MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-04-10 10:46:19+00:00
Reminded me of the folk-comedy duo Flight of the Concords' song "Issues (Think about it)”:

> They're turning kids into slaves just to make cheaper sneakers.

> But what's the real cost?

> 'Cause the sneakers don't seem that much cheaper.

> Why are we still paying so much for sneakers

> When you got them made by little slave kids

> What are your overheads?

https://youtu.be/GimzSBVQUDo
by rTX5CMRXIfFG | 2025-04-10 10:46:40+00:00
Apple seems to agree that that would be the ideal UX for AI, but for any computer, (1) it's going to require massive rework at the OS level, and (2) app developers have to be willing to integrate with the OS-level AI. I'm not sure that the latter is happening since profit incentives much better align with walled gardens.
by mapt | 2025-04-10 10:47:14+00:00
> If you completely give away a capability to other countries (in this case, fishing knowledge and labour) it is much harder to bring back than just coughing up the money

I feel like money is overwhelmingly how we denominate value, effort, and agency in our society. Almost every time somebody says "You can't just throw money at the problem", they are arguing that we shouldn't even try that, contrary to all established reasoning about how society works.

There are diminishing returns to funding, but the people who use this expression are typically at a tiny fraction of where we would expect to hit them.

If you want to have a fishing industry because fish are your idealized heritage, then choose to subsidize it heavily either to continue to exist, and/or to expand it into waters and economies of scale where you can still fish profitably. Like the Japanese and the Chinese do, respectively.
by IanCal | 2025-04-10 10:48:46+00:00
I think you're missing the goal of this. When you think something is very obviously a stupid way to solve a problem it's worth checking if it's solving the problem you think it is.

This is not a product to find the best car brand or whatever.

This is not telling people to use LLMs to recommend things.

People are doing this at home already.

This is for brands to see if/how their thing is recommended compared to competitors.

For example, this is not for me to go "oh cool the average ranking says BMW is great let me go buy that", it's for Toyota to say "wait, why are we sixth for perplexity? Are perplexity users asking about cars being told we're bad? What's it saying?".

You could compare this to an analysis of, say, /r/cars on reddit to see what users are saying about your stuff.

> I assume this is yet another vibe coded pile of steaming shit ?

Absolutely no reason to go to this kind of argument.
by dostick | 2025-04-10 10:49:56+00:00
You’re right and those are interesting books. And yes, people will not be able to live with alternative to Capitalism. That’s why, I think the only way for human race to survive is to have multi-generation transition plan, people must understand that in their life time it’s not going to get better and fair. It would happen in maybe two generations, or over 50-100 years time span. And it would have to happen in one country first and then propagated to others.
by bythckr | 2025-04-10 10:50:24+00:00
I use search engine for 2 purpose and not sure if its a common practice across.

Specific search expecting 1 answer. These type search is enhanced by ChatGPT. Google is losing here.

Wild goose chase / brainstorming. For this, I need a broad set of answers. I am looking for a radically different solution. Here, today's Google is inferior to the OG Google. That is for 2 reasons.

1. SEOs have screwed up the results. A famous culprit is pinterest and many other irrelevant site that fill the first couple of pages.

2. Self-sensoring & shadow banning. Banning of torrent sites, politically motivated manipulation. Though the topic I am searching is not political, there is some issue with the result. I can see the difference when I try the same in Bing or DuckDuckGo.
by mapt | 2025-04-10 10:50:37+00:00
That often depends on the structure of the subsidy.

"We will pay you 5 euros per kg of fish sold in supermarkets to consumers" is different from "We will pay you 500,000 euros a year to keep fishing".

There is a very reasonable argument in fisheries starting at least a century ago (and locally long before that), that we're looking at a partially renewable good - that it would be easy to cause an unsustainable population collapse with unrestricted harvesting, and so you should try and intervene in the market to sustain fish populations and stabilize harvests. Subsidies intended to do this are distinct from subsidies intended to keep fishermen employed fishing.
by grumbel | 2025-04-10 10:50:42+00:00
Not much. A horizontal split (C-x 2) can be quite useful to keep the top of a file in view while editing around at the bottom of a file. A vertical split (C-x 3) is useful when comparing files side by side. But that's about as far as I go, beyond that it just becomes annoying, as popups like from magit will show up in random subwindows, often rendering them unusable, due to that subwindow not being big enough.
by watwut | 2025-04-10 10:51:15+00:00
> Okay, then we'll have unions then. I don't see what the issue is here.

America wont have unions nor consumer protections. For that matter, it wont investigate crypto scams either and will accept industrial pollutions to save factory owners money. Meaning, workforce will be less healthy due to impact on air they themselves are breathing.

There is no planned change to create protections for low level employees, but there are many changes allowing owners to do whatever. Once competition ranks up, they will be forced to pollute and mistreat workers or go out of business.

>it is better for society spiritually in the long term to have the majority of society focused on producing something real rather than just having an endless network of fake jobs as a means of wealth distribution.

OK, you want to sacrifice health of some for "spiritual benefit" of others. But those jobs will be as fake as healthier jobs those people have now.
by mdp2021 | 2025-04-10 10:52:29+00:00
Probably in the attempt to stress that it is a "long wave" which started but is not over, a "coming" technology of which we are just seeing the first instances and implementations. See:

> Caveats: The ecosystem is nascent. Reliance on ONNX, the current Windows limitation for acceleration, and the context size cap are significant hurdles compared to the mature llama.cpp ecosystem. // // The success of this initiative hinges heavily on software maturation, particularly expanding context length limits, and addressing the community’s strong preference for llama.cpp integration and robust Linux support
by dgimla20 | 2025-04-10 10:53:27+00:00
I set up a basic SQL table where I record the time spent on my phone (and other devices) based on the screen time data from StayFree (Android), and a little private webpage with a line chart and average statistics.

It's pretty manual (2-3 mins per week), but logging the new dates each week is a nice little "check-in" to stop me from drifting back towards more screen time.

I've never been a heavy user, but I noticed sometimes I drifted towards 1-2 hours per day and have since gotten down to an average of less than 15 minutes per day. I just use the phone for utility purpose now. I got scared straight seeing the UK average daily phone use statistics, including my own, and how much that adds up to over a year.

Digital Wellbeing was quite good but I noticed it counts things which aren't necessarily screen time. I kept having loads of time on the 'Clock' app for some reason, and spam calls I ignore seemed to also be counted even if I saw them on my watch.

As for the phone setup itself:

- no media apps (social, games, video, news)

- a web browser, but I try to just remember anything I'm interested in and look it up later on a PC

- absolute minimum notifications. phone, sms, email and messages (Signal/WhatsApp). I try to use only for emergencies or quick messages and meetups instead of having conversations over messages

- minimal launcher (Nova) with black and white icons

- no blocks, just screen time monitoring using StayFree. I don't want to use blocks as a crutch
by Symbiote | 2025-04-10 10:53:39+00:00
* Avoid placing a 3D printer over carpeted areas

That rules out most apartments in countries like the USA and UK.

* Do not locate dedicated work/personal spaces in close proximity to the printers if odors are a concern

That rules out all small apartments, where there isn't a room that can be dedicated to the printer.

* 3D Printers and uncured, open resin vats should be stored and operated in a well ventilated area or with local exhaust

That rules out all apartments in northern countries (like here in Denmark) with lots of insulation

https://radtech.org/safe-handling-of-3d-printing-resins/
by ffsm8 | 2025-04-10 10:55:00+00:00
I don't think it's even possible to generalize this to a nation. You could theoretically determine it as an average by the nation, but getting this information is borderline impossible, as its entirely the perspective of the applicant. And without this kind of data you're basically left with a few anecdotes, which entirely depended on the mood of the worker that handled the case of the person providing the anecdote...
by fhd2 | 2025-04-10 10:55:24+00:00
Well, from what I understand, the answer is kinda "no".

Depends on the country and educational system I suppose, but I do believe professors in many places get in trouble for failing too many students. It's right there in the phrasing.

If most students pass and some fail, that's fine. Revenue comes in, graduates are produced, the university is happy.

If most students fail, revenue goes down, less students might sign up, less graduate, the university is unhappy.

It's a tragedy of the commons situation, because some professors will be happy to pass the majority of students regardless of merit. Then the professors that don't become the problem, there's something wrong with them.

Likewise, if most universities are easy and some are really hard, they might not attract students. The US has this whole prestige thing going on, that I haven't seen all that much in other countries.

So if the students overall get dumber because they grow up over relying on tools, the correction mechanism is not that they have to work harder once the exam approaches. It's that the exam gets easier.
by K0balt | 2025-04-10 10:55:54+00:00
The US unwillingness to project power is a direct result of its current leadership. The US capability to project military force is, for better or for worse, pretty extreme in the global context. The ability to support a protracted conflict would depend on the support of the population, but it’s unwise to think that the current administration is a reflection of potential. When the court jester carries the sword, it’s a blunt and careless rod, but that same sword in the hands of a master is an instrument of lethal precision.

The sword remains unchanged.
by the_harpia_io | 2025-04-10 10:56:11+00:00
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by pydry | 2025-04-10 10:56:20+00:00
Breaking down problems (vertical slicing) isnt inherently a dev skill. Insofar as it is a transferable skill to break down problems it is more of a life skill.

Scoping tickets is more of a project management skill. Again, not a dev skill.

Estimating effect on user experience - requires empathy, again not a dev skill.

If you redefine the dev job as including PM skills then sure, PM skills are dev skills.

But theyre not.

>Why it makes sense for them to be a single person? Often, "changing requirements" really comes from an engineer learning new things

So? Happens to me too. I can tell the PM these things i learned. Thats a hell of a lot easier than managing all stakeholder interactions, empathizing and balancing their demands.

It only really makes sense to combine the two roles if the project is inherently very straightforward, a salary can be saved and the person doing both roles is suffiently qualified for both roles.
by throw0101d | 2025-04-10 10:56:55+00:00
> From the beginning, I’ve believed the executive branch's real goal was to push down the yield on the 10-year Treasury.

The "executive branch" is Trump. Everyone else is just running around making up excuses for whatever his last decision was.

The "goal" is whether Trump feels like (not) having tariffs and whatever value he feels they should be.

There is no "they": it's just Trump (or maybe whomever he last spoke to that could change mind).
by danielbln | 2025-04-10 10:57:31+00:00
Jack of all trades, master of none. I also somehow doubt that you've built a car from scratch, including designing the engine, carving it out of a block of metal and so on. And if we're talking modern car, good luck fabbing the integrated circuits in your backyard or whatever. Even your particular generalist fantasy will (and most likely has) hit the hard constraints of specialization real quick.

There is no single human alive that can understand or build a modern computer from top to bottom. And this is true for various bits of human technology, that's how specialized we are as a species.
by happy_vese | 2025-04-10 10:58:29+00:00
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by nivertech | 2025-04-10 10:59:02+00:00
It’s not about “improving the computing field”, but creating new IP (Intellectual Property).

Old industries - get paid for doing the actual work

Enterprise SW - get paid for automating things

Software companies - get paid for writing COTS (Commodity of the Shelves) software

Sharing economy startups - get paid percentage of every transaction in a specific marketplace
by Ukv | 2025-04-10 10:59:14+00:00
> In one particularly salient example, when language models were evaluated on the latest math olympiad exam, they scored only 5%, indicating that recent announcements may have been overblown

DeepSeek-R1 and Grok-3 scored 5%, but Gemini-2.5-Pro scored 25%. For comparison, the median score of human olympiad competitors last year was 31%[0] (not sure if this year's results are available yet), and median score of humans in general is almost certainly 0% - math olympiad is very difficult.

[0]: https://web.evanchen.cc/exams/posted-usamo-statistics.pdf
by wegfawefgawefg | 2025-04-10 11:00:18+00:00
My history is not that good, but I have a fondness for the guilded age. Lets look back for wisdom.

Consider a case that was not unique, the growth of iron production in the great lakes area between 1855 and 1865.

In 1855 it was 1000 tons of iron ore. By 1860 it was over 100,000. By 1865 it was a few times greater than that.

Now consider even a single year in there where production is increasing by thousands to tens of thousands of tons. Good business. (The machines used to load and unload those boats and the change in boat designs is awesome by the way. Worth looking up.)

That was early. With much worse technology, and much less capital.

There were crazier deltas in production increase in the 1890's and across the guilded age.

The US natural resources are gigantic. There are 330 million people living there. It has more resources than ever before in history.

Steel and plastic are currently produced in the hundreds of millions of tons per year in the US. That is hardly a middle aged man who cant do a pushup.

With a proper 10 year boom, US production could be exponentially increasing year over year. If it and its people choose it.

A lot of people in the US seem to be envisioning this. It is a really non-abstract vision even for americans of... modest intelligence.

It may be the case that providing the world with banking and facebook, and silicon plans, though possibly much more lucrative than physical production, is just too abstract for the average american to identify with as a positive.

Or it may be the case that physical production is more lucrative than software service export, but that the US government has mismanaged the market constraints in the physical domain and so it just appears to not be the case.

I am not sure which is true. What I do know is that for the average person, the idea of making stuff and trading it is simple to understand, and people like it. Even people who do not make anything identify with this goal. Maybe instead of iron and steel it will be nvidias chips this time around.

I think Americans dont like being the social media export country. Its just not a good future vision you can identify with.
by detectivestory | 2025-04-10 11:00:30+00:00
this is great! I did find parts of the UI a little confusing though... Should the input colour update when I change source? And after saving a project, I am not sure how I can re-open it. Maybe it's just me but I didn't immediately realise that the nodes on the left were draggable (i see now that it is mentioned lower down). Maybe add "drag dots" to those? Really nice tool though!
by ProllyInfamous | 2025-04-10 11:02:30+00:00
>No ... SLAPP prevent[s] that.

Yes and no.

I have successfully defended myself from a SLAPP lawsuit. I have also been arrested. To quote the arresting officer of the unrelated (and questionable) arrest:

"You may beat the rap, but you won't beat the ride!"

Defending yourself with an anti-SLAPP mechanism is expensive, time-consuming, and (even with an attorney) both parties can be made to look foolish.

In my own SLAPP lawsuit, I represented myself (so no attorney fees). I don't recommend others pick fights with megacorporations.
by ajsnigrutin | 2025-04-10 11:03:51+00:00
> I don't understand this paragraph. If Footlocker was okay with $50 profit/shoe, why do they need to claim $75 profit/shoe in their costs per shoe go up? The costs of handling the shoes, retail space, advertising, and labor are all fixed.

Some extra costs are real and linear to their "factory" price (returns, insurance, stolen stuff, less people buying less shoes, so they need higher margins to survive, etc.).

On the other hand... they can raise their prices today by $whatever_tarrif_trump_mentioned, and blame trump for the price hike and pocket the extra profit.
Ask HN: Have you ever had to turn down customers because of sanctions?
by keepamovin | 2025-04-10 11:05:28+00:00
Over the last few years I've had to turn away a few customers from countries like Iran, Russia and China because either a BIS license was required due to general EAR restrictions on cyber products to those countries, or the entity was actually on the BIS Entity list. Have you experienced this? How do you handle it?

In some sense it sucks because the markets of some of these countries are large, and there may be people in those countries who want it for legitimate reasons (Freedom, etc). At the same time, you have to obey the law and respect sanctions. They have a legitimate purpose. That's non negotiable. Any cybersecurity people have experience with this kind of scenario?

Technically it's possible to apply for licenses, but if the status is "presumption of denial", or even if it's not, the process is a massive hassle for tiny product companies that just want to build stuff.

I'm not losing sleep over this stuff - but it doesn't feel great - and I'm just curious of others' experiences in US corporations (not sure if EU has similar).
by sandworm101 | 2025-04-10 11:05:49+00:00
It only seems wild in light of how the US relates to its military. For all the hype about life in the russian navy, you are still much more likely to see sailors suntanning on a russian ship than any USN boat.

Look at this footage. Look at the guys on the helo deck. When russian sailors have time off, they take it seriously.

https://youtu.be/fVXxTS2f8CE
by pingou | 2025-04-10 11:06:14+00:00
Well GP was talking about overplayed AI coding hype, I understood the "hype" as being mostly financial (with the crazy valuation of Nvidia for example), but if it does significantly raise the productivity per $ spent then there is no hype.

It doesn't mean the technology doesn't also have downsides. But many people are actually arguing that it doesn't personally make them more productive, so are more likely to call it a hype.
by rvnx | 2025-04-10 11:06:42+00:00
Totally. Most websites where you show and vote for a product (HackerNews, ProductHunt, etc) are ridden with bots.

For example, one person here offers: > Our AI generates relevant, useful replies to selected mentions, that aim to genuinely help the original poster, and that include a subtle mention of your product.

and ProductHunt: https://wakatime.com/blog/67-bots-so-many-bots
by fifilura | 2025-04-10 11:07:17+00:00
One thing that makes me curious.

Pennsylvania unemployment rate is 3,4%.

In the EU you commonly see unemployment rates around 10% and that is even after rather massive reeducation programs.

Why is this seen as such a big problem that these 3,4% pretty much get to decide the entire US policy?

In the EU that would be a great number and mostly normal considering that people that switch jobs or just finished studying or are just generally unemployable is counted towards that numer.

https://www.pa.gov/agencies/dli/newsroom/pennsylvania-s-unem...
by nkrisc | 2025-04-10 11:07:38+00:00
I'm not an educator but I know from teaching my own children that you don't introduce math using symbols and abstract representations. You grab 5 of some small object and show them how a pile of 2 objects combined with a pile of 3 objects creates a pile of 5 objects.

Remember, language is a natural skill all humans have. So is counting (a skill that may not even be unique to humans).

However writing is an artifical technology invented by humans. Writing is not natural in the sense that language itself is. There is no part of brain we're born with that comes ready to write. Instead, when we learn to write other parts of our brain that are associated with language and hearing and vision are co-opted into the "writing and reading parts".

Teaching kids math using writing and symbolism is unnatural and often an abstraction too far for them (initially). Introducing written math is easier and makes more sense once kids are also learning to read and write - their brains are being rewired by that process. However even an toddler can look at a pile of 3 objects and a pile of 5 objects and know which one is more, even if they can't explicitly count them using language - let alone read and write.
by fennecfoxy | 2025-04-10 11:08:45+00:00
Great points, but my apologies I meant to say "sentience". Certainly many, many animals are already conscious.

I'm not sure about the quantitative thing seeing as there are creatures with brains much physically much larger than ours, or brains with more neurons than we have. We currently have the most known synapses though that also seems to be because we haven't estimated that for so many species.