MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by drdaeman | 2025-04-09 20:28:17+00:00
I'm sorry, but I do not think I understand the idea why and how Studio Ghibli is being "ripped off" in this scenario.

As I've said, art styles are not considered copyrightable. You say I'm missing the point but I fail to see why. I've used lack of copyright protection as a reality check, a verifiable fact that can be used to determine the current consensus on the matter. Based on this lack of legal protection, I'm concluding that the societies have considered it's not something that needs to be protected, and thus that there is no "ripping off" in replicating a successful style. I have no doubts there are plenty of people who would think otherwise (and e.g. say that current state of copyright is not optimal - which can be very true), but they need to argue about copyright protections not technological accessibility. The latter merely exposes the former (by drastically lowering the cost barriers), but is not the root issue.

I also have doubts about your prediction of stagnation, particularly because you seem to ignore the demand side. People want novelty and originality, it was always the case and always will be (or at least for as long as human nature doesn't change). Things will change for sure (they always do), but I don't think a stagnation is a realistic scenario.
by athosblade | 2025-04-09 20:28:41+00:00
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Pequity – pequity.com Compensation management platform for mid-to-large organizations. Built V2 for offer approval chains, reducing complexity and fixing HUGE performance issues. For example, in the worst case scenarion in V1 for a single request it would take 2 minutes to finish. In V2 it's 970ms.

Haekka – haekka.com Security and compliance training integrated with workplace tools. Developed a system for automatically assigning users training based on non-compliant events like exporting sensitive keys they did in AWS/Slack/Gmail.

Flox – flox.app App facilitating social connections by helping friend groups meet. Used Postgis to build an algorithm for auto check-in system for event attendance.
by ipsento606 | 2025-04-09 20:29:05+00:00
> This kind of expenditure at any business or organization would be recognized as one of poor judgement

The purpose of a business is to generate a return on investment.

Are you suggesting that the purpose of a government is to generate a return on investment?

> We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
by James_K | 2025-04-09 20:29:12+00:00
He doesn't have a money vault. He has almost zero cash holdings. If you tax him, then he will have to sell assets to pay for those taxes, which removes money from the economy as that money was being actively spent on his assets. The only situation when money supply changes is if someone has a literal mattress full of cash hidden away. Even if you just have money in a savings account, it acts as a fractional reserve for the banking system meaning that there is a net decrease in money supply when you give it to the government as banks can no longer use it as the backing for loans.
by WorldPeas | 2025-04-09 20:29:18+00:00
I don't think it's that big of a threat, it'd be like saying that linux is a threat to macos/windows, it is, to a degree, but anthropic/oai/etc have their niches and those niches are people who don't want to set up models on their own metal. This is coming from a deepseek user, it is a threat to some use cases sure, but this is not an ai thing. A more cynical part of me thinks this is just for attention. This is (in his mind) revenge for the de-industrialization of the 80s)
by scarface_74 | 2025-04-09 20:29:30+00:00
Starting salaries around $70-$80K, senior salaries around $140K-$160K and “architects” around $175K.

This is in the Atlanta market where I use to live before I started working remotely and moved. I got this email from a recruiter there. It’s about the same in most major non west coast markets

(Starting on page 26) https://motionrecruitment.com/hubfs/TSG-25/Atlanta-IT-Salary...

Compare that to any of the BigTech or adjacent companies where entry level developers are getting return offers from their internships of $150K-$175K.
by bmcahren | 2025-04-09 20:29:47+00:00
I am going to cite you in a decade. Already today ChatGPT is _far_ better than Google. Instead of finding a keyword optimized page for "frob language", I can get the objectively best sources for frob language and even find the best communities related to it. Zero frob ads, zero frob-optimized pages that are designed to trick google, etc.

Traditional search is dead, semantic search through AI is alive and well.

I can't yet count once AI misunderstood the meaning of my search while Google loves to make assumptions, rewrite my search query, and deliver the results that pay it the best which have the best ads (in my opinion as a lifetime user).

Lets not even mention how they willingly accept misleading ads atop the results which trick the majority of common users into downloading malware and adware on the regular.
by milesvp | 2025-04-09 20:29:49+00:00
> Instead of being seen as a safe haven, U.S. debt itself started to look shaky

There's also a more basic answer to why US debt got more expensive. There is no such thing as a "trade deficit". You cannot import something without exporting something else. That something else, in almost 100% of the situations, is dollars. What do you do with dollars, if there's nothing you want to buy? You buy debt. So, every trade deficit ultimately tends to export debt. We have long known that government debt is proportional to trade deficits.

The problem with tariffs, in this context, is that they are being used as a signal that we don't want to sell people dollars anymore, explicitly saying "no more trade deficits". In doing so we are choking off the supply of dollars used to buy debt (rather abruptly), so that US debt is chasing fewer dollars and has to give a bigger yield as a result.

What's worse, is that because we are signalling that the tariffs are meant to be permanent, and we're seeing reciprocal tariffs as a result. When that happens, it means that using dollars in the future will purchase fewer US goods, so the time discount of money has gone up too. Further driving up yields to make bonds attractive enough to sell.
by jchw | 2025-04-09 20:29:51+00:00
Very interesting. I was surprised to get a relatively decent 40-60 FPS screwing around on the demo for a few minutes on my Pixel 9 in Fennec F-Droid. I am even more surprised that it performed better than an iPhone in any conditions, but who knows what exactly is playing into that.

Regarding AI coding assistance... Yeah, I imagine it would be great for someone who wants to start hundreds of small projects, because it's pretty cool what you can do in a few minutes, but it really doesn't take many days before you're much better off doing most things yourself. I guess this state of affairs is relatively good for our job security, but a real bummer from the "I want to harness the power of hundreds of digital junior devs to do my bidding" perspective. Still something I'd consider solidly useful and not just a load of hype though.

BTW, it seems a bit senseless to draw frames when there is no interaction since the geometry is static. Maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to stop drawing when there are no active interactions.
by IshKebab | 2025-04-09 20:29:53+00:00
1. People will stop working if they don't need to and won't need to in future. This is obvious to anyone who has met people.

2. We obviously can't afford UBI. Most governments have severe deficits even without UBI. "Tax the rich! Then we'll be able to afford it!".. yes well that's orthogonal. Let me know when you figure out how to do that.

These studies are a waste of money.
by 0cf8612b2e1e | 2025-04-09 20:30:17+00:00
Annoyed at how the guidance has changed on this over the years. At first it was just a narrow slice of 20 something women. Then girl teenagers. Then men and women under 30. Then under 40.

If it has an association with preventing cancers, not sure why they were so reluctant to immediately open up the patient pool.
by christkv | 2025-04-09 20:30:25+00:00
Relatively easy stuff like shoes can be made in a bunch of countries and that production will just move to whoever has the best tariff deal at the end of all of this.

More interesting will be stuff like electronic components. Most of the cheap versions are all made in China. More expensive versions can be sourced in Japan, Taiwan and Korea (likely to do tariff deals). I think we might be looking at the end of very cheap electronics for awhile.
by mmphosis | 2025-04-09 20:30:26+00:00
I agree. I just ran "shutdown -h" and it turned off my computer.

I need to look into creating man pages again.

Command 'mandoc' not found, but can be installed with: apt install mandoc

A universal convention would be nice. That whole stdout vs stderr business.

openbsd-cut -badoption | less

I didn't even consider -?. And -h can mean --how-many-different-things: Host, --human-readable, --poweroff (as I just discovered), open HTML documentation in a browser (just wow), and maybe Help, maybe not enough help, maybe too much help, maybe...
by acdha | 2025-04-09 20:31:19+00:00
Sure, as I said they have a potential edge in service and people who frequently travel to new places. My point was just that it’s not a very big edge: most people are not traveling to new places all of the time and if there’s a big savings they’ll switch. That doesn’t mean that Uber is doomed, just that they’re not a Google/Facebook money printing machine where local competitors can pop up easily.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-09 20:31:40+00:00
You're right. But as we see with TikTok, he loves to talk big but keep kicking thr can down the road instead of backing off. There will inevitably be more spats in the meantime (especially with the EU), but I wouldn't be surprised if he extends it more when July looms (assuming that congress bill is still struggling to pass).
by Pikamander2 | 2025-04-09 20:31:50+00:00
On the other hand, the free options are better than ever. I've only used the free versions of ChatGPT, Claude, and ImageFX and have been impressed by how much you get without spending a dime. The only real limitation I regularly feel is not being able to upload something like a 1GB CSV file for analysis, but I guess that's a fair restriction for a free web tool.
by magicreadu | 2025-04-09 20:32:25+00:00
They know what they are doing. The goal is decoupling from China. They raised tariffs on everyone to see which countries stood with US and which stood with China. Once each country has made their allegiance clear, they delay the deadline to give more time for negotiation. They likely want every ally to raise their tariffs on China to be very very high, to avoid any more transshipping from China.
by Havoc | 2025-04-09 20:32:27+00:00
Diet seems like the obvious one. Both in big picture sense like high fructose corn syrup vs sugar cane, but also on ingredients. EU bans a bunch of stuff the US does not. Presumably a couple of misses in there, but probably also some hits.

Applying that over an entire population for their entire life...a couple years diff sounds plausible
by parliament32 | 2025-04-09 20:32:39+00:00
This seems to have been clarified to not be the case, as of 30m ago -- no change to Canada/Mexico:

>There’s no change to Canada and Mexico tariffs, indicating that their levies aren’t going down to the 10% baseline. Recall that Trump initially threatened a 25% surtax on each of them. That morphed over time to affect non-USMCA compliant goods -- and it’s not crystal-clear exactly what proportion of Canadian and Mexican shipments that then affects. Canadian energy products also got a smaller rate.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/live-blog/2025-04-08/trump-ta...
by mfitton | 2025-04-09 20:32:59+00:00
I think this would be expected though, no? Sure, there's flight to safety, but you're also reducing exports to the US, reducing the number of dollars flowing to foreign nationals, which reduces the demand for treasury bills, which an excess of dollars would often be used to buy to have an inflation-"proof" store for your dollars without currency risk. You would also expect devaluation of the dollar from tariffs / trade-war, which I would also expect to cause selling of t-bills in favor of local currencies
by DennisP | 2025-04-09 20:33:02+00:00
Yes, but typically there are clear guidelines on what will be punished and what is allowed. That was not the case under Gensler. Crypto companies begged for clear regulations and the SEC steadfastly refused to publish any. Instead they just filed enforcement actions and people had to find out their view of things in court.

And as your link says:

> “We in the crypto space felt it was very deceptive the way they [the Biden administration] went about dealing with crypto firms. They told crypto firms to come in and register, to come in and engage with them,” said Nic Carter, a founding partner at crypto investment firm Castle Island Ventures. “There was no meaningful way to do that.”
by schmidtleonard | 2025-04-09 20:33:19+00:00
Why wouldn't they? It's an easy and profitable way to pump their property values. Obviously they make an exception when they stand to profit, but I invite you to attend any county zoning meeting ever if you think this doesn't happen. The meetings are nothing but catfights of this exact description.

I've always marveled at how it's 100% accepted to talk about poor people employing six dimensional chess and dubious strategies to scrape undeserved pennies from the system, but it's somehow unthinkable to even so much as contemplate the possibility that rich people are pulling obvious levers to extract millions. The double standard is absolutely wild.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-04-09 20:34:15+00:00
That article seems confused, e.g.:

> If government spending isn’t going to pay government workers, it must be going to pay people who work in the private sector — nonprofits, for-profit contractors, consultants, and so on. In other words, state capacity is being outsourced.

The money is going to social security payments. Social security went from <1% of federal spending at its outset to more than 20% of federal spending today. Medicare and other assistance programs are a similar story. Most of the money from these programs goes to paying benefits rather than administrative costs, which is generally regarded as a good thing. But they're also what together now constitute the majority of federal spending.

Meanwhile there is another reason why the number of government workers has gone down: Computers were invented. Things that used to be done by hand are now done by machine, and then you don't need as many clerks and bookkeepers to manually process paper records. This is also generally regarded as a good thing.

The points it makes about unfunded mandates and NIMBYs holding everything up with meritless lawsuits are valid, but the "ministerial review" it proposes is the existing permitting process. The problem is we have unfunded mandates and NIMBY lawsuits on top of that, which could simply be deleted and replaced with nothing.

This really seems like the fundamental misunderstanding:

> And guess who’s responsible for monitoring Medicare spending? Bureaucrats. So that’s at least a 2300% return on investment in bureaucracy!

If you only look at the most efficient thing a bureaucrat could be doing, look how efficient bureaucrats are!

Meanwhile the government is still paying thousands of people to process paper records because although computers were invented many decades ago, only parts of the government have discovered them and there are still many things you have to do by bringing physical documents to government offices to be processed in person even when those things have no legitimate reason not to be a government website.

What we need is not to have more bureaucrats, but rather to finish computerizing the things that have no reason not to be so the existing government employees can do the high value stuff instead of wasting time shuffling paper that should have been bits.
by renewiltord | 2025-04-09 20:34:27+00:00
Can use your laptop in the car safely. A friend of mine had his laptop yanked on BART. Chap ran off, my friend gave chase, and that guy threw away the laptop. Surprisingly, only dented! But I'd rather not experience that. 28 minute ride vs. 45 minute ride after 10 min wait is pretty large difference IMHO. If no traffic, that's even shorter. For me, from Caltrain station (where I live) to airport I have a record door to gate of 16 min. That's a no planning choice. If I have to make a 45 minute ride I have to plan: take the T-line to Powell, switch to BART, ride down to the airport? Crazy. No chance.
by HenryBemis | 2025-04-09 20:34:31+00:00
The human nature. The moment UBI is set at X amount, the cheapest rents will jump, so will the price of a coffee, of a burger & fries in a fast-food, etc.

Greed will take over and try to get the _most_ out of the UBI as if we/you/they owe it to those people.
by DisjointedHunt | 2025-04-09 20:34:50+00:00
Cloud resources are trending towards consumer technology adoption numbers rather than being reserved mostly for Enterprise. This is the most exciting thing in decades!

There is going to be a GPU/Accelerator shortage for the foreseeable future to run the most advanced models, Gemini 2.5 Pro is such a good example. It is probably the first model that many developers i've considered skeptics of extended agent use have started to saturate free token thresholds on.

Grok is honestly the same, but the lack of an API is suggestive of the massive demand wall they face.
by sneilan1 | 2025-04-09 20:35:01+00:00
37signals posted a job ad for a high paying junior position. The job ad also says software engineering skill over time follows a trajectory. They assume that a junior who is high potential doesn't have a defined trajectory yet. Therefore they want to hire a junior with less experience but lots of potential so they can groom them.

My question: From the perspective that, however harsh, 37signals is correct, is the software engineering skill trajectory linear or quadratic?
by muzani | 2025-04-09 20:35:01+00:00
No offense taken. It got me curious. I actually do train AI to code in Singaporean English in my spare time, so I try to be aware, lol.

I'm not aware of voice training though. x.AI outsources lots of stuff to Malaysia. Google has some, but has had this data like for TTS, STT, and Google Translate, for a decade or so.
by niemandhier | 2025-04-09 20:35:02+00:00
The total volume of money flowing through fishing related business is much larger than through warhammer related.

Fishing distributed about 1 billion in household income in the uk.

Fishing supports about 12.000 direct jobs plus 5.000 in related industries in the UK.

Warhammer has about 3000 employees GLOBALLY. Trickle down is not really present here.

Businesses that do not distribute wealth in the general population are much less relevant than those that do. Taxes are nice but businesses are good at avoiding them ( especially via Ireland ), whereas income tax is the major supporter of our states.
by dalmo3 | 2025-04-09 20:35:08+00:00
This is the UBI experiment I want to see:

The government creates a new currency called $UBI, with the same legal tender status as the official currency for that country ($FIAT). I.e. people can use it to pay taxes, and people are required to accept it when doing commerce. Both currencies exist in parallel.

In the true spirit of ubi, everyone is entitled to an equal amount of it, and no one should be worse off by it. So they need to issue the currency new currency to give away.

They set up a system so everyone gets the same amount of money, at the same time, for maximum fairness. Everyone's income just goes up, equally.

$UBI officially has 1:1 parity to $FIAT, and this parity is used to calculate how much they'll need to "print" out at a given month. Let's say it's living_wage*population_size. That amount can be adjusted once a year by factoring in the government reserves built up exclusively from tax returns. In other words, the monetary base is a known, deterministic quantity.

They allow free exchange between $FIAT and $UBI, but the government does not officially exchanges it. They also allow people to set prices to their products and services freely.
by delecti | 2025-04-09 20:35:10+00:00
> What's actually wrong with them.

Market manipulation. 1. Sell. 2. Threaten tariffs. 3. Buy. 4. Walk back tariffs threats. 5. Repeat.

With the secret step 0: Pay enough of an Indulgence to get in the loop of when those are going to happen, and to stay in their good graces so the DoJ doesn't hit you for insider trading.
by niel | 2025-04-09 20:35:21+00:00
Real-time text output à la Apple Dictation with the accuracy of Whisper is something I've been looking for recently - I'll definitely give Aqua a spin.

MacWhisper [0] (the app I settled on) is conspicuously missing from your benchmarks [1]. How does it compare?

[0]: https://goodsnooze.gumroad.com/l/macwhisper

[1]: https://withaqua.com/blog/benchmark-nov-2024
by jillesvangurp | 2025-04-09 20:36:28+00:00
Mid term elections are November next year. Some time between now and then, republican house and senator members will start getting more than a little bit anxious about not losing their seats. The current chaos is not great for their chances. The closer that election gets, the more likely it is that something like what you suggest might happen.

The problem of course is that any move like that is going to result in chaos inside the republican party. I imagine that might delay the moment before e.g. Mike Johnson (speaker of the house) puts such a thing up for vote in the house. Because it sounds like that would be a career ending move for him. Until that changes, Trump can do as he pleases essentially unopposed.
by maxerickson | 2025-04-09 20:36:28+00:00
The yield really isn't that big a deal. It's hundreds of billions of dollars over decades if it moves by 1 percent. Compare that to tax cuts leading to trillion dollar annual deficits.

I mean, it could well be that they are risking the stability of the US economy to save money on refinancing the debt, but that would be a stupid thing to be doing.
by jay_kyburz | 2025-04-09 20:37:34+00:00
If somebody offered me 1200 GBP a month, tax free, no strings attached, guaranteed for the rest of my life, there is no way I would continue working for somebody else. I would tinker around with open source and pet projects for the rest of my life.

That's almost twice the aged pension here in Australia. (550 GBP)

I guess I would also need some iron clad guarantee that the cost of living would not skyrocket.