MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Majromax | 2025-08-14 13:32:41+00:00
> I dont think it’s the tariffs. I really think the entire category of merchants looked at each other and figured it was fine to raise prices.

Those statements aren't contradictory. Pricing in non-commodity goods is always a human phenomenon, driven ultimately by the idea that a business can 'get away with it' without losing too many customers to competitors.

Tariffs, on the other hand, provide a good reason/excuse to raise prices. Affected firms see their cost structures blown up, so they have to raise prices at least somewhat. Unaffected firms see that their competitors are raising / must raise prices, so they know that they can raise their own prices in the now less-competitive market. That's how and why tariffs work: they give domestic firms protection to have profits in excess of what they would have under a free trade counterfactual.

Any argument that tariffs don't raise prices is a very long-term one, relying on the idea that it will be easy to open new firms and expand domestic production to ultimately return to a competitive market. This has nearly no effect on short-term pricing, and it's why the least-damaging changes to tariff policies are long-run and well-telegraphed plans, slowly implemented.
by skeezyboy | 2025-08-14 13:33:22+00:00
>something nefariously designed to catch and milk your attention

I noticed you had to add "nefariously" in there. You think its nefarious. You also act like its a mind control ray beam when its not.

- Videos are not a new form of media, even short form videos. They existed before people started calling it "social media"

- People have been "engineering for maxmimum engagement" long before people started calling videos "social media". Books, print media, paintings, sculptures, hell even religions all do this.

- they said the same about.... books, TV and video games - yet I bet the person reading this engages in all 3. And to top it off, theyre on social media right now in order to read this message. So decrying social media whilst happily using social media
by simonw | 2025-08-14 13:33:29+00:00
This post is about training, not inference.

The lesson here is that you can't use a laptop to train a useful model - at least not without running that training for probably decades.

That doesn't mean you can't run a useful model on a laptop that was trained in larger hardware. I do that all the time - local models hit really good this year.

> reducing model size while retaining capability will just never happen.

Tell that to Qwen3-4B! Those models are remarkably capable.
by mystraline | 2025-08-14 13:33:42+00:00
The paradox of tolerance disappears if you look at tolerance not as a moral standard, but as a social contract.

If someone does not abode by the terms of the contract, they are not covered by it.

In other words, the intolerant are not following the rules of the social contract of mutual tolerance.

Since they have broken the terms of the contract, they are no longer covered by the contract, and their intolerance will NOT be tolerated.
by marcosdumay | 2025-08-14 13:34:55+00:00
Just to be pedantic, but the 10% number is the one that is annualized (that is, if an entire year had that monthly rate, what would its inflation be?). It's also not times 12, inflation composes, so it totals to ~11.3%.

The 3.3% figure is annual, normally called "last 12 months" to avoid confusion with a fixed year.
by FMecha | 2025-08-14 13:35:58+00:00
>It's because GenZ is addicted to nicotine

Which IMO speaks into failure of tobacco control and why "tobacco harm reduction" is a lie (dogwhistle, even) designed to sell and even invent more neo-nicotine products (vape and pouches, among others) while distorting smoking statistics (and statements - people saying they "quit" by switching to neo-nicotine products, while in reality they just switch their addiction intake).
by thesuitonym | 2025-08-14 13:36:28+00:00
I recall around 2019 or so plugging an Android phone into a Dell USB C dock and it just worked. Connected to the monitor, USB keyboard and mouse, and even the ethernet port.

The only problems were that the version of Android I was running did not have windowing, so every app was full screen, and it could only drive one monitor. I guess some of the apps were also goofy on a widescreen monitor, but that's not really Android's fault.

It felt like the dream was almost there, but as time went on it was also obvious that nobody was terribly interested in making that dream a reality.
by boxed | 2025-08-14 13:36:37+00:00
The bible doesn't say that. It says "you shouldn't murder" where "murder" means "kill a human without just cause". The standard "thou shalt not kill" is a bad translation, nothing more.

You can tell that it is from context as the laws just after that mandates a LOT of killing. For being "a witch" for example (which I assume is another mistranslation).
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-08-14 13:36:43+00:00
I’ve been asking: “where is all this AI hype that people are fighting against?”

Apparently this is where it is coming from,

Guys like Rosenberg, a self congratulatory “inventor” that never had a product success in his life and loves litigation. Imagine an even less relevant or capable schmidthuber who always makes sure to tell you how many patents they have and “actually I invented that first.” Ok.

The self reference throughout and lack of literally any measurable predictions, forecasts or hypotheses is hilarious.

At least we knew Kurzweil was to be taken with a grain of salt.

Just stop talking. Go do it and prove it.
by sReinwald | 2025-08-14 13:36:59+00:00
You're asking about norm enforcement failure, but the story shows norms working fine: expectation communicated, pushback received, de-escalation chosen, situation resolved peacefully, albeit not to the satisfaction of the commenter. The system worked.

The fact that the teenager got defensive is indicative of his understanding of societal expectations and norms. Bending and pushing against norms is what teenagers do, and have done since the dawn of time, regardless of their cultural background and regardless of whether they're navigating the norms of a dominant monoculture or those of a multicultural society.

Your question assumes there was some breakdown that needs fixing, but the only 'problem' was mild inconvenience. When did that become evidence of cultural collapse requiring homogeneity to solve?

You still haven't explained why 'teenager won't use headphones' made you think 'multiculturalism is a problem.' For all you know, this story involved two white Christian Scots from the same cultural background. I'll gladly discuss theories about norm enforcement with you once you've explained why you deemed it necessary to inject race and culture into a story that mentioned neither.

I'm not going to entertain your 'just asking questions' routine until you do.
by myaccountonhn | 2025-08-14 13:37:12+00:00
I still believe that it'd be easier to add better tooling to the already existing email integration. Nothing is stopping a desktop app to allow users to easily set up git+email and view/comment/preview/apply patches in a clean and easy-to-use interface.

Activitypub just brings so much complexity. Activitypub works best when you're not using it like a website but rather have a dedicated "activitypub" client. Otherwise you'll visit a repo, try to add a pr/issue/etc, it will ask you to sign in to your instance. You'll be redirected, sign in and then see the same repo but on your instance where you can then do the operations. The whole UX is just really confusing.

Any new forge that wishes to partake in this social network also has a massive task ahead of it, because creating an activitypub integration is a lot of work. It's not easy.

Most importantly, people are already signed up to email, so the account signup part is already done too.
by skeezyboy | 2025-08-14 13:37:47+00:00
> If the CCTV gives a clear and obvious result they will pursue it.

And how are you defining "clear and obvious"? Because unless the robber writes his name and address on some paper and holds it to the camera, it wont get investigated mate.

> What they won’t do is send Columbo to track down your laptop, because your laptop is worth a few minutes of police time at best, and by the time you report it it’s already been fenced and there is almost zero chance of recovery. They should prioritise violent crime.

Which is exactly what I said, they dont bother with non-violent crime. But if laptops arent worth investigating, they should make stealing one legal, or at the very least tell the public they cant be bothered with laptops. Because I was under the impression you could ring the police to enforce the law, not just the parts they deem "worth police time"
by bee_rider | 2025-08-14 13:37:49+00:00
They seemed a bit big to me too. Although I’m not sure to what extent that’s colored by modern interpretations.

When I was a kid and had encountered less fiction, the image of trolls that popped into my head from the Hobbit was more like Ogres in Warhammer, Warcraft, or DnD (the portrayal is pretty consistent, something like an enormous, crude, gluttonous man-like thing).

Nowadays trolls tend to be portrayed one step further toward the animalistic side. Even in the Lord of the Rings (as distinct from The Hobbit) they’d gotten a bit more animalistic IIRC (then again, I need to reread the books, this might be colored by the movies).
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-08-14 13:40:20+00:00
> Well, look at the history of removing things like living necessities and increasing things that have dropped in price like TVs.

There are many different measures of inflation. And they serve different purposes.

Core inflation, which I suspect is what you’re talking about when talking about removing “living necessities” is a measure used to try and understand long term stable inflation. Since oil and groceries tend to be extremely volatile, core inflation removes those items. No one is saying it’s the one holy measure of inflation. If you’re trying to understand how prices have changed for the consumer over a period of time it’s not a useful measure at all, so you don’t look at core inflation for that purpose.

You look at other measures.

Also, weights are indeed a complicated issue, but is it really surprising the weight of TVs may have increased over a period of time when owning a TV has gone from being a luxury to a necessity?

But anyways, if you don’t like the weights that are used, the underlying segment breakdown is available on the same webpage that contains the summarized calculated inflation figures. Feel free to look at the segment inflation itself.
by gwbas1c | 2025-08-14 13:41:12+00:00
(Depending on company culture) There is a lot of risk in making a bad hire, because in many companies it's very hard to fire someone for poor performance or being difficult to work with. In those situations, it's safer to leave a position vacant instead of making a bad hire.

One workaround is to hire contractors, or contract-to-hire. It does put risk on candidates who are leaving other jobs, though. (I won't contract-to-hire when I'm leaving a job, but I will if I'm unemployed.)
by Spivak | 2025-08-14 13:41:24+00:00
I do like that we're in the stage where the universal function approximatior is pretty okay at mimicking a human but not so advanced as to have a full set of the walls and heuristics we've developed—reminds me a bit of Data from TNG. Naive, sure, but a human wouldn't ever say "logically.. the best course of action would be a small dose of meth administered as needed" even if it would help given the situation.

It feels like the kind of advice a former addict would give someone looking to quit—"Look man, you're going to be in a worse place if you lose your job because you can't function without it right now, take a small hit when it starts to get bad and try to make the hits smaller over time."
by throw0101a | 2025-08-14 13:41:29+00:00
> When you say "get their asses kicked", you mean in terms of performance right?

Depends on what you mean by "performance". It could be latency: high frequency traders (HFTs) could probably be happy if their order data is protected for "only" an hour if it means dropping latency from (e.g.) 42 nanoseconds down to 24.

An hour ago for some trading platforms is stale as a decade ago.
by FMecha | 2025-08-14 13:41:53+00:00
>No wonder the virginity rates are skyrocketing.

This makes me wonder if society being taught importance of soberity in (sexual) consent is also a factor as well. Knowing that, they might as well avoid alcohol as well.

(Dicslosure: I grew up in place where alcohol use is not the norm. I don't drink either.)
by 1718627440 | 2025-08-14 13:42:18+00:00
I think the meaning of love in christianity is very different from what more secular people think it is. For example it does not preclude sending someone to prison. Christianity has a very well defined and categorized (sexos/eros/philia/agape) understanding of love. It is also not a feeling.

> "Love your neighbour as yourself"

That is a very important part of that understanding of the meaning of love. While it also means that you love your neighbour in any circumstance, it importantly says that you should love the neighbour in the same way you love yourself. You love yourself even when you know you are evil and should die.

The stance of the (catholic) church is that you should damn the sin and love the sinner.
by JohnFen | 2025-08-14 13:43:14+00:00
> A question for all open-source people, how do you measure these different sources of traction as I also got nice discussions under the posts.

The only measure I've found that's useful is actual engagement: real people asking real questions about the project, bug reports, help requests, that sort of thing. Tangible evidence that the project is being used.

I've found generally that things like upvotes, github stars, etc., aren't actually very good indicators of traction. They're very crude and have a very large margin of error.
by pc86 | 2025-08-14 13:43:40+00:00
I wish these numbers were percentile relative to the local economy and not in made-up "international dollars."

It means absolutely nothing that 1.1B people live on $3-5/day and a different 1.1B live on $5-7. Can you survive in the local economy on $2/day? Then $4/day is not that bad, and $7/day is doing pretty well.
by ndriscoll | 2025-08-14 13:44:07+00:00
> I object on moral grounds to inverting a matrix with determinants!

The determinant of a linear map is the induced effect it has on volumes. So it makes sense that it appears when inverting a map: if the forward map scales volumes by detA the the inverse needs to scale them by 1/detA. It also makes sense as an invertibility criterion: you can invert a map iff it didn't collapse the space down to a lower dimension iff it doesn't reduce volumes to 0.

Of course this is presented completely opaquely at a low level with the even more opaque cofactor matrix stuff. So the trouble is that we really need to incorporate wedge products and some of the underlying geometry better at the lower level.
by mark_l_watson | 2025-08-14 13:44:17+00:00
Good point. How do you gather information? I split my time about half each reading US news and news from other countries. There are a few people I find believable like Dr. Jeffrey Sachs and retired congressman Ron Paul (these two guys are quite different politically) and I will listen to each of them once or twice a month, just to occasionally get non-mainstream news viewpoints.
by sneak | 2025-08-14 13:44:27+00:00
Making more money allows you to donate more to organizations that hire full time staff to achieve your broader goals for the world.

Trying to do that with your own work has inherent maximum scaling limits. Earning money that you can then donate to those causes does not.

More money means more options, more wiggle room.

Also, to me personally, the choice between hybrid and full remote isn’t even a choice.
by elzbardico | 2025-08-14 13:44:32+00:00
Frankly, I haven't seen a single country where I spent any significant amount of time, where official inflation numbers were not seeing as a complete joke by the common folks. And my experience usually matched it.

There's plenty of space to hide reality when building a price index.

Price index do not capture the reality of most people cost of living. They don't capture the family that have to buy margarine instead of butter, because butter became too expensive, while margarine became cheaper, Weight both items as the same, and voilá! no inflation, increases in the price of butter were cancelled by cheaper margarine, fuck you if you prefer butter.

We can also do the same with housing: Capture prices as the average of a basket of cities. In reality, some cities will have absurd price increases while others are in decadence. The average prices increase of a disputed locality like NYC metro area will probably be masked by the fact that houses in BeltRustAssEnd, MI are becoming increasingly cheap. But, for the real person, what the fuck matters if BeltRustAssEnd houses are cheap as bananas? Who can get a job there?

And of course, a single number cannot capture the subtleties of reality like the fact that while it is great that 80" TVs are now so cheap that they can be bought by the commoner, this fact means fucking nothing if having a roof over your head in a place where you don't need to spend most of your live commuting is becoming increasingly too expensive for a lot of the same folks. Too bad the commoner is just a paycheck away from being in the streets as he cannot pay for a house! He now has a TV that not even Queen Elisabeth could have just a few years ago!
by mannyv | 2025-08-14 13:44:55+00:00
When the benchmark changes, you should ask 'why.'

According TFA the number of people in extreme poverty dropped when using the old IPL value, and went up with the new value.

So politically, no NGO wants to say poverty decreased, because that might reduce urgency, and thus priority. So moving the goalposts means a 50% increase in poverty instead of a 20% decrease in poverty. Which one benefits your mission more?

That's not to say the revision of the IPL was wrong. But it does further the mission. Did the improved statistical methods trigger the IPL revision? It's hard to tell without internal world bank docs. I'll bet it did.
by yztest | 2025-08-14 13:44:58+00:00
Sounds like that could be a fun idea for a new search engine/search engine function, only show results of websites without ads/and or paywalls. Sounds like a really run way to experience the passion part of the internet. Could be hard to implement as I would guess with any level of popularity it would quickly end up with people trying to turn such sites into sales funnels.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-08-14 13:44:58+00:00
Here is an article by the St Louis Fed that describes at least 5 inflation measures and what the point of each one is.

https://www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy/2024/may/measuring...

Note, for example, only 2 of them even intend to measure price changes for individuals (CPI and PCEPI).
by swed420 | 2025-08-14 13:45:01+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_capitalism

> According to skeptics of the "late capitalism" idea, so far there just has not been any real evidence of:

> (1) long-term economic stagnation or prolonged negative economic growth in the advanced capitalist countries;

> (2) pervasive social decay and persistent cultural degeneration that just keeps getting worse and worse, and

> (3) pervasive and persistent rejection of capitalism and business culture by the majority of the population

(all three of the skeptic points seem ripe to be re-analyzed)

> For many Western Marxist scholars since that time, the historical epoch of late capitalism starts with the outbreak (or the end[9]) of World War II (1939–1945), and includes the post–World War II economic expansion, the world recession of the 1970s and early 1980s, the era of neoliberalism and globalization, the 2008 financial crisis and the aftermath in a multipolar world society. Particularly in the 1970s and 1980s, many economic and political analyses of late capitalism were published.

Late Capitalism (1973)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/931838.Late_Capitalism
by SamPatt | 2025-08-14 13:45:22+00:00
It's always been incredible to me that inflation is treated as though it emerges organically, "aww shucks, I sure wish my money didn't keep losing value randomly!"

This is the result of policy decisions with well-understood outcomes. 0% interest rates for years, printing unprecedented amounts of money during COVID, historically high tariffs, etc.

Now we'll all be 3%-10% poorer, in a single year, yet I see no accountability. In fact, I see people pressuring the Fed to lower (!) rates, the tariffs don't seem to be going anywhere, and government spending and debt are at all-time highs.

I genuinely cannot understand this. If your actions will predictably make everyone poorer, and then the predictions come true, how can this not result in widespread loss of trust in governance?
by legobmw99 | 2025-08-14 13:46:02+00:00
Yes, the opam repository has recently been working on an archival policy to reduce the size of the checkout and hopefully ease pressure on the dependency resolver by pruning 'obviously' wrong choices. However, the heuristic they chose seems to have mainly assumed that the things in the repository are libraries, and used dependencies for tracking usages. For executables like dune, this is obviously the wrong idea, and I think they're still deciding how to proceed while adding back most versions
by pm90 | 2025-08-14 13:46:08+00:00
While I understand the sentiment, its often not that black and white.

I was in a similar situation a few years ago, with one company doing something novel and "better for humanity" v/s just another saas that paid more. While I was leaning towards the former, what really bothered me was 1) their equity structure was quite pitiful, lower than industry standard and 2) They weren't flexible with remote work. Now, I completely understand if the base compensation is smaller than usual, if the equity is higher. The way the equity was structured, it just seemed like in the off chance that the company did become very successful, almost all the benefits would accrue to the founder. And if they weren't offering the best comp, benefits in other areas (like remote flexibility) would have really helped even things out.

I am very mindful of who gets the "benefits of my passion". Because this is how a lot of people get free labor from idealistic engineers. So while I would have preferred the work of the former, I ended up going with the latter; and I don't regret it.
by kindkang2024 | 2025-08-14 13:46:34+00:00
Perhaps open source should update its license so that businesses profiting from it contribute a small portion of their earnings — say, 1% — to a global fund, whether allocated specifically to the open source maintainers and contributors or to the Decentralized Universal Kindness Income (DUKI /djuːki/) for all lives worldwide.

Still, most of these genius engineers likely don’t care much about such a small sum. They earn the honor and move on, while the charitable benefits flow to those who can monetize the software.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-08-14 13:46:52+00:00
Exactly. Don't know about all of Europe, but I find the way inflation is calculated in the countries i lived here as bad faith since it intentionally omits housing costs.

So just like a commenter below said, I haven't seen a single country where I spent any significant amount of time, where official inflation numbers were not seeing as a complete joke by the common folks. Everyone unanimously agreed the numbers are gamed in order to control public opinion.

I've also seen a lot of gaslighting from politicians with mental gymnastics on how the population is not poor but actually rich because "look how many (Asian made)washing machines you can buy with an average salary here today, while for previous generations this type of items was a luxury".

Yeah mate, my parent could barely afford a European made washing machine, but they could afford their own house at age 25-30, working jobs that required litte education. Must be all that avocado toast to blame.