MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anigbrowl | 2025-09-22 17:52:02+00:00
I have to ask, did you say the thing at the time the supposed exodus was getting lots of media coverage? I expressed skepticism about it at the time, although I did not pay it too much attention because I don't live int he UK. But any skepticism about such a prediction always incurs a bunch of people insisting I don't understand economics and explanation of how freely the wealthy can flee a high tax jurisdiction.

I notice you don't identify any particular investigative shortcomings or fallacies in the report; you just think it's absurd to even consider the viewpoint of an organization that argues the wealthy are undertaxed.
by creddit | 2025-09-22 17:52:27+00:00
Except that this is isn't round-tripping at all. Round-tripping doesn't result in a company actually incurring expenses to create more product. Round-tripping is the term for schemes that enable you to double count assets/revenue without any economic effects taking place.

Every time HackerNews talks about anything in the legal or finance realm, people trip over themselves to make arguments for why something a big tech is doing is illegal. This is definitively neither illegal nor shady. If Nvidia believes, for example, that OpenAI can use their GPUs to turn a profit, then this is inherently positive sum economically for both sides: OpenAI gets capital in the form of GPUs, uses them to generate tokens which they sell above the cost of that capital and then the return some of the excess value to Nvidia. This is done via equity. It's a way for Nvidia to get access to some of the excess value of their product.
by ninalanyon | 2025-09-22 17:52:41+00:00
In my case quite a lot of the time. Which is why Google Keep as a web app is useless but the Android version is very useful.

Also I don't understand why so many people on HN are concentrating on the simultaneous editing scenario, for most ordinary people this is actually quite a rare event especially in their private lives. Google Keep on Android seems to work pretty well in his context my family uses it to share shopping lists and other notes very successfully even hough several of us are online only intermittently.
by bohadi | 2025-09-22 17:52:42+00:00
Maddeningly accurate. Taarof can demonstrate a mastery of social intelligence, like the Japanese tea ceremony writ large in society, and is a good goalpost for AGI.

Not one month ago, as an admission of my own clumsy slight, I had remarked to a senior of higher status, that Chatgpt could just grasp Taarof.
by kentonv | 2025-09-22 17:52:46+00:00
Yes, when you reconnect the WebSocket, the client will need to call methods to get new instances of any objects it needs. The old stubs are permanently broken.

FWIW the way I've handled this in a React app is, the root stub gets passed in as a prop to the root component, and children call the appropriate methods to get whatever objects they need from it. When the connection is lost, a new one is created, and the new root stub passed into the root component, which causes everything downstream to re-run exactly as you'd want. Seems to work well.
by ok_computer | 2025-09-22 17:52:57+00:00
I’ve always worked in a datacenter (non cloud) with separate db servers to the app servers. Besides network latency, what is the advantage of collocating the http server and database server on one machine?

It’s always given me a separation of concerns good feeling by seeing a dedicated db and app server and doesn’t seem like much overhead, given they are nearby machines in datacenter.

Also, our main reason was sharing a database license to have a well resourced multi-tenant/app db sever serving peripheral web app servers.
by gehsty | 2025-09-22 17:53:05+00:00
Some more context, Nuclear power stations can be up to 2GW, offshore windfarms are seemingly hitting a plateau at ~1.5GW, individual turbines in operations now are 15MW. Grids are already strained, 525kV DC systems can transmit ~2GW of power per cable bundle…

Adding 10GW of offtake to any grid is going to cause significant problems and likely require CAPEX intensive upgrades (try buy 525kV dc cable from an established player and you are waiting until 2030+), as well as new generation for the power!
by BiteCode_dev | 2025-09-22 17:53:06+00:00
Yes, you are old.

I meet an unexpected number of young devs that:

- Find hypermedia to be exotic. JSON web API is the only way that makes sense to them.

- Say they use the cloud to "save money".

- Use third-party services for things as basic as authentication because "it's hard".

- Encode security stuff in the frontend code.

It's the cycle of life.
by oh_fiddlesticks | 2025-09-22 17:53:09+00:00
There is absolutely a disparity between private and state teaching quality.

I don't think thats an objectionable statement.

Also, while not wanting to paint with a broad brush, people I know who work in state run schools are aware of how many other challenges students must face when they're on school grounds. They're fighting more than the test criteria, they're fighting their peers, outside criminal influences, prostitution, drug dealing etc etc.

Meanwhile this stuff is rarer and more swiftly dealt with at private schools because the parents won't have it, and they pay the bills and have some leverage, the financial incentives are different in the model and it shows.

I personally don't have a problem with loosening the grade criteria, even if it's gamed, the candidates are all interviewed anyway, it's not like a free pass, more an opportunity.
by ufmace | 2025-09-22 17:53:12+00:00
Well, a regular SIM mostly just works, except for when it doesn't.

I haven't had any APN issues with regular SIMs in a while actually, but it used to be a common problem that would only sometimes auto-configure correctly. I've definitely had to google carrier APN settings and fiddle with them for a while to get text, MMS, and internet access working properly.

I also recently had an issue where I moved my US MVNO provider SIM to a new phone and it mostly worked, except for RCS. When I called them, they claimed my phone model wasn't compatible with their network, despite me already using it on their network for months. Apparently in their opinion SIMs should never actually be moved to a different phone. They offered to sell me a new phone, but I switched to a new carrier instead.
by lukan | 2025-09-22 17:53:40+00:00
Occasionally it can be fun.

Have you ever watched a we-have-never-been-on-the-moon conspiracy freak engage a flat earther?

With both trying to top each other who has the most superior knowledge and who is the real sheep?

But yes. All that borderlines on the dangerous mental crazy side, so I cannot really recommend it, unless you have a fascination with the abyss of the human mind.
by picadi | 2025-09-22 17:53:45+00:00
i read the article, but didn't see anything damning about it. how big of a staff do you think a tiny 501c3 like RubyCentral is? RC shepherds a pretty small community around a niche DSL with a shoestring non-profit budget that mostly goes towards running conferences.. you can see their financial reports here https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/300...

expectations around "strategic planning" and "marketing/PR" are not realistic. You should just be glad these randos don't have admin access to the Github org anymore. Any one of them were huge targets for adversaries who want to ship malware in Rubygems, supply chain attacks are very real and having commit access directly to rubygems/bundler is too powerful for a rando.

my main takeaway from reading all this is why were so many assorted people given such high levels of access..
by taeric | 2025-09-22 17:53:46+00:00
I'm not positive on what you are aiming at. I'd assume "algebraic effects" are to talk about performing algebra on the effects. That is, you are specifically going to talk about how different things combine effects, preferably in ways that honor + and * that we are used to.

If you are just pointing out that this is not, necessarily, "type" related. Agreed. Apologies if I mislead there. I was highlighting that algebraic data types has a similar problem. I did not mean to imply that these were the same topic.

My point is simply that there is no value in the program that says an effect has or has not completed. This is why I compare it to stepping through the program. The "line of code" that is active in executing code is not a first class value in your program. It is very much there, of course. But it is not a value of the program.
by vessenes | 2025-09-22 17:53:46+00:00
Almost every model trained by the majors has paid for itself with inference fees.

I’m not saying there isn’t a bubble, but I am saying if the researchers and strategists absolutely closest to the “metal” of realtime frontier models are correct that AGI is in reach, then this isn’t a bubble, it’s a highly rational race. One that large players seem to be winning right now.
by paulpauper | 2025-09-22 17:53:58+00:00
Crypto is acting like a tech stock at this point, but with random dumps and underperformance in what is otherwise a relentless bull market. Hardly anyone getting rich by and buying holding it anymore, compared to pre-2018. You may as well just invest in QQQ at this point, which has less volatility, or QLD, which is the 2x version. It's performance is comparable to Bitcoin.
by allears | 2025-09-22 17:53:58+00:00
So-called "hallucinations" aren't a threat to AI, and they're not hallucinations. That's a marketing term meant to anthropomorphize a statistical machine. They're a mathematical certainty. AI software is simply picking the most statistically likely words and phrases as a response to your prompt, compared to all the other training data it's been fed. There's no agency, no concept of "truth" or "facts."
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-09-22 17:54:00+00:00
Only occasionally. I think this was more true 10 years ago when the pool of commenters and topics on the site was smaller.

At this point I'd agree with GP that HN conversations are only better than large subreddits, a bit worse than most focused medium-sized subreddits, and a lot worse than more focused subreddits. The level of in-depth conversation you'll get about Go on r/golang or Emacs on r/emacs is much, much higher than this site. In fact you can get a decent amount of arbitrage karma bringing links from those subs onto here :)

I think the sweetspot of this site is a technical topic that's a bit out of the mainstream. These threads usually take a couple hours to really develop but because of that they usually avoid the kneejerk negative/contrarian toplevel posts that the community posts on more accessible topics which usually derail conversation quality. As such you usually get thoughtful, well-developed, good-faith takes on these threads. A good example is a Lisp or Forth related thread.
by zahlman | 2025-09-22 17:54:16+00:00
> But to find out what the default options actually are, you have to find another page, probably the FooOptions constructor. I wanted the default options to be mentioned on the "Foo(string parameter)" page, and they so rarely are.

It's better for maintenance (of the documentation) if the default options are only described in one place. (If the defaults change in a new version, this ensures the documentation doesn't have inconsistent, wrong descriptions. The analogous reasoning, applied to the code, is probably part of why the FooOptions class exists in the first place, after all.) But they should do you the courtesy of linking there.
by kragen | 2025-09-22 17:54:21+00:00
I don't know more about the controversy than what's explained here, but, reading between the lines, it sounds like companies want Ruby Central to operate more like a for-profit company, where people carry out defined tasks in exchange for getting paid, than like a jury or the American Medical Association, where people do what seems best to them in exchange for a harder-to-define sense of collective social obligation. (When they work, of course; sometimes those institutions don't work very well.)

I am skeptical that the model where people carry out defined tasks in exchange for getting paid can properly discharge the obligations of trustworthiness and disinterest that are necessary for the proper functioning of software supply chains. I'm thinking that probably people whose motivation is primarily personal gain will seek out ways to exploit their users' trust for additional personal gain, for example by bundling adware and other malware into their software the way Microsoft does with Windows, or only releasing security updates to paying customers.

Open-source licensing provides some protection against this problem, because it guarantees you the legal right to switch to a non-malicious fork; but the whole reason we're talking about open-source supply chain security in the first place is that your vulnerability to your chosen upstream is still far from nonzero.
by rcrowley | 2025-09-22 17:54:22+00:00
You don't (typically) lose the data on the ephemeral drive across a reboot but you definitely can (and do!) when there are more permanent hardware failures. (They really happen!) That's why PlanetScale always maintains at least three copies of the data. We guarantee durability via replication, not by trusting the (slow, network-attached) block device.

I did an interview all about PlanetScale Metal a couple of months ago: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r9PsVwGkg4>
by toomuchtodo | 2025-09-22 17:54:30+00:00
Not wrong, but important to note that the top ten companies in the S&P500 have been responsible for most of the growth since 2022 (with the bottom 490 companies flat) [1]. If art is deflating, crypto is deflating, US commercial real estate is approaching 2008 GFC crisis levels [2] [3] [4], and private equity is locked up because it is unable to exit at current "valuations" [5], this leads me to believe observed growth appears to be not grounded in fundamentals. We are an an Everything Bubble (imho) [6]. These valuations are fictional, but I cannot predict how or when this ends (either slowly, or all of a sudden).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44701637 (citations)

[2] https://www.reuters.com/press-releases/us-commercial-real-es...

[3] https://www.avemarialaw.edu/overview-of-the-impending/

[4] https://hbr.org/2024/07/u-s-commercial-real-estate-is-headed...

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44825303 (citations)

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_bubble
by drexlspivey | 2025-09-22 17:54:41+00:00
> The bubble is that Nvidia got that money from its crazy high stock price,

This is totally False, NVDA has not done any stock offerings. The money is coming from the ungodly amount of GPUs they are selling. In fact they are doing the opposite, they are buying back their stock because they have more money that they know what to do with.
by sebastiennight | 2025-09-22 17:54:48+00:00
> If that's all which is expected of a person - to be a copypastebot for vast forces beyond one's ken - why fault that person for choosing easy over hard?

I wouldn't be mad at them for that, though they might be faulted for not realizing that at some point, the copy/pasting will be done without them, as it's simpler and cheaper to ask ChatGPT directly rather than playing a game of telephone.
by pixelready | 2025-09-22 17:55:07+00:00
The real question is not whether this is a bubble since as you mentioned even if AI settles into a somewhat useful semi-mainstream tech, there is no way any of the likely outcomes can justify this level of investment.

The real question is what are we gonna do with all this cheap GPU compute when the bubble pops! Will high def game streaming finally have its time to shine? Will VFX outsource all of its render to the cloud? Will it meet the VR/AR hardware improvements in time to finally push the tech mainstream? Will it all just get re-routed back to crypto? Will someone come up with a more useful application of GPU compute?
by big_toast | 2025-09-22 17:55:33+00:00
Is this more of an accounting thing?

Is there some (tax?) efficiency where OpenAI could take money from another source, then pay it to Nvidia, and receive GPUs. But instead taking investment from Nvidia acts as a discount in some way.

(In addition to Nvidia being realistically the efficient/sole supplier of an input OpenAI currently needs. So this gives

1. Nvidia an incentive to prioritize OpenAI and induces a win/win pricing component on Nvidia's GPU profit margin so OpenAI can bet on more GPUs now 2. OpenAI some hedge on GPU pricing's effect on their valuations as the cost/margin fluctuates with new entrants

)?
by GuB-42 | 2025-09-22 17:55:46+00:00
I don't really understand how it is round tripping.

In the end, Nvidia will have OpenAI shares, which are valuable, and OpenAI will have GPUs, which are also valuable. It is not fake revenue, the GPUs will be made, sold at market price, and used, they are not intended to be bought back and sold to another customer. And hopefully, these GPUs will be put to good use by OpenAI so that they can make a profit, which will give Nvidia some return on investment.

It doesn't look so different from a car loan, where the dealer lends you the money so that you can buy their car.
Aldrin Cycler Burials
by Xorakios | 2025-09-22 17:56:03+00:00
Please don't obliviate me, but if Hacker News is for interesting questions about future tech. There will probably be Aldrin cyclers in the 30s or 40s. Because of the length of the trip, there will be deaths. Since the cyclers will last for decades, should there be a burial unit of some sort?
by DarkNova6 | 2025-09-22 17:56:21+00:00
The first few sentences mean absolutely squat.

> Our mission is simple: bring you the fastest and most reliable databases with the best developer experience. We have done this for 5 years now with our managed Vitess product, allowing companies like Cursor, Intercom, and Block to scale beyond previous limits.

> We are so excited to bring this to Postgres. Our proprietary operator allows us to bring the maturity of PlanetScale and the performance of Metal to an even wider audience. We bring you the best of Postgres and the best of PlanetScale in one product.

Seriously??
by vessenes | 2025-09-22 17:56:56+00:00
NVDA outstanding shares are down ~1.2% year over year; the company has been buying back its own shares with —>> profits <<— to the tune of tens of billions.

Meanwhile NVDA stock is mildly up on this news, so the current owners of NVDA seem to like this investment. Or at least not hate it.

Agreed that we’ll see ad-enabled ChatGPT in about five minutes. What’s not clear is how easily we’ll be able to identify the ads.
by wngr | 2025-09-22 17:57:16+00:00
Apart from small software studios with non-SaaS business models, there is just no viable local-first (offline-first with infinitely delayed sync) application category, in the consumer space. Consider military applications with heterogenous and constraint networks, where assets might need to coordinate p2p under adversarial jamming. There might be applications, where AP (choosing Availability and Partion Tolerance, cf CAP theorem) makes sense.
by jt2190 | 2025-09-22 17:57:27+00:00
> Goldman Sachs economist Pierfrancesco Mei wrote on Thursday that “finding a job takes longer in a low-turnover labor market.” He argued that “job reallocation,” or the pace at which new jobs are created and existing ones destroyed, has been on the decline since the late 1990s… Almost all job changes between existing jobs is taking place as “churn,” driving “almost all the variation in turnover since the Great Recession.” Goldman found that as of 2025, churn was well below its pre-pandemic levels, a “broad-based” pattern across industries and states, and this “mostly fall[s] on younger workers.” In 2019, it took a young unemployed worker about 10 weeks to find a new job in a low-churn state, now that’s 12 weeks on average.
by klipt | 2025-09-22 17:57:45+00:00
You could certainly phase in an implementation over 20-30 years to give the economy time to adjust. Just interpolate the taxes.

In a state with fully implemented LVT, you would expect most people in dense cities to be living in multilevel housing that makes more efficient use of land. Eg if your condo building has 5 floors, you're splitting your land tax 5 ways.

Sprawling single level houses would be a relative luxury.
by BriggyDwiggs42 | 2025-09-22 17:57:46+00:00
I don’t see how biden’s policy or rhetoric could be worse, and I feel like the things you’re bringing up are circumstantial. Israel has been messed up since like 1950 and it didn’t start with biden, nor do I see how he was the cause of it, more like he signed off on it. He had a lot more time than trump to kill people, so that doesn’t seem like proof of worse rhetoric and policy. I mean trump basically said he wanted gaza razed and turned into a tacky resort for tourists. That shit emboldens israel to do worse shit without fear of reprisal. With a dem president, they know they might at least run afoul of his/her base and have to be slightly toned down.
by tomhow | 2025-09-22 17:57:55+00:00
Sorry about this. That was my screwup.

There were (at least) two posts from arxiv.org on the front page at the time, and when I was updating the title on the other one I must have applied it to this one instead. I've fixed it now and re-upped it onto the front page so I can have its full exposure on the front page with its correct title.
by mmmllm | 2025-09-22 17:58:23+00:00
If we are all apex predators, then why do we have laws? Why can't the strongest person attack someone and take their money? Why can't someone kill a dog and eat it?

Why don't we just poop wherever we want, for that matter?

Because we are more than animals. We can be better. We must be better.

Ironic to use 'live and let live' in that context.
by kragen | 2025-09-22 17:58:42+00:00
0% is not a valid approximation of "0.3% per year" (the relative error is (0 - 0.3) ÷ 0 = ∞ or (0 - 0.3) ÷ 0.3 = 100%), and I note that this article is strangely silent on what fraction of the total wealth of the 3.06 million millionaires was owned by those 9500 millionaires who left in 02024. Given that the rest of the article is mostly talking about golden-passport schemes which I think typically cost about a million dollars, it would be unsurprising to find that the majority of millionaires don't have enough money to participate.

My take is that, despite the ersatz news headline "...study reveals", this is a propaganda piece tailored to promote a predetermined conclusion by selective reporting of only the evidence that supports that predetermined conclusion, just like the marketing piece from Henley it is criticizing.
by electromech | 2025-09-22 17:59:00+00:00
Do people think of CF as a leader in terms of solutions that are "open, collaborative, standardized, and shared across many organizations"? My impression is that their open source work is mostly Cloudflare-specific client libraries and the occasional passion project from their engineers. Quiche may be a counter example, but it's a rare exception.

Examples:

Pingora claims to be battle-tested, but I have a hard time believing that it's to the same level of quality as whatever Cloudflare runs internally. https://github.com/cloudflare/pingora/issues/601

https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-oxy/ was not open source.

Small parts of Oxy were open sourced as "foundations" but the repo gives off the impression of a checkbox for someone rather than a serious commitment to building CF's own services on top of it — not "open, collaborative, standardized, and shared across many organizations".