MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by radiofreeeuropa | 2025-08-01 17:01:05+00:00
Sorry, I was contributing the painfully-well-backed scientific perspective. If we're doing public-politics kayfabe here, too, then yes that was a faux pas. I'm not trying to campaign though, I'm trying to inform.

If one mistakes the kayfabe for genuine, an awful lot of observed behavior and outcomes remain confusing... the science is there if anyone wants it (reading lists for relevant courses are widely available, journals are not that hard to come by, or just grab Democracy for Realists and follow up with reading criticism of it and checking its sources) and at least the basic fact that very few voters think or behave remotely like anyone hoping for a well-informed, rational, and empathetic electorate might hope, is depressingly solid.

This is understood by everybody operating at a level of importance in media and politics, so a bunch of what they do (and its efficacy) will also be confusing if one disregards it. Even when they talk about how they believe in the voters, and blah blah—that's part of the kayfabe, that's a marketing message, they 100% don't believe that because not only is it definitely not true, you also lose elections (or viewership, or whatever) more often if you act like (not say—act like) it's true. It's not a lie they can afford to hold on to past the lowest levels of their professions, as they'll be concretely punished for the gap between their belief and reality and replaced by others who get it.
by animal_spirits | 2025-08-01 17:01:40+00:00
I watched an interview with both the authors. They read as both left leaning but self critical of the regulations the left has put in place. It seemed like this leftist identity is part of the story so maybe that is why it is mentioned so much.

https://youtu.be/D9wga7S3nAw?si=mZT3yhUG_z2DKref
by danenania | 2025-08-01 17:01:43+00:00
The problem is that input token cost dominates output token cost for the majority of tasks.

Once you've given the model your prompt and are reading the first output token for classification, you've already paid most of the cost of just prompting it directly.

That said, there could definitely be exceptions for short prompts where output costs dominate input costs. But these aren't usually the interesting use cases.
by jimt1234 | 2025-08-01 17:01:52+00:00
I'm old. For me, tipping has always been a cash-only transaction because I felt the money going directly into the server's or other staff's pockets. The owner of the business never touched the cash tips, and the tips were rarely reported (for taxes). But now, when I tip with one of those point-of-sale devices, I have no idea where that "tip money" is going - does it ever reach the server or other staff? Does the owner just pocket the "tip money"?
Ask HN: Who Is Looking for a Cofounder?
by dontoni | 2025-08-01 17:02:04+00:00
Please indicate if your ideal cofounder is or not TECHNICAL and what skills you'd like them to excel at. Also present your startup or idea here. Tell us what's it that makes you unique or distinguishes you from your competitors as well.

Don't forget to include an email people can get in touch with.
by JimDabell | 2025-08-01 17:02:20+00:00
> Why do the "security" apps ALWAYS have to have this anti-feature?

Every pen test I’ve seen for mobile apps has always had this as an item, even when it’s completely unjustified for the type of app. It’s on their checklist and they will always flag it to show they are doing their job. If you don’t have anybody in the team who is willing and able to say no to a pen tester on a security matter, this kind of thing will happen.
by davidknittel728 | 2025-08-01 17:02:32+00:00
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by dustanbower | 2025-08-01 17:02:32+00:00
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by mrpound | 2025-08-01 17:02:32+00:00
Do you really think the government should be responsible for creating meaning in peoples lives? Most people who are unemployed are so by CHOICE. There are far too many people out there wanting to "create content" for a living, i.e. play video games on stream or spread antisocial propaganda. It's a thoroughly useless occupation that imparts no economic value to society or edification to the people consuming said "content". This idea that AI is going to "destroy" the job market is just an excuse, a cop-out a rationalization of ones failure to invest time =or energy developing marketable skills because "there's no point"
by heysound | 2025-08-01 17:02:43+00:00
I got tired of wasting mornings in standups saying what my commit history already showed.

AsyncStatus is an open‑source tool that turns GitHub + Slack activity into async status updates. If there’s no activity, it pings for a quick manual update.

That’s it. No bots in meetings, no vendor lock‑in.

Repo: https://github.com/AsyncStatus/asyncstatus

Would love feedback, especially from people who’ve tried (and maybe given up on) similar tools.
by ngkevin757 | 2025-08-01 17:02:55+00:00
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by ravenstine | 2025-08-01 17:03:00+00:00
Man, I can still remember the magic I felt when first discovering that game on my cousin's laptop in 1999. Such a simple game yet allowed enough creativity for an 10 year old boy to be imaginative.

There does come a point where there isn't much else to do with the game once you get good enough at it, so I started having fun doing "experiments". One of the things I did in RCT was build "prisons" where I leveraged things like the carousel to work as a one-way door into the park to allow guests to come in but prevent them from leaving; it lead to a barren cement building with a turbo drop coaster designed to be intentionally dangerous so I could "execute" prisoners. There was puke everywhere after a while. What a disturbing mind I had.
by danudey | 2025-08-01 17:03:02+00:00
Yeah, if you're lucky you can make a huge amount of money in tips - if you're the right server on the right night at the right place and get the right customers.

You can also, if you're not lucky, barely make anything in tips on minimal hours per week and then have your employer steal half your tips anyway, and then you're basically clearing $4.50/hr for 12 hours a week and probably ending up on food stamps until republicans eliminate those entirely.

Thing is, I've known freelancers who make great money, but even they can have a constant underlying stress about "if the work dries up I'm homeless". Imagine the same thing but instead of the work drying up your manager only schedules you for four hours a day between the lunch rush and dinner and the tips are minimal despite being there for the same hours.
by dustanbower | 2025-08-01 17:03:18+00:00
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by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-08-01 17:03:41+00:00
MOE is just a way to add more parameters/capacity to a model without making it less efficient to run, since it's done in a way that not all parameters are used for each token passing through the model. The name MOE is a bit misleading since the "experts" are just alternate paths though part of the model, not having any distinct expertise in the way the name might suggest.

Just running the model multiple times on the same input and selecting the best response (according to some judgement) seems a bit of a haphazard way of getting much diversity of response, if that is really all it is doing.

There are multiple alternate approaches to sampling different responses from the model that come to mind, such as:

1) "Tree of thoughts" - generate a partial response (e.g. one token, or one reasoning step), then generate branching continuations of each of those, etc, etc. Compute would go up exponentially according to number of chained steps, unless heavy pruning is done similar to how it is done for MCTS.

2) Separate response planning/brainstorming from response generation by first using a "tree of thoughts" like process just to generate some shallow (e.g. depth < 3) alternate approaches, then use each of those approaches as additional context to generate one or more actual responses (to then evaluate and choose from). Hopefully this would result in some high level variety of response without the cost of of just generating a bunch of responses and hoping that they are usefully diverse.
by zelphirkalt | 2025-08-01 17:03:57+00:00
I mean, if you are not able to make a reproducible virtual environment, by using one of the popular package managers, like Poetry or uv, then yes, you are holding it wrong. If you are relying on requirements.txt merely pinning versions and not transitive dependencies, then yes, you are holding it wrong. In that case it would be a skill issue.
by czinck | 2025-08-01 17:04:14+00:00
In addition to the current supply constraint keeping prices high, mortgages being fixed rate means higher interest rates don't really drive prices down (although lower interest rates do drive prices up). If you have a mortgage for $600k at 3% interest rate and rates go to 6.6% (like they are now), the naive loan math says your house is now worth $400k. Who has $200k in equity built up in their home and is willing to walk away from it? Virtually no one, so prices stay high until people get desperate to sell.

This leads to the fun conclusion that raising interest rates might actually make inflation worse. Rent/rent equivalent is already 30% of CPI, so increases in housing costs have a big effect on overall inflation.
by tamebadger | 2025-08-01 17:04:18+00:00
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by NeutralForest | 2025-08-01 17:04:47+00:00
I've never seen anybody do that... In Python you can use a module as a singleton (mentioned in the article). Or provide some data like:

from functools import lru_cache class Whatever: pass @lru_cache(maxsize=1) def get_whatever(): return Whatever()

And use `get_whatever` as your interface to get the resource.
by littlexsparkee | 2025-08-01 17:05:01+00:00
Of course it is. If jobs are in major metros but it's impossible to buy there and hard to rent even as a tech worker - what does that mean for the city (and all the people that are locked out of opportunity)? A study from Hsieh and Moretti estimated that looser zoning rules in elite cities could increase GDP growth by a third. Everyone's looking to AI for productivity gains but this is major money on the floor that, while getting more discussion at present, is not part of a national policy, to everyone's detriment.
by thelittlenag | 2025-08-01 17:05:40+00:00
My comment here is a very narrow one. In general I agree with your sentiment and thoughts, so please don't misread me. There is one nit I need to pick, however.

There is a subtle, but worthwhile, difference between "plausible" and "credible". Lots of stories are plausible. Few are credible.

In emotion laden cases like this we tend to want to believe stories we already agree with, or have some investment in. I'm no exception to that.

We need to not be misled by what is plausible, or confuse that with what is credible.
by exasperaited | 2025-08-01 17:05:43+00:00
You could use this, yes. And buy it, as an adult. I have not suggested you could not. (I just don't think the point is necessary, myself, and I am glad of options without it)

But you quite possibly cannot buy it on Amazon or in any UK shop already without proving you are an adult if your age is in doubt. Do you have a problem with their terms on that page?

"Age Verification Required on Delivery: This product is not for sale to people under the age of 18. To confirm the recipient is over 18 years, valid photographic ID with a date of birth may be required upon delivery. The driver will input your year of birth into their device and may then require an ID check to complete the age verification process. The driver will not be able to access your information once the delivery is complete."

(The "may" here is crucial. I've never been asked to prove I am an adult this way either, because I look like one)
by Topfi | 2025-08-01 17:06:07+00:00
Pure performance isn't necessarily everything. Context window, speed and local use are just some of the upsides this model may have. We still know next to nothing so anything is possible, but if it is an MoE at 120B, that could enable some interesting local use cases, even if it less capable than e.g. Deepseek V3, simply by running on more hardware/at higher tokens/sec. GPT-4.1s code focus has also shown that OpenAI does have a knack for models with a more narrow use case, maybe this will do well in specific tasks. More so since GPT-4.1 was that much better than the massive GPT-4.5, I am cautiously optimistic.

Even if it does poorly in all areas (like Llama 4 [0]), there is still a lot the community and industry can learn from even an uncompetitive model.

[0] Llama 4 technically has a massive 10M token context as a differentiator, however in my experience, it is not reliably usable beyond 100k.
by lotyrin | 2025-08-01 17:06:24+00:00
I'm not sure if you can't see the power imbalance posed here, or if you just can't see it as a problem, but I don't really care. You need to improve.

Too many people (of all genders) see the value that men provide to their potential sex partners as being status and power, and therefore they believe that men should seek to acquire status and power and use these things to bargain for sex.

This leads to all kinds of shitty problems like the potential (I don't want to assert that the proposed situation in this comment thread is the actual ground truth) miscommunication we're seeing here where a man has done what society expects of him and a woman comes to be abused and we can't even agree if that's a bad thing. We focus on her "regret" as if consent were ever possible in such a lopsided situation and she's retracted it after the fact.

When people talk about the rape culture, this is exactly what they mean. If you see no problems here, you're lost in it.
by BoopyKiki | 2025-08-01 17:06:48+00:00
I built a small Next.js repo to experiment with performance techniques: https://github.com/kiki-le-singe/nextjs-perf-showcase

It includes practical examples like tabs, modals, Leaflet, Chart.js, and WaveSurfer. It’s not production-grade, but might be useful if you’re exploring dynamic imports, streaming with suspense.

Feedback welcome.
by shaftway | 2025-08-01 17:07:10+00:00
As a fellow California independent, does it?

If it turns out that Obama is in the Epstein files, my friends won't have to get rid of their Obama hat, or their Obama sneakers, or their Obama cologne, or their Obama watch, or their Obama bible, or take down their Obama flag, or delete their Obama NFT trading cards.

Both parties are alien and hostile to me, but for very different reasons.
by virtuallyvivek | 2025-08-01 17:07:16+00:00
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by reactordev | 2025-08-01 17:07:45+00:00
MicroProse games in the 90s were next level. So many milsim games where you got to experience a crude 90s graphics recreation of being a service member shooting bogies.

I never could complete a mission of F-117A Steal Fighter on Mac System 9.

However, RCT was a “Minecraft” of its day without the support of the community. It was huge. Everyone was playing it. I wish modding was a thing back then. We would have gone crazy but then when you read how RCT was made - glad we didn’t have to do it.
by chii | 2025-08-01 17:08:30+00:00
> If you think they're good, why not do a paid day of work then?

not many people could take the time away from their current job, so you'd be automatically filtering out people who are currently employed (which, i would imagine, is a signal that they're already sufficiently good).

So only those who could take the time can come to this style of interview, and it introduces a systemic bias.
by jesse__ | 2025-08-01 17:08:42+00:00
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One of my personal projects of ~10 years is a 3D game engine. Working on it has taught me a great deal about systems and graphics programming. It runs on Windows, Linux and Web (WASM/WebGL). I chose to build it without any libraries (barring the CRT for startup), which began as a learning exercise, but has taught me the value of simplicity.

I've also been working on a metaprogramming system for C & CPP. Think templates/constexpr, but significantly more ergonomic. It turns out I have a small passion for compilers. It currently generates many tens of thousands of lines of code for my game engine project including containers and an interactive realtime data visualization/editor.

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by aggie | 2025-08-01 17:08:59+00:00
Why do I see so many critiques of the abundance movement based on factional motives and ad hominem, and so little critique of the arguments they make?

If progressives want to expand government, government needs to be effective. Abundance liberalism is about learning from the mistakes of the past and making government better able to achieve to goals both liberals and progressives want.

If we're talking about factional infighting, leftists are "afraid" the neoliberals will offer a compelling path forward instead of pivoting to socialism, so they resist arguments that would otherwise be beneficial to their political goals.
by stagas | 2025-08-01 17:09:06+00:00
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by Topfi | 2025-08-01 17:09:08+00:00
Considering my personal heavy use also not leading to rate limits and what I've seen by some users over the past months, I suspect a mix of actually thinking about your code before writing a prompt, managing context by documenting and running stuff like git, npm install, etc. yourself instead of "Hey Claude, setup React with Radix and install a few packages". I have genuinely seen someone use ultrathink for setting up a starter repo hosted on Github, despite the commands being listed in the readme, so I can see how certain people may hit the limits quicker than others. Still, I will cancel my Claude Max subscription if they remain intransparent concerning the amount of use we actually get, especially regarding the mail they sent out recently which stated that 20x Max users do only get 10x in terms of expected usable hours. Same goes for still not providing an official way to track how much use one has left in a week.