MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by globnomulous | 2025-09-02 18:25:10+00:00
It's entirely uncharitable. I don't care about the author's humility. I will spare not one iota of sympathy or empathy for spreaders of AI slop or for the embarrassing naivete of writing a motto in a language one doesn't know and sharing it publicly with the expectation that it's an idea/expression worth discussing. Both deserve to be labeled and treated uncharitably.

I wish Hacker News had policies that squash this kind of post before it can reach the front page. Nobody needs to read some guy's clueless thought diary, and the oxygen these submissions consume on HN are stolen from better pieces of writing that actually deserve attention.
by WorldMaker | 2025-09-02 18:25:11+00:00
> Though, I'm typing this on a swiping keyboard. It's different enough that a better layout might have been worth it here...

This seems to be an interesting place where the type bar optimization problem of the earliest typewriters came back in a new weirder form. For swiping keyboards to work the words need recognizably different shapes and for irregular pairs to be closer together (just as with the type bar problem) and so QWERTY is very strongly and weirdly optimized for swiping even though it seems very unlikely its inventors could have ever imagined swipe typing.

I can anecdotally admit that touch typing and swipe typing are extremely different muscle memory. I touch type Colemak and swipe type QWERTY. (One of the things that prompted the move to Colemak for touch typing was that I needed to unlearn a ton of bad muscle memory from self-taught/self-"optimized" QWERTY, as it was inflaming RSI/RSI-like symptoms, so the loss of "fluency" there was a requirement/feature for me.)
by arcticbull | 2025-09-02 18:25:49+00:00
Ah yeah, that's a common misconception.

Deficit spending doesn't create new money. Deficit spending borrows existing money from the population and institutions in exchange for a promise of future government revenues. The Fed does not participate in treasury primary auctions and does not monetize the debt as a means of funding government operations.

If you printed new money to pay for the government, you wouldn't have a debt. That's double-counting. Not to mention the debt is twice as large as the entire money supply so what you're suggesting isn't even physically possible. It would be inflationary to simply print new money to finance spending, which is exactly why it's not done.

[edit] Also the debt limit is a stupid concept that's likely unconstitutional. Congress authorizes spending, meaningful debate over paying for it by adjusting the debt limit likely falls afoul of the 14th amendment's public debt clause. But yeah I mean the debt limit goes up because the government spends more money than it takes in, so it needs to borrow more each year.
by andrewla | 2025-09-02 18:26:07+00:00
Sure, that's a way to approach it. All you have to do is stay interested in "linear functions" long enough to get there. It's totally possible -- I got there, and so did many many many other people (arguably everyone who has applied mathematics to almost any problem has).

But when I was learning linear algebra all I could think was "who cares about linear functions? It's the simplest, dumbest kind of function. In fact, in one dimension it's just multiplication -- that's the only linear function and the class of scalar linear functions is completely specified by the factor that you multiple by". I stuck to it because that was what the course taught, and they wouldn't teach me multidimensional calculus without making me learn this stuff first, but it was months and years later when I suddenly found that linear functions were everywhere and I somehow magically had the tools and the knowledge to do stuff with them.
by Bukhmanizer | 2025-09-02 18:26:09+00:00
The issue is that American media/discourse paints a very distorted view of what life under authoritarian rule is like. The truth is in many countries, unless you’re some kind of minority, politically active, or in legal trouble, day-to-day life is mostly similar to life in the west. But people don’t want to hear that, because we want to feel better than them. Like we wouldn’t tolerate that kind of life.

Of course the most frustrating part about that is as the US and other western countries start sliding into authoritarianism, people deny it because they don’t feel like it’s authoritarian.

Edit: To clarify, I don’t think life is exactly the same - just that the consequences of authoritarianism are much more insidious than they’re portrayed.
by bcrosby95 | 2025-09-02 18:26:21+00:00
I think you're really bending over backwards to make this company seem non viable.

If model training has truly turned out to be profitable at the end of each cycle, then this company is going to make money hand over fist, and investing money to out compete the competition is the right thing to do.

Most mega corps started out wildly unprofitable due to investing into the core business... until they aren't. It's almost as if people forget the days of Facebook being seen as continually unprofitable. This is how basically all huge tech companies you know today started.
by Aurornis | 2025-09-02 18:26:34+00:00
Country scale is weird because it has such a large range.

California (where Anthropic is headquartered) has over twice as many people as all of Somalia.

The state of California has a GDP of $4.1 Trillion. $13 billion is a rounding error at that scale.

Even the San Francisco Bay Area alone has around half as many people as Somalia.
by rsyring | 2025-09-02 18:26:42+00:00
Not too long ago, I read a comment on HN that suggested, due to Python's support for free-threading, async in Python will no longer be needed and will lose out to free-threading due to it's use of "colored" functions. Which seems to align with where this author ends up:

> Because parallelism in Python using threads has always been so limited, the APIs in the standard library are quite rudimentary. I think there is an opportunity to have a task-parallelism API in the standard library once free-threading is stabilized.

> I think in 3.14 the sub-interpreter executor and free-threading features make more parallel and concurrency use cases practical and useful. For those, we don’t need async APIs and it alleviates much of the issues I highlighted in this post.

Armin recently put up a post that goes into those issue in more depth: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/7/26/virtual-threads/

Which lead me to a pre-PEP discussion regarding the possibility of Virtual Threads in Python, which was probably way more than I needed to know but found interesting: https://discuss.python.org/t/add-virtual-threads-to-python/9...
by ineedaj0b | 2025-09-02 18:26:46+00:00
Hm. I asked openly for information to change my opinion - show data, examples, anything - and you attack my character.

I get the largest amount of my news from Bloomberg. And you think I need to get laid. I have no issues with women or mental health.

This entire exchange, especially with your reply - means I’m right on the money!

I will find a way to short the UK. It’s all been going downhill since WWII, and the population alive hasn’t the gruff to fix the backslide.
by bdefore | 2025-09-02 18:26:51+00:00
I created and maintain ProtonDB, a popular Linux gaming resource. I don't do ads, just pay the bills from some Patreon donations.

It's a statically generated React site I deploy on Netlify. About ten days ago I started incurring 30GB of data per day from user agents indicating they're using Prerender. At this pace almost all of that will push me past the 1TB allotted for my plan, so I'm looking at an extra ~$500USD a month for the extra bandwdith boosters.

I'm gonna try the robots.txt options, but I'm doubtful this will be effective in the long run. Many other options aren't available if I want to continue using a SaaS like Netlify.

My initial thoughts are to either move to Cloudflare Pages/Workers where bandwidth is unlimited, or make an edge function that parses the user agent and hope it's effective enough. That'd be about $60 in edge function invocations.

I've got so many better things to do than play whack-a-mole on user agents and, when failing, pay this scraping ransom.

Can I just say fuck all y'all AI harvesters? This is a popular free service that helps get people off of their Microsoft dependency and live their lives on a libre operating system. You wanna leech on that? Fine, download the data dumps I already offer on an ODbL license instead of making me wonder why I fucking bother.
by ronsor | 2025-09-02 18:26:57+00:00
Perhaps do not have an office in that country. As for employees, that is their concern. Ideally the country is not willing to punish the family members of employees of companies that do not follow its draconian laws, but we know some do, such as China. Regardless, that is not a reason to capitulate; if you do so, you are effectively enabling state-backed extortion.
by AnotherGoodName | 2025-09-02 18:27:00+00:00
Alphago (and stockfish that another commenter mentioned) still has to search ahead using a world model. The AI training just helps with the heuristics for pruning and evaluation of that search.

The big fundamental blocker to a generic ‘can play any game’ ai is the manual implementation of the world model. If you read the alphago paper you’ll see ‘we started with nothing but an implementation of the game rules’. That’s the part we’re missing. It’s done by humans.
by jsheard | 2025-09-02 18:27:11+00:00
> [Paragon] has said that [...] it only does business with democracies. It has also said it has a no tolerance policy and will cut off government clients who use the spyware to target members of civil society, like journalists.

> Paragon also refuses to disclose who its clients are and has said it does not have insight into how its clients use the technology against targets.

Well colour me convinced!
by egberts1 | 2025-09-02 18:27:27+00:00
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Here's the flashpoint, there is no chemical flashpoint of sodium bromide closed-jar or not, just plasma flashpoint. So safe, NextGen Midland can supply all your chemical needs: click here for more info <insert hyper-hyper-grabby-link>
by alphazard | 2025-09-02 18:27:35+00:00
I'm opposed to using certs where public keys will do. Certificates especially X.509 are more complicated than the public keys that they reference. They include things like domain names, serial numbers, version numbers, etc.

The complexity of X.509 belongs in the domain name system. If a bunch of large corporations want to come up with complicated formats so they can decide who gets to call themselves what on the internet, let them do that, but don't let them complicate basic security for the rest of us.

The experience to beat is swapping SSH keys. 95% of developers have setup access to a new machine using SSH. That should be the default experience for authenticating on the internet, and anything more complicated should be strictly opt-in.
by gruez | 2025-09-02 18:27:38+00:00
>Is amazon going to tell me that up front? In the restaurant case the manager can explain [...]

In either case they can explain, it's entirely orthogonal to the question of whether it's in-person or not. There's no technical reason why Amazon can't send you a email saying that you were banned for excessive returns, for instance. Moreover I can imagine plenty of reasons why a restaurant manager might not want to explain the precise reason, such as the threat of lawsuits, or not wanting to create an argument/scene. See also, why some HR/hiring managers are cagey about why you were turned down for a job.

>The difference between the analog word and the digital word is extreme.

The difference between a hyper-connected metropolises of today, and a random village in the 1800s is also extreme.
by darthoctopus | 2025-09-02 18:28:03+00:00
perhaps read the actual first paragraph of the article? the whole point of it is that, whether we call it that or not, our privately run reputation scores (including but not limited to credit scores) functionally are social credit scores --- except we've been boiled frogs, and should take some time for self-reflection before engaging in knee-jerk reactions to China's other failings (which I'm not denying btw) whenever social credit is brought up.
by fmnxl | 2025-09-02 18:28:25+00:00
Thinking of it as an attack vector is the problem with people. I'm saying what you have isn't democracy. Your market isn't free. Voting between the same 2 parties or choosing to buy/rent from the same few mega corporations aren't real choices.

Unless you guys start accepting that and find an alternative solution or system, you'll keep digging yourself deeper into the hole you're in. More debt, more wars, more homelessness, more crime, and no future.
by drnick1 | 2025-09-02 18:28:26+00:00
It's trivial to use a different name, email, and phone number. Obfuscating your payment information is a bit harder, but you can request a new credit card from your bank, use a new PayPal account or similar to hide the underlying payment method, or use a prepaid card. The WiFi hotspot cannot be identified across the Internet, only the IP and other fingerprinting information leaked by the browser can, but generally speaking IPs are not fixed and tied to an individual.

My point however was not to provide an exhaustive list of workarounds, just to point out that it is the lack of privacy and anonymity in our lives and enables such surveillance.
by arcticbull | 2025-09-02 18:28:27+00:00
They influence creation of money by adjusting the short-term interest rate which influences the demand for borrowing at commercial and retail banks. It's not that direct or straight-forward though, because they only have control over the short end of the yield curve not the long end. The long end of the yield curve has interest rates defined mostly by inflation expectations. If they dropped rates to 0% overnight it probably wouldn't move the 30Y yield all that much -- it might even raise it because of the expectation lower short-end yields would raise inflation.

The Fed doesn't have nearly as much control as folks think.

The Fed directly created money during QE and they are directly destroying it during QT. There's a net add, but that's mostly because the economy is growing, which creates new demand for money as expressed by demand for debt.

The money supply staying fixed or shrinking is a non-goal anyways. It's irrelevant. What matters is inflation as measured from the change in actual prices.
by GeorgeTirebiter | 2025-09-02 18:29:06+00:00
The courts are the last bulwark against this tyranny. They work very slowly, surely not suited to 21st-century speed. But they do work. The tariffs have been found to be illegal, this is headed to the SC. Using National Guard in LA was found to be illegal. Yes, a bit late. But the '26 election is coming and this guy will see how Americans like all this nonsense.
by sfink | 2025-09-02 18:29:06+00:00
Oh, I missed this part. I think jj is better here in at least one scenario.

Specifically, I believe the scenario you're talking about is:

change file1 build, producing binary.out squash the change down (leaving your working copy unmodified) rebuild

If the squash updates the timestamp on file1, then the rebuild will redo the compilation steps that use file1 as input.

When I test it out, it looks like doing a whole-file squash with jj does not update the timestamp. Hm... I guess even a partial squash doesn't update the current contents, let me try that too... yes, again jj does not touch the file nor update its timestamp.

So it looks like it does do what you want, if I'm understanding things correctly.
by josh_2289 | 2025-09-02 18:29:09+00:00
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by mosburger | 2025-09-02 18:29:41+00:00
My son has been looking for an entry level position ever since graduating (last year, in 2024) with a Game Development degree at a pretty decent school. Right now he's teaching kids programming in an after-school program to keep from going crazy. Before that he did an unpaid internship. Things are looking pretty grim for him - I wish I knew how to help him. :(
by opello | 2025-09-02 18:29:58+00:00
Looking at the build log in the linked Debian issue, there is an argument setting -std=c++11. It seems as though an implicit inclusion of <cstdint> had been provided by libstdc++ in the past and was removed as of GCC 15.

https://github.com/bpftrace/bpftrace/pull/3407

https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2024-August/659176...

Looks like they did in fact add the header detail to the porting guide:

https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-15/porting_to.html#header-dep-change...
by pseudosavant | 2025-09-02 18:30:20+00:00
I was expecting a really simple static-site generator too, but this idea is interesting as well. The heavyweight aspect of using Next/React dampen things a bit.

If it is a client-side solution, I'm imagining a single index.html file (with inline JS/CSS) that you could have a content/ or markdown/ child folder for. The HTTP server would have directory listing on for that folder. The index.html file enumerate/fetch the markdown in the content and folder and render it. You could route using the URL hash.

No build process. Just a single file + your markdown content. Maybe I just like this kind of stuff (https://github.com/pseudosavant/player.html, https://github.com/pseudosavant/folder.api)? So tempted to vibe-code an example...
by lief79 | 2025-09-02 18:30:51+00:00
2/ out of 3 of the last batch of software development interns were hired.

I don't think we had any last summer.

The one individual in our current batch still has another year of school left, but I'm fairly sure they've earned an offer if they want one.

I don't have as much visibility in the IT and security interns, just my department.
by immibis | 2025-09-02 18:30:55+00:00
Reddit is terribly corrupted by something, but I don't think it's communism or socialism. Proof by contradiction: communists and socialists are very strong advocates for punching everyone they think are Nazis, but if you ever hint at that on Reddit (especially as your first comment), or you call Elon or Trump a Nazi, you'll be banned.

Identical to X, it's a platform that pushes what the corporate overlords want you to think, while making it look organic. Different from X, they push more advertising and pro-USA agenda than pro-right-wing.
by didip | 2025-09-02 18:31:01+00:00
Everyone is so pessimistic about bubble bursting and money are simply catches on fire in this AI race…

However, I remembered when Youtube was young. It was burning money every month on bandwidth.

After selling out to Google, it took another decade to turned profit. But it did. And it achieved its end game. As the winner, it took all of the video hosting market. And Google reaped the entirety of that win.

This AI race is playing out the same way. The winner has the ability to disrupt several FAANGs and FAANG neighbors (eg. Adobe). And that’s 1-2 trillion dollar market, combined.
by meesles | 2025-09-02 18:31:06+00:00
Agreed, I'm not sure how the github/shopify folks are doing their own work these days. I have to keep one archived extension + 2 others to try and cover the basic feature set you expect. I realize Ruby typing means some things aren't possible, but the fragmented toolset means the simple things keep breaking. I think some sort of 'champion' or company push will be needed to tidy things up at this point. Ironically, Shopify owns one of the Ruby extensions but it is feature incomplete.
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by xpe | 2025-09-02 18:31:40+00:00
Here are some ways that it’s not very far from a market mechanism:

1. How much an organization is willing to invest in X competes against other market opportunities.

2. The effective price per share (as part of the latest round of financing) is an implicit negotiation.

It is a matter of degree, sure, but my point still stands: there is a lot of collective information going into this valuation. So an individual should be intellectually humble relative to that. How many people have more information than even an imperfect market-derived quantity?
by acdha | 2025-09-02 18:31:41+00:00
> Off the top of my head I can't think of any "hard" software created by Apple, it's all about the UX and the integrations.

This sounds like you’re either unfamiliar with what software they make or underestimate the complexity of things like a modern operating system. For example, most people would consider Swift hard, or the various Core frameworks, or things like designing a new modern file system and doing in place migrations on billion devices, etc.
by jfengel | 2025-09-02 18:31:46+00:00
So what does a "housing emergency" entail?

I imagine that it's when the entire country is infested with termites, and a huge fraction of the houses have to be burned. Then we have to build a lot of temporary housing so that people don't die.

At least, that's what "emergency" means to me -- a situation so dire that we have to focus on the immediate problems. As opposed to, say, an excuse to throw out rules generally and permanently.
by vel0city | 2025-09-02 18:32:38+00:00
But that's not something with only approved microSD cards work with save games. The Switch will not write save game data to any microSD card, regardless of features/manufacturer/branding/royalty payments/whatever. It's just not a supported feature, at all.

The GGP comment makes it sound like Nintendo only supported proprietary microSD cards at launch. While they did sell and recommend their branded microSD cards, one could use any brand of microSD card with the system and have the same functionality.