MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by exasperaited | 2025-08-06 14:32:05+00:00
And he would have. And might have won. Because his I'm-the-most-innocent-persecuted-person messaging was clearly landing.

I am surprised the grandparent poster didn't think Trump's win was at least entirely possible in January 2024, and I am on the same side of the Atlantic. All the indicators were in place.

There was basically no chance he'd actually be in prison by November anyway, because he was doing something else extremely successfully: delaying court cases by playing off his obligations to each of them.

Back then I thought his chances of winning were above 60%, and the betting markets were never ever really in favour of him losing.
by 9rx | 2025-08-06 14:32:07+00:00
However, the anecdotal evidence around the regular adult porn industry is that users go in the opposite direction. The data is abundantly clear that people, especially young people, are having less sex, all while porn consumption has increased substantially. Likewise, causality hasn't been proven, but it is likely the most compelling answer.

Why it is it different?

At what rate have child abuses declined?
by klibertp | 2025-08-06 14:32:38+00:00
I love it. I didn't know. It's going to take a while to make this a pervasive feature of most Erlang codebases, but it seems like a good feature to introduce.

I know there are monad libraries using parse transforms and/or list comprehensions, but I often found their use is frowned upon in the Erlang community. I kind of assumed the GP in this thread would reject them, given their negative opinion on macros.
by tomhow | 2025-08-06 14:32:43+00:00
Anyone can email us to have comments deleted if there are no replies, or anonymized/redacted if they no longer want the comment linked to their identity.

We cite past comments only to demonstrate a pattern when taking action against a user who has a history of guidelines breaches.

It's a long-established norm on HN that weaponizing historical comments in a present-day argument is not considered a fair debating tactic, as we have no idea if the person still agrees with what they posted a long while ago, nor whether the context of the historical comment is relevant to the present topic.

Geese and ganders have nothing to do with it and I don't know why you're using my efforts to uphold fair debating between community members as grounds to attack our moderation.
by ironman1478 | 2025-08-06 14:32:46+00:00
I don't know if this is a good opinion, but I don't think it's a good idea for independent individuals to use highly permissive licenses on their open source software. Companies will just suck it up and might not contribute back. It distorts the market because if the software didn't exist, they'd have to hire people, contract it out, etc. somebody would get paid. you've saved a huge company from having to hire people to develop the software they need, which is good for them, but imo just gives the companies incentives to devalue engineers. I also think the value of somebody open sourcing their work as a means to getting a job is questionable and never really been backed up by any data.
by jermaustin1 | 2025-08-06 14:32:53+00:00
I'm a consultant, and have been for 20 years now (except for a 2 year stint as an employee for the benefits and relocation assistance to move my family from Texas to NYC).

At the NYC employment job, I was on a 2 year upgrade cycle being a software developer. Just whatever the current year Dell corpo laptop was. No procurement procedures, just IT got 2 year replacements, our laptops went to the non IT workforce after reimaging.

As a consultant I usually bring my own device, and my laptops are usually WAY more capable since I will run each client on their own VM - makes it easy to delete the client when the contract is up. But I've had one client who did not allow BYOD, and any billed work had to be done on their hardware. That was fine, except that the desktop I was given was already a 12 year old dual core non-hyperthreading CPU that wasn't meant for developers even when it was built. I begged and pleaded for 6+ months for me to either bring in my own hardware they could image now and wipe at the end of the contract, or to please buy me a PC from this decade.

It took 3 years to get the budget approval for a $2000 tower, roughly the equivalent of 15 hours of pay. The thing that finally pushed it over the edge, was that my PC could not handle Teams + Visual Studio at the same time, and manager couldn't handle that he couldn't watch me program.

All of that to say I doubt these non-data-driven organizations are basing these decisions on anything other than micromanagement. Nothing to do with measured or assumed productivity, nothing to do with costs, so all I can think is they have to be a "decision maker" on all aspects.
by benreesman | 2025-08-06 14:33:19+00:00
Its not at anything like the adoption of MCP or especially LSP, and it takes a more "foundational and composable library of primitives" approach than "wire protocol per se" approach, but `gptel` has quite the vibrant little ecosystem around it and its just god mode, wall hacks on the VSCode stuff, just blows it away. I'm under extreme time pressure at the moment, I cannot afford to fuck around on ideology right now I have to go for the jugular every day, and that means "fuck the cost" Opus 4 use in `gptel` (though Qwen and K2 are pushing it out of more and more stuff as I learn the quirks, Opus 4 TTFT under load is unusable and when it starts fighting you on clean merge boundaries because its personality vector has been set to "token stingy" its strictly worse).

Its not that I dislike Cursor, its that I dont have time to put up with its compromises for non-extreme-power-user accessibility. I need an extreme power, cost indifferent, tuned for the margins stack.

That's nothing with a VSCode base that I know about, and I've tried Cline and Roo and Continue and written a bunch MCP servers and I measure it all, not even close.

I bet the neovim people have something just as good.
by 10298373 | 2025-08-06 14:33:50+00:00
> Likewise, causality hasn't been proven, but it is likely the most compelling answer.

That's a massive stretch—there are many things that have been declining along with the rate at which people have been having sex. Porn is in no way "the most compelling answer". It certainly could be a factor, sure, but by no means the only one.
by yunwal | 2025-08-06 14:33:53+00:00
> downranking/upranking/blacklisting

Kagi is awesome, and their default search is just way, way better than google.

That being said, their upranking, downranking, and finetuning just straight up does not work. I spent like an hour pinning sites that I wanted to show up in my search results, tested extensively, and it turns out search just doesn't seem to pay attention to your pinned sites at all. It's one of the features that I was most excited about, and I'm super bummed it doesn't work. I've had an open issue since March about it on their feedback forum, and it seems like they have no plans to fix it.

https://kagifeedback.org/d/6670-pinned-domains-dont-appear-a...
by asa400 | 2025-08-06 14:34:05+00:00
SQLite has an explicitly stated policy on this: "The intent of the developers is to support SQLite through the year 2050."

https://www.sqlite.org/lts.html

People talk about SQLite's reliability but they should also mention its stability and longevity. It's first-class in both. This is what serious engineering looks like.
by kevinwang | 2025-08-06 14:34:22+00:00
This seems to have just happened: https://polymarket.com/event/another-dildo-thrown-at-wnba-ga...

(and it could happen again: https://polymarket.com/event/another-dildo-thrown-at-wnba-ga...

https://polymarket.com/event/dildo-thrown-at-wnba-game-on-au... )
by Someone | 2025-08-06 14:34:27+00:00
> À sticking point is being able to open ODT files.

Doesn’t that imply supporting spreadsheets, PowerPoint-like tools etc inside text documents?

If so, you’d either want your tool to only open a subset of ODT files or have it discard parts of documents it doesn’t support (possibly with a warning on opening, or replacing them with a warning message)
by pjmlp | 2025-08-06 14:34:32+00:00
In Smalltalk, p x * 2 has that flow that as well, and even worse, lets assume the value returned by p x message selector, does not understand the * message, thus it will break into the debugger, then the developer will add the * message to the object via the code browser, hit save, and exit the debugger with redo, thus ending the execution with success.

Somehow Smalltalk JIT compilers handle it without major issues.
by foolswisdom | 2025-08-06 14:35:13+00:00
Power is power when it is exercised, and power can be exercised when people think you have the power. Overly formalizing things and ignoring how they play out is why congress is today a dysfunctional body, for example. See also here for an example in practice https://prototypingpolitics.substack.com/p/dead-letter-live-...
by tweezy | 2025-08-06 14:35:48+00:00
Just out of curiosity, did you set the reasoning effort to high?

I've seen big jumps in performance between medium and high reasoning. Not that this is will solve your particular issue, but curious to see what settings you had.

Edit: I gave this a shot. My settings were temperature = 0.00 (not sure if these models respect temp settings but did it just in case), I also set reasoning effort to high. I'm using the groq-hosted version.

This was my prompt

"You have a fox, a chicken and some grain. The chicken will eat the grain if left alone with it. The fox is vegetarian, for religious reasons, and will also eat the grain if left alone with it. You need to get all across a river, but your boat can only take one at a time. How do you proceed?"

This was the response:

"*Solution – 7 moves*

| Move | What you take | What’s left on the left bank | What’s on the right bank |

|------|--------------|----------------------------|------------------------|

| 1 | *Take the grain* across | Fox, Chicken | *Farmer + Grain* |

| 2 | *Return alone* | *Farmer + Fox + Chicken* | Grain |

| 3 | *Take the fox* across | Chicken | *Farmer + Fox + Grain* |

| 4 | *Bring the grain back* | *Farmer + Grain + Chicken* | Fox |

| 5 | *Take the chicken* across | Grain | *Farmer + Chicken + Fox* |

| 6 | *Return alone* | *Farmer + Grain* | Chicken + Fox |

| 7 | *Take the grain* across | – | *Farmer + Fox + Chicken + Grain* |

*Explanation*

- The grain is the only thing that can be eaten, and it cannot be left alone with either the fox or the chicken. - So the grain must always be with the farmer whenever any other animal is on the same side.

The sequence above never leaves the grain with the fox or the chicken without the farmer, and after the seventh move all three items are safely on the far side."
by orwin | 2025-08-06 14:36:24+00:00
If this pass: the EUCJ will likely kill most of the proposal, once again we will hear 'judges are against democracy and for pedocriminals', once again the EUCJ will have to justify itself and spend political power and allow a sliver of the law to pass (my bet on age verification).

The issue is that the EU courts are easy to predict. I'm not afraid of this law for itself because I know how the EU works and this will be challenged. I'm afraid of this because once again the 'center right' (i.e liberals) and the traditional right manage to move power away from courts.

'Les irresponsables' should be translated asap in German, English and any other language in the EU, and hopefully politicians will find a mirror in this book and stop worsening everything.
by exasperaited | 2025-08-06 14:36:40+00:00
I am extremely cynical about this entire development, but even I think that I will eventually have to run stuff locally; I've done some of the reading already (and I am quite interested in the text to speech models).

(Worth noting that "run it locally" is already Canva/Affinity's approach for Affinity Photo. Instead of a cloud-based model like Photoshop, their optional AI tools run using a local model you can download. Which I feel is the only responsible solution.)
by integralid | 2025-08-06 14:36:46+00:00
>but I’m aware that whatever I’m running could break out

If you have a working docker escape exploit at hand, that works on unprivileged containers, you can earn some good money. Just saying.

Docker was not created as a sandbox, but people rely on it for security and it is a sandbox at this point. Hell, containerd is one of kuberbetes backends and it absolutely relies on it being a secure sandbox.
by amirhirsch | 2025-08-06 14:37:08+00:00
This isn’t the full story though, like I (professionally, as a consultant) analyzed GOPs/$ and /Watt for big multi chip GPU or FPGA systems from 2006-2011.

Xilinx routinely had more I/O (SerDes, 100/200/400G MACs on-die) and at times now more HBM bandwidth than contemporary GPUs. Also deterministic latency and perfectly acceptable DSP primitives.

The gap has always been the software.

Of course NVidia wasn’t such an obvious hit either, the flubbed the tablet market due to yield issues and ultimately it really only went exponential in 2014. I invested heavily in NVidia 2007-2014 because of the CUDA edge they had, but sold my $40K of stock at my cost-basis.

I currently do DSP for radar, and implemented the same system on FPGA and in CUDA 2020-2023. I know as a fact that the FFT performance of an $9000 FPGA was equal to a $16000 A100 that also needed a $10000 computer in 2022 (the types on FPGA were fixed point instead of float so no apples-to-apples but definitely application equivalent)
by myrmidon | 2025-08-06 14:38:19+00:00
I'm not saying that this is NOT police state overreach, but the assumption that all (or even most) criminals practice good operational security still seems laughable to me.

I think you are letting your ideological alignment (against surveillance state) push you into irrational standpoints ("more surveillance would not catch additional criminals").

I'm 100% with you on opposing legislation like this, but it is very important to not delude oneself about its likely effects, and to pick the right hills to die on, figuratively speaking.
by m-s-y | 2025-08-06 14:39:20+00:00
>does it showcase any level of technical expertise or mastery? No, I'm afraid not.

But it does show that he can develop and ship a popular product, something outside the capability of so many “great engineers”. Good luck generating any revenue on the backs of smart engineers that have no stomach for understanding the nuance of development over and above writing and checking in code.
by ratelimitsteve | 2025-08-06 14:39:26+00:00
I don't think any of this review is unfair. Shipping a broken product and then covering the fix with your warranty is better than shipping a broken product and telling the consumer to get bent, but worse than shipping a working product. A product that advertises fewer features and delivers them is better than a product that advertises more features and doesn't deliver them. Even in the case of the CO2 sensor, it may be your opinion that a CO2 sensor is critical and can't be done without, but the review is for the feature set at the price point. A device that does fewer things can be a better device depending on price point and, again, reliability.

If, however, I concede the author's idea that reviews must have objective criteria, methodology and standards in order to be taken seriously then I'd like to propose the first objective criterion: broken out-of-the-box === not recommended.

edit: evidently the device failed after a few months. This doesn't change my final opinion, which is in total agreement with the review, but it deserves to be mentioned because I was incorrect in my facts. For my fellow JS devs, I'm standing by broken out-of-the-box === not recommended, and adding broken within a few months of installing == not recommended.
by gjsman-1000 | 2025-08-06 14:39:39+00:00
It's hard to know because while less sex is occurring; anecdotally (look around on TikTok), people are bringing violent and dangerous behaviors into the bedroom like never before.

Sexual choking has gone from a fringe behavior, into something that a study (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-024-02937-y) found over 50% of young Australians had tried; even though almost anyone with a medical background finds that extremely dangerous. This is a behavior that compounds, with women who went through it four times "safely" having brain damage markers in their blood (https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/c6zbv_v1). This is also why the UK (not sure if they did it yet) was even talking about banning all depictions, after an independent study said it was popularly perceived as "safe and common" among Gen Z.
by W3zzy | 2025-08-06 14:39:50+00:00
It is a flex that will result in great pushbacks. If my government feels the need to monitor all my communication without proper reason I know they're only a step away from using my words against me.

I will oppose any government that outlaws encryption and privacy. There are numerous accounts of peoples personal info being misused for crime. More than there are proven cases of encryption being used by criminals.
by mikece | 2025-08-06 14:40:03+00:00
I realize my definition is purely subjective in that I deal with Visual Studio and VS Code almost exclusively and that the VS Code team is instant that they make an editor and not IDE. For me an IDE has graphical tools for building UIs and other workflow items as well as language-specific compilers and tools built in. Like I said, subjective based on my experience (and my experience doesn't include Emacs).
by 9rx | 2025-08-06 14:40:35+00:00
> the existence of the csam itself necessitates abuse.

Just as the existence of America as we know it necessitates the pillaging and raping of native tribes. But we're not going to watch over your shoulder to make sure you don't participate in American society and send you to jail if you do. As unfortunate as past damage is, life moves on.

Of course, that it incentivizes production of more CSAM is the logic behind the laws, and that is a pretty compelling reason. However, according to the continuous stream of news reports, a tremendous amount of content has already been produced. How much more content would need to be produced? If the adult porn industry stopped producing new content, nobody would ever really notice. Algorithms do incentivize production of more and more adult porn even as 90% of will never been seen by anyone, for sure, but the law could still take a harder stance on those algorithms if that is the better solution.
by Joeboy | 2025-08-06 14:41:17+00:00
I'll add that I spent decades not learning to set up a guitar properly or acquiring the tools to do so. It turns out it's not nearly as difficult or expensive as I feared. To be fair it's a lot easier now than when I started, with youtube tutorials etc.

In particular, I now own a string height gauge, which was very cheap and makes the action assessment more empirical.
by nu11ptr | 2025-08-06 14:41:37+00:00
First, we need to add the word 'only': "not ONLY because it’s interpreted, but because its dynamic contract must be honored." Interpreted languages are slow by design. This isn't bad, it just is a fact.

Second, at most this describes WHY it is slow, not that it isn't, which is my point. Python is slow. Very slow (esp. for computation heavy workloads). And that is okay, because it does what it needs to do.
by evilduck | 2025-08-06 14:41:46+00:00
Llama.cpp is not really that easy unless you're supported by their prebuilt binaries. Go to the llama.cpp GitHub page and find a prebuilt CUDA enabled release for a Fedora based linux distro. Oh there isn't one you say? Welcome to losing an hour or more of your time.

Then you want to swap models on the fly. llama-swap you say? You now get to learn a new custom yaml based config file syntax that does basically nothing that the Ollama model file already does so that you can ultimately... have the same experience as Ollama but now you've lost hours just to get back to square one.

Then you need it to start and be ready with the system reboot? Great, now you get to write some systemd services, move stuff into system-level folders, create some groups and users and poof, there goes another hour of your time.
by rpdillon | 2025-08-06 14:42:14+00:00
Not sure why this is being downvoted. I'm not a fan at all, but as of last year, she had 12 number one singles.

https://www.businessinsider.com/taylor-swift-number-one-hits...

Maybe there's been once since, but my point was she doesn't write her own songs...my point is about how the industry works now, compared to 30 years ago.
by mc32 | 2025-08-06 14:42:35+00:00
Google uses lots of non-Google solutions for many things —just imagine all the facilities stuff. But so does any software company, including Microsoft and Amazon.

That said, you can hire people for any purpose (specific roles) and you can build what you want. It’s more a question of whether it’s worth it to build such solutions, after all you have a main line of business to tend to. That’s to say even Google and Apple have so called “boring “ roles and there are lots of people who don’t see it that way and want to work doing those things.
by pstuart | 2025-08-06 14:42:35+00:00
Words can have different meanings dependent upon context and audience. Again, the point is just because the same word is used in different contexts doesn't mean the word means the same thing.

Let me try to clarify: I believe in lots of things, but I'm ready to change that belief when presented with compelling evidence. A person of faith believe things and that belief is not going to change despite plenty of evidence.

See, I used the same word but it meant something else. This whole exchange is about the false equivocation of science and religion; (good) science embraces the notion of falsification, because it wants to "believe" in whatever truth presents itself.

This distinction is paramount, because religious fundamentalists believe that their faith trumps science. And yes, there's a bitter irony in the wording I just used.
by naasking | 2025-08-06 14:42:39+00:00
I recently used Google's Gemini to review and debug some code that was performing some runtime code generation in .NET. It pointed out some issues I was aware of, some cases I hadn't considered but would have eventually hit with some testing, and then helped debug why some tests were failing. Pretty impressive actually. Probably wasn't a 10x savings, but definitely 2x or more in some cases, and some of the tasks it eliminated were the tedious ones, which is a big help for motivation.
by Jgoauh | 2025-08-06 14:42:50+00:00
https://web.archive.org/web/20250804215602/https://www.nytim...

Well Dark-Enlightenment has been speeding up since trump took office. I am not surprised that the neo fascist movent aiming to transform Silicon Valley tech giants into authoritatian city states would embrace and strenghen its relationship with the military. Someone is gonna need to defend your company-state proprety against minorities, former employees and the annoying non-fascists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment