MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tmaly | 2025-08-14 17:23:04+00:00
I don't trust any government numbers regardless of who the president is. There will always be pressure to fudge the numbers to make who ever is running things look good.

There use to be a billion prices project out of MIT that got shutdown years ago because it show higher inflation than what the rulers at the Fed wanted to show. I believe its funding was pulled or something like that.
by cristoperb | 2025-08-14 17:23:12+00:00
Haha, the fact that an LLM tries to offload NLP jobs to Python libraries is funny. But I just tried this prompt (with "Don't use python") and uploaded a text file and it worked well (it immediately started outputting entities without running Python):

"NER task: extract all named entities from this text. Don't use python. JSON format"

I tried Gemini too, and it works without needing to tell it to not use Python.

The API is still better, of course, because you can constrain output to a JSON schema of your choosing... but all models now seem quite good at outputting valid JSON when asked and can follow 1-shot schema examples
by i_am_proteus | 2025-08-14 17:23:16+00:00
If you're interested, hunt around for an EOS-1 or 1N - it's a 35mm film camera with pretty fast autofocus that can use contemporary Canon EF-mount lenses. (Canon still sells the cameras and lenses, although they're being phased out in favor of RF). Load Portra 400 and shoot in good light, and you might be surprised.
by nrclark | 2025-08-14 17:23:32+00:00
I feel like submodules are one of Git's most misused features. They're intended as a method of pinning read-only upstream Git dependencies. And when used for that purpose, they're good at what they do.

I think that people mostly get a bad taste in their mouths because they try to use submodules for building multi-repo workspaces where a developer might need to commit in some/all of the repos. They're a bad fit for that problem, but it's mostly because that's not what they were designed to do.

I'd love to see the jj team tackle case #2, personally. I bet they'd do a pretty good job of it.
by SilverCipher | 2025-08-14 17:23:57+00:00
Interesting article from Google. Keeta seems to have a legitimate differentiator in their architecture.

I've been DYOR and I suspect that once a few companies start using their network, Keeta will quickly become indispensable because of their speed and low usage cost.

Also wonder if those companies who sell over Keeta will pass the savings on to consumers. hmmm :)

Thanks xescure
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-08-14 17:24:39+00:00
The goal is to stop wealth inequality from continuing to rise and to even decrease it. Taxing wealth (holding on to assets and letting them generate income passively) past a certain amount (progressive tax brackets based on wealth) is the first step to have precisely the effect of reducing that inequality.

People with no/little wealth will be taxed nothing/very little and the wealthiest will be taxed a lot; offer government subsidies for those with no or little wealth to make their daily spending easier, perhaps even a small UBI. All of a sudden, wealth inequality is going the other way. That seems kind of obvious, frankly.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-08-14 17:24:54+00:00
A 3rd place isn't a friend group.

It isn't a single conversation or room. It isn't a single relationship cluster.

And someone is paying the insurance bill. Ultimately that person gets final say. A successful 3rd place can have tension, but not fools (in the economic sense, a person whose decision making and choices actively destroy the groups financial opportunities and stability. Theoretically a very clumsy person might be banned.)

There's a lot to unpack, I mean social dynamics, group polity, these really start with understanding what you really want to see brought into the world and why.

These things take fluidity, nuance and effort to get off the ground. Sometimes they just get lucky too. It's hard to tell ahead of time, proximity is important, population density is important, parties are important.

Getting initial traction is the hardest part, most groups die before they get a chance to have problems, that's why tying the groups space to a stable economic engine like an anchor company or a mission agency is so critical for repeatable success. Same with a small friend group as initial anchor, they just can't all be clique people.

The one thing that's very important is to always frame the space as a place for creating and experimenting, celebrate the amateur and the pursuit of mastery, getting started with a group of taste makers instead of doers will 100% kill your group.

Getting started with hypernetworkers who don't do things will kill your group. They'll show up and they are important later on.

All of these people have a place eventually but they can't form the dynamic core. The whole goal is to eventually have a place for every type of person so they can contribute to the whole and find the space where they can be celebrated, but a group has to be larger before certain types of people can bring their core skills to bear.
by ecshafer | 2025-08-14 17:25:03+00:00
In their example case of someone with a 5 bedroom house, its obvious: sell it and move to a 1 or 2 bedroom condo. Renting isn't going to be optimal if her rent doubles every 10 years and she lives to 100.

The other option that boomer generation doesn't seem to be using as much is multi-generational homes. Give the house to your kid, you play grandma/grandpa and give them child care. The kid gets a cheap house and cheap childcare. You build multi-generational equity.
by latexr | 2025-08-14 17:25:08+00:00
> 0% tried it but decided not to switch.

It’s trivial to prove that’s not true. Just look at the last popular Jujutsu post on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44643984

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44643763

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44646902

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44645769

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44662803

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44644040

And those are just the replies to the top comment which matched “went back”.
by alephnerd | 2025-08-14 17:25:08+00:00
Ah ok! I thought you were pining for the days of a town with only a single employer dominating hiring.

That is an unsustainable model.

> You still get to employ thousands who don't necessarily have a PhD in computer science

You're a magnitude off. It's more like hundreds, and you will tend to hire people with a BS in an Engineering discipline.
by ActorNightly | 2025-08-14 17:25:18+00:00
Fully agree.

However if your stuff keeps exploding after you have had quite a large number of those test events, something is amiss.

>Like the Falcon 9, once the correct inputs are developed, it will become as routine as "Hey Siri..."

TBD. Raptor engines are the equivalent of taking 2 liter inline 4 engine and putting on massive turbos to make it generate 1000 whp. Thats pretty much how you get the high pressure ratio.
by parsimo2010 | 2025-08-14 17:25:36+00:00
Masimo only refined pulse oximetry in the 90s, as pulse oximetry was invented in the 1970s (prior oximeters did not resemble the devices seen today). Everything after that has been tweaks/improvements to the base method, but I wouldn't call them the inventors of the technology.

The only IP that companies can own now are specific methods/improvements, not the base idea of measuring SpO2 with light. All Apple has to do is avoid the specific improvements that Masimo owns and they are fine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse_oximetry#History
by ycombiredd | 2025-08-14 17:25:51+00:00
I evaluated the Copyleaks copyright/plagiarism detection platform’s ability to detect phonetically and semantically equivalent text that differs orthographically from the original source using tools I made and link to in the paper.

Copyleaks’ own marketing materials cite accuracy rates above 99 % on “paraphrased and disguised” text. In contrast, our trials yielded detection rates as low as 0 %, with multiple transformed works passing undetected despite maintaining near-verbatim semantic and phonetic equivalence to the originals.
by goyagoji | 2025-08-14 17:25:57+00:00
Hundred year events are now 10 year events. I'd much rather use a diverse portfolio to move outside of the scope of a disaster and chances are good that I will actually pay less than I should for the insurance component of rent because people are irrational. For raising rents it is similar, a city is usually getting too expensive all around for someone who doesn't need to live there.
by Ajedi32 | 2025-08-14 17:26:00+00:00
There was an obvious disclaimer though, and the chat window was clearly labeled "AI"; it's not like Meta was trying to pass this off as a real person.

So is this just a question of how many warnings need to be in place before users are allowed to chat with fictional characters? Or should this entire use case be banned, as the root commenter seemed to be suggesting?
by paul7986 | 2025-08-14 17:26:02+00:00
Meta introduces these and sells a few million so far. Apple releasing theirs in 2026/2027 will increase adoption by ten fold. I thought they might add soomething like this where it blurs out those in public and or changes their face to a celebrity or no name faces.

Note i love my Meta Ray Bans yet they aren't durable and after 2 breaking after 20 months Im not sure I will buy another pair (maybe the upcoming Oakleys but still same not reliable to non-durable tech in those). But for me they are great for taking pics and videos (asking the time too when my phone isnt on me) of my life and when traveling solo using the Live AI feature to learn more about my surroundings. Like what's the history of the train tracks Im walking alongside.
by nobody9999 | 2025-08-14 17:26:26+00:00
>Did the people pursuing these bans consider having empathy with the people who value these books, and try to understand why they value them?

>Stop defending tyranny.

I think you miss GP's point. It's not that they support such book bans or the ideology that encourages that and other anti-democratic (small 'd') nastiness. Rather it's the old saw that 'you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar (balsamic vinegar excepted).'

While there are many who are callous, cruel pieces of shit, there are more who live (without their knowledge or consent -- cf. rural broadcast media landscape, online bubbles, etc.) in an "information" environment that promotes such stuff as "godly" and "American" and "freedom", when that's not even close to the truth.

Which is clear from the book bans, the ridiculous "anchor babies" trope, the Democrats are all communists and on and on and on.

Yes, folks who actively foment this stuff and cynically (or even genuinely) fight to reduce liberty need to be resisted. Strongly and loudly.

But if you adopt those folks' "othering" tactics, you devalue everyone who doesn't specifically agree with you and everything you believe as evil and unredeemable, you remove a key opportunity for education, positive experience and persuasion.

Will that work for everyone? Absolutely not. But we don't need everyone, just the ones who are honest and fair-minded. And those can certainly be those who disagree with you.

If you exclude the radical reactionaries, bigots and cynical scum who seek to profit from promoting such ideas, the majority of all of us agree about much more than we disagree.

Perhaps that's something we all should ruminate on.
by skrebbel | 2025-08-14 17:26:44+00:00
It’s… just the common name for this way of getting things done (as far as I know at least). Propose something preposterous, so drama ensues and it gets watered down, but in the end you still get more than you would’ve otherwise.

I believe the term got popular around the time Trump got his wall by saying he was going to make Mexico pay for it. Suddenly nobody questioned the sanity of building a wall anymore, the entire narrative was about whether or not he’d get Mexico to pay.
by ecshafer | 2025-08-14 17:26:46+00:00
Home ownership costs are pretty low if you understand that everything is amortized. You buy a new roof every ~25 years, then you think of it as putting $50 a month into savings so you buy that roof when it comes up. Furnace in 20 years, hot water heater in 10. But instead people seem to want to wait until things blow up then treat it as a sudden large expense.
by jjk166 | 2025-08-14 17:27:01+00:00
That's exactly why gold is a useful proxy. The price of gold is pretty much purely a function of how much money speculators have in their pockets. If inflation is high, it means there are more dollars that can go into gold speculation, driving up the nominal cost of gold. If the cost of gold is going down, it means the dollar is strong by comparison.

If you used a proxy that had a significant utility in its own right, like say oil or steel, the price would be a function of how efficiently it can be produced and how strong the economy at large is to demand its consumption.
by hinkley | 2025-08-14 17:27:43+00:00
The real pisser is that Kodak was ahead of the curve on digital photography before they decided on five year thinking instead of fifteen year thinking.

They paid for a modified version of Mosaic that could handle high resolution images. I want to say 4 megapixel before anyone else even had digital cameras. They were going to have you send in your images and then order a CDROM via a website with the ones you wanted to keep. Because storage was terrible at the time. I don’t remember if prints were an option, but I can’t imagine why they wouldn’t.
by runako | 2025-08-14 17:28:57+00:00
Masimo was worth ~$16B when this was going down. They are worth $8B today. This is roughly the size of American Airlines. Masimo is not the biggest company, but they are a large publicly-traded company.

The company does $2B in revenue and spends close to $800 million annually in sales, general and admin. This is over 3x their R&D budget. (For reference, Apple's R&D spend is higher than its SG&A spend.)

Per levels.fyi, Masimo is paying senior SDEs in HCOL $150k. They could 10x the comp to these critical employees without it being more than a rounding error in their numbers. (I don't think they would have had to go to 10x. Most people would practically tattoo a brand on themselves for a one-time bonus of $1m.)

Long story short: Masimo does indeed have the money to compete on salary with Apple for this set of employees. They chose to spend the money on attorneys instead.

Some companies don't value engineers. That often works, until they end up in an engineering competition against companies that do value engineers.
by zamadatix | 2025-08-14 17:29:27+00:00
I feel like the blog post, and GP comment, does a good job of explaining how it's built to be a small model easily fine tuned for narrow tasks, rather than used for general tasks out of the box. The latter is guaranteed to hallucinate heavily at this size, that doesn't mean every specific task it's fine tuned to would be. Some examples given were fine tuning it to efficiently and quickly route a query to the right place to actually be handled or tuning it to do sentiment analysis of content.

An easily fine tunable tiny model might actually be one of the better uses of local LLMs I've seen yet. Rather than try to be a small model that's great at everything it's a tiny model you can quickly tune to do one specific thing decently, extremely fast, and locally on pretty much anything.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-08-14 17:29:53+00:00
>For example there are many obese Americans on food stamps.

All of their own fault. I recently saw a youtube compilation of tiktok clips of Americans on food stamps making videos flaunting their overfull supermarket shopping carts and it was all name brand junk food made up of refined carbs, fats and sugars, and to no ones surprise, they were all obese. No vegetables, no fruits, no leafy greens, no legumes, but all junk food which costs more than the healthy stuff. Who's fault is that? At what point is personal accountability supposed to kick in?

If you can afford a roof over your head, a car, and entire shopping carts full of name brand junk food(which is more expensive than healthy food) to make yourself obese, you are anything but poor, you are just stupid and glutenous.

Edit: I see the downvotes, but notice nobody is saying that I am wrong? ;) So then we agree that I'm right.
by VirusNewbie | 2025-08-14 17:30:00+00:00
Did you do practice interviews? I highly recommend doing pramp.com and/or paying for actual interview feedback.

Until you have someone with nothing to lose giving you brutally honest feedback, you won't know what the issue is. Years ago I had thought I passed technical interviews but I had given non optimal code.

I had one mock interviewer (paid) tell me I wasn't explaining my solutions enough and I needed to take charge of the conversation more.

Invest some time into finding out what your real weaknesses are.
by rpdillon | 2025-08-14 17:30:36+00:00
I'm not sure it does. I did ask 5 adults this question, with zero context about what we're discussing with AI, just posing it as a riddle. They were split, with lots of uncertainty about the optics of the glass straight on, and where the viewer is vertically with respect the glass' height. The best response, from my wife, brought up the trig aspect to the problem, pointing out that nothing in the question talks about distance to or between the objects. Her assumption was that the peanut could easily be offset behind the glass from her perspective, resulting in the peanut not being visible.

We tried the experiment, and she was right that there are definitely setups of distance and spacing that cause the peanut to not be visible. Try it!
by LadyLag | 2025-08-14 17:31:26+00:00
I started using jujutsu after the last round of blog posts here, and have found it super super useful to my mental model of git and vcs.

Stealing Fintan's `jj tug` alias from this post is something I have already found useful. Highly recommend if anyone is on the edge of trying to just give it a shot!
by nxobject | 2025-08-14 17:32:07+00:00
To be fair, "[substantial] doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern", at least for audited statements, is accounting jargon with a limited and technical definition. Notably, it doesn't take into account debt restructuring or other negotiations with debtors -- which is what TFA states may happen; notably with pension obligations.

https://pcaobus.org/oversight/standards/auditing-standards/d...
by isodev | 2025-08-14 17:32:17+00:00
I wish Bluesky would finally announce how they plan to monetise it all. It feels like things are stuck in-between trying to be “open to the community”, gather developer momentum around ATProto, the promise of decentralisation and independence… and the unknowns of their roadmap ahead?

It’s all very nicely written but the risk of committing oneself (as a user, as a developer, as a social/marketing person, etc) only to get surprised by what/how they generate profit from is just unsettling.
by mr90210 | 2025-08-14 17:32:53+00:00
> In some locations, we may be required to restrict access to certain features or content unless you complete an age assurance process and demonstrate that you are an adult.

Not BlueSky specific, but I am getting ready to nuke my accounts on social media and other websites as soon as they start requiring said verifications.

I truly don't what to expect from this trend.
by Supermancho | 2025-08-14 17:33:49+00:00
Being as objective as possible and having worked for Experian, I will say yes.

Americans, in aggregate, are one of the most monitored populations in the world^1. Financial institutions are painfully aware of the spending habits of Americans. I believe credit agency data, which is paired with monitoring bank accounts via social security tie-ins (that already exist), over census data. Integrate credit companies with social programs (like food cards) and you'll have a complete picture of the lowest brackets.

^1 China does better for specific demographics, but the rural populations are not tracked very well. I could also stand to be corrected for conditions in some very small countries.
Show HN: Evaluating LLMs on creative writing via reader usage, not benchmarks
by Jetwu | 2025-08-14 17:33:58+00:00
Hey HN! I'd love to get some people to mess around with a little side project I built to teach myself DSPy! I've been a big fan of reading fiction + webnovels for a while now, and have always been curious about two things: how can LLMs iteratively learn to write better based on reader feedback, and which LLMs are actually best at creative writing (research benchmarks are cool, but don't necessarily translate to real-world usage).

That's exactly why I built narrator.sh! The platform takes in a user input for a novel idea, then generates serialized fiction chapter-by-chapter by using DSPy to optimize the writing based on real reader feedback. I'm using CoT and parallel modules to break down the writing task, refine modules + LLM-as-a-judge for reward functions, and the SIMBA optimizer to recompile user ratings from previous chapters to improve subsequent ones.

Instead of synthetic benchmarks, I track real reader metrics: time spent reading, ratings, bookmarks, comments, and return visits. This creates a leaderboard of which models actually write engaging fiction that people want to finish.

Right now the closest evals for creative writing LLMs come from the author perspective (OpenRouter's usage data for tools like Novelcrafter). But ultimately readers decide what's good, not authors.

You can try it at https://narrator.sh. Here's the current leaderboard: https://narrator.sh/llm-leaderboard (it's a bit bare right now b/c there's not that many users haha)

(Fair warning: there's some adult content since I posted on Reddit for beta testers and people got creative with prompts. I'm working on diversifying the content!)
by m3047 | 2025-08-14 17:34:21+00:00
Kodak at one time was a powerhouse of applied chemistry, curating a huge library of chemical compounds. I know this because a particular early biotech company rented out the processes (in their own labs) they were developing so that Kodak could test some of these chemicals for particular forms of biological activity. That's how the biotech managed to have cash flow before they were allowed to let any material whatsoever out of the lab, let alone near humans.

(I also worked for Kodak for a brief time supporting a "dark line" where they packaged photosensitive products. A kick in the ass, great fun, very disciplined, and writing code which ran machinery in a black box!)
by troad | 2025-08-14 17:34:25+00:00
I've had a similar experience. After many years of strict typing, including two years of writing full-time Rust, I've come completely around on dynamic typing. Attempting to encode a system in types creates a host of consequent issues, that in turn need their own complex solutions. At some point you lose sight of the business logic and are sort of just building artifice for the sake of feeding earlier artifice.

(Sort of like how OOP was introduced to solve the problem of structuring code, but then we needed a profusion of ever-more-complex design patterns to fix the issues only ever introduced by OOP in the first place.)

I'm coming to be a big fan of functional dynamic languages. You can just let go of entire categories of CS complexity. No need for generics without types, no need for locks without mutability, etc. Actual fearless concurrency.

This in turn has freed me to write actual business logic, without the constant need to stop and make sacrifices to the CS complexity god.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-14 17:34:41+00:00
Flood the zone with christofascist, orthodoxy propaganda in almost every public and private distribution channel people interact with since birth, and no compliant rule-followers will dare to read those "filthy", "un-Christian" books. The problem of opposition will be reduced to a small cadre of intelligent and curious people who dare to question approved ideas.. they are usually the first to be lined up against the wall when totalitarian regimes come to power. At some point in the past, I would've been half joking, but this doesn't seem so unfathomable anymore.