MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jongjong | 2025-08-05 01:53:11+00:00
When you understand the extreme inequality; that most people don't have $100K and some people have billions, and you understand how the monetary system works to compound the billions, it puts into perspective how the system functions.

If the system seems like it's about 'value creation' it's only because billionaires let it be that way. With that kind of money, you can probably run the whole system however you want.

That kind of money cannot buy that many goods and services without causing hyperinflation... What can that money be used for? Business asset acquisitions, luxury real estate, fine art and political manipulations... Either way they're getting marginal benefits out of it; the asset valuations are likely inflated by billionaires' own wealth competing against one another. Ultimately, once that level of wealth is reached, the whole market becomes about political influence... And even this can cause inflation; but this kind of inflation can be offset by oppression; you can use money to incentivize people to control each other in a hierarchy.

In such society, as a regular person, you need to pick a billionaire tribe because the money flows top-down. If you're not in any billionaire tribe, what will happen is everyone else who is will be getting paid but you won't be getting paid. This is sad because the truth (about various things) is often a middle-ground between different billionaire perspectives or sometimes it's diametrically opposed to any billionaire's perspective. It's already a kind of monarchy, fueled by fiat money creation.
by scarface_74 | 2025-08-05 01:53:26+00:00
This is generally not applicable to most people.

1. Invest enough to get the company match in an S&P 500. It probably isn’t Vanguard that your company uses

2. Pay off all of your debt except your house (and maybe your car)

3. Max out your HSA - if you are married it’s - $8550

4. Max out your 401K - again that’s probably not through Vanguard - $23500

5. Step 5 - then call Vanguard and depending on your income just do a Roth up to $8000 (?).

(Unless you are over 50 then do catch up contributions as 4.5)

If you are under 50, you can do $40,500 tax advantaged and over 50 $48050
by missedthecue | 2025-08-05 01:54:00+00:00
It's not accurate to think of his billionaire status as compensation. Jeff Bezos owns ~10% of a $2.2T company. That's the whole story. He never even took a penny of stock comp his entire career at Amazon.

It really is an important clarification. I have worked at startups where the founders worked several times harder than I did and they ended up with $0 and one of them in debt.
by 1024core | 2025-08-05 01:55:01+00:00
It's your server. You're free to do whatever you want. You can serve different versions of the page depending on the UserAgent (has been done many times before).

You can put up a paywall depending on UserAgent or OS (has been done).

In short, it's a 2-way street: the client on the other end of the TCP pipe makes a request, and your server fulfills the request as it sees fit.
by XorNot | 2025-08-05 01:55:13+00:00
That's not the problem: the problem is if I change password managers, or move software or any of many other possible things, whereas with password I can just type them into the new thing in the worst case...passkeys are wholly opaque.

The ability to migrate them was considered an optional feature and not implemented before they were launched. It's still wholly unclear whether any individual implementation will let you do that or not, with options to prevent it.
by dalibenothmen | 2025-08-05 01:55:32+00:00
That's a really fair question, and you're right that I could have been clearer about the persona I'm addressing. I'm actually part of that audience myself! As a developer and automation enthusiast, I fell in love with tools like Zapier and n8n, they're genuinely great for getting things done quickly. I still use them today for certain use cases. But here's where I've noticed the pattern: I've seen experienced developers (myself included) increasingly reaching for these visual tools even for complex workflows where code would be more appropriate. The tipping point for me was when I found myself building workflows that required custom scripts within the visual tools, dealing with 3-5 second execution times, and accepting limitations that I could easily solve with a few lines of code. You're absolutely right that the typical audience for these products isn't professional developers and it's business users, which is exactly why these tools are so successful and valuable. My frustration (and the motivation for this post) comes from seeing developers including myself choose the visual approach when we have better alternatives. This experience actually led me to build a code-first workflow automation engine with Bun and Rust that can handle computational-heavy workflows in milliseconds rather than seconds, at a fraction of the cost. I can even run it in a 1vcpu, 1GB ram VPS and still get a great performance. I think you've highlighted exactly why the post felt off, I was conflating the general success of these tools (which is well-deserved for their target audience) with a specific developer behavior that perhaps isn't as widespread as my bubble made it seem. Thanks for pushing me to clarify that distinction.
by duxup | 2025-08-05 01:55:43+00:00
>From the day of the deportations until November 1917, the Citizens' Protective League ruled Bisbee. Based in a building owned by the copper companies, its representatives interrogated residents about their political beliefs with respect to unions and the war, determining who could work or obtain a draft deferment. Sheriff Wheeler established guards at all entrances to Bisbee and Douglas. Anyone seeking to exit or enter the town over the next several months had to have a "passport" issued by Wheeler. Any adult male in town who was not known to the sheriff's men was brought before a secret sheriff's kangaroo court. Hundreds of citizens were tried, and most of them were deported and threatened with lynching if they returned. Even long-time citizens of Bisbee were deported by this "court"

>When ordered to cease these activities by the Arizona Attorney General, Wheeler tried to explain his actions. Asked what law supported his actions, he answered:

>I have no statute that I had in mind. Perhaps everything that I did wasn't legal....It became a question of 'Are you American, or are you not?'" He told the Attorney General: "I would repeat the operation any time I find my own people endangered by a mob composed of eighty percent aliens and enemies of my Government."

Classic excuse where "this is what I want and <patriotism>"
by Epicism | 2025-08-05 01:58:33+00:00
That’s not the point. The point is if Teslas marketing led the driver to over estimate the car’s capabilities leading to him engaging in reckless behavior. He admitted on the stand that he was acting careless, that autonomous mode required supervision; however, he also admitted that he thought that the car would drive better than a human and intervene when required _based_ on Tesla’s marketing. When you look at Musk’s tweets and the Paint it Black video the jury agreed that it was not an unreasonable belief that was factually _not_ true and found Tesla 33% guilty of the accident.

The fact that Tesla purposely mislead the investigators and hid evidence was why the jury awarded such a large sum.
by mrangle | 2025-08-05 01:58:46+00:00
It seems like an interesting idea.

I'd be intrigued, but would quickly click away.

You're forgoing the part of the sales cycle where you demonstrate what you are offering. It goes from telling me, briefly, to asking for a credit card.

I rarely to never give a credit card in exchange for a free trial. Not without some type of proof of concept, first.

It's like being asked for a credit card by someone who approaches me on the street and asks me to trust them.

Absent widespread recommendations, If I don't have a better idea of what I'm buying then I won't buy it.
by dogmatism | 2025-08-05 02:00:26+00:00
a) average age is 77

b) drugs cost a shitload (hundereds of thousands/yr) to extend lifespan by...months

c) only for ATTR (not AL) amyloidosis

d) the drive to diagnose and treat only really started after tafamidis (1st drug with any effectiveness) was marketed...hmmm

e) the dude in the article used as an example was probably helped more by treating his afib than by the fancy drugs

for sure there are some genetically transmitted younger patient for whom this is important. But there are a lot of frail older people who are getting diagnosed with wild-type ATTR amyloid for...questionable benefit at massive cost. IMO, the jury is still out
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-08-05 02:01:48+00:00
I don’t think they were misled by the name. I dislike musk and Tesla, but the use of autopilot to describe their cruise control is one of those things where they are being fairly pedantic, and, out of character for them, actually technically correct. Anyone who knows what an autopilot does won’t be misled, anyone whose only experience with the term is from the 1979 movie Airplane! (Otto Pilot anyone?) also isn’t going to be misled. Then what we basically have left are HN pedants who themselves personally got the term wrong and didn’t do any due diligence.
by dalibenothmen | 2025-08-05 02:02:30+00:00
No need to apologize at all. I really appreciate you taking the time to engage thoughtfully! Your feedback helped me clarify my own thinking, which is exactly the kind of conversation I love.

And that avocado slicer vs. kitchen knife analogy is perfect, it captures the nuance so well. Some tools are brilliantly specialized, while others thrive on flexibility. Maybe the real takeaway is that knowing when to reach for each is the mark of a savvy developer.

Thanks again for the great discussion, this is why I love sharing on Hackernews, nowhere else has such a density of curious, sharp-minded people who push ideas further.
by drdaeman | 2025-08-05 02:02:48+00:00
The article looks like either author knows something I don't (but fails to link any source on their claims), or is a bunch of misinformation.

> Passkeys are randomly generated passwords that are required to be managed by a password manager.

This is not correct. Passkeys are keypairs, and unlike shared secrets (like passwords) they do not require private key material to be ever revealed to the remote system. That's the whole point of Webauthn - so servers never ever possibly see any secret credentials.

Otherwise - yes - they're random-looking blobs of data that is handled by a special software (which can be a password manager, but is not limited to password managers - e.g. an HSM like Yubikey can be used without any password management software), but that's where the similarity ends.

> Passkeys can be public/private keypairs, or they can just be secret passwords.

To best of my awareness, this is incorrect. I'm really curious where this idea comes from. In my understanding of the Webauthn spec it's all about public-key cryptography, attestations always use PublicKeyCredential. I'm not aware about any way to use a static token instead. Maybe it's possible to bastardize the standard somehow, but I doubt it's a real concern.

> Password managers provide no way for you to copy and paste your passkeys.

This is only partially true. Nothing in the spec, all up to implementers. At least KeypassXC sure provides a way to access your data: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10407. Other software behavior may vary.

> A passkey manager is morally required to do an extra factor of authentication [...] but the site/app has no way of knowing/proving whether that happened

This is partially correct. There is attestation in Webauthn, but to best of my awareness it's something frowned upon, so IMHO it's best if we all pretend it doesn't exist. If attestation is not required (which is AFAIK how most Webauthn-supporting services operate), it's up to user to decide on how they secure their system. And that's a good thing (YMMV), because it allows end user to have freedom of choice.
by btrettel | 2025-08-05 02:03:09+00:00
I've used various commercial databases over the years. Some popular commercial databases relevant to HN readers include Web of Science, Scopus, and Engineering Village. When I worked at the USPTO, I used the less popular database Dialog, which I preferred. To my knowledge, none of these are available direct to consumers. I've only been able to get access from places with subscriptions. Some university libraries allow visitors where you can use these databases for free on-site.

I would call these databases complementary, not "entirely superior". There are two main advantages. One is that these databases will contain many things that you can't find on Google. The second advantage of these databases is that they are designed for advanced searchers and have more powerful query languages. Google on the other hand is dumbed down and will try to guess what you want, often doing a poor job. You can get very specific on these databases in ways that you can't with Google.

Related: I'm somewhat fascinated by more specialized bibliographic databases because they often contain things that can't be found on Google or the major commercial databases I listed above. I started keeping a list of them. https://github.com/btrettel/specialized-bibs
by goopypoop | 2025-08-05 02:04:01+00:00
Thanks

I was thinking of exams rather than day to day learning of basics, seeing tests as teaching rather than assessing. Point being you can't cheat at learning.

The calculator can't fake that you understand e.g. how to differentiate. The working is the bulk of available exam marks but the calculator only gives answers.

Is it unambiguous cheating if it doesn't help?
by mrangle | 2025-08-05 02:05:39+00:00
What's the practical difference between A Bezos editorial and an editorial board editorial from a paper that he owns?

Whether I'm scolded by Bezos or Bezos's editorial board, it's still being scolded by Bezos. Or whomever owns the next media outlet in question.

After all if Bezos openly controls the editorial direction of the paper at any point in time, then it would be ridiculous to assume that any media outlet's editorial staff is not directionally influenced by their employer generally.

You don't believe that media ownership by any given billionaire influences media opinion with which you agree?

That's a strange take for someone whom I assume asserts a moral logic in their worldview. How can billionaires only be guilty of media control when you disagree with the editorial direction?

What does "every billionaire is a policy mistake mean" in the context of my second question? Your comment seems like a non sequitur.
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-08-05 02:06:18+00:00
Late late thirties through to mid forties has been the busiest period of my (and my wife's) life.

Work, school, kids sport, plus some occasional activities of our own (absolutely minimal) we had something weekly on every day of the week. Two kids ages ranging from 10 to mid-teen during that span of time.

Only really just coming out of it the last couple of years - mid-late forties. Weekly activities are now more my things.

Had kids very late twenties, so that might be a difference.
by martinlawn | 2025-08-05 02:06:36+00:00
We went fishing in Soldotna AK, then drove to Homer, went on a Fjord trip out of Seward, flew a float plane across Cooks Bay to fish. That was all awesome. The last day, we went to Whittier AK...just to see the place and drive thru the longest tunnel in N.America. Once in tiny Whittier, we bought some flat bread pizza (really yummy!) and walked around a bit. Saw the abandoned Army barracks and the big "bldg" where most of the town lives in. To me, it's depressing. I don't know how anyone could be happy/content living in this cramped place. Sure, there's mountains, pretty scenery, but that's about it. You get use to seeing gulls everywhere and hearing them but it's just too tight of a place to live and if you want to get away, you have to pay $13 to escape the town thru the tunnel or swim, boat, fly out of there. I'll pass.No offence Whittier !
by achierius | 2025-08-05 02:07:06+00:00
What about work for learnings sake?

Frankly, I'm quite glad to be able to do basic arithmetic in my head -- having to pick up a calculator every time I need to multiply two numbers would burn through far more time over the course of my life than what I spent in Kindergarten (or whenever) learning to do it myself.

All you want is for people to be better slaves for your capitalist machine. Never learning how to do things themselves: only consuming, buying what could otherwise have been achieved by the simple (but non-GDP-increasing) exercise of their own mind. Your rhetoric betrays your own class.
by rictic | 2025-08-05 02:08:03+00:00
Tricky thing there is that the VM would still need to do checks at all the boundary points, including all of the language-level and runtime-level APIs. At what point along such a migration would it become net faster?

It'd need a ton of buy-in from the whole community and all VM implementors to have a chance at pencilling out in any reasonable time span. Not saying I'm against it, just noting.
by leptons | 2025-08-05 02:08:05+00:00
IMHO you don't know what a video editor does. This thing doesn't need to compete with closed-source editors. Nobody is dropping Premiere for this thing. The goal shoud be web-based video editing, not AI captions. There are plenty of video editing functions not implemented yet, so if this were a serious project about video editing, spending time on "AI" captions seems a bit like a distraction for them. It sounds like there is no project manager, not a lot of focus, and the devs are following a bandwagon.
by lurking_swe | 2025-08-05 02:08:32+00:00
i’m the parent. You are correct, my mistake! It’s too late to edit at this point. :(

What I should have said is that after 65 you can spend it on non medical stuff without penalty. BUT if you do so you’ll owe tax that year (withdrawal).

So to summarize, you can avoid all tax if it’s spent on medical stuff. For non medical (post 65) it’s still good, but not as good.

Still an amazing deal because old people tend to spend a lot more on healthcare.
by RajT88 | 2025-08-05 02:09:04+00:00
Unless you are a founder of a unicorn startup. I used to hang out with one of the GitHub founders before it was a thing - he was engineering director when MSFT bought them out and now is a billionaire (single digit billions but still):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._J._Hyett

Probably more the exception than the rule.
by cootsnuck | 2025-08-05 02:09:44+00:00
Really enjoyed that. Shows the "messy middle" that people are caught in during this current wave of AI tech. I think one undeniable positive outcome has been the like collective introspection AI has sparked among so many people. With a tool challenging what it means to be "human" or "creative" (more so than prior technological advances), I've been seeing a lot of wonderful discussions, articles, videos, etc. with people wrestling with those questions and also just affirming their own singular voice and unique creative essence. It's been cool to see.
by dnautics | 2025-08-05 02:09:47+00:00
if you can't afford Tafamidis, you could probably get away with taking

- Flufenamic acid

- Valtoren (Diclofenac)

- Diflunisal

off-label.

https://www.benthamdirect.com/content/journals/cdtcnsnd/10.2...

IANAD but I believe that Valtoren has the least side effects, but in general since they're all NSAIDs they have been tested for long-term analgesic use, so they're relatively safe and quite inexpensive.
by ashishb | 2025-08-05 02:10:05+00:00
Many foreign learners have written about it. Essentially, one can follow conventions around oneself or try to write and get an English spelling that sounds closest to Hindi pronunciation. And there are no academic rules around it that one is taught in schools in India.

I learnt about IAST only after seeing how foreigners transcribe Sanskrit texts in Latin.

See this amazing article by a Polish journalist https://thediplomat.com/2021/01/spell-it-out-should-english-...
by mooreds | 2025-08-05 02:10:14+00:00
I discovered Odd Lots because Patrick McKenzie was a guest a couple of times.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/why-corporate-america-...

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-happens-now-to-al...

I keep coming back for the market knowledge and interesting interviews. Though I usually do skip the inside baseball about hedge funds.
by jamesfinlayson | 2025-08-05 02:10:25+00:00
I worked at a place that did git pull as the release process - it was a big site but I never heard of there being any issues (though the code was on life support so no huge changes were happening).

They switched to blue/green deploys for the new site (which I suspect was done at the server level, not with symlinks or the like).
by jerf | 2025-08-05 02:10:31+00:00
Sure, and I can't figure out whether the guy who is letting me in to traffic instead of cutting me off is malign or benign, because I lack a definition of those words. Alas, I am doomed to infinite confusion forever.

It's very fashionable to confuse the inability to draw bright shining lines as being unable to define a thing at all, but I don't have much respect for that attitude. Of all the outcomes, "the probe engages in indefinite behavior that we are never able to classify as 'humanly benign' or 'humanly malign'" is such a low percentage that it's something I'll worry about when it happens.

The world is full of concepts we can't draw bright shining lines through. In fact the ones we can are the exceptions. We manage to have definitions even so.
by carlwheatley11 | 2025-08-05 02:11:00+00:00
I'm a Recruiter / Sourcer looking for work.

Location: San Francisco Bay Area Remote: Yes, or Hybrid Willing to relocate:No Technologies:Product Design, Ai/ML Engineers, Data Science RECRUITING Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19WNnJGycKSs7HmmTAjsUSecDZNd... Email: carl@carlwheatley.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlcwheatley/
by bsder | 2025-08-05 02:11:08+00:00
> One common theme I've noticed is that their class load virtually doesn't matter. They find ways to run out of time no matter how much free time they start with.

12 credits is normally a minimum. That's roughly 12 hours a week in classroom, give or take. You need 3x that number of hours out of the classroom--that's 36 hours.

So, you're at 48 hours of academic work every single week. A 15 credit load means a 60 hour week.

Most people working jobs would start to complain about burnout at 50+ hours per week for 4 years running. They would almost certainly complain at 60 hours per week.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-08-05 02:11:21+00:00
The USA knew they had a dependence on China for rare metals for about 15 years, yet they didn’t do anything about it. What gives? The metals aren’t that rare, we just fell behind on refining technology or maybe the Chinese cheated a bit on environmental curbs, but that really doesn’t excuse the USA from basically doing nothing at all.
by ashishb | 2025-08-05 02:13:21+00:00
> My personal theory is that this is because you can make every sound you hear in English using the Devnagari script, but not the other way around.

Not true. There are phonemes which are similar but distinct.

For example

- `v and w` map to the same thing in Hindi - th and थ are allophones but different sounds

https://ashishb.net/linguistics/hindi-english-phonemes-that-...

Hindi written in Devanagari is highly phonetic (not perfect but near perfect). However, English is not phonetic at all. E.g., "Th" in Then is different from the "Th" sound in Father.