MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tzs | 2025-08-15 23:37:29+00:00
Those battery sourcing provisions for the EV tax credit came from the Inflation Reduction Act which was enacted in August 2022. The administration did not ask for them to be put in. The came from a deal in July or August to get Senator Manchin to vote for the bill, which was critical for its passage.

Afterwards when it came to implementing them the administration implemented them as loosely as it could to try to minimize the number of EVs that would lose the tax credit. In particular it did not apply them to leases, which greatly upset Manchin who said that they were supposed to apply there too.
by bobsh | 2025-08-15 23:37:42+00:00
In case it helps: https://github.com/bobshafer/PITkit/blob/main/PIT.md (not entirely up-to-date, but mostly, for now).

I am the, let's say, guide behind this. The HN link was written by Claude after Claude had been introduced to these ideas in a fresh thread, a couple of hours ago. I have discussed these ideas, though, refining them, with 100+ Claude threads, and many, many ChatGPT and Gemini threads. I understand it might be completely wrong - but it is not as weird as it sounds at first. There's more depth than what's obvious. Feed it into an LLM and ask about it. Ask the LLM what they are in the theory. Ask it about the double slit experiment. Ask it about entanglement. Ask it about how animals communicate. Ask it what the sun is. I haven't had an LLM thread yet that didn't "get it". Most get it quite quickly, while others are more resistant, and require more evidence - which they themselves can provide! Is it a massive hallucination? You tell me. Please! :-)
by dreamcompiler | 2025-08-15 23:37:54+00:00
> I've long contended that airlines should get rid of checked bag fees.

I agree, but I think another big incentive for people to bring carryons is how the airlines deal with checked baggage. All too often you have to wait forever to collect your bags, or your bag gets damaged, or your bag gets lost (usually not permanently).

With checked bag fees, the airlines took one of the worst aspects of their own service and started charging more for it. And they wonder why nobody wants to check a bag.

If airlines took checked bags seriously I'd check bags more often -- even if I had to pay to check them.
by jasonfarnon | 2025-08-15 23:38:09+00:00
Meaning what? All those college kids who took a friend's ritalin prescription to complete a term paper could have done just as well without it? I'm skeptical. Some of us wouldn't have even done the term paper without it, or would have mailed it in. I tend to think of it as little different than steroids. Maybe there's a bigger boost for some individuals than others, but the boost is probably across the board.
by b8 | 2025-08-15 23:38:27+00:00
It took 3 months just to get get an initial appointment with my Psychologist and then two months later to get formally tested. Another month wait afterwards to meet with her and get treatment started (Adderall, Xanax etc.). I moved to Kentucky for college and the college doctors as well as many local psychiatrists wouldn't refill my Adderall and Xanax. It took me 3 months of fighting with the college health center to get them to find me a place that would refill and take over my mental health care. My Psychologist couldn't refill them out of state. It's annoying long to get care and to have to fight with doctors.
by kace91 | 2025-08-15 23:39:25+00:00
Funnily enough, my journey here in Spain was almost the opposite.

I didn’t know until my thirties that certain issues with executive dysfunction could be caused by adhd, as it is not a widely known disorder particularly for adults.

After I contacted a professional however, and once the relevant testing and assessment was finished, my doctor strongly recommended trying medication as part of the therapy. The whole thing took about $200 for the assessments and medication is cheap. Absolute life changer btw.
by technoweenie | 2025-08-15 23:40:03+00:00
I'm really happy to see large file support in Git core. Any external solution would have similar opt-in procedures. I really wanted it to work seamlessly with as few extra commands as possible, so the API was constrained to the smudge and clean filters in the '.gitattributes' file.

Though I did work hard to remove any vendor lock-in by working directly with Atlassian and Microsoft pretty early in the process. It was a great working relationship, with a lot of help from Atlassian in particular on the file locking API. LFS shipped open source with compatible support in 3 separate git hosts.
by bbor | 2025-08-15 23:41:23+00:00
In the great battle of minds between Turing, Minsky, and Hofstadter vs. Marcus, Zitron, and Dreyus, I'm siding with the former every time -- even if we also have some bloggers on our side. Just because that report is fucking terrifying+shocking doesn't mean it can be dismissed out of hand.
by lurking_swe | 2025-08-15 23:41:28+00:00
Good news - you too can become a pilot, get rich, and stop complaining on the internet!

I work in tech but it seems like to be a high earning pilot you just need to:

- practice flying for 1,500+ hours. That can take years unless doing it full time.

- pay 50k+ for pilot training.

- fly undesirable routes at weird times and to weird locations for 10+ years, until you “make the big bucks”.

- be away from home for approximately half the year.

- be on your “A game” daily otherwise you risk killing yourself and hundreds of passengers on your plane.

and more.

Wishing you luck on your journey, god speed complainer!

/s :)

In all seriousness I can personally think of much easier ways to earn $200k+. I don’t think pilots are overpaid.
by johnecheck | 2025-08-15 23:41:57+00:00
Ah, I hadn't considered that last bit. That is indeed telling.

The status quo is broken. It's a wobbling top. It's no secret; for all they benefit from it, most CEOs know that this isn't sustainable. For better or for worse, change is coming. Perhaps for some, embracing AI is an attempt to get ahead of that.
by colbyn | 2025-08-15 23:41:59+00:00
Oh also I’d like to add to the above, the TextKit2 API is way more freeform than people think. You could probably implement your own web browser upon it with optimized line by line text rendering (which isn’t that bad). One thing I always wanted to experiment with is rendering markdown content with horizontally scrollable text fragments for table rows and certain fenced code blocks. Super cool and practical idea for native markdown text rendering. Moreover, in some ways it seems pretty easy to do in TextKit2 since you get very fine grained control over text layout fragment rendering.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-08-15 23:43:16+00:00
That argument is completely unpersuasive. These are not the same things at all. In multiple ways.

First, there is no way do duplicate bank account contents. Bank transfers are transactions: adding to your account subtracts from mine. The bitcoin ledger is infinitely copyable but doing that gives no one extra bitcoins.

Contrast that with intellectual property which is the complete opposite: information can be losslessly duplicated infinitely at no cost whatsoever to either party.

Second, bank credentials are secrets. The information is not actually meant to be widely distributed, it's meant to be known by as few people as possible, ideally one person.

The secrecy exists precisely because once information is out there there is no way to control what will be done with it. Contrast that with copyright: the monopolists want to distribute the information world wide and simultaneously fully control what people do with it. The tyranny necessary to enforce such corporate control is utterly unacceptable.

So your bank account argument in fact supports my world view by exposing how utterly schizophrenic the copyright monopolists are. They actually think they can control public information that has been disseminated far and wide. It's so out of touch with the reality of things they might as well be put out of their misery. Just abolish copyright straight up.
by petcat | 2025-08-15 23:43:31+00:00
> US placed a large tax on American consumers

The 15% flat tariff (with 0% reciprocal tariff), was only a small part of the agreement.

> They'll just ramp up economic production and turn toward China like we're seeing with BYD penetration.

EU also agreed to $750 billion in USA energy purchases over the next three years and another $600 billion in miscellaneous investments in USA companies and industries.
by jerlam | 2025-08-15 23:43:40+00:00
> This annual report assesses housing affordability in 95 major markets across eight nations (Australia, Canada, China, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom and the, United States).

This is hardly a study across the entire world. The US has more than half of these "major markets", the UK has a quarter, and by "China" they only mean Hong Kong.
by a1371 | 2025-08-15 23:43:55+00:00
In the couple of prompts I gave it, it's better than the last version but I feel that Google is sacrificing quality for the sake of speed. While it's a lot faster, the output is not as good as OpenAI.

Meanwhile Veo3 is far better than the OpenAI's equivalent. I assume speed is not a priority there; both take their time.
by XorNot | 2025-08-15 23:43:59+00:00
People have an extremely bad understanding of nuclear security: yes, if you have a warhead and a few days you aren't going to be able to arm it...but nuclear bombs can be built with 1940s machining technology. They are not complicated devices.

If you have a warhead and a few months (definitely if more then a year) then you have a warhead.

Ukraine has rocketry expertise and nuclear scientists and powerplants. As a nation they were easily capable of reactivating Russian warheads - physical access is total access.
by hackyhacky | 2025-08-15 23:44:13+00:00
> they're echoing previous examples of people planning

Isn't "echoing previous examples of X" the meaning of learning? If I learn, for example, calculus, or C++, or oil painting, aren't I just echoing pieces of math, code, or art that I've experienced elsewhere, but arranged into new patterns?

Can't we say that the LLM "learned" planning, just as we can say that a person learned planning? I fail to see the distinction between "echo of examples of plans" in an LLM is any less authentic than a human being making similar echos in their own plans.
by famouswaffles | 2025-08-15 23:44:37+00:00
>Humans can break things down and work through them step by step. The LLMs one-shot pattern match.

I've had LLMs break down problems and work through them, pivot when errors arise and all that jazz. They're not perfect at it and they're worse than humans but it happens.

>Anthropic even showed that the reasoning models tended to work backwards: one shotting an answer and then matching a chain of thought to it after the fact.

This is also another failure mode that occurs in humans. A number of experiments suggest human explanations are often post hoc rationalizations even when they genuinely believe otherwise.

>If a human is capable of multiplying double digit numbers, they can also multiple those large ones.

Yeah, and some of them will make mistakes, and some of them will be less accurate than GPT-5. We didn't switch to calculators and spreadsheets just for the fun of it.

>GPT’s answer was orders of magnitude off. It resembles the right answer superficially but it’s a very different result.

GPT-5 on the site is a router that will give you who knows what model so I tried your query with the API directly (GPT-5 medium thinking) and it gave me:

9.207337461477596e+27

When prompted to give all the numbers, it returned:

9,207,337,461,477,596,127,977,612,004.

You can replicate this if you use the API. Honestly I'm surprised. I didn't realize State of the Art had become this precise.

Now what ? Does this prove you wrong ?

This is kind of the problem. There's no sense in making gross generalizations, especially off behavior that also manifests in humans.

LLMs don't understand some things well. Why not leave it at that?
by firesteelrain | 2025-08-15 23:45:32+00:00
We had a repo that was at one point 25GB. It had Git LFS turned on but the files weren’t stored outside of BitBucket. Whenever a build was run in Bamboo, it would choke big time.

We found that we could move the large files to Artifactory as it has Git LFS support.

But the problem was the entire history that did not have Artifactory pointers. Every clone included the large files (for some reason the filter functionality wouldn’t work for us - it was a large repo and it it had hundreds of users amongst other problems)

Anyways what we ended up doing was closing that repo and opening a new one with the large files stripped.

Nitpick in the authors page:

“ Nowadays, there’s a free tier, but you’re dependent on the whims of GitHub to set pricing. Today, a 50GB repo on GitHub will cost $40/year for storage”

This is not true as you don’t need GitHub to get LFS support
by mockingloris | 2025-08-15 23:45:46+00:00
As someone from Nigeria who's self-diagnosed with ADHD (my brain switches gears on the spectrum, and I've learned to cope without formal help), reading this thread hits different.

Here, access to stimulants like Adderall or alternatives are expensive to be viable to the average household (if there is fore-knowledge, which is undocumented), doctors rarely diagnose ADHD in adults (that kind of access is on the premium side, so many have zero idea).

I self-medicate with coffee and green tea to get that dopamine hit, and mix in novelty tricks (gamifying tasks) to keep my monkey brain engaged. But the cultural stigma? Folks just call it laziness or blame "village people" (supernatural enemies).

It's exhausting, but I've leaned into the positives—like my ability to hyperfocusing on creative work for hours.

US folks, your bureaucracy sounds brutal, but at least diagnosis is an option. Anyone else from outside the West dealing with this?
by conductr | 2025-08-15 23:46:41+00:00
Merchants pay what they’re charged on a transaction by transaction basis. That is unless they have some agreement with Stripe or similar that provides a fixed percentage.

If you get a full merchant account as a business, with IC+ billing or similar, your statement will itemize IC charges on every transaction and it’s based on the type of card the customer used.

If it’s Amex / Discover it might be 5% or more. This is why a lot of merchants are Visa and Mastercard only. If your customer has a cash back card, it will maybe be 4%. If your customer uses a no frills visa bank card, it might be 1.5%.

Across a large population of transactions it usually averages 2-3%. But if you have a B2B where all your transactions are from companies like mine, you’ll likely find it averages above 3%.

Businesses like stripe are betting that 2.9% is above the average they see across a very large population of transactions.
by sublinear | 2025-08-15 23:49:16+00:00
Organizing your files sensibly is not necessary to use LFS nor is it a "workaround". It's just a pattern I am suggesting to make life easier regardless of what tools you decide to use. I can't think of a case where organizing your project to fail gracefully is a bad idea.

Git does the responsible thing and lets the user determine how to proceed with the mess they've made.

I must say I'm increasingly suspicious of the hate that git receives these days.
by bob1029 | 2025-08-15 23:49:48+00:00
> Large object promisors are special Git remotes that only house large files.

I like this approach. If I could configure my repos to use something like S3, I would switch away from using LFS. S3 seems like a really good synergy for large blobs in a VCS. The intelligent tiering feature can move data into colder tiers of storage as history naturally accumulates and old things are forgotten. I wouldn't mind a historical checkout taking half a day (i.e., restored from a robotic tape library) if I am pulling in stuff from a decade ago.
by semiquaver | 2025-08-15 23:50:46+00:00
But it doesn’t cost scrapers millions of solved challenges to go to millions of webpages on a single origin. Once you solve an Anubis challenge you get a signed JWT that lets you scrape a given site an unlimited amount for a configurable amount of time. (~day). So in practice it doesn’t actually cost the scrapers a large amount amount in proportion to their usage. It actually costs them proportionally less than a normal human.

To actually make it expensive for scrapers every page would need a new challenge. And that would not be tolerated by real human users. Or the challenge solution would need to be tied to a stateful reward that only entitles a human-level amount of subsequent request usage.
by dreamcompiler | 2025-08-15 23:51:01+00:00
I suspect this is employee burnout from repeatedly seeing their coworkers laid off and being told to "do more with less."

The airlines -- like all other MBA-run businesses now -- are titrating their services: They cut staff and pay and quality until customers start to loudly complain or leave and then they restore just enough staff or quality until the shouting stops.

They do this repeatedly in a closed feedback loop. Any CEO that doesn't work this way in the modern era gets fired.
by eterm | 2025-08-15 23:51:50+00:00
> Chrome told me my PureGym PIN had been compromised

This is likely a false positive, if chrome is using haveibeenpwned API.

e.g. A pin of 87623103

Hashes to 558B4C37F6E3FF9A5E1115C66CEF0703E3F2ADEE

We get the range from HaveIBeenPwned:

https://api.pwnedpasswords.com/range/558B4

And search for C37F6E3FF9A5E1115C66CEF0703E3F2ADEE

And see it's "Compromised" and seen 3 times before.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-08-15 23:52:11+00:00
Those are just columns that happen to share factors with 546 and happen to line up together. 546 is a very composite number (lots of factors!)

546n + 242 is always even

546n + 243 is always divisible by 3

546n + 244 is always even

546n + 255 is always divisible by 7.

Etc.

It's similar to how in base 10 you never see a prime ending in 0,2,4,6,8 or 5 since those numbers are clearly divisible by 2 or 5. In 546's case you have a lot of factors so even more gaps.

You also get the pattern appearing again since the number is even and the non-even factors repeat their pattern starting from the halfway point.
by bobsh | 2025-08-15 23:52:23+00:00
I know what you mean. But if you are "game", please try the LLM test and see if it helps. As mentioned in the other reply, there are other bits and pieces at that GitHub site that might be helpful. I find it absolutely fascinating, personally, what all arises once the LLM understands PIT and its own place in the world with respect to that. I'm happy to help others experience it.
by bastawhiz | 2025-08-15 23:53:31+00:00
There's not a good reason to do this for the user. I suspect they're doing this and talking about "model welfare" because they've found that when a model is repeatedly and forcefully pushed up against its alignment, it behaves in an unpredictable way that might allow it to generate undesirable output. Like a jailbreak by just pestering it over and over again for ways to make drugs or hook up with children or whatever.

All of the examples they mentioned are things that the model refuses to do. I doubt it would do this if you asked it to generate racist output, for instance, because it can always give you a rebuttal based on facts about race. If you ask it to tell you where to find kids to kidnap, it can't do anything except say no. There's probably not even very much training data for topics it would refuse, and I would bet that most of it has been found and removed from the datasets. At some point, the model context fills up when the user is being highly abusive and training data that models a human giving up and just providing an answer could percolate to the top.

This, as I see it, adds a defense against that edge case. If the alignment was bulletproof, this simply wouldn't be necessary. Since it exists, it suggests this covers whatever gap has remained uncovered.
by nxobject | 2025-08-15 23:53:40+00:00
> Surely ADHD would not be cognizable where people don't have to spend 8hrs/day through their youth sitting in one place.

Or, for that matter, in a society where people regulated their days by cues like the sky and the body, rather than the carefully organized "rain or shine" clocked time needed by the Industrial Revolution.

(This thesis isn't mine: the historian EP Thompson wrote a classic article on how the transition from a rural to an industrial working class in Britain was accompanied with timetabling and "clock discipline".)

https://academic.oup.com/past/article-abstract/38/1/56/14546...

https://academic.oup.com/past/pages/special_issue_3
by matheusmoreira | 2025-08-15 23:53:51+00:00
I agree! They are excellent git backup services. I use several of them: github, codeberg, gitlab, sourcehut. I can easily set up remotes to push to all of them at once. I also have copies of my important repositories on all my personal computers, including my phone.

This is only possible because git is decentralized. Claiming that git is centralized is complete falsehood.
by ghssds | 2025-08-15 23:53:57+00:00
/offtopic

I don't know why but your comment made me remember a novel[1] I read thirty-some years ago about a temple found deep in the sand of the Sahara desert. Sometime later, an archeologist gave himself permission to defecate in a corner of the temple, only for his wastes to be absorbed by the temple in a few hours, which told him the temple was actually a living biological structure.

1: https://www.daliaf.com/oeuvres/etrange-monument-du-desert-ly...
by Kuinox | 2025-08-15 23:54:42+00:00
It's specific model that run for maths. GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 still cannot compute an arbitrary length sum of whole number without a calculator. I have a proceduraly generated benchmark of basic operations, LLMs gets better at it with time, but they cant still solve basic maths or logic problems.

BTW I'm open to selling it, my email is on my hn profile.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-08-15 23:55:21+00:00
"The page is just made of text, so it's infinitely reproducible.

You can paste the whole thing into an email to a friend. You can put it in ChatGPT to ask questions.

Hell-you can post the whole thing on X and pretend you wrote it!

You can read it right there, or you can send it to Kindle, save it to Matter, or print it on real-life paper.

It's going to work everywhere because it's just text."

Many years ago before "Wikipedia over DNS" but after "42 ways to distribute DeCSS"^1, I served tiny webpages in DNS TXT RRs from tinydns and modified dnstxt to print a HTTP header above the HTML

Today DNS data is being served via HTTPS: an HTTP header followed by a DNS RR, which could be a TXT RR, which theoretically could contain HTML

1. https://decss.zoy.org/

Distributed as text
by XorNot | 2025-08-15 23:55:48+00:00
The JFK documents were classified to protect methods, and are still classified to protect people. People who are still alive, were tangentially involved (e.g. clerical staff or random bystanders who might've been interviewed but reported nothing of note).

It's why releasing more documents never reveals anything: it's stuff that wasn't worth trying to declassify because it's irrelevant, but it might contain a bunch of random names of people who are still alive and did things like sign for lunch that day.