €600 a year)

One nice perk though is that [private, corporate] jobs offer cushy health insurance as part of the deal as standard really so you can go and see one of the many private doctors in their offices at your choice and leisure.
by 9rx | 2025-07-28 19:27:10+00:00
> part of why we grow way more corn is the subsidies

That would imply that subsidies give reason to produce corn over a vegetable, which isn't the case. The subsidies are "fair" — even when that isn't the goal.

You are right that corn is cheap, but that's a result of technology and the nature of what it is. It requires almost no human effort to produce. Stuff like vegetables, on the other hand, remain incredibly labor intensive even on the most technically advanced farms. It is a much harder problem to solve.

As compared to virtually every other food, grain is significantly simpler to handle in almost every way from seeding right to storage and distribution. And corn benefits from being insanely high yielding compared to other grains.
by JohnFen | 2025-07-28 19:27:10+00:00
>Both ads and capitalism are messy and have some externalized harms, but are better than the alternatives.

Some is doing an awful lot of work there. Both ads and capitalism have become so degenerate and abusive that I'm no longer confident that either are better than the alternatives. Even phrasing it as "better than the alternatives" is a symptom of one aspect of the overall decline: seeing everything as an either-or choice.
by yetihehe | 2025-07-28 19:27:28+00:00
If it had several kilometer wide imaging array, then yes. Hubble and other telescopes are totally passive optics. You need to see the distant dot and have enough resolution to identify it as a telescope and see that it is pointing at you. Seeing hubble from more than 1 au would require optics about 8km in size. This doesn't need to be one giant mirror, could be two cameras 8km apart, but synchronized optically (distance known to a small part of wavelength of light). Seeing Hubble as more than 1 pixel to tell that it's a telescope pointing at you needs something much larger.
by colonCapitalDee | 2025-07-28 19:27:34+00:00
You should consider self-hosting in the cloud. When you start coding run a script that spins up a new VM and loads the LLM of your choice, then run another script to spin it back down when you're done. For intermittent use this works great and is much cheaper than buying your own hardware, plus it's future proof. It does admittedly lack the cool factor of truly running locally though.
by cs02rm0 | 2025-07-28 19:27:45+00:00
> I think it's wonderful that you offered to do that but it simply isn't realistic. Who is going to support this software in the long term? How are you handling privacy concerns? What guarantees can you offer about server security? Who is paying for and maintaining the servers in the long term? What happens (to be blunt) if you die the day after the software is delivered?

Good questions, but the quickest way I can answer them all is to say that my company had delivered software for national security purposes to central government departments. This really was nothing.

It certainly wasn't my preferred option. The offer was mostly a tool to ensure that cost of development could not be used as a reason to reject.
by flashgordon | 2025-07-28 19:27:51+00:00
Yeah I was actually thinking about a proper rig - My gut feel is a rig wouldnt be as expensve as a mac and would actually have a higher ROI (at the expense of portability)?

My other worry about the mac is how unupgradable it is. Again not sure how fruitful it is - in my (probably fantasy land) view if I can setup a rig and then keep updating components as needed - it might last me a good 5 years say for 20k over that period? Or is that too hopeful?

So for 20K over 5 years or 4k per year - it comes to about 400 a month (ish). The equivalent of 2 MAX pro subscriptions. Let us be honest - right now with these limits running more than 1 in parallel is going to be forbidden.

if I can run 2 claude level models (assuming the DS and Qwens are there) then I am already breaking even but without having to participating in training with all my codebases (and I assume I can actually unlock something new in the process of being free).
by SAI_Peregrinus | 2025-07-28 19:28:26+00:00
The more precisely you try to measure anything the more confounding factors you encounter. Take length as an example: every material has some coefficient of thermal expansion, and that coefficient can itself change with temperature. Even Zerodur. Every material has a finite speed of sound. If you measure length precisely enough and fast enough, you'll find every material changes length as ambient sounds pass through. So everything is a thermometer, and a microphone, and more since there are many other "parasitic" variables.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-07-28 19:28:31+00:00
That jump in childcare costs definitely sounds annoying but if the overall percentage isn't very high then you're not being taxed to the eyeballs.

We could imagine fixing the problem by making the childcare voucher phase out between 80k and 100k, and at 100.2k you'd get exactly the same amount as you get under the current system.

In this hypothetical would you still say taxed to the eyeballs? If so, what would your justification be?
by dlojudice | 2025-07-28 19:28:47+00:00
If this works as advertised, it could finally deliver on the promise of personalized health and wellness that we've been hearing about for years. Instead of just seeing a spike in your heart rate, you could get a notification telling you that it's likely due to stress and that you should take a few deep breaths. That's a real, tangible benefit that could justify the cost and hassle of wearing one of these things 24/7.