MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by seanhunter | 2025-07-22 15:01:27+00:00
Yes, although without getting too deep in the weeds, in the UK and Europe, asset-backed bonds are often issued using a similar process. The actual bonds are often held by a depositary and the holder just gets a depositary receipt rather than the bond itself. This is done largely for ease of settlement I believe.

The point is the mechanism here is reasonably well-established in normal finance.
by throw0101b | 2025-07-22 15:01:49+00:00
> This administration has zero ability to build or bring people together […]

Someone observed a lot of stuff that Trump is doing is through Executive Orders because he really can't do deals. Of course when (some of) his desires overlap with (some of) others', we get:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Big_Beautiful_Bill_Act

which is mostly about implementing:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

> […] so there is plenty of time to chicken out.

TACO:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Always_Chickens_Out

* https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/02/dona...

(Being reliant on TACO may backfire at some point.)
by 3cats-in-a-coat | 2025-07-22 15:02:15+00:00
Intelligence is not general. It can be. But rarely is. Most people contextualize their knowledge and skills, they divide to conquer, as generalizing is hard. Especially hard in a fragmented, divided world.

Those seemingly smart people are likely all smart. But they have no idea how to take their skills from one area and apply them to another. So they fall for really stupid BS outside their area of specialization.
by mkauffman23 | 2025-07-22 15:02:37+00:00
In this blog we detail the api design and technical decisions we made when adding audio video support to Ragie's RAG service. We explore some of the approaches we tried and the rationale behind what we landed on. Worth a read if you're building similar systems.

Here's a TLDR: - Built a full pipeline that processes audio/video → transcription + vision descriptions → chunking → indexing - Audio: faster-whisper with large-v3-turbo (4x faster than vanilla Whisper) - Video: Chose Vision LLM descriptions over native multimodal embeddings (2x faster, 6x cheaper, better results) 15-second video chunks hit the sweet spot for detail vs context - Source attribution with direct links to exact timestamps

Happy to answer any further questions folks might have!
by eru | 2025-07-22 15:02:41+00:00
> [...] whereas OOP approach is open for extension, with the associated boilerplate in the visitor logic.

Yes, by default. But doesn't eg Java let you mark classes as final or something like that?

> In languages of ML linage, we can combine both approaches with a mix of sum types and functors/type classes.

I think Rust allows something similar, but I'm not sure whether you'd call it 'ML linage'?
by thornewolf | 2025-07-22 15:03:08+00:00
Preface:

I accidentally mixed up Tailwind and DaisyUI in my brain. The commenter above me is talking about Tailwind and my "Previous Comment" is responding by talking about DaisyUI but accidentally also using the word Tailwind.

For previous versions of DaisyUI my main complaint was that it looked childish. V5 fixed this. I misread the parent comment as if they were talking about this same issue. My bad.

Previous comment:

I'm not sure when you most recently used Tailwind, but V5 is a big improvement on V4. 4 definitely looked somewhat childish. 5 corrected most/all of this.
by chw9e | 2025-07-22 15:03:42+00:00
Oh, I just picked Anthropic’s Sonnet4 to start because it’s really good at agentic stuff and because of the subscription benefits.

I will add more model support soon - any models you particularly want to see?

I’m also hoping to test out RL on the tools to get a fine-tuned model specifically for browser automation eventually.
by jzb | 2025-07-22 15:04:20+00:00
In answer to the first question... there's been an isolationist streak among the right for decades. But in answer to the second, expecting consistency from the American right is a bad idea. They do not care about being consistent, any so-called principles are only applied to others -- not themselves. (And I acknowledge that all humans and all groups have the ability to be hypocritical in some circumstances, but it's far more pronounced in the American right.)
by jmyeet | 2025-07-22 15:04:26+00:00
This is a deep topic but let me try and summarize.

The key concept here is "transhumanism" [1]. This is a very popular belief among Silicon Valley CEOs. Followers have deluded themselves into thinking their genes are special and they think about what they can do to ensure this transhuman future. It usually means having as many children as possible a la Elon Musk.

Thing is, transhumanism is simply eugenics [2]. It's tech-flavored white supremacy [3].

[1]: https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/silicon-valley-art...

[2]: https://www.seenandunseen.com/transhumanism-eugenics-digital...

[3]: https://biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2023/01/19/transhumanism-...
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-07-22 15:04:42+00:00
A couple of things I've realized as I've gotten older:

1. Intelligence does not transfer across domains. E.g. being good at making money doesn't necessarily make you qualified in other areas. And vice versa, as Isaac Newton is famously quoted as saying "I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of men" after losing a ton of money in the South Sea Bubble.

2. Many (most) people view their identity as a membership in some group, however that is defined. Most people like to pretend to argue about policy, but they're really arguing about their group membership.

3. Admitting you were wrong and changing your opinion is incredibly difficult for most people, perhaps even moreso for people who are nominally smart in other domains. Doubly so if it goes against your group membership as pointed out in #2.

Regarding "And it’s wild to think that more than 1/3 of the devs I’ve met in my life support this admin" specifically, at least in my experience, many of the devs don't support Trump as much as they chaffed against some of the cultural changes Democrats led (woefully unsuccessfully in my opinion) and so they hooked their wagon to Trump. E.g. this is my personal opinion, but I think "the left" really did go overboard with language policing, recognizing racial group membership above all else when it comes to diversity, labeling any valid discussion of the pros and cons of biological men in women's sports as "transphobic", the utter dishonesty in pretending Biden would be capable for another term and thus denying a real primary, etc. etc. And, to be blunt about it, for a very long time the Democratic party had almost nothing to offer for white men - indeed, in many aspects "old white men" became an acceptable derogatory term amongst the left. How they expected that would win them elections in the US is beyond me.

So don't get me wrong, I think Trump is worse in nearly every way, but I think a lot of the dev supporters I've seen of Trump are less full-on MAGA folks than libertarian types who thought Trump would challenge the excesses of the left (and are now having a hard time admitting his full-on fascist behavior).
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-07-22 15:04:43+00:00
You have to sign a document saying you won't boycott Israel, academic journals cancel editions which talk about Palestine, you can't be part of UNESCO for Israel. You can't write a college article critical of Israel or we'll kidnap you off the streets into an unmarked van. You can't be a business and not give a contract to Israel or your employee will tip off the Anti Boycott Office against you. Your Congressmen wear Israeli military fatigues into the Congress. Your mayoral candidates have to pledge fealty to Israel.

We aren't Israeli citizens. Why are we treated like we are?
by tgtweak | 2025-07-22 15:05:13+00:00
They also moved from a toroidal SMPS to an integrated PMIC for voltage regulation - but that was likely for cost/weight reasons but also hints at being able to more accurately measure and limit the charge or discharge current as a function of the cell temperature. This design is typically less efficient (generates more heat for the same output) so that strongly hints that the overheating issue was not from the pcb/electronics directly and from the cells themselves.

The addition of what I assume is a temperature sensor on the cell in the new design also points to the addition of some charge/discharge regulation based on the active cell temperature that wasn't present in the original model.

Moving from busbar to insulated leads also suggests some recurring issues with bus bar short/contacts but was probably not the cause of the overheating issue as busbars usually have lower resistance and higher current capacity.

If I had to guess I would say the recall was very likely due to cell overheating on high discharge (PD in/out) in high temperature or high insulation (in a backpack or in the sun) situations where there was no thermal feedback from the cell to the controller and the cell was outside of the specification temperature. Thermal runaway is a known issue with lipo cells and can cause cell rupture and combustion.

I've had tons of other packs that have gotten too hot to touch during high charge/discharge and that have "pillowed" up (there is an entire amusingly-named subreddit for shaming cells that have done this... /r/spicypillows) and that is without putting them in a backpack or other insulating environment, or doing so in high ambient temperature. I think anker is likely singled out in the recall because of their size and not necessarily that they made a worse powerbank than most others... but that is only anecdotal based on how many off-brand powerbanks I've seen fail in the same way (bluehive, inui and safuel specifically, to name names) without any recalls or sanctions.
by goku12 | 2025-07-22 15:05:15+00:00
There is a scene in one of the X-men movies where Magneto escapes a completely non-metallic prison by extracting iron from a guard's body. I initially thought that Raven had injected him the previous day with something to increase his iron content. But realized later that she had injected metallic iron as a suspension.

That aside, you don't need ferromagnetic substances for it be manipulated by magnetic fields. Anything conducting can be moved around by fluctuating magnetic fields. Even non-conducting paramagnetic or diamagnetic substance will eventually respond to very high strength magnetic fields - just not at the 'feeble' strengths of an MRI machine's superconducting magnets. Here is something I collected previously on the same fun topic: https://phanpy.social/#/fosstodon.org/s/111504060685437481?v...
by WorldMaker | 2025-07-22 15:05:22+00:00
In Firefox you can right-click and Unload Tab which leaves the tab as one you can return to but unloads all the JS (including Service Workers) until you return to it. Firefox will auto-unload tabs as you open more tabs, but for sites like YouTube that do a lot of cross-tab chatter and have mega Service Workers trying to do background stuff (they don't need to) all of the time, it's nice to be able to Unload Tab directly from the right-click menu.
by throwanem | 2025-07-22 15:05:27+00:00
In form, the conversation he had (which appears to have ended five days ago along with all other public footprint) appears to me very much like a heavily refined and customizable version of "Qanon," [1] complete with intermittent reinforcement. That conspiracy theory was structurally novel in its "growth hacking" style of rollout, where ARG and influencer techniques were leveraged to build interest and develop a narrative in conjunction with the audience. That stuff was incredibly compelling when the Lost producers did it in 2010, and it worked just as well a decade later.

Of course, in 2020, it required people behind the scenes doing the work to produce the "drops." Now any LLM can be convinced with a bit of effort to participate in a "role-playing game" of this type with its user, and since Qanon itself was heavily covered and its subject matter broadly archived, even the actual structure is available as a reference.

I think it would probably be pretty easy to get an arbitrary model to start spitting out stuff like this, especially if you conditioned the initial context carefully to work around whatever after-the-fact safety measures may be in place, or just use one of the models that's been modified or finetuned to "decensor" it. There are collections of "jailbreak" prompts that go around, and I would expect Mr. Jawline Fillers here to be in social circles where that stuff would be pretty easy to come by.

For it to become self-reinforcing doesn't seem too difficult to mentally model from there, and I don't think pre-existing organic disorder is really required. How would anyone handle a machine that specializes in telling them exactly what they want to hear, and never ever gets tired of doing so?

Elsewhere in this thread, I proposed a somewhat sanguine mental model for LLMs. Here's another, much less gory, and with which I think people probably are a lot more intuitively familiar: https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Mirror_of_Erised

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon#Origin_and_spread
by glitchc | 2025-07-22 15:05:40+00:00
The online space (Reddit, HN, others) is so deeply embedded with groupthink that people have lost the ability to see other points of view or debate topics of interest.

To me it's very clear why the government is leaving UNESCO (and over time the UN at large). The UN is dysfunctional and does not work. It used to be a source of soft power for the States, but hasn't been so for the better part of this century. Meanwhile, the US continues to fund it even though it is currently running a massive deficit. It doesn't make sense to continue throwing good money after bad, especially when funds are scarce. Let other nations pick up the funding slack. Likely they will not and the UN will collapse, as it should. Something new can be built from its ashes. Many people agree with this rather pragmatic view.

If you want to have a discussion, debate the points I made above instead of hurling insults and ad hominem attacks.
by _fat_santa | 2025-07-22 15:05:52+00:00
I've seen the same thing. What I've seen is most of those folks that supported them during the campaign are now pretty quiet. During the campaign it was "cool" to support Trump and the republicans but now that the dude's in office, most are seeing that campaigns are very different from the administrations.

Looking back I blame the Democrats for running horrible candidates and the gaslighting that their candidates were actually great and were as "cool" as the Trump team. It just felt so disingenuous when you heard Democrats saying that Biden was still very with it and even more disingenuous when they said that Harris/Walz were a great pick. And now the folks that said it was disingenuous were not wrong, cause after the campaign ended and Trump was in office seemingly everyone that praised Biden and then Harris then flipped the script and started saying what everyone was thinking all along (that Biden was not fit to serve and Harris wasn't a great candidate).

I talked to alot of guys that flipped from D to R this past election and just about every one of them said a version of: "do they think we are stupid??".

The Democrats have a hubris problem, they think that just because they run someone and tell folks that the person is great, everyone will just automatically buy into that. That's just not how it works and you have to make a genuinely convincing argument and that argument can't be "the other guys is worse"
by skywhopper | 2025-07-22 15:06:01+00:00
You’ve bought into a completely wrong take here. This is not at all what happened. The media kowtows to Trump and the GOP at every opportunity, and has helped create this nonsense CW you are parroting. Twitter is overrun with bots and full-on racism and Nazism and you’re saying Dems bowed to that? You have been fooled.
by TheNewsIsHere | 2025-07-22 15:06:01+00:00
Exactly.

LLMs specifically and AI generally are not going to replace your Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Twenty One Pilots, Linkin Park, etc.

Speaking to the parent comment specifically - it strikes me as uninformed that “liberal arts and academic” disciplines rely only on language production. That’s absurd.

I have a hard science degree but I started my education in the humanities and spent time studying business and management in my education as well. That gave me an immense advantage that many technologists lack. More importantly it gave me insight into what people who only have a hard science education don’t understand about those fields. The take that they aren’t connected to reality is chiefly among those misunderstandings.

LLMs can’t replace any field for which advancement or innovation relies upon new thinking. This is different from areas where we have worked out mathematically articulable frameworks, like in organic chemistry. Even in those areas, actual experts aren’t replaceable by these technologies.
by boringg | 2025-07-22 15:06:08+00:00
There are so many wide ranging forms of intelligence. Being an exceptional engineer or a high functioning executive/CEO you may have a very narrow slice of intelligence or capability. It does not in any way mean you have an understanding of how the world works or general knowledge.

I agree -- it is surprising how many high achieving people have such poor understanding of how the world/society/countries work. It's almost like our education system's specificity hasn't done a good job on civics broadly.
by dclowd9901 | 2025-07-22 15:06:34+00:00
> As such, if he really is suffering a mental health crisis related to his use of OpenAI's product, his situation could serve as an immense optical problem for the company, which has so far downplayed concerns about the mental health of its users.

Yikes. Not just an optics* problem, but one has to consider if they're pouring so much money into the company because he feels he "needs" to (whatever basis of coercion exists to support his need to get to the "truth").
by roywiggins | 2025-07-22 15:06:44+00:00
It's not that much of a difference, but it is faster, and when you do need to switch pythons, you're already set up. uv also has some different workflows, universal lock files, and the caching is also nice. And the PEP 723 support is cool!

Poetry was a big difference, it was also very slow for me, and so I never picked it up.
by netbioserror | 2025-07-22 15:06:50+00:00
Is it not obvious? Democracies are schizophrenic, where the people and the ruling class are constantly fighting to implement and repeal half-baked bastardizations of their agendas. The best sign that the people have any influence in their government is that there is zero consistent application of anything. Consistency only happens when the democratic element is removed.
by cjcenizal | 2025-07-22 15:06:54+00:00
Absolutely! AI coding is a communication lubricant. It enables non-technical people to express complex software ideas without the friction of asking a developer for help or even working with a no-code tool.

Software development doesn't occur in a vacuum -- it's part of a broader ecosystem consisting of tech writers, product managers, sales engineers, support engineers, evangelists, and others. AI coding enables each person in the org to participate more efficiently in the scoping, design, and planning phases of software development.
by Loughla | 2025-07-22 15:06:55+00:00
It's different perspectives, I've come to learn.

The people I know who support this regime do so because they feel completely left out (they're low income so I'm not sure that applies to software developers).

When there's nothing for you why wouldn't you want to just burn it all down? Then you can build a more "fair" system.

Please note that I do not agree with literally anything current admin does, this is just the perspective I hear often.
by FollowingTheDao | 2025-07-22 15:07:09+00:00
Yes, the take on this is that you can be a couch potato all you like just do not eat less than the recommended "2200" calories a day.

Personally I eat about 1000 - 1200 calories a day. I don't count or anything but when I look back at my diet that is usually where it is. Currently 135 pounds and all I do is walk a bit, but under 5000 steps a day.
by AnonC | 2025-07-22 15:07:38+00:00
This is a good list of why and how to get started with Firefox. I’ve been a Firefox user since the days of Phoenix (and before?). I use Firefox as my main browser at work, even though almost everybody else uses Chrome or Edge.

One irritant I’ve seen with Firefox over the last several years is that on Windows 10 it always crashes on quitting. I’ve submitted all the crash reports religiously and have briefly looked at some of the bugle bugs that they’re linked to. As per suggestions online I’ve even disabled history clearing on exit. But it doesn’t seem like there’s enough focus on reducing the crashes. Where I’m not doing enough is to run it in safe mode and figuring out what happens. I don’t have the time and energy to do that. So I’ll continue submitting the crash reports in the hopes that the different causes get addressed and make it more robust.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-07-22 15:08:16+00:00
Summary

An invaluable collection of texts written between 1811 and 1816 by members of the Luddite movement and their sympathizers.Named for their probably mythical leader, Ned Ludd, the Luddites were a group of social agitators in nineteenth-century Britain who tried to prevent the mechanization of cloth factories, which they blamed for increased unemployment, poverty, and hunger in industrial centers. Though famous for their often violent protests, the Luddites also engaged in literary resistance in the form of poems, proclamations, petitions, songs, and letters. In Writings of the Luddites, Kevin Binfield collects complete texts written by Luddites or Luddite sympathizers between 1811 and 1816, adds detailed notes, and organizes the documents by the three primary regions of origin: the Midlands, Northwestern England, and Yorkshire.

Binfield’s extensive introduction provides a historical overview of the Luddites and their activities, explores their rhetorical strategies, and illuminates their literary context. Written for the most part from a collective point of view, the texts themselves range from judicious to bloodthirsty in tone and reveal a fascination both with legal forms of address and with the more personal forms of Romantic literature, as well as with the recent political revolutions in France and America.
by throwanem | 2025-07-22 15:08:17+00:00
You said:

> I will find these types of arguments a lot more convincing once the person making them is able to explain, in detail and with mechanisms, what it is the human brain does that allows it to [produce behavior comparable to that of LLMs], and in what ways those detailed mechanisms are different from what LLMs do.

I addressed myself to those concerns, to which consciousness is broadly not relevant. Oh, conscious control of speech production exists when consciousness is present, of course; the inhibitory effect of consciousness, like the science behind where and how speech and language arise in the brain, is by now very well documented. But you keep talking about consciousness as though it and speech production had some essential association, and you are confusing the issue and yourself thereby.

As I have noted, there exists much research in neuroscience, a good deal of it now decades old, which addresses the concerns you treat as unanswerable. Rather than address yourself further to me directly, I would suggest spending the same time following the references I already gave.