MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by calvinmorrison | 2025-08-05 03:09:19+00:00
That doesn't mesh with the $5000 per credit hour ,get students in and out and degree'd ASAP. No 100 level outside of Marlboro college are you going to find a graduate sized class cohort meeting with professors 1 on 1 and debating philosophy and doing stand up rhetorical studies.

Oh yeah, Marlboro is out bidness.
by sarchertech | 2025-08-05 03:09:56+00:00
Most 3 credit hour classes are really 2.5 hours. And almost no one spends 36 hours hours outside of class on a 12 credit schedule unless they messed up and signed up for 4 difficult classes in the same semester. You definitely aren’t spending that much time outside of class all semester long.

You also have to consider that a semester is 16 weeks. The first week or 2 of each semester is very light.

So we’re talking 30/52 weeks a year for most people.

For most people, you’ll never have that much free time again in your life.

College feels like a lot of work because you aren’t good at time management yet. And you remember the last few weeks of each semester where you are actually extremely busy.
by stingraycharles | 2025-08-05 03:10:29+00:00
Correct, then you effectively become a holder of someone else’s money, which creates all kinds of legal trouble (you need to put that money into a separate, third party’s account that shields it from bankruptcy etc).

What they could do is automatically refund the credits to the original account as soon as they expire, but that would mean it’s not the deposit but every API request that would be counted as revenue, which creates a whole lot of other complications. Let alone the fact that refunding after a year is problematic as the original payment methods may have expired, changed, and that you’re still the holder of someone else’s money until the credits are used.

Bottom line: this is industry practice, but given how much flack Anthropic has been getting about the lack of transparency lately, this just adds more fuel to the fire and could be defused by some additional explanation from Anthropic’s side.
by panzi | 2025-08-05 03:11:07+00:00
Weird. Also just tried it with v8 and it doesn't behave like I remember and also not like certain descriptions that I can find online. I remember it because I was so extremely flabbergasted when I found out about this behavior and it made me go over all of my code replacing any Promise.all() with Promise.allSettled(). And it's not just me, this blog post talks about that behavior:

https://chrysanthos.xyz/article/dont-ever-use-promise-all/

Maybe my bug was something else back then and I found a source claiming that behavior, so I changed my code and as a side effect my bug happened to go away coincidentally?
by ggm | 2025-08-05 03:11:51+00:00
Google one is the paid tier of google for ordinary people, predicated on buying more storage. If you pay google to get more than the 15GB you are on google one and you've become a customer.

There are other forms of customer, GCP tenants, Google G-Suite, Google Workspace. If you pay google for these services, you get helpdesk directed at those services.

Google one includes your base google account. You can ask them about things unrelated to just having more storage, if it's within the compass of that level you paid for.

Google one has helped me when minor amounts of shit, a few clods short of "I lost my passkey" hit the proverbial fan.
by pzullo | 2025-08-05 03:12:19+00:00
Hey thanks for the comment, the work from https://github.com/bjoaquinc/mcp-error-formatter is great. I will definitely put some version of this into one of the next releases. Just opened an issue mentioning this thread.

The problem with the package above is that it is server side, and I think it should be. Server is the one that knows (has responsibility to know) if a tool is retryable and has informations about the error, and fairly so.

I see though how some sort of improved error formatting could be introduced in the client as well, but it shouldn't contain any logic about the error, rather format the error in the best way possible (in the direction in which it is best understandable by LLMs).
by kamaal | 2025-08-05 03:13:44+00:00
>>I wonder if anyone is still painting them?

Yes, its quite thing even today. The banners tend to tear and fly away due to high winds.

So painting is still a thing in pretty much all over India. I even knew a neighbour who would do it. Like he painted our street address on our home. He also did many such things on highways.

Not sure if you know this, most such painters are illiterates and will have a hard time writing anything by hand. So its less of a font painting, more like a art form for them.

Only a while back, even movie posters were painted and quite honestly they would be stunning. I have seen them as a kid and would inspire awe.

On a tangential note, a classmate of mine had a flare for it, and he even did some projects with making huge mega massive stunning artistic displays with paint and thermocol, not sure what he is doing now, but back then those things looked quite impressive.
by snowwrestler | 2025-08-05 03:14:17+00:00
> Specifically it's unclear on whether Perplexity was crawling (ie. systematically viewing every page on the site without the direction of a human), or simply retrieving content on behalf of the user.

Like most AI companies, Perplexity has established user agent strings for both these cases, and the behavior that Cloudflare is calling out does not use either. It pretends to be a person using Chrome on MacOS.
by ggm | 2025-08-05 03:14:29+00:00
No, thats also a mis-statement. Google gives away free, and google sells higher tiers. Google one is a higher tier. This is no different to any other provider of a service with a free tier. It's not marketed as "free" -It's marketed as the level above free.

Things above free have to be paid for, they aren't marketed as free.

A more reasonable, less argumentative response might be: "did you want them to offer helpdesk to free users" -which in fact, I did, until somebody pointed out the ARPU of a customer, and the cost of helpdesk (this is actually an anachronism, that was pointed out to me when I worked in a dial up ISP) -Whatever profit you extract from a low tier customer (of which free is the lowest tier) is very quickly eroded when you have to pay the staff who operate the helpdesk, and a customer calls in wanting helpdesk support.
by roywiggins | 2025-08-05 03:14:56+00:00
One thing is that 10th percentile wages did barely keep up with inflation from 1979-2019 (0.1% growth annualized), it's only since then that it showed an increase (3.1% annualized).

So it seems to me that any effects along those lines strong enough to exactly negate the apparent real wage growth in recent years must have either 1) been basically constant, so effective wages in this group actually declined 3.1% every year on average for forty years, making 2019 10th-percentile workers reduced to 28.4% of their forbears' wages, or 2) the inflation numbers were about representative for the 10th percentile worker from 1979-2019 and then suddenly and abruptly weren't, or 3) some combination of the two.

(or of course 4), the effect is real, nonzero, but not big enough to wipe out 3.1% apparent wage growth)
by ankurdhama | 2025-08-05 03:15:15+00:00
On macOS you can have an app that is running without any windows open and you use the menu bar to invoke different commands in that app. This is why cmd+tab allows you to switch to an app that doesn't have any window open, essentially cmd+tab is an app switcher and not a window switcher. If you want a window switcher you can use AltTab an open source window switcher for macOS.
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-08-05 03:15:59+00:00
> A bit unfair since the statistics are skewed by countries that don't actually apply modern safety standards,

61% of this year's accidents come from the U.S. and Europe. Unless you want to play the 'no true Scotsman' game with "modern" safety standards that no one really meets for more than a few miles. (For that matter, I'm not aware of current networks that can reliably defend against operator error, let alone actively suicidal operators.)

> not to mention incidence of suicide,

Dozens of accidents and hundreds of deaths a year on that list, even though it explicitly excludes individual suicides.

> (the modern solution is just not have trains at surface level, either above or below).

Talk about colossal $$$$$ for tracks running outside of urban centers.
by tux3 | 2025-08-05 03:15:59+00:00
The person on the phone will walk grandma through installing remote desktop, make gradma login to the account, show a fake Windows update picture fullscreen, and do whatever they like.

It's not reasonable to remove all agency from users because they sometimes click through warnings. Scammers will do the exact same refund scam script that they do today, and at no point will a passkey stop someone from doing a sketchy money transfer, or letting the scammer control their computer.

It just doesn't make sense to impose these extreme restrictions on exporting passkeys that won't stop the most common phone scams sctipts at all.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-08-05 03:16:40+00:00
My question is whether you believe the term is so wildly obvious that questioning whether a tiny fraction of a percent of drivers misunderstand it is completely unreasonable. It doesn't rely on Tesla having misused the term at all and for the record, I don't think they are.

But, I don't think it's unreasonable that some of the 5% of US adults who have never been on a plane might not understand what autopilot is in aviation. I don't think it's likely that the 8.4% of US adults who score below the lowest measurable level of PIAAC literacy have a good understanding of the warning messages when you enable Tesla's L2 features, or are digging through the owner's manual to understand them. It seems unlikely that the 3% of adults with <70% IQs are reasoning out the limitations of the system from technical definitions. Hopefully the idea is obvious here. You only need one person out of thousands to make a massively dangerous system. I don't think it's an obviously ridiculous argument that one person out of thousands doesn't fully understand and consider the complicated limitations of such a system.
by chthonicdaemon | 2025-08-05 03:16:42+00:00
Most people really cannot tell you what they want in any reasonable way. So expecting good specs for software without a very laborious interview and review process is pure wishful thinking. People "know what they like when they see it", so spend time rapid prototyping.

Smaller and more recent: iTerm has deep tmux support. Just do `tmux -CC` to start your session or `tmux -CC a` to attach to it and you don't have to memorise all the tmux commands.
by bronco21016 | 2025-08-05 03:16:47+00:00
Step 6 is the mega-backdoor Roth. Do after tax contributions to your 401k and have your 401k servicer do an in-plan conversion to Roth 401k.

Also, on step 4, you may need to do a backdoor Roth IRA if you’re over the Roth IRA income limits.
by __rito__ | 2025-08-05 03:17:06+00:00
It is just Horn Please. OK is a historical artefact.

During WW2, due to fuel shortages, Indian trucks often switched to Kerosene.

OK means: "On Kerosene". OK was painted on the back of trucks and other vehicles to warn other drivers to maintain a safe distance because Kerosene is highly flammable.

Due to another meaning of OK, they just kept doing it. [0]

[0]: https://www.fr8.in/blog/why-is-horn-ok-please-written-behind...
by hattmall | 2025-08-05 03:17:09+00:00
An important part that could have been beneficial would have been to add, "today".

I had a class where the teacher did something similar, but she showed that if you started a ROTH today and contributed only the 4 years you were in college and then stopped forever. You would have nearly the same amount of money as someone who started 1 year after they completed college and invested every year until retirement.

Ultimately she was encouraging us to take out student loans and invest it or use any excess scholarship money to max out a ROTH IRA. She even advocated for investing all student loan money and opening credit cards tp actually pay for college, making minimum payments until graduation. Then moving away to a LCOL country and learn the language for 8-9 years while remaining in school taking 1 online class a year and travelling the world on student loans and not to worry about starting a career until 30 and start paying once you are back and start a job.
by cprayingmantis | 2025-08-05 03:17:10+00:00
Solar energy has become a significant topic in my rural Virginia county, where I serve on the Board of Supervisors. During our discussions, the issue of food production has come up a lot. While I understand people’s concerns about maintaining a resilient food supply, they often overlook the amount of farmland that is abandoned and rendered unusable for crop production.

I see it happen all too often, farmer dies, kids don’t want to do anything with the land so it sits growing up becoming unusable. The rate at which farmers are either retiring or passing away far exceeds the rate at which agricultural land is being converted to solar farms. For many farmers, this transition has become a valuable secondary source of income and allowed them to continue or expand their operations.
by zzo38computer | 2025-08-05 03:17:13+00:00
> I have a hard time believing that WebAuthn is some grand plot by Big Tech to lock people into their walled gardens.

I do not agree. I think it (and some related things) is a grand plot, and mostly seems to benefit Google and Cloudflare, for lock in. (They might also want to actually improve security in some ways, but that is minor, and there are better ways to do that anyways.)

I think X.509 would be better (and does not require a web browser to use, nor does it hide stuff from the user, and also does not require a new different incompatible specification to be made for everything). (Unfortunately, the way X.509 is often used (for server authentication) is also in bad ways, but it can be used better, both for server side and client side.)
by braincat31415 | 2025-08-05 03:17:18+00:00
This is what I do for nested sessions:

bind -n S-up \ set -g status-bg white \; \ set -g prefix None bind -n S-down \ set -g prefix C-a \; \ set -g status-bg green

Press Shift-ArrowUp, and all control will be passed to the nested session.
by II2II | 2025-08-05 03:17:46+00:00
From my experience:

We were not permitted to use a TI-89 in math courses since we were expected to learn the underlying concepts, which is much more than learning how to use a tool.

The reasoning was similar in physics. The instructors couldn't care less whether we used the CAS functionality of the TI-89 because that wasn't a part of their curriculum, but they were concerned about students downloading solver programs. (Most of the instructors would agree that creating our own programs to solve problems would be a valuable learning tool, but they had no way to determine whether we created those programs or someone else.)

Academic courses tend to be biased towards laying the foundations so that we can build upon our own knowledge. There are other types of courses that are purely concerned about applications and the use of tools.
by 0xDEAFBEAD | 2025-08-05 03:17:53+00:00
>The first and most obvious is that even a long-lived civilization could construct a technology allowing a non-trivial amount of mass to accelerate to 0.1c and more importantly decelerate at the destination to a relative velocity of zero to facilitate the colonization.

Is there any reason to believe this should be impossible, in principle?

Note my use of the word "impossible", as opposed to "extremely difficult". The colonization timeline is still the same order of magnitude if it takes 100,000 years of research and engineering to crack the problem. Think about what humanity has achieved in the past 50 years, then multiply by 2000.
by mooiedingen | 2025-08-05 03:18:02+00:00
If that is what ur up to Muricah, i say congratulations for the effort to start but as you do not seem to be aware of the fact this already been achieved. I would worry if i can trust the level of informedness at this level, But who "decided to pull all services back from the east.." now u guys flying into what you don't know what you cannot imaging the keks this is giving"

Yours.truly
by beefnugs | 2025-08-05 03:18:47+00:00
Damn this has everything: universally interesting, wild speculation shoehorned into real science, misunderstanding that all things happening in interstellar scale are unlikely, casually dropping cool big rare terms for space shit

(but why would optimum mission be a head on collision? and not getting something flying its near trajectory at near speed?)

If i didn't know so much about how broken the world is already, this is like life path defining stuff

Clearly the best mission would be to shoot something to something it into mars so we can check it out someday.

Then after that success, be inspired to fill the whole outer solar system with somethings, capable of redirecting everything into mars for later catching or eventually murdering all musk's future offspring
by cryptonector | 2025-08-05 03:19:27+00:00
"Broadly speaking an interface is a contract exposing some elements that can be used to interact with a system from the outside. Narrowing things down a lot an interface in, say the Java programming language, is a name for a set of methods that classes implementing that interface must provide (and also some that are optional). Would you like to explore this topic further?"

would be my answer.
by backprop1989 | 2025-08-05 03:19:41+00:00
Exactly, now you’re a bank (or maybe selling unlicensed securities, either way it’s jeopardy).

We ended up revising the contract so that the credits expired after three years. That opened up its own suboptimal outcomes. It was a lesson that was very much learned by us.

On the topic itself - agreed that Anthropic should take a step back and review its policy around comms and good will in general. They’re supposed to be the “good guys” in the AI game - being up front about this stuff is table stakes for them at this point.
by throwanem | 2025-08-05 03:20:16+00:00
No video demo, all gloss with no substance, pricing is the biggest thing everywhere, and the "social proof" is fake to a contemptuous degree. It doesn't matter whether you made this with AI or not. Everyone will assume you did, either way.

This is going to be Hacker News till the crash, huh. We're hitting the "stock tips from shoeshine boys" stage of the bubble. Thank God my money's in real estate.
by Someone1234 | 2025-08-05 03:20:29+00:00
First-generation 2FA solved basic credential compromise issues using code-based methods (e.g. TOTP/HOTP). Modern 2FA (e.g. push notifications) adds authentication integrity, phishing resistance, and user validation through real-time, context-aware approvals.

Passkeys replace passwords and also render basic TOTP/HOTP-based 2FA unnecessary. However, they do not replace modern, push-based 2FA, which may still be needed in higher-assurance or enterprise scenarios.

Regardless personally I am waiting for full FIDO Alliance interoperability/sync, so I'm not locked into a single password manager. I've already had to migrate password managers after my choice was taken over by Private Equity.
by vivzkestrel | 2025-08-05 03:21:18+00:00
I would like someone to make either a voice controlled or gesture based video editor. I have not seen a single one for obvious reasons. Voice controlled would go like "OK search for the input.mp4 file " and drag it at 2 seconds "Now, play at 5x speed from 1 minute" "After a few seconds, you say stop and it stops at that frame" "Cut it here" "Now go 4 mins ahead" "Stop, cut it here" Imagine a video editor where you dont even need the mouse and keyboard
by cnst | 2025-08-05 03:22:08+00:00
That seems very little RAM, do they even support ssh?

Is there a comparison table which devices have how much RAM etc?

BTW, do you know if Amcrest ASH21 are supported? They look identical to Imou Ranger 2 from the front, although Amcrest does have an RJ45 in the back, whereas Ranger 2 possible doesn't?
by dmoy | 2025-08-05 03:22:16+00:00
> If everyone just understood what you're pointing out here--just really "got it"--I feel like the world would be in a much better place. It's not dire (I don't think?),

Maybe, but it also is predicated on a market like today's market, where the average American saves approximately zero dollars and has to work until social security.

If everyone saved a lot, you'd get a different situation. Probably a better situation, but it'd definitely be different.
by ameliaquining | 2025-08-05 03:22:32+00:00
An important fact that this doesn't account for is that, in the United States, living in housing that you own is highly tax-advantaged, at least if you can get a mortgage on it. For example, mortgage interest is tax-deductible for owner-occupied housing (whereas landlords usually can't deduct interest on their mortgages and so those taxes are passed on to renters), and mortgage rates for owner-occupied housing are far below market due to government subsidies and guarantees (whereas landlords have to pay higher rates that, again, they pass on to renters). This isn't good policy, but as long as it's the case, buying a single-family home is a smarter financial choice for most Americans than renting one.
by ecesena | 2025-08-05 03:22:35+00:00
I don’t get the sentiment of the article.

The whole point about passkeys is to replicate the exact UX of passwords (registration, reset…) but offer protection against phishing, by using public key crypto.

If you want a different UX, use a hardware security key. But these failed to reach consumer adoption.

And of course the FIDO2 standard didn’t specify (yet) a way to move passkeys around, so each implementation chose their own way to do vendor lock in. But this will be fixed in a few iterations.
by SilverElfin | 2025-08-05 03:24:26+00:00
> When companies like Cloudflare mischaracterize user-driven AI assistants as malicious bots, they're arguing that any automated tool serving users should be suspect—a position that would criminalize email clients and web browsers, or any other service a would-be gatekeeper decided they don’t like.

I wonder if Perplexity or others mix the traffic of the two types so they’re indistinguishable, specifically to make this argument.
by renewiltord | 2025-08-05 03:24:32+00:00
I mean, the real answer is that the other students were cheating on their assignments. It's that simple. We keep making up excuses for all of this shit. Some people don't "test well". Turns out those people don't know shit.

Let's get real here. I know why these nonsensical memes keep propagating but dear god. People will just believe anything these days, including that gas stoves cause asthma or whatever other bullshit is being peddled.
by ggm | 2025-08-05 03:24:49+00:00
Mincom, a Brisbane based tech company started in the late 80s with a suite for mining, and oil/gas production. At the time, they had 1-10 customers who paid a LOT of money. I am sure they are bigger now, but the fundamentals here are the same: you have to maintain almost every version of product back to the origin, and backport any change, because you can guarantee there is a mine in Kazakstan making a very large amount of profit, which is unwilling to upgrade, but is willing to pay you to maintain the legacy codebase.

TL;DR -If you support mining, expect to support the FORTRAN code you shipped them in 1960s.