MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by throwaway290 | 2025-08-01 17:58:42+00:00
If this was done bayesian style we could say the priors are man taking advantage of woman. 9 cases out of 10 if there is a rape case you can assume the perp is male and if you don't you are like a born yesterday idiot. And if you're a woman it's super important to keep it in mind, like you think of getting into elevator (or airbnb like in this case) alone with a random man you should not be like "let's not pre judge people".

With wrong cancellation it's different because it's not an urgent situation and people should not ruin someone's life randomly. It would be stupid to force us to think "really there's a 50/50 chance if the rapist is that man or that woman" but if you say "there's a 50/50 chance if the guy is a creep or that woman is scheming something" then it can be not that wrong (depending on country)

But in this case we still don't know who is wrong. This is the original letter https://medium.com/@yifanxing/my-experience-with-sexual-hara... and it was not shown false. All that the courts said was "no evidence was provided". And the guy didn't clearly deny it in the letter as I understand it
by vntok | 2025-08-01 17:59:04+00:00
Not necessarily.

You can make it collect personas from actual users who actually interact with you on social media, for example Facebook page fans or x.com followers.

If the models are built from those actual users and their public social graphs, that gives a lot of data points to the inference engine about their demographics as well as their interests.

No idea if the results are statistically relevant, but it might bring good enough results at a fraction of the time*cost of an actual study (that probably won't be statistically accurate either anyway).
by dcminter | 2025-08-01 17:59:11+00:00
"Collapse" is a strong word and even narrowed to "American" society I'm not sure what you would count as collapse. I don't think it's impossible that America could lose it's economic advantage within 10 years, but is that the same as society collapsing?

Or do you just mean American democracy ? It's hard to tell where the various groups and institutions might draw their lines on that. But democracies aren't a law of nature, so perhaps.

Caveat: if someone presses the nuclear trigger all bets are off. I wouldn't rule that one out, but it seemed inevitable back in the 70s so here's to hoping.
by ska80 | 2025-08-01 17:59:26+00:00
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by Lammy | 2025-08-01 17:59:39+00:00
> Written by Sawyer in pure, ultra-efficient Intel assembly language — an anomaly by that time

Not mentioned in the article, but this did allow for a port of the game to the OG XBOX (733 MHz PentiumⅢ box) way back in 2003, long before the game's eventual remake as RCT Classic for ARM etc in 2017.

Interesting that the XBOX port is RCT1+expansions even though it came out after RCT2 did on PC, maybe due to lesser requirements or probably just to avoid cannibalizing RCT2 PC sales and to double-dip people who had already paid for RCT1 PC: https://youtu.be/Vtincfkl8KY?t=75

Notably one of the XBOX games that has never been backwards compatible lol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Xbox_games_compatible_...

RCT1 was one of those games that I spent entire summers playing as a kid (see also: SimCity 3000), entirely offline because tying up the house's single phone line with the modem wasn't allowed during the day. Even though RCT2 was objectively the better game it felt like an aesthetic downgrade, and I actively hated RCT3 and still do. RCT1's vibes are immaculate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BitorD-HVuQ
by teamonkey | 2025-08-01 17:59:40+00:00
> I doubt there is any significant amount of housing that is just bought and left vacant. Why would you do that?

In high-demand areas property value often increases in value over time. You can literally “buy and hold” property, keeping it empty, doing nothing with it and expecting to sell it for a profit at some point in the future. It’s relatively safe and the rate of return can be significantly greater than inflation.

This ignores property taxes and costs of doing business of course. But there are also situations where you might want a reported tax loss on a profitable asset.
by william-evans | 2025-08-01 17:59:41+00:00
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by screye | 2025-08-01 18:00:02+00:00
NYC is deceptive. It's dense, so you don't realize you're crossing a city's worth of people in a 10 minute walk. Median studios in Beverly hills being $6k wouldn't surprise anyone. The Tribeca-Greenwich-West village-Chelsea stretch effectively the same.

Walk a few minutes north from there, and you'll reach hell's kitchen. Much much cheaper.
by com2kid | 2025-08-01 18:00:07+00:00
Outside of code, the current RAG strategy is throw shit tons of unstructured text at it that has been found using vector search. Some companies are doing better, but the default rag pipelines are... kind of garbage.

For example, a chat bot doing recipe work should have a RAG DB that, by default, returns entire recipes. A vector DB is actually not the solution here, any number of traditional DBs (relational or even a document store) would work fine. Sure do a vector search across the recipe texts, but then fetch the entire recipe from someplace else. Current RAG solutions can do this, but the majority of RAG deployments I have seen don't bother, they just abuse large context windows.

Which looks like it works, except what you actually have in your context window is 15 different recipes all stitched together. Or if you put an entire recipe book into the context (which is perfectly doable now days!), you'll end up with the chatbot mixing up ingredients and proportions between recipes because you just voluntarily polluted its context with irrelevant info.

Large context windows allow for sloppy practices that end up making for worse results. Kind of like when we decided web servers needed 16 cores and gigs of RAM to run IBM Websphere back in the early 2000s, to serve up mostly static pages. The availability of massive servers taught bad habits (huge complicated XML deployment and configuration files, oodles of processes communicating with each other to serve a single page, etc).

Meanwhile in the modern world I've ran mission critical high throughput services for giant companies on a K8 cluster consisting of 3 machines each with .25 CPU and a couple hundred megs of RAM allocated.

Sometimes more is worse.
by setsewerd | 2025-08-01 18:00:58+00:00
Yeah I've been bummed by how far NPR has swerved leftward, especially since 2016. Even ten years ago I liked tuning in because it was quality journalism that still made an honest effort to cover multiple sides of an issue, even if the topics they chose were primarily "liberal" topics. But yeah, now they seem just as tribal as Fox.
by danenania | 2025-08-01 18:01:15+00:00
For me personally (using mostly for coding and project planning) it's nearly always the case, including with thinking models. I'm usually pasting in a bunch of files, screenshots, etc., and having long conversations. Input nearly always heavily dominates output.

I don't disagree that there are hard problems which use short prompts, like math homework problems etc., but they mostly aren't what I would categorize as "real work". But of course I can only speak to my own experience /shrug.
by standardUser | 2025-08-01 18:01:22+00:00
I knew nothing of this at the time, but I just read the accusatory letter: https://scala-open-letter.github.io/

Reading that letter it seems that Jon was being accused of... nothing in particular? I'm not even sure what he could refute. There's no accusations of consent violations. There's really only the one phrase - "sexually harass and victimize women" - but without examples that just sounds like a pot shot. Especially given that they identify a "systematic pattern", which is apparently a pattern with no specific examples of wrongdoing.

And don't get me wrong, I'm strongly inclined to believe women and I generally distrust men. Especially when it comes to their interactions with women. And I believe these women probably had plenty of valid complaints, in part because I know very well how aggressive, oblivious and entitled a lot of men can be, and how many "normal" interactions between men and women do involve consent violations, if not assault or worse. So given what I know about the dangers women face routinely, and the vague and mild allegations in this letter, I'd guess like the biggest crime he committed was being another guy who's god awful at dealing with women, dating and sex.

Unless there is more that I don't know about.
by amradio1989 | 2025-08-01 18:01:32+00:00
Pretty insane valuation. It may pay off, it may not. Google search was vastly superior to its competitors. I don't think ChatGPT has that kind of edge.

This is a monopoly kind of valuation where no monopoly exists. Its like paying Microsoft billions for Internet explorer.

Personally I believe the future of AI models is open-source. The application of these models will be the real revenue driver.
by marcosdumay | 2025-08-01 18:01:38+00:00
> In general, the cost is nothing for a late-stage/end-stage confirmation.

One in-person day costs a nearby candidate about 3 days, and a more remote candidate anything from a week to a couple of months depending mostly on where you are. And yeah, it also costs some money that maybe you will reimburse.

It doesn't cost you much, that's for sure. But if it's for a full-remote position, it's absolutely not a "the cost is nothing" situation and the candidate refusing it for some random company in a random stage of the interview is absolutely reasonable.
by yorwba | 2025-08-01 18:01:40+00:00
When it comes to prioritizing capital deployment for education, it's probably better to start with primary schools before thinking about top universities. https://wid.world/news-article/china-vs-india-how-human-capi... suggests that this played a role in the economic divergence between India and China: India had a higher tertiary school enrollment rate than China until about 2000, but China had universal primary school enrollment much earlier, so more people could transition out of working in agriculture.
by Kuraj | 2025-08-01 18:01:50+00:00
We don't really have this problem in .NET 8, we mock stuff just fine using an in-memory database provider.

But I admit my tone missed the mark. It may have been much harder to do in the past, or maybe I'm missing some nuance.

But also at this point why not just have your DbContext directly implement an interface that you can mock? Surely that must be more straightforward than adding an entire abstraction layer, that you have to extend with each new usage scenario, and without sacrificing implicit transactionality.
by like_any_other | 2025-08-01 18:01:51+00:00
> European authorities held a “DSA MultiStakeholder Workshop” in Brussels, intended to help major platforms like Meta, X, and Google understand their obligations under the DSA. As Jordan notes, the seminar was closed to the public, unlike previous seminars about laws like the Digital Markets Act. Participants of the new event were specifically warned not to describe the seminar’s “exercise scenarios,” but Jordan’s committee got hold of key documents.

We are ruled by secret laws - it doesn't get more incriminating than that. The censor is never satisfied with mere censorship - he wants to keep the censorship itself secret. To deceive people into thinking it's reasonable and limited.

The article's perspective is American, but as a European, I want to know what authority permits the EU to police speech in its member states, covertly, without informing them or their citizens?

"Some of the most upsetting examples:" - the article abruptly paywalls here, but examples can be found on Jim Jordan's twitter, which quotes directly from the congressional report:

https://x.com/jim_jordan/status/1948730617803296910

https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-j... (also linked within the article)
by generalizations | 2025-08-01 18:02:07+00:00
FAA regulations are written in blood, too - and yet our private aircraft technology is ancient (and likely less safe than modern tech could facilitate) because those same regulations make the cost to innovate astronomical. I would not make the mistake of believing that regulations do more than freeze our tech in a relatively safe local minima.

You're describing the engineering problems of rarely-produced machinery, and seem to imagine that we can't figure out how to do that better, and cheaply, at scale? The potential market for a shipping-container-sized MW-scale power supply is likely huge.
by hilem | 2025-08-01 18:02:08+00:00
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by throwanem | 2025-08-01 18:02:32+00:00
Eh, it's a thousand-dollar Italian statement pen. If the guy doesn't really want to run a Lambo dealership, I get it, and I can see where you might be annoyed to have helped find that out. For those of us with less rarefied tastes, I think things are probably pretty different on a lot of axes, but all it takes to spend money is money.

As I said nearby [1], when I had Decimo trouble, he not only got hold of Pilot to find out they don't sell an OEM o-ring, but after that spent the day back and forth with me via email, making and giving accurate measurements of an intact part, all kinds of things. The end result is still the first pen I reach for all day, every day. I don't know what was really so different between your case and mine, but I doubt it had that much to do with Brian.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44757775
by nitwit005 | 2025-08-01 18:02:48+00:00
That just seems to be some sort of common construction scam. I've seen it more than once with private construction.

There is a private dental office down the street from me that's has an expansion which somehow took years. Same story. Ton of construction for a month or two, and then nothing happened.

There was a union protest about using non-union labor for a bit. It felt like they were protesting the wrong issue, as no labor was occurring.
by swores | 2025-08-01 18:02:50+00:00
I don't know about the situation at all (non-American here), but hypothetically if a local (say State level or something) organisation, that was 100% funded by the federal government, chose to donate 10% of their revenue to PBS, then PBS would accurately classify that as a donation rather than federal funding, but it would still potentially be affected by federal funding cuts.

I've no idea of that is at all the case with any of PBS' donations, but it seems like a hypothetical that might be true and that could be hidden despite you being diligent in finding out what PBS truthfully reported.
by bullfightonmars | 2025-08-01 18:03:09+00:00
What else could it be? Elected institutions are made up of people who agree to a laws, rules, and norms that everyone else agrees on. It's all a farce built up on agreements to keep things running smoothly.

There is no system you could structure rigidly enough that it would not be vulnerable to bad actors. You can insulate yourself by distributing authority as we have, but if those authorities stop playing following the laws, rules, and norms well you end up where we are at, devolving into facisim.
by tristor | 2025-08-01 18:03:23+00:00
Unfortunately, while they bridle at the truth, Boomers are the most selfish generation in American history. Every single political and economic action of their generation has been done explicitly at the expense of future generations to enrich themselves. They are the first and only generation in American history to leave their children worse off than themselves. Unfortunately, they are also one of the longest living generations in American history also, and still control the reins of power long after most other generations had passed along. I think we're far from reaching the pinnacle of the damage they will do to our society and to the world. Depending on how long the US lasts as an entity, they might well go down in history as the worst generational cohort ever.
by at-fates-hands | 2025-08-01 18:03:39+00:00
Conservative here.

I wasn't very happy with the PBS defunding. One of their best shows was Frontline and the amount of just straight down the middle documentaries they did was great. For a lot of the issues that became very politicized, I would regularly turn to them for an unbiased view of what was going on.

I agree on the educational stuff as well. How many generations of kids grew up watching PBS kids shows? My parents donated regularly and supported PBS the whole time.

Hopefully they can continue, I'm sad to see such a pillar of goodness go away.
by BeetleB | 2025-08-01 18:03:41+00:00
I identify neither as a liberal nor as a conservative, but outsiders will likely see a left bent in me.

The thing about PBS and NPR: I just don't have any alternatives! Wherever I've lived, all the other radio stations/channels just suck - liberal or not. MSNBC, CNN, Fox News totally suck. ABC, CBS, NBC mostly suck. The half-good radio stations are just way too biased and make NPR/PBS appear like paragons of neutraltity. I can tolerate losing NPR/PBS if I had alternatives. I simply don't.

Conservatives lump NPR/PBS viewers with other liberals. It's generally not true. All my liberal friends declare NPR to be "part of the problem". NPR/PBS viewers are just in another category altogether. They don't have choices.

I'd really like to hear from conservatives: Are there any channels/radio stations they like? Their complaint is continually that NPR/PBS is too left wing (which I can dispute but won't). But do they have a gaping hole in their choices the way people like me are about to have?
by Den_VR | 2025-08-01 18:03:46+00:00
Oh yes, “think of the authors.” That’s propaganda, an idyllic myth.

Literary output and quality have never been solely contingent on authors making a living from their work. The necessity of authors making their livelihood writing is the idyllic myth. Literature can, and has, bloomed from both the pen of the pauper and the privileged.

Jane Austen made perhaps £600 from her writing. Kafka kept a full-time day job and saw zero literary income in his lifetime.

Not to say there’s not people that haven’t made fortunes from those examples, but it sure wasn’t the author.
by 827a | 2025-08-01 18:03:51+00:00
Big, coherent context windows are key to almost all use-cases. The whole house of cards RAG implementations most platforms are using right now are pretty bad. You start asking around about how to implement RAG and you realize: No one knows, the architecture and outcomes at every company are pretty bad, the most common words you hear are "yeah it pretty much works ok i guess".
by slartibardfast0 | 2025-08-01 18:04:05+00:00
the steps to import the new keys from microsoft are here:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-itpro-blog/...

worked perfectly on a fully updated Windows 11 24H2 installed on an old Surface Pro LTE i5-7300U that is perhaps unlikely to receive another firmware update...
by gilbetron | 2025-08-01 18:04:22+00:00
Speaking of Washtenaw County, as a resident, it is also "the leftists" that are protecting existing zoning and are the major NIMBYs. It is the "evil corporate right wingers" that want to build all kinds of housing, but are prevented from doing so. There is literally two ballot measures for next week where the left wing NIMBYs want to protect a "park" (which is literally a parking lot) from being turned into a larger library and actual green space, because we also want to build more housing as well above the library.
by underlipton | 2025-08-01 18:04:34+00:00
You don't have to buy out the whole market. You buy the houses that are likely to turn over, and then you make sure that they don't until you want them to. Housing and rent is set at the margins. If the average price in your area over the last year for comparable housing was $300k, and the last three comps sold for $400k, your asking is $400k.

It's exactly the situation you'd expect with record high prices and low sales volume, which is where we're at.
by delichon | 2025-08-01 18:04:41+00:00
I hear many things on broadcast media that are contrary to my values, and tend to prune those sources from my media diet. When I am obliged by law to support those sources anyway, I get resentful. So I have been wishing for this since Ronald Reagan proposed it.

To me the bright line of "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech" is crossed at least in spirit when the state seizes a dollar from a taxpayer and spends it on speech, because that abridges the taxpayer's resources for speech by a dollar. "You have free speech but I can take the money you use to be heard to speak against you" is a big loophole.