MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by LVTfan | 2025-10-19 23:00:47+00:00
You wrote, "the amount of revenue from property tax is only intended to act like collateral damage." You might take a look at these two articles: https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/state/property-tax-re... (https://taxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/FF868.p...) and https://taxfoundation.org/research/all/state/property-tax-re... (https://taxfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/FF852.p...)

"Property taxes currently generate 70 percent of all local tax revenue, some or all of which would have to be replaced with other taxes under property tax repeal."

And if you DO choose to tax commerce, the effects are lousy.

Even Milton Friedman repeatedly called LVT the "least bad" tax. Too bad he didn't life a finger to support it. Not sure who he was working for, or what pressures he must have been under.
by viraptor | 2025-10-19 23:01:45+00:00
You can definitely do a lot of relabeling that way. It may be also worth trying a loop of "fix until it matches binary" for separate files... But I haven't seen anyone actually write it up.

There are attempts like this https://github.com/louisgthier/decompai that are related, but not quite the same as this project.

Edit: just gave it a go, and guessing reasonable variable names works extremely well when there's partial information already available. Especially nice for things like naming all the counters and temporaries when you know what you're iterating over (so it's just boring manual and trivial work), but can also figure out the meaning of larger patterns for function names.
by gus_massa | 2025-10-19 23:01:56+00:00
I guess you get more shelf life, but it's an injectable drug.

You probably have to disolve it in very clean water in a very clean container. Do you have to match the salinity and pH with the proprties of the blood? How much time must you stir it to ensure it's completely disolved? Do you have to add something to increase/reduce viscosity? Some alcohol in case there are a few bacterias or improve solubility? How long does the small homemade batch last in the fridge?

IIUC there is another version in pills, they may have a longer shelf life, or not. But ask a medical doctor before taking a ramdom medicine.
by sokoloff | 2025-10-19 23:04:11+00:00
Broadcom turned up the heat on our pot fast enough that we’re evacuating over to proxmox. I and several others in IT had run it at home for a while, so when Broadcom made the definite losses to continue on VMWare far higher than the likely losses from any migration outage, it became a no-brainer to migrate.

Migrating part of the farm and A/B testing shows good results and we’ll be able to complete it in-place before the next pizzo payment to Broadcom is due.

Thanks for the nudge, Broadcom! As far as I’m concerned, Broadcom and Oracle are tied for first on my “do not voluntarily do business with” list. Equaling Oracle in this way is a feat…
by Remnant44 | 2025-10-19 23:04:15+00:00
I've run into this as well. Problem is that linear RGB is most definitely not a perceptually uniform space, so blending in it frequently does something different than you want. Use linear for physically based light and mixing, but if you are modeling an operation that is based on human perception it is going to be completely wrong.

The dark irony then, is that sRGB with its gamma curve applied, models luminance better (closer to human perception) for blending than linear does. If you can afford to do the blend in a perceptually uniform space like oklab, even better of course.
by defrost | 2025-10-19 23:04:21+00:00
True, the GP comment is also playing the Queensland is all bannanas, Tasmanian's are all inbred, <insert stereo type> card here.

There are many mines in W.Australia, there's also highly productive grain growing agricultural land larger in size than the entire United Kingdom, similarly large areas of native title and defence training land, wine growing regions, etc.
by srameshc | 2025-10-19 23:04:58+00:00
> From the beginning, we wrote EventSourcingDB's storage engine ourselves. It's not built on top of an existing database; it's a purpose-built event store.

I am trying to understand EventSourcingDB but I don't get the concept.

https://www.thenativeweb.io/products/eventsourcingdb

Is this a new approach or designed something like Temporal ?
by spankibalt | 2025-10-19 23:06:18+00:00
> "[...] but always stop short because of the monitor issue."

I always stop because of the case and target audience issue. I have no interest in a tower or a pizza box, but I wouldn't be able to resist a well-designed retro industrial workstation-specced x86 machine in a metal wedge-style computer case à la Amiga 600.
by crmd | 2025-10-19 23:06:27+00:00
I grew up reading The Economist, but as I’ve gotten older, I’ve come find the idea that corporations have the right to use their money to form trade associations and directly lobby the government insane. I can understand how business owners may want to spend personal money to make the case of their personal business interests to their legislators, but the idea of Nestle, S.A. and PepsiCo, Inc. being afforded speech rights and allowed to meddle in the “human affairs” of government no longer makes sense to me.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-10-19 23:07:46+00:00
Agreed. The subscriptions really is a huge huge part of the magic, and it's a weakpoint of Kine. Thanks for chiming in.

Ideally, i'd love to see a database specific offering. Use postgres async replication (ideally somehow sharded so there's not a single consumer node) to some fan out system that's doing all the watching.

But etcd mostly does the job, seems unlikely to be going anywhere. It's be cool though.
by satisfice | 2025-10-19 23:08:55+00:00
Half of this is nonsense, to me, and I am pretty senior. This indicates that probably this guy has a different technical culture than I do, but he’s talking as if his culture is the only kind.

I work nights and weekends and anyone who thinks that’s weird is an idiot or a child, OR they have a different technical culture from me, WHICH IS OKAY. I don’t impose my culture on everybody else, except people who work for me.
by hinkley | 2025-10-19 23:09:55+00:00
Ruppell’s Griffon Vulture is the only bird clocked that high, but my understanding is that we’ve been moving estimates higher for a bunch of birds over the last couple of decades. Absence of proof and proof of absence and so forth. I think people have been paying more attention.

That vulture looks like a big boy too. So not impossible.

Edit: this bird is South American, adapted to the Andes, which is a bit of a hike to Colorado.
by madaxe_again | 2025-10-19 23:11:02+00:00
But it does, and explicitly - it isn’t a matter of interpretation. Repeatedly god commands his followers to slaughter men, women, children, and even the animals of their foes. Repeatedly god tells his followers to enslave people, and that it’s fine to treat them abysmally as long as it’s not so bad that they die.

This isn’t my opinion of what the bible contains - any more than I could argue that Hellraiser is a cute movie about bunny rabbits.

Not all facts are subjective.
by hackthemack | 2025-10-19 23:12:06+00:00
For anyone curious, the draw a circle code in Circle.asm appears to use Bresenham's circle drawing algorithm.

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/c/bresenhams-circle-drawing-al...

The secret is to draw 1 arc of a 45 degree angle and the reflect it (redraw it with different coordinates).
by AndrewDucker | 2025-10-19 23:13:22+00:00
I'm a big fan of how PowerShell passes objects.

But without a common runtime the closest you could really get to that in Unix would be to pass JSON or XML about, and have every program have a "pipe" mode that accepted that as input.

Which seems like an awful lot of work and unlikely to get the kind of buy in you'd need to make it work widely.
by puppycodes | 2025-10-19 23:14:17+00:00
sorry but what are talking about?

This is why so many studies are impossible to replicate.

The sample size has everything to do with the hypothesis here. There is no one size fits all meaningful sample size.

When you make a claim about "men" writ large you need enough data to establish significance and account for the multitude of other variables at play which are massive here.
by protocolture | 2025-10-19 23:14:31+00:00
People are willing to trade privacy for utility.

When that trade is voluntary, its not really that controversial.

People give facebook tons of data, they dont care because it keeps them in touch with friends. People get upset when the utility of facebook decreases due to enshittification, or if they provide that data to somewhere spooky that they werent aware they were consenting to.
by endgame | 2025-10-19 23:14:36+00:00
I had Ed's posts on hand, but I don't think that's true. It works at mortal levels too. If you write `map f (map g someList)`, laziness means you'll materialise at most one cons of the intermediate list (although GHC will probably fuse it outright). A strict language would materialise the entire intermediate list, and mortal developers would have to know to write `map (f . g) someList` to avoid that.

This all assumes that you're willing to buy into a language that does immutable data structures by default, and are willing to rely on the work of people like Okasaki who had to work out how to do performant purely functional data structures. If you're willing to admit more mutability (I'm not), then you sit at different points in the design space.
by btown | 2025-10-19 23:14:45+00:00
Paper link (2011): https://people.cs.umass.edu/~emery/pubs/dthreads-sosp11.pdf

> DTHREADS works by exploding multithreaded applications into multiple processes, with private, copy-on-write mappings to shared memory... Experimental results show that DTHREADS substantially outperforms a state-of-the-art deterministic runtime system, and for a majority of the benchmarks evaluated here, matches and occasionally exceeds the performance of pthreads.
by rkagerer | 2025-10-19 23:17:02+00:00
I've encountered a lot more grief from ill-managed updates - and abuse of their delivery mechanism as a perverse means to shove unwanted software down my throat - than from the impact of any security incidents arising out of missing, delaying or contravening one.

The first issue is you don't meaningfully control the timing (ie. defer until you have time to deal with any fallout, which may be >30 days), and that you can't manage your risk by reviewing what's in them and selectively picking the ones you want (ie. true security fixes with limited surface area to bork things).

Once upon a time both those things were easy (eg. meaningful descriptions) and under your control.
by nextos | 2025-10-19 23:18:25+00:00
Some people, including legal experts, claim it could have been intentional: https://www.legal.io/articles/5691258/Novo-Nordisk-Lets-Cana....

I was surprised Science didn't discuss this option. However, reader comments in Science do comment on this possibility.

The idea is that letting the patent lapse would avoid getting regulated by the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board.

I know several people working at NN, and it's quite chaotic and political, so I wouldn't rule out an internal oversight.
by simonw | 2025-10-19 23:18:37+00:00
Yeah, that's my assumption too. Fine-tuning is really expensive in terms of skills and time needed to attempt it, and there's a very real chance that your attempts will fail to make a meaningful improvement over being smarter with your prompts.

Even worse, even if you DO get an improvement you are likely to find that it was a waste of time in a month or two when then next upgraded version of the underlying models are released.

The places it makes sense from what I can tell are mainly when you are running so many prompts that the cost saving by running a smaller, cheaper model can outweigh the labor and infrastructure costs involved in getting it to work. If your token spend isn't tens (probably hundreds) of thousands of dollars you're unlikely to save money like this.

If it's not about cost saving, the other reasons are latency and being able to achieve something that the root model just couldn't do.

Datadog reported a latency improvement, because fine-tuning let them run a much smaller (and hence faster) model. That's a credible reason if you are building high value features that a human being is waiting on, like live-typing features.

The most likely cases I've heard of for getting the model to do something it just couldn't do before mainly involve vision LLMs, which makes sense to me - training a model to be able to classify images that weren't in the training set might make more sense than stuffing more example images into the prompt (though models like Gemini will accept dozens of not hundreds of comparable images in the prompt, which can then benefit from prompt caching).

The last category is actually teaching it a new skill. The best example here are low-resource programming languages - Jane Street and OCaml or Morgan Stanley and Q for example.

Jane Street OCaml: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ML7ZLMdcl4

Morgan Stanley Q: https://huggingface.co/morganstanley/qqWen-1.5B-SFT
by lexszero_ | 2025-10-19 23:20:41+00:00
> Almost nobody in the space produces anything professional and everything uses Yocto even for two person projects where Multistrap would be more productive.

While I agree with your sentiment that there's a lot of poor software engineering in embedded space (especially in consumer-oriented novelty products, less so in established fields like industrial or telco), I can't but wonder what's wrong with Yocto? In my experience, it's quite the opposite: Yocto is the quickest path to get the firmware for a new device assembled, once you have climbed its pretty steep learning curve. I have built a few homebrew firmware build systems out of Debian and make/shell scripts (not my choice), you pretty quickly find yourself reinventing half of the stuff that Yocto does out of the box, but it's all bespoke, janky and hard to maintain. While with Yocto you just take the vendor's meta layer for BSP, put your application in another, and it bakes you a set of flashable images on the other end, complete with SDKs and other goodies for your dev workflow, reproducibly. It doesn't get significantly more sophisticated once you start to need kernel customizations, firmware updates with A/B partition layout, readonly rootfs, manage board- or customer-specific variants and other features that are very common in embedded systems but poorly or not at all supported in standard distros.
by Avshalom | 2025-10-19 23:21:34+00:00
The default "following" feed only shows who you follow. There are a couple other default feeds like "Discover" and "Popular with Friends" that show other stuff. There also a bunch of feeds made by people that show whatever...

The result is that even if you have extremely good hygiene about who you follow: rage bait will still often make it's way onto your skyline as quote dunks, reskeets or replies. So if there's an account you just don't ever want to see blocking is still the most fullproof way, even then you're still often exposed to screenshots of rage bait.

As a corollary if there are accounts that everybody knows are just going to be trolls, mass blocks help starve them of attention before they get a foot hold.
by labcomputer | 2025-10-19 23:22:13+00:00
> Unlike the criminal law, Novo nordisk would have to go after every single person individually and make the case that they are infringing the American patent. This is all without the help of the police or customs, as a private civil matter.

I don't think that's quite right. One of the things that CBP does is inspect incoming shipments, and confiscate IP-infringing things.

Think about the recent Apple Watch SpO2 sensor patent shenanigans: The threat was to have CBP confiscate any infringing devices at the port of entry. I also remember that multimeters infringing on Fluke's ~~design patent~~ trademark have been blocked at the port of entry:

https://hackaday.com/2014/03/19/multimeters-without-a-countr...
by theamk | 2025-10-19 23:22:47+00:00
there is nothing special about negative voltages, it's all relative to some point anyway.

With mixed analog/digital circuits for example, it's pretty common to treat exactly same voltages either as -2.5/0/2.5 (relative to midpoint), or as 0/2.5/5 (relative to negative rail).

What matters is having multiple treshold voltages with distinct behaviour. Setun used ferrite transformers which do have multiple thresholds (postive and negative fields) - but modern electronics, including transistors, does not.
by esafak | 2025-10-19 23:23:42+00:00
I like this idea but I always struggled to keep up with note taking. And the teachers were struggling to get through all the material. There was a race on both sides! But that was many years ago. If I were doing it today, I'd take pictures with my phone, use a computer to transcribe it, and then I'd have enough time to do what you said.
by rainsford | 2025-10-19 23:24:31+00:00
One incentive that could work in the US without having to completely change how elections work would be for the government to actually shut down when it runs out of money. Shut downs are only remotely politically viable because nearly all the parts of the government that people regularly rely on more or less keep working.

This means the public backlash from shutting down the government is significantly muted, and it gives the opportunity for some less intelligent people to point to it as proof the government doesn't actually do anything. But it only works because the government basically forces employees in those roles to work for free with the promise of being eventually paid at some point, which is pretty weird when you really think about it.

Consider an alternate version of events where the government running out of money means all government functions immediately cease. No airport security, no air traffic control. Federal law enforcement goes home. The military stands down. Every federal government function stops October 1st since there was no longer any money to pay for it. Not only would the government not still be shut down, it never would have shut down since the impact would be so immediate and so significant that politicians would never risk it actually happening.
by virtualritz | 2025-10-19 23:24:57+00:00
These are 'en' dashes. Myself and and other people who care about (micro)typography have been using them since forever.

Presumably the author is one of them. Or they simply use a text editing or blogging software that takes care of it.

E.g. Markdown with smarty-pants feature turned on generates them automatically from '--'. 'Em' dashes require '---'.

Coincidentally Rust's `cargo doc` does this for you -- just for example.

The conclusion that a text containing such micro-typographic niceties must be LLM-generated is a fallacy thusly.

Your other 'evidence' sounds like an interpretation to me. Maybe you should quote the sections you mean?

Otherwise your critique seems superficially limited to form, not contents -- an ad-hominem in disguise one may be tempted to conclude.
by greycol | 2025-10-19 23:25:04+00:00
While I'm all for saving costs, I would be shocked if mixing your own inject-able medicine either weekly (with the chance of making a mistake in dosage or sterility) or too such a high degree of sterility that you can confidentally store several doses is not worth the $200 return flight every two years. Maybe I'm overestimating the risks but it still seems like a small saving for it.

Realistically the cost of semiglutide in generic form means you could fly return every 90 days (personal import restriction for perscription meds) and still save $1000 every 3 months (3x$500 monthly - return flight - generic cost).
by cactusplant7374 | 2025-10-19 23:25:20+00:00
I'm using an agent to port a game. I have the source. It's not going well. Lots of rabbit holes that are self-inflicted because the LLM doesn't want to port a lot of libraries because it's too much work for one round. It does a lot of stubbing and makes assumptions and that breaks the whole thing.
by anubistheta | 2025-10-19 23:26:07+00:00
Exactly. The essay meandered, and didn't say much of note. It has vague illusions to personal choice and markets being detrimental. But that's it. Too many people feel entitled the control the choices of others. And yet they rarely accept equal control of their choices.

> "But an emphasis on choice as a form of liberation has occasioned serious resentments in different sectors and geographies, where it can seem a direct threat to other, more communal values and needs." I think this quote sums it up nicely. Personal liberation is not a threat to mutually beneficial communal values. If you need to force people to behave as part of your community, then it should be voluntary. One should be able to choose to pursue any form of freedom or community they'd like. If you want freedom to be "an act of pure imagination" and live a communal lifestyle, you should have the choice.
by hinkley | 2025-10-19 23:27:09+00:00
I used to say the same about the Eve Online dev blog, but at some point I stopped reading because they were creating an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Erlang.

Concurrency is hard. Blizzard added progressively more and more concurrency over time to rescue orphaned resources assigned to a single shard that was undersubscribed while another shard in the same AZ was seeing flash mobs. But the way they documented it was more of a tea leaves situation. Only enough data to guess what they had done if you were familiar with the space.
by CharlesW | 2025-10-19 23:27:19+00:00
> Not even Apple, who introduced a touch remote, control the Apple TV (hardware) and the Apple TV app attempted to supersede LRUD.

I can't recall the last time I've used LRUD controls with Apple TV. The hardware and software remotes both do trackpad-style control, which in my experience works just fine in that I've never had to think about it.
by Luc | 2025-10-19 23:29:09+00:00
This can't be the original source code.

https://github.com/Piddewitt/Loderunner/blob/main/Lode%20Run...

Original source, I imagine, would be very tersely commented, if only to fit in memory / floppy, and would have very short variable and subroutine names, and lots of mess and commented-out lines from experiments.

This looks like a very lovingly done disassembly.
by vcdimension | 2025-10-19 23:30:53+00:00
The value that companies such as Microsoft & Apple provide is supplied by all their thousands of employees, not just their CEO's. So its not a fair comparison to compare the output of Microsoft & Apple with the output of a single person (Tommy Flowers). Furthermore there are plenty of alternatives to Microsoft & Apple: if Bill Gates & Steve Jobs didn't exist we'd be probably be running Unix, Linux or one of the many other operating systems that lost out to Windows & MacOS for market share. If Tommy Flowers didn't exist we might have lost the war.
by varispeed | 2025-10-19 23:31:02+00:00
It's not like their customers have a choice. If software you depend on only works on Windows you can't just say I'm done with this circus, where is my Ubuntu stick. Seems like a massive gap for regulators to close as some might say Microsoft is abusing their privileged position. Though I wouldn't hold my hopes up. Given how they have penetrated many governments with their services and software, they might thread carefully before getting Microsoft to act decent (see inaction over sentencing millions of PCs to landfill - at odds with many countries environment policies, but most politicians keep their head in the sand).