MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by camillomiller | 2025-08-14 07:13:42+00:00
OP wasn’t defending VISA policies, they were just realistically describing how taking on CC circuits with this premise is a risky approach that tries to fix a problem potential customers don’t have. What you are saying is in a completely different domain. Personally I think you’re right, but the only way to solve that is regulating the payment giants as a public utility, not picking a fight against a business model that is a lot of things, but not broken.
by orwin | 2025-08-14 07:14:07+00:00
I mean, he's kinda right, historically in the US, only one party ever balanced the budget, and left his successor a surplus said successor immediately used to cut taxes on wealth, right before starting the two most expensive wars US has been part of since WW2.

That the man who did it was a sex pest and should be in prison is unrelated to his success on that particular policy.
by hnarn | 2025-08-14 07:14:28+00:00
> As always debian is like fedora 3 years ago.

What a silly, uneducated and trolling point to make. Yes, and "as always" Red Hat Enterprise Linux is dragging its feet compared to Debian Trixie -- why do you think that is? Maybe Fedora, Debian and RHEL are different Linux distributions with different goals and trade-offs?
by BlackFly | 2025-08-14 07:14:30+00:00
It isn't zeal, it's 15 years past hazy memory of getting different results on different executions in the same supercomputer. The story that went around was the one I relayed, but certainly your link does a better job explaining things that happen in the user perspective section:

https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2025/p37...

Summarized as,

> Most users cannot be expected to know all of the ways that their floating-point code is not reproducible.

Glad to know that the situation is defaulting to SSE2 nowadays though.
by vidarh | 2025-08-14 07:14:50+00:00
You'll note that the majority of these rely on police reports.

You then mention CSEW for one year, ignoring that the overall long term trend is down from a high in 1994-95.

CSEW consistently captures a far higher rate of crime than police reports because it doesn't rely on police reporting changes, or peoples willingness to report.

In other words: Your wall of text is irrelevant.

Look at the CSEW data, and the trends all the way back to its start in 1982.

Doesn't mean there aren't problems, and hotspots, or specific crimes that have different trends, but overall we're near a historical low.
by porridgeraisin | 2025-08-14 07:15:28+00:00
Nevertheless it is next token prediction. Each token it predicts is an action for the RL setup, and context += that_token is the new state. Solutions are either human labelled (RLHF) or to math/code problems (deterministic answer) and prediction == solution is used as the reward signal.

Policy gradient approaches in RL are just supervised learning, when viewed through some lenses. You can search for karpathys more fleshed out argument for the same, I'm on mobile jow.
by anon291 | 2025-08-14 07:15:57+00:00
Yeah, that's not what we are talking about. We are talking about naturalization, which is the process of taking someone who is a citizen of another country and making them a citizen of this country.

A child born in this country is entitled to citizenship.

I didn't mention revoking US citizenship. I literally said it's an irrevocable courtesy, which means it cannot be revoked once granted.

> Furthermore, the UN declaration of human rights (ratified by the US, and drafted by one Eleanor Roosevelt), mandates that “No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality".

The UN Declaration of Human Rights is subject to the United States constitution when being interpreted by US courts.
by dzrmb | 2025-08-14 07:16:31+00:00
Hey I'm Dan,

I saw this idea floating around a while back and thought, I'm going to try building it.

A lot of my friends run small businesses, and I've seen first-hand how hard it is to deal with lead gen when 40–60% of your list is fake submissions and spammy messages.

So I started coding. I vibe-coded the MVP over a weekend, and a week later, the product was done.

How it works: - Drop a 1‑line JS snippet into any site or SPA; it auto-captures form submits - Deterministic checks (disposable domains, bot patterns, dupes, shallow fields) + AI analysis when enabled - Server-side processing with queued AI jobs so your UI stays fast - Privacy-first: no cookies by default, minimal data collection, easy redaction

How’s everyone else fighting this problem?
by elric | 2025-08-14 07:16:42+00:00
> allowed to wall in their data with no API access

There's PSD2 in the EU (or Eurozone? Not sure actually). Basically forces banks to open common APIs to encourage interopability and competition. However, it's not aimed at users but rather at companies in fintech building applications.

Some banks (Bunq comes to mind) offer APIs to their customers for direct use, but most don't. The reason is obviously security. People still fall for phishing, people still give fake bank staff their access codes on the phone. Giving normal users a way to have API access to their bank account would be disastrous for many of those users.

Now, it would be nice if things like PSD2 were a little more accessible and transparent. Currently you need permission from an institution like The National Bank to gain access. It's expensive and bureaucratic.
by Tor3 | 2025-08-14 07:17:23+00:00
Well.. just a quick search (as I won't be talking a walk and photograph all the "cards only" signs I now see in so many places):

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/mar/16/uk-high-street...

https://www.dnb.nl/en/general-news/news-2023/some-retail-sec...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20gevkx8gyo

https://www.aarp.org/money/personal-finance/no-cash-accepted...

https://educaloi.qc.ca/en/legal-news/do-you-have-the-right-t...

https://www.riksbank.se/en-gb/payments--cash/payments-in-swe...
by muzani | 2025-08-14 07:17:28+00:00
The way people tend to invest is compare it to a different number. I remember one point where FB was valued around $100 per user or so. The IPO flopped when people thought it was too high, but it turned out far too low. Netflix, Amazon, etc, had a similar situation too. Logically it was overinvested, but they broke the records.

People were cautious after dot com. Then they got greedy with FAANG. Even greedier with crypto. Crypto proved that markets didn't really matter.

AI actually has some basis, but some of it is being measured to crypto standards. Not to mention it was already overinvested 10 years ago when everyone was calling it "machine learning", and yet the numbers kept going up.

Sometimes prices are just high though. Bubbles happen when someone is trying to sell it to another sucker, who's trying to sell it to another sucker. We don't see a lot of "sucker" language going around with AI yet. When it happens, people will advertise it as a great investment, like they did with NFT and real estate near the bubbles.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-14 07:18:06+00:00
> Simple math shows it was worth $100k per employee hired. There's clearly positive value there

Not…how capital structures work.

First any debt would be paid. Then preferred-stock liquidation preferences. Then the rest gets divided up among all stockholders, including those with common. (Though not conventionally among those with unexercised options.)

What’s telling, here, is that the shares had to be cancelled. That implies they were due a payout.
by IshKebab | 2025-08-14 07:18:24+00:00
I agree in principle, but in this case uv is open source and SO MUCH better than pip it would be insane not to use it on those grounds.

With uv the worst case is it goes closed source in a few years and we all switch to a fork.

With pip the best case is that maybe in 10 years they have improved it to fix all the issues that uv has already fixed, and you only spend 10 years using shitty software and putting up with endless bugs and paper cuts.
by idoubtit | 2025-08-14 07:18:26+00:00
This optional module makes simple cases simpler.

Having distinct tools for serving content and handling certs is not a problem, and nothing changes on this side. Moreover, the module won't cover every need.

BTW, cerbot is rather a "fat tool" compared to other acme tools like lego. I've had bad experiences with certbot in the past because it tried to do too much automatically and it's hard to diagnose – though I think certbot has been rewritten since then, since it has no more dependency on python zope.
by gardaani | 2025-08-14 07:20:31+00:00
Debian Trixie drops 32-bit x86 support. Ubuntu dropped 32-bit support already earlier, which meant that lightweight Lubuntu and Xubuntu don't support it either. It's sad to see old hardware support getting dropped like that. They are still good machines as servers and desktop terminals.

Are there any good Linux distros left with 32-bit x86 support? Do I have to switch to NetBSD?
by jjani | 2025-08-14 07:20:54+00:00
> the current level of exploiting each other doesn't come naturally for people.

Agreed, it doesn't. Nothing about that fact seems reason for optimism, however. It's a gigantic leap to go from "the current level of exploiting each other doesn't come naturally for people" to "that level is going to decrease, or stop rising, any time soon".
by qcnguy | 2025-08-14 07:20:56+00:00
Rail freight is dying everywhere outside the USA, where passenger rail died instead. Mixing the two on the same lines is very difficult and causes tremendous problems, you can't even do it once passenger rail speeds get high enough. Rail freight has been uncompetitive with trucking for a long time as a result even though rail has huge subsidies and road traffic is a revenue generator for governments.
by elric | 2025-08-14 07:20:57+00:00
> I have no clue how we have not yet collapsed the financial system via some hack or basic data loss.

Banks are pretty good at not losing data. They're also pretty good at layered security.

I mean there's fraud and theft on all levels, but collapse-level events don't come from "a hack or basic data loss". They come from political incompetence and large scale economic events.
by AlecSchueler | 2025-08-14 07:21:31+00:00
> he can barely keep his eyes open while performing his job of driving a cab. He mentions being worried he will lose his job without taking a hit.

> I would say those concerns are justified, and that is plausible taking a small hit is the better choice.

I think this is more damning of humanity than the AI. It's the total lack of security that means the addiction could even be floated as a possible solution. Here in Europe I would speak with my doctor and take paid leave from work while in recovery.

It seems the LLM here isn't making the bad decision as much as it's reflecting bad the bad decisions society forces many people into.
by toast0 | 2025-08-14 07:21:41+00:00
There might not be robust competition between payment systems, but when I go to a store, I've got options to pay:

Cash, credit (discover is dieing, but amex/mc/visa compete a bit), debit (several networks and all US cards have to be on at least two), I've seen PayPal as an option ocassionally, some merchants take Zelle, FedNow could if a good UX comes around (I don't think many merchants want to give out their routing and account numbers, and it's tedious to input them into my banking app anyway). Some vendors take checks and deposit them later, some take checks and process them immediately, etc.

People respond to incentives though. If merchants charge the same regardless of payment method, I'm going to use a rewards card that costs them more. When they add a line item credit charge, I'll consider cash or debit.
by com2kid | 2025-08-14 07:21:44+00:00
Handy man prices around here are $65 to $100/hr, and there is a huge wait list for the good ones.

I've gotten multiple quotes on running the 240v line, the labor breakdown was always over $400 alone. Just having someone show up to do a job is going to be almost $200 before any work is done.

When I got quotes from unlicensed people, those came in around $1000 even.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-14 07:23:01+00:00
> Doesn't that just mean the Common was underwater and worthless? It’s another way of saying they are due $0.

That press release [1] is damning:

“A total of 10 former employees who chose to invest in Philz Coffee by buying common stock years ago at much higher prices than the current price of the shares will unfortunately lose the value of that stock.”

They’ve conceded there was a “current price of the shares.” That one sentence should be the beginning and end of the claim. (They should have said the shares are worthless. They didn’t.)

[1] https://philzcoffee.com/stakeholderfaqs
by luolink | 2025-08-14 07:23:34+00:00
I recently watched an AI expert on stage enthusiastically proclaiming that "AI will liberate human productivity" to thunderous applause. Sitting at my desk, staring at the 37th "Essential AI Tools You Must Learn" popup of the day, I couldn't help but think: Give me a break. I'm ten times more exhausted now than I ever was before.

An Endless Stream of New Tools and Sleepless Anxiety Nights I remember when I first encountered AI tools. When ChatGPT burst onto the scene, I was as excited as an explorer discovering a new continent. I spent an entire weekend mastering prompt engineering techniques, convinced I was finally riding the wave of the future.

And then what happened?

A month later, GPT-4 launched. All those prompt strategies I'd painstakingly learned suddenly felt outdated.

Two months later, Claude appeared, supposedly superior for writing tasks.

Three months later, Midjourney updated to V6, rendering all my carefully memorized parameters obsolete.

Four months later, domestic large language models sprouted like mushrooms after rain — Wenxin Yiyan, Tongyi Qianwen, iFlytek Spark... each claiming to "better understand Chinese."

My bookmarks folder now houses 128 AI tool websites. From writing to image generation, coding to video creation, data analysis to presentation design. Every single one has been shared by someone on social media with the caption "Don't learn this and you'll fall behind!"

The most maddening part? These tools update faster than I change my underwear. Just when I've familiarized myself with an interface, it gets redesigned overnight. Just when I've memorized a workflow, next week brings "revolutionary new features."

My morning routine no longer starts with coffee
by bilbo0s | 2025-08-14 07:24:35+00:00
I think you may be misapprehending what some people think may be happening here.

The issue is not people exploiting one another to rise above each other. The issue is a few people exploiting AI's they own to keep themselves above everyone en masse.

They don't lose the need to rise above you, rather staying above you is the entire point of the AIs they're creating. If you want to compete in the economy in the future, you will have no choice but to also exploit their AIs to try to rise above others. Thereby helping the owning class rise further above you.

Why not make your own? Because you don't happen to have an army of AI researchers to create it for you. Why not use open source models? Again, you can, but you're betting those models will be better than commercial models. And right now the capability gap there is widening.

People in power wouldn't fight AIs to keep themselves in power. Rather you, yourself, using the AIs they own to make a living, would more deeply entrench their already extant power.
by squigz | 2025-08-14 07:24:39+00:00
> I don't really need to see opposing points of view as though they are novel thoughts that I've never considered before

I mean, that's fine, if you think that you can consider all conceivable angles thoroughly, by yourself. I for one welcome opposing views, but I suppose if my idea of that meant "religion or conspiracy theories" I'd probably be avoiding it too.
by hnarn | 2025-08-14 07:25:06+00:00
We already had this debate back in the early naughts when services like Napster and Kazaa were widely used. They provided a very obvious benefit, and it wasn't just that music was free, it provided you with MP3 files that you could use on your MP3 player. For years and years, record companies just refused to sell digital music.

These days, I don't know a single person that pirates music. The answer why is pretty simple, Spotify or Apple Music or whatever they use is "good enough", so they use that one service and it's _way_ easier than pirating MP3s and transferring them manually.

So why do people pirate movies and TV shows? Literally because it is, in fact, easier. There's no reason it has to be, but as long as it is, people will keep doing it.

South Park pretty much nailed it with their episode on the water park filled with piss, I don't blame people for not wanting to pay for 10 different streaming services where 5% of the content is of acceptable quality.
by qcnguy | 2025-08-14 07:25:07+00:00
This is backwards. The public transit lobby is the Green/climate lobby which is absolutely massive and incredibly influential because it peddles to politicians a unifying moral story about the end of the world that justifies unlimited exercise of political power.

What does the auto industry have in response? Jobs? The left don't care about jobs to begin with, they view anything linked to capitalism or employers to be inherently suspicious.

To see this is true, just look at which group is a net tax payer vs net tax recipient. Car drivers subsidize public transport everywhere I know of (unless you get into stupid arguments that assume world peace exists solely for the purpose of oil transport).
by mock-possum | 2025-08-14 07:26:00+00:00
Doesn’t it, though? Where else could it come from, but our own nature? Do we not live in an environment of our own creation, more and more each generation?

Edit - you know what, after a bit of reading, I do get the point being made. Thanks for the book reference, I’m going to place a hold at my library if they have it.
by pjmlp | 2025-08-14 07:26:48+00:00
There are enough closed source corporate projects to keep 7 vendors in business, selling compilers, in an age developers hardly pay for their tools.

https://www.adacore.com/

https://www.ghs.com/products/ada_optimizing_compilers.html

https://www.ptc.com/en/products/developer-tools/apexada

https://www.ddci.com/products_score/

http://www.irvine.com/tech.html

http://www.ocsystems.com/w/index.php/OCS:PowerAda

http://www.rrsoftware.com/html/prodinf/janus95/j-ada95.htm

Ada was too hardware demanding for the kind of computers people could afford at home, we could already do our Ada-like programming with Modula-2 and Object Pascal dialect hence how Ada lost home computing, and FreePascal/Delphi would be much more used today, had it not been for Borland getting too gready.

On big iron systems, espcially among UNIX vendors they always wanted extra bucks for Ada.

When Sun started the trend of UNIX vendors to charge for the developer tools as an additional SKU, Ada wasn't part of the package, rather an additional license on top, so when you already pay for C and C++ compilers, why would someone pay a few thousand (select currency) more if not required to do so, only because of feeling good writing safer software, back in the days no one cared about development cost of fixing security bugs.
by sparkie | 2025-08-14 07:28:14+00:00
> You can compile software for 20 year old CPUs and run that software on a modern CPU.

That's testing it on the new CPU, not the old one.

> You can run that software inside of qemu.

Sure you can. Go ahead. Why should the maintainer be expected to do that?

> A bit ridiculous, don't you think?

Not at all. It's ridiculous to expect a software developer to give any significance to compatibility with obsolete platforms. I'm not saying we shouldn't try. x86 has good backward compatibility. If it still works, that's good.

But if I implement an algorithm in AVX2, should I also be expected to implement a slower version of the same algorithm using SSE3 so that a 20 year old machine can run my software?

You can always run an old version of the software, and you can always do the work yourself to backport it. It's not my job as a software developer to be concerned about ancient hardware unless someone pays me specifically for that.

Would you expect Microsoft to ship Windows 12 with baseline compatibility? I don't know if it is, but I'm pretty certain that if you tried running it on a 2005 CPU, it would be pretty much non-functional, as performance would be dire. I doubt it is anyway due to UEFI requirements which wouldn't be present on a machine running such CPU.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-08-14 07:29:29+00:00
>It's sad to see old hardware support getting dropped like that. They are still good machines as servers and desktop terminals

How many 32 bit PCs are still actively in used at scale to make that argument? Linux devs are now missing kernel regression bugs on 64bit Core 2 Duo hardware because not enough people are using them anymore to catch and report these bugs, and those systems are newer and way more capable for daily driving than 32 bit ones. So then if nobody uses Core 2 Duo machines anymore, how many people do you think are using 32bit Pentium 4/Athlon XP era machines to make that argument?

But let's pretend you're right, and assume there's hoards of Pentium 4 users out there refusing to upgrade for some bizarre reason, and are unhappy they can't run the latest Linux, then using a Pentium 4 with its 80W TDP as a terminal would be an insane waste of energy when that's less capable than some no-name Android table with a 5W ARM SoC which can even play 1080p Youtube while the Pentium 4 cannot even open a modern JS webpage. Even most of the developing world now has more capable mobile devices in their pockets and don't have use for the Pentium 4 machines that have long been landfilled.

And legacy industrial systems still running Pentium 4 HW, are just happy to keep running the same Windows XP/Embedded they came from the factory since those machines are airgapped and don't need to use latest Linux kernel for their purpose.

So sorry, but based on this evidence, your argument is literally complaining for the sake of complaining about problems that nobody outside of retro computing hobbyists have who like using old HW for tinkering with new SW as a challenge. But it's not a real issue for anyone. So what I don't get is the entitled expectations that the SW industry should keep writing new SW for free to keep it working for your long outdated 25+ year old CPU just because you, for some reason, refuse to upgrade to more modern HW that can be had for free.

There are good faith arguments to be had about the state of forced obsolescence in the industry with Microsoft, Apple, etc, but this is not one of them.

>Are there any good Linux distros left with 32-bit x86 support? Do I have to switch to NetBSD?

Yes there are, tonnes: AntiX, Devuan, Damn Small Linux, Tiny Core Linux, etc
by gylterud | 2025-08-14 07:30:18+00:00
I usually treat the LLM generated Haskell code as a first draft.

The power of Haskell in this case is the fearless refactoring the strong type system enables. So even if the code generated is not beautiful, it can sit there and do a job until the surrounding parts have taken shape, and then be refactored into something nice when I have a moment to spare.
by a-french-anon | 2025-08-14 07:31:16+00:00
Note that while it suffered from featuritis at some point, the main guy reverted some of it after the last other contributor left: https://old.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/1m3kzv8/nyxt_400_prer...

Personally, I'll use and donate to it once it can run uBlock, not before.