MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anonym29 | 2025-08-05 04:05:31+00:00
>Pays to whom? Verifying this claim seems to require a definition of "the system."

Taxes paid to governments. "The system" being governments - federal, state, county, city/locality.

Cash receipts out of the system would include Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment, WIC/SNAP, cell phone vouchers, housing vouchers, transportation vouchers, SSI/SSDI, and even all tax credits (including indirect tax credits, like Elon Musk receiving a tiny percentage of total Tesla profits, which are themselves a non-100% percentage of vehicles sold, which are themselves purchased overwhelmingly with customer money that does not come from tax credits, of the percentage of cars sold that are even eligible for tax credits).

And yes, I do count those slivers of indirect EV tax credits as receipts for Musk, however significantly those dollars are diluted before they reach Musk, and count them against his contributions (which include the highest individual income tax bill ever paid by anyone in history).
by barbinbrad | 2025-08-05 04:06:27+00:00
really well said, imo! it's interesting how there's two views of ERP. one is a G/L + anything needed to support it. and the other is more of a tool that supports operations and planning. i started with a G/L, but have kept it hidden even now, because my thought it that everything else should be good first, and support the G/L second.
by bfg_9k | 2025-08-05 04:08:42+00:00
You know I hear this all the time but it never quite makes sense to me. REA is inherently a better asset class than the vast majority of assets, simply because you can leverage up without a risk of being stopped out.

Doing the numbers on (most) developed economies, buying freehold housing is typically a worse investment than stocks before leverage, but after, RE almost always comes ahead. Nobody is going to let you mortgage a basket of stocks, but almost any bank will let you do that with a house.

That said - I hate this idea because I think this kind of thinking is what has lead to many of societies problems in the developed world at the moment. But, from a rational point of view the numbers make sense.
by m463 | 2025-08-05 04:11:49+00:00
But alarms drive engagement. Also, display a company logo and complete product name™

More seriously, I have a garmin watch that displays notifications for things, but they automatically disappear and you cannot figure out what they were.

I think being overwhelmed by alarms should be matched with the confidence that you can find the alarm if you accidentally dismiss it or something important comes up.
by rubenvanwyk | 2025-08-05 04:12:35+00:00
Congrats on this! Quite interesting for me as I have been working on vertical ERPs for a while, not at all related to manufacturing and as far as I know, accounting is usually the core of any ERP. Who is your ICP at companies in your target groups - ops managers? I’ve mostly seen CFOs being the drivers behind ERP purchasing.
by hintklb | 2025-08-05 04:12:44+00:00
It's worse than that. Buying a house without leverage is a terrible investment.

The leverage is absolutely required because all the fees that come with real estate (Realtors, Interest, HOA, Taxes, Insurances, Closing costs, Downpayment opportunity cost,...). The leverage makes it an OK investment, but still historically not on the level of a diversified basket of stocks.

The leverage also works in both ways and essentially makes your house an even more risky asset. It supposes that it only ever goes up which has not always been the case historically.
by defrost | 2025-08-05 04:12:47+00:00
Is it the means (atomic bomb) or the destruction that raise that question for you?

Tokyo had a higher death toll from conventional bombing and incendiaries, and Dresden raised the question of whether destruction of a city was justified.

Japan had 72 cities destroyed prior to Hiroshima, which was on the "to be destroyed" list before the wider military outside of the Manhattan project knew of the atomic bomb.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo
by anderber | 2025-08-05 04:13:59+00:00
There are some real laugh-out-loud moment in Peppa Pig (like at the fair, where everyone was telling Mommy Pig that girls aren't good at said game and she in her anger absolutely demolishes it). However, I find those moments coming up less in Bluey. I almost always laugh at how Grandpa Pig says "metal detector", too.

I think if I didn't have kids, I would like Bluey better. Likewise, I would be able to watch it without any discrimination.
by aghilmort | 2025-08-05 04:14:02+00:00
ya, definitely no nerd sniping intended -- tl;dr is had to jam paper out in middle of Techstars since conference deadlines are what they are.

we're planning go-live NLT Labor Day after conference this coming week along with a much easier to read / parse / full results arXiv pre-print, etc.

more on tech deets & your other questions in next reply.
by ricardobeat | 2025-08-05 04:14:34+00:00
> You can’t judge an individual this way

But nobody is here to judge individuals. It’s the other way around - the discussion is around behavioral trends and data, they were the ones bringing in personal anecdotes to counter it. The point is to look at the behavior of of the general population and its impact, not trying to prove that anyone in particular conforms (or not) to the overall trend.
by FireBeyond | 2025-08-05 04:14:40+00:00
A few things:

The founding fathers were often in their (often early) 20s. They were not infallible, nor was the system they created.

That's why they created mechanisms for evolving that system.

Except we rarely do. "But Constitutional Amendments", people say.

Actually, one of the doctrines of the founding fathers was that the whole system should be reviewed, head to toe, every 10-20 years.

Everything is very selective. Infallible when we want it to be. "Oh they didn't mean that/like that" when we want. And completely ignore other parts as inconvenient.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-08-05 04:15:01+00:00
> pay for services in full directly

Those are hybrid subscriptions/subsidies. Not paid in full.

If you are being exposed to ads in something you paid for, you are almost certainly being charged less money. Companies can compete on cost by introducing ads, and it's why the cheaper you go, the more ad infested it gets.

Pure ad-free things tend to be much more expensive then their ad subsidized counterparts. Ad subsidized has become so ubiquitous though, that people think that price is the true price.
by nelox | 2025-08-05 04:15:04+00:00
The only conceivable (and highly hypothetical) way a nuclear detonation over a city might not violate IHL would require a very narrow set of improbable conditions, which are highly theoretical and borderline implausible in reality.

Empty city scenario:

The city is completely evacuated (e.g. warning issued and civilians withdrawn). The target is a purely military installation (e.g. underground command center, missile base). A low-yield nuclear weapon is used with tightly controlled fallout and blast effects.

Extremis Self-Defense:

The attacking state faces an existential threat (e.g. imminent nuclear attack from another state). A nuclear weapon is used as a last resort, targeting a high-value military asset in a city. The attacker argues that this was the only available means to defend itself.

Hypothetical “Clean” Nuclear Technology:

Some future nuclear weapon is designed with minimal blast, heat, and no residual radiation. It targets a completely isolated, fortified military position within a city. Civilians have been evacuated, and the use is precisely calibrated to avoid harm.

But this is where the fantasy ends. Cities are full of civilians. Nuclear weapons cannot distinguish civilian from combatant. Blast radius, thermal radiation, EMP, and fallout affect vast areas, even with “low-yield” weapons. Hospitals, schools, water systems, food supply chains would all be devastated. Environmental destruction and long-term radiation would cause unnecessary suffering.

The attack would likely violate the prohibition of indiscriminate attacks, the principle of proportionality, and environmental protections (under Additional Protocol I).
by electroly | 2025-08-05 04:16:41+00:00
I'm in a position of supporting a Julia environment but not writing Julia myself. From my perspective, they need to fix time-to-first-plot before it can be adopted more broadly. It's horrendous. The "2-3 minutes" I see online is an aggressive estimate; it's more than that for our modest set of data science packages on very beefy workstations. I had to use PackageCompiler.jl to build a sysimage which shifted a ton of burden onto me (and onto GitHub Actions) to avoid a long precompile on every user machine. I had to do the same to get my Julia Docker image to stop precompiling on every new cloud machine even though it had already been precompiled during docker build. I would describe this process as a nightmare, and it was a serious problem--the thing was precompiling every time on every job run in the cloud using the docker image.
by somenameforme | 2025-08-05 04:17:21+00:00
This, in general, seems like a great thing. The goal of a university should be to produce premium students, and nothing's better than a trial by fire.

We actually had this exact thing at my university. One sophomore level weed out class was a "self paced" electrical engineering class. It was called self paced because you were given a textbook and were free to work through it at your own pace. But to finish the class by the end of the semester you had to average 2 chapters completed per week, and completing a chapter not only included finishing a problem set and taking a test which you had to score 90%+ on (and were required to finish another problem set and retake it otherwise), but on occasion also demoing some skill in the lab.

It was brutal, but one of the most educational classes I've ever taken - and obviously not just because of what I learned about electrical engineering. Of course it seems modern universities have just become profit-driven degree treadmills. Weeding out students? That's reducing profit! And yeah looking back at my uni's page it seems this class is no longer self paced. Lol. And that's at a top 10 school. The enshittification of education.
by anonym29 | 2025-08-05 04:17:39+00:00
There appears to be an unspoken normative view being asserted throughout the thread that people who do not invest their money and take advantage of compounding should achieve outcomes comparable to those who do invest their money and take advantage of compounding, essentially idealizing the elimination of the opportunity cost of not strategically deploying capital, discounting the benefits accrued to those who can do the math and choose to act upon it rationally, and privileging the act of spending all disposable income on nonproductive ends. I suspect a nonzero amount of motivated reasoning is at play on behalf of those who choose to spend disposable income nonproductively on depreciating liabilities rather than assets; this seems closely psychologically related to regretting self-failure to optimize for long-term economic outcomes that is directed back as spite at those who successfully optimize for long-term economic outcomes.
by wombatpm | 2025-08-05 04:17:55+00:00
Do Universities no longer do that? All of my finals were 3hrs. There was a special schedule during finals week with 3 slots per day. The time of your final exam was based on when the first lecture session of a class took place. Really sucked to get an 8-11 AM slot when your classes never started before 11.

Fun prank: set all of the clocks in your dorm neighbor’s room to different wrong times. Guy across the hall knew we were messing with him, trusted his watch - which had the correct time, but wrong alarm time. Realized he had a problem when he had hot water in the shower and no one was around. He was only 45 min late to the exam. Good times.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-08-05 04:17:55+00:00
This is just plain wrong. Let's break it down:

* Insurance and tax increases: real and you have to deal with them, but they don't go up as fast as rent does. Advantage: owning

* HOA fees: don't buy an HOA home, problem solved. You should do that anyway just because HOAs suck ass.

* Down payment: not a real cost, that money is yours in the form of equity

* Closing costs and other fees: real but completely negligible when amortized over the life of the home.

* Repairs: real, and they suck. This is the only place renting can stack up superior, but you can do a lot to mitigate this by doing your due diligence up front and not buying a dud house. Overall, unless you get unlucky you should come out ahead, but you can lose the die roll.

* Realtor costs: greatly depends. When we bought our house we paid zero, because the seller pays the buyer's costs. This can be a serious cost if you're changing houses a lot, but... just don't do that (for multiple reasons).

Overall, after buying my house 7 years ago I'm coming out ahead month over month (thanks to rent going up like clockwork every year, while my mortgage has stayed the same). By the time I die, I will be significantly ahead, and that's not even taking into account unrealized gains in the value of the property. Which I don't count for much, because my home is a place to live and not an investment vehicle. But maybe someday it'll do me good, or my heirs.

Owning a home really is a great deal for the vast majority of people in the US. It's not some society wide conspiracy, it's not an ad to get others into the market so you can benefit, it's the truth.
by giardini | 2025-08-05 04:18:29+00:00
sachertorte (well, "sarchertech") says "Obviously a phonetic language has other disadvantages compared to a logographic language."

Apparently not enough to be mentioned on this thread!8-))

Here's an interesting Reddit thread that discusses modern languages on a scale ranging from purely phonetic to purely logographic:

https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/comments/bv7r1p/wh...

While I must admit I would give a rat's ass (but not much more) to know any common logographic language today, I would never go to the trouble to learn one. The effort is simply too great, the payoff too limited, and there are other better ways to use the rest of my life.
by cookiengineer | 2025-08-05 04:19:53+00:00
Remember when the internet of military contractors got exfiltrated because the CI/CD pipeline of a firewall vendor got breached?

Guess what their password was: solarwinds123

So yes, I am in favor of passkeys everywhere because humans are bad at realizing their operational risks when they start creating an account and haven't even used it yet.

Without password managers, humans tend to reuse their passwords, which makes one breach a breach of all accounts. Humans are also bad at remembering passwords, so time based recreation of passwords will always lead to the month or week or iteration as a suffix.

And that's the actual problem that can be prevented with passkeys (or MFA that is not based on sending SMS or emails which are unencrypted as a transport channel).

But I agree with the author's implied sentiment: export/import should work between password managers and be required by law, because currently Microsoft's authenticator workflow is pretty useless if you can reset the passkeys via email ownership anyways.
by the-mitr | 2025-08-05 04:20:47+00:00
along similar lines is His Master's Voice by Stanislaw Lem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Master%27s_Voice_(novel)

> We will make it undecipherable for all who are not yet ready; but we must go further in our caution — so that even a false reading will not be able to supply them with any of the things that they seek but that should be denied them.
by lmm | 2025-08-05 04:21:13+00:00
Bugs in the typechecker are rare (it's widely exercised if the language is at all popular) and generally fixed quickly. If you have an expression of type A you can be pretty confident you're getting a value that's passed through a constructor for type A.

Can a human encode something different by that than what they intended to encode? Certainly. But it's got the highest cost-benefit of any approach to double-checking your code I've found.
by seltzered_ | 2025-08-05 04:22:43+00:00
Very neat to see! I've been wanting to make one for ~15 years, one approach to making one would be inspired by a wooden binary counter where each 'pixel' has a gravity latch that rolls out when on one side and triggers a flip for the next adjacent pixel: https://youtu.be/zELAfmp3fXY

Also worth noting this art project: http://breakfastny.com/dot-screen
by marcus_holmes | 2025-08-05 04:22:52+00:00
Also vendor lock-in. The camera company gets no revenue from integrating with Google/Apple, and potentially loses a source of lock-in, so why do it?

Also, the RAW format that the camera stores is huge, and pretty much unusable. You'd want to store JPGs but those are export format not that actual image. Though I guess that's an answer to the lock-in question: export jpgs to the cloud, keep the RAW images on the device.
by matheusmoreira | 2025-08-05 04:23:35+00:00
There's no point in answering a question whose premises are invalid. The question was predicated on Bolsonaro being responsible for it. He wasn't.

He straight up tried to stop those people. There were lots of protests prior to that so called "attack". I saw him trying to call them all off. Numerous times. People protested anyway. Because they understood that Brazil was not a democracy.

He is a coward. He did literally nothing while the judge-kings were silencing his supporters with no due process. While people were going to jail in order to protect everything he came to represent, he was in the USA enjoying a vacation as if nothing was happening. He betrayed every single person who ever supported him from the very beginning.

And yet people are still assembling in the streets to protest the political unelected supreme court. Whatever Bolsonaro may or may not have started, it's bigger than him now. His current usefulness is limited to the fact Trump apparently likes him enough to sanction the brazilian despots who are persecuting him.
by jacobolus | 2025-08-05 04:23:56+00:00
It is definitely not the case that if student A performs better on a timed high-stakes test than student B, that means A must have worked harder / prepared better / know the material better / etc. than B. Some people are very skilled at bullshitting their way through stupid school tests, and others are not. Very few school tests are well enough designed that they can effectively measure the intended target of how well someone understands the topic, content, and course-specific skills which are being intentionally trained in the course.

Bullshitting though tests is a learnable / trainable skill, but schools generally do not teach it very coherently or well and most students do not deliberately practice it. It generally doesn't have that much to do with the content or other skills intentionally taught by any particular course or by schools in general (there's decent overlap with the skills involved in competitive debate and extemporaneous speech, which some students participate in as an extracurricular activity). Rating students on how good they are at bullshitting their way through exams is sadly a significant part of the way our education system is focused and organized, but in my opinion it is not a valuable or particularly valid approach. There are certain professional contexts/tasks where this kind of skill is useful, but developing it per se shouldn't be the focus of the education system.

Sometimes this and related skills are summarized as "intelligence" ("oh she aced the test without studying, she must just be really smart", etc.), but in my opinion it's quite a misleading use of the word.
by nairbv | 2025-08-05 04:26:09+00:00
New terminal-based LLM coding tool: https://github.com/nairbv/vibecoder

Most "vibecoding" tools (LLM-assisted coding tools) are built into an IDE like VSCode. Earlier this year, a Reddit post inspired me to implement a vibecoding tool with an IRC-style terminal interface.

Highlights:

* Terminal-only interface (no IDE required) * The agent independently navigates the file system, edits files, views git diffs, and runs unit tests until satisfied with its changes. * Model-agnostic (It can use any LLM by putting an API key in a .env file)

The behavior of LLM coding agents can be flaky, but I was able to use the tool successfully. I even used it to extend itself, by asking the AI to design and implement new tools for it to use.

I haven’t worked on it for a few months (enjoying the summer in Mexico), but I’d love feedback, ideas, or collaborators.
by giardini | 2025-08-05 04:26:11+00:00
To be followed by a life of trying to remember the f**ing classical Chinese character that you read once 30 years ago, used twice and now can neither remember nor find in a dictionary.

I see this almost every time I meet with Chinese friends: they have forgotten one or more particular ideograms that have a particular meaning and simply cannot recover them w/o extensive discussion with their educated Chinese peers. They chalk it up to their faulty memory: I chalk it up to a faulty language.
by cweagans | 2025-08-05 04:26:25+00:00
Targeting ads at an aggregate demographic (like you would with a billboard) is not the same as targeting ads at a specific person because they match a desired demographic. It would be more like some guy with a sign recognizing you and running up to you to wave the sign in your face specifically.

Also: I would argue that there is support for "Outside", as you put it. Fire dept/ambulance/police for emergencies, government at various levels for some things, utility companies (e.g. if a water line broke or whatever), etc, etc.
by benreesman | 2025-08-05 04:27:35+00:00
This is a hypothetical so give me a little rope here, but what if robots.txt wasn't a suggestion? What if it were binding (leaving aside for a moment how one would enforce / mandate / guarantee that)?

Would that solve the whole problem? Folks who ran webservers declared what they consent to, and that happens?

I think it's useful to just see if there's a consensus on that: actually making that happen is a whole can of worms itself, but it's strictly simpler than devising a good outcome without the consensus.

(And such things are not impossible, merely difficult, we have other systems ranging from BGP to the TLD mechanism that get honored in real life).
by adolph | 2025-08-05 04:29:05+00:00
I hadn’t listened to the below video in a while but I did again today and the above comment’s assumptions of fact perfectly illustrate the point of the video.

This comment takes as fact a claim made by the police, which might be wrong, either by error or purpose.

One thing is for certain though, the police’s initial investigation was criminal. That is to say it was to establish the fact of who was the driver, etc. It was totally separate from the civil litigation that later established Tesla to be at 30% fault for the wreck using computer records establishing that ADAS was engaged.

Leaving Tesla out of it, suppose there was some other automaker with some other problem. A cop comes to them and says “what do I need to ask you to establish the facts about an accident?” Since when do police just accept “oh, the potentially adversarial lawyer gave me advice on what they can tell me without getting a subpoena. Guess that’s all I can do?” That’s absurd.

Don’t talk to the police: https://youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE