MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nonethewiser | 2025-08-26 14:51:33+00:00
All of these questions seem more like claims. And I largely agree in spirit. Im not a fan of the government buying stock with the money that would have been given as grants. However,

>How is this ‘equity stake’ different than nationalization?

Ownership scope and control. A nationalized company is owned and run by the government. This equity stake is the US buying stock in Intel instead of issuing the money as grants. I would agree this creates conflicts of interests for both parties. And that it shouldnt happen. But this is wildly different than nationalization.
by MontyCarloHall | 2025-08-26 14:51:35+00:00
>In his discussions of such matters as "What is justice?" or "What is virtue?" he took the attitude that he knew nothing and had to be instructed by others. By pretending ignorance, Socrates lured others into propounding their views on such abstractions. Socrates then, by a series of ignorant-sounding questions, forced the others into such a mélange of self-contradictions that they would finally break down and admit they didn't know what they were talking about.

See also: Jordan Peterson et al. Our tendency to favor logical correctness over empirical correctness is one of our most dangerous cognitive biases. It's very easy to convince people to believe arguments that are perfectly logically consistent in their own self-constructed reality but have no bearing on empirical reality, over arguments that conform to empirical reality but may not have perfect logical consistency. Empirical reality is messy and it's difficult to construct a perfectly consistent set of axioms around it; constructed reality is neat and thus trivial to construct sets of perfectly consistent axioms around it.
by antoinealb | 2025-08-26 14:51:37+00:00
There are more ACME-compatible CAs than just Let's Encrypt, should they ever become the bad guys, or if you don't want to trust them for any reason, see [0].

I understand that people get annoyed at shorter cert lifetime, for instance if you are managing appliances or use SSL certs for other reasons than the common use case. But if you just want to serve a website, there are not so many reasons not to use HTTPS today, either on Let's Encrypt or on something else.

[0] https://acmeclients.com/certificate-authorities/
by lapcat | 2025-08-26 14:51:39+00:00
This wonderful essay explicitly criticizes one genre of philosophy popular in academic English literature departments, but I think it also implicitly undermines another genre popular in academic English-speaking philosophy departments. The latter frequently propound something like the so-called correspondence theory of truth, yet they also treat truth and falsity as absolutes, mutually exclusive. There's no room for approximation and degrees of accuracy.

> The basic trouble, you see, is that people think that "right" and "wrong" are absolute; that everything that isn't perfectly and completely right is totally and equally wrong. However, I don't think that's so. It seems to me that right and wrong are fuzzy concepts

> Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete.
by conartist6 | 2025-08-26 14:51:50+00:00
I sent them a politely worded threat and they responded right away opting me out:

> Hello, I am writing you as an author of Open Source software seeking to protect my security and that of my users.

> What I would like to know is: how may I prevent deepwiki from indexing my projects, specifically those in the ----- GitHub organization? If you consider yourselves to have implicit legal permission to train on my projects and write about them, know that I hereby explicitly and permanently revoke that permission.

> Since you likely believe that I lack the authority to get you to stop, I will add this:

> To the extent allowed by law I will consider any incorrect information you publish about my projects to be libelous and, given this notice, made with your intention. LLMs have no will to act, so publishing misinformation about my project, at such time as that happens, could only be the result of human will.

> Kind regards, > Conrad Buck
by alexellisuk | 2025-08-26 14:51:56+00:00
Then read the next bit :)

> Now, if something is public facing and making revenue (or risks revenue/reputation by going down), I will absolutely run that on a popular cloud VM, or on Hetzner's bare-metal offering split up into various microVMs. If possible, I'll run it on a CDN - like my blog, a homepage, or a documentation site.
by MangoToupe | 2025-08-26 14:52:02+00:00
> The article addresses this. In this part of CO, wells can cost $25k to drill without any guarantee of hitting water. It's not a panacea for these people.

Yes, but that's covered by my second part that americans are bad at evaluating risk (many humans are I imagine, I'm just trying to be narrow in my assessment). You don't get much more "on grid" than relying on a municipal water supply.
by BurningFrog | 2025-08-26 14:52:07+00:00
This will be very interesting.

So far in the Industrial Revolution, automating away jobs has been how we've getting richer and richer for centuries.

If AI automates away half of all jobs, and this holds we will - after an adjustment period - double GDP and collectively be twice as wealthy!

If that actually happens, it solves many currently "unsolvable" societal problems.

I'm pretty sure that it does, but the adjustment period might be longer than we'd wish.
by no_wizard | 2025-08-26 14:52:14+00:00
The bank you have did the right thing and I think most banks and credit unions will do this, as it’s bad for a lot of reasons not to.

That said, the legal obligations around how this works is very different. One of the reasons common advice is use a credit card for online purchases instead if a debit card or checking account link is because of the fact that they have different liability expectations around fraud[0]

[0]: there are of course a multitude of good reasons for this advice generally speaking, but this one is cited a lot
by ch4s3 | 2025-08-26 14:52:17+00:00
I'm only half way through the paper but it looks like from their numbers junior level software engineering employment has returned to 2021 levels and is declining towards perhaps 2019 levels. I can't help but wonder if they have made a mistake in controlling for the hiring boom around the pandemic shift to eCommerce. It looks like they tried to eliminate factors like that, but I'm not deep enough into the study yet.
by azmodeus | 2025-08-26 14:52:18+00:00
There has been a much stronger capital supply than in a shattered group of countries.

The EU does not exist as a unit, it's 27 sovereign states cooperating. In the EU the single market is an achievement across countries, but can't compare with single large internal markets.

China as the second economy of the world managed to succeed with a centralised plan.

So I think market size and economic power is a bigger indicator than centralised vs not.
by AaronAPU | 2025-08-26 14:52:19+00:00
I think for me the friction comes from the commitment required to finish the book. If I pick up a book and I’ve not been reading lately, it means I need to commit to picking up that book for weeks.

I know you don’t necessarily need to finish every book, but if I don’t finish then I won’t be able to pick it up again later without forgetting the progress or re-reading the same sections again. Neither are desirable.
by fouc | 2025-08-26 14:52:23+00:00
The article reads so weird. "Blacksky grew to millions of users" and "new kind of social network", when it's really just a sub-set of bluesky.

Also given that there's 36 million accounts in total, it seems hard to believe that 2 million of those accounts are following blacksky (5.6% of the bluesky user count) so something is off with the count here perhaps.
by slipperydippery | 2025-08-26 14:52:34+00:00
Approximately all of those kinds of books are ghost-written. People with money who aren't otherwise authors only very rarely write their own books. It takes a lot of time, and business "leader" sorts especially are extremely comfortable delegating that and then putting (only) their name on it.

Trump's is unusual in that it's widely known not just that it was ghost written, but who did it. Often the real writer's name isn't known, and we can only guess at whether it was ghost written (again, the answer is almost always "yes").
by famouswaffles | 2025-08-26 14:52:54+00:00
Imagen is a diffusion text to image model. You write some text that describes your image, you get an image out and that's it.

Flash Image is an image (and text) predicting large language model. In a similar fashion to how trained LLMs can manipulate/morph text, this can do that for images as well. Things like style transfer, character consistency etc.

You can communicate with it in a way you can't for imagen, and it has a better overall world understanding.
by spacephysics | 2025-08-26 14:53:02+00:00
Especially given how the gov stats for unemployment rate and CPI have been changed over the years.

Example, if you dig into who we technically consider unemployed in that number, you’ll laugh.

Let’s say after 6 months of emails and ghost listings you take a break, you’re now considered “not in the labor force” which is the same category as retirees and full-time students. So that “improves” the unemployment rate

Not a hot take, but I think we’ve been in a recession/massive slowdown for much longer than the gov data shows

Willing to bet hedge funds have their own calculations of these metrics they keep secret as a market edge
by loph | 2025-08-26 14:53:09+00:00
this is related: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2845330/hundreds-of-chrome-e...

The TL;DR is that there are malicious browser plugins that make the browser into a web scraping bot.

I see this all the time in web server logs; it is recognizable as a GET on a deep link coming from some random IP, usually residential.
by achairapart | 2025-08-26 14:53:22+00:00
Maybe someone can explain this to me: Since forever Gmail auto-organized my newsletter/commercial emails with the `Notification`/`Promotional` labels, skipping the inbox, without special filters like this one.

Then, by a year or so, more and more promotional/commercial emails appeared in my inbox, and nowadays I delete 10/20 of those emails from my inbox daily. I don't understand as it worked flawlessly before. So, what happened here? Google fucked up this functionality or there is more?

Thank you!
by alexellisuk | 2025-08-26 14:53:27+00:00
A number of people reached out about the Beelink SER4-7 - which are about double the cost of a bare N100. Nice machines and I may have considered them if they'd been more popular at the time.

Certainly, if the main use-case is fastest speed in a straight line - get something with a Ryzen like the Acemagic I mentioned at the end with Geekbench scores.
by foobarian | 2025-08-26 14:53:30+00:00
> There are multiple ways to describe China's economy but the most accurate and relevant for this topic is that it's a command economy

That brings up an interesting point. It seems to be a conventional wisdom that centrally planned economies don't work (and did not work in cases where they were tried) as well as Western-style capitalism because of the communication and command bottlenecks.

But what if those bottlenecks have been greatly increased in the information age of Internet, other global communication networks, and data collection? The western-capitalist system has the problem of getting stuck in local minima, being driven as a network of actors. What if the downsides of that are finally greater than the performance hit due to central planning bottlenecks?
by jibal | 2025-08-26 14:53:34+00:00
My question was rhetorical. The point is that the English word for "kefir" is "kefir". So English does have a word for that.

shkkmo stated the situation well and nothing you wrote in response refuted anything they said. You say "Just because a word is "in the dictionary" doesn't make it English" but that's not true, as they explained. Virtually the entirety of the English language is "loaned" from somewhere. From the Merriam-Webster definition of schadenfreude: "In English, the word was used mostly by academics until the early 1990s, when it was introduced to more general audiences via pop culture."

You say "that doesn't make it suddenly become English" -- indeed, it wasn't sudden. The word did not always appear in English language dictionaries. It was added when it became recognized as having been incorporated into English--lexicographers are conservative and lag behind actual usage.

Anyway, I'm not going to recreate the entire prescriptive/descriptive debate in linguistics here, especially since "kefir" and "schadenfreude" are English words on both grounds. Enough said.
by programjames | 2025-08-26 14:54:11+00:00
Is the point of the warning to avoid liability or to actually inform the users? If you tell people everything causes cancer (instead of only saying when you've verified it doesn't), soon enough they're going to stop caring when you say stuff like, "don't eat asbestos, that causes cancer". I think a "checkmark" system makes more sense—for verified accounts/developers, put a checkmark near their name, and for unverified ones, have nothing. There's no reason to cause alarm when 99% of the time the alarm is misfounded.
by TimTheTinker | 2025-08-26 14:54:15+00:00
Make sure to check for potential problems while using the SoundSource trial if you have any "professional" audio system extensions installed. I have Dante Virtual Soundcard and a few others (I do live keyboard performance with my M1 Pro macbook), and SoundSource yields intermittently glitchy audio for me when using it casually to multiplex a few simple sources/destinations (Music, browser, bluetooth speakers). Core Audio is a very complicated piece of technology, so it's also very possible the issue is on Apple's side, or in the "pro" extensions themselves.

(That's as of now -- August 2025 -- so it's possible in the future this issue will be resolved. Don't take this as necessarily true if you're reading this in 2026 or beyond.)
by IAmBroom | 2025-08-26 14:54:22+00:00
You are confusing the concepts of insulation and reservoirs.

When 5 of the 6 semiaxes of possible heat flow have no temperature gradient, the temperature becomes much more stable.

Insulation would be if a 10 ft radius dirt ball maintained a stable temperature all year round - which would surprise me, although dirt does have some insulative value. However, wet dirt is really not very insulative - try sleeping on the ground sometime.
by bee_rider | 2025-08-26 14:54:36+00:00
Although, loggers have specialized vehicles (harvesters and whatnot) that look more like construction vehicles with giant saws and grabbers on the front.

I think there’s something interesting in the pick of arborist (somebody specialized in coming in and dealing with troublesome trees) vs some kind of logger (specialized in the at-scale harvesting of trees). I bet there’s more room for modified consumer gear in the previous case, because the whole job is to figure out weird situations (like taking down or cleaning up a too-big tree in somebody’s back yard with poor access and lots of things you don’t want to hit) that might preclude the use of the ideal equipment.

But, it isn’t obvious to me which is more like software engineering. Ideally, the software company is a cultivated environment optimized for productivity, more like a logging forest. Part of the engineer’s job is to help cultivate the nice orderly rows of correct-sized trees so that they can just rip through them at scale, right? Maybe the arborist is more like some high-end consultant that you hire when things go wrong.
Show HN: Simple visual tools for common situations in your LLM via mcp-UI
by reactiverobot | 2025-08-26 14:54:36+00:00
MCP-UI is super early but I'm pretty excited about the idea of LLM chat interfaces no longer being a wall of text and including visual elements.

The ceiling of what mcp-ui enables is super high since it can really be anything but that makes it hard to imagine.

To me, considering the floor of what mcp-ui offers is much more compelling. It lets us plug a gap where Google search beats LLM chat - the little functional UI widgets like timers and conversions. This repo is a proof-by-example to show that mcp-ui can be useful.

It should be easy to fork and build your own custom widgets too!
by lotsofpulp | 2025-08-26 14:55:31+00:00
Some of the other big tech companies have or are able to have just as much, if not more cash, than Apple:

https://www.capitaladvisors.com/research/war-chest-exploring...

They just don’t want to bet they can deploy it successfully in the hardware market to compete with Apple, so they focus on other things (cloud services, ads, media, etc).
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-08-26 14:55:35+00:00
> immigration up

"In January 2025, 53.3 million immigrants lived in the United States – the largest number ever recorded. In the ensuing months, however, more immigrants left the country or were deported than arrived. By June, the country’s foreign-born population had shrunk by more than a million people, marking its first decline since the 1960s" [1].

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/08/21/key-findi...
by hilbert42 | 2025-08-26 14:55:47+00:00
"Years ago I loved tinkering with the devices but then I wasn't able to use my bank and it was getting more and more annoying so at one point I just stopped..."

Until now I've steadfastly refused to use banking on my smartphones because of these problems (and I usually use rooted phones).

The trouble is it's becoming more and more difficult to avoid phone payments/banking. My solution is to get a small phone specifically dedicated for the purpose and use it for no other purpose (it's a pain but the best compromise). That way I don't have to worry about my main smartphone.

Of course, the best solution would be for governments to regulate for banks to accept multiple access/payment system of which there are a number. Standardized and regulated protocols would solve many of these problems but that's a too bigger subject to address here.
by Dilettante_ | 2025-08-26 14:55:54+00:00
Basically: Don't crystallize too early, have a primordial soup of notes that you coagulate/congeal bit by bit. Take little iterative steps on local slices, don't try to construct the final product from the get-go.

This method came quite naturally to me during my writing-based personal projects since I have no deadline or anything and am literally just collecting thousands of little A6/A7 notes that I capture as they pop into my head. I can take all the time I want to stew on them and have a structure bubbling up all on its own.
by webdevver | 2025-08-26 14:55:54+00:00
I wouldn't read too much into it. I think this is just the Trump administration buying the dip. they're gonna invest heavily into Intel to reduce TSMCs political leverage, the stock will go up 1000%, and Trumps friends & co. (& everyone who 'got the signal') get rich off it, US semiconductor industry is revived (maybe?), and everybody(?) wins.

This isn't unprecedented - I think Trump really set the tone with TRUMPcoin saga, which was very wild-west. a lot of people lost money, and others got awfully wealthy in a flash. but ultimately, it was legal: both winning, and losing.

Then you had Trump dipping the S&P and telling everyone "nows a great time to buy!", which IMO was even more diabolical than the trumpcoin stuff.

I think the signal is clear: the concept of "securities fraud" has become the financial equivalent of arranged marriage & dowries, and in its place we welcome the "free & open market", double edged and all.

hold it carefully or you'll cut yourself!

like it or not it seems to be working. the wealth disparity between the US and everyone else is growing (to the US favour). I think if the US starts arguing 'youre either with us or against us', most people today will go full FOMO into the US - even the most ardent patriots will quietly shift all their assets into the US side.

now we hear that Trump will allow 600k Chinese students to study in the US - has there ever been a greater inditement against the CCP? What does it say about the "Chinese Century", when their brightest minds are clamouring to get into Stanford or MIT?

Pax Americana for yet another century, I'm all in.
by rchaud | 2025-08-26 14:56:04+00:00
The future is gloomy because the American economy has largely been in a state of "jobless recovery" since thr great recession. Stock prices are up thanks to corporate tax cuts, ZIRP, AI hype etc, but discretionary income is either stagnant in many sectors or are being chipped away from every angle: rent, healthcare, transport, childcare or leisure.
by no_wizard | 2025-08-26 14:56:11+00:00
I don’t know if it’s that simple. The 1800s to mid 1900s were rife with labor disputes and real blood was spilled before any gains were distributed down the chain, and even then labor gains only lasted a couple decades

I suspect for the already wealthy this will happen, but I think the average person will largely get handed an empty basket of promises and not much else
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-26 14:56:22+00:00
The Internet Archive already has some emulation support, perhaps Android support is needed? If OP is willing to transfer the copyright to the Archive for $1, I'm happy to facilitate so it has a permanent home.

https://archive.org/details/howtodoupload

(i have archived the APK in Wayback just in case the source in this thread disappears)
by gm678 | 2025-08-26 14:56:23+00:00
> Apple is still several weeks away from making a decision on whether to continue using internal models for Siri or move to a partner. And it hasn’t yet determined who that partner may be. ...

> Executives had long viewed Anthropic as the leading candidate for a partnership, but *the financial terms demanded by that company led Apple to broaden the search and bring others into the mix*. Apple certainly hasn’t ruled out sticking to its own models either.

> Internally, Apple is holding a bake-off to see which approach will work best. The company is simultaneously developing two versions of the new Siri: one dubbed Linwood that is powered by its models and another code-named Glenwood that runs on outside technology.
by xnorswap | 2025-08-26 14:57:00+00:00
I reject that, it's a product of familiarity being more comfortable.

24fps was not a deliberate choice that was made a century after we previously had high frame-rate. It was a limitation at the time.

Impressionism was a deliberate choice, it came centuries after more detailed paintings were being done. And there were indeed many critics of the movement at the time.

24fps in movies is just banking on the comfortable, the familiar. It isn't art, it's giving people what they expect and not challenging people. It has about as much artistic merit as the N'th Mission impossible movie or MCU movie.
by dagmx | 2025-08-26 14:57:07+00:00
Their point is that they’re comparing between SoCs that aren’t in the same class, not that it’s not fast.

They’re not arguing against their subjective experience using it, they’re arguing against the comparison point as an objective metric.

If you’re picking analogies, it’s like saying Audis are faster than Mercedes but comparing an R8 against an A class.
by mritterhoff | 2025-08-26 14:57:20+00:00
While Meta has a non-binding promise to build more renewable energy, the Louisiana Legislature passed a new law that adds natural gas to the definition of green energy, allowing Zuckerberg and others to count Entergy’s gas turbines as “green.”

As much as I prefer burning gas over coal, conflating it with zero(-ish) emission energy sources like wind, solar, and nuclear is bad.
by threecheese | 2025-08-26 14:57:37+00:00
How much of the glut of new compsci/sweng young people is the result of real market demands, vs social media personalities creating the appearance of a demand?

My observation is that, between 2019 and 2023, there were many creators shilling this, and probably quite good livings made off views and clicks. Could social media have amplified this, “fakely”?