MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Magma7404 | 2025-04-30 15:03:26+00:00
> we expect our employees to start with AI

Harassing employees with specific tools that may not be appropriate while crippling their autonomy and knowledge? I know that kind of boss. It's the kind of job that I quit because it becomes toxic very quickly.

> my daughter had a birthday. I gave Dall-e the following prompt [...] Today, here is what I get with the same prompt in o4

He gave his child a generic Pixar-style image to show his love. Good boy, everyone can do that though. I understand that he doesn't give a fuck about his employees and his daughter. What kind of moral story are we supposed to get from that?

My answer may be harsh but I've experienced that over the years: the "perfect dad" (where the family knows nothing about it) that is making his employees quit or cry in front of everyone. I don't personally know the guy, but it gives me very bad "vibes" (haha /s) and bad memories that I don't want to experience again.
by WinstonSmith84 | 2025-04-30 15:03:26+00:00
> scams and financial crimes seem to be the only concrete use case of the technology

the technology is showing transactions on a public ledger literally (unlike tradfi), nobody is hiding anything (until we go to Monero and similar, but that's different). What's however happening, and we come back to the first point, is the lack of "rules" so that in effect financial "crime" is legal.
by NickC25 | 2025-04-30 15:03:29+00:00
> There are a lot of middle class middle aged low digit millionaires who are certainly not hurting for anything, but for some reason really love Trump.

They love him because he's as degenerate as they are, and makes it cool to be white. Or so I'm told.

Not that I believe any of that, just going by what Trump supporters tell me.
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-04-30 15:04:24+00:00
Externalize your costs, internalize your profits, build moats, gain cartel power, seek rent.

These are the goals of any "free market" company.

One of my great critiques of capitalism and the economic analysis of it is that all the economists seem to believe that every company wants to happily exist in a open market with lots of competitors optimizing entirely working to reduce costs for the consumer.

All you have to do is read my first paragraph and to see how utterly fantastical that notion is, and why regulation is needed to counteract every one of those simple game theory power politics end goals
by graemep | 2025-04-30 15:04:52+00:00
> Were you home schooled, on what are you basing your statement?

I was no. My kids were home educated from about eight or nine to 16 (when they did GCSEs and IGCSE - British exams taken at that age). Overall I think they got a better education than I did (and I sent to a school that was one of the top 10 in the UK academically).

The older one is now an adult, will shortly finish a degree in electronic engineering and is working for jaguar Landrover. She thinks she benefited a lot. The younger one is at sixth form college (school for 16 to 18 year olds) as her older sister did, and I can compare them to the typical kid at that stage.

My older daughter puts her interest in engineering very much to home ed - more time with a dad with science and technology interests, and not picking up gender stereotypes from school about male and female jobs (she was the ONLY girl in her A level electronics class).

Other advantages:

1. study at your own pace - more time for something you are finding hard, can go fast through easy stuff without boredom 2. flexibility in how to study (self teaching, tutors, online courses, parental teaching for things I know well). 3. flexibility in what to study: my kids did subjects most schools do not offer. Both did Latin GCSE, and the younger one did astronomy, for example 4. more motivation, self discipline and study skills as a result of the above.= 5. more time for hobbies and interests 6. more time to spend in settings out for school so meeting a wider range of people (pursing 5, but also just meeting up with friends)
by askonomm | 2025-04-30 15:05:03+00:00
Not all schools are government institutions or funded by the government. But it wouldn't matter to your point, because by that logic anyone who owns the building should then be able to make rules about what goes on inside that building, or any organization, etc. Much like how you have basic wardrobe etiquette, you could also have a rule that says no phones in a classroom.

Now me being Estonian, just across the sea from Finland, I was surprised to learn this needed to be a law in the first place since when I went to elementary/primary school smartphones and laptops were not permitted in the classroom. Didn't need a special law for that, it was just the school's rules. You either play ball or you get called into the principals office. This happens enough times and you simply get kicked out of the school.
by panick21_ | 2025-04-30 15:05:22+00:00
Back room deals aren't necessary a negative. That how the sausage is made. I rather have backroom deals when people can make rational compromise, rather then having media spectral where congress sessions are reality TV. Mostly used to get clips that can then be used in adds.

> I think the larger problem with democracy in general is that constituencies are no longer geographic.

I think that is a good point. Specifically on federal level. On local level geographic still matters.

Its basically the old socialist argument about class system. Just with a much more complex class system.

I guess you could have some sort of cluster analysis putting into X different interest clusters and you could vote for a representative in each. And then somehow calculate an optimal congress.

"Vote for me, I'm representing technically inclined fantasy nerds that like cat girls"

Not sure that is the solution. But you are right that the 'pyramid' style system used in most countries could be improved on. A simple version of this is basically to do all federal votes for congress and use some kind of representation algorithm.

The issue with this is that doing a political campaign on a federal level is insanely expensive. And I can't even imagine if each congress person had to try to get elected on federal level. The amount of political adds would be crazy.

I really don't have the solution and its hard to run experiments on things like this.

> The representative for Austin has to represent the conflicting views of both the Tractor dealer and the software engineer.

Smaller countries does help her, as geographic area gets smaller more interested are represented.
by hwpythonner | 2025-04-30 15:05:30+00:00
PyXL deliberately avoids tying itself to Python’s high-level syntax or rapid surface changes.

The system compiles Python source to CPython ByteCode, and then from ByteCode to a hardware-friendly instruction set. Since it builds on ByteCode—not raw syntax—it’s largely insulated from most language-level changes. The ByteCode spec evolves slowly, and updates typically mean handling a few new opcodes in the compiler, not reworking the hardware.

Long-term, the hardware ISA is designed to remain fixed, with most future updates handled entirely in the toolchain. That separation ensures PyXL can evolve with Python without needing silicon changes.
by Retric | 2025-04-30 15:05:35+00:00
Aggregate media bias across TV/Radio/Newspapers is interesting because both the direction and scale matters. Of course bias is only part of the story, do an objectively terrible job and you get more negative stories overall.

As a concrete example a great deal of left leaning media was very critical of Biden running for reelection and especially waiting that long to pull out. You almost never see that kind of thing from right leaning media outlets.

So, yes overall media bias favors Trump not because more outlets favor him but because the ones that do heavily favor him. Far left media is simply a more niche market than far right media. Mother Jones for example is well known but only pulls in ~16 million$ / year and even they where critical of Biden.
by NickC25 | 2025-04-30 15:05:42+00:00
Because if you look at the entire history of presidents with the notable exception of Barack Obama, every president has been a geriatric white dude. They've been conditioned to believe that geriatric white dudes are the only ones capable of holding the office. So, when compared with the younger black/indian woman, the natural choice was to select the old white (orange) guy.
by umanwizard | 2025-04-30 15:05:46+00:00
> but in response to other countries lowering their own tariffs and other protectionist measures against the US, resulting in the more "balanced" trade which, whether we agree with it or not, has been the goal all along.

That is just one of the many, often conflicting, goals cited by the administration, and doesn’t make sense on its face: the reason we have a trade deficit with most countries has nothing to do with them tariffing our goods or taking other protectionist measures.
by monkmartinez | 2025-04-30 15:05:55+00:00
If you ollama pull <model> the modelfile will be downloaded along with the blob. To modify the model permanently, you can copypasta the modelfile into a text editor and then create a new model from the old modelfile with the changes you require/made.

Here is my workflow when using Open WebUI:

1. ollama show qwen3:30b-a3b-q8_0 --modelfile

2. Paste the contents of the modelfile into -> admin -> models -> OpenwebUI and rename qwen3:30b-a3b-q8_0-monkversion-1

3. Change parameters like num_gpu 90 to change layers... etc.

4. Keep | Delete old file

Pay attention to the modelfile, it will show you something like this: # To build a new Modelfile based on this, replace FROM with: # FROM qwen3:30b-a3b-q8_0 and you need to make sure the paths are correct. I store my models on a large nvme drive that isn't default ollama as an example of why that matters.

EDIT TO ADD: The 'modelfile' workflow is a pain in the booty. It's a dogwater pattern and I hate it. Some of these models are 30 to 60GB and copying the entire thing to change one parameter is just dumb.

However, ollama does a lot of things right and it makes it easy to get up and running. VLLM, SGLang, Mistral.rs and even llama.cpp require a lot more work to setup.
by profmonocle | 2025-04-30 15:06:03+00:00
I don't think OP was specifically stating we need to save these specific jobs, rather they were pointing out the interconnected nature of the economy. Less importing hurts the workers in those industries. Taking that further, it will hurt businesses near the ports where the workers may have gotten lunch, etc. etc. etc. That's how recessions look at a microeconomic scale.
by rbanffy | 2025-04-30 15:07:57+00:00
I don't see that WRT Ukraine specifically, but after Trump 2.0 I see an urge to invest more in science and R&D in Europe to offset the cuts in the US. When we bring Ukraine to the discussion, it's obvious the EU needs to invest a lot more in independent military technology that has no connection to outside partners that might no longer be aligned with the Union's objectives.

Why would we buy F-35's when we have Gripen, Rafale and Eurofighter?
by unethical_ban | 2025-04-30 15:08:15+00:00
>That it's okay to coerce people into specific actions or forfeitures if it serves your purposes

It is acceptable for public schools, whose mandate is education of the youth, to enaxt restrictions on behavior to that end.

And smartphones are an addictive item. I want school to be fun and engaging. That doesn't mean every kid who's been raised on an iPad since age 0.5 will put down their phones if the teacher has rizz.
by davidw | 2025-04-30 15:08:18+00:00
This is pretty useful, actually, downvoters. My friends and I were discussing this video yesterday and I was pretty irritated that it took 10 whole minutes to debunk the social media hyperbole. That could have easily been a blog post that I could have skimmed in 1 minute.

It's a textbook case of why I tend to dislike video as a format.
by ChainOfFools | 2025-04-30 15:08:21+00:00
They are emulating the behavior of every power-seeking mediocrity ever, who crave affirmation above all else.

Lots of them practiced - indeed an entire industry is dedicated toward promoting and validating - making daily affirmations on their own, long before LLMs showed up to give them the appearance of having won over the enthusiastic support of a "smart" friend.

I am increasingly dismayed by the way arguments are conducted even among people in non-social media social spaces, where A will prompt their favorite LLM to support their View and show it to B who responds by prompting their own LLM to clap back at them - optionally in the style of e.g. Shakespeare (there's even an ad out that directly encourages this - it helps deflect alattention from the underlying cringe and pettyness being sold) or DJT or Gandhi etc.

Our future is going to be a depressing memescape in which AI sock puppetry is completely normalized and openly starting one's own personal cult is mandatory for anyone seeking cultural or political influence. It will start with celebrities who will do this instead of the traditional pivot toward religion, once it is clear that one's youth and sex appeal are no longer monetizable.
by bsimpson | 2025-04-30 15:08:22+00:00
Jon Stewart talked a lot about this on Monday, both in his monologue and interview with Chris Hughes.

If you were thoughtful about economic policy and truly believed a trade war was the solution, you'd prepare ahead of time (e.g. by stockpiling things like rare earth metals that are important to your economy and likely to be impacted by retaliatory tariffs).

That they haven't done that is one more indicator that they are thoughtlessly winging this. Even if there's a solution that involves tariffs, that's not the play they're running.
by freejazz | 2025-04-30 15:08:24+00:00
>E.g. Next time a lawyer abandons your civil case and ghosts you after being clearly negligent and down-right bad in their representation. Good luck holding them accountable with any body without consequences.

Are you talking about a personal experience? I'd think a malpractice claim and the state bar would help you out. Did you even try? Are you just making something up?
by parsimo2010 | 2025-04-30 15:08:41+00:00
> 10% for everyone tariffs were not paused, nor can they be negotiated away

But "everyone" doesn't mean everyone because everything on this list is exempt from the global 10% tariff and recriprocal tariffs (https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Annex-...). Categories have been added to the list after influential people called the President. So even the 10% for "everyone" tariff can be negotiated away if you give the President something he values.
by dlisboa | 2025-04-30 15:08:44+00:00
That's a bad comparison.

A toaster off of the 1958 Sears catalog cost US$12.50 which amounts to ~US$ 160 today. We can make a $160 toaster today that'll survive nuclear war but no one will buy it.

Some things do get better with time, home appliances are the best example. They consume on average less energy today, are lighter, have more safety features, etc.

Cheaper prices are also a feature: more people have access to goods today because of it.

Not all that is old is great.
by andrepd | 2025-04-30 15:09:04+00:00
The internet is great. A kid even in bumfuck nowhere can today, with a 100$ phone or computer, browse the biggest encyclopedia ever written in human history, read every book every published more 100 years ago (or more recently, if willing to pirate), watch lectures from the world's top universities and professors in subjects from physics to art conservation, listen to more concerts that you'll ever be able to in your entire lifetime, etc etc etc, all for FREE. Tell someone even 30 years ago that she would be able to hear the best orchestras in the world, on-demand, from rural Macedonia or whatever, at no charge, and it would be a vision of an utopian future. And yet here it is.

Unfortunately when you buy a phone you don't get a link to libgen or a youtube account with DW Classical or Veritasium pre-installed on your phone screen. You get tiktok and instagram and similar slop. If even adults are vulnerable to these turbo-addictive attention harvesters, how can kids hope to escape?
by JohnnyMarcone | 2025-04-30 15:09:36+00:00
What is your investment horizon and when do you plan to buy back in?

Also did you take a huge take hit to reallocate to bonds or was it all in tax advantage accounts? Seems more crazy to sell all equities when you have to pay tax on the gains.

What will happen in the market if Trump keeps blinking and folds further, congress takes back the tariff power, Trump loses big in the midterms, GOP loses big in 28, AI ends up being a big thing, etc?

You will eventually have to buy back in and you don't know where the bottom is.
by everforward | 2025-04-30 15:10:06+00:00
I think the above quote is accounting for both constrained supply and reduced demand from rising prices. Vendors consolidate their product lines to remove redundant (ish) offerings due to reduced demand and the new difficulties in managing supply chains. I.e. a shirt may only come in 3 colors instead of 10, and it may be harder to get the popular color because vendors are less likely to keep a large stock in warehouses.

It doesn't violate market dynamics that I can see, though I'm far from an expert.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-04-30 15:10:10+00:00
> Even more surprising for me is that productivity growth declined during the ZIRP era. How did we take all that free money and product less?

This is not correct. Your link is only referring to manufacturing productivity, not overall productivity, which continued to rise. This Economist article has better information: https://archive.vn/6asPb. One hypothesis in the article that seems the most logical to me is that return on investment became so much better in other economic sectors that it siphoned talent from manufacturing.
by esamust | 2025-04-30 15:10:42+00:00
Hi HN,

I'm esamust, the creator behind Aisir.

I built Aisir because I often found myself wanting multiple AI perspectives for complex coding/analysis tasks and was kind of frustrated by the blindspots of single models. So then the natural thing to try was, what if rather than just queueing each model in one go they actually talk to each other and work together to solve the problem.

Aisir uses a "council" approach where agents (currently Gemini, Claude Sonnet, o4-mini, WebSearcher (Gemini based)) deliberate on a query over a number of rounds. A moderator agent guides the discussion, chooses what to do next, identifies issues, and pushes for refinement before a final answer is synthesized. This is obviously overkill on simple queries but I would speculate (obviously biased) that it could beat price per token on the some very complicated queries vs like o1-pro as multiple models working together have a quicker way in token terms to find the right answer than a single model. This is based on my anecdotal experiments vs singular models.

So to explain, the difficult (and very limited) benchmarking I've done on it is using the epoch.ai FrontierMath examples to make sure the result would atleast not be worse than just using the best singular model but turns out it's more likely to answer correctly than any single model. This is slightly obvious in the sense that if a model can't answer one specific question, another one might be able to instead even if they don't talk to eachother. The next test would be to see if there are specific problems that none of the best models can answer individually but can be solved using this council method. Let me know if you find any by hand.

You can see the 'thinking' process unfold, showing each agent's contribution and the moderator's comments.

This is very much an experiment and currently free to use. Running these models is expensive over time, so if it gets traction, I might need to add limits/subscriptions later, but for now, I'm focused on seeing if the core idea is useful. I'd love to get your feedback, especially on: a) Does the multi-agent approach yield better results for you? b) What kinds of complex problems would this be most useful for? c) Any suggestions for improving? There's a lot of optimization I see with token spent etc but I want to see if this is interesting or valuable to anyone other than me.

Link to the tool: https://aisirai.com
by Night_Thastus | 2025-04-30 15:10:43+00:00
We don't know how technological acceleration will continue into the future. We may start hitting very hard physical/chemical/material limits that make further progress hard, resulting in progress becoming more logarithmic in growth.

Or, there's always the potential for war and decline. Advanced civilizations have risen before, then crumbled and lost a lot of their technology. The same could happen on a larger scale.
by NickC25 | 2025-04-30 15:10:54+00:00
Hunter Biden, as far as I know, didn't hold an official title within his father's administration. Jared Kushner, on the other hand, did hold an official title within Donald Trump's first administration.

Hunter Biden, as far as the country has been made aware, never requested an TS-SCI clearance, as Jared Kushner did. Jared Kushner was given one via overrule from the 45th administration when the FBI and CIA said there's no way in hell he should be given access to any state secrets due to his background.

For the record, fuck Hunter Biden for anything he might have done. But don't equate selling access to demanding the highest levels of access to our nation's most closely held secrets.
by dgfitz | 2025-04-30 15:11:00+00:00
My only two thoughts there are, China needs to fill that 15% gap, and I don’t know where they’ll do it. China also doesn’t want to sell too many treasuries least it upset their own financial stability in terms of purchasing power for their own citizens.

The economic outlook in China isn’t great right now. The US and China are playing a game a chicken, not sure who blinks first.
by snickerbockers | 2025-04-30 15:11:15+00:00
America is a democracy, not a bureaucracy. The executive branch is governed by a single representative elected by the people. It is becoming increasingly apparent that the people didn't make a great choice this time but our constitutional republic is also one of the foundational pillars of american strength and trump being an idiot doesn't change that.

The judicial branch has authority to stop him but they're only supposed to use it if they are convinced that what he's doing is unconstitutional. Some of the executive branch's appointee's have authority over him but only in specific circumstances (such as 25th amendment) and they're usually in agreement with him since he gets to appoint them anyways. Otherwise, all authority in the executive branch effectively belongs to the president and random midlevel bureaucrats can only exercise it on his behalf.
by skybrian | 2025-04-30 15:12:00+00:00
One possible complication is that there’s quite a lot of waste that’s tolerated in pursuit of fashion and variety. (For example, Ross Dress For Less specializes in liquidating excess inventory.)

So I wonder how that plays out? My guess is that retailers take fewer risks when ordering, sticking with products that they know they can sell, even if prices are higher.

But they will still guess wrong sometimes.
by CivBase | 2025-04-30 15:12:05+00:00
By that argument, it sounds like schools in Finland have zero authority. How does punishment work? What's stopping a kid from going anywhere they want at any time or doing litterally anything that isn't outright illegal?

If Finnish children have the same rights as adults, does that mean the children are also subject to the same legal punishment as adults? Can a Finnish child be jailed or fined for the likes of theft, assault, or battery?