MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-08-05 00:31:38+00:00
>People who aren’t trespassers

They very much are trespassers. They're not citizens, therefor they have no legal right to be here. We issue visas, but we reserve the right to revoke those without notice or for that matter right to appeal. We're removing them from property that is not theirs.

Punishment would be additional to that, but perversely would require that they remain here for the punishment, so people like myself have no interest in it. It's enough that they leave.

>You’re assuming that all people ICE sends to concentration camps deserve to be there?

I don't know what you think the word "deserve" means that it is relevant. It does not matter where they deserve to be, they can't be here. It's our property, they're not welcome.

>But these determinations have been made without fair hearings

There need be no hearings at all. They are not citizens, they have no right to be here. None. You seem to think that some legal right is being revoked, which would necessitate courts... but they have no such legal right. No need for hearings.

>Due process is not afforded these people.

The only process due an illegal immigrant is checking to make sure they're not a citizen. If that process has been followed, no more process is due them. They are not criminals, they get no trial.

> Treating people this way is unjust.

Possibly. But I do not care, not even a little. It is our obligation to make a place for foreigners to live here. This isn't their country.
by davely | 2025-08-05 00:31:49+00:00
The study that said devs were 19% less productive was flawed in a number of ways: small sample size, poorly chosen tasks, no prior training on AI tools.

The science is by no means conclusive. A joint Harvard / MIT study found developers completed tasks up to 50% faster [0]!

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.06590
by mostertoaster | 2025-08-05 00:31:56+00:00
It is likely more than just coincidence that the wealth gap increased so much as soon as we went off the gold standard in the 70s.

Might’ve been worth it if we all are ultimately wealthier than we would’ve been, but also easy to think it just become a way for the rich to soak the middle class with a hidden tax, that the proletariat applauds and votes in favor of with only short term thinking.

We get that middle class to be much less than 50% of the populace, as long as they give us EBT, and some money for healthcare and maybe once the mega corporations own most the property they give us some box to call shelter, the entire middle class will just become be good little subservient serfs, happy that our noble lords take so good care of us.
by A_D_E_P_T | 2025-08-05 00:32:00+00:00
Too cryptic. So what is war and why does it happen?

> "You actually need a balance of power"

Yeah, but it has to be credible. If it's not credible, or hinges on vague wunderwaffen or failed concepts, then it only exists if both sides swallow one side's propaganda. (Or unless nukes come into play, but then you get MAD game theory and it's unwise to open that can of worms unless necessary.)
by wltechblog | 2025-08-05 00:32:04+00:00
These processors range between 32 and 128 megabytes of ram, and a chunk of that is reserved at bootup for the hardware feature blocks.

We have a couple devices that support 5ghz, but I don't think any of them are on my favorites list. I picked up a Wansview G6 which is a light bulb format cam, my least favorite, but it was our first dual band device. More to follow!
by RugnirViking | 2025-08-05 00:32:51+00:00
I don't know if you'll be able to answer this but;

I've been wondering about that conventional wisdom lately. In my area, and in most of the developed world, the prices of frankly most food I buy has doubled in the last 7 years. Meat is almost quadruple. This is despite ~3% inflation yearly over that time (higher in covid years, lower elsewhere), for an aggregate inflation over that same period of 44%. So the costs are rising way faster than inflation. indeed, my pay has not doubled.

Lets assume that its true that supermarkets etc where I am report very low profit margins (I haven't personally checked, but I suspect they indeed do). Where does the increased cost go? The general excuses given are covid, ukraine, etc. But those are market explanations - i.e. oh, there is less supply of this stuff, so the price goes up. But that means that SOMEONE is making a lot more money than they used to -- or the amount of effort to make the same amount of product has gone up. So which is it?

Other explanations i've considered:

- Hollywood accounting i.e. the profit margin is much higher but funneled into weird supplier companies also owned by investors/higher ups of the supermarkets.

- Middleman bloat. A bunch of extra steps where people take their "small margin" repeatedly have been inserted into the supply chain, the same product now passing through more hands (combine if you like with the above if you like)
by mschuster91 | 2025-08-05 00:35:08+00:00
> The pro-singularity/AGI people genuinely seem to believe that takeoff is going to happen within the next decade

I'm as anti-AI as it can get - it has its uses, but it is still fundamentally built on outright sharting on all kinds of ethics, and that's just the training phase - the actual usage is filled with even more snake-oil salesmen and fraudsters, and that's not to speak of all the jobs for humans that are going to be irreversibly replaced by AI.

But I think the AGI people are actually correct in their assumption - somewhen the next 10-20 years, the AGI milestone will be hit. Most probably not on LLM basis, but it will hit. And societies are absolutely not prepared to deal with the fallout, quite the contrary - particularly the current US administration is throwing us all in front of the multibillionaire wolves.
by glenngillen | 2025-08-05 00:35:38+00:00
One of the refreshing things about the Amazon/AWS hiring approach was basically this. Did we agree this person can do the job? First one to get to a yes gets an offer. No interviewing all the candidates and stack ranking and trying juggle them to have a plan A and plan B (though people could influence that somewhat through scheduling). First qualified candidate succeeds and everyone gets back to work.
by WheelsAtLarge | 2025-08-05 00:35:41+00:00
The huge, extra large, problem with crypto is that there is no way to prevent a run on the assets. Once people begin to feel that the bottom is falling and start to sell in a panic, and people always do, there is no way to back stop it so in theory it can go to zero. Since we are interwinding wall street and the banks with crypto we will see a collapse similar to what was seen before the fed was put in place. The last source of buying will be the fed and the treasury which will ultimate be the U.S. citizens via government debt and inflation since the government will have to buy assets to support them and the treasury will need to print money which causes inflation. It's going to be ugly. I give it less than 15 yrs maybe even 10 yrs.

Until then, it going to be a wild ride.
by JadeNB | 2025-08-05 00:35:48+00:00
> I also figure he, like Elon Musk, pays orders of magnitude more than his fair share, if we consider the definition for "fair share" to mean everyone pays the same amount of direct cash transfer into the system and gets the same amount of direct cash receipt out of the system.

Pays to whom? Verifying this claim seems to require a definition of "the system." If you literally mean all money expenditure, then almost certainly this is literally true. But it's not obvious to me that the expenditure on, for example, Bezos' vanity space trip benefited "the system" more than someone spending a much smaller amount, but dispersed more widely through the community. Or, if it did, it's not obvious to me that the additional benefit was in any reasonable proportion to the additional expenditure.
by goosejuice | 2025-08-05 00:36:29+00:00
The FAA does define how autopilot can and should be used, and so should the the NHTSA (mixed up the transpo acronyms) for ADAS. I suspect the FTC may address false marketing claims if NHTSA does not.

> You haven't come across reasonable in this conversation at all.

This is a discussion. We can disagree. No need to attack me.
by asdff | 2025-08-05 00:36:40+00:00
>You're saying you can't conclude anything useful about American culture and civilisation from a discarded Coke can? (As well as the act of casually discarding it.)

Could an ant? This is the scale we may be operating on. One of the biggest fallacies with the alien question is that they'd operate on our scale. Let alone "think" as we've observed thinking on earth, but that is another story. Some science fiction has explored this concept based on gravity or metabolism leading to dramatically different scale in either space or time for a species and the implications that brings when meeting a species on a different scale.
by ricksunny | 2025-08-05 00:37:15+00:00
That's the pitfall these discussions invariably fall into - debating the morality of deploying rather than the wisdom of developing a capacity in the first place. The primary justification for secretly studying the feasibility of the fission chain reaction was the fear that Germany (not Japan) might be developing an atomic bomb of their own (an early form of the subsequent Cold War's 'can't prove a negative' about what weapons the Soviets might be developing).
by Paracompact | 2025-08-05 00:37:22+00:00
> I also figure he, like Elon Musk, pays orders of magnitude more than his fair share, if we consider the definition for "fair share" to mean everyone pays the same amount of direct cash transfer into the system and gets the same amount of direct cash receipt out of the system.

I appreciate the clarity, but this is a bizarre definition of fair share. Do you really believe that everyone gets the same amount of usage from, and contributes to the same amount of wear and tear on, municipal and infrastructural resources? Do you believe that industrialists do not ravage the earth and society while chasing profits? These externalities measure in the billions (when they can even be quantified at all) for players like Amazon.
by ryukoposting | 2025-08-05 00:38:51+00:00
Hi, website operator here. I don't want my content to be accessible to you through Perplexity.

I want my work to be freely available to any person who wants it. Feel free to transform my material as you see fit. Hell, do it with LLMs! I don't care.

The LLM isn't the problem, it's what companies like Perplexity are doing with the LLM. Do not create commercial products that regurgitate my work as if it was your own. It's de facto theft, if not de jure theft.

Knowing that it is not de jure theft, and so I have no legal recourse, I will continue to tune my servers to block and/or deceive Perplexity and similar tools.

By the way, I do not use my websites as a revenue stream. This isn't about money.
by asdff | 2025-08-05 00:38:52+00:00
Imagine you are an FTL space alien in search of other FTL civilizations. Would you parade your FTL tech around? Allow others to study your capabilities? I'd probably send something that could plausibly be identified as a rock. If there are other FTL civilizations out there, I'd like to know everything about them before they know anything about me.
by alansammarone | 2025-08-05 00:40:29+00:00
I really don't mean this in any negative way, but I find it fascinating the wide range of opinions and attitudes in this matter. I find it _so_ hard to imagine having this view myself.

The amount of things I've learned by asking very specific, technical questions to ChatGPT (mostly with web search turned on, but some times it's not even necessary) - things I can immediately verify and/or use, such as small bash commands/scripts, visualizations, diagrams. The value of that, alone, is certainly in the hundreds of dollars per month. Things I would never learn because they are buried somewhere among the 30 answers/comments, sometimes pointing to 20 more terribly-hard-to-read pages or manuals riddled with irrelevant (for my question) content, somewhere in the first page of web search results... maybe it's an attention span question? I certainly won't spend more than 10 minutes reading anything if not's interesting or required in the most extreme sense of the word way for my job (books on quantum mechanics, general relativity, topology, all fall in the former category - bash and pandas documentation fall in neither).

I'm convinced I've saved _at least_ low thousands per week by using coding assistants (mostly Claude Code in my case, but that's personal and likely to change at some point), as evidenced by the amount of work I'm able to finish, get paid for, and maintain. I'm not vibe coding, mind you - most of the time, I have an almost complete mental model of what I want after a couple of hours thinking, and the only thing left to do is type the code, at which point I'd, previously, feel bored, since the fun part (the thinking) is over.

Edit: I have 20 years of experience with code, 15 in the industry as a SWE (been coding since I was 13)
by giantg2 | 2025-08-05 00:42:43+00:00
I have a new suggestion. A guess the number game 1-100 in 7 tries or less. It doesn’t sound smart at first because its just guessing. However, if you always guess in the middle of the upper and lower bound, then you eliminate 50% of the possibilities. It's a pretty neat trick to get kids to think about how to approach a problem that seems random in a structured way.
by asdff | 2025-08-05 00:43:25+00:00
Also a lot of assumptions about mutation rate. Anatomically modern humans appeared 300k years ago. Behaviorally modern humans appeared 50k years ago.

A species beginning colonization on one end of the galaxy might not be the same species at all by the time it reached the other end of the galaxy a million years later. There might be a whole spectrum of new species that emerged along the way.
by jncfhnb | 2025-08-05 00:43:55+00:00
In 2012 I took my first course in undergrad. The teacher asked everyone to introduce themselves and say something they liked to do. Every single student, except myself, said they like to party. That was shocking to me. Most students weren’t skipping classes though.

Their writing skills were also abysmal. Frankly if they were that bad by college they didn’t seem likely to improve in my opinion.
by kldg | 2025-08-05 00:44:47+00:00
if you do analytics, it is not so hard, but then you need to store user data (if not directly, then worse, with a third party), which should be viewed as a liability. I see ~2/3 human traffic, ~1/3 bot traffic (I just parse user agent strings and count whitelisted browsers as human), but my main landing page is all dynamic-populated webgl. I just asked Gemini what it sees on website, and it states "The page appears to be loading, with the text "Loading room data...".[1] There are also labels for "BG", "FG", and "CURSOR", and a background weather animation." -so I can be feel reasonably confident I don't need to worry about AI, for now; it needs a machine-friendly frontend.

you could go proper insanomode, too. remaking The Internet is trivial if you don't care about existing web standards -- replacing HTTP with your own TCP implementation, getting off html/js/css, etc. being greenfield, you can control the protocol, server, and client implementation, and put it in whatever language you want. I made a stateful Internet implementation in Python earlier for proof-of-concept, but I want to port it and expand on it in rust soon (just for fun; I don't do serious biznos). you'll very likely have 100% human traffic then, even if you're the only person curious and trusting enough to run your client.
by b112 | 2025-08-05 00:45:33+00:00
If that's your definition, then effectively the entire planet is zionist, including almost all Arab states, and even the PLO.

Are you asserting that Egypt is zionist? The Palatinian Liberation Organization? All of there states have said that Israel has a right to exist. Passed resolutions.

If so, then what value has the word?

Zionism has changed over time. Israel exists, is going no where, and only weirdos think Israel should vanish.

However many will espouse an end to zionism today, which typically and effectively means no more expansion into modern Palastine, and a 2 state solution.
by syockit | 2025-08-05 00:45:57+00:00
It's really unintuitive how a mere increase in number of dimensions could totally change the scale of things. This is the crux of the curse of dimensionality in machine learning. If you simply stacked it high, it may almost reach the sun (but no quite), but once you lay it into roughly a square (20000 x 50000), it spans only over a mile per side. To lay it roughly into a cube of 100 dollar stacks, you'd have something like 65 x 150 x 1026, which turns out to be about only 12 yards per side.

EDIT: I screwed up in the 1D calculation. A 10 million-height stack of 100 100$ bills only reaches 67 miles.
by jeeyoungk | 2025-08-05 00:46:02+00:00
I think this is really unfair, in the current day and age, especially when there are "Open Weight Models" that are bending the definition of the FOSS.

I don't have a skin in the game, but I personally think that the definition of FOSS is too rigid and strict and is not evolving. There has been many challenges over time (LGPL's linking exception, tivoization, AGPL trying to fight against SaaS, Open Core business models, ...); and we are really bestowing very harsh moral standards for people who are trying to do the right thing.

For me, Sentry, being 10+ years in its existence (I used it ever since its logo was a Starcraft II unit), never participated in the usual enshitification of the software, being labeled as "NOPE" is disingenuous. I would gladly pay for Sentry because I love the software, and I also know that if shit hits the fan, I can self-host it (though the configuration for self-hosting got progressively difficult over time, but that's the complexity of modern SaaS stack). I can make similar arguments to other tools in this site that I'm familiar with.
by Nevermark | 2025-08-05 00:46:11+00:00
YES.

Significant loans on collateral are liquidity events.

In general, any loan that was taxed up front as income, could be paired with counting loan payments on the principle as an expense against income. (And if the loan was for business, not personal, interest would also be an expense.)

This would make loans tax neutral vs. other ways of getting money out of assets.

It would eliminate the practice of cycles of leverage that lets the rich grow their wealth, use that to grow more wealth, over and over, while pushing taxation into the future indefinitely.

And it would make loans less attractive to take out (the upfront tax), and yet much easier to pay off (symmetric tax break for paying down debt). Which would result in a much less leveraged, more resilient, economy.
by geraldwhen | 2025-08-05 00:46:19+00:00
The people are usually real in my experience, although I’ve dealt with fake people a few times. Different person showing up to the office vs the video interview, man obviously just off camera giving answers. That second one is probably AI now.

HR attempts to prescreen on resume match. I’ll never see the person who matches on half the skills and is a real person. I’ll only see the fraud until I accidentally find someone who has ever used the technologies on their resume.
by vhrrsrivr | 2025-08-05 00:46:40+00:00
Rather than relying on an embedding space, my approach is to have the cards themselves be grammars that can define the relationships between concepts explicitly. Then the problem becomes what specific sampling of all the possible outputs is optimal for a learner to see at any given time, given their knowledge state.

See how it's applied to Japanese learning here: https://elldev.com/feed/grsly
by georgeecollins | 2025-08-05 00:46:50+00:00
The other thing that gets glossed over in the "it was the soviets, not the bomb that caused the surrender" is that the USSR knew the US had the atomic bomb and realized it might end the war. They had territorial objectives of their own and wanted to join the conflict with (understandably) minimal casualties. If they had thought the war was going to last another year they might waited a bit longer to join.

I really strongly recommend Ian Toll's histories of the Pacific war, because there is information that is not in the early histories (at least the ones I read a while back) that is because things in the US and former USSR are more declassified. In particular, the US had a pretty good understanding of what is going on in the Japanese government. They knew a lot of civilian leaders wanted to surrender before Hiroshima, but were afraid they would be associated by a coup, as had happened in the 1930s. That's also what the Japanese leaders who wanted to surrender were worried about as well.
by godelski | 2025-08-05 00:47:26+00:00
> i expect terminal developers to keep keybindings to a minimum.

This seems to be one of the goals of ghostty. I don't think keybinding for moving tabs/splits is excessive (as a default). I'd expect every emulator to come with defaults for those.

> there isn't a single key binding that i need for gnome, except possibly copy and paste.

You don't use new tab? New window? You physically click the tab to move tabs?

I mean I'm not trying to harp on your preferences, but I think you have unreasonable asks. I haven't used an emulator where you cannot change or remove those keybindings, so I think that solves your asks. But I think your asks are unreasonable because they don't match the requests of the majority of users. You're totally right that "sane defaults" are not going to be "sane" for everyone. But why isn't that fine? I mean that's why we have configs, right? So that we can make them our own? "Sane defaults" are just an attempt to minimize configuration by trying to match average demand, not try to match every person. I mean we all have dotfiles, right?

I'm just really lost in what you're asking for. You're asking that *defaults* match *your* needs, right?

Because it sounds like you're upset that keybindings exist so... disable them? Is there something you can't disable? I'm really lost here...
by WalterBright | 2025-08-05 00:47:36+00:00
Let's have some fun. $600,000/per day, with an annual investment return of 7%, reaches $220b in 64 years, not 1004.

import core.stdc.stdio; void main() { double wealth = 0; double pay = 600_000 * 365; double api = .07; for (int year = 0; ++year;) { wealth = wealth * 1.07 + pay; if (wealth >= 222_000_000_000.0) { printf("year = %d\n", year); break; } } }
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-08-05 00:47:46+00:00
>The Monroe Doctrine is a policy from the 19th century. A lot has happened since then.

Like Kennedy invoking it during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Now it's true that John Kerry said the Monroe Doctrine was over in 2013, but John Bolton said it was "alive and well" in 2019. Bolton being National Security Advisor at the time to the guy currently occupying the White House.

>The EU doesn't have military bases.

hmm, you're right - obviously the EU should pay less.

on edit: added "at the time"
Show HN: FireList – Companies ranked by years to FIRE
by rlindskog | 2025-08-05 00:47:47+00:00
Hey HN! I built a small app for comparing companies or job offers based on "years until financial independence" instead of "total compensation", after finding out the same offer from 2 companies can have a difference of years in terms of FIRE. I also ranked companies based on the time to FIRE as well. (with some assumptions, see the methodology for more details here https://firelist.io/methodology). It was useful for me, hopefully it's useful to you! I'll be adding more benefits and companies over the next few days or so. Let me know if you have any requests.