MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Based-A | 2025-08-07 16:35:01+00:00
Considering that there is a fixed amount of land, I do want to raise taxes for those who choose to sit on undeveloped or underutilized land within urban areas rather than either selling it to someone who will develop or developing it themselves. Although it's a bit disingenuous to refer to only refer to it as "raising taxes" since it's taxing based on land value rather than improvement value. It's probable that there would be a significant amount of land plots that would see their taxes decreased as well, especially those along the peripheries of cities since they wouldn't have access or proximity to the same services as a downtown or business district would.

I'd also like to think that a lot of land being developed leads to new businesses appearing and more economic development when compared to just leaving the same lot empty and unused.
by electroly | 2025-08-07 16:35:02+00:00
We seem to be saying exactly the same thing. I agree, strongly, with everything you just said here. AWS has a support problem if this was necessary, and I'm not personally prepared with an online presence if it happened to me. I'll simply be screwed and will have to recreate a new account from backups. It's something for me to think about. I can't fix AWS--I can only change what I do in response.

I recently opened a DigitalOcean account and it was locked for a few days after I had moved workloads in. They took four days to unlock the account, and for my trouble they continued to charge me for my resources during the time the account was locked when I couldn't log in to delete them. I didn't have any recourse at all. They did issue a credit because I asked nicely, but if they said no, that would have been it.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-08-07 16:35:08+00:00
Colleagues were saying that horizon alpha and beta were looking better than claude4 for frontend stuff, especially newer frameworks. I think the idea of having full + mini + nano is really good, as long as the smaller ones can reasonably handle small-ish tasks. You'd have your architect / plan whatever sessions with the large one, scoping out regular tasks for the -mini version and then the really easy ones to -nano.

4.1 was almost usable in that fashion. I had 4.1-nano working in cline with really trivial stuff (add logging, take this example and adapt it in this file, etc) and it worked pretty well most of the time.
by soulofmischief | 2025-08-07 16:35:18+00:00
This was probably in the top ten worst high schools in the country. It was the worst high school in my state, which I attended a semester after attending the best public high school in my state, so I really got to see the wide gamut of education available in my state. And my state floats between the 1st-3rd worst ranked in the US for education, so it was truly a bottom-of-the-barrel experience.

Each time you'd walk into class, it was a dice roll if another piece of equipment had been stolen. We stopped buying and using projectors because any new ones got stolen within days. Sometimes I'd walk into class and every single piece of furniture had been completely turned upside down. Students would play on their phones, yell, throw things at the teachers, and the teachers would just ignore them.

It was also an extremely racially charged situation which had a big impact. I think there were less than ten white people in the school, the rest of the school was black, and a handful of hispanic folk.

The white people were almost all racist, and so apart from my neighbor, I only hung around black people. As the only white person there who hung out with non-white people, my nickname across the entire high school somehow became Tarzan, in part due to my long hair. When I'd walk down the halls each day, people would beat their chests and make ape noises and give me dap.

I'll never forget being at an award ceremony and walking up for a few awards, each time the entire student body would start stomping in the bleachers and making jungle noises and shouting my nickname. The visibly perplexed administration had no idea what was going on.

Because my credits would not cleanly transfer to their curriculum, I had two free periods each day and used this time to help out the administration and teaching staff, running errands, organizing, doing paperwork, etc. This allowed me to interface often with the school board, who was... entirely comprised of white, racist, old men. Men who fundamentally refused to understand the predicament facing the student body, and who were too eager to escalate instead of finding a way to bridge communication between the student body and faculty. Instead of empowering students, they saw them all as future bodies for the prison and service industry, and it was obvious. Students learned nothing, but would get straight A's. They would of course absolutely fail state and national standardized tests. They were shoved through the meat grinder with nothing to show for it.
by mafuy | 2025-08-07 16:35:25+00:00
With all due respect, to say that codecs are more difficult to get right than optimizing compilers is absurd.

The only reason I can think of why you would say this is that nowadays we have good compiler infrastructure that works with many hardware architectures and it has become easy to create or modify compilers. But that's only due to the fact that it was so insanely complicated that it had to be redone from scratch to become generalizible, which led to LLVM and the subsequent direct and indirect benefits everywhere. That's the work of thousands of the smartest people over 30 years.

There is no way that a single company could develop a state of the art compiler without using an existing one. Intel had a good independent compiler and gave up because open source had become superior.

For what it's worth, look at the state of FPGA compilers. They are so difficult that every single one of them that exists is utter shit. I wish it were different.
by dbg31415 | 2025-08-07 16:35:37+00:00
Posts like "I'm leaving Facebook forever!", "Netflix has ads now!", or "Twitter is ruined!" always come off as angsty and self-important.

This one's no different. I didn't even know Copilot was the issue until halfway through -- by then, I'd stopped caring.

If Copilot is your dealbreaker, fine. But don't bury the lead. Just say what you're switching to and why it's better. That's the useful part.
by tekacs | 2025-08-07 16:35:38+00:00
For those who haven't seen, a little bit of early stuff:

Official OpenAI gpt-5 coding examples repo: https://github.com/openai/gpt-5-coding-examples (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44826439)

Github leak: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44826439
by lbhdc | 2025-08-07 16:35:48+00:00
I have had my ebbs and flows with github. I think one of the difficult things about moving away from it, is the loss of network effects for open source projects. If you have no public repos or don't care about contributions or discovery, this doesn't matter.

I know the author is accepting patches, but even learning that their forge exists, and that the user wants to contribute is stymied if the users search for projects starts at a github search.
by natch | 2025-08-07 16:37:34+00:00
People who would buy such data don’t care about getting it for every individual. They’re perfectly happy if they can get it for merely 99.999% of people, and that they can do with cellphone app data.

So they don’t need car data. My car maker does not sell its data nor does it link car locations with car owners. Although it could do so, but not without some bad PR or legal risks of doing it secretly after having made assurances that it doesn’t do it.

But that gets back to who would buy it? Nobody. They already have all the data they need from phones.
by romaniv | 2025-08-07 16:37:35+00:00
Spot on.

At some point I tried to figure out where the term "alignment" came from. I didn't find any definitive source, but it seems to have originated on a medium.com blog of Paul Christiano:

https://ai-alignment.com/ai-safety-vs-control-vs-alignment-2...

Basically, certain people are dismissing decades of deep though on this subject from writers (like Asimov and Sheckley), scholars (like Postman) and technologists (like Wiener). Instead, they are creating a completely new set of terms, concepts and though experiments. Interestingly, this new system seems to make important parts of the question completely implicit, while simultaneously hyper-focusing public attention on meaningless conundrums (like the infamous paperclip maximizer).

In my view, the most important thing about the three laws of robotics is that they made it obvious that there are several parties involved in AI ethics questions. There is the manufacturer/creator of the system, the user/owner of the system and the rest of the society. "Alignment" cleverly distracts everyone from noticing the distinctions between these groups.
by const_cast | 2025-08-07 16:37:55+00:00
What I'm claiming is there's zero evidence that ozempic causes buccal fat loss more than any other weight loss methods. There isn't even a mechanism for that. We even know for a fact that spot reducing fat is impossible.

If you claim differently, the burden of proof is on YOU. Not me.

Your observations be damned. Elephant in the room: observations from biased actors are less than worthless.

The reason this observation came to be is because people seek an easy way to punch down on ozempic users and differentiate their weight status from ozempic users. I've already explained that.
by atrettel | 2025-08-07 16:38:03+00:00
I am quite happy that this post argues in favor of subject-matter expertise. Until recently I worked at a national lab. I had many people (both leadership and colleagues) tell me that they need fewer if any subject-matter experts like myself because ML/AI can handle a lot of those tasks now. To that effect, lab leadership was directing most of the hiring (both internal and external) towards ML/AI positions.

I obviously think that we still need subject-matter experts. This article argues correctly that the "data generation process" (or as I call it, experimentation and sampling) requires "deep expertise" to guide it properly past current "bottlenecks".

I have often phrased this to colleagues this way. We are reaching a point where you cannot just throw more data at a problem (especially arbitrary data). We have to think about what data we intentionally use to make models. With the right sampling of information, we may be able to make better models more cheaply and faster. But again, that requires knowledge about what data to include and how to come up with a representative sample with enough "resolution" to resolve all of the nuances that the problem calls for. Again, that means that subject-matter expertise does matter.
by ckjellqv | 2025-08-07 16:38:10+00:00
I've thought for a long time that offering only electric vehicles with 200+ mile range as the base availability is overkill. I drive a short commute to work and then maybe 2mi to the grocery store and I have no other needs. Otherwise I take plane/train.

The common arguments I hear are 1. What if I need to take a roadtrip? 2. What if I don't have accessibility to a charger at home or work and need longer range to account for that.

Only (2) seems reasonable to me, but many do have access where they live. Seeing as the huge expense of EVs is batteries, I'd love the option of something with a much, much reduced battery (and the additional reduced feature sets the article mentions).
by mpourismaiel | 2025-08-07 16:38:17+00:00
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by overfeed | 2025-08-07 16:38:24+00:00
> There will simply be no incentive for companies to develop new video compression technologies, at very significant cost because of the sophistication of the field, knowing that their assets will be thankfully – and nothing more – accepted and used by AOM in their video codecs.

I don't think he fully considered the motivations of Alliance members like Google (YouTube), Meta and Netflix and the lengths they'll go to optimize operational costs of delivering content to improve their bottom line.
by HsuWL | 2025-08-07 16:38:37+00:00
The thief is paid well, and greed is the key. Does that mean stealing secrets is justified if the company pays them little? That's not the case, brother. And as a Taiwanese, everyone knows that TSMC is more than just a tech company; it's involved in the lifeblood of Taiwan. Only those who truly love Taiwan would do something like this.
by nradov | 2025-08-07 16:38:42+00:00
Nah. It's impossible to link business value creation to individual contributors. No one has ever figured out how to do this in a accurate, reliable, and repeatable way. When it comes to knowledge work, productivity can only be measured in aggregate for larger groups.

Most of economics is junk science. Very little of it is quantitatively rigorous or falsifiable in the real world.
by sergiotapia | 2025-08-07 16:38:44+00:00
It will be like coming home after such a long time using Sonnet 4 for all code and UI/UX work. I do hope sincerely this brings OpenAI back on top! Would be awesome to have a new king again.

"This repository contains a curated collection of demo applications generated entirely in a single GPT-5 prompt, without writing any code by hand."

https://github.com/openai/gpt-5-coding-examples

This is promising!
by m4rtink | 2025-08-07 16:39:29+00:00
Solar sail might help slow it down at destination + possibly a close solar Oberth maneuver to capture in an orbit in the target system.

Being a probe sized craft, deceleration as well as a very close flyby close to a star should be much more doable than with a big honking interstellar ark.

As for power - even a small nuclear reactor would be fine initially if it can last long enough for it to land somewhere suitable and start spamming solar panels. Then you are finally ready to get going on you first extra-solar Benchy. ;-)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberth_effect [1] https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2021/10/06/assessing-the-obe...
by Knork-and-Fife | 2025-08-07 16:39:44+00:00
I think a lot of people do want these things, but car buying is not always up to just one person. It's often a decision made in the context of a family or group who will share a vehicle or otherwise have input on the buying decision.

These studies should be surveying these groups instead of individuals I think. Sometimes the "group" will just be one person, and that's okay. But I wouldn't want someone's opinion if they're making it on behalf of a group without the groups input, because that's not realistic
by hk1337 | 2025-08-07 16:39:58+00:00
It’s odd to eliminate using GitHub issues as comments because the user would need a GitHub account then decide on bluesky. Bluesky would also require users to have a Bluesky account? How many readers already have a GitHub account vs already have a Bluesky account?

I mean it’s fine, use whatever your comfortable with and Bluesky is the next frontier for development ideas.
by thewebguyd | 2025-08-07 16:40:08+00:00
That makes sense, but I still think there are other features that can be gated behind enterprise to help make sure that doesn't happen while still providing SSO for smaller companies.

You can have user limits on the non-enterprise plans (Microsoft does this, for example, with Business Premium locked at 300 users or less), or gate other features behind enterprise: Have MFA across the board, but lock conditional access behind enterprise, lock more advanced audit logs & reporting behind enterprise, lock RBAC behind enterprise, or data residency, custom security policies, API limits, etc.

There are numerous other features that are non-negotiable for enterprises to help funnel them into the enterprise plan, while still being able to service medium companies with SSO.
by jgeada | 2025-08-07 16:40:35+00:00
The other hard lesson learned during the Covid shutdowns (actually, it is learned and promptly forgotten at every major crisis):

maximizing efficiency also maximizes the number of single points of failure in your system. Anything that goes wrong breaks an optimized for efficiency system.

You need to have resilience and redundancy to deal with variability, but those cost money.

Much better from the management perspective to ignore those risks, cash in on the cheap profits and blame "unexpected events" and get a bailout when things go wrong. They cash in on the easy money and have no downside consequences.
by mpourismaiel | 2025-08-07 16:40:35+00:00
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by greenail | 2025-08-07 16:40:46+00:00
This is a bit of a simplification of how enterprise sales works. A few extra dimensions are sometimes required. For "decision makers" their own personal view of reality may not in fact be accurate. You sometimes must vet that what they tell you (and may in fact believe) actually reflects the actual power dynamics of a big enterprise. There are extra dimensions to consider; The first is: are they in a cost center or are they generating revenue. The second is: are you trying to get new technology adopted or is this considered "standardized". The third is: who might perceive your product as a risk, or a threat to their power? These data points inform your sales strategy both in who you sell to, who you avoid, and when you might choose to engage a particular persona, when to go small and when to go big.
by Hackbraten | 2025-08-07 16:40:53+00:00
1Password has tons of features. No two vendors have exactly the same data model. Any of them might break on migration or worse, doesn’t exist on the target system.

For example, are my 2FA seeds going to migrate properly? How about the tags, attachments, sections, subsections, security questions and answers, inline Markdown notes, the HIBP integration, built-in overrides to fix known broken websites, workarounds I’ve learned for unfixed websites, shared vaults, recovering lost access to shared vaults, syncing, templates, custom integrations that I maintain [0], personal scripts, etc. etc.

Will it still be able to auto-fill into a web page? Into shitty, broken web pages? On Linux? On my Linux phone?

At the scale and depth at which 1Password is currently integrated into my spouse’s and my life, it’s difficult to consider migration anything less than a full weekend project.

I regret letting my spouse and myself lock into 1Password before it enshittified.

[0]: https://github.com/claui/aws-credential-1password
by toomuchtodo | 2025-08-07 16:41:24+00:00
As of this comment, Bluesky has ~38M users. To sign up is trivial, and doesn't constrain you to folks who already have a Github account or would sign up for one (tech weighted). Skate to where the puck is going. I suppose including a link to the Bluesky sign up page near the discussion section of a post would be helpful, for those not yet onboarded who want to immediately discuss or intend to in the future.

https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats

EDIT: Ask five people you know outside of tech if they have a Github account. Everyone I know outside of tech moved to Bluesky from Twitter. No one I know outside of tech has a Github account. If I encounter someone who has neither, I'm of course going to recommend a Bluesky account from a utility perspective, as they're likely never going to contribute code, issues, discussion on GH if not a tech person. (most of my network is non tech, non startup, non SV people, ymmv; HN is the closest I get to tech folks most of the time)
by xyzelement | 2025-08-07 16:41:39+00:00
Of course, plenty of people do. But you may also have a neighbor who thinks that you having a car at all is excessive because they take public transport and walk and never needed a car.

My point is that any degree of "thing" can be enough if you accept its implications. So for example when you go on your family vacation, you make choices about what to take and what to leave. If your two year old daughter asks last minute if she can bring her scooter (and helmet), the answer might be "sorry honey no room" whereas with a larger car you could say "sure, toss it in." Or the grownup version of that, I tossed in my inflatable paddle-board, paddle, lifejackets and pump as a last minute decision for our last vacation "just in case" we want to get on the water before the kayak rental place opens up (ended up using it.) Again, the paddle-board or scooter are totally non essential - if I had a smaller car I wouldn't even consider bringing them at all and that would be totally fine, but it's nice that I can.

BTW, we got our SUV when our 1st kid was born, it was a larger car than I thought we needed but was still kinda helpful. By now we have 3 kids and the fact that "how are we gonna fit them and their stuff" isn't one of the many things we have to deal with as parents is very nice.

Again, if I couldn't afford it or was very anti-big-car, I'd find a way to make do with a smaller vehicle but it's nice to make the other choice and that's why many many many people do.
by p_l | 2025-08-07 16:41:56+00:00
I'd say that it's a somewhat extended 8bit device because it's still 8bit focused architecture (6800) with extensions towards better handling of 16bit values and certain common parts involved including the zero/direct page are also effectively an increase in flexibility for 8bit code not so much move to 16bit.

That said, "16bit curious" is a great term :D