MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by blindriver | 2025-09-04 00:27:45+00:00
You absolutely misunderstand Section 174 and you are spreading misinformation.

The only companies this affected are those right at the margins of becoming profitable. It doesn't affect new startups and it doesn't affect established businesses. And if you are at the margins of becoming profitable you have likely accumulated more than enough tax credits for all your losses.

The changes to Section 174 is not the explanation of why software engineering jobs were lost in 2022. They were lost because every company overhired from 2020-2022 and they have to absorb it given the drop in activity once the Pandemic was over.
by kami23 | 2025-09-04 00:27:55+00:00
These things not being android based is always a deal breaker for me because I have so many sources of DRMed audiobooks or ebooks that would just be a hassle on a lot of these e-ink devices, which is something I really want out of these note tablets.

I got a boox air note 4c with the original intention of using it for comic books with some basic coloring, but have found it significantly more useful for notetaking over anything else. UX is still abysmal in some ways that make starting notes a chore, but it's increased my note taking and journaling significantly.
by egypturnash | 2025-09-04 00:27:56+00:00
Four hundred and fifty dollars for a simulation of a roughly-A5 notebook.

If you want a really nice A5 notebook it can run you an entire twenty five bucks. https://www.dickblick.com/products/leuchtturm1917-sketchbook... Wanna share what's on it? Your phone has a camera, right?
by beeflet | 2025-09-04 00:28:09+00:00
I've come to the same conclusion. It's just easier, especially for things that involve diagrams. $10 worth of notebooks and pens is a much better value than something that is more fragile, has to be charged, etc and orders of magnitude more expensive.

Also, I tend to only write things down as a note-taking and memorization exercise, or to think out a certain idea. I usually don't have to read the notes again. So the archiving functionality of having digital paper-like notes is not nessisarially more useful, and it is often more difficult to search through than physical notebooks. Anything I really need to read later, I can write succinctly in a text file or something.

I also don't like getting locked into a certain ecosystem. Xournal++ is the only open-source cross-platform app I can find, and it's not that good.

Even for reading physical books, you can find a lot of used paperbacks for less than $10, which is very little when you consider the value of the time you spend reading them, the ease of flipping through pages and being able to dog-ear them, and the collectible aspect of the book covers covers. An eink tablet be nice for reading textbooks and papers that are more expensive and require pirating, however. But for now I just use a regular screen in portrait.
by lmm | 2025-09-04 00:28:28+00:00
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash

That maybe backs up the claim that it's standard, but not that it's widely used or the false positive rate would be unacceptably high.

> If I were a spammer today, I'd just have my code replace dashes in LLM output with hyphens before posting it.

No you wouldn't, for the same reason spammers don't put more plausible stories in their emails: they want to filter for the most gullible segment before investing any human effort.
by dahart | 2025-09-04 00:28:52+00:00
I agree with you there. I wasn’t really arguing that there aren’t behavior or addiction problems, however you inserted the word “heavy” and it’s doing some heavy lifting here, and you brought up addiction and behavior which aren’t really the same topic as cognitive decline. The posted article isn’t arguing that there’s a heavy use threashold, it’s arguing that all use of AI is brain damaging. Lots of historical hyperbole about games, TV, and social media did the same.

One confounding problem with the argument that TV and video games made kids dumber is the Flynn Effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
by MontyCarloHall | 2025-09-04 00:29:24+00:00
>why aren't we seeing the jobs come back?

It was only just reinstated, so it's probably too early to see the effects.

I also expect that despite the restoration of Section 174, companies realized that they not only overhired during ZIRP, but also that they don't actually need that headcount, given the outcome of Musk's Twitter layoffs. There were so many prognostications that Twitter would imminently implode after downsizing from ~8k to ~1.5k employees, and when these claims never came to pass, it was a wake-up call to the rest of the industry [0].

[0] https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/elon-musk-fired-80-p...
by ipnon | 2025-09-04 00:29:33+00:00
They are the party mouthpieces of the Democrats. It’s not useful as an empirical analysis or philosophical exercise. But it is useful as a declaration of belief for a certain cohort of American elites. So the revealed news is really that the Democrats will add “we must weaken or break up Big Token to increase youth employment” to their midterm and presidential platform. Whether this is sound macroeconomic policy is beside the point.
by kushalc | 2025-09-04 00:30:03+00:00
Not a robotics guy, but to extent that the same fundamentals hold—

I think it's a degrees of freedom question. Given the (relatively) low conditional entropy of natural language, there aren't actually that many degrees of (true) freedom. On the other hand, in the real world, there are massively more degrees of freedom both in general (3 dimensions, 6 degrees of movement per joint, M joints, continuous vs. discrete space, etc.) and also given the path dependence of actions, the non-standardized nature of actuators, actuators, kinematics, etc.

All in, you get crushed by the curse of dimensionality. Given N degrees of true freedom, you need O(exp(N)) data points to achieve the same performance. Folks do a bunch of clever things to address that dimensionality explosion, but I think the overly reductionist point still stands: although the real world is theoretically verifiable (and theoretically could produce infinite data), in practice we currently have exponentially less real-world data for an exponentially harder problem.

Real roboticists should chime in...
by TomaszZielinski | 2025-09-04 00:31:31+00:00
Personally I like running agents in a container, and so a terminal program works better for me.

Some time ago an agent running on the host started editing something in my Library/Application Support folder (on macOS), even though it was „soft sandboxed” (i.e. through the IDE setting and my system prompt) to the project folder in Documents.

Even though the edit was kinda sorta justified, it scared me because I realized that AI could silently change my OS settings and I might not realize that.. Fun times :)
by chipotle_coyote | 2025-09-04 00:32:31+00:00
I think that's sort of what the author is getting at, if expressing imperfectly -- when you look at black ink on white paper, you're almost certainly not seeing a physical embodiment of #000000 on #FFFFFF. I tend to think moving at least one of the two colors off "pure", if not both, makes pages look more pleasant. (To stave off people leaping in to say "you web designers hate contrast," I'm not talking about moving to light gray on slightly less gray; it's not difficult to keep well above the WCAG's 7:1 AAA-level contrast ratio while bringing things down just a notch.)
by davmre | 2025-09-04 00:32:53+00:00
The public interest is in judging the trial process, not in judging the defendant.

Suppose the government charges you with murder, searches your house, and finds your sex toy collection. At trial they present some elaborate thesis about how you used a sex toy to kill someone, but do not convince the jury, so you're found not guilty. The public has a legitimate interest in judging that the trial was handled with integrity and that the correct verdict was reached. They do not have a legitimate interest in judging you based on whatever private information presented at trial might in some way embarrass you (eg, photos of your sex toy collection). On balance, it could be that the public-record interest does in fact justify making public the evidence of the sex toys, but you have to justify it on those terms. The transparency is not itself intended to be punitive.
by branon | 2025-09-04 00:33:32+00:00
There is no lookup functionality at all that I could find. You cannot install your own dictionary on the stock firmware.

I wound up down the https://toltec-dev.org/ rabbit hole which was fun and gets me additional features but has its own issues (suspend/resume is dodgy sometimes now)

Again to be fair the rM2 is not sold as an _e-reader_ per se. But regardless I do find the e-reading experience weak.
by rayiner | 2025-09-04 00:33:51+00:00
> Lot of weasel words in there, from 'as it was understood by the people who wrote it' (so your originalist doctrine takes precedence over SCOTUS decisions?)

“Emanations from penumbras” are “weasel words.” I’m just talking about what the document means. If there’s contrary Supreme Court precedent, the only way to get it overturned is to take action based on an aggressive legal position and wait to get sued. That’s just how the executive (and impact litigation generally) works.

> to quoting Breyer's allowing deployed troops to stay put as if that wasn't to provide time for the administration to appeal

The portion I quoted was not describing some temporary situation pending the appeal. It first sentence says: “ Finally, the Court’s injunctive relief in this case is narrowly tailored to address Defendants’ statutory violations.” The following portions are describing what the court views as inside the scope of the statute.

And you can criticize the conduct as much as you want, but it’s wrong to say the National Guard was “illegally deployed.” The deployment was legal and the purpose of deploying to protect federal property was legal, according to Judge Breyer. The ruling was that the troops were engaged in conduct outside the scope of the legal deployment. Even if that ruling holds up, which is unlikely, that doesn’t support the assertion that the deployment itself was illegal.
by bjourne | 2025-09-04 00:34:01+00:00
It’s hard to understand what you’re actually asking here. Right now your post is too vague — you hint at a problem, but don’t give enough detail for anyone to meaningfully respond. On HN, it really helps if you spell out exactly what you mean, provide context, and show what you’ve already tried or thought about. Otherwise it just comes across as expecting people to do the work of figuring out your question for you. Could you clarify your definitions, give concrete examples, and be more precise about what kind of feedback you’re looking for?

Write a comment to an Ask HN post chastising the poster for not adequately explaining what they mean. Nope, works fine for me.
by lazide | 2025-09-04 00:34:12+00:00
haha, no - not to any meaningful degree. Are you getting this from ChatGPT or something?

Jacketing is convenient for encapsulating lead, but you can run gas checked hard cast at generally the same velocities without any real issues. In that case the gas check is due to coppers higher melting/vaporization point. They are more expensive to make however, and finicky, which is why you don’t see it in production bullets.

The ‘copper’ pellet you mention was almost certainly not actually fully copper, but rather copper washed lead. But you can have lead harder than normal copper (heat treated hard cast is extremely hard and ductile), and copper softer than normal lead (annealed copper is extremely soft). Most copper people are used to working with is work hardened, but it’s trivial to make it ‘dead soft’.

That also has nothing to do with aluminum or other rounds you mentioned.

If anyone even uses them, which they don’t outside of very niche cases or experiments where it shows exactly what I am referring to.

density, however, is 99% of it. including for terminal, interior, and every other kind of ballistics. BC is king. And that is something that is impossible to fake, heat treat, work harden, etc. out of.

For example, initial engraving pressure can be changed or negated by minor changes in throat, regardless of anything else. Or a coating. Or any number of other things.

there is no replacement for dense mass.
by jonprobably | 2025-09-04 00:34:17+00:00
Partner had remarkable. I bought a scribe. Tried both side by side for a month.

Scribe lets you read your kindle books, draw on them, and write notes. Hard to get the notes off the device.

RM lets you sync automatically. The rest of their software is total junk (see App Store ratings). It was more glitchy. Marginally better writing. Monthly fee.

Both make exporting notes more difficult than it should be.

My current go to - paper and pen with chatgpt app on phone - snap a photo to extract my writing.

I kept the scribe for reading books - rarely use it over the kindle app on my phone.

Hope it works for you though- love the idea.
by benji_is_me | 2025-09-04 00:34:49+00:00
Another hardware issue they have is the tip of the Marker Plus. It has a thin collar around the nib that (in my experience) is brittle and breaks off, at which point the marker becomes useless because the nib flexes. There are lots of posts on Reddit complaining about the same issue.

They replaced mine the first time this happened. Now my replacement broke and they aren't replacing it :(.

With that being said, I'm still very happy with my RM2. I purchased a "V-Pen" as a replacement and it's working okay. I'm lucky enough to have a free connect subscription for life because I purchased it early enough.
by FloorEgg | 2025-09-04 00:35:56+00:00
Also not a robotics guy, but that all sounds right to me...

What I do have deep experience in is market abstractions and jobs to be done theory. There are so many ways to describe intent, and it's extremely hard to describe intent precisely. So in addition to all the dimensions you brought up that relate to physical space, there is also the hard problem of mapping user intent to action with minimal "error", especially since the errors can have big consequences in the physical world. In other words, the "intent space" also has many dimensions to it, far beyond what LLMs can currently handle.

On one end of the spectrum of consequences is the robot loads my dishwasher such that there is too much overlap and a bunch of the dishes don't get cleaned (what I really want is for the dishes to be clean, not for the dishes to be in the dishwasher), and on the other end we get the robot that overpowers humanity and turns the universe into paperclips.

So maybe we have to master LLMs and probably a whole other paradigm before robots can really be general purpose and useful.
by alpaca128 | 2025-09-04 00:36:06+00:00
> For usability alone those small sizes don't make much sense

They do. Having every key reachable without hand movement is quite comfortable. Switching to and using arrow keys is as fast as typing a capital letter with shift.

But it's not everyone's cup of tea, just like Dvorak seems to be great for some people here and pointless for others.
by awesome_dude | 2025-09-04 00:36:07+00:00
> It's a cheap win with investors who want to hear about AI initiatives to lay off yet even more of this department, because it doesn't matter if the quality of service declines, there are no market or regulatory forces that are punishing this well enough to ever expect firms to stop breaking it, let alone fix it

There's also some argument that, if people cannot get customer service to "help" they stop asking for help - driving that cost down.

And not having to remedy issues in the product = no repair/replace cost

And people are then left with only a few options, one of which... buy a replacement... which in a restricted market is a WIN because more money coming in...
by vkou | 2025-09-04 00:36:29+00:00
As I thought.

And for the record - my eyes are open. I'm aware I'm being bullshitted. I don't trust, I verify.

But I also don't have a magical lever that I can pull to make it stop hallucinating.

... and every time I ask if one exists, I get either crickets, or a response that doesn't answer the question.
by Arainach | 2025-09-04 00:36:54+00:00
The value is in the lack of features. This is a hard concept for most people who haven't used one (or a similar device) to grasp.

Running Android or iOS apps is an anti-feature. Having cellular data is an anti-feature. Our world is full of trillion dollar corporations fighting as hard as they can to distract us, drive engagement, and get us staring at their wall for as long as possible.

My reMarkable 2 is the best focus device I have. It's the best writing device by far, the best "draw some woodworking plans" device, the best "work on a crossword puzzle" device, and a very good reading device (page navigation is slower than Kindle, but being able to read PDFs designed for 8.5x11 which are unreadable on Kindle makes it a wash).

On an iPad, at any moment there could be a toast from Signal, or Discord, or Messenger, or whatever. There's a web browser full of infinite content on Reddit and YouTube. I can go on a plane and have a physical book in front of me but it's no match for the allure of the internet if there's Wi-Fi. The reMarkable is one of the only devices out there that fixes the distraction aspect, and THAT is the single biggest thing between me and achieving things.
by squigz | 2025-09-04 00:37:34+00:00
> Again to be fair the rM2 is not sold as an _e-reader_ per se. But regardless I do find the e-reading experience weak.

It's just such basic functionality that... why would you not, if even a small function of the device is indeed to read files?

Honestly from what I'm reading in this thread I'm rather turned off by ReMarkable now, which is sort of disappointing. Still, I'm glad to see more and more e-ink options.
by cosmotic | 2025-09-04 00:37:45+00:00
Meanwhile, there's no apparent way to pay for a train using an American android phone (or at least I couldn't figure it out last year). One of the two apps refused to install on non-japanese phones, the other installed but refused to run. Had to pay with cash and it was a huge pain. Half the time I inexplicably had to do a fare adjustment, a hugely embarrassing moment blocking the turnstile, especially considering the culture there.
by InCom-0 | 2025-09-04 00:39:11+00:00
On one hand I don't understand what all the fuss is about. LLMs are great at all kinds of things around and about: searching for (good) information, summarizing existing text, conceptual discussions where it points you in the right directions very quickly, etc. ..... they are just not great (some might say harmful) at straight up non-trivial code generation or design of complex systems with the added peculiarity that on the surface the models seem almost capable to do it but never quite ... which is sort their central feature: producing text so that it is seems correct from statistical perspective, but without actual reasoning.

On the other hand, I do understand that the things the LLMs are really great at is not actually all that spectacular to monetize ... and so as a result we have all these snake oil salesmen on every corner boasting about nonsensical vibecoding achievements, because that's where the real money would be ... if it were really true ... but it is not.
by whatevertrevor | 2025-09-04 00:39:20+00:00
I'm trading classes with my partner on my remarkable (she's teaching me Social Choice Theory, me her Physics), I agree with almost everything you said but there are a few reasons why I'm going the Remarkable route here:

- I don't need to take pictures manually, all lectures are automatically stored, and much easier to flip through instead of a library of photos (which I'd have to later organize).

- I use the screenshare feature which turns my Remarkable into a whiteboard. I could get an actual whiteboard but then we're back to taking manual pictures in the middle of lessons, which will definitely be an impedance.
by protocolture | 2025-09-04 00:39:25+00:00
>Regardless of the effects, I don't think the case against MS was brought with the intent to "punish" MS through the trial process. The government brought the case because it thought it could win, it did win, and a judicial remedy was imposed. Trials are inherently unpleasant, but a just system tries to minimize this, not exploit it.

Maybe. But then why was the google case actively sheltered and hidden from the public. The optics were considered in at least one of these cases.
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by benwu232 | 2025-09-04 00:39:49+00:00
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by madrox | 2025-09-04 00:40:23+00:00
In any field where there is a creative element, progress comes in fits and starts that are difficult to predict in advance. No one can accurately predict when we'll get the cure for cancer, for example, in spite of people working on it.

But that isn't how investors operate. They want to know what they will get in exchange for giving a company a billion dollars. If you're running an AI business, you need to set expectations. How do you do that? Go do the thing you know you can do on a schedule, like standing up a new GPU data center.

I don't think the bitter lesson is misunderstood in quite the way the author describes. I think most are well aware we're approaching the data wall within a couple years. However, if you're not in academia you're not trying to solve that problem; you're trying to get your bag before it happens.

That may sound a little flip, but this is yet another incarnation of the hungry beast: https://stvp.stanford.edu/clips/the-hungry-beast-and-the-ugl...
by ThrowMeAway1618 | 2025-09-04 00:41:03+00:00
>Mullvad is rather principled on privacy. You can't even make a real account, you can only generate an account number that you can charge, and I assume they do some sort of clever tricks to keep themselves as blind as possible to who uses the account number. Firefox Relay is also just whitelabeled Mullvad, so they have Mozilla's stamp of approval.

Yep. And I use the VPN connection (and/or TOR) to re-up my Mullvad VPN when I run low.

Mostly I use the VPN to protect my privacy when posting with a throwaway account here and/or other sites. And of course for torrenting.

What's more, I had some monero (XMR) left over from some other transactions, so I use that to pay for the VPN connection.

As such, unless Mullvad is storing the IP address from which I connect (and they claim they do not), it would be difficult (but not impossible -- I don't always use VPN when posting anonymously/throwaway -- that isn't a challenge!) to identify me through my VPN connections.
by t0lo | 2025-09-04 00:41:21+00:00
They are the mouthpiece of the empire- but they aren't promoting products- they're promoting the dissolution of social and communal values and trying to erase the idea of intellectualism- the nyt casually, the atlantic explicitly, and the new yorker very covertly- it shows the powers that really run america have a deep ambivalence towards it and will likely hop to the next centre of prosperity when they get bored. The american experiment is over because they decided it to be. How weak and sad your country has become.

And yeah I've seen they are the first to jump on ai anti intellectualism, for the reasons i've stated