MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bruce511 | 2025-10-02 19:36:33+00:00
When you are poor, and you need cash, you sell things of value.

If you give a rich person 50k in shares, chances are he'll keep it. If you give a poor person 50k in shares, he'll sell it.

The rich person has sufficient immediate resources so that he can afford to take a long view.

The poor person has immediate needs, and thus has a short term view.

Thus one-time wealth transfers are ineffective. Money tends to flow towards money. Those with money are best positioned to start a new business, and extract maximum revenue from that business. Those without money have to earn as employees. Those with money have resources and (especially) time, to educate themselves above their current skillset.

In short, any single redistribution is a short term solution. It will have short term benefits, but in the medium term all the wealth will flow back together again.

This is not a bug in the system. It is the explicit end-goal of capitalism. You can't fix yhe underlying problem by random redistributions.

This is not new. It's been going on for hundreds, or thousands of years. Over and over the cycle repeats. It usually ends in a bloody revolution, with a redistribution. (Think French, Russian revolutions as examples.) Then the wealth simply starts flowing together again.

Socialism (as distinct from communism) such as we see in much of Western Europe, seeks to tax economic activity (as distinct to accumulated wealth) [somewhat mitigated by inheritance taxes] to provide a continuous redistribution.

Capitalism (such as we see in the US) taxes economic activity in order to funnel funds to the wealthy. (Rich companies get rich govt contracts.)

Every person believes their system is the best. This makes changing the system hard. Explaining to a person in the US how the system makes them poor, does not make them vote against the system. It just makes them dream of becoming rich.

Unfortunately "simple" schemes such as yours fo not address the underlying cause, only the symptoms. And for this reason it wouldn't achieve the goals you are hoping for. Which is a pity, because those goals are achievable, and some countries have made strides in that direction.

Norway, for example, has the sovereign wealth fund. It gives every citizen a dividend every year. It avoids wealth consolidation simply by distributing the dividends, not thd shares themselves.
by rdtsc | 2025-10-02 19:36:34+00:00
> Does DeepSeek have any market penetration in the US?

Does Google? What about Meta? Claude is popular with developers, too.

Amazon? There I am not sure what they are doing with the LLMs. ("Alexa, are you there?"). I guess they are just happy selling shovels, that's good enough too.

The point is not that everyone is throwing away their ChatGPT subscriptions and getting DeepSeek, the point is that DeepSeek was the first indication the moat was not as big as everyone thought
by k3lsi3r | 2025-10-02 19:36:36+00:00
Initially thought you may have meant revisionist as a slight, but I see that it's a sub-genre. For anyone else unfamiliar (from wikipedia):

> The revisionist Western is a sub-genre of the Western fiction. Called a post-classical variation of the traditional Western, the revisionist subverts the myth and romance of the traditional by means of character development and realism to present a less simplistic view of life in the "Old West". While the traditional Western always embodies a clear boundary between good and evil, the revisionist Western does not.
by echelon | 2025-10-02 19:36:37+00:00
I agree - they're winning big and booking big revenue.

If you discount R&D and "sales and marketing", they've got a net loss of "only" $500 million.

They're trying to land grab as much surface area as they can. They're trying to magic themselves into a trillion dollar FAANG and kill their peers. At some point, you won't be able to train a model to compete with their core products, and they'll have a thousand times the distribution advantage.

ChatGPT is already a new default "pane of glass" for normal people.

Is this all really so unreasonable?

I certainly want exposure to their stock.
by tptacek | 2025-10-02 19:36:45+00:00
I think you owe me a better apology than that. I disagree with your evaluation of the response to that post, strongly, but more importantly I didn't bring it up in the first place, and the claim you made about it (intentionally or not; awfully weird to land at my company's name) was personal and scurrilous.

Your call! I'm moving on.
by mschaef | 2025-10-02 19:36:57+00:00
I had it done about eight years ago... there's nothing quite like waking up after a fifteen minute procedure and seeing better than you have without correction since you were five.

> It's nothing short of a man-made miracle but I have to say it's also very umconfortable and stressful for the patient.

I think I must be strange, either in my reaction to the stress or the way I chose to manage it during my surgery.

I explicitly wanted to be somewhat awake during the procedure to see what was going on (how many chances do you get to see your lens emulsified from the inside)... and I remember having short conversations with the surgeon during the procedure. (She'd been concerned about zonular laxity, and we discussed during the procedure that she didn't see evidence.)

This is not something I'd want to reproduce if I didn't have to, nor would I suggest it as a general approach, but given that it was necessary for me, it was amazing to see it first hand.

My second procedure (second eye) was a little more stressful than the first, but for me all the material stress (which was significant) was in the run up and anticipation.
by cthalupa | 2025-10-02 19:37:35+00:00
For sure. Someone who naturally has the lower LDL is more likely to have had that lower LDL for longer - being on statins necessarily indicates they had a high LDL at some point, and the damage is cumulative over your lifetime.

If you blocked your arteries before you got on a statin, it can stabilize the plaque and reduce the risk of rupture, reduce the ability for more to form and increase the blockage, and if it gets your LDL low enough, regress some of it, but it's not going to give you the same arteries as someone who never had that level of plaque deposition to begin with.
by lejalv | 2025-10-02 19:37:41+00:00
Unfortunately Netanyahu actively encouraged Qatar to send cash to Hamas.

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

> In February 2020, former Mossad Director Yossi Cohen and Israeli general Herzi Halevi, under Netanyahu's orders, went to Qatar to plead Qatari officials to continue the payments for Hamas.[8] Later, in September 2023, David Barnea, the Director of Mossad since 2021, went to Qatar to meet Qatari officials to discuss about the payments for Hamas.[10][44]

(...)

> Israeli intelligence officials believe that the money had a role in the success of 2023 Hamas-led attack.[10]
by mikeyouse | 2025-10-02 19:37:48+00:00
“Unfortunately, Democrat Senators are blocking passage of HR 5371 in the Senate which has led to a lapse in appropriations.”

Come on. The message is overtly political (blaming democrats for the shutdown when republicans control the presidency + the house + the senate) and 100% of the people pretending it’s not would be outraged if the same thing was posted under a different administration.
by bfirsh | 2025-10-02 19:37:57+00:00
Free usage usually goes in sales and marketing. It's effectively a cost of acquiring a customer. This also means it is considered an operating expense rather than a cost of goods sold and doesn't impact your gross margin.

Compute in R&D will be only training and development. Compute for inference will go under COGS. COGS is not reported here but can probably be, um, inferred by filling in the gaps on the income statement.

(Source: I run an inference company.)
by coredog64 | 2025-10-02 19:38:12+00:00
Medicare doesn't really do administration in the way that you think. There are something like 10-12 regions within the US, and for each region, Medicare contracts with a private health insurer to manage insurance administration within that region. Medicare just moves the money around to cover the admin contracts and to backstop the claims.

And this is before you get to Medicare Advantage, which is where Medicare just pays for private insurance premiums for people who think vanilla Medicare sucks.
by briandear | 2025-10-02 19:38:14+00:00
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

Did congress pass a law I missed? Government communication isn’t a 1st Amendment issue. When you work for any employer, you are subject to the whims of that employer.
by a_shovel | 2025-10-02 19:38:18+00:00
> Note that David never actually addresses the “far right” label on its merits — he just pivots to calling it overused, trying to direct your attention elsewhere like a magician distracting the audience as he performs a trick.

I'm not sure he's bringing it up for that reason. He thinks the label is losing its power because it really is losing power over him, because he's becoming more comfortable with it and beginning to accept it. Keep an eye out for if he starts to call himself a fascist "ironically".
by Analemma_ | 2025-10-02 19:38:54+00:00
Exactly: when was the last time you used ChatGPT-3.5? Its value deprecated to zero after, what, two-and-a-half years? (And the Nvidia chips used to train it have barely retained any value either)

The financials here are so ugly: you have to light truckloads of money on fire forever just to jog in place.
by Havoc | 2025-10-02 19:39:09+00:00
>my uncle Bill and my mother can and do use ChatGPT.

They have the name brand for sure. And that is worth a lot.

Notice how Deepseek went from a nobody to making mainstream news though. The only thing people like more than a trusted thing is being able to tell their friends about this amazing cheap good alternative they "discovered".

It's good to be #1 mind share wise but without network effect that still leave you vulnerable
by shaftway | 2025-10-02 19:39:17+00:00
I have a friend who is having twins. I'm using some new woodworking techniques to make a pair of baby rattles for her. The real challenge is trying to make two shapes with organic curves and precise cuts that are as close to identical or mirror-image as possible, while also hiding the joints.

It's very low-tech. No screens, no CNC, the most technically advanced tool is the digital RPM readout on the lathe. It's nice to disconnect from my screens once in a while.
by monocasa | 2025-10-02 19:39:29+00:00
The explosives are the part that obviously should be given the main focus.

And quite a bit of what's being talked about wrt to re-manufacturing Israeli unexploded ordance was stockpiled prior to Oct 7th. Israel did not start bombing Gaza only after Oct 7th (and in fact had been bombing Gaza as late as Sept 23, 2023).
by legitster | 2025-10-02 19:40:21+00:00
> DHH’s politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don’t know, but as of right now the dude is way the fuck outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.

Is being vaguely anti-immigrant actually that far outside of what people people consider moral or acceptable these days? Like, I am shocked how much gets said on HN when H1B's are brought up.

I don't agree with with any of the points in DHH's linked article. But like, DHH acknowledging Tommy Robinson's march existed probably shouldn't subject him to every criticism of Tommy Robinson.
by kalap_ur | 2025-10-02 19:40:39+00:00
I mean, to be fair, Google's scam of how much GBs you have is very annoying and downright scandalous.

I had 16.5GB or so used up so it was flashing red. When paid for Gemini, my total space jumped to 2TB and my usage dropped to 12GB. Disgusting. So might as well switch to fastmail. Not sure.
by cthalupa | 2025-10-02 19:40:47+00:00
> Walking for 30 minutes/day when you previously walked 0 minutes/day will have a dramatically larger mortality reduction than taking a statin.

It might for all-cause mortality, but it is unlikely to reduce ASCVD mortality more than a statin, or statin + ezetimibe would. Even if your high LDL isn't genetic, once you've done the damage to your arteries, it is basically going to stay there, and treatment targets for preventing further damage at that point (or some regression, if you get really aggressive with combo therapy and get down below 50) aren't often possible with lifestyle changes alone.
by immibis | 2025-10-02 19:42:22+00:00
These things can still be used as evidence. The process used by the police of a rogue country (or any other adversary) isn't a cryptographer's highly technical wet dream or nightmare. They simply look at the screen of your phone saying you sent or received a message, and as far as the adversary is concerned, that proves you sent or received it. Even if you didn't. (Actually, they use Cellebrite and just trust whatever the Cellebrite analyzer outputs, which is basically what your screen would have said)

I've yet to see a protocol that lets you convincingly insert fake messages into both sides of your own chat history, especially in a way that isn't detectable by say, sqlite rowid order, but that would be an interesting idea for where to take this sort of thing.
by machina_ex_deus | 2025-10-02 19:42:33+00:00
My parent comment said :"the state of Israel has a policy of systematic rape, torture, mass incarceration, murder, and dehumanization of Palestinians at an industrial scale that's been in place for decades now."

How is that allowed while what I said isn't? My parent comment literally says the same thing. Your moderation is one sided. I didn't say anything that wasn't claimed by the other side.

I see far worse slurs about Israel and Jews here which remain unmoderated. And you won't even let me attack them back.
by matsemann | 2025-10-02 19:43:29+00:00
Gmail keeps editing mails. They have a concept of "dynamic emails" people can send now. Like if you get a mail notification about something in Docs, they will keep updating the mail in your inbox together with modified / added comments in the document.

Absolutely bonkers.

"Because of the dynamic nature of AMP messages, the content displayed in Gmail messages can change as time passes." https://support.google.com/a/answer/9709409?hl=en
by wklm | 2025-10-02 19:43:37+00:00
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by foxglacier | 2025-10-02 19:43:52+00:00
Truthful and accurate aren't enough. Most mainstream news is truthful and accurate but also so biased that readers can come away with the opposite feelings about what happened from what they'd have if they'd understood the event fully.

I just went to cnn.com and the biggest headline was "Shutdown-related firings likely to be ‘in the thousands,’ White House says". No doubt that's factually correct but it sounds like some kind of serious disaster. Except that's thousands of federal workers, of which there are about 2 million, so on the order of 0.1 %. Maybe it's not so big after-all? Also, why does it matter that federal workers lose their jobs? That happens to people all over the economy too and often at higher rates than that but those other cases aren't at the top of cnn.com.
by acuozzo | 2025-10-02 19:44:15+00:00
I was provided with a battery of externally-produced tests, benchmark scripts, etc. I was told to assume that the tests were comprehensive.

Independent of this, I used competing models produced by different organizations (e.g. OpenAI vs. Google) to test & verify each other's work.

I also could, somewhat, follow along with the math itself.
by jopsen | 2025-10-02 19:44:25+00:00
Also suppose you Facebook account was compromised, that bad, sad for the person affected. May cause some media attention if the person was famous.

But if the right GitHub account is compromised, we could see massive supply chain issues. Or a big important web service with millions of users affected.

The downside of making a wrong call here is just really really big.

There are real businesses being deployed from GitHub.
by bronco21016 | 2025-10-02 19:44:30+00:00
I spent some time searching the FAA NOTAM database... https://notams.aim.faa.gov/notamSearch/nsapp.html#/

I can't seem to locate any NOTAMs indicating the presence of the crane. There are NOTAMs for a crane to the NNW of KGRY (Phoenix Goodyear Airport) but Tolleson is to the east of that airport.

Is there a hole in how we're doing NOTAMs if we're expecting to have UAS operating at low altitude away from airports?

Also, what other obstacle data is available? I know the US Gov't aviation maps depict significant man made structures that stick up like towers, windmills, and larger buildings. However, when you look at the NY Heli map, it's clear that not every building in Manhattan is depicted. These are generally low enough that a helo would be operating in see-and-avoid (VFR).

Perhaps there is a new market available for this navigation data...
by varenc | 2025-10-02 19:44:38+00:00
You also have no way of knowing when someone you're chatting with screenshots your messages and uploads them to Imgur.

I jest, and Signal's support for backups do really increase exposure to this risk, but just trying to say its a matter of degree not a fundamentally new change. People that have been using sigtop[0] to backup their Signal messages to plaintext also create the same exposure risk.

[0] https://github.com/tbvdm/sigtop
by matthewdgreen | 2025-10-02 19:44:59+00:00
A quick reminder that the First Amendment of the Unites States Constitution bars the Federal government from forcing private institutions to participate in chosen political speech. The question of whether you get funding from the Federal Government should not matter, since it's the Federal Government that's constitutionally constrained from doing this.

Of course if we're no longer in a place where the rule of law applies, then sentences like "if it's private and does not get funding..." hardly matter.
by mcmcmc | 2025-10-02 19:45:16+00:00
Budget resolutions require 60 votes to pass, so they really can’t. But they know that and their refusal to negotiate is blocking it. Dems are doing what’s best for their constituents by not voting for a budget that would skyrocket healthcare costs for millions of Americans. Meanwhile the GOP is spreading misinformation that Dems want to fund healthcare for illegal immigrants, who have NEVER been eligible for it.
by ElevenLathe | 2025-10-02 19:45:35+00:00
We can quibble about where to draw the markers, but my point is that these "lessons" that people in these comments are decrying as mostly not true about the "real world", are in fact true for some people, likely even some of the people that you went to school with. You and I heard our asshole math teacher say "It's not gonna be this easy in the real world, cats and kittens!" and probably now regard that as the opposite of true. Many others wish life was as easy as high school. Thanks for the engagement but I don't see any point in "arguing" this point -- that we appear to both agree on -- any further.
by ashton314 | 2025-10-02 19:45:42+00:00
I write my blog (https://lambdaland.org) entirely in Emacs now. It's Hugo, but I use ox-hugo [1] to convert from org-mode to markdown and Hugo converts it to HTML.

What I like about this: everything else I do is in org-mode anyway, so this fits my brain. I also have some nice org-mode tooling to make things like footnotes, margin notes, etc. look really nice.

A little convoluted, sure, but I've seen worse. :-P

[1]: https://ox-hugo.scripter.co/
by al_borland | 2025-10-02 19:45:59+00:00
Did I miss where an alternative was offered, or was it telling us to stop using one imperfect word, or without offering anything better?

I’ve found images like this[0] to be more helpful in visualizing what the spectrum is, rather than a single sliding scale. It seems like more of an education issue. I get tired of all these word changes. And if “profound autism” is what a room full of experts come up with… they can just stop.

[0] https://ablelight.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Autism-Whee...
by mikeyouse | 2025-10-02 19:46:04+00:00
‘People should be lied to by the government out of political convenience’ is a theory I guess. Though not one I’d endorse.

It’s equally true that “Senate republicans failed to put forth a spending CR that could attract 60 votes” or “Senate republicans failed to pass filibuster reform to only require 50 votes on spending measures.” Are equally true statements yet somehow they didn’t make the autoresponders. Weird.
by smelendez | 2025-10-02 19:46:09+00:00
It depends on what the footer says.

This isn't a company though, it's the government, and it's generally considered unprofessional if not illegal for federal employees to make partisan statements on the job. There's also the fact that, in my experience, out-of-office autoreplies are generally drafted by the employee while footers are often standardized by the employer.

Additionally, there are strict rules on what federal civil servants can do during a shutdown that don't really apply in private industry, which means whatever official channels would exist to complain probably aren't available. I don't think furloughed employees are supposed to send official email, either, which means they can't clarify who provided this message even if someone is confused by it.