MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by BobbyTables2 | 2025-09-05 01:49:54+00:00
The doubling of the standard deduction in Trump’s first term means interest isn’t deductible for practical purposes. Same thing with charitable donations!

Not sure what real tax breaks there is if both people make similar income. Otherwise if only one works, they’ll definitely see lower taxes thanks to the doubling of the standard deduction (plus exemption for the spouse).
by fragmede | 2025-09-05 01:51:06+00:00
My only disappointment with it is the "time to fresh sheet of paper to write on" metric. As in, a paper notebook, I can open to a section I know is empty and be able to jot something down within seconds. I can then tear it out and refile it without much hassle. There's quick sheets, but it's still too many buttons to press.
Veritas – A Tool for Detecting Bias in Everyday Content
by axisai | 2025-09-05 01:51:20+00:00
We’re building Veritas, an AI model designed to uncover bias in written content — from academic papers and policies to workplace communications. The goal is to make hidden assumptions and barriers visible, so decisions can be made with more clarity and fairness.

We just launched on Kickstarter to fund the next phase as we move into BETA testing: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/axis-veritas/veritas-the-bias-detection-tool-for-everyone

Would love the HN community’s perspective: Do you see a need for this kind of model? Where do you think it could be most useful, and what pitfalls should we be careful to avoid?
by southernplaces7 | 2025-09-05 01:52:04+00:00
For one thing, while not everyone reads novel-length tracts or deep introspective literature, today, a vastly greater number of people than ever in history are able to read, and daily do indeed read a considerable volume of words, ranging from the banal to the entertaining to the modestly intellectual and beyond. The evidence that this reading, even if much of it is short and very succinct, is somehow worsening cognitive performance than reading fewer things but of greater length, is shaky at best so far.

Secondly, having more people than ever be able to read is still better than having a small percentage of the population be literate and reading deeply, while a vast majority can read barely anything or nothing. Since all declines have to be measured against some baseline or relative to some historical level, I have a hard time believing that there is even a decline of reading or anything making politics much dumber given that at any previous time, it was the case that fewer people read.

If anything, the seemingly more intellectually robust political discourse preserved to now from history represents a minority of all (mostly blathering) political discourse, and even in the case of that limited quantity of reasoned discourse, was aimed more at a limited audience of watchers, while completely excluding most people.

Finally, having spent years reading about history and its political elements (and their typical discourse) from the time of Rome to the present, I see nothing to make me think it's been dumbed down. If anything, the political propaganda of earlier decades and centuries was absurdly stupid, pig-ignorant and hateful by modern standards, but worked better on its contemporary audiences, who had much less access to such a vast flood of information, than does modern political propaganda on modern audiences.
by astrange | 2025-09-05 01:52:32+00:00
> A compression algorithm can then remove high-frequency information, which corresponds to small details, without drastically changing how the image looks to the human eye.

I slightly object to this. Removing small details = blurring the image, which is actually quite noticeable.

For some reason everyone really wants to assume this is true, so for the longest time people would invent new codecs that were prone to this (in particular wavelet-based ones like JPEG-2000 and Dirac) and then nobody would use them because they were blurry. I think this is because it's easy to give up on actually looking at the results of your work and instead use a statistic like PSNR, which turns out to be easy to cheat.
by technion | 2025-09-05 01:53:46+00:00
I have no idea how i used to manage with five days in office.

I am currently using myunch hour to see a doctor. A few weeks back I needed to see a plumber, and before that an electrician. Its five seconds out of the work day let them in and send them on their way but I guess we're looking at burning annual leave if I was stuck in office.
by kjellsbells | 2025-09-05 01:54:23+00:00
- Accessibility built in, eg the OS takes care of adapting to what the user can do ( vision, subtitles, adaptive keyboard input etc).

- trivially replaceable kernel, to encourage research and experimentation, real time use, etc.

- ruthless, consistent separation of user data, user configuration, and an unbreakable standard for where programs get installed. Just look at dotfiles, hier/LFS, the windows Registry etc to see what a mess this is.

- a native grid compute protocol that allowed any two or more computers to merge into a single system image and automatically distribute workloads across them. We have clustering and the insane complexity of k8s today but it imagine something as easy as "Bonjour and Plan 9"!
by johnnyanmac | 2025-09-05 01:55:10+00:00
>"Indeed, for those already employed, our results indicate AI is more likely to result in retraining than job loss, similar to our findings from last year

I guess that angle it doesn't contradict this other posting earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45121342

Can't be laid off if you were never hired.

>The New York Fed blog noted that the modest impact on jobs so far may not hold in the future. "Looking ahead, firms anticipate more significant layoffs and scaled-back hiring as they continue to integrate AI into their operations," New York Fed researchers wrote.

Oh okay, so the title should be "AI not affecting the [financial] Job Market... yet"
by bcrl | 2025-09-05 01:55:12+00:00
When MIT ran the first massive online course, 6002x, I found out that MIT 6002x was the electronics course I had wished for back when I was in high school. The high school electronics courses I took only touched upon analysis of the simplest of circuits, and there wasn't a lot of explanation of how the different kinds of transistors (NPN, PNP, MOSFETs..) are modeled.

But oh how much workload the 6002x course was... I needed 10-15 hours per week for all the reading, problems and labs, and doing that while working full time and commuting 2 hours a day was a grueling pace to survive!
by tomhow | 2025-09-05 01:55:43+00:00
Please don't post flamebait on HN or use the site for ideological battle. It's not what HN is for and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45133741 and marked it off topic.
by ACCount37 | 2025-09-05 01:57:27+00:00
If you think that the evils of Xi Jinping outweigh the suffering of billions, you should consider killing Xi Jinping. Plenty of people tried killing Hitler, and Xi Jinping is apparently even worse?

>There simply isn’t any positive to immortality, besides

You mean, besides billions of people not rotting to death in their own bodies? Besides that little incredibly unimportant easy-to-overlook thing?

>Can you explain why things will suddenly become fair and equitable when nobody dies for some reason?

Can you explain why amazing technologies like cars and smartphones and air travel became available to the masses, instead of being hoarded by a dozen uber-rich uber-powerful billionaires?

The short answer is "economics". Do you expect anti-aging technology to be exempt from economics somehow?
by josephg | 2025-09-05 01:58:04+00:00
I’d be fascinated to see a comparison with SPDK. That bypasses the kernel’s NVMe / SSD driver and controls the whole device from user space - which is supposed to avoid a lot of copies and overhead.

You might be able to set up SPDK to send data directly into the cpu cache? It’s one of those things I’ve wanted to play with for years but honestly I don’t know enough about it.

https://spdk.io/
by wpm | 2025-09-05 01:58:12+00:00
> Which, BTW, was a few years after Steve Jobs predicted that Safari will be the only browser on the planet, on both Macs and PCs, and that it'd be good.

Safari is good. As a user, I could not care even an iota less about how "annoying" it is to develop over-built, shitty websites to work right on Safari. Web developers as a general rule don't really seem like they give a shit about delivering good work, that respects the users wishes and devices and privacy, so if it makes it harder for them to have to write garbage like fucking Confluence or whatever for two platforms claiming to comply with "standards", sounds good to me, I don't care. Works great for reading documents and watching videos. Works great checking a menu of a restaurant from a QR code. I don't want it or need it to be my entire operating system, accessing my camera, my microphone, my location, my goddamn serial ports, running gobs of terrible quality, remote, slow code ensuring my brand new computer feels the same as my brand new computer from 10 years ago, to do what a barebones platform API app could do talking to the exact same JSON-RPC APIs their dogshit React app is talking to.

> Your argument against Google's monopoly would make a lot of sense if it was impossible to use Google's Android without a Google Account tracking your every move

And this argument would hold water if it was solely about being forced to do something horrific to your privacy instead of led to or being tricked into doing it. It holds as well as "well you can just not buy an iPhone". Give me a break! Google is not out to empower anyone. They are out to own general computing and the mountain of data if produces, and turning the browser, the one platform they have control over, into the operating system, is how they are going to do that. And in a stroke of brilliance, for the last 15 years they've "allowed" the "choice" to sidestep their overreach, which leads to braindead arguments like "well, at least you can sidestep it, therefore its really not that bad" from libertarian brained bozos who can't see the forest for the trees.

Apple is by no means free of sin. There are a million things I would change about the App Store monopoly. But that isn't the world we live in. We live in a world where one company controls and inspects the conduit to the internet for a vast majority of the population, and one controls it for the vast majority of the remainder. Whatever their reasons, the latter are holding back the Kraken ready to envelop and consume everything, and I'm not going to poo poo their efforts because it doesn't immediately comply with whatever half-assed, hostile "standard" the former pushes out of its rectum.
Ask HN: What about the "annoyance cost" of using LLMs for coding?
by arduinomancer | 2025-09-05 01:59:02+00:00
Does anyone else find that LLM code generators improve your overall productivity marginally but you prefer not to use them due to what I call the “annoyance cost”

Basically the extra cognitive annoyance you have to experience every time it generates the wrong thing

It’s like you can achieve the end result faster but it’s more mentally draining and annoying to keep tweaking the LLM than to just write it yourself
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-09-05 01:59:04+00:00
I’ve learned to keep errors simple. I have found that the most important thing is to anticipate and trap the error. Reporting it is actually the simplest part of the thing.

The kind of structure mentioned in the article, with things like contexts, and calling chains, is stuff that I did for years.

In my experience, it had a glass jaw. It broke easily. The more complicated something is, the more places it has to break.

Also, I found that I never, ever used it. The most introspection I ever did, was look at an error code. Where the error happened, was the important thing, and a symbolic debugger gave me that.

These days, I just declare an Error-conformant enum, sometimes with associated data, and add a few computed properties or functions.

It’s most important that I write my code to anticipate and catch errors. The report is always refined to be as simple and gentle to the user, as possible. The technical stuff, I have found, is best handled with a symbolic debugger.

But that’s just me, and I know that the type of software that I write, is best served with that model. YMMV.
by jeremyjh | 2025-09-05 02:00:08+00:00
This isn't a consumer payments system. Certainly there are use-cases where fraud and abuse aren't very relevant. A network of larger businesses could find value in expediting transactions but they are all long-term players and can't afford to defraud each other. The system could make it impossible to hide such activity, and recovery through the courts is always possible because there is an entity with assets involved in a business transaction.
by adonovan | 2025-09-05 02:03:41+00:00
Agreed. It's funny how only a couple of years ago we all told schoolchildren "stop citing Wikipedia, anyone can edit it, read an actual book!" yet now in this benighted era of AI we urge them to consult Wikipedia for "the truth" because it's not the hallucination of a machine.

Yes, it has its flaws, but I plan to keep on editing and donating.
by theconomist | 2025-09-05 02:04:19+00:00
I don't know, it may be good for the economy, at least it's better than ghost cities

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underoccupied_developments_in_...

5 Years On, China’s Property Crisis Has No End in Sight https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/business/china-property-d...
by harrall | 2025-09-05 02:04:22+00:00
I remember when I first learned calculus and holy shit that was cool already. Then it kept getting better and better as I learned differential equations, linear algebra, etc.

To me EE = heavy math and that’s what makes it so fun.

I actually do software now but it’s completely different. There’s like no math in most applications of it. Putting something together with a Rasp Pi or Arduino feels like 98% software and 2% EE.
by martin-t | 2025-09-05 02:04:31+00:00
I wish n-gate was still around. He would note the high vote to comment ratio. When HN has little to say, it's always a sign of a high quality very technical article.

On a more serious note, this highlights a deeper issue with HN, similar sites and the attention economy. When an article takes a lot of time to read:

- The only people commenting at first have no read it.

- By the time you are done reading it, it's no longer visible on the front page so new people are not coming in anymore and the discussion appears dead. This discourages people who read it from making thoughtful comments because few people will read it.

- There are people who wait for the discussion to die down so they can read it without missing the later thoughtful comments but they are discouraged from participating earlier while the discussion is alive because then they'd have to wade through the constantly changing discussion and separate what they have already seen from what they haven't.

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Back on topic, I'd love to see this with weights from an actual working model and a customizable input text so we could see how both the seed and input affects the output. And also a way to explore vectors representing "meanings" the way 3blue1brown did in his LLM videos.
by mdaniel | 2025-09-05 02:04:51+00:00
Up to ~you~ gemini, but a loading screen would make it seem less like it was stuck

A tutorial is always welcome when one is dropped site-unseen into a game. I didn't understand what you meant by the WASD part since I could shoot the green squares just fine using only my mouse and thought the exercise was to pick the highest priority green. But then I thought "well, ok, so what does the WASD mentioned do?" and then I got the run-around part with them converging upon me

It wasn't clear what the rifle (or actually subsequent weapons) do differently, but I don't offhand know how to cover that 'here is what is new' behavior since I'm not a game maker
by enolan | 2025-09-05 02:05:16+00:00
Location: New York City

Remote: Yes, but prefer in-office

Willing to relocate: Yes, to the Bay Area

Technologies: machine learning, transformers, LLMs, finetuning, flow matching, JAX, PyTorch, Python

Resume: https://www.echonolan.net/resume/cv.pdf

Email: echo@echonolan.net

I'm an ML engineer/ML research engineer looking for roles where there are gradients to descend, models to build, and/or datasets to gather. In general I want to advance the frontier of what's possible. My credentials are more towards research engineering than applied work, but I'm open to both. My last job was as a contract research engineer doing AI safety work at Redwood Research. I spent about half my time on our synthetic datasets of safe & unsafe LLM behavior, and the other half on fancy finetuning. I finetuned an LLM to exhibit unsafe behavior while fooling logistic probes trained to detect it, but only in deployment. Weird multi-part composite loss. My other big project is independent research in text-to-image models that are trained solely on unlabeled image data, exploiting CLIP embeddings for the link between text and images. Currently fighting with spherical flow matching models and racing the ICLR paper deadline.

If you need help getting ML systems up and running, getting them fast and correct, or if any of that stuff sounds interesting to you, get in touch.
by SequoiaHope | 2025-09-05 02:05:47+00:00
Yeah honestly I have good self control for a lot of drugs, but this one was pretty tricky. It took me a while to realize what was happening. I had been on Adderall for almost a year when I started a new job at a fast paced startup, and only then did my usage patterns become an issue. My golden rule now is I only ever take the same dosage at the same times of day (morning and afternoon). For a while I took extra on busy days and this led to poor sleep, additional use subsequent days to keep up, and then a crash. The crash was characterized by feeling extremely sad to the point of ruining my weekends when it happened. Now for the past few months I’ve never exceeded my daily dose and I feel much better. Sounds like with this simple guidance and your mindfulness you will do great
by bediger4000 | 2025-09-05 02:07:04+00:00
Given that the name "Department of Defense" is statutory, by what mechanism is Mr President doing this?

It's time for Congress to crack down on this outlandish behavior. Yes, Trump is president. No, Trump did not win by a landslide. No, current conservative grievances and policies are not blessed by god. No, Trump is not king. This kind of behavior needs to stop. The US is a republic, not a monarchy, let's keep it that way.
by barnabyjones | 2025-09-05 02:07:26+00:00
My parents have similar issues due to hearing loss, it really makes any kind of social interaction a chore which results in a similar spiral. For years I've wanted to try to make, or hope someone else would make, a set of AR glasses that's purely focused on providing accurate real-time subtitles, no other gimmicks or features that might affect the wearability/usability. I think that's the biggest QOL boost most old folks would get from a single product, and it seems much more realistically feasible than other potential QOL solutions like robotics, but I wouldn't know where to start with building it. As a bonus, it would just need an LLM/Google Translate hookup to become an amazing travel tool.
by 0x6c6f6c | 2025-09-05 02:08:36+00:00
I'm not following what you're saying here at all.

Meshnet is their peer-to-peer secure networking solution, not their conventional VPN solution. It allowed you to have multiple devices in your account directly communicate with one another, set a device as gateways for routing network traffic of devices connected to Meshnet (basically making your own VPN server), sending files directly between devices, and likely more I'm not aware of.

It was essentially their Tailscale / ZeroTier offering, but in the opposite manner to Tailscale which added Mullvad integration to provide a more conventional VPN atop their mesh network.

They are removing Meshnet, and the primary capabilities of NordVPN will be their global set of traditional VPN servers. Some of the features like P2P file transmission can be replaced by e.g. NordLocker albeit without P2P if I understand it correctly. But mesh networking is gone in December.
by richardfeynman | 2025-09-05 02:09:51+00:00
No matter how you slice the data, births have exceeded deaths in Gaza during the war.

Elsewhere in the thread, I supplied data showing 130 births/day in April 2025, the most recent month for which data is available. No matter how you slice it, (100 births/day, 130 births/day, 150 births/day, or 180 births/day) there have been at least 70,000 births in Gaza since the war started, though likely many, many more. This exceeds the number of known deaths by any measure. Were you familiar with these figures previously? Can you supply alternative data showing a lower birth rate? No and no.

As for the deaths, you asked if I know there have been ~60k deaths. The truth is I don't know there have been 60k deaths in gaza, and neither do you - that figure comes from Hamas, an internationally recognized terrorist organization and belligerent to the war, and it includes natural deaths, deaths reported in google forms,terrorist deaths, palestinian deaths caused by Hamas, and has had to be downward revised (including cutting the known number of female and child deaths by half) several times in the conflict - so for most of the conflict at least, people citing these figures would have been wrong. But I'm willing to use this figure here because I consider it an upper limit.

Source: "About 130 children are being born daily in Gaza as Israeli authorities' total siege on supplies enters its second month, putting mothers and newborns at risk as medical and food supplies run out and a lack of flour closes all bakeries" https://www.savethechildren.net/news/about-130-children-born...
by cherry_tree | 2025-09-05 02:10:19+00:00
> This repeated and explicitly-sexual metaphor in a non-sexual context is rather wearisome.

Thanks for the English lit critique I guess but your opinion on various colloquialisms in the English language is not relevant to the conversation.

Your other points are similarly irrelevant to the convo, you use the idea of a market “caring” literally, claiming that of course a market doesn’t have emotions and can’t care which is plainly trying to deflect your suggestion that the market could never reach position x because it’s ultimately unprofitable for a landlord to engage in some behavior long term and you refused to materially respond to or acknowledge any of my points. Your post is abstracted from reality further than the idea that a market could “care” about something being taken literally. Obviously the market is not a human with wants, cares or needs.

> I made a statement in public for all to hear, I am unable to defend the statements I make

Well I’ve asked for you to defend them and this was your response so I assume you are being genuine instead of sarcastic here? Why respond at all I wonder.

If you can point to where I’m being impolite or offended you I’m happy to acknowledge this; I wasn’t planning to have a conversation with someone so sensitive that things like “I think your idea is bad” is a personal insult or impolite.
by anonymous_user9 | 2025-09-05 02:10:31+00:00
Those apartments are already under rent control, and they'd be just as rent controlled if he allowed a rent increase. So, if "rent control limits supply", the supply will be limited no matter what he does.

My mistake, I thought you meant financial capital. I disagree. It seems like grocery prices are a real problem in New York, and the existing subsidy program isn't working. Ensuring people can afford food seems like an excellent use use of political capital, and if it works it can be scaled up.