MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ktallett | 2025-07-23 01:28:16+00:00
More work doesn't need to be done, the same amount needs to be done in 4 days as in 5. Saying this, some careers, including my own, the more tired I am and less rested mentally and physically, the slower work gets done, to the point where it's not feasible to do it sometimes as it's very much thinking based and tiredness can hamper that greatly. Therefore more rest allows me to actually overall be more productive over the course of a working week.
by tinuviel | 2025-07-23 01:29:40+00:00
The opposition is brainless at best and is a walking zombie with no notable leaders and leadership at helm.

The end result of DBT, UPI and other tech initiatives is a transformational positive and will form the bedrock of reforms and future growth.

The govt exam people, again, are a tiny tiny minority. For example - 1.1 million people took the country’s main Civil services exam that has a success rate of less than 0.1%. A vast majority of these 1.1M have no serious prep. To put this in context - India produces around 10 million graduates each other. Vast vast majority find employment in formal and informal sectors.

Govt corruption is a feature on India at this point. The economy has seen mid to high single digit GDP growth with it over the past few decades and will hopefully continue to grow to become a $10T and $20T economy over the next few decades with or without govt policy/reform tail winds and corruption head winds. So no, India is not screwed.
by lenerdenator | 2025-07-23 01:29:54+00:00
More-or-less, but...

It's not just the age at which the government lets you claim OASDI and Medicare. It's also the fact that in the US at least, we've basically set up the entire economy around the idea of paying retirement/pension funds first and foremost, C-suites second, and the people creating the actual value third.
by throwawaylaptop | 2025-07-23 01:30:45+00:00
If an American screw driver is $10, and a Chinese one was $5, I bought Chinese.

If you tariff the Chinese one to $8, I will buy American.

China knows this, so they change the price on their screw driver (that actually costs them 0.75) accordingly, so that it can still be sold for $5, because they know there's a ceiling on what people will pay.

China doesn't have pure competition. The price of their goods isnt really related to cost by it more of what the buyer will pay.
by defrost | 2025-07-23 01:31:41+00:00
There are other ways, of course.

* air-gap malware can be designed to communicate secure information acoustically, at frequencies near or beyond the limit of human hearing.

* In 2014, researchers introduced ″AirHopper″, a bifurcated attack pattern showing the feasibility of data exfiltration from an isolated computer to a nearby mobile phone, using FM frequency signals.

* In 2015, "HELLONE", a covert signaling channel between air-gapped computers using thermal manipulations, was introduced. "BitWhisper" supports bidirectional communication and requires no additional dedicated peripheral hardware.

* Later in 2015, researchers introduced "GSMem", a method for exfiltrating data from air-gapped computers over cellular frequencies. The transmission - generated by a standard internal bus - renders the computer into a small cellular transmitter antenna.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air-gap_malware
by recipe19 | 2025-07-23 01:32:00+00:00
What you're describing is the domain of a very, very small number of hobbyists with very deep pockets (plus various govt-funded entities).

The vast majority of hobby astrophotography is done pretty much as the webpage describes it, with a single camera. You can even buy high-end Canon cameras with IR filters factory-removed specifically for astrophotography. It's big enough of a market that the camera manufacturer accommodates it.
by weavejester | 2025-07-23 01:32:17+00:00
So your argument is that if we define freedom of speech according to US law, then only the US has freedom of speech?

I mean, I agree with you on that, but it's a circular argument.

My comparison to North Korea wasn't whataboutism; it was intended to illustrate that while there are obvious points for agreement (i.e. that the DPRK obviously has no freedom of speech), for many countries the comparison is less black and white. Which restrictions on free speech can you accept and still call it free speech?

I also respectfully disagree with you that only legality matters. If a government is actively punishing those who speak against it, even if it is strictly legal for them to do so, then I'd question whether that country is has freer speech in practice. Few developed countries have a government as hostile to the press as the current US administration!

I certainly don't align with the British government on many issues, encryption backdoors being one of them, but framing free speech as a binary is, I think, ultimately unhelpful. All countries have restrictions on speech, and drawing a line upon what is in reality a gradient over-simplifies the issue.

I personally agree that morality and territorial integrity aren't adequate reasons to restrict speech, and I'd say that a country without those restrictions has freer speech (from a legal perspective) than those with them. But again, it's a relative comparison; I wouldn't say that a country had no free speech if they did have those restrictions.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-07-23 01:33:26+00:00
I don't know about unintentionally. My guess would be that right now different approaches are taken and we are testing what will stick. I am personally annoyed by the chipper models, because those responses are basically telling me everything is awesome and a great pivot and all that. What I ( sometimes ) need is an asshole making check whether something makes sense.

To your point, you made me hesitate a little especially now that I noticed that responses are expected to be 'graded' ( 'do you like this answer better?' ).
by syngrog66 | 2025-07-23 01:34:24+00:00
I love all things perf but stopped reading pretty early once I saw enough foundation mistakes (after which all else is folly anyway, haha):

1. making a note-taking app in 2025: 1st mistake. cuz well solved space with great existing tools/options going back to the 80s/90s

2. as a GUI

3. with animations (in a note taking app?!)

4. in a browser
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-07-23 01:36:06+00:00
>No one is risking multi-year commitments of millions or billions of dollars to build a factory in America when the tariffs change week to week.

Apple: $500M over four years including a facility in Houston opening next year

Chobani: $1.7B for new facilities in Idaho and NY

J&J: $55B over four years into new facilities, a 25% increase over previous

Honda: moving 100% of Civic hybrid hatchback production to the US

Hyundai: $25B over three years

IBM: $150B over five years

Merck: $1B for a new plant in Delaware

Nvidia: For this first time in history will be manufacturing chips in the US

Roche: $50B

TSMC: $165B

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-manufacturing-domestic-tarif...
by verandaguy | 2025-07-23 01:36:14+00:00
It's not about copyright _maximalism,_ it's about having _literally any regard for copyright_ and enforcing the law in a proportionate way regardless of who's breaking the laws.

Everyone I know has stories about their ISP sending nastygrams threatening legal action over torrenting, but now that corporations (whose US legal personhood appears to matter only when it benefits them) are doing it as part of the development of a commercial product that they expect to charge people for, that's fine?

And in any case, my argument had nothing to do with copyright (though I do hate the hypocrisy of the situation), and whether or not it's "nothing to worry about" in the long run, it seems like it'll cause a lot of harm before the benefits are felt in society at large. Whatever purported benefits actually come of this, we'll have to deal with:

- Even more mass layoffs that use LLMs as justification (not just in software, either). These are people's livelihoods; we're coming off of several nearly-consecutive "once-in-a-generation" financial crises, a growing affordability crisis in much of the developed world, and stagnating wages. Many people will be hit very hard by layoffs.

- A seniority crisis as companies increasingly try to replace entry-level jobs with LLMs, meaning that people in a crucial learning stage of their jobs will have to either replace much of the learning curve for their domain with the learning curve of using LLMs (which is dubiously a good thing), or face unemployment, and leaving industries to deal with the aging-out of their talent pools

- We've already been heading towards something of an information apocalypse, but now it seems more real than ever, and the industry's response seems to broadly be "let's make the lying machines lie even more convincingly"

- The financial viability of these products seems... questionable right now, at best, and given that the people running the show are opening up data centres in some of the most expensive energy markets around (and in the US's case, one that uniquely disincentivizes the development of affordable clean energy), I'm not sure that anyone's really interested in a path to financial sustainability for this tech

- The environmental impact of these projects is getting to be significant. It's not as bad as Bitcoin mining yet, AFAIK, but if we keep on, it'll get there.

- Recent reports show that the LLM industry is starting to take up a significant slice of the US economy, and that's never a good sign for an industry that seems to be backed by so much speculation rather than real-world profitability. This is how market crashes happen.
by ehnto | 2025-07-23 01:36:16+00:00
I use a Lily58 split/lightly bowled keyboard and it has been a big improvement in many regards. The thumb cluster is a much different approach to the Glove or Maltron, and I think it would benefit people with shorter thumb reach but might feel cramped for those with more mighty talons.

I do bouldering, and I have broken two of my fingers over the years in cycling accidents, and both are ultimately inconsequential compared using/abusing a bad keyboard. If you are thinking about trying a new keyboard design, and you use a keyboard for at least a few hours a day, it will be money well spent.
by fsckboy | 2025-07-23 01:36:36+00:00
>without really generating much money for the government

it's been reported that tariff collections have soared to the point that the budgeted spending is no longer in the red. this article is written in a confusing way, but your statement "not generating much money for the govt" appears to be incorrect

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/11/treasury-posts-unexpected-su...
by anigbrowl | 2025-07-23 01:36:53+00:00
I think their bet is that in the nearly 6 week recess, the Epstein story will die on its own and when Congress reconvenes there'll be a lot of talk about 'moving on' if they're asked about it at all.

I don't know if this will work though. People who are motivated about this have been patient for years, and after the administration threw them a bone in February they remained patient for months. Now they smell blood in the water.
by jofer | 2025-07-23 01:37:02+00:00
These same things apply to satellite images of the Earth as well. Even when you have optical bands that roughly correspond to human eye sensitivity, they're a quite different response pattern. You're also often not working with those wavelength bands in the visualizations you make.

Scientific sensors want as "square" a spectral response as possible. That's quite different than human eye response. Getting a realistic RGB visualization from a sensor is very much an artform.
by CivBase | 2025-07-23 01:37:20+00:00
They're facts, but they aren't helpful on their own. The article is about convincing Chrome users to switch to Firefox. If all you do is criticize Mozilla - no matter how much they deserve it - then you are signalling to users that they should stay with Chrome. Despite Mozilla's many problems, I'm sure you'd agree that Google is even worse.

An alternative to Firefox needs to be offered at the very least, or all you're doing is helping Google keep its iron grip on the web.
by bhouston | 2025-07-23 01:38:43+00:00
> What you're describing is the domain of a very, very small number of hobbyists with very deep pockets

Sort of. The telescope used for the Dumbbell nebula captures featured in the article was at worth around $1000 and his mount is probably $500. A beginner cooled monochrome astrophotography camera is around $700 and if you want filters and a controller another $500.

There are quite a few people in the world doing this, upwards of 100K:

https://app.astrobin.com/search

Various PixInsight videos have +100K views: https://youtu.be/XCotRiUIWtg?si=RpkU-sECLusPM1j-&utm_source=...

Intro to narrowband also has 100K+ views: https://youtu.be/0Fp2SlhlprU?si=oqWrATDDwhmMguIl&utm_source=...
by pstuart | 2025-07-23 01:39:46+00:00
> I don't think that's quite right. I think over the last 10 years a lot of the anti-corporate energy of Occupy Wall Street has been funnelled - by means of the culture war - into "identity" issues that have little potential to harm corporate power or profits. I would argue that this did not originate on the right or left but was the result of a political class that's beholden to endless donations.

No disrespect, but that makes no sense.

This version of the Culture Wars have been with us for decades. Before the Trans Panic™ there was the Gay Panic. Abortion was a non-issue (even for Republicans) until they realized they could rally the troops around dead babies. And racism? That's been part of the very fabric of the US since the beginning.

Immigration has been well-documented in how waves of newcomers have been despised until a generation later when they're settled in and they can turn around and hate on the new crop (Irish, German, Italian, etc). Hating newcomers is a veritable tradition.

As to the donor class etc, yes, the Democratic Elites are looking after the elites and not the people (shocking!), but it doesn't mean rank and file Democrats are that way (note: I am not a party member).

The "both sides are the same" bit has traditionally had a fair amount of truth in that (the elites thing), but now that the GOP is the Party of Trump that can longer be said.
by GCUMstlyHarmls | 2025-07-23 01:40:55+00:00
There was a pretty good NYT Daily interview with a small manufacturer on the 14th of April this year, "Her Business Was Thriving. Then Came the Tariffs". The business owner outlines a lot of "on the ground" issues around the tariffs & building in America (including looking at building the factory to build their products themselves).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3pfM5v0F9U
by majormajor | 2025-07-23 01:41:12+00:00
It would be nice if you shared some extensive numbers to quantify that before I take your word for it. Like total government tax revenue vs upper-percentile incomes and upper-percentile incomes vs actual realized income tax percentages. Like, "here is what the median person making 5M in 1955 paid as an effective rate, this is how many of those people there were as a percentage of the population" and the equivalents for the inflation-adjusted people today. Let's look at some of those deductions too - did a 90% top marginal rate in the 40s cause people to make societally useful donations to get deductions? That could still be very beneficial compared to buying bigger yachts.

Top-end compensation has gone through the roof compared to "regular" worker compensation since we started cutting tax rates on the rich. And we also have no shortage of deductions and shelters today either.

So why shouldn't we raise the rates back to at least reduce the consolidation and government revenue trends that have happened since we lowered them?

Here's one quick source that 5 seconds on Google turned up - https://city-countyobserver.com/did-people-really-pay-91-tax... - estimates suggest that top earners in the 50s payed a 42-45% effective tax rate vs today's 26-28% effective tax rate. That's a pretty giant difference! Interestingly, despite that, the top 1% paid a bit smaller of a fraction of total tax income (30-35% vs 40% today) suggesting that it may have helped spread the money around so that the 2-5%, 5-15%, etc parts of the population were relatively better off compared to the top 1%. Less of the top 1% hitting the top marginal rate suggests that it's a rather useful incentive for keeping your salaries less obscene.
by lenerdenator | 2025-07-23 01:41:18+00:00
> There is no reason why the wealthiest countries on earth can't afford to let people who are 60 years old retire.

There is, though.

The 60+ year-olds wanting to retire spent the last four-to-six decades racking up a metric crapload of public and private debt. Not only did they spend a lot, they seriously weakened the ability for revenues to cover said debts. Severe bureaucratic handicapping of revenue agencies, means that an estimated hundreds of billions of dollars in tax go uncollected every year in the United States alone [1]. Imagine what the federal deficit looks like if the US had to borrow a few hundred billion less each year. It's far from zero, but it's better than it looks now.

Retirement isn't a right, it's a math problem. For most of human history, if you lived long enough to get too old to do labor, you were expected to do something (usually helping with childrearing or teaching skills to younger generations) in order to lessen the burden of your existence to others, mainly your family. Now that most labor isn't actually physical and people are living longer, there's less excuse for doing nothing for 10+ years off of savings besides just wanting to. Unfortunately, given the size of deficits in lots of Western nations and the stagnating wages of the younger generations, those retirement accounts are becoming more attractive as a way to pay off debt that the people holding those accounts created.

[1] https://www.pgpf.org/article/the-united-states-forgoes-hundr...
by msgodel | 2025-07-23 01:41:53+00:00
My solution for this is a ~20 line shell script that gets run from a checked out copy of the repo under /var/www/html and uses inotifywatch on the origin repo (pushed via ssh) to update an HTML file with a tree view and links to all the files in master as well as a second HTML file with per-branch diffs from master. Then it runs "build.sh" and archives the output.

IMO this covers pretty much all the bases, it just doesn't have a flashy GUI. There's way less to configure though and one of the worst ways to spend time is configuring other people's software.
by andsoitis | 2025-07-23 01:42:37+00:00
The OpenAI founder described the transformation of customer service as already complete, telling the Federal Reserve vice-chair for supervision, Michelle Bowman: “Now you call one of these things and AI answers. It’s like a super-smart, capable person. There’s no phone tree, there’s no transfers. It can do everything that any customer support agent at that company could do. It does not make mistakes. It’s very quick. You call once, the thing just happens, it’s done.”

Uhm, yeah no.
by fsckboy | 2025-07-23 01:43:17+00:00
you can't actually argue that the retail channel will eat the difference. that would be arguing that the financial market would eat the difference, and that's exactly what financial markets will not do. nor do you want them to, since the money in financial markets is your pension.

lay people have a broken view of what goes into a price and a profit, thinking that a "fair" profit should be some "reasonable" percentage. It's just not how it works, it works on multiplied rates. the financial markets exist to give large companies working capital. if the companies need double the working capital, the shareholders/bankers want double the returns. the alternative would be you getting a letter saying "hey, the returns on your retirement account are going to be halved, think of it like your retirement account is now half the size"
by jmclnx | 2025-07-23 01:43:52+00:00
For the US only:

Because due to the current brain dead policies of the GOP in the US, life expectancies in the US are falling.

So instead of storing up Social Security by making the ultra rich pay their fair share, people who do real work to enrich these people will have to work longer. That means they will have a shorter and less healthy retirement.

Now, I am guessing about 40% of people in the US will never be able to retire. I know a couple in that situation right now.

The GOP has been trying to kill of Social Security for almost 50 years, I fully expect they will succeed in 10 years or so.
by globalnode | 2025-07-23 01:44:11+00:00
Robust bs detectors may also leave a person susceptible to rejecting novel or unorthodox ideas. Theres a balance somewhere between not being overwhelmed by the sea of crazy and still being open to a good idea when it comes along.

Edit: This thread is amazing. 12 years of pre-uni schooling and no mention of any of this stuff... Also fair criticism of IRA too in the article. Still, seems a little ironic that the people crying foul benefited from the status quo of an uneducated populace.
by simurgh_beau | 2025-07-23 01:44:29+00:00
Apologies for the very slow reply; I had mistakenly assumed this thread was inactive.

Thank you for sharing this; it's a fantastic reminder. I was actually introduced to the concept behind Pol.is a few years ago on a BBC Click Persian segment, and your comment prompted me to take a much deeper look into their work. The connection to Audrey Tang and Taiwan's digital democracy work is particularly inspiring.

You make a very sharp point about the importance of understanding disagreement. In my proposal, the primary mechanism for this is the public vote count. While it doesn't have the sophisticated ML clustering of Pol.is, the goal is to make the final vote tally on all candidate messages transparent. This way, you see not only the ideas that reached consensus but also the exact level of support for minority or dissenting opinions, creating a clear map of both agreement and discord.

Thanks again for the excellent and very helpful comment.
by timschmidt | 2025-07-23 01:44:48+00:00
For a single user prompting with one or few prompts at a time, compute is not the bottleneck. Memory bandwidth is. This is because the entire model's weights must be run through the algorithm many times per prompt. This is also why multiplexing many prompts at the same time is relatively easy and effective, as many matrix multiplications can happen in the time it takes to do a single fetch from memory.
by hiAndrewQuinn | 2025-07-23 01:46:03+00:00
Interesting claim - let's see if it passes the sniff test.

It's very unlikely that we are actually currently at an ideal retirement age on the margin where a move in either direction hurts. If raising the retirement age hurts young people, then lowering the retirement age probably helps young people.

Does that sound correct to you? Would lowering the retirement age now help young people?
by robochat | 2025-07-23 01:47:11+00:00
We actually use the twitter detections to launch analyses of the seismic data in order to get confirmed results for events that aren’t reported yet [1] but there are some statistics for the twitter detections in the supplementary material of that article [2]. Basically, in 2016-2017 (wow, so long ago), we detected 893 earthquakes via twitter, with a median delay of 67s and a median separation from the published epicentre of 94km. Note that estimating earthquake epicentres is nontrivial anyway and so, for comparison, 10km accuracy would often be considered ok. So the twitter, I mean X, method isn’t optimal but it gets you down to the right region. Partly it’s because geocoding the tweets is inaccurate and partly it’s because people live clumped together in cities rather than smoothly spread over the surface of the earth.

[1] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aau9824 [2] https://www.science.org/action/downloadSupplement?doi=10.112...