MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tzs | 2025-08-01 22:46:00+00:00
Is there much to say on Epstein besides "Trump+Epstein"?

Epstein was not some Darth Vader or Joker (The Dark Night version) or Commodus (from Gladiator) or Sauron or Voldemort type of villain who was openly villainous and did not have a public good side (either an actual good side or a front to try to hide his villainy).

Epstein was more a Han from Enter the Dragon kind of villain.

Epstein had a fairly extensive public good side (maybe real, maybe just a front, probably a mix of both) appearing as a legitimate businessman and a philanthropist.

A big part of his philanthropy was directed toward supporting scientific research, universities, and the arts. He liked to invite top people from particular fields, like physics and AI, to events on his island where they (the invited people) would discuss major scientific and philosophical issues from their field. Get an invite to one of those, and it was a chance to go spend a few days for free in a resort setting, participate in some pop science level discussions to keep the rich guy happy, and maybe try to talk him into funding your lab.

Because of this most of the time it isn't all that interesting when some famous person shows up in Epstein's documents.

It becomes interesting with Trump because he spent a lot of time using his opponent's Epstein connections against them in ways that made his followers come to believe any association with Epstein is practically proof that you are an active pedophile.

He did this even though he knew he himself had connections to Epstein (including to people who actually were part of Epstein's villain side). And now that's biting him.
by __red__ | 2025-08-01 22:46:15+00:00
It's less than a third of the others which are compared.

As with all things, we should use the correct language / runtime for the domain problems it's designed to solve.

The pony runtime makes other decisions (such as non-preemptable schedulers) which would have more of an effect on your use-case methinks.

Thank you for the discussion and your interest!
by blackbear_ | 2025-08-01 22:46:16+00:00
Your point is moot becase the published data also includes confidence intervals, reflecting uncertainty in the estimation. The implications of this should be clear to anybody with high school numeracy levels.

Interestingly enough, the current 90% CI for the month is about 270k jobs:

https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/otm-employme...

Note that the 250k revision includes both May and June. Is that a lot? Yes, considering that the average monthly estimation error over the past 20 years was about 51k jobs:

https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cesnaicsrev.htm#2024

Could have they done better? Nobody can tell after only a few hours from the announcement.

If you do have concrete and constrictive concerns about the methodology, feel free to point them out. Here's their handbook for your convenience:

https://www.bls.gov/bls/empsitquickguide.htm
by throwaway81523 | 2025-08-01 22:46:37+00:00
I think after you do a few of them they stop being stressful. I haven't been successful on every coding interview I've tried, but I've been reasonably relaxed, either succeeding or not. I would say they're not always an accurate measure. It's just like when working alone, I sometimes have a simple problem to solve, but something goes wrong and it takes much longer than it should. That is normal I'm sure. Being productive just means you're pretty good on average, not that there are no "oops" moments.

I do find that spoken, problem-solving interviews are stressful because of the need to talk about your thoughts while thinking them. I'm usually only able to think quietly.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-08-01 22:46:48+00:00
Look, I hope the original author doesn't see this, I don't want to kick people when they're down. But the vast, vast majority of these controversies involve admitted sexual activity which a stereotypical stodgy dad would identify as inappropriate, and I would encourage any men who worry about being cancelled to consider whether he might have a point. While there's no guarantees in life, it's extremely unlikely that a story like this could happen to me, because I don't sleep with people when the propriety of doing so is even remotely in question.
by JackYoustra | 2025-08-01 22:47:10+00:00
I've been waiting on this for a LONG time. Integration with Cursor when Cerebras released their earlier models was patchy at best, even through openrouter. It's nice to finally see official support, although I'm a bit worried about long-term the time for bash mcp calls ending up dominating.

Still, definitely the right direction!

EDIT: doesn't seem like anything but a first-party api with a monthly plan.
by Lammy | 2025-08-01 22:47:16+00:00
I love the disclaimer on the RCT2 Screenshots page: https://www.chrissawyergames.com/feature5.htm

> Click each thumbnail below to view the full 800x600 screenshot image

> (Warning: Each image is between 100KB and 250KB in size and may take a minute or two to download)

Like when screenshot-heavy forum threads would have title suffixes like [56K NO!!]
by elijah_smith | 2025-08-01 22:47:19+00:00
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by themadturk | 2025-08-01 22:47:21+00:00
I worked for Weyerhaeuser, a major US forest products firm in the Seattle area during the early 2000s. In 2009 they decided to get out of the forestry products business and become nothing more than a land owner. Multiple thousands of workers were let go. At least at the company headquarters, managers met with every worker to tell them whether they'd been laid off or not. The announcement came in the summer, a couple of months before the actual lay-off date, and salary and benefits were extended until year end. It was by far the most humane layoff I'd ever experienced.
by rkomorn | 2025-08-01 22:47:25+00:00
In media? The non-US examples I know (my home country and where I live now) either refer to laws/proposals based on sponsor name or topic, or (when passed), the date it was passed.

Cursory googling about the UK suggests it's mostly either naked acts or "law of XYZ", but numbers.

The act names and backronyms are for public consumption.
by ttoinou | 2025-08-01 22:48:50+00:00
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by jqdsouza123 | 2025-08-01 22:48:56+00:00
Most people think AI agents are the future of the web.

What if I told you they're already here — and quietly mapping your entire backend while pretending to be a regular user?

Last week, Shukan Shah and I gave a browser-native agent a single login and set it loose on a popular consumer app. No exploits. No special access. Just one valid session and a curious agent.

What it uncovered… was wild.

It traced flows, mapped APIs, uncovered things we probably weren't supposed to see — and even wrote its own docs along the way.

All in under 3 minutes.

We documented the whole thing (with code + diagrams) here: https://justindsouza.substack.com/p/reverse-engineering-resy...
by exasperaited | 2025-08-01 22:49:04+00:00
It's your opinion.

This guy (a chef and a long-serving royal marine) has a different opinion, for instance:

https://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/news/2025/may/commando-chef-...

This former circuit judge who now works for a knife crime unit:

https://www.fightingknifecrime.london/news-posts/the-need-fo...

This research unit proved that they are less dangerous: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/rounded-knif...

The Ben Kinsella Trust supports this, and Let's Be Blunt has done good research on the number of impulse crimes that involve kitchen knives:

https://www.letsbeblunt.co.uk

Quite a lot of research is being done on this, quite a lot of police forces support it, and more to the point, British retailers already distinguish between these knives in terms of what young people can buy.

So it's not just one MP and one guy on HN is it?

But I am delusional, for sure, because I believe that experts deserve a hearing.
by davidcbc | 2025-08-01 22:49:18+00:00
> How much of a burden could this really be?

You know how Google deprecating stuff externally is a (deserved) meme? Things get deprecated internally even more frequently and someone has to migrate to the new thing. It's a huge pain in the ass to keep up with for teams that are fully funded. If something doesn't have a team dedicated to it eventually someone will decide it's no longer worth that burden and shut it down instead.
by gerdesj | 2025-08-01 22:49:26+00:00
No offense, but how about evaluating the project on its own merits?

In my experience AI based CS agents are not deployed to actually provide customer service. That does not differ too much from the "old school" phone call centre with scripts etc.

Anyway, you can run a phone exchange on a RPi. My favorite anti marketing thing is a simple IVR: "If you think we would like to speak to press 1, if you are making an unsolicited sales call, then hang up". However, that will soon be defeated (but not yet, I'm happy to report). Eventually, I will need the machine to take calls for me. For that I will probably need a system like OPs.

When it comes to telephony, the biggest issue is who pays for the call. For me it is the caller. For some (US int al) it might be the recipient. The only "cost" to me is my time to take a call.

Now, back to call centres. You want problem resolution and they want call stats. There is a bit of a disconnect. Power companies and other utilities all claim to be competitive but nearly everywhere that is bollocks.

In the UK we have privatised water companies, covering regions but how on earth can I, within the purvey of Wessex water, get my water from say Scotland. Ironically enough SSSE (one of the S is Scottish) is the local area electrical provider. I can choose my electic and gas supplier but not my water supplier. How on earth is that a free market? Well it might be but not for me, the consumer. I understand that ISP provision in the US is pretty similar to our water company situation: you have a choice of one.

So, I think, that the problem here is not the AI or the medium or whatever but something far deeper and far more entrenched.

Your shitty customer experience is because the status quo is say 50-100 years old and nothing to do with some nerdy new technology.
by beepbooptheory | 2025-08-01 22:49:54+00:00
I should know better than to speak anything too enthusiastically about the humanities or feminism on this particular forum, but I just want to say the connection here to Donna Haraway was a surprise and delight. Any one open to that world at all would behoove themselves to check her out. "The Cyborg Manifesto" is the one everyone knows, but I recently finished "Living with the Trouble" and can't recommend it enough!
by __red__ | 2025-08-01 22:49:57+00:00
You can do this:

try somearray(outofboundindex)? // stuff else errorlog.write("some message") error end

Sure you can make it propogate all the way up if you really want, but ugh… what a terrible idea for instrumentation.

Pony doesn't force you to deal with errors a specific way. Pony forces you to make a choice so you can't just ignore it.
by fake-name | 2025-08-01 22:50:01+00:00
Flatpak, Snap, appimage, etc...

I have pretty fastidiously avoided ever using any of the "package everything into the image" projects, and my life has been considerably better off.

All these things serve to do is make the developer experience easier, at the cost of delivering a much worse user experience.

I can't think of any reason a user would ever prefer packaged variant of something.
by CaliforniaKarl | 2025-08-01 22:50:13+00:00
That reminds me of something iOS is doing (though I don't know when it was introduced).

An app wanted permission to my photos. In addition to the normal "Allow" and "Deny" options, I was also given the option to allow a subset of photos. I chose that option, and was given the normal photos UI, as if I was selecting a set of photos to share or delete. I guess in the back-end, iOS constructed a new photos library consisting of just the ones I selected.

It was cool! And it's good to see things at least one of the things you describe is being shown to a large number of folks. Hopefully that'll drive momentum to wider adoption.
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by thanhhaimai | 2025-08-01 22:51:38+00:00
> running at speeds of up to 2,000 tokens per second, with a 131k-token context window, no proprietary IDE lock-in, and no weekly limits!

I was excited, then I read this:

> Send up to 1,000 messages per day—enough for 3–4 hours of uninterrupted vibe coding.

I don't mind paying for services I use. But it's hard to take this seriously when the first paragraph claim is contradicting the fine prints.
by Terr_ | 2025-08-01 22:52:25+00:00
This is how I've conducted a few interviews at a startup. I take pains to emphasize that:

1. I'm just looking for pseudocode, nobody cares about whether you do length(items) or items.size(), etc. The code won't even be run.

2. Invent functions without necessarily defining them, I'll object if doAllTheWork() needs to be fleshed out.

3. The problem/docs presented are the whole thing for the interview. There might be bugs to uncover, but there's no secret second phase to the boss battle.

Ultimately, I'm looking for them to assemble the basic building blocks, and see what suggestions they have when I point out issues like error, handling, stale data, security, etc.
by chrisDONTblink | 2025-08-01 22:52:59+00:00
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by jauntywundrkind | 2025-08-01 22:53:00+00:00
What flavor of corruption though?

Really enjoyed this (login only) post:

> The Nazi comparisons are useful, but the Trump instinct to address negative outcomes by firing and silencing anyone on their team foolish enough to report them always makes me think of Mao and the Great Famine.

https://bsky.app/profile/joekatz45.bsky.social/post/3lvem6co...

Sure why not both? But the dogma of dear leader ism & willingness to have the facts be what they say you are, to habitually step on experts & spread distrust (using a sharpie on the hurricane predictions) is something seriously enjoying huffing it's own farts.
by hirako2000 | 2025-08-01 22:53:01+00:00
I faced the exact same problem, with the API. It seems that it doesn't throttle early enough, then may cumulate the cool off period, malong it impossible to determine when to fire requests again.

Also, I noticed Gemini (even flash) has Google search support. But only via the web UI or the native mobile app. Via the API that would requires serp via MCP of sort. Even with Gemini pro.

Oh, some models are regularly facing outages. 503s are not uncommon. No SLA page, alerts, whatsoever.

The reasoning feature is buggy, even if disabled, it sometimes triggers anyway.

It occured to me the other day that Google probably have the best engineers given how good Gemini performs and where it's coming from, and the context window that is uniquely large compared to any other model. But that it is likely operated by managers coming from AWS where shipping half baked, barely tested software, was all it took to get a bonus.
by exceptione | 2025-08-01 22:53:18+00:00
> If Trump knew a quarter ago that his tariffs were taking employment, he could have done something about it.

The understandable mistake is wanting to interpret the regime like it is something like a natural, healthy part of society, a rule-abiding, constructive force seeking win-wins, seeking broader support, seeking consensus. It isn't, and the failing to highlight that it is the failing of the 4th estate.

There is electorate and there is selectorate. The people in power all knew what was coming; the outrage is just circus. The people that decide over Trump do not have such things as "jobs", it is not a concern at all. Even an economic crash won't affect them.
by mbac32768 | 2025-08-01 22:54:21+00:00
They deprecate internal infrastructure stuff zealously and tell teams they need to be off of such and such by this date.

But it's worse than that because they'll bring up whole new datacenters without ever bringing the deprecated service up, and they also retire datacenters with some regularity. So if you run a service that depends on deprecated services you could quickly find yourself in a situation where you have to migrate to maintain N+2 redundancy but there's hardly any datacenter with capacity available in the deprecated service you depend on.

Also, how many man years of engineering do you want to spend on keeping goo.gl running. If you were an engineer would you want to be assigned this project? What are you going to put in your perf packet? "Spent 6 months of my time and also bothered engineers in other teams to keep this service that makes us no money running"?
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-08-01 22:54:46+00:00
But has this ever in the history of time happened? In the "elevatorgate" scandal you're referencing here:

* The guy _followed_ her onto the elevator.

* The guy explicitly invited her to his room for a 4 AM coffee.

* She didn't identify the guy at all, just mentioned this as an offhand example of something it would be nice for men to avoid doing.
by benreesman | 2025-08-01 22:54:46+00:00
When The Bitter Lesson essay came out it was a bunch of important things: addressing an audience of serious practitioners, contrarian and challenging entrenched dogma, written without any serious reputational or (especially) financial stake in the outcome. It needed saying and it was important.

But its become a lazy crutch for a bunch of people who meet none of those criteria and perverted into a statement more along the lines of "LLMs trained on NVIDIA cards by one of a handful of US companies are guaranteed to outperform every other approach from here to the Singularity".

Nope. Not at all guaranteed, and at the moment? Not even looking likely.

It will have other stuff in it. Maybe that's prediction in representation space like JEPA, maybe its MCTS like Alpha*, maybe its some totally new thing.

And maybe it happens in Hangzhou.
by cootsnuck | 2025-08-01 22:55:09+00:00
I'm someone who builds these types of voice agent systems for businesses. And the short answer is, I think especially for the bigger corporations, customer service probably will get shittier.

It doesn't have to be inevitable...but the track record of big corps and their view of customer-facing departments as being loss-centers instead of being directly and indirectly connected to retaining and bringing in revenue doesn't leave me optimistic.

For small-to-medium businesses...it just depends. SMBs are typically more sensitive to the opinions and sentiments of their customers (and also bad press) and also typically have workers with relatively more institutional and tacit knowledge compared to big corporations. So I would like to believe more of them will be much more methodical and intentional about their approaches (especially with cautionary tales like Klarna and DuoLingo). There's no reason for any business to ruin their customer service with AI other than impulsive and/or poorly executed decisions being made out of some mix of fear, hype, greed, or willful ignorance. Entirely avoidable.
by social_quotient | 2025-08-01 22:55:10+00:00
Exactly! You can use tools like https://github.com/musistudio/claude-code-router which let you use other LLMs.

The way I would use this $50 Cerebras offering is as a delegate for some high token count items like documentation, lint fixing, and other operations as a way not only to speed up the workflow but to release some back pressure on Anthropic/claude so you don’t hit your limits as quickly… especially with the new weekly throttle coming. This $50 dollar jump seems very reasonable, now for the 1k completions a day, id really want to see and get a feel for how chatty it is.

I suppose thats how it starts but id the model is competent and fast, the speed alone might force you a bit to delegate more to it. (Maybe sub agent tasks)
by shagie | 2025-08-01 22:56:02+00:00
Yes, Steam should have followed Australian law (it was even part of their pre-existing rules that were being poorly enforced).

The Australian group said to Visa and Mastercard "people have taken your merchants to court before, and you weren't able to get out of those cases. We're going to take Visa and Mastercard to court for Australian law infractions, and you're going to be part of the defendants, again."

Visa and Mastercard then put pressure on Steam and Itch to remove anything that might bring Visa or Mastercard into court too, and if Steam and Itch didn't, they would drop them as merchants.

From the article:

> “We raised our objection to rape and incest games on Steam for months, and they ignored us for months,” reads a blog post from Collective Shout. “We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond to us.”

Payment processors do not want a repeat of what happened before...

> On Friday, July 29, a federal court issued a decision in ongoing litigation involving MindGeek, the owner of Pornhub and other websites. In this pre-trial decision, the court denied Visa’s motion to be removed from the case on a theory that Visa was complicit in MindGeek’s actions because Visa payment cards were used to pay for advertising on MindGeek sites, among other claims. We strongly disagree with this decision and are confident in our position.