MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bpt3 | 2025-08-08 11:06:53+00:00
> Improvements are not considered in a land value tax; it's kind of the point.

The potential improvements to a parcel are a key factor in the land value, so they are relevant.

> Land is also more fungible and easier to model the value of than improvements.

Land is more fungible, but not easier to value IMO. Input costs for improvements are easily calculated, the value of being in a nice neighborhood, having good schools nearby, being close (or not) to public transit, etc. are much harder to calculate.

> Why would you prefer an income tax -- by definition, taking earned income -- to a land value tax, which is constructed specifically to target unearned windfalls and the time value of access to public infrastructure and community benefits?

Taxes need to be paid somehow, and I think having some diversity in revenue sources is a good strategy.

Also, given how bad of a job governments do in assessing property under the current scheme (see the article here as an example), I don't think giving them more power to arbitrarily decide the "true" value of the property based on the fairly arbitrary metrics you described is a good idea.

Lastly, one person's "unearned windfall" is another person's wise investment.
by Abee_09 | 2025-08-08 11:07:12+00:00
I've been exploring the idea of building a food delivery/logistics solution for myself as well. I've looked at Saas based options and I am really turned off by not having full control and basically just "renting" the solution from someone else.

I've tried searching for alternatives but it mostly leads me back down to the Saas hole.

Can you tell me how you found out about the solution you're working with?

Also, how exactly is it open source?
by jacquesm | 2025-08-08 11:07:46+00:00
Almost all science is tightly bound with advances in material science, often the driving each other in alternating steps like interlocking gears. One engine driving those gears is war, another is population growth and education.

There are obvious exceptions, such as Math, Philosophy (insert all links lead to philosophy here). But even Math is seeing progress in materials science as a component now (computer derived proofs for instance).

Making a really good tech tree is a stupendously hard problem. I once started working on one for a game but gave up once I realized that doing this properly is probably going to take a lifetime or two and there are other things I can do that are more immediately useful.
by patresh | 2025-08-08 11:08:32+00:00
What is the clustering performed on? Is another embedding model used to produce the embeddings or do they come from the LLM?

Typically LLMs don't produce usable embeddings for clustering or retrieval and embedding models trained with contrastive learning are used instead, but there seems to be no mention of any other models than LLMs.

I'm also curious about what type of clustering is used here.
by michaelt | 2025-08-08 11:08:52+00:00
Openrouter provides a multi-model, multi-provider API for hosted LLMs. I myself used their API to compare different LLMs for document classification.

They provide usage rankings [1] and the top 10 applications, in terms of tokens used, are:

1. AI coding agent 2. AI coding agent 3. AI coding agent 4. Library for calling LLMs 5. Role play chat 6. Role play chat 7. Role play chat 8. General purpose chat 9. AI coding agent 10. Role play chat

Certainly, the coding agents are burning through far more tokens. No doubt about that.

And there's undoubtedly a major bias introduced by the fact chatgpt and claude $20/month accounts are heavily discounted, so if your use is SFW why pay more to get an uncensored model?

But overall, to me, the evidence seems pretty robust.

[1] https://openrouter.ai/rankings
by qsort | 2025-08-08 11:09:21+00:00
The original comment was this:

> So there's no ground truth; they're just benchmarking how impressive an LLM's code review sounds to a different LLM. Hard to tell what to make of that.

The comment I replied to was:

> That's how 99% of 'LLM benchmark numbers' circulating on the internet work.

And that's just false. SWE-Bench verified isn't like this. Aider Polyglot isn't like this. SWE-Lancer Diamond isn't like this. The new internal benchmarks used by OpenAI in GPT-5's model card aren't like this.

Maybe this benchmark is a special snowflake and needs LLM-as-a-judge, but this doesn't invalidate the original concern: setting up a benchmark this way runs into a series of problems and is prone to show performance differences that might not be there with a different setups. Benchmarks are already hard to trust, I'm not sure how this is any more indicative than the rest.
by thrown-0825 | 2025-08-08 11:09:27+00:00
Tight coupling to MongoDB, fragmented ecosystem / packages, and react came out soon after and kind of stole its lunch money.

It also had some pretty serious performance bottlenecks, especially when observing large tables for changes that need to be synced to subscribing clients.

I agree though, it was a great framework for its day. Auth bootstrapping in particular was absolutely painless.
by throwaway4496 | 2025-08-08 11:09:37+00:00
Nature has no feelings, there will be no retribution, things will work out just fine, it will just be tough for us, maybe even wiped out, but nature will prevail. life will find a way, look at places where humans get excluded, everything regenerates.

It is not a crises of nature, it is a crises of habitat for us as species, and a bunch of other like us.
by pjmlp | 2025-08-08 11:09:46+00:00
Not only these days, all major programming languages did in fact come from either big corporations, or their authors worked either at big corporations, or big universities.

As an example, people routinely forget that C and C++ came from AT&T, and they only get UNIX freebies, because initially AT&T was forbidden to profit from UNIX, the moment they were allowed to, Lion's book became underground culture, and the BSD lawsuit took place.
by ttiurani | 2025-08-08 11:10:16+00:00
As am environmentalist, I've talked to many people not living in the US who are losing hope on humanity because of this kind of constant stream of news coming out of the US.

I understand how it happens, but I'd hope people understood that Trump's USA is not the world. Just like people in general know not to extrapolate what Putin's administration is doing in Russia, they need to be able to do the same for the USA. At the moment, in my opinion, both administrations are lost causes, and you can just choose to follow, support and advocate many other positive signals around the world.
by brabel | 2025-08-08 11:10:33+00:00
I really don't get the point of doing that. There's indeed a limit on how much you can "carry over" in most companies, but not in the one I work. I've been there for over 10 years. I will eventually take a very long vacation, perhaps 3 or even 6 months. So I am slowly building up (I might take some unpaid time off if I need to) towards that. The idea is to do a kind of sabatical... I've lived in 3 countries so far, and I would like to spend time actually "living" in one of them again, not just visiting for a few weeks. I don't feel like I am doing "overtime" in any way, and my company is getting value from every working hour I put in, I can tell you that.
by Wobbles42 | 2025-08-08 11:10:45+00:00
This needs to be repeated more often.

If I buy a house for $100k, and next year some idiot pays $1M for a very similar house three streets down, did I just magically make $900k? Should I be taxed on that gain immediately? Should I be forced to sell part of my property to cover it? What happens when that sale occurs at a much lower price, due to my need to liquidate, did that lower the prices of all the houses in the neighborhood back to normal? Does only the first person to actually pay the tax owe the tax?

That's the reasoning we're applying if we tax unrealized gains on stocks (or any other asset). We take what the highest bidder is willing to pay for some tiny percentage of an asset, and assume that means everyone else could get the same price, yielding these theoretical valuations that have no bearing on reality.

Property taxes have a similar problem but that is a whole other can of worms. I'd love to live in a world where the local tax assessor is obligated to purchase your property on demand for 80% of what they say it is worth -- surely they would jump at the chance to realize an instant profit, right?

You simply can't establish value without an actual transaction. Without a buyer and a seller you are just making up numbers.
by jacquesm | 2025-08-08 11:12:21+00:00
A lot of tradecraft is in the most literal sense tradition, passed from one person to another with no other context than 'it works' and 'this is the way it is done'. The analogies in the software world are probably libraries, design patterns and languages. Each of these embody a lot of knowledge without being - usually - very explicit about the reasons why they are the way they are.

Researching those reasons requires a lot of work and most people just want to get to the result step without necessarily understanding why you put the oil in the pan before the egg. They're hungry.
by throwanem | 2025-08-08 11:12:27+00:00
> I'd be hard pressed to say that it's worth killing a bunch of people to say, save the universe.

Well, thank God for that, at least. Do you honestly not realize how you sound? That's a genuine question, if not an especially friendly one. You can answer it out loud if you like, but no one really needs you to.

I strongly suspect we agree on nearly nothing, including the moral value of your desiderata. But it makes some sense out of how people in this community go dangerous, if that's the sort of "architecture astronaut" philosophy you people are pairing with the assumption you can think yourselves out of anything and everything including human imperfection and emotion. The lack of oxygen up there has gone to your head.
by ethbr1 | 2025-08-08 11:12:29+00:00
Indeed. Congress has tons of hard checks on executive power. (The Supreme Court, less so if it comes to enforcement and all norms are ignored)

That a Republican Congress isn't checking a Republican President isn't evidence of a lack of checks and balances.

And points to why the President is pushing so hard for Texas to gerrymander additional Republican seats into the House...
by pjmlp | 2025-08-08 11:13:21+00:00
Most programming languages have a commercial history related to them, either developed by corporations, or authors have been employed by major universities or corporations.

Linux was largely irrelevant until 1998, what happened then specifically?

> Many major companies such as IBM, Compaq and Oracle announce their support for Linux. The Cathedral and the Bazaar is first published as an essay (later as a book), resulting in Netscape publicly releasing the source code to its Netscape

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Linux

Rails happened because Basecamp made it possible.
by vdupras | 2025-08-08 11:13:33+00:00
A few new facts we'll see pop up:

1. There has always been town-destroying wildfires every summer. It's always been like that.

2. It has always been the case that AC units were necessary for a human to survive an american summer. I mean, look at native americans, they always had AC units!

3. Los Angeles always flash flooded 10 feet up across every summer.

4. America has always been at war with Canada.

5. Wildfire smoke across the sky for the whole damn summer? Always been thus. What do you mean, blue?
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-08-08 11:13:38+00:00
Social media is overwhelming and dominated by the U.S.

A lot of people in countries that are making positive steps are losing hope unnecessarily because of this.

The U.S. is 25% of the world economy and declining.

Growing economies are ripe for growing with more climate friendly policies, not just because of the environmental impact (both from an AGW and local environmental perspective) but because of energy security and sovereignty perspectives, but also to reduce dependence on the petro-dollar.
by simonw | 2025-08-08 11:13:53+00:00
I qualify that as a mistake, not a hallucination - same as I wouldn't call "blueberry has three Bs" a hallucination.

My definition of "hallucination" is evidently not nearly as widespread as I had assumed.

I ran a Twitter poll about this earlier - https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1953565571934826787

All mistakes by models — ~145 votes

Fabricated facts — ~1,650 votes

Nonsensical output — ~145 votes

So 85% of people agreed with my preferred "fabricated facts" one (that's the best I could fit into the Twitter poll option character limit) but that means 15% had another definition in mind.

And sure, you could argue that "this sentence is in first person" also qualifies as a "fabricated fact" here.
by aeroman | 2025-08-08 11:14:55+00:00
I would say we are largely past the second threshold too (that the warming is human caused). The last IPCC report had as the first statement in the summary for policymakers (from WG1 - the physical science group)

A.1 It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred.

The previous report (from 2013) only said (and much further in)

Human influence on the climate system is clear. This is evident from the increasing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, positive radiative forcing, observed warming, and understanding of the climate system.

The equivalent statement from AR4 (2007) was

The understanding of anthropogenic warming and cooling influences on climate has improved since the TAR, leading to very high confidence that the global average net effect of human activities since 1750 has been one of warming, ...

You could argue there is more of a question about what to do about it (e.g. try and mitigate climate change or just pay for the damanges). There is pretty good evidence at this point that mitigating the change through reducing CO2 emissions is a lot cheaper and comes with a host of other benefits (energy security, improved public health), but I can see wherer there might be arguments to have about this.
by jacquesm | 2025-08-08 11:15:10+00:00
There is no 'most important' human technology. All of it interlocks, and usually the prerequisite steps all need to be followed before you can progress to the next level. I wonder how long it would take given a paper copy of wikipedia (hopefully printed on acid free paper) to get back to a functional technology society. I'm sure it would go faster than the first time around, but I'm not so sure it would be less than a few hundred years.
by exe34 | 2025-08-08 11:15:18+00:00
> Just like people in general know not to extrapolate what Putin's administration is doing in Russia, they need to be able to do the same for the USA.

One is in a box and can't really reach anything else without nukes. The other has his nukes in everybody's backyard, and the entire world economy depends on the world order that has him at the top.
by vintermann | 2025-08-08 11:15:57+00:00
Yes... Specifically by AI dungeon. He got dialog-tuning working (not without some hiccups) before anyone else, and it drew a lot of attention from the API provider.

But then people used it for erotic RP, and it became a PR disaster, and the author blamed his pervert customers. Never mind that certain characters who turned up a lot in AI dungeon stories turned out to be from a fantasy writing site the author had used for fine-tuning material (without permission of course) and he hadn't filtered OUT the dirty stories to put it like that.
by throwanem | 2025-08-08 11:16:09+00:00
> There aren't many places online to talk about those things in a certain way without it devolving rapidly.

Now we have an illustration of precisely what that means, more or less entirely in spite of those irritated into furnishing it.

Oh, I understand why rhetoric gets a bad name. No fool ever likes being made to look foolish. That's worth doing, in public, as often as possible, with the kind of person it takes to look utilitarianism full in the face, 'repugnant conclusion' and all, and still embrace it.
by chongli | 2025-08-08 11:16:20+00:00
Let’s not get carried away with hubris. Nature wrote our genes. Nature made us the way we are.

All this nonsense you see going on is ultimately a result of cognitive biased thinking, especially confirmation bias. The fact that we differ so deeply from these biases was not our decision, it was thrust upon us by nature and it helped us survive in an environment very different from the one we found ourselves in now.
by lelanthran | 2025-08-08 11:17:15+00:00
>> The $40b funding was not in cash right now,

> Does this matter? I'm not counting it as revenue.

Well, yes, because they forecast spending all of it by end of 2025, and they moved up their last round ($8.3b) by a month or two because they needed the money.

My point was, they received a cash injection of $10b (first part of the $40b raise) and that lasted only two months.

>> In short, in the last two to three months, OpenAI spent $5b/month on revenues of $0.5b/m.

> You're repeating the same claim as before, I've not seen any evidence to support your numbers.

Briefly, we don't really have visibility into their numbers. What we do have visibility into is how much cash they needed between two points (Specifically, the months of June and July). We also know what their spending commitment is (to their capex suppliers) for 2025. That's what I'm using.

They had $10b injected at the start of June. They needed $8.3b at the end of July.
by jcgrillo | 2025-08-08 11:17:32+00:00
The really scary thing is all the value in the AI boom is predicated on the belief that the technology is "early" and that it will improve over time. We're seeing the opposite. Instead, all the competing models are basically converging on the same benchmark performance numbers, as we saw yesterday with the gpt-5 debacle. This suggests that performance is actually topping out, which makes intuitive sense if advancements in LLMs are proportional to their training data. They've already used up all the data. So it very well could be what we see right now is basically as good as it gets, or at least approximately so. The market is not ready for that.
by robocat | 2025-08-08 11:17:38+00:00
> I find it very selfish to think that we should optimize everything to squeeze out the remaining 1.1% of the wealth, given that Scandinavia wouldn't have such a high living standard had it not been for the welfare system.

1.1% is deceiving. 1.1% is actually over 20% tax on savings (assuming a common drawdown of wealth at 4% per year). Plus savings are usually money that has already been taxed. If you can invest at a higher return then the numbers improve but the risk increases (and governments don't share the risk or otherwise ameliorate it) and the taxes remain if you win.

1.1% sounds small. Any analytical person analysing the rewards versus the risks of founding a company will decide that it isn't worth it. Even if you win, you lose.

Here in New Zealand no founder can plan for a decade timeframe because there's a high chance a new government will screw you if you make any winnings. Currently our taxation system encourages entrepreneurship a little (no CGT).

A taxation system needs to be designed to incentivise individuals to create businesses. The government wins through income taxes and sales taxes - it doesn't need to kill the golden goose by overtaxation.

Most people have a selection bias: they see the winners and think those "greedy bastards" should pay more. Few people weigh up the invisible costs of the people that tried and failed. Very few people consider the benefits accrued to society from businesses (consumer surplus, tax income through other taxes, etcetera).
by iwanttocomment | 2025-08-08 11:20:24+00:00
Hi! It me. I had a car with keyless entry years ago. It was great. I got another car, more recently, that had a physical key. I've hated having to use the physical key. I personally am asking for keyless entry. Sorry!

Also: Hyundai/Kia cars have physical keys and are known to be trivially hot-wired. Given the "kia boyz" I'd have a hard time moving to physical keys again. Again, sorry!
by epolanski | 2025-08-08 11:20:26+00:00
Cursor and these tools evolve quite fast.

The Cursor you used a month ago is not the one you get now.

Just saying that because in this space you should always compare latest X with latest Y.

I too switched weeks ago to Claude Code. Then between the times I am out of tokens I launch Cursor and actually find it...better than I remember if not on par with Claude Code (the model and quality of prompts/context matters more than the IDE/CLI tool used too).
by plqbfbv | 2025-08-08 11:20:46+00:00
I can relate to this. I still run my own x86 box as a router to have the AP controller, but I'm strongly considering dropping this.

I need to update it and patch it, hoping nothing goes wrong in the process. If something breaks I'm the only one that can repair it, and I really don't want to hear my wife screaming at me at 7am when I wake up.

Eventually I came to your same conclusion, but I still run a hybrid setup that allows me to keep the router (for now), and a NAS for backup (3-2-1) and some local services. I run a dedicated server from Hetzner for "always on" services, so that the hardware, power redundancy and operational toil are offloaded. I gave up long ago on email: any hosting service will be way better than me doing it - I know I can do it, but is it worth my sanity? Nope.
by mrob | 2025-08-08 11:21:42+00:00
nickpsecurity's post is currently flagged so I can't reply directly, but I think it's important to clarify that traditional Christian sexual morality aims to maximize population growth. The full list of sexual sins includes one that nickpsecurity missed: sodomy. Sodomy traditionally includes oral sex. The only logical reason to ban oral sex within marriage is to encourage reproduction. Although the Bible does not explicitly forbid birth control, this interpretation is consistent with the demand to "be fruitful and multiply", and forbidding non-procreative sexual activity is mainstream Catholic doctrine.

We've staved off the Malthusian crisis so far, with the Green Revolution and the various social and technological changes that triggered the demographic transition, but evolution does not stop. We already see higher population growth in the highly religious, and religiosity is heritable, especially in adults. This study found 44% heritability for adult religiosity:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15745438/

It would be a great mistake to assume that overpopulation is no longer a risk, and considering the role that religion plays in it I think traditional Christian sexual morality is a great threat to "stable, prosperous, and peaceful societies" in the long term.

(And even outside marriage oral sex is objectively safer than penetrative sex, although I can understand Christians rejecting the harm-reduction argument.)