MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by amy214 | 2025-07-18 01:51:12+00:00
It's like this

>go take a flight >demand your photo be taken >"as far as I know it's mandatory" >"I assure you the image is deleted" >"fingerprints derived from the image, what are those" Thanks TSA for logging the facial parameters of 200 million citizens, I'm sure that invasion of privacy helped your basic mission, to screen passengers for planes
by socalgal2 | 2025-07-18 01:51:41+00:00
Or prices will just rise.

Not UBI but this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_GLfxaYTYI) shows (claims) rent always rises to suck up available money. Why? Not because landlords are evil, no, because once people have more money many of them want a nicer place. There are a limited number of nicer places so the prices rise since all these new people with a little more money bid up what they're willing to pay.

The same will be true of UBI and anything you think it enables. There are limited number of planes, boats, hotels, hostels so the moment everyone can do it is the moment there's more demand than supply and prices will go up.

The larger point is that it's not about if you get UBI. It's about if everyone gets UBI
by toast0 | 2025-07-18 01:53:01+00:00
If I'm reading this right, which is hard because most of the information is missing... The whole project is $3B. Someone else is kicking in $1.5B, $618M has already been spent, so maybe completion requires $872M and not completion takes $618M. Or maybe $618M was spent of the outside contribution, so it's $1.5B to complete and $618M to cancel?

If the state doesn't have the money, cancellation sounds less expensive than completion, in the short term. Of course, the costs for not doing the coastal repairs will continue to acrue, but if there's no money, there's no money?
by layoric | 2025-07-18 01:55:33+00:00
Claude is decent for sure, but if you are using these models for 'smarts', that is a whole separate problem. I also think honestly people are sleeping on Mistral's medium 3 and devstral medium. I know it isn't 'smart' either (none of them are), but for mundane tasks need valid code output, it is extremely good for the price.
by nine_k | 2025-07-18 01:55:46+00:00
How have these goddamn morons got elected? How high the voter turnout has been?

I'm afraid it's not stupidity, but malfeasance, likely fueled by some kind of corruption.

(It's not impossible, of course, that Louisiana's population universally hates the coastal cleanup effort and demands to stop it, no matter what it costs,and the administration just followsthe will of the people. Somehow I never heard of such unusual sentiment though.)
by Neywiny | 2025-07-18 01:55:47+00:00
I guess what I'm not seeing, and I feel this way about all circuits as code, is why this isn't just a file format spec. I appreciate the INA228 example showing that it can describe functions/constraints of the part. I've certainly made mistakes (and had reviewers catch some of them) with swapped SDA/SCL or voltages being too high. Basically, things you can't always tell from the symbol itself or won't get caught by DRC. Buuuuut, my problem with this is that it feels better suited to be a way to DRC other EDA tools.

For example, most of the .ato files are just basically netlists? https://github.com/atopile/spin-servo-drive/blob/main/elec/s... for example is just a bunch of "this connects to that". We really need a whole new for that? I feel like this could all be done with an xml or something. Maybe more modern like a yaml idk. Every one of these solutions has its own language with its own limitations, instead of using what's around first and focusing on what makes this *better* than click and drag. Because I have to say,

> cm5.cm5.ethernet.pairs[0].n.line.override_net_name = "eth0_N"

Just cannot be easier than plopping down a net label.
Show HN: JsonDB – A Redis-like KV store with MongoDB query in Go
by pardnchiu | 2025-07-18 01:55:58+00:00
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this project is an extend project of [go-redis-fallback](https://github.com/pardnchiu/go-redis-fallback), to use same cache skill to build a tcp connection database with aof logging and mongodb-like query features

with projects web-monitor, cim-prototype, rss-reader, im skilled in cmd parse and set action, so the next step is to build my own database for sharing

i already completed these features

Complete Database System Architecture - TCP Server: Implements a TCP server listening on `127.0.0.1:7989` - CLI Client: Supports `cli` interaction and command execution mode (`-c` parameter) - Multi-Database Support: Allows switching and isolated storage for up to 16 databases (0-15)

Basic KV Operation System - Core Operations: Fully implements `GET`, `SET`, `DEL`, `EXISTS`, `TYPE` - Pattern Matching: `KEYS` command supports wildcard search with `*` and `?` - TTL Management: Fully implements `TTL`, `EXPIRE`, `PERSIST`, with automatic expiration cleanup - Type System: Automatically detects types like `string`, `int`, `object`, `array`

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by esperent | 2025-07-18 01:56:20+00:00
> according to the NOVA classification.

I have massive problems with the NOVA classification.

For example, anything traditional gets a pass. Cheese? Traditional, so it's not highly processed, even if made in a factory. Oat milk? New, so it's classified as highly processed , even when there's less actual processing happening (talking about mass produced but real cheese here, not the American stuff).

I do get the idea behind NOVA, it's designed to be simple, to statistically improve the diets of people in Europe, and to accept that they won't stop people eating traditional foods so they should ignore them. Overall, trying to have less NOVA food items in your diet is a good start to healthy eating.

However, there's no nuance. It's (intentionally) simplistic. It falls apart when you focus on individual items like this, and it will get used this way.

Many things classified as highly processed, considered individually, could be fairly healthy. Many things not classified as highly processed, considered individually, could be unhealthy.

Statistically, applied to all foods, it should help steer people towards a healthier diet. But when talking about an individual food, you should have a stronger case than "it's NOVA classified as highly processed" before dismissing it.
by anonzzzies | 2025-07-18 01:57:57+00:00
That must somehow be illegal, at least in the consumer space. I have noticed quicker degrade to sonnet, but don't often hit limits ($200 plan). Seems none of these guys can afford loyalty, so I will be skipping between 'tool of the month' instead of sticking with one. New companies with new VC money are good for a few months and then degrade, so it's not hard to do.
by cFyrute | 2025-07-18 01:58:22+00:00
Important context from the article includes things such as: unspent funds remain available for future projects; the works were predicted to have a devastating impact on local wildlife, such as killing an estimated 6,000 dolphins; this is not a partisan issue, as there have been outspoken Dems and Republicans on either side; also devastating impact to the local fishing industry was predicted, prompting a $400m lawsuit to curtail the project.
by j_timberlake | 2025-07-18 01:58:31+00:00
"It feels like either finding that 2% that's off (or dealing with 2% error) will be the time consuming part in a lot of cases."

This is the part you have wrong. People just won't do that. They'll save the 8 hours and just deal with 2% error in their work (which reduces as AI models get better). This doesn't work with something with a low error tolerance, but most people aren't building the next Golden Gate Bridge. They'll just fix any problems as they crop up.

Some of you will be screaming right now "THAT'S NOT WORTH IT", as if companies don't already do this to consumers constantly, like losing your luggage at the airport or getting your order wrong. Or just selling you something defective, all of that happens >2% of the time, because companies know customers will just deal-with-it.
by ChuckMcM | 2025-07-18 01:58:52+00:00
There is a lot of fraud on Craigslist. The fraudsters are very creative. There is this fallacy, the 'Sunk Cost' fallacy, where people accept a substandard result because they feel they have already invested in the result and don't want to 'throw away' that investment. So in a place where it can take 90 minutes to go across the Bay, if you drive clear across the Bay for what you believe to be a pristine item, you may buy anyway (at a reduced price) because you've already invested the time to get there. Whereas, had the seller posted actual pictures of the item in question, you would have said, "I'll wait for one in better condition to come along."

The "success" of Craiglist is that it exposes you item to a wider pool of buyers, which increases the chance that the one person who really wants it, will see it. And if they really want it they are motivated to go out of their way to get to it. But if even the pictures lie and you don't know what you're getting until you get there, your willingness to take the risk and drive out is reduced, which means people will have items that might have sold if you were trusted.

This happens on EBay too. Sellers list something and it isn't as described, and fraudulent sellers will say "but it is! This buyer is trying to scam me." and EBay usually sides with the seller.

My prediction (and hey, its just a guess) is that if people start using these tools to "enhance" the images they use to sell stuff and it becomes a regular practice, then the total population of people who will use Craigslist will go down and prices overall will be reduced as that fraud gets priced in. Sellers won't get as much as they think they should and stop selling there. If it drops below critical mass then the service suffers.
by dlcarrier | 2025-07-18 01:59:14+00:00
Meanwhile, I went lean FIRE and couldn't e-file in California, because my income was too low. At least I didn't have to file, so I just let them keep my few-hundred-dollar rebate, but they decided to add insult to injury and sent me a letter saying if I didn't file my taxes, they would assume I was earning more than I ever had before and go after me for several thousand dollars.
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by bamboozled | 2025-07-18 02:00:26+00:00
I still think they'd work it out pretty fast. I'm sure sabotage is pretty high on the list of things the Russians would be thinking about.

It's a good idea, I just think if the goal is to stop the drones working, what better way to do that then to destroy the manufacturing capabilities as often as possible?

Even in the case you describe, you're allowing them to have drones and still do some damage.
by lxgr | 2025-07-18 02:01:04+00:00
Why would photo apps do what's "important for society"?

Annotating photos takes time/effort, and I could totally imagine photo apps being resistant to prompting their users for that, some of which would undoubtedly find it annoying, and many more confusing.

Yet I don't think that one can conclude from that that annotations aren't helpful/important to vision impaired users (at least until very recently, i.e. before the widespread availability of high quality automatic image annotations).

In other words, the primary user base of photo editors isn't the set of people that would most benefit from it, which is probably why we started seeing "alt text nudging" first appear on social media, which has both producer and consumer in mind (at least more than photo editors).
by Quarrelsome | 2025-07-18 02:02:04+00:00
sure but I've seen degree educated people engage deeply in analysis, dialogue and discussion and then proceed to do wrong-headed, deceitful, cruel and even stupid things. I half wonder if an aspect of it is some ritualistic process to lull oneself into a false sense of security. I'm probably not describing higher education, but there's a thing, a sort of blithe unquestioning sleepwalking that I struggle to adequetely describe.

Thinking back to early on in my career, there was one place I worked that was a complete mess, its pertinent because the first time I applied I was rejected immediately because of the lack of degree but the second time they interviewed me and I joined.

A representative example of the mess: They did waterfall and they'd analysed, discussed and dialogued about a "transaction service", they produced beautiful documents and UML. But it was garbage, it wasn't transactional, it slowly wrote to an xml file, in-situ over the course of an hour long workflow and had an unparsable xml file with a handle open for 99.9% of its lifecyle. This was an embedded environment for industry and the reality of power management and pre-smartphone battery tech resulted in crippling "corruption" issues that were obvious at the design phase which I had to fix later on (but even then, I wasn't allowed to radically alter "the design"). I had as much luck convincing them to use sqlite as intermediary and then producing xml at the end, as I did the other guys installing a cert on their server.

What am I describing here exactly? Normalcy bias? Just "bad" devs, idk? I've spent my entire career grappling with senior staff ignoring the valid concerns I raise and end up feeling like I'm the problem because I'm the only one stepping out of line to demand better, with zero support from my peers. Tbf the guy at that place at least admitted later on that "yeah sorry for not taking your advice, I always seem to regret ignoring it about six months later".
by abetusk | 2025-07-18 02:03:16+00:00
I found this talk to be great. It goes through the history of OOP and how some of the ideas for the more modern ECS were embedded in the culture at the formation of OOP in the 1960s to 1980s but somehow weren't adopted.

It was pretty clear, even 20 years ago, that OOP had major problems in terms of what Casey Muratori now calls "hierarchical encapsulation" of problems.

One thing that really jumped out at me was his quote [0]:

> I think when you're designing new things, you should focus on the hardest stuff. ... we can always then take that and scale it down ... but it's almost impossible to take something that solves simple problems and scale it up into something that solves hard [problems]

I understand the context but this, in general, is abysmally bad advice. I'm not sure about language design or system architecture but this is almost universally not true for any mathematical or algorithmic pursuit.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo84LFzx5nI&t=8284s
by strken | 2025-07-18 02:03:31+00:00
> Greater return than what and to whom?

Greater return for the government paying for a UBI, compared to not paying for a UBI.

> We already have existing labor markets that are very capable of determining returns.

I'm not sure I understand how "existing labour markets" are going to solve the three things I listed: education, caregiving, and parents taking time off to look after their kids.

The issue of parents being absent is that it results in negative externalities: crime rate, an alienated society, low literacy rates. The existing labour market is great at placing parents into a job efficiently, but it has absolutely nothing to do with keeping their kids out of prison. Nor should it, really, because externalities are a government-level coordination problem.

When it comes to education, the issue is again a coordination problem. Companies might do some training, but they generally prefer to foist the risk off onto employees, other companies, and governments by hiring people who are already educated. Again, this is a coordination problem, because any individual company that skips training and just hires educated workers directly will be more efficient, but those educated workers have to come from somewhere.

I will concede that it's more efficient not to take care of the elderly. I question whether it is desirable, however.
by ReaperCub | 2025-07-18 02:04:18+00:00
> Sounds like you have a substance abuse problem and you're afraid that others will make the same mistake you did.

I had a substance abuse problem. I have been sober now 7 years.

As for whether I am afraid others will do the same? Yes I am afraid others will make the same mistake that I did. That is why I am warning against it.

> Saying that people's lives are better because they benefit society through their labour, while suffering from untreated addiction (a truly horrible thing), is quite fatalistic, to me.

You asked me whether I thought it was better and I gave you two reasons why I believed it was better. I believe it is be a completely honest assessment based on my own experiences. If you have a critique that is objective of my position I am willing to listen to it, but moralising about how my assessment I am not interested in.

> The substance abuse is a totally different issue from "not working."

In theory yes, in reality no. One will exacerbates the other.

> There are a million things to do other than go to the office.

Sure there are. But unfortunately I have a mortgage and bills that need paying.
by kgwgk | 2025-07-18 02:05:53+00:00
> it was a commercially unsuccessful product.

Was it?

According to the article "A Businesweek article cited sales of 215,000 units and said it was 1995’s best-selling PC laptop." As the article says, $3,799–$5,649 was "not cheap, but not absurd at the time."

For reference the PowerBook 500 series sold "almost 600,000" units in 1994-1996 according to Wikipedia and the color screen models were $2,900-$4,840.
by positron26 | 2025-07-18 02:06:01+00:00
The framing has been rather problematic. I find these differences in premises are lurking below the conversations:

- Some believe LLMs will be a winner-take-all market and reinforce divergences in economic and political power.

- Some believe LLMs have no path of evolution and have therefore already plateaued and too low to be sustainable with these investments in compute, which would imply it's a flash in the pan that will collapse.

- Some believe LLMs will all be hosted forever, always living in remote services because the hardware requirements will always be massive.

- Some believe LLMs will create new, worse kinds of harm without enough offsetting creation of new kinds of defense.

- Some believe LLMs and AI will only ever give low-skilled people mid-skill results and therefore work against high-skill people by diluting mid-end value without creating new high-end value for them.

We need to be more aware of how we are framing this conversation because not everyone agrees on these big premises. It very strongly affects the views that depend on them. When we don't talk about these points and just judge and reply based on whether the conclusion reinforces our premises, the conversation becomes more political.

Confirmation bias is a thing. Individual interests are a thing. Some of the outcomes, like regulation and job disruption, depend on what we generally believe. People know this and so begin replying and voting according to their interests, to convince others to aid their cause without respect for the truth. This can be counter-productive to the individual if they are wrong about the premises and end up pushing an agenda that doesn't even actually benefit them.

We can't tell people not to advance their chosen horse at every turn of a conversation, but those of us who actually care about the truth of the conversation can take some time to consider the foundations of the argument and remind ourselves to explore that and bring it to the surface.
by anonzzzies | 2025-07-18 02:06:22+00:00
Sure, those people exist, that is fine. Some people do that now and far beyond their 20s: just hitch/bike/van around and do the odd job for a few days and live off that the rest of the time. There are communities where I live who allow anyone to come in and clean and cook together so you can stay and eat for $0. That is without basic income so it will happen with too. Thats a tiny minority. Most will get bored, loney, fed up etc if they even 'dare' to start such a life.
by malcolmgreaves | 2025-07-18 02:06:46+00:00
The government has to prove in court what they claim. That’s due process for deportation.

And to be blunt, immigration court is already played loose and fast by the government. It’s a civil proceeding, so the accused is not provided a lawyer for free. They don’t always make sure they explain what’s happening to the person in a language that they understand. So the government often gets what it wants when it goes to immigration court.

The Republicans not following the law is the point.
by rr808 | 2025-07-18 02:06:50+00:00
I opinion is that the AI is the distilled average of all the code it can scrape. For the stuff I'm good at and work on every day it doesn't help much beyond some handy code completions. For stuff I'm below average at like bash commands and JS it helps me get up to average. The most valuable to me is if I can use it to learn something - it gives some good alternatives and ideas if you have something mainstream.
by jychang | 2025-07-18 02:06:54+00:00
I fail to see how that matters. You're implying that all reality is cultural, but that seems irrelevant. The same thing would apply to scientific facts, but whales not having a word for science doesn't make it not real.

If we somehow discover LLMs right after Newton discovered the theory of gravity, and then a while later Einstein discovers General Relativity, then GR would not be in the training set of the neural net. That doesn't make GR any less of a description of reality! You also can't convert General Relativity into whalesong!

But you CAN explain General Relativity in English, or in Chinese to a person in china. So the fact that we can create a mapping from the concept of General Relativity in the neural network of the brain of a human in the USA using english, to someone in china using chinese, to a ML model, is what makes it a shared statistical model of reality.

You also can't convert General Relativity to the language of "infant babble", does it make general relativity any less real?
by duxup | 2025-07-18 02:07:08+00:00
I don't understand how this will avoid all the travel sites from outing whatever the baseline price is...

I think that the consumer response to discovering "Delta hates me and charged me more because I'm me." would be a very personal violation for a lot of people and seriously damage / destroy that relationship.

Even what they've done so far will make people wonder "did I get scammed" and they'll look something up, not even a 1:1 thing and they might just think they got a higher price, the damage is done then too, right or wrong ... AI panic is already pretty high. The whole system is opaque and people will assume the worst.

This seems like a PR disaster waiting to happen. I don't mind AI, but I know the everyday person sentiment about it is very negative in many circles. Even just announcing this seems risky with some people.