MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by protocolture | 2025-08-05 01:36:26+00:00
I love that its Brisbane. I hate that, the parts of brisbane you see are largely financially out of reach. I used to have a house on my street that was extremely similar to the Heelers, and it sold for 2 million, then the place next door to them went for 1.7.

I spend most episodes in financial distress wondering how to practically afford the lifestyle, and how my kiddo would ever be able to afford that lifestyle.

Even in terms of Nostalgia for the older generations, the suburbs depicted were well out of reach for a friends family. His father used to tell me he dreamed of moving into one of those suburbs but it was too expensive for their combined income, where one income was an aviation engineer.
by resource_waste | 2025-08-05 01:36:28+00:00
>shortage of physicians

>Asking prospective doctors to fund their own residency slots will only make that problem worse.

Its literally the opposite.

If you have them fund their own spots, there would be potentially unlimited spots.

The limit is caused by the boogeyman of not getting government funding, not that people can't afford the temporary debt.

There was some stat that 1 in 4 qualified people become doctors. The problem is not supply. The problem is the cartel legally reducing supply to prop up wages.
by tzs | 2025-08-05 01:38:09+00:00
Political spam can be hilarious in how wrong it can be. I received this a while back (edited to remove specific locations):

> Good Afternoon TZS,

> We’ve noticed your thoughtful conservative posts on social media and would like to invite you to our $COUNTY County Republican Volunteer/PCO meeting, featuring an overview of this year’s Legislative session by $COUNTY County Republican Representatives $REPRESENTATIVE_LIST.

> Please join us at the $RESTAURANT Restaurant this Wednesday, June 25, from 6-8pm for this in-depth opportunity. The evening will be informative and eye-opening!

> $COUNTY County Republican Party www.${COUNTY}republicans.com

> Reply STOP to opt out of future text messages.

I found that hilarious because as far as I know everything related to politics that I have posted on social media that concerned any issue the Republicans have a position on (other than an issue where there is broad bipartisan consensus) took a position highly critical of theirs.
by arjvik | 2025-08-05 01:38:45+00:00
Vanguard is one of the cooler-structured brokerages. Vanguard (the management firm) is owned by the mutual funds themselves, of which you are an investor of. So their shareholder obligation is genuinely towards "clients" of the individual mutual funds. As far as I'm aware, this is the only mutually-owned mutual fund firm.

It's definitely got a solid track record and good fees, but these are things I'd feel weird about advertising it on HN for.
by dredmorbius | 2025-08-05 01:39:41+00:00
My point is that many technologies which were once thought of as luxuries eventually come necessities. Socially if not physically.

Adam Smith of all people writes of this:

By necessaries I understand not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to be without. A linen shirt, for example, is, strictly speaking, not a necessary of life. The Greeks and Romans lived, I suppose, very comfortably though they had no linen. But in the present times, through the greater part of Europe, a creditable day-labourer would be ashamed to appear in public without a linen shirt, the want of which would be supposed to denote that disgraceful degree of poverty which, it is presumed, nobody can well fall into without extreme bad conduct. Custom, in the same manner, has rendered leather shoes a necessary of life in England. The poorest creditable person of either sex would be ashamed to appear in public without them.

<https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations/Book_V/...>

Running water, sewerage, gas service, home postal service, electricity, automobiles, telephone service, Internet service, mobile phones, universal healthcare, and many other utilities were once considered luxuries but came to be recognised as essentials.
by dylan604 | 2025-08-05 01:41:12+00:00
Are you not already using password manager for all of your passwords?

It took forever to make any movement towards getting people to stop using the same password every where. Now we're telling people passwords aren't secure even with using a password manager and they should use passkeys. So now we're saying that using the same software that we spent so much time suggesting to use is not good enough. Instead, now you want them to use a dedicated piece of hardware that needs to never be lost, but people lose their phones frequently.

It's amazing to me how the majority of readers here absolutely cannot put themself in the place of non-computer nerds that spend 0% of their day thinking about code/security or anything other than what the Kardashiens are doing or their favorite influencer or whatever other nonsense that is everything and not nonsense to them. It's this kind of thinking that put us in this position that the people building the thing can't think about how the users will actually use it
by wakawaka28 | 2025-08-05 01:41:19+00:00
You mention America but this is an international cultural issue. The US is not even the worst country as far as gender relations goes.

>People really like to reduce this topic to a for them or against them position preferably erasing any kind of complexity in the process.

I think you want to shrug this off as some kind of "both sides" situation while ignoring the simple and irrefutable facts on the ground.

>I feel like normal people have exited the discussion on this topic a long time ago and the young who live most of their social life on the internet nowadays are just exposed to what remains.

Do you know many young or old people who are unaware of what goes online these days? Is misandry coming out of your TV, popular books, or magazines more acceptable than misogyny on some website or video online? I have met countless women poisoned against me personally without even knowing me. If you try to talk about men's issues, most women just don't want to hear it. They've been taught for decades that men are keeping them down, they deserve everything they want, etc.
by 8bitsrule | 2025-08-05 01:41:40+00:00
This visualization worked for me: https://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/entertainment-art...

$1 million in $100 bills can be -tightly- packed into a standard briefcase.

$1 billion in $100 bills is ten 4-foot high pallets.

$1 trillion, 10000 of those pallets, covers a US football-field sized area.
by int_19h | 2025-08-05 01:42:10+00:00
In principle, yes. And you could do the same for programming languages.

In practice, the problem is that any such constructed language wouldn't have a corpus large enough to train on.

It's really unfortunate that we ended up with English as the global lingua franca right at the time generative AI came about, because it is effectively cementing that dominance. Even Chinese models are trained mostly on English AFAIK.
by SlowTao | 2025-08-05 01:42:26+00:00
It doesn't help that nowadays you can have an LLM dump out a rough draft in a few minutes. The pessimistic take is that "Publish or Perish" will be the epitaph of modern science.

That authoritarian populists can use this as anti-intellectual leverage is partially the fault of this thinking. They can highlight a real issue but fan the flames.
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by ricksunny | 2025-08-05 01:43:55+00:00
>I'm not sure I'd call ...

Indeed it would have been better for me to focus on the decades of existential fear rather than the immediate bloodshed because, as demonstrated, the debate descended straight to the usual about the morality of dropping the bomb in WWII.

>And what social epistemology, actually?

Karl Compton and Leo Szilard whispering in Vannevar Bush's ear about the threat that the prospective threat that a German atomic bomb would pose. Vannevar would later make the case that the physicists would have done these feasibility tests anyways with or without his support, but this is a (somewhat biased) counterfactual and therefore incapable of being evaluated.

The whole episode demonstrates that it is by responding affirmatively to the 'choice to learn' - in this case whether a unique embodiment of already known physical properties is _really_ feasible - which finds us crossing the technological Rubicon of runaway doomsday device development.

Vannevar would go on to defend his actions in saying that it was good that such a horrific capacity was demonstrated in such a 'spectacular' way. His words in his autobiography, "Pieces of the Action" strive to cement the legacy of his gift to the world:

"The advent of the A-bomb is generally regarded as a catastrophe for civilization. I am not convinced that it was. With the pace of science in this present century it was inevitable that means of mass destruction should appear. Since the concept of one world under law is far in the future, it was also inevitable that great states should face one another thus armed. If there were no A-bombs the confrontation would still have occurred, and the means might well have been to spread among a a people a disease for a chemical that would kill or render impotent the whole population. History may well conclude, if history is written a century from now, that it was well that the inevitable confrontation came in a spectacular way that all could recognize, rather than in a subtle form which might tempt aggression through ignorance. At least we all know, we and the rest of the world, that there are A-bombs and what they can do."
by goosejuice | 2025-08-05 01:44:13+00:00
> Thus, the constant refrain that "autopilot in cars is just like autopilot in planes" actually supports the case against Tesla.

Just like, holds a lot of weight. I'm saying autopilot has a meaning in the world of aircraft and the FAA has some guidance on how it's used. They still place all responsibility on the pilot. So in that sense they are similar.

It's not that I think automakers shouldn't be liable for misleading marketing, it's that in this case I don't think the argument is strong.

> Thus, it's irrelevant that the small print

The driver has to agree to understanding how it works before using the feature. In the manual it's called out in the same way my Subaru calls out warnings for eyesight. In the model S 2019 manual, the car in this accident, it's clearly labeled with multiple warnings and symbols. Saying it's small print is disengenous. Half of the manual in that section is warnings about the limitations of the driver assistance tech.
by VikingTechGuy | 2025-08-05 01:44:59+00:00
You’re probably not GDPR / ePrivacy Directive compliant. Even if you're using a Consent Management Platform (CMP). Even if you paid for it.

Just dropped a new YouTube Shorts video that exposes what we’re calling Consent Theater – where most "compliant" consent solutions are silently loading trackers before you even click “accept.”

That’s a direct violation of the ePrivacy Directive in EU (yes, even in the UK (PECR) and Norway (Ekomloven)).

Why are millions of businesses paying for tools to become compliant when they are not?
by int_19h | 2025-08-05 01:45:14+00:00
But also, arguably, Lojban is the language you want to use for LLMs. Especially for the chain of thought.

And the interesting property of Lojban is that it has unambiguous grammar that can be syntax-checked by tools and enforced by schemas, and machine-translated back to English. I experimented with it a bit and found that large SOTA models can generate reasonably accurate translations if you give them tools like dictionary and parser and tell them to iterate until they get a syntactically valid translation that parses into what they meant to say. So perhaps there is a way to generate a large enough dataset to train a model on; I wish I had enough $$$ to try this on a lark.
by Celeste5D | 2025-08-05 01:46:12+00:00
Hi HN,

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I made this after realizing how bloated and invasive most period apps are. Would love your feedback or suggestions!

Thanks for reading
by thaumasiotes | 2025-08-05 01:46:18+00:00
> For a funny take on the whole "rhetoric" is the use and abuse of logic

But it's much broader than that. You can make true arguments. You can make confusing arguments. And you can use tools that have nothing to do with logic at all. Rhetoric has a lot to say about rhythm, alliteration, and linguistic structure. And a lot more to say about your personal bearing and your tone of voice.
by int_19h | 2025-08-05 01:47:56+00:00
> the first letter in each sentence isn't capitalized. This is so far the most glaring signal of slop.

just fyi, it's a very common manner of writing for younger folk online. more so in informal contexts, but as with everything else, once it's widely adopted it starts to creep into the more formal communication. it's not about "slop", it's just a cultural convention.

i should also note that many languages that got their orthographies defined relatively recently (e.g. various native american languages) use all-lowercase as well, by design. so there's no inherent reason why english can't do that either.
Ask HN: Is GitHub Support currently inactive?
by hackish113 | 2025-08-05 01:48:30+00:00
My GitHub account was deleted without any prior notice. I submitted a support request to understand the reason and what steps to take next. However, it has now been over two weeks—nearly three—and I have not received a response.

Out of concern, I submitted an additional inquiry, but that too has gone unanswered for over a week. I have not received any email replies, and even attempts to reach out via Twitter have not been acknowledged.

May I ask if GitHub Support is currently experiencing service interruptions or delays?
by dredmorbius | 2025-08-05 01:48:50+00:00
Keywords also have their limitations.

The US Library of Congress is an interesting case study to my mind. The original classification scheme came from Thomas Jefferson's private library (he donated the collection to the US Government after the original Library of Congress was burned in 1812. The classification has been made more detailed (though so far as I know the original 20 alphabetic top-level classes remain as Jefferson established them), and there's been considerable re-adjustment, as knowledge, mores, and the world around us have changed. The classification has its warts, but it's also very much a living process, something I feel is greatly underappreciated.

At the same time, the Library also has its equivalent of keywords, the Library of Congress Subject Headings. Whilst a book or work will have one and only one Classification assigned to it (the Classification serving essentially as an index and retrieval key), there may be multiple Subject Headings given (though typically only a few, say 3--6 for a given work). These are used to cross-reference works within the subject index.

The Subject Headings themselves date to 1898, and there is in fact an article on the ... er ... subject, "The LCSH Century: A Brief History of the Library of Congress Subject Headings, and Introduction to the Centennial Essays" (2009), I'm just learning as I write this comment:

<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J104v29n01_01>
by stingraycharles | 2025-08-05 01:49:26+00:00
The overall conclusion between me and my peers - all very senior devs - that know how to be productive with these systems is that it’s not “vibe coding” at all. You fist spend hours working out and reviewing and correcting and improving detailed specs and implementation plans, and then hand over the implementation to the LLM.

There are too many implicit contextual details that the LLM doesn’t know about that just make coding based on “vibes” not work at all. Eg the size of your organization heavily influences the types of tests you want to write and maintain.

So you still need a very solid understanding of engineering and your domain in order to get it to solve your problems properly.

But in the end, if you learn how to use it well, it’s an insane productivity boost. But you need to spend a month or two to learn how they really work, their limitations, and figure out a workflow.
by Spivak | 2025-08-05 01:50:13+00:00
I disagree strongly with this, it's like saying you must understand the subtleties of calligraphy or typography in order to be proficient at writing in your notebook with a pencil. I have no doubt you will be more purposeful and deft with your handwriting having this knowledge but they're two completely different skills.

You can be taught to and be proficient in "writing with your pencil" by learning the rules [1]. Efficient, practical, immediately useful and applicable. No subtlety required nor desired. It's the same as all practical skills or trades.

[1] https://stylepedia.net/style/
by dredmorbius | 2025-08-05 01:50:40+00:00
Also, to clarify, my point about non-native sources affording very limited news coverage local to you is salient in that the death of local news services (public, non-profit, or commercial) inevitably leads to opaqueness particularly as to local government, business, and other matters. It's a real loss, and deserves pointing out, however obvious it may be.
by defrost | 2025-08-05 01:51:19+00:00
The question I addressed was about the specific ethics of the specific case of "using the (atomic) bomb".

For survivors of a city destroyed overnight, with a great many friends and relatives dead, others injured or suffering the follow on results of malnutrition, disease, etc. there's little to separate the ethics of the use of an atomic weapon from the ethics of the use of tonnes of HE and incendiary weapons.

The most famous comparison, Tokyo Vs Hiroshima, has little to distinguish them from the PoV of a survivor.

https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2014/09/22/tokyo-hiroshima/

Again, for context, 72 Japanese cities, including Tokyo, were each leveled in single bombing raids before Hiroshima.

Any debate about the killing of civilians to "save US soldiers" from invaders predated the use of atomic weapons by a number of months when the policy to flatten all of Japan from the air first started.

Atomic weapons were developed for use against Germany, with the German surrender prior to a field testable weapon being built, with the imminent collapse of Japan on the horizon, it was a race by those military at the head of the Manhattan project to have clean field targets before the conventional bombers worked through their list.

Hiroshima was to be destroyed by US forces either way.

The question should be less about the ethics of spending an ungodly amount of money to destroy a city with a single bomb, and more about the ethics of destroying a city for considerably less cost with multiple bombs in a mass raid.

I very much suspect a great many regular people in Japan were very much not okay with seeing their fellow citizens destroyed in a war being pursued by other elements of Japanese society.
by forgotmypw17 | 2025-08-05 01:51:33+00:00
This is one of the reasons I chose Perl as the "foundation language" for my project, Pollyanna Framework. It's an off-Internet capable Web-based discussion system that can run using regular Web hosting, but can also be run locally on a local hotspot (e.g. together with Internet in a Box.)

Thank you for posting this essay.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-08-05 01:51:42+00:00
I am feeling too lazy to reread my comment very carefully but I don't think I said anything about college admissions. And where are the college scholarships and events promoting admission of men? Straight white men are the only group excluded by every DEI program (and don't tell me you don't see it). And, men are increasingly seeing that generic degrees are becoming overpriced (especially given discrimination in the job market against men). Women on the other hand are favored in many fields, including so-called male-dominated fields. Nobody EVER encouraged me or anyone I know to study or work anywhere based on my gender or race but this happens to women and minorities on the regular. Furthermore men report they are being pushed out for being white and straight. So go push your female superiority narrative somewhere else, I'm not having it.
by FristPost | 2025-08-05 01:51:58+00:00
I didn't start investing until I understood it.

This is a fantastic course. It covers a lot of ground.

If you want to actively invest, this will help you learn the mechanics. But in the end, what you really learn, is that you can't beat the market.

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/15-401-finance-theory-i-fall-200...
by btown | 2025-08-05 01:52:01+00:00
IoT makes a lot of sense for a satellite-based network. If some amount of recorded data can be buffered on device, it can be enqueued to upload during a period of non-peak traffic, essentially using "spot bandwidth," and benefit from Starlink's extensive coverage at a much lower cost than consumer on-demand applications. Indeed, the satellite could instruct transmitters on their allocated time-slices far ahead of time, reducing round-trips and negotiation.

Now, maybe all of this is already such a trivial amount of bandwidth that it's barely a rounding error to save it - but the possibilities it opens up for telemetry in remote regions are fascinating.
by AngryData | 2025-08-05 01:52:10+00:00
Ehh, mastercard and visa have been playing these kind of games for years. For example hypnosis is a censored term on most porn sites, and most try to take down videos using or referencing marijuana in videos. Not because either of those things are against the law to have in a video, but because payment processors like Visa and Mastercard will blacklist sites that don't of their own volition. Go ahead and go type hypnosis in any major porn site and you will see you get zero results.