MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vkou | 2025-11-06 20:38:41+00:00
> Unless they're physically shipping stuff across your borders, a foreign website that accepts payment from your citizens isn't "doing business in your country" anymore than a hot dog vendor is by serving foreign tourists in my opinion.

We're in the electronic age, 'stuff' includes electricity, media, and remote-provided services. For a concrete example - if you're buying legal advice from a lawyer, it doesn't matter if he's down the street from you, or on another continent - the exchange of money for 'stuff' is the same.
by th0ma5 | 2025-11-06 20:39:30+00:00
Thank you for posting this. I'm struck with how there is a lot of studying of the behavior and isolating it from other assumptions and then these individual capabilities are then described as a new solution or discovered capability that would work with all of those other assumptions. This makes most all of the LLM research feel like whack a mole if the goal was to make accurate and reliable models by understanding these techniques. Instead, it's more like seeing faces in cars and buildings and other artifacts of patterns and pattern groupings and recognition of patterns. Building houses on sand, etc.
by vkou | 2025-11-06 20:39:49+00:00
If it's nation-of-origin-agnostic (All vendors, domestic or foreign have to follow the same rules, and the foreigners have chosen to not follow those rules, and are being sanctioned for it), it's not a trade barrier.

It's just a foreign company being upset that it isn't getting special treatment that would allow it to operate with an illegal advantage over local vendors.
by kkfx | 2025-11-06 20:39:51+00:00
Me personally I consider EVERY office suite legacy crap, no one should use.

Unfortunately, even if it's entirely possible to imagine an office world built like what we can have today in org-mode/Emacs, e.g. https://youtu.be/u44X_th6_oY rather than Positron (R Studio's successor) for most people it's still a taboo; there's a significant reactionary attitude even in IT.
by vessenes | 2025-11-06 20:40:01+00:00
OK, I just added books until you told me I had too many. Fun idea! I have a couple of suggestions:

* UI - once someone clicks "Add" you really should remove that item from the suggested list - it's very confusing to still see it.

* Beam search / diversification -- Your system threw like 100 books at me of which I'd read 95 and heard of 2 of the other 3, so it worked for me as a predictor of what I'd read, but not so well for discovery.

I'd be interested in recommendations that pushed me into a new area, or gave me a surprising read. This is easier to do if you have a fairly complete list of what someone's read, I know. But off the top of my head, I'm imagining finding my eigenfriends, then finding books that are either controversial (very wide rating differences amongst my fellow readers) or possibly ghettoized, that is, some portion of similar readers also read this X or Y subject, but not all.

Anyway, thanks, this is fun! Hook up a VLM and let people take pictures of their bookshelf next.
by mlyle | 2025-11-06 20:40:03+00:00
??? most of us have a lot more than 100 hours of practice at things like this. Probably "some practice" means roughly the secondary background most people have, then undergraduate plus a couple of years of industry work?

If we're thinking about what human activity it will or can displace, it's probably unfair to compare it a seasoned doctorate. But it's also probably unfair to compare it to a kid with a few months of music lessons, too.
by tyre | 2025-11-06 20:40:04+00:00
I agree that they are a cartel tax on the economy, but their costs are higher than that. They are also taking on risk from credit. If your card gets stolen, the thief buys a $3k surfboard, and then you get refunded, they are out the $3k.

They are also paying for the rewards on top of the points given out.

Again, not saying they’re not making a ton of profit. It’s higher than you’ve said, though.
by no_wizard | 2025-11-06 20:41:01+00:00
If Ukraine was part of NATO it wouldn’t have happened I am willing to bet.

Most in depth analysis I’ve seen of these Russia - Ukraine conflicts cite this as one of the top factors in why Russia invaded both a decade ago and the most recent war that is ongoing.

That is to say - mutual cooperation agreements like that have enough teeth to keep conflicts to a minimum as the repercussions are severe

Also another ultimate irony is that Russia didn’t completely cut the rest of Europe off from its oil and gas. That symbiosis continues albeit not the same way. Perhaps electricity would be the same
by jiggawatts | 2025-11-06 20:41:14+00:00
My logic is that these "confidential compute" problems suffer from some of the same issues as "immutable storage in blockchain".

I.e.: If the security/privacy guarantees really are as advertised, then ipso facto someone could store child porn in the system and the provider couldn't detect this.

Then by extension, any truly private system is exposing themselves to significant business, legal, and moral risk of being tarred and feathered along with the pedos that used their system.

It's a real issue, and has come up regularly with blockchain based data storage. If you make it "cencorship proof", the by definition you can't scrub it of illegal data!

Similarly, if cloud providers allow truly private data hosting, then they're exposing themselves to the risk of hosting data that is being stored with that level of privacy guarantees precisely because it is so very, very illegal.

(Or substitute: Stolen state secrets that will have the government come down on you like a ton of bricks. Stolen intellectual property. Blackmail information on humourless billionaires. Illegal gambling sites. Nuclear weapons designs. So on, and so forth.)
by fcpguru | 2025-11-06 20:41:23+00:00
bluetooth proves you were physically there. also no cell tower or wifi issues. this app purposely has no backend! truly decentralized. If i used a normal server I would have to just trust the gps sent? And even if I could trust that, bluetooth lets me know who is closet within feet. The list of devices shows you by who is at the top, who you are nearest.

It is a chicken and egg problem for sure. Will enough people install the app and will people keep it open and in foreground often enough. I need real event with like 100 people to test :)
by imgabe | 2025-11-06 20:41:40+00:00
My data was exposed in one of the Facebook leaks and it turned out I had an old email on my Facebook account with a domain I had since let lapse and abandoned. Someone else registered the domain and tried to take over my Facebook account by sending a password reset request using it. Luckily I had 2FA and I guess Facebook's fraud alerts picked it up so It wasn't successful.

I guess what I want to say is beware that even something as innocuous as an email being leaked can cause problems, and make sure you delete any unused addresses from your accounts!
by ben_w | 2025-11-06 20:41:42+00:00
> People don't have similar disdain for working at advertising corps like Google and Facebook

I can't speak for Google, but I have noticed in general people very much do have disdain for working for Facebook, and have done for the last decade.

> I thought about this because I am currently working on a pretty advanced drone that I want to sell to the DoD. My friend argued that I am in the "death industry," which pisses me off. Drones could be used to help distribute medicine in remote areas, or for surveillance. My drone is for surveillance only—it has a self-detachment feature (SDA) that is activated when the drone is attacked, but other than that the drone is for surveillance only.

Okay, so obvious question is why are you selling them to the DOD rather than directly to humanitarian organisations, medicine distributors, etc.?

I mean, obviously it's because the DOD is a massive buyer, but the reason they're a massive buyer is not because they ship *medicines* everywhere.
by fwipsy | 2025-11-06 20:42:08+00:00
Givewell did an analysis and concluded that while this is a problem, it's not nearly enough to offset the benefit which comes from using the nets for their intended purpose: https://www.givewell.org/international/technical/programs/in...

Certainly improving public health in developing countries is a hard problem! But it's not impossible and existing efforts have had an effect.
by wongarsu | 2025-11-06 20:42:08+00:00
If cheap LED light bulbs had been around we wouldn't have need legislation in the first place. Both Germany's solar subsidies and the EU prohibiting (high power) incandescent light bulbs were cases where existing alternatives were bad (solar was way too expensive to be practical, non-incandescent light bulbs sucked), but legislation intentionally created demand for them anyways in hopes that with demand there would be research and scaling effects that create better cheaper products. In both cases it worked, even if the transition was a bit painful in both cases.
by pegasus | 2025-11-06 20:42:27+00:00
This is a search agent available in the cloud. The site mentions that they doesn't optimize for being "done in milliseconds and as cheaply as possible", and that they do a lot more work like extracting relevant paragraphs and "Single-call resolution for complex queries that normally require multiple search hops" and more. Geared to be consumed by other agents, hence the latency may be tolerable. They have the advantage of running the agent code close to the index so less expensive searches. Basically, this is something in between a simple google search and a "deep research" or at least "thinking" LLM call.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-11-06 20:42:37+00:00
> Bribery is political

Bribery is political. But it's not taken to be a usual part of politics in the West. (Similar to how the Roman word for ambush was the same as their word for treason. Treason isn't taken to be a usual part of politics. Ambush, for them, not a usual part of warfare.)

Basically, you're both right because what is and isn't political is itself a political question.
by switchbak | 2025-11-06 20:42:54+00:00
> What if all your problems could be solved with AI?

Well, that's a big question and I think the answer is "no". There's probably not a single person in this world whose entire set of problems could be solved with AI. It can be useful in some narrow (digital) domains, sure. Is it going to fix your grumpy neighbour, your IBS or your Mom with dementia? No.

And in fact, one of my main problems these days is dealing with the side effects of other's over-exuberance with AI. And shockingly, rubbing more AI on it only makes it worse.
by galkk | 2025-11-06 20:43:04+00:00
As someone who at a time had preorders for both cyber truck and f150 lightning, and cancelled them in favor of a F150 powerboost with 6.5 bed, I’m not surprised the slightest.

They both underdelivered on range and capabilities. Lightning has only 5.5 bed. Cyber truck didn’t had published specs with bed size for very long time.

Honestly, if it weren’t Volkswagen and it had better range, I think that something like ID BUZZ would be the best for me (daily driver, occasional hauling + camping truck).
by aidenn0 | 2025-11-06 20:43:06+00:00
I commented on this elsewhere, but at least one local school recently simultaneously did the following:

1. Required teachers to have kids turn-in their phones for the duration of each class period

2. Banned teachers from kicking kids out of the class who did not turn in their phones.

Teachers don't enforce the rules here because they don't believe the administration will have their back if they try. They can assign detention for students not listening, but many students don't show up for detention, and meanwhile that student still has the phone.
by kcplate | 2025-11-06 20:43:18+00:00
> What pragmatism?

Perhaps I read it wrong, but isn’t he basically suggesting that he will be relying more on the observed effects of climate change as compared to predicted rather than just adopting the theoretical predictions as his driving POV? That’s literally the definition of pragmatism.

> Climate science largely disagree

Climate scientists may largely disagree, but not all do. Shame that it also apparently needs to be stated here that science isn’t a democracy that is subject to popular vote. When observed effects don’t match the predicted effects, it really doesn’t matter much if climate scientists disagree with the observed effects. Actual data is actual data and should be considered even if it doesn’t match your model.
by aussiegreenie | 2025-11-06 20:43:34+00:00
The figures quoted are way out of date. Solar is already USD 0.11 per Watt and has been for over a year.

Solar is scalable. The cheapest system 10W with a powerbank and phone charger and 3 x 3W LED lights as about USD 20. Next level is more lights and a fan and the high end is a TV and fan powered by solar.
by makeitdouble | 2025-11-06 20:43:45+00:00
I see your POV, but fundamentally the issue here is Mozilla screwing with their AI bot, and some employee jumping in to do some communication after everyone's already pissed.

Sure the Mozilla employee could use better phrasing and have a more considerate approach, but it comes out so worse because the situation is already critically bad.

People will give the benefit of the doubt when they see genuine care in the actual actions and a decent track record.
by FloorEgg | 2025-11-06 20:44:19+00:00
I know nothing about UK investment culture, but I have been building startups for 15 years, volunteered for multiple accelerators, made angel investments and rubbed shoulders with many US VCs.

My impression of the US VC industry, especially near the end of the zirp era and even more especially during covid, the amount of VC capital being deployed far surpassed the number of competent VCs or startup founders.

Many VCs were making decisions based on factors that were NOT correlated with future venture success. Many VCs in fact probably biased companies away from future success, because they didn't understand what they were doing and their instincts from prior industries or investment regimes were directly the opposite of what was needed for an early stage startup.

In other words, there is risk aversion, and there is foolishness. I know for a fact there was a lot of foolishness going on in us VC investing (I even participated in some of it, learned from it, and I know better now).

I'm not just talking about VCs throwing money at anyone with a pitch deck. I'm talking about VCs having a backwards understanding of what makes startups successful and actively pressuring startups that could have worked into doing the wrong things.

There is a core of US VCs that are the world leaders in what they do, exceptionally aware of what makes startups successful and have the track record to prove it - this minority is overwhelming responsible for the industry's ROI. There is also a massive graveyard of fools who tried to replicate that success and failed for a variety of reasons.
by aerostable_slug | 2025-11-06 20:44:58+00:00
Okay.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2025/09/15/us-attack...

If you think those are fishing boats you don't know very much about fishing. Those are dope haulers. The question of whether dope haulers deserve a .mil missile is separate from establishing exactly what those boats are and exactly what they are doing — something I think anyone with half a brain inwardly knows even if they maintain otherwise in public forums like this one.
by thewebguyd | 2025-11-06 20:45:41+00:00
Yeah, federally there's no problem here. It's the state I live in that's the problem.

Any revenue over $12,000 and you have to register with the Department of Revenue, get a business license, and start paying business and occupation tax and sales taxes (if applicable). If your business is subject to collect sales tax at all, you have to register no matter what your gross revenue is. Unfortunately, the state doesn't have any exemptions for sales tax like the EU.

For some states in the US it is quite a bit simpler, unfortunately for mine it's not and it's like they do everything in their power to prevent small businesses.
by conductr | 2025-11-06 20:45:43+00:00
It can't with reliability is what I'm saying. I'm not doubting you built one singular use case where it has. When I feed Copilot a PDF contract and ask it what is my monthly minimum I can charge this client and it tells me $1000, I ask it a dozen other questions and it changes it's response but never to the correct value, then when I ask it to cite where it finds that information and it points me to a paragraph that clearly says $1500 - spelled out clear as day, not entangled in a bunch of legalese or anything else - how is that reliable for a Brenda in finance? (this is a real case I tried out)
by munificent | 2025-11-06 20:45:46+00:00
> This is because meat-eaters tend to eat the same few species of animals over and over again – pigs, cows, chickens.

Tangential, but this is one of the things I like about eating fish. There are so many species you can eat, some of which you can only find in certain regions or have to catch yourself. My list of aquatic animals I've eaten has 47 entries on it and I've surely missed some because it's often hard to tell exactly what species you're getting at a restaurant. I'm always excited to add more to the list.

Some less common ones I've had are sickle pomfret ("monchong") and moonfish ("opah") from a fish market in Hawaii, cobia from a fishing trip in Florida, and many perch and bluegill that I've caught myself.
by foxglacier | 2025-11-06 20:45:55+00:00
Yea I did look at the guide but it's a huge amount of work that I wasn't prepared to do just to make a couple of hundred dollars from one client. Imagine you start at the first option:

Nonparticipating FFI. A nonparticipating FFI means an FFI that is not a participating FFI, deemed-compliant FFI, or exempt beneficial owner.

OK, then what's an FFI, a participating FFI, a deemed-compliant FFI, and an exempt beneficial owner? That's 4 other definitions to look up just to learn you should not choose option 1 of 32. If you keep track of this intermediate knowledge, it can help you skip some other options but you have to look ahead and see that possibility and find a way to store all these intermediate conclusions so that when you wake up the next day you haven't forgotten if you're an exempt beneficial owner or not - and by the way, before you even begin, you have to work out if you're a beneficial owner - exempt or not.

Once you've decided you're not an FFI, you look to see if you're a "Certified Deemed-Compliant Sponsored, Closely Held Investment Vehicle", which doesn't have a definition in the guide! What now? Try to find it in the Internal Revenue code?

By the way, the one you called out - "Excepted Territory NFFE" doesn't actually have a definition at all in the guide either and it refers you to "Regulations section 1.1472-1(c)(1)(iii)". Maybe if you're clever, you can set aside these difficult ones in case you discover an easy right answer first, but that gets back to designing a system to manage the intermediate knowledge and design your search strategy. Yes, you can do it, but also it's stupidly burdensome.
by orthecreedence | 2025-11-06 20:46:25+00:00
> Of all the things that people on the left might find objectionable about Trump, this should be at the very far bottom of the list.

Saying the quiet part out loud: "Murdering people without due process should be at the bottom of the list of things to care about." Yes, thank you for clearly outlining the "right's" position on the issue.
by celticninja | 2025-11-06 20:46:41+00:00
Defense is the sanitised version.

Let's say you program code for a hellfire heat tracking missile. Now sure you can tell yourself it's only going to be used by the good guys but really you know at some point your code is going to be responsible for someone innocent getting killed.

So there's probably that bit of people with morals and a conscience who have an issue with the 'defense' industry.

How exactly does your drone defend? Does it do it by being a good offense?

That may give you an idea of why you are getting judged.
by StarGrit | 2025-11-06 20:46:44+00:00
> Define "preachy". Are you sure you aren't the one preaching the fun of burning coal and annoying people under the banner of "can't you take a joke"?

What are you on about? I prefaced my post quite clearly. This is nonsense.

> People burn coal while passing cyclists. Why? You yourself say that not all cyclists are preachy.

Because there is a perception that cyclists are like this. Whether it is true or not doesn't matter. If a group of people don't police the most extreme members you are defined by those members.

BTW mountain bikers/bmx don't generally have the same poor perception IME as many other cyclists because generally the attitude is generally different.

> Your accidental and short release of dark exhaust caused by driving an old vehicle does not fit the definition of burning coal. City busses where I lived in the 1980s emitted a lot of exhaust. That was simply bad emissions control, not rolling coal.

Other than it not being deliberate it was "rolling coal". To get the black soot you need to just have poor combustion of a diesel.

This was what was happening because I had to push the throttle to the limit so the engine didn't stall. For all intents and purposes it is exactly the same thing as there was incomplete combustion of diesel and therefore lots of black smoke coming from my exhaust.
by Covenant0028 | 2025-11-06 20:47:02+00:00
Gen AI doesn't just get a pass at being wrong. It gets a pass for everything.

Look at Grok. If a human employee went around sexually harassing their CEO in public and giving themselves a Hitler nickname, they'd be fired immediately and have criminal charges. In the case of Grok, the CEO had to quit the company after being sexually harassed.

We've not lowered the bar for AI, we've removed it entirely.
by mikestew | 2025-11-06 20:47:06+00:00
But how are they exporting such a modern document format? Holee crap, because it's still being sold an updated! https://www.wordperfect.com/en/

And the suite includes Quattro Pro, for those that are itchin' for that spreadsheet-flavored blast from the past. If I didn't already have the Apple suite on my Mac (which does all I need out of an office suite), I'd spend the $50 for home/student version just for the lulz.
by costco | 2025-11-06 20:47:06+00:00
Thank you for the compliments :) I used 50-100 datacenter proxies. I just logged requests made by the iOS app with Charles and then recreated the headers to the best of my ability though the server did not seem to be very strict at all. Worth noting though that static residential proxies are not too expensive these days anyways.

Re the API: The model does actually run fairly well on CPU so it probably wouldn't be too expensive to serve. I guess if there is demand for it I could do it. I think most social book sites would probably like to own their recommendation system though.
by withinboredom | 2025-11-06 20:47:13+00:00
I’m explicitly saying not to put timeouts in code… but you must put a timeout on a socket due to the way they work. Period. Or deal with the default, which is usually many minutes. Sockets timeout when packets haven’t been acknowledged for a long time, but you can also set an idle timeout as well.

A timeout on sockets isn’t negotiable.
by fcpguru | 2025-11-06 20:47:29+00:00
well which specific piece, your instagram username is very different than your phone number right? And depends on the event. Is it speed-dating or tech conference? You can chose what to broadcast. If you are at the event, you have some goal of who you want to meet. Long term in the app I want to let you give more info about that and then filter the list for you. Help you find your people.
by hirvi74 | 2025-11-06 20:47:56+00:00
I have really started to use the 'Hide my email' feature from iCloud. It's been so nice. If an email gets pwned, which often happens from a service I stopped using many moons ago, then I just deactivate or delete the email address. I imagine many other services provide this feature as well, but it's what's most convenient for me at this time.