MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lotsofpulp | 2025-09-20 14:43:16+00:00
In almost every single jurisdiction? That would be an impressive fraud to pull off.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/06/us/politics/p...

>More than 89 percent of counties in the United States shifted in favor of former President Donald J. Trump in the 2024 presidential election, according to a New York Times analysis of election results.
by keernan | 2025-09-20 14:43:23+00:00
The article measures 'economic income' for a group of billionaires and demonstrates that billionaires pay a lower tax rate than the rest of Americans.

What is not addressed is how is the burden of paying the societal cost of running the government shared?

Currently, the answer to that question is that the tax system is designed such that the only people who pay for the annual cost of government are those with income.

And there is a huge difference between people who must earn a wage in order to survive and a billionaire. People who must work to survive have no choice about paying taxes.

However that is not the case of someone with a net worth of a billion dollars. Anyone with a billion dollars only earns a taxable wage because they want to, not because they must do so to survive. Likewise, they only pay taxes on interest or dividends because they choose to own assets that pay taxable interest and dividends. And only pay taxes on taxable profits from the sale of stock or other assets because they choose to own such assets - and then decide to sell.

Any billionaire could choose to hold their money in a manner that generates zero taxable income. The truth is, a billionaire chooses how much taxable income he/she decides to have each year. Very unlike working Americans.

Moreover, the burden of the money contributed in taxes by a billionaire versus the burden of the money contributed by those who work, is not even comparable.

Viewed as a percentage of total wealth paid each year, it would be very difficult to argue the burden of contributing to the annual cost of running the government is being shared fairly.
by woopsn | 2025-09-20 14:44:10+00:00
I recommend The Image by Daniel Boorstin. Smart phone is not the dawn at all but I guess more like high noon. The world is replaced by graphics (more generally , images) for a century at least. Books by "digests", heroism by celebrity and so forth. A little bit of media theory goes a long way to making the world "legible" again. Since we are absolutely steeped in media culture.
by mark_l_watson | 2025-09-20 14:44:39+00:00
Interesting paper, and something I have been thinking about. I am retired so I am a lighter user of AI than most people here but I still have Gemini and ChatGPT to a half dozen deep research studies for me a week. It is sobering to see how many web sites are speculatively searched. I mostly find the results useful and I prefer this new process to manual web search. After deep research asking for 'the best' reference link usually produces something else worth reading in addition to the research report.

Someone else here recommended sites maintaining their own CLAUDE.md file, good idea but too vendor specific. Ten months ago someone online was recommending the name llms.txt as a generic markdown file for agent use and I added one https://markwatson.com/llms.txt I stopped collecting web page visit statistics so I have no idea how often that file is discovered however.
by yndoendo | 2025-09-20 14:44:40+00:00
Steve Jobs threaten his business by denying the ability to use their platform if he didn't sell. Even if he didn't sell there would be no business to sell being de-plaformed.

There are trillions of dollar hidden by the wealth to prevent paying taxes / their fair share.

There are no good wealthy people in the world because they hoard not share.

Investing means you must hoard. Keep owing an product or service that has a limit resource is hoarding. Want to invest in housing, one must hoard house to make a profit.
by thrance | 2025-09-20 14:44:41+00:00
You really don't have to be fair to the executives. The FCC absolutely can't do shit about Jimmy Kimmel, and would lose the procedure if it ever came to it. Instead, they immediately bent the knee and decided that loyalty to the nascent fascist regime was more important that standing up against the most clear cut and unjustifiable attack to free speech in a long time.
by flykespice | 2025-09-20 14:44:58+00:00
> Kinda wish the author would attempt to collaborate rather than write stuff like this and I’m too dumb for Zig’s new IO interface but, whatever, it’s their blog so they can do what they want.

Damn, Andrew Kelley really come across as a dickhead when taking any bit of criticism about his language, often painting them as bad actors trying to sabotage the language.

This isn't the first time he repeats this behavior.

EDIT: https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=45119964 https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=43579569
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-09-20 14:46:09+00:00
You can move to a new state or city to look for services. If you become homeless anywhere in the USA, you are more likely to wind up in a west coast city eventually looking for fair weather and services. In contrast, in China you can’t just move from your poor village to Shanghai and expect help and to not be harassed by police. They at best will just put you on a bus back to your poor village. Even worse, you could have been born in Shanghai but are still considered an illegal immigrant because your parents didn’t have Shanghai hukou. You can be deported to a poor village that you’ve never been to before.
Show HN: Thought Forgery, a new technique for jailbreaking LLMs
by UltraZartrex | 2025-09-20 14:47:26+00:00
Hi HN, I'm an independent security researcher and wanted to share a new vulnerability I've discovered.

My account is too new to submit the direct link, so I'm making a text post instead.

The technique is called "Thought Forgery" (CoT Injection). It works by forging the AI's internal monologue, which acts as a universal amplifier for other jailbreaks. I've confirmed it works on the latest models from Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, etc.

I'd be happy to share the link to the full technical write-up on GitHub in the comments if anyone is interested.
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-09-20 14:47:27+00:00
Ok.

How does Microsoft pay the fee?

Which online portal do they go to? What bank account do they wire a check to over the weekend? What reason do they give for the payment? What USCIS code do they enter? What USCIS forms do they fill that USCIS will then snail mail (because they’re still living in the 90s) an I-797A to the employee that they will present at the border for evidence of payment. What address will USCIS mail the document to (which will be a U.S. address) and how does the employee who is currently abroad get that document from their U.S. mailing address to their current location abroad?

When are they gonna write the code for the lookup that the border agents can use to confirm the validity of this form and payment?

Also, how does all this happen over a Saturday and Sunday?

And even if there are answers to these questions where are those answers posted?
by zamadatix | 2025-09-20 14:47:36+00:00
HEIF is just the usual container for AVIF encoded data, similar to how AV1 encoded data might commonly be in an MP4 or MKV container. HEIF might easily get conflated with HEIC, which is Apple's implementation of HEIF specifically for HEVC encoded data. Too many damn "HE"s, if you ask me.

If you run "strings" you should see "av01Image" pretty early on in the HEIF header, which is what signals it's really an AVIF file. Tools like "file" may possibly not be updated to look for that yet, so could just report the container alone.
by andrewinardeer | 2025-09-20 14:48:02+00:00
If you need a glaring example of how utterly stupid the absurdity of accidental TV nudity can get, just look at the 2004 Super Bowl XXXVIII "wardrobe malfunction". That legal drama dragged all the way to the fucking Supreme Court eight years later.

Eight years.

All for a woman's breast being accidentally exposed for 9/16ths of a second.

That’s beyond ridiculous.

[1] https://www.scotusblog.com/2012/06/wardrobe-malfunction-case...
by skrebbel | 2025-09-20 14:49:09+00:00
> I consider myself on the left, and I don't think any of those things. Not everybody on the right or left think all alike. You can't just assume somebody who is right or left thinks exactly the same as those few interactions you personally had with people from a certain group.

I'm not sure what you're on about. I was referring to specific unnamed people. I never suggested that their opinion is representative of the left, just that some lefties somehow, to my surprise, seem to think that today's China is a dream state that we should strive to emulate.

FWIW, I consider myself to be on the left as well, and I do not think that the China model is widely celebrated on the left (or anywhere in Dutch politics really).
by kaoD | 2025-09-20 14:49:56+00:00
What a terrible way to take constructive feedback.

Writing not one but two blog posts takes time and effort, moreso when it includes investigation and examples... the posts are not just low effort "this is crap" rants (and they even blame themselves, even though it's clear from the posts that there are documentation/discoverability issues).

What if the poster doesn't feel knowledgeable enough to contribute code? (as shown by his first post title, "I'm too dumb for...")

If that's not collaborating I don't know what it is...
by czl | 2025-09-20 14:50:41+00:00
> Whoever wants to come to America should be able to freely come, treated the same as anyone else.

So just open USA borders to anyone that passes screening (security / health / etc)?

What about gov subsidized welfare / healthcare / education / ...? Would you end all that? If not end it how would you handle the situation with current citizens vs the influx of foreigners who will expect these things be provided for them? And if those who show up start to vote for communism or some other ism that you do not like what will you do?
by ben_w | 2025-09-20 14:51:22+00:00
The value of free speech, democracy, capitalism, *is* making pivoting faster.

The first world didn't win the cold war despite doing these things, but because those things actually helped us (all of us, not just the US) course-correct in ways the USSR didn't.

If China has a different way to be flexible, or if the USA looses its flexibility, the USA will fail to keep up with China in the same way and for the same reason the USSR couldn't keep up with the USA.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-09-20 14:51:57+00:00
> Hoarding of property basically doesn't happen

This is very untrue. A lot of richer Chinese owners a bunch of apartments that they are holding for speculation, maybe they rent it out (and often not), but it’s still very much hoarding. You got a lot of sweetheart deals that happened 20+ years ago where many connected Chinese were able to acquire apartments, villas, and so on as opportunities.

Also, since the stock market is a hot mess, real estate acquisition was seen as the only real way to hold wealth in China.

> China considers housing to be a public right, which it is

You have more options for substandard housing in the cities (like sub basement room rentals aka “the ant tribe” in Beijing), but I also have no idea where you got this from. Rural hukou have the right to their land, but because they can’t sell it they can’t use it as collaterals in loans and such, making their life even harder.
by doctorpangloss | 2025-09-20 14:52:14+00:00
You’re chasing after the meaning of “impossible.” Easy. There’s two categories of developers:

> I like programming

> I program to make money

If you belong to the second category - I’m going to be super charitable, it sounds like I’m not going to be charitable and I am, so keep reading - such as by being paid by a giant bank to make applications on Nonstop, there might be some policy that’s like

“You have to vet all open source code that runs on the computer.”

So in order to have Rust, on Nonstop, to build git, which this guy likes, he’d need to port llvm, which isn’t impossible. What’s impossible is to get llvm code reviewed by legal, or whatever, which they’re not going to do, they’re going to say “No. No llvm. HP who makes Nonstop can do it, and it can be their legal problem.”

I’m not saying it’s impossible. The other guy is saying it’s impossible, and I’m trying to show how, in a Rube Goldberg way, it looks impossible to him.

You and I like programming, and I’m sure we’re both gainfully employed, though probably not making as much money at guy, but he doesn’t like programming. You are allowed to mock someone’s sincerity if they’re part of a system that’s sort of nakedly about making lots of money. But if you just like programming, you’d never work for a bank, it’s really fucking boring, so basically nobody who likes programming would ever say porting Rust or whatever is impossible. Do you see?

It’s tough because, the Jane Street people and the Two Sigma people, they’re literally kids, they’re nice people, and they haven’t been there for very long, they still like programming! They feel like they need to mook for the bank, when they could just say that living in New York and having cocktails every night is fun and sincere. So this forum has the same problem as the mailing list, where it sounds like it’s about one thing - being able to use fucking hashmaps in git - and it’s really about another - bankers. Everywhere they turn, the bankers run into people who make their lifestyle possible, whether it’s the git developers who volunteer their time or the parents of the baristas at the bars they’re going to paying the baristas’ rent - and the bankers keep hating on these people. And then they go and say, well everyone is the problem but me. They don’t get it yet.
by maxbond | 2025-09-20 14:52:43+00:00
To be honest this is splitting hairs. If our disagreement is semantic, then I don't really care to discuss it further, you can use whatever terminology you please and it isn't a problem or something that needs to be hashed out.

Presenting a disagreement as a "misunderstanding" on my part because I don't use your terminology is disingenuous. I assure you, differences in terminology will not interfere in my success. Just like speaking a different language wouldn't interfere.

I will leave you with a final thought. If an aspiration is a goal that can't be realized - then we only know this in retrospect. All goals are possible until proven otherwise. Russell and Whitehead thought mathematics could be unified. Who are we to judge them as fools? They didn't know what we know, because they taught us.
by cubefox | 2025-09-20 14:52:51+00:00
> Classical noise is only unpredictable if you are lacking the necessary physical information to make an accurate prediction. Otherwise, it is always predictable.

Since you are always lacking that necessary physical information, it is always unpredictable. If it were otherwise, we would already know whether hidden variable theories of quantum mechanics (which lack intrinsic randomness) are correct or incorrect. But we don't know that. So intrinsic randomness doesn't make a difference to us. So quantum noise is useless.
by intended | 2025-09-20 14:52:56+00:00
Trump has a ~85%+ approval amongst republicans. This has been the case for every poll which shows Trump’s approval rating dropping. Its only dropping amongst non republicans.

This is not the part of America that is meant to be great. This is the part of America that needs to be brought in line to whatever storyline Fox and the media sphere on the right is playing.

I mean, why ELSE would the President make such a decree? Obviously because something is wrong. Taking action when it counts.
by CorrectHorseBat | 2025-09-20 14:53:08+00:00
>China is a command economy. There are issues with housing in China but they're far less severe. Hoarding of property basically doesn't happen. China considers housing to be a public right, which it is.

How do you come to that conclusion? As far as I understand it it's the complete opposite, housing is basically the only way the Chinese can invest. Hoarding is rampant, those who got in early have several properties, the rest nothing.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-09-20 14:53:18+00:00
"Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem" has been sedition that has been let to spread and rot at our foundations for decades now, growing only stronger. There is absolute bedlam and insanity pushed to American voters, completely made up fictionalized reality, blasted out by Fox News and worse. People live in the most absurd hyperreal simulation, built entirely around hating government, disbelief of the state, and disdain for civil society civil rights and decency.

The extremeification of American politics by the right has totally crippled the state. Business can sometimes come in an extract wins for itself, but everyone else loses. The political gamesmanship begat by Hastert rule, where wins must never be bipartisan wins, has decayed the government, betrayed the nation.

I'm so so tired of such loud utterly decoupled unhinged sedition, against the state against reality.

My favorite recurring threads these days is a simple one: society that wants to keep functioning has to disincentivize baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
by hshdhdhj4444 | 2025-09-20 14:53:29+00:00
The salary cutoff is set and it’s met.

Wanna raise the salary cutoff go for it.

But the people claiming that there is no salary cutoff and that H1B visa holders are incredibly lowly paid are simply lying.

Like any other rule or law there are people who break the rules and laws. Usually the way they prove the salary is not being met is by pointing to the tiny fraction of people breaking the law.

It’s like saying we should get rid of anti murder laws because murderers exist.
by dinyp | 2025-09-20 14:54:12+00:00
Two AI-driven musicians have recently signed multimillion dollar record deals with Hallwood Media. • Xania Monet, created with Suno, signed a $3M contract. Her track “How Was I Supposed to Know” hit No. 1 on Billboard’s R&B Digital Song Sales chart. • Imoliver, another AI-heavy creator, is releasing a single and full album under the same label.

The AI music market is projected to reach nearly $3B by 2030, with forecasts suggesting it could be worth $16B annually by 2028. Lawsuits over training data are already underway, and questions remain about royalties and authenticity.

Is this just hype chasing novelty, or the start of a structural shift in music?
by thrance | 2025-09-20 14:54:29+00:00
So when a talk show host vaguely on the left implies something that might not be true it is ground enough to disregard the fucking first amendment and use the power of the state to censor him. But when the entire GOP, including the president, all fabricate obvious lies about the shooter being successively trans, then antifa and then a radical leftist, it's fine. The double standards are fucking crazy.
by crote | 2025-09-20 14:54:53+00:00
Because centralized carbon collection isn't simple. About 0.0427% of the atmosphere is CO2, getting rid of the other 99.9573% you don't want to capture is rather tricky*. The most efficient way is probably by using plants - but that doesn't really scale.

On the other hand, the output of a methane-powered fuel cell is 33% CO2 and 66% H2O - with the water being rather trivial to filter out. Even a dirty regular combustion engine outputs about 14% CO2.
Show HN: Antipode Calculator with 3D Earth and Real-Time Mapping
by puzzle-games | 2025-09-20 14:55:12+00:00
A web application that calculates antipodal points (exact opposite locations) on Earth using geographic coordinates. Features include a 3D rotating Earth visualization built with Three.js, interactive Leaflet maps, real-time coordinate conversion, and support for both city names and precise lat/lng input. The tool shows distance calculations, nearby landmarks, and supports multiple languages. Built with Next.js, TypeScript, and modern web technologies.
by dahart | 2025-09-20 14:55:12+00:00
Wait, I’m confused by that, what is wrong with the idea of using physical units? Nits are an absolute physical unit. The fact that 1.0 in PQ = 10k nits and that 1.0 represents an absolute physical brightness, not a relative one, is a critically important and defining feature of that color space. You’re saying PQ is “downright wrong”? Why? How is the TV industry fixing it?

Using nits as the basis for PQ’s mapping is the entire reason PQ can stop at 1.0, because setting the max possible brightness at 10k nits is considered enough to handle what the vast majority of TVs will be able to display for the time being. If someone makes an HDR TV that handles 100k nits, PQ won’t work anymore. Using a colorspace based on an absolute physical unit like nits was the core idea behind the invention of HDR for people like Greg Ward, for photographers who capture sun in their shots, and for scientists that use digital imaging.

PQ is a color space that’s intended for TV display and distribution, but not the HDR space that production people work in, not good for HDR photography, and not really intended to be used for storage of HDR source material. If you use PQ and capture the sun in your shot and then want to re-expose it, you’re probably out of luck. If you increase brightness, you lose color resolution in the dark colors, and if you decrease it, you’ll clamp the sun to less than 10k nits. Either way, you end up with the exact same problems as re-exposing LDR images. Besides physical units, another often important feature of HDR for production CG work is linearity. PQ’s limited bit depth and nonlinear transfer function get in the way and make it not the color space of choice for production pipelines.

This is to say that PQ, while being an interesting example worthy of discussion, and a good choice for some goals, does not represent HDR as a whole nor does it serve all HDR needs, it’s not my first choice for the definition of HDR nor the canonical example of why HDR exists. Like many color spaces, PQ comes with tradeoffs and is only intended for a subset of color workflows.

> You need the colorspace to be defined to know what 1.0 means and whether or not it represents an SDR or HDR value.

Absolutely! I was really referring to the LDR color spaces where 1.0 is relative to the max brightness, which is why I qualified my statement with “relative units”. Aside from PQ, nearly all the old color spaces that stop at 1.0 are relative, not absolute… all the non-physical, non-perceptual color spaces like RGB, CMYK, HSL, HSV… and even some perceptual spaces like CIE’s XYZ, xyY, and LAB are all relative with 1.0 meaning max brightness. Color spaces for print are naturally relative and why it never makes sense to have something greater than 100%.
by Bender | 2025-09-20 14:56:08+00:00
Since we are bringing law into this, have all the LLM's been neutered so they can not tell a person the dozen or so entirely painless and cheap ways to self delete? Do the LLM's detect this and try to intervene or do they just answer the questions?

Physically assisted or otherwise is not really a factor, quadriplegics aside. Any glove wearing individual can set objects on a table and walk away.
by MetaWhirledPeas | 2025-09-20 14:56:15+00:00
Yes. For instance when we had that crypto malware npm fiasco a few days back I happened to be updating one of my packages. The audit lit up with dozens of critical issues, but of course this was after it installed everything. Luckily I had disabled install scripts so it became a matter of not running the code until I could get it reverted back.