MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by const_cast | 2025-08-14 03:11:24+00:00
I think they're blaming Trump for stuff that he actually directly did, and then bragged about.

The reality is if you actual listen to Trump, which none of his supporters ever do, but if you did, you'd know his platform is "make everything more shit for everyone, and we'll save some money... maybe"

Well, he did thing 1. But the saving money part? How much are we saving now, like, -2 Trillion?

And, in exchange, more poor people on Medicaid will lose coverage, everything is more expensive, and we've gutted just about every social service we can.

Its like paying 200 dollars for a burger and then instead of giving you a burger they actually reach down your throat and rip out your small intestine.

This is just a bad deal. Or, in Trump language, "I told them - this is the worst deal ever. That's what I told them. Yeah. And everyone agreed with me. Yeah yeah. The biggest, most garbage deal ever"
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-08-14 03:11:49+00:00
Yeah, Australia's conservative side of politics (arguably both sides are conservative in this regard) have, at various times, tried to make protesting itself illegal.

I like the irony of it, and doubt that "real" protesters give much of a fuck what kinds of boundaries the protested try to put around protesting.

These kinds of things are just another data point documenting "the general decline".
by jMyles | 2025-08-14 03:13:52+00:00
There is a strange ingredient in the ether right now - confounding privacy with censorship. If I can see something, and hear it, then blurring it is not "privacy", it's censorship.

I fully expected this to be about solutions for empowering the user to ensure that her audio and visual experiences weren't being exfiltrated to a third-party, not that they were being censored before even getting to her.
by EGreg | 2025-08-14 03:13:57+00:00
HN anathema: crypto and blockchain — can and does trivially solve the issues Patrick writes about. You can easily make sure the account has enough money, without knowing whose account it is. Crypto is “buyer beware”. The traditional fintech system is “seller beware”. But crypto is programmable and in theory you could easily make use of arbitration, resolution of disputes, and periodic payouts etc. All without being forced into the bundle of services you don’t control, that banks saddle you with.
by bawolff | 2025-08-14 03:14:34+00:00
> If they weren't trying to trademark "Deepkit" why would you feel the need to attempt to block it? It feels unnecessarily hostile.

IANAL and dont really know, but my understanding is many places require you to defend it in order to keep it. If you become aware of something and fail to try and block it, that can be viewed as you've lost interest in the trademark and result in it being taken away from you.
by throw10920 | 2025-08-14 03:15:59+00:00
> Laws have to be enforceable.

This is a good point. In this case, it does seem pretty easy to enforce, though - just require anyone hosting an LLM for others to use to have full provenance of all of the data that they trained that LLM on. Wouldn't that solve the problem fairly easily? It's not like LLM training can be done in your garage (at which point this requirement would kill off hundreds/thousands of small LLM-training businesses that would hypothetically otherwise exist).
by const_cast | 2025-08-14 03:16:43+00:00
I would never file a support ticket to open an account. If you did that, your business would be under by the end of the week.

No, requiring actual application functionality isn't too far. For God's sake, just make normal software like a normal person. This should all be very intuitive.

Stop trying to game things, stop trying to maximize conversions and other bullshit metrics, stop trying to implement every dark pattern under the sun and just... Be normal. I promise you will comply without even trying.

And, bonus points, your software will be less shit. I know it doesn't feel that way right now, because most software is shit. You shouldn't aspire to be another turd floating around in the cesspool that is the modern web.
by sleepybrett | 2025-08-14 03:18:02+00:00
Get some platinum preppys and some 'converters' (they both cost about $7, but the converter means that changing out inks is much less of an issue) and the whole world of fountain pen inks is your oyster... and there are some really interesting inks out there.

Also an interesting instrument that i've played with. Japanese refillable brush pens. You can get a really fine line out of them if you position them just right and great flow. One of the toolheads I built for my custom plotter uses a stepper instead of a hobby servo for pen lift (originally just so i didn't have to hear those little gears grind and for reliability) and i've been working on code so that I can vary the 'z' over the course of a line for use with brushpens.

White is tough, and I've never found a white ink that doesn't just fuck up a fountain pen... sakura gelly rolls are really the best that i've used, and even they can be testy.
by sillystuff | 2025-08-14 03:18:13+00:00
I appreciate your intent, But...

This does nothing to alleviate my privacy concerns, as a bystander, about someone rudely pointing a recording camera at me. The only thing that alleviates these concerns about "smart" glasses wearers recording video, is not having "smart" glasses wearers. I.e., not having people rudely walking around with cameras strapped to their faces recording everyone and everything around them. I can't know/trust that there is some tech behind the camera that will protect my privacy.

A lot of privacy invasions have become normalized and accepted by the majority of the population. But, I think/hope a camera strapped to someone's face being shoved into other peoples' faces will be a tough sell. Google Glass wearers risked having the camera ripped off their faces / being punched in the face. I expect this will continue.

Perhaps your tech would have use in a more controlled business/military environment? Or, to post-process police body camera footage, to remove images of bystanders before public release?
by kleinishere | 2025-08-14 03:18:13+00:00
Correct. And confirmed by Kodak on their Facebook page. The “going concern” disclosure is an accounting requirement. However, the company claims to have line of sight toward addressing it.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19UdGkBYwr/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Also discussed on Reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AnalogCommunity/s/XTwZHnUHnc
by mvgoogler | 2025-08-14 03:18:17+00:00
Kodak film products are (confusingly) handled by Kodak-Alaris, which is a separate company that spun out of Eastman Kodak around 2012-ish and shares the Kodak brand with Eastman Kodak. Despite the similar names they are entirely separate companies, AFAIK.

My team did an integration with Kodak-Alaris a few years back and we toured their main office in Rochester.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak_Alaris
by iepathos | 2025-08-14 03:19:12+00:00
Human naming has nothing to do with software naming which seems obvious but apparently not. Python package creators should check the pypi registry for names and generally avoid name collisions where reasonable. Common sense applies for reduced confusion for users globally and also for potential legal issues if any party trademarks their software name. What makes one pyx more real than the other is one was first and took the spot on pypi. Simple as that. https://pypi.org/project/PyX/
by makeitdouble | 2025-08-14 03:20:17+00:00
> a (traditional) wallet manufacturer should be liable if

- the wallet spontaneously burns and the money ends in ashes

- the wallet cannot be ever opened again and the cash within it sealed out of reach

- the bills are tainted by poisonous substance sipping from the internal lining making them hazardeous to use

That's kind of an interesting exercice, I think we can all come up with a few dozens of cases where a traditional wallet manufacturer would be liable because of technical or regulation issues.
by jacobyoder | 2025-08-14 03:20:36+00:00
> and without evidence either way it's a matter of opinion

The absence of evidence is used as evidence of the thing (hostile deep state actors) existing, because they're so good they can hide their tracks so well that they can't be found. They must be stopped.

When lack of evidence is the proof... I'm not sure there's much room for rational discussion.

"...and just assume they are just randomly pulling triggers...hinder our own ability to predict and prepare for the future."

Speaking about the current politics and US administration, much of what's coming doesn't need to be 'predicted' - it's unfolding from the project2025 document. Not everything happening is from there, but quite a lot is.
by sleepybrett | 2025-08-14 03:21:17+00:00
A typical filament 3d printer is just a pen plotter with a fancy toolhead and an extra fancy 'pen up'. ( I explained to a friend once that a pen plotter is doom (2.5d) and a 3d printer is quake). Hell a laser cutter is just a pen plotter with a pen you turn off instead of lifting.

Doesn't seem so 'legacy' to me.
by paulirish | 2025-08-14 03:21:27+00:00
So glad to find some like-minded folk who care about this! Nice post, Shane.

Thanks for calling out my research on this. Really glad you found it.

https://github.com/paulirish/lite-youtube-embed/pull/167 has my solution. Basically we only attempt the hqdefault.jpg and the sddefault.webp; no other ones. Based on my research this is (probably) the best solution that optimizes for both latency and coverage. Though, I could see switching the order of two in the future.

Pretty sure the oEmbed solutions folks are mentioning are only reasonable if you're doing this work server-side/eagerly. Obviously that changes things quite a bit.
by benreesman | 2025-08-14 03:21:28+00:00
I'm guessing it's the right PyTorch and FlashAttention and TransformerEngine and xformers and all that for the machine you're on without a bunch of ninja-built CUDA capability pain.

They explicitly mention PyTorch in the blog post. That's where the big money in Python is, and that's where PyPI utterly fails.
by positron26 | 2025-08-14 03:21:30+00:00
point-to-point communication between every human on Earth to every other human on Earth flattens communication hierarchies that used to amplify expertise and a lot of other behaviors. We created new hierarchies, but they are mostly demagogues pandering to the middle. Direct delegation is sort of like trying to process an image without convolution. Nobody knows what anyone else thinks, so we just trust that one neuron.
by dmix | 2025-08-14 03:21:50+00:00
> but only noticing one means you're closer (by varying degrees) to the other.

Maybe if you're talking about culture in general it will exist as some sort of U shape in general terms no doubt, but any hyper online subcultures turned into an IRL organization/insular collection of people like defcon is liable to go hard in identifiable directions which is distracting to more disinterested parties there for the original purpose of the show.
by EGreg | 2025-08-14 03:22:01+00:00
Well of course. That’s how most gatekeepers act.

Why does every employee in the US need to pay an accountant to file their corporate payroll taxes, when the corporation knows how much they paid and can just use THEIR accountant to report this same information? It would be standard across many employees. And in Europe that’s largely what’s done. But in USA this creates many “bullshit jobs”. The IRS just closed their free file under Trump admin, and even when they had it, you had no way to electronically submit business taxes, and even if you mailed those to the IRS (still allowed) some states have NO WAY for you to file taxes without an accountant!

To open an LLC in NY you must announce it in a specific newspaper they tell you. And that newspaper charges $700. Same thing — they lobby to keep this going.
by Danieru | 2025-08-14 03:23:43+00:00
The business plan is not about the business plan.

It's only even half about the business. Instead it is about the businessman making the pitch.

If someone is good at baking bread that suggest they are qualified to to bake bread. Running a bakery is a super set of that skill. The business plan request is a fantastic method to give such a person a chance to show they have the right resources, enough experience, and reasonable expectations and strong commitment.
by tptacek | 2025-08-14 03:23:54+00:00
I spoke at the 2nd Black Hat and was rewarded with a spot on Jeff Moss's hotel room couch because he forgot to obtain a hotel room for me; the firm I cofounded in 2005 (Matasano Security) was acquired by NCC Group, the largest "white hat" firm in the UK. I'd just say: "white hat" is a much more diverse community than most HN commenters intuitions about security people would indicate.

There were a lot of white hat people that were made during Snowden --- at Snowden. Glem Greenwald didn't help matters much.

(Obviously also a lot of white hat people pissed for the opposite reason! I'm only saying it's a diverse group.)
by lossolo | 2025-08-14 03:23:56+00:00
He answered your question:

> defaulting on its debt whether explicitly or implicitly (i.e., debt monetization producing significant inflation).

The real constraint isn’t solvency, it’s inflation and currency value. If deficits are monetized well beyond the economy’s capacity, inflation will rise and long term yields will climb, unless the central bank caps them, which then shifts the pressure to prices and the currency.
by abullinan | 2025-08-14 03:24:29+00:00
>> It's a place for security professionals to go to hang out in Vegas for a few days on their company's dime, or to extend their stay after Black Hat.

That is me! :) I do not know where the counterculture hangs out at DC, because I have never been a cool kid, just a brainy weird kid among the brainy weird kids, even as an adult! But there are often quite a few insightful papers at DEF CON. I didn’t go this year, I think my managers are on to me. :)
by zdragnar | 2025-08-14 03:25:14+00:00
> a pedagogical environment engineered for optimal knowledge and skill acquisition

I'm not sure how many of those we have available to us. Many are compromised by politics, funding, or the need to act as a daycare.

I learned a lot at the various schools I went to, but the amount I learned seemed to correlate more directly with how invested I was in learning than how well the school was funded. Plenty of schools with better per-pupil funding had significantly worse student achievement rates than where I was.

The only real exception to that is not all schools offer the same curriculum. Back in my day, not every secondary / high school had someone who could teach calculus, though now there's districts that are getting rid of calculus entirely to promote anti-racism. Honestly, I think learning calculus in high school was good for me, even if I've really only needed to calculate integrals once in my programming career.

At University, things were much the same. Undergrad courses focused a bit more on synthesizing than memorizing compared to high school, but not really by much.

All of this is to say that I'm not really sure it's fair to knock the apprentice program since we don't directly experience optimal pedagogy elsewhere.
by GorillaSapiens | 2025-08-14 03:25:22+00:00
What3Words is proprietary, patent-encumbered, and sues people who try to reimplement it. It won’t even give you the word list — so no offline use.

So I built PlaceWords: a free, open-source, patent-safe system that maps every 5m square on Earth to 3 words.

Apache 2.0 licensed — fork, self-host, embed anywhere

Works completely offline

No lock-in — replace words, add languages, keep compatibility

Patent-safe — not a clone, just better

Powered by the open S2 geometry system. Fully reversible to coordinates. Try it, break it, improve it.

GitHub: https://github.com/GorillaSapiens/placewords
by abound | 2025-08-14 03:25:45+00:00
For a bit more color here: a B Corp designation really is just a marketing tool. Unlike the name implies, it's not some special corporate structure, it's just a certification you pay some company to get and pinky promise that you'll be good.

Nonprofits and public benefit corporations at least have some "teeth" to them: they both allow you (in different ways) to do things that aren't directly in the interest of your fiduciary duties, and that single-minded money chasing is what incentives a lot of "bad" corporate behavior.
by sleepybrett | 2025-08-14 03:25:58+00:00
The Bantam 'Next Draw' is what EMS used to sell. I bet it probably still uses the same board as the eggbot to drive it. Their new ones in a frame are cool, but one of the cool things with the nextdraw style is that you can plot on things that you can't fit in the frames.

I've used my axidraw to plot on floors and walls in the past.
by ddtaylor | 2025-08-14 03:26:31+00:00
I don't have advice on if you should pursue "the fight" or not.

What I do think is important is to not disappear or go quietly when these companies attempt these things. I will probably get a lot of flack for it, but an example would be Google with the Go programming language. There was an existing language already developed and being used under that name. Google wanted to call it Go for "bigger" reasons and so they did.

Who is supposed to "fight" that?

In my opinion it's the maintainers of distros and maintainers of repositories. If they want to call their thing "foo" and there is already a "foo" in the repository, that sucks, kick rocks or call yours "foo-company-thing" since you're the one creating issues. You can likewise take the responsibility of explaining to your users why "foo-company-thing" is the name in all of the Internet as a whole. We didn't create those problems and I don't want to spend any of my time "solving" them for free.
by TheAceOfHearts | 2025-08-14 03:27:53+00:00
It depends on the kind of content and information density. My default playback speed is usually 2x, unless the content requires deep focus and thought. For basic fantasy novels I might go up to 3x or 3.5x, unless the author uses a lot of symbolic or complex language. For example: listening to a Gene Wolf audiobook, I don't think I'd be able to really appreciate the full breadth of his writing at anything over 1.5x.

Most modern media just isn't very deep nor trying to layer a lot of interesting symbolism; if it's fairly one-dimensional / one-layered then you can blast through anything at 2x or 3x.

In the modern social media era, it feels like sometimes video content is filled with as much stuff as possible, like with the average MrBeast video, but it's mostly sausage. None of it has any deep meaning nor does it build up to something greater than the sum of its parts.
by ddtaylor | 2025-08-14 03:29:05+00:00
> use should already be satisfied

A lot of posts on HN are about things that should have happened already. Every few days there is a story about a person doing something pretty boring and standard, but they can't because a payment processor or large regulatory body got involved and the computer went "boop boop" and now someone can't have money or continue to invent things. Sorry, pull the slot machine again and see if you get lucky?
by nicota | 2025-08-14 03:29:37+00:00
From the email update:

We're updating our Teams pricing to better adapt to an agentic world. These changes will start at your next billing renewal after September 15 for both monthly and yearly plans.

From fixed to API-based usage

Today, our Teams plans charge a fixed-cost per request and include the following:

Unlimited Tab and access to all core features 250 Sonnet requests per month Additional usage is billed at $0.08/Sonnet request As models have become more agentic, the cost of individual agent requests has grown increasingly variable. Using the same model, a single difficult prompt can consume an order of magnitude more tokens than a simple one.

Fixed costs per request aren't suited to this new reality. They force an overpricing of simple requests (e.g. a quick syntax question) and an underpricing of difficult ones (e.g. asking the agent to complete an entire PR). API-based pricing will better align both with the underlying LLM costs and with the value the agent delivers.

Under the new pricing, our Teams plan will transition to the following:

Unlimited Tab and access to all features $20 of agent usage per user Ability to purchase additional usage beyond this All usage is consumed at public list API prices of the underlying model + $0.25 per million total tokens. This additional cost covers Cursor's code indexing, indexing model costs, and tool execution with custom models.

This change unifies our billing system. Our individual plans already use API-based usage in production.

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by Retric | 2025-08-14 03:30:26+00:00
IMO, it’s going to be in the thousands to 10’s of thousands. Depending on what organizations you exclude and if you’re considering total assets vs net assets vs liquid assets etc.

There’s a surprising number of individual buildings worth 1+ billion each of which are going to be their own org. Add pensions, trusts, nuclear reactors, large dams, government organizations, etc.

Here’s 30 US charitable foundations over 1B which isn’t an exhaustive list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wealthiest_charitable_...
by thaumaturgy | 2025-08-14 03:30:55+00:00
I am pretty sure that this is the thread that introduced me to it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10681851

Unfortunately, web.archive.org didn't grab an https version of my main site from around that period. My oldest server build script in my current collection does have the following note in it:

**Get the current version of dehydrated from https://github.com/dehydrated-io/dehydrated ** (Dehydrated was previously found at https://github.com/lukas2511/dehydrated)

...so I was using it back when it was under the lukas2511 account. Those tech notes however were rescued from a long-dead Phabricator installation, so I no longer have the change history for them, unless I go back and try to resurrect its database, which I think I do still have kicking around in one of my cold storage drives...

But yeah, circa 2015 - 2016 should be about right. I had been hosting stuff for clients since... phew, 2009? So LetsEncrypt was something I wanted to adopt pretty early, because back then certificate renewals were kind of annoying and often not free, but I also didn't want to load whatever the popular ACME client was at the time. Then this post popped up, and it was exactly what I had been looking for, and would have started using it soon after.

edit: my Linode account has been continuously active since October 2009, though it only has a few small legacy services on it now. I started that account specifically for hosting mail and web services for clients I had at the time. So, yeah, my memory seems accurate enough.
by voidhorse | 2025-08-14 03:30:55+00:00
I'm not sure why people are debating the merits of sum types versus sealed types in response to this. I prefer functional languages myself, but you are entirely correct that sealed types can fully model sum types and that the type level discrimination you get for free via subtyping makes them slightly easier to define and work with than sum types reliant on polymorphism.

Operationally these systems and philosophies are quite different, but mathematically we are all working in more work less an equivalent category and all the type system shenanigans you have in FP are possible in OOP modulo explicit limits placed on the language and vice versa.