MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by wat10000 | 2025-12-03 17:41:43+00:00
Could you maybe read the whole message before quote-replying? It's kind of annoying to get "Source?" followed by a quote of the data it's based on.

> Before or after they started their career?

Does it matter? You don't get that kind of wealth from $174,000/year. Either you came into the job with it and thus are in category 4, or you didn't and you managed to build that wealth despite not having a salary that would produce it, meaning you're in category 3.

I don't understand how you envision moving for the job would work. You think a member of Congress from, say, Oregon should live full-time in DC? That certainly doesn't sound like a "serve the people" situation, that sounds like a "completely insulated from your constituents and always surrounded by insiders" situation. In practice, representatives are only in DC about half the year, and the part where they're not in DC is an essential part of the job.
by PunchyHamster | 2025-12-03 17:42:26+00:00
doesn't need full fledged activitypub, just a common place to login

might just do it federated way of "here is my domain, here is DNS entry pointing to my identity server to talk with", that way it isn't even tied to single identity service, but a given user will need to use only single login for all of the servers.
by andrewmutz | 2025-12-03 17:42:30+00:00
Someone really needs to do a meta-analysis of these results because a paper from a few years ago showed that members of congress underperform at stock picking:

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w26975/w269...

Both papers could be true if congresspeople are worse than the public at picking stocks, but congressional leaders are just better than the average congressperson
by dragonwriter | 2025-12-03 17:43:00+00:00
So it's (per [0]) a license (and therefore copyright) violating vibe-coded port and relicense of another project, with a whole bunch of "certification" ("mission critical", "airport-grade:) claims with no reference to a certifying authority? From a company [1] incorporated this year [2] whose website claims to offer "bank-grade" solutions based on the fact that their solution uses Postgres for workflows and banks use Postgres for money?

The sheer boldness is...impressive. And not in a good way.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46135719

[1] https://rodmena.co.uk/

[2] https://open.endole.co.uk/insight/company/16472788-rodmena-l...
by adabyron | 2025-12-03 17:43:29+00:00
There are 3 things always overlooked in this conversation.

- It’s not just representatives but their staff, family and friends. See the Covid scandals as an example.

- Often the information they’re privy to can come from their networks outside of government. The current transparency laws give us insights into their family members’ investments which is incredibly beneficial public knowledge.

- The current laws have no teeth and are not enforced well. Immediate disclosure should be required & automated for elected representatives, judges, family & staff within 24 hours. Late reporting should be immediate sale and loss of any profits.
by marcosdumay | 2025-12-03 17:43:46+00:00
> This was a time when chip transistor cost was decreasing rapidly.

GPUs were actually mostly playing catch-up. They were progressively becoming more expensive parts that could afford being built on more advanced fabs.

And I'll have to point, "advanced fabs" is a completely post-Moore's law concept. Moore's law is about literally the number of transistors on the most economic package. Not any bullshit about area density that marketing people invented on the last decade (you can go read the paper). With Moore's law, the cheapest fab improves quickly enough that it beats whatever more advanced fabs existed before you can even finish designing a product.
by Capricorn2481 | 2025-12-03 17:43:51+00:00
Good discussion? This is a Bloomberg podcast with ads from Palantir explicitly telling us AI is not here to replace any of us. They do everything they can to avoid the topic of what the cost is to regular people.

Data centers are built in people's backyards without their permission, wreck the values of their home, and then utility companies jack up their price to compensate for the extra strain on the grid. So the residents have to pay for Big Tech but get no share of the profits. How this podcast does a whole episode on data centers and the electricity grid and doesn't talk about what's actually happening to people, well, that would be surprising if I didn't know where it came from.
by venturecruelty | 2025-12-03 17:44:20+00:00
You're absolutely right, and I don't know why more people aren't talking about that instead of just pointing out aspect ratio issues in their favorite movies and TV shows...

This is the end goal of a system that doesn't think beyond next quarter, that wants to accumulate vast sums of money above all else, and that treats customers as an annoying side effect of the line going up. They'd take our money and give us nothing, if they could get away with it. Based on what passes for products these days (seriously? A toilet with a camera?) we're very nearly there.
by skeptical_md | 2025-12-03 17:44:35+00:00
I am very sad to hear that your grandmother died as a result of a medical error, but the details of the story as you remember them aren’t quite plausible.

1) Metformin is not available in an IV formulation 2) Metformin itself is not nephrotoxic

It certainly is believable that a medical error caused kidney failure but it is very unlikely to have been caused by an incorrect second IV dose of Metformin.
by palmotea | 2025-12-03 17:45:06+00:00
> Better “thinking” computers will breed worse thinking people, huh?

I actually think that will be the case. We're designing society for the technology, not the technology for the people in it. The human brain wasn't built to fit whatever gap is left by AI, regardless of how many words the technologists spew to claim otherwise.

For instance: AI already is undermining education by enabling mental laziness students (why learn the material when ChatGPT can do your homework for you). It seems the current argument is that AI will replace entry-level roles but leave space for experienced and skilled people (but block the path to get there). Some of the things LLMs do a mediocre but often acceptable job at are the things one needs to do to build and hone higher-level skills.
by kstrauser | 2025-12-03 17:45:10+00:00
I think that's exactly how that license works. Basically, the license is the only thing that grants you rights to redistribute the licensed work. Copyright law otherwise forbids it. And the license itself only grants you the right to redistribute the work as long as you comply with its terms. If you violate them, the license no longer applies, and you no longer have any legal right to distribute the work or any derived works.

I have zero knowledge about the squabble between MinIO and Weka. I don't know, and don't care, if either of them is in the right. But if Weka isn't complying with the terms of the AGPL, then MinIO has the legal right to tell them they can no longer distribute MinIO's licensed work at all, because nothing else grants them that privilege.

If that weren't true, there'd be no teeth to the A?GPL whatsoever.
by mghackerlady | 2025-12-03 17:45:17+00:00
I'm conflicted. On one hand, I hate this guys politics (despite agreeing that projects should be based on merit) and from what I've heard of Xlibre I'm not super impressed by the code quality. On the other, I think X11 deserves to stick around as it is an objectively superior display technology that has been used since the 80s for a reason, despite its issues. Yes, the security is terrible by default. I also somewhat agree with killing x.org as from what I've heard the codebase is a mess. If I had all the time (and money) in the world I would either make my own X11 server unencumbered by freedesktop.org or make a display technology that fixes the problems of X11 and Wayland by fixing the security model, not being designed by committee, and being free of Waylands Linux-isms
by hinkley | 2025-12-03 17:45:38+00:00
> In the worst cases, a 5x difference was reported between instances that used duplication and those that did not. We were being very conservative and doubled that projection again to account for unknown unknowns.

That makes no goddamn sense. I’ve read it three times and to paraphrase Babbage, I cannot apprehend the confusion of thought that would lead to such a conclusion.

5x gets resources to investigate, not assumed to be correct and then doubled. Orders of magnitude change implementations, as we see here. And it sounds like they just manufactured one out of thin air.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-12-03 17:45:52+00:00
I keep idly wondering what would be the market for a plug and play LLM runner. Some toaster sized box with the capability to run exclusively offline/local. Plug it into your network, give your primary machine the IP, and away you go.

Of course, the market segment who would be most interested, probably has the expertise and funds to setup something with better horsepower than could be offered in a one size fits all solution.
by tekne | 2025-12-03 17:46:01+00:00
I mean, it sounds dumb, but returns from further wealth are logarithmic; after a certain point, the only thing you can buy more of is power. And you’ve already got that, in this case!

If you’re in a situation where getting more wealth could endanger your power, it makes sense not to wealth-max since, again, what else could you buy with it? But you need to get into the “what else could you buy with it” regime for this reasoning to make sense.

Someone who only has basic needs gets there pretty early. But even the relatively unenlightened don’t need the second jet except, yannow, for power.
by wasmainiac | 2025-12-03 17:47:01+00:00
Bro, it sure if you noticed. ChatGTP isnt that great at coding end to end. It can regurgitate common examples well, but if your working on large technical code bases it does more harm that good. It need constant oversight, why don’t I write the code myself. We are at an infrastructure limit, not sure we are going to see order of magnitude improvements any more.
by abbeyj | 2025-12-03 17:47:38+00:00
If you want to tell the compiler not to worry about the possible buffer overrun then you can try `int foo(char const s[static 4])`. Or use `&` instead of `&&` to ensure that there is no short-circuiting, e.g. `if ((s[0] == 'h') & (s[1] == 'e') & (s[2] == 'l') & (s[3] == 'l'))` Either way, this then compiles down to a single 32-bit comparison.

Interestingly, it is comparing against a different 32-bit value than `bar` does. I think this is because you accidentally got the order backwards in `bar`.

The code in `bar` is probably not a good idea on targets that don't like unaligned loads.
by zozbot234 | 2025-12-03 17:47:42+00:00
> The real reason it was removed in the end was just that it elevated a library concept into syntax.

Rust still does this in all sorts of silly ways, such as the ! type. What's the point of wasting an entire symbol that could have plenty of alternate uses on something that's so rarely used and could easily be defined as either a library type (empty enum) or at least be given a custom keyword, such as `never`? (Introduce it over an edition boundary, if you must preserve backwards compatibility.) The fact that it involves some compiler magic is no excuse; that's why Rust uses "langitem" markers within its core library.
by positron26 | 2025-12-03 17:47:51+00:00
Hardware growth is slow and predictable, but one breakthrough algorithm completely undercuts any finance hypothesis premised on compute not flowing out of the cloud and back to the edges and into the phones.

This is a kind of risk that finance people are completely blind to. Open AI won't tell them because it keeps capital cheap. Startups that must take a chance on hardware capability remaining centralized won't even bother analyzing the possibility. With so many actors incentivized to not know or not bother asking the question, there's the biggest systematic risk.

The real whiplash will come from extrapolation. If an algorithm advance shows up promising to halve hardware requirements, finance heads will reason that we haven't hit the floor yet. A lot of capital will eventually re-deploy, but in the meantime, a great deal of it will slow down, stop, or reverse gears and get un-deployed.
by knorker | 2025-12-03 17:48:15+00:00
Relatedly, if anyone has a copy of Battle Royale before they ruined literally every effects shot with the digital special edition, please make yourself known to a member of staff.

It's not even that it aged poorly. The effects they added are so bad that it's hard to see what happened.

Like a guy's getting shot, and then they've spliced in a red dodgeball exploding, as if his head completely exploded. But one second later he's still alive. Huh?

There's even behind the scenes of them being completely happy with these grade school MS Paint BS.
by oaiey | 2025-12-03 17:48:27+00:00
Question: would you go to a public place and call a person who is listening to you a loser or a monkey with the risk of getting your face smashed in?

Companies do public announcement with the risk of getting sued left and right. Normal people chose careful words in public. In the Internet it seems different rules apply in public. Laypeople are not adjusting to corporate talk, laypeople are more and more aware of the public of the Internet and behave accordingly (most are, like in real life, mute)
by brabel | 2025-12-03 17:48:38+00:00
As Bun uses Zig quite a lot, I expect them to be quite active in the Zig forums and submitting patches and feature requests.

I was thinking of things like AI-generated patches submitted by Bun to the Zig project, or feature requests by Bun for AI-specific use cases... that could create a really bad atmosphere between Zig and Bun people if the Zig Foundation continuously rejects their contributions/requests/discussions.
by 0xWTF | 2025-12-03 17:48:43+00:00
I mean, there's additional evidence https://unusualwhales.com/politics/article/congress-trading-...

At this point, there's a whole body of evidence

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10590...

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/cong...

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2501822122

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00472...

https://campaignlegal.org/sites/default/files/2022-02/Congre...
by hinkley | 2025-12-03 17:48:48+00:00
If I’m being charitable, I’m hoping that means the decision was made early in the development process when concrete numbers were not available. However the article linked above kinda says they assumed the problem would be twice as bad as the industry numbers and that’s… that’s not how these things work.

That’s the sort of mistake that leads to announcing a 4x reduction in install size.
by palmotea | 2025-12-03 17:48:50+00:00
> shut the fuck up Marx, everyone is tired of you.

That's objectively false, but I understand. I too went through an obnoxious libertarian phase.

> nobody is forcing you to work for "the man," man.

You actually think that's true? Sure, no identifiable person is pointing a gun at our heads and shouting "work," but that's not the only form "forcing" can take.
by photochemsyn | 2025-12-03 17:49:02+00:00
For infrastructure, central planning and state-run systems make a lot of sense - this after all is how the USA's interstate highway system was built. The important caveat is that system components and necessary tools should be provided by the competitive private sector through transparent bidding processes - eg, you don't have state-run factories for making switches, fiber cable, road graders, steel rebar, etc. There are all kinds of debatable issues, eg should system maintenance be contracted out to specialized providers, or kept in-house, etc.
by burkaman | 2025-12-03 17:49:18+00:00
102 cosponsors is a lot, most bills have far fewer than that. Look through recent bills that have passed the House, you won't find any with that many cosponsors. This is true of both bipartisan unanimous bills (https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/hr4423, https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/hr5348) and partisan controversial ones (https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/hr5107, https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/hr1949).
by neilv | 2025-12-03 17:49:34+00:00
> It's kind of funny, you can ask Rufus for stuff like "write a hello world in python for me" and then it will do it and also recommend some python books.

From a perspective of "how do we monetize AI chatbots", an easy thing about this usage context is that the consumer is already expecting and wanting product recommendations.

(If you saw this behavior with ChatGPT, it wouldn't go down as well, until you were conditioned to expect it, and there were no alternatives.)
Show HN: WanderWorld – Search a map using natural language queries and LLMs
by victornomad | 2025-12-03 17:49:50+00:00
Hi HN,

I’m currently building "LLMParty," a project where I release a new LLM experiment every two days in December (sort of like a coding advent calendar).

Today’s experiment is WanderWorld. It’s an interactive map where you can search for locations using natural language.

The Tech: The core mechanic relies on forcing the LLM to output a specific JSON schema containing coordinates (lat/long). I found that by strictly enforcing the output structure, even smaller, self-hosted models are surprisingly good at geography.

What makes it fun: While it handles standard queries ("Where is Paris?"), it really shines with abstract requests. You can ask for "places that smell like candy" or "best places to see horses" and it maps them out instantly. (don't expect something accurate! :)

I’d love to hear what weird queries you try and if the coordinates hold up!
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-12-03 17:49:59+00:00
>This would seem to agree with "not everyone has to have children" -

No, but there are some fools who might conclude that just one person has to have millions of children.

>I have no problem with the situation at all as I have never

Oh, you have a problem. You just can't see it yet. While younger, your problem is that you will shoulder an ever-increasing burden as fewer younger people support many more of the elderly in generations past, until you yourself are then elderly and the few young people simply can't support you at all. A stagnating economy, defense insecurities to make the 20th century look tame, it all goes to shit.

>and I doubt the answer is to try and apply pressure to individuals to have children

Yet you're apparently happy to see people try to pressure the hundreds reading the comments here to not have children.
Show HN: SafeKey – PII redaction for LLM inputs (text, image, audio, video)
by safekeylab | 2025-12-03 17:50:47+00:00
Hey HN, I built SafeKey because I was handling patient data as an Army medic, then doing AI research at Cornell. Every time we tried to use LLMs with sensitive data, something leaked. Existing tools only covered text at ~85% accuracy. Nothing worked across modalities. SafeKey is an AI input firewall. It sits between your app and the model, redacting PII before data leaves your environment. What we built:

PII Guard: 99%+ accuracy across text, images, audio, video AI Guard: Blocks prompt injection and jailbreaks (95%+ F1, zero false positives) Agent Security: Protects autonomous AI workflows RAG Security: Secures retrieval-augmented generation pipelines

Sub-30ms latency. Drop-in SDK for OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure, AWS Bedrock. Runs in your VPC or our cloud.

Would love feedback on the approach. Happy to answer questions.

Thanks, Sukin
by themanmaran | 2025-12-03 17:50:50+00:00
> how many people _don't_ think like this

It's just lack of trust. It's not that people want a worse community, it's that they have a hard time believing that taking extra money from their paycheck will create a better community.

Part of it is real; seeing massive amounts of state/local government waste and corruption makes it feel safer to keep your extra dollars instead of giving them away.

Part of it is difficulty evaluating timelines; more tax dollars for a better elementary school to be built in 3 years and to yield higher educated people 18 years from now it a lot to bet on.
by alexfoo | 2025-12-03 17:50:52+00:00
> Once you can you really start to appreciate the work that folks like your friend do.

That can be a real double edged sword.

When you realise how good things can be it means many of the everyday/average things can become intolerable.

I'm happy that I've got slightly dodgy eyesight in that I don't really care whether something is in HD or 4K (I can still tell if my wife has selected the SD version of a TV channel, and I'm still way above the minimum standard to be able to drive).

I'm also happy I didn't inherit my father's audiophile hearing. I can do blind listening tests of different bits of audio equipment and barely hear the difference between them whilst my father (even in his 80's) can provide a whole list of things that are wrong/better/different about each of them (and he's not just making stuff up).

The biggest test is that I can also drink most supermarket instant coffee without complaint. I've got some friends that walk 25 minutes each way to their favourite coffee vendor multiple times a day as "everything closer is awful", but then that's more about them having a nice routine to get them away from their desk.
by SoftTalker | 2025-12-03 17:50:55+00:00
Penmanship used to be a topic of instruction in school. It hasn't been for quite a long time. Even in the 1970s when we still had to write in cursive, we didn't spend time learning to make it elegant, with a lot of flourishes. We just learned a very plain standard form of writing. By high school everyone had diverged a bit with their own personal style but nothing like the writing of the 19th century.

I once visited a high school where they had a wall of signatures from every graduating senior going back to the 1920s or so. The "personality" evident in the signatures showed a steady decline, from very stylish in the oldest ones to mostly just poorly printed names in the 2020s.
by mindcrash | 2025-12-03 17:50:58+00:00
Framework 13 with the Ryzen AI 5 340 and 2.2K display costs around $900. https://frame.work/laptop13

Add RAM and SSD from a third party, e.g. Amazon, which saves you some money.

Also note that since it's a Framework laptop you can always upgrade the mainboard and display later when you want to.

The cheapest full setup will be around ~1300 (including RAM, storage and all necessary accessories like the expansion cards for external IO).

Also note that if you can set aside ~32 Gb of RAM for virtual machine usage you can run Linux with potentially a GPU accelerated VM containing Windows on this thing which allows you to run native Windows (not simulated, like in WINE) and thus native Windows apps on top of Linux on pretty much bare metal speeds.
by Gracana | 2025-12-03 17:51:14+00:00
Maybe you’re right. My experience is with radios, where it’s possible that high frequency noise is conducted into the RF section rather than into the audio amplifier. I know that in one case, both my transmitted signal and received audio output were absolute garbage (edit: because it was picking up noise from the vehicle ignition) until I added a choke to the power input wiring.
by dccoolgai | 2025-12-03 17:51:16+00:00
Most "big" projects (huge chip foundries, etc.) require various forms of government approval (if not outright funding). They get asymmetry from knowing:

1. Sometimes that the project is happening before everyone else 2. If the project will or will not be approved or stopped e.g. in committee 3. Various other classified things like Dept of Defense briefings (if the Army says it needs XYZ component and plans to buy 10 billion worth of them, then buy the company that makes XYZ component).