MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-08-22 15:22:03+00:00
Yes, this was such a wonderful read. I think I maybe mentioned in this post or some other how I was discussing georgism with my friends and I couldn't really articulate the difference b/w georgism and communism partially because I had gotten into in depth about georgism some time ago, and I will admit that I had forgotten quite a bit of details.

This was such a beautiful ,might I say article on georgism. I would genuinely prefer if you could write it as a standalone article that I might share with my friends or can refer to.

Its such a nice read. Thanks for giving me the pleasure to read it.

Edit: I went further into the post and it seemed that mothball isn't having this discussion in good faith and wants to have a last word and yes they feel so right, almost being stupid might I say. But your way of recognizing it and saying it up front really both surprised me and made me respect ya since you actually went through their sources when they sent some and are doing this discussion in good faith.

I am maybe georgist because I feel like it genuinely made the most sense to me and uh maybe it makes also sense because land price seems to have gone so high that I can't hold land so maybe that's a bias but still georgism is such a good take yet landlords have such a lobby that I wonder if we can break it.

We really need to get more georgist thoughts.

Might I say,though this isn't strictly georgism but taxing/patching billionaire loopholes since software businesses are built on open source and is almost like land in the sense that community owns it, plus I feel like that concentration of power into such people is wrongful but I also know that its a really really tough issue as to taxing billionaires, do we tax their stocks? do we do what exactly??

Yet georgism is a right step in that direction except it is more quantifiable and (almost universally?) agreed to be a good taxation strategy.
by pricklyprice | 2025-08-22 15:22:04+00:00
Interesting, there is no mention of neural networks in that 2021 pdf from Apple (https://www.apple.com/healthcare/docs/site/Using_Apple_Watch...). Also, it seems like the only reference of VO2 Max computation with neural net is on empirical.health blog. https://imgur.com/a/2hX7XNc

I wonder now if all of the derived metrics on Garmin (Training readiness, Training load, Training status)are purely statistical algorithms
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-08-22 15:22:30+00:00
> It’s still rough right now, but it feels inevitable that this will get much better over time.

Yeah, the signals they get will improve things over time. You can do a lot of heavy lifting with embedding models nowadays, get "satisfaction" signals from chats, and adjust your router based on those. It will be weird at first, some people will complain, but at the end of the day, you don't need imo-gold levels of thinking to write a fitness plan that most likely the user won't even follow :)

Signal gathering is likely the driver of most of the subsidised model offerings we see today.
by Eddy_Viscosity2 | 2025-08-22 15:23:10+00:00
Western democracies have fair and competitive elections in the same way they have fair and competitive markets for things like internet access or mobile phones. You are effectively only allowed to choose between a very carefully managed set of choice that are provided to you. This set of choices is often so dire and distant from people's actual desires that many just don't bother voting at all.

George Carlin used the analogy of restaurant to modern democracy. You have the appearance of choice because you are handed a menu where you can choose liberal or conversative or green party, etc. But all of the actual policies and laws are drawn up by the same chefs in the back and you eat what you are served.
by boston_clone | 2025-08-22 15:23:25+00:00
It sounds like you're moving goalposts. You started by saying:

> Nothing really to see here. Normal course of business [...]

And now you're shifting your position by saying "well, its more difficult elsewhere so this must be fine".

You shouldn't worry, though - as long as the visa holders support the KKK and not a free Palestine, they can stay.
by tuetuopay | 2025-08-22 15:23:35+00:00
Sorry but for most programming tasks I prefer having actual data containers with features than an HTTP library: Set, Tree, etc types. Those are fundamental CS building blocks yet are absent from the Go standard library. (well, they were added pretty recently, still nowhere near as featureful than std::collection in Rust).

Also, as mentioned by another comment, an HTTP or crypto library can become obsolete _fast_. What about HTTP3? What about post-quantum crypto? What about security fixes? The stdlib is tied to the language version, thus to a language release. Having such code independant allows is to evolve much faster, be leaner, and be more composable. So yes, the library is well maintained, but it's tied to the Go version.

Also, it enables breaking API changes if absolutely needed. I can name two precendents:

- in rust, time APIs in chrono had to be changed a few times, and the Rust maintainers were thankful it was not part of the stdlib, as it allowed massive changes

- otoh, in Go, it was found out that net.Ip has an absolutely atrocious design (it's just an alias for []byte). Tailscale wrote a replacement that's now in a subpackage in net, but the old net.Ip is set in stone. (https://tailscale.com/blog/netaddr-new-ip-type-for-go)
by dlcarrier | 2025-08-22 15:23:52+00:00
Really? The network protocol someone uses is so critical that it should be illegal to use the wrong one? What happens when IPv9 becomes the hot new thing, but everyone is stuck on IPv6, because of some outdated government regulation? Do Americans have the right to use whatever internet protocol they want, under the first amendment?

IPv6 has made enough progress that it's totally possible to run your network off of it, regardless of what everyone else is doing, and if all of your neghbors are using IPv4, it won't harm your IPv6 network.

Also, part of the delay in the switch to IPv6 is that some work is needed to ensure that home routers and IoT devices default to reasonable security settings, and the absolute worst thing to do is force them to switch first, and figure out security later.

The answer isn't to force everyone to use something before its ready; the answer is to address every impediment, so it's worth it for everyone to switch. Sure it's slower, but it's much better than making users worse off by switching, converting them to detractors instead of supporters.
by ux266478 | 2025-08-22 15:23:56+00:00
Major social networks aren't even remotely close to being in the same niche. There are no algorithms, no friction with accounts, no obtrusive interfaces or feature bloat, no likes, no post ratings, content is completely ephemeral. This is a common and fundamental misunderstanding I see people make when trying to understand why 4chan exists. The people who post on 4chan aren't doing it because they can't help but post edgy content, they're doing it because its web 1.0 approach to social media completely erases a whole load of annoyances and anti-patterns that are endemic in the modern web.

Just like Usenet, it will probably never die despite the antisocial controversies. Or at least in the case of 4chan, it will be replaced with another board-type system. As Twitch streamers are the contemporary version of AM radio, 4chan is the contemporary version of BBSes. You should be extremely skeptical of the idea that you could ever compete in the same space with a heavily commercialized product like a modern social network. Twitter is not a replacement, it never will be.
by Dylancouzon | 2025-08-22 15:23:59+00:00
We (Dylan, Alex, Adam) built this to answer “what actually happened?” in Claude Code runs to debug things like nested tool calls, prompt bloat, token/cost spikes... It’s an open proxy on LiteLLM that emits OTEL + OpenInference spans to Arize-Phoenix.Giving you access to Full traces with internal prompt content, tool calls, streaming chunks, costs, and latency. No signup; works with the Claude Code CLI unchanged; MIT-licensed.

Any feedback welcome, hopefully folks find it useful. Full blog: https://arize.com/blog/claude-code-observability-and-tracing...
by chrismorgan | 2025-08-22 15:24:07+00:00
Links on support:

https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data/blob/main/manifes... (data integrated into the MDN page I linked)

Chromium: https://chromestatus.com/feature/5662315307335680, implemented on Android from M71 and desktop from M89.

WebKit: standards position is neutral <https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/11>, and https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194593 shows plenty of developer interest but doesn’t look to have been touched by Apple.

Firefox: standards position is positive <https://mozilla.github.io/standards-positions/#web-share-tar...>, but https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1476515 has languished.
by burkaman | 2025-08-22 15:24:24+00:00
Reading the polling questions, it doesn't actually seem that contradictory.

> To what extent do you support or oppose the introduction of age verification checks to access platforms that may host content related to suicide, self-harm, eating disorders and pornography?

Most people say support, presumably thinking "yeah those things seem bad and kids shouldn't be able to look at them".

> How likely or unlikely would you be to submit any proof of age (e.g. a photo/ video, photographic ID, using banking information, digital ID wallets etc) in order to access... Messaging apps / Social media websites / Online discussion forums / User-generated encyclopedias / Dating apps / Pornography websites

"Ok no I don't like this method, and obviously I'm not going to submit a photo of myself to look at porn." I don't think anybody hearing the first question was thinking "yes I support age verification even if it means blocking Wikipedia".

> And how confident, if at all, are you that the Online Safety Act will prevent children and people under 18 from seeing illegal and harmful material online?

Nothing contradictory about supporting a policy that you don't think will completely work, especially after realizing that you yourself would probably try to get around it.

I think combining or switching the first two questions might produce very different results.
by barbazoo | 2025-08-22 15:25:53+00:00
There are obviously N groups but one you're missing might be the people that just don't think it's a topic that fits the purpose of this space, at least how it's stated in the guidelines.

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

I can't help but feel that stories like these fall under "off-topic".
by SoftTalker | 2025-08-22 15:26:03+00:00
I often don't. I'll be at work, and think "crap, nothing for dinner, I'll stop at Aldi on the way home." But no quarters, because I didn't leave the house with the idea of stopping at Aldi.

Aldi is nice for quick stops because they aren't that big, they have most of what you might want but it doesn't take 30 minutes to get through the store like Kroger.

I try to keep a quarter in the car, but it often ends up in my pocket after I return the cart and I forget about it. I should drill a hole in one and put it on my keychain. But it won't be too long before we don't carry keys anymore either.
by icebergonfire | 2025-08-22 15:26:09+00:00
> Their no-bullshit returns policy.

Caveat emptor though, I trusted this policy as well and got my account closed for unclear reasons. They hinted at returns fraud (not the case) and a high return rate (not the case either).

I provided detailed records of everything and even escalated this to jeff@amazon.com, no luck.

Still have a few hundred euros in Amazon Echos in storage that I cannot use anymore.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-08-22 15:26:16+00:00
The energy inefficiency of ANNs vs our brain is mostly because our brain operates in async dataflow mode with each neuron mostly consuming energy only when it fires. If a neuron's inputs haven't changed then it doesn't redundantly "recalculate it's output" like an ANN - it just does nothing.

You could certainly implement an async dataflow type design in software, although maybe not as power efficiently as with custom silicon, but individual ANN node throughput performance would suffer given the need to aggregate neurons needing updates into a group to be fed into one the large matrix multiplies that today's hardware is optimized for, although sparse operations are also a possibility. OTOH conceivably one could save enough FLOPs that it'd still be a win in terms of how fast an input could be processed through an entire neural net.
by ryandvm | 2025-08-22 15:26:33+00:00
I had an experience earlier this week that was kind of surreal.

I'm working with a fairly arcane technical spec that I don't really understand so well so I ask Claude to evaluate one of our internal proposals on this spec for conformance. It highlights a bunch of mistakes in our internal proposal.

I send those off to someone in our company that's supposed to be an authority on the arcane spec with the warning that it was LLM generated so it might be nonsense.

He feeds my message to his LLM and asks it to evaluate the criticisms. He then messages me back with the response from his LLM and asks me what I think.

We are functionally administrative assistants for our AIs.

If this is the future of software development, I don't like it.
by andreacanton | 2025-08-22 15:26:45+00:00
Thank you for your thoughts.

About other people get promoted by the work you do quietly, I think there are three factors that makes a work not noticeable:

1. the quality of the work 2. the presentation of the work (show your work to people that maters) 3. the direct manager unfairness

The first two are in your control, if you think you have done all you can do. I think you should act to change the situation: talking to HR about the situation and/or search for another company
by kstrauser | 2025-08-22 15:26:56+00:00
I’ve never been a rock star, but I think Creed sucks.

I really don’t like your logic. I’m not a Michelin chef, but I’m qualified to say that a restaurant ruined my dessert. While I probably couldn’t make a crème brûlée any better than theirs, I can still tell that they screwed it up compared to their competitor next door.

For example, I love Python, but it’s going to be inherently slow in places because `sum(list)` has to check the type of every single item to see what __add__ function to call. Doesn’t matter if they’re all integers; there’s no way to prove to the interpreter that a string couldn’t have sneaked in there, so the interpreter has to check each and every time.

See? I’ve never written a language, let alone one as popular as Python, but I’m still qualified to point out its shortcomings compared to other languages.
by a_sydelov | 2025-08-22 15:27:23+00:00
The two dominant approaches to data warehouse architecture represent opposite priorities:

- Kimball (bottom-up): dimensional marts, fast delivery, business-friendly models, but harder to maintain consistency at scale.

- Inmon (top-down): centralized enterprise warehouse, strong governance and auditability, but slower delivery and higher upfront cost.

The choice shapes how quickly insights reach decision-makers, how consistent metrics remain across departments, and how scalable the system is in the long run.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-08-22 15:27:45+00:00
I'm sure somewhere in the current labs there are teams that are trying to figure out context pruning and compression.

In theory you should be able to get a multiplicative effect on context window size by consolidating context into it's most distilled form.

30,000 tokens of wheel spinning to get the model back on track consolidated to 500 tokens of "We tried A, and it didn't work because XYZ, so avoid A" and kept in recent context
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-08-22 15:28:21+00:00
> So what use cases are those?

I think that as software/data people, we tend to underestimate the number of business processes that are repetitive but require natural language parsing to be done. Examples would include supply chain (basically run on excels and email). Traditionally, these were basically impossible to automate because reading free text emails and updating some system based on that was incredibly hard. LLMs make this much, much easier. This is a big opportunity for lots of companies in normal industries (there's lots of it in tech too).

More generally, LLMs are pretty good at document summarisation and question answering, so with some guardrails (proper context, maybe multiple LLM calls involved) this can save people a bunch of time.

Finally, they can be helpful for broad search queries, but this is much much trickier as you'd need to build decent context offline and use that, which (to put it mildly) is a non-trivial problem.

In the tech world, they are really helpful in writing one to throw away. If you have a few ideas, you can now spec them out and get sortof working code from an LLM which lowers the bar to getting feedback and seeing if the idea works. You really do have to throw it away though, which is now much, much cheaper with LLM technology.

I do think that if we could figure out context management better (which is basically decent internal search for a company) then there's a bunch of useful stuff that could be built, but context management is a really, really hard problem so that's not gonna happen any time soon.
by hkt | 2025-08-22 15:28:22+00:00
The UK hasn't elected a government on 50% or more of the vote since the 1950s:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/717004/general-elections...

It is hard to call minority rule democratic, really. I've no issue with your point on the OSA and think it is widely supported, but let's be realistic, representation in the UK is virtual on matters like this: widely supported, but mostly by coincidence.
by ergonaught | 2025-08-22 15:28:25+00:00
For the most part I've loved Go since just before 1.0 through today. Nits can surely be picked, but "it's still not good" is a strange take.

I think there is little to no chance it can hold on to its central vision as the creators "age out" of the project, which will make the language worse (and render the tradeoffs pointless).

I think allowing it to become pigeon holed as "a language for writing servers" has cost and will continue to cost important mindshare that instead jumps to Rust or remains in Python or etc.

Maybe it's just fun, like harping on about how bad Visual Basic was, which was true but irrelevant, as the people who needed to do the things it did well got on with doing so.
by dijit | 2025-08-22 15:28:28+00:00
It was good business, and those men are immortalised in history.

We should probably not forget that France gave nearly everything they had to the US to fund its revolution, what was a global power ended up in such an impoverished situation that it led to the French Revolution and ended the monarchy.

Not a small amount of support, if you are at the receiving end - certainly smells like good business.
by sim7c00 | 2025-08-22 15:28:39+00:00
this looks super confusing. wanted to try zig but it looks as confusing as python :/.

i thought maybe you need 4 buffers. 2 for the raw data and 2 for encrypted data. i'd expect then the ones for encrypted data are larger because encryption usually makes ur data larger as far as i can tell.

other then that, just wondering if ud recommend Zig or if this kinda stuff is putting you off it? (might be an exception, or is this kinda confusion normal.?)
by bwfan123 | 2025-08-22 15:28:40+00:00
Arguably, the biggest breakthroughs we have had came out of formalization of our world models. Math formalizes abstract worlds, and science formalizes the real world with testable actions.

The key feature of formalization is the ability to create statements, and test statements for correctness. ie, we went from fuzzy feel-good thinking to precise thinking thanks to the formalization.

Furthermore, the ingenuity of humans is to create new worlds and formalize them, ie we have some resonance with the cosmos so to speak, and the only resonance that the LLMs have is with their training datasets.
by bccdee | 2025-08-22 15:28:49+00:00
> Wait, what? Who said otherwise?

> What a horrible metaphor for a tool that can translate pdfs to text. lol.

You didn't say otherwise explicitly, but you're definitely downplaying the issues discussed in the blog post.

> I'm gonna need you to know that just because some random dev who wrote a blog said something doesn't make it true.

That's not really a satisfying response. If you disagree with the post, you'll have to mount a more substantial rebuttal than, "well what if he's wrong, huh? Have you considered that?"
by tuetuopay | 2025-08-22 15:29:09+00:00
Depending on your iterator implementation (or, lackthere of), the functional boils down to your first example.

For example, Rust iterators are lazily evaluated with early-exits (when filtering data), thus it's your first form but as optimized as possible. OTOH python's map/filter/etc may very well return a full list each time, like with your intermediate. [EDIT] python returns generators, so it's sane.

I would say that any sane language allowing functional-style data manipulation will have them as fast as manual for-loops. (that's why Rust bugs you with .iter()/.collect())
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-08-22 15:29:20+00:00
> Except when they "extract" something that wasn't in the source. And now what, assuming you can even detect the tainted data at all?

I mean, this is much less common than people make it out to be. Assuming that the context is there it's doable to run a bunch of calls and take the majority vote. It's not trivial but this is definitely doable.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-08-22 15:29:47+00:00
I can read an article about 10x faster than watch a video. I don't have a problem with Alec's videos per se, but it's crazy to claim that video is the medium with higher information density. Text is always going to be the better medium for transmitting information, except for cases where the unique advantages of video (moving pictures and sound) help.
by barbazoo | 2025-08-22 15:30:00+00:00
I bet it's much more a campaign to instil fear in people with non-citizen status in general and for them to watch what they're doing and saying in general.

People are already spread too thin to revolt anyway, the billionaire masters made sure of that by lowering wages until people were just near enough the poverty line that losing their job would mean ruin. Can't go protest if you have to put food on the table. Now you also have to worry not to be taken out of your community and sent to a random 3rd country. I bet that makes people be quiet real quick. I bet we'll see a widening of what's un-acceptable by the administration.
by chrismorgan | 2025-08-22 15:30:12+00:00
It’s been implemented in Chromium for 4–6 years, Firefox’s position is positive (admittedly that was 2019), WebKit’s is neutral, and there are bugs open in both Firefox and WebKit.

I regularly criticise Google-only specs and point out how they’re not standards in any way, but this one is not really like that—it’s just that the other two platforms are missing a couple of other pieces that are better to get in place first, and it’s not a high priority for them.

And certainly in the context of this rel="share-url" outsider proposal, nah, the share_target manifest reference is still way more “official” than that.