MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by burnerthrow008 | 2025-08-15 19:27:39+00:00
The Swiss also have compulsory military service for every man over 18 (women may volunteer), so the people owning these guns actually know how to handle them safely and have been trained to have some self-discipline.

I expect that the 18 week bootcamp affords an opportunity to closely observe all such conscripts and screen them for mental health disorders and behavioral problems, and that the (minimum) of 7 years of reserve service allows ongoing monitoring.

Additionally, common sense tells me that Switzerland's equivalent of "dishonorable" or "other-than-honorable" discharge would result in that person not having the opportunity to buy their service rifle, and possibly putting up roadblocks to owning a gun at all.

Therefore the people in Switzerland most likely to cause gun crime do not have ready access to them. That is quite different to how we think about it in the US.

If you were to seriously propose such a system in the US, I think you would get far more opposition from the pro-gun groups than the anti-gun groups. In fact, anti-gun groups would welcome adopting the Swiss system, since it so closes matches the legislation they have tried to enact such as magazine size restrictions in California, "red flag" laws in other states, and mandatory trigger locks. All of those laws have been opposed by groups like the NRA.
by dathinab | 2025-08-15 19:27:46+00:00
accepting cryptocurrency is depending on jurisdiction a legal liability

people already are trying to use all kind of vectors to launder money, including steam

and cryptocurrency systems in general don't do the legal due diligence of a payment processor/bank

so you now have the problem of being partially responsibility to do that legal due diligence yourself and make your service more attractive to be abused as in money laundering schemes

but if things get worse they could consider creating a payment processor sub company, the issue with that is I think there are a lot of way Visa can mess with them in the US and it seems not necessary in the EU (as due to side effects of pushing/forcing banking payment system improvements you technically have a wide choice of alternatives to PayPal or Credit Card payment for only payment, it's just many solutions are niche so most sides don't bother for now (but things are changing))
by nradov | 2025-08-15 19:28:27+00:00
Some university humanities departments undermined themselves by being divisive and exclusionary. Several years ago the University of Chicago made this public statement.

"For the 2020-2021 graduate admissions cycle, the University of Chicago English Department is accepting only applicants interested in working in and with Black Studies."

There's nothing wrong with encouraging scholarship in a particular field but when they intentionally exclude other fields it tends to limit public support. Taxpayers will naturally question why they're being asked to subsidize student loans, and wonder whether universities are being used to promote ideologies rather than educate.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/09/16/university-ch...
by smt88 | 2025-08-15 19:29:20+00:00
< what is a mechanism to block incompliant website?

They don't need to block it. If the company is accepting money from Americans and it's not using crypto, then there are business entities that have a presence in the US and are subject to US law enforcement. It may just be payment processors, but it's easy for the US govt to cut off access to most of its citizens as consumers.
by richmans | 2025-08-15 19:30:24+00:00
Thanks for playtesting.

1. Not sure, i will look into it

2. Its not down, your message is traveling through space at the speed of light :-)

3. I think this is caused by my db issues, working on that currently

So, thanks for your patience and feedback. I did run a lot of tests before launching, but most of them did not use a real database… Learned a lot in the last few days!
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-08-15 19:30:31+00:00
Yeah but they're abandoning parts further south. Southern lobster populations (esp. around CT and RI) have been dropping for years, and are now pretty much in full collapse. There used to be a lot of lobster outside the gulf of Maine, but this is in process of becoming a thing of the past.

With the lobsters moving north, their niche is being filled by exploding populations of blue crab...
by gbrindisi | 2025-08-15 19:30:56+00:00
We’ve kinda solved the detection of issues. what we still lack is understanding what’s important.

I think an underappreciated use case for LLMs is to contextualize security issues.

Rather than asking Claude to detect problems, I think it’s more useful to let it figure out the context around vulnerabilities and help triage them.

(for better or worse, I am knee-deep in this stuff)
by throwway120385 | 2025-08-15 19:31:15+00:00
You'd still have to apply for a Social Security Card for them to have anything to worry about. That's not automatically granted to babies at birth. The hospital should certify the birth and give you paperwork from something like a state's vital records department but you still have to present that to the SSA. Ostensibly yes they are automatically citizens of the US but they're in a weird spot I would think that you could resolve with a court case if the IRS suddenly came after them for back taxes or something when they were adults. Honestly that sounds like such a ridiculous situation that I can't imagine it's happened.
by cloverich | 2025-08-15 19:31:27+00:00
People believe what they can see. New development happens in desireable areas and price goes up all around them. Meanwhile (mom and pop) investors buy and own significant chunks of the market. Together they tell a story.

Disincentivize investor ownership, and it will be harder to tell the story of investors buying up all the property, and the rest may fall into place at best, and at worst you get marginally lower prices and less validation of the investor price inflation stories.
by megaloblasto | 2025-08-15 19:31:42+00:00
I was thinking along the lines of, for example, a mobile phone company that controls the worlds most popular open source smart phone operating system. In theory, since they are guiding the development of the mobile OS, they should be the first to be able to release hardware that takes advantage of the newest versions of the software. They could tailor their hardware to perfectly fit the future of the software.
by kotaKat | 2025-08-15 19:31:42+00:00
On top of that, if this was in the US, nearly 99% of major retailers have a whole policy and procedure on what constitutes being able to even make a stop on a person suspected of shoplifting.

If visual contact is lost for even a moment, you’ve lost the case instantly, and it takes the correct management to be able to make the observation to qualify for a stop in the first place.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-08-15 19:31:44+00:00
I'm not even sure what it is you're complaining about. That people are forcing students to spend money studying subjects that don't have lucrative careers following them? None of this information is secret; if you think that rational people can't figure out that arts careers have poor prospects, then you don't believe in the free market in the first place. (And, to some extent I'm happy to entertain that discussion -- I'm just willing to bet that "the free market makes bad decisions" is not part of your specific basket of off-the-shelf beliefs.)
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-08-15 19:32:05+00:00
It's August in a non-election year, nobody's campaigning right now.

I agree with your fear, but one of the key problems Dems have faced in their messaging is a false perception that the modern Republican party believes in truth, democracy, or the rule of law. A lot of effort went into negotiating bipartisan immigration reform in 2024, because the negotiators falsely believed that Republicans wanted immigration to be reformed. It would have been a great reason to vote for them if it had worked! But once the negotiators announced a breakthrough, Trump issued new instructions that Republicans who want to stay in good standing must not support it and his appointed Speaker of the House must never let the bill come up for a vote, ensuring that it could never pass.

So it's not enough to come up with a reason to make people want to vote for you. You have to come up with a reason that Trump can't tell plausible lies about, and that Trump's anti-democratic conduct can't defeat. That's a much harder problem.
by hinkley | 2025-08-15 19:32:07+00:00
This is advice that has always sounded good to me on paper but not quite right in practice.

Scaffolding is great, until it isn't. It needs to be replaced with something resembling a Real Solution before the Last Responsible Moment comes and goes. But due to Hofstadter's Law as well as Queuing Theory, we can never get the timing right.

And so a lot of the devs you encounter who fight this have found themselves spending a lot of time throwing good money after bad, keeping a broken system working just enough that the customers don't defect, while trying to also find the time to replace the broken system, which is also always being made more difficult by the changes being made to keep the busted shit kinda working.

And so at some point they just say Enough. I'm not going to lie to myself and my coworkers by saying "We'll fix that later" because "later" never comes, only "too late" comes.

There are ways to spin this however. If the customer trusts that you know what you're doing and that you will eventually get to all of their problems, they'll stay put while you work on them. But you have to telegraph competence and then deliver on it. There's a needle you can thread there where you use not shipping systems that Don't Scale... ridiculously badly, you can tell the users to expect quality.

I will say this, as a compromise: It is almost always better to ship systems that scale too expensively than ones that don't scale at all - as long as that scaling leads directly to revenue. You're only shortening your runway by decreasing margins or taking them narrow. But if your customer base plateaus because you just can't onboard them anymore, what investor is going to float you more money to extend that runway?

I have always found it easier to negotiate priority on feature and story work that's attached to a new revenue stream (eg, new account) than ones that only reduce our OPEX. When the checks clear, a small but statistically significant amount of 'generosity' flows. You have to be ready though when it happens because the window is short.

Hey if we're going to land that Fortune 500 company, we need to work on ??? because they're likely to notice it sucks, if they don't just knock it over entirely in six months.
by ffitch | 2025-08-15 19:32:12+00:00
Great analysis! a couple of comments:

1. the airfare inflation chart is based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics CPI which is calculated differently from the other metrics in the article; it does take into account routes popularity.

2. today’s average Economy ticket is different from the 1990s ticket: meals, seat pitch, seat selection, baggage. service changed to the point that 1990 Standard Economy is more similar to 2025 Premium Economy.
by tstrimple | 2025-08-15 19:33:09+00:00
Torrents and Tor aren't related. BitTorrent (the protocol) is about peer to peer file sharing and the metadata that enables it. Tor is a network overlay that helps prevent an actor from seeing both where a connection is coming from and where it is going to at the same time. If you're using Tor your ISP can see that you're using it, but not what sites you visit. Other agencies could see that Tor traffic is going to website XXX, but not which individual Tor users are making the connection. Just that they come from a Tor relay. It's not perfect and there are ways to compromise the safety Tor and onion routing is trying to provide.

Generally I don't associate Tor with pirating content. It's more about accessing published content or publishing content anonymously.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_routing
by cratermoon | 2025-08-15 19:33:30+00:00
The article specifically mentions Japan in the 70s and 80s. Yes, Ford is still around, greatly changed. Other household names from then are not. The US motor vehicle industry largely failed to recognize the ways Japanese cars and car makers were superior to American-made. Even today, 50 years later, Japanese models dominate every category except full-sized pickup trucks.
by littlekey | 2025-08-15 19:33:58+00:00
I went through Heisig's book THREE times, writing out each character and reviewing them multiple times each in Anki. I had several notebooks like the one in the OP article.

I still can't write most kanji.

The fact is that you simply cannot learn to write without practicing writing (in real contexts, outside of the notebooks); there is overlap, but it's the same thing as learning the "theory" of a math problem and then blanking once you're asked to solve a problem on a test.

If I try to visualize a word/character that I know, I often end up with a vague picture of the most salient lines, but missing some of the finer detail that would be required to write it out accurately. And I think this is largely fine, as handwriting characters isn't a very important skill anymore. Especially in Japanese where you can always fall back on kana and be understood.

I do still think "learning" the kanji is helpful because there is a system behind it, and understanding that system helps to learn words. To give an example, learning the 教/kyou in 教育/kyouiku (education) helps you make a connection to 教室/kyoushitsu (classroom), and helps you distinguish it from 勉強/benkyou (study) where you'd really think the kyou would be 教, but it isn't!

But crucially, this is all a visual recognition problem, nothing to do with producing the characters yourself. So I think the ideal learning approach is word-first but with some attention to the characters in the word, especially how they relate to other words with those characters/radicals or with the same readings.
by ryandv | 2025-08-15 19:35:30+00:00
Well, there was the Egyptian deity Khephra who was represented by the dung beetle rolling its dung along the desert, symbolizing the passage of the sun through the sky.

In alchemy and western esoterica, excrement is associated with the tenth sephirah, the 10s of the Tarot minor arcana, and symbolizes the end result of a process and any remaining waste byproducts, for obvious reasons. In The Holy Mountain's (1973) depiction of the alchemical magnum opus, The Fool's excrement is transmuted into gold, symbolizing the awakening of unconscious, reactive matter into fully enlightened and integrated, free willed, egoic man.
by jlundberg | 2025-08-15 19:35:41+00:00
A recommended read for all early stage founders and for employees too if you are one of the earlier team members.

One thing we do and still do even at 15+ people is we call each and every new signup on the phone.

We do it for these reasons:

1) How did you find us?

2) Do you need help starting?

3) (Implicit: we care)

It probably works because what we have it’s a B2B platform.

However, our target group is software developers and maybe surprisngly these phone calls are really really nice.. once you get over the ”no, I am noy calling you to sell anything”-phase :)
by hyp0thetical | 2025-08-15 19:36:04+00:00
Our tests with accelerated Elastic Models show they factorize tasks by identifying features line-by-line, then combine them using statistical patterns common in ASCII art.

If we think about it, attention scores will look like a heatmap of the original image. So, transformers have an internal representation of the image inside, and if they can recognize images by default, it's some sort of image classifier which provides token ID as an image class. The tests are, to be honest, trivial, but anyway funny :)

Try Deepseek-Qwen-14B in our tutorial - running at 120 tok/s on H100 and 40 tok/s on L40s, up to 3x faster than the original implementation! Fully free, get your API token and start!
by d4mi3n | 2025-08-15 19:36:10+00:00
Can recommend this. I have terrible memory so I make it a point to reach out and text (or even sometimes call, if it's a special occasion!) whenever people come to mind.

It can mean the world to people sometime. If you've ever had anybody making your day or week by just reaching out, remember that you can be that person too!

It's so easy for people to drift apart. Many people in my parent's generation didn't do a great job keeping in touch with folks and end up lonely or isolated. Avoiding that is as simple as taking a moment to let someone know you were thinking of them.
by foltik | 2025-08-15 19:36:17+00:00
The tools it can call:

• DatasheetSearch — “Semantic search across authoritative datasheets, reference manuals and application notes to answer hardware-specific questions.”

• StaticAnalysis — “Run cppcheck / clang-tidy static analysis with embedded-focused rules.”

• Debugger — “AI-assisted interactive debugging leveraging GDB or simulator back-ends.”

• ListDir — “List files and directories within a specified path, respecting ignore patterns. Use the full absolute path of the file to read.”

• ReadFile — “Read the content (or portion) of a single file with line-range support. Use the full absolute path of the file to read.”

• ReadManyFiles — “Batch-read multiple files or glob patterns, returning combined results. Use the full absolute path of the file to read.”

• Grep — “Exact regex search across file contents, capped results, supports include patterns. Use the full absolute path of the file to read.”

• Glob — “Find files by path pattern (e.g., */*.c) rapidly, sorted by recency. Use the full absolute path of the file to read.”

• Edit — “Precise in-file text replacement with contextual validation. Use the full absolute path of the file to edit.”

• WriteFile — “Create or overwrite files with exact content, diff-aware. Use the full absolute path of the file to write.”

• Shell — “Execute shell commands in project context with safety confirmations.”

• FindDefinition — “Find the definition of a specific identifier (function, variable, class, etc.) in the codebase.”

• FindReferences — “Find all references to a specific identifier (function, variable, class, etc.) in the codebase.”

• FindDependencies — “Find dependencies and relationships between files in the codebase.”

• WebSearch — “Performs a web search using Google Search (via the Gemini API) and returns the results. This tool is useful only when we can’t find the documentation using document search or in the code base. We can use this tool for finding information on the internet based on a query.”

• ProcessUrls — “Processes content from URL(s), including local and private network addresses (e.g., localhost), embedded in a prompt. Include up to 20 URLs and instructions (e.g., summarize, extract specific data) directly in the ‘prompt’ parameter. Must contain as least one URL starting with http:// or https://.”

• SerialMonitor — “Monitor the serial output of the firmware.”
by jedberg | 2025-08-15 19:37:38+00:00
"It depends"

Faster is all relative. What are you doing? Is it networking? Then BSD is probably faster than Linux. Is it something Linux is optimized for? Then probably Linux.

A general benchmark? Who knows, but does it really matter?

At the end of the day, you should benchmark your own workload, but also it's important to realize that in this day and age, it's almost never the OS that is the bottleneck. It's almost always a remote network call.
by the_snooze | 2025-08-15 19:38:45+00:00
Yeah, I can't think of any explicitly Steam-exclusive games off the top of my head, other than maybe Valve's own titles.

Given Steam's history and market position, they don't need exclusives at this point. I do remember the likes of Outer Wilds and Final Fantasy 7 Remake being EGS exclusives for the first year of their respective PC releases.
by Ekaros | 2025-08-15 19:39:03+00:00
Lower speeds to save on fuel as closing on sound barrier has somewhat sharp increase in air resistance.

Also I think in general increasing utilization of aeroplanes increases revenues and thus makes things more profitable as money is not made while not flying. Easiest way to achieve this is to remove slack like shortening turnover times. Which then results in cascading delays as planes simply are not available at times.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-08-15 19:39:17+00:00
It's absolutely not the case that the average Democratic party politician would be considered far right of center in Germany, Australia, or Canada. The Democratic party has an entirely normal center-left platform. Policy outcomes consistently end up in a space that most countries consider right-leaning, but this has nothing to do with what the average Democratic politician wants. It stems from the frequent necessity of compromising with arch-conservatives to form a majority.
by rdm_blackhole | 2025-08-15 19:39:49+00:00
> They are worried about the blowback from the very easy PR advantage groups like this have, all based on weaponizing how it is basically a PR slam dunk to paint these companies as “supporting disgusting pornography” and “exposing harmful content to minors.”

They may be worried (slightly) but they also most likely simply don't want another headache.

A corporation is in business to make money and that means that they will do what makes the most money in the shortest amount of time as long as it's legal.

Getting entangled in a potential lawsuit that would take years to resolve and cost many millions of $ is a distraction that does not serve their interest. If you are Epic and it is in your interest to challenge Apple and if winning this lawsuit brings you potentially more revenue, then that is a different story entirely.

GP was right when he said this is a business decision. Porn has nothing to do with it. It could have been gambling and harry Potter books, the end result would have been the same.

To give you an example:

I have a small business with a very clear refund policy, yet every 6 months or so, someone will send me a message saying that they forgot that they have an active subscription and could I refund them the money or they will do a charge-back.

Please note before getting the pitchforks out, that my refund policy is very generous and that each customer gets an email before their subscription renews so there is nothing deceptive in my billing practices and also users have the ability to self refund their last payment in the app.

I am faced with the same question that Steam faced, what do I do? Do I fight the refund and eventually fight the charge-back costing me time and money when I could be doing other things or do I roll over and get it over with so that this headache goes away as soon as possible so that I can focus on my other customers?

That's how businesses see things. Opportunity cost. I understand that for some people (including you) this sort of decisions could be seen as some sort of morality judgement but IMHO it is not.

What does Steam have to gain from starting a fight with Visa or Mastercard? A better reputation with gamers? Will that help them increase their revenue in the short term or the long term? Will this make them liable for other things down the line like an angry parent suing them because their son or daughter bought a game with naked people in it and the kid was only 8 at the time?

This is the equation that I am sure many people at Steam ran and the they decided that it just wasn't adding up.

It sucks because from a personal point of view I agree with you, they should have thought harder but from a business point of view they simply followed what made most sense and decided that the risk wasn't worth the reward.

Does it mean Mastercard/Visa are right, absolutely not? This duopoly should be broken up but no politician in the west or elsewhere is going to go after them for the same reason that nobody went after the banks that brought the global economy to it's knees in 2008.