MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by acdha | 2025-04-08 12:59:24+00:00
There is no expectation of privacy but there is a need for rules and oversight. Some communications are sensitive - anything involving lawyers, unions, health providers, etc. has legal considerations - and there is both a concern about whether government data is being shared improperly with third-party companies. For example, if they’re using Grok to analyze text, there’s potentially a huge conflict of interest if any of the communications being analyzed involves regulation of Musk’s companies or the various lawsuits he’s part of.

Similarly, since they’re creating a conflict between perceived political disloyalty and professional ethics you have questions like whether an EPA official whose messages are flagged will have a human review the alleged offenses or be given a chance to defend their actions, or simply be “randomly” included in some RIF. We haven’t had to think about that since the McCarthy / lavender scare era, which significantly predated modern surveillance technology.

Since DOGE is widely reported to be using Signal and private email servers, there is reason to question whether those ethical standards will be followed.
Show HN: ElevenLabs MCP server
by louisjoejordan | 2025-04-08 12:59:50+00:00
Here's a video of me ordering a pizza with it: https://x.com/elevenlabsio/status/1909300782673101265

The ElevenLabs MCP server gives claude and cursor access to the ElevenLabs API via text prompts. Give it a try and let me know what you think.
by cies | 2025-04-08 13:00:10+00:00
We should outright forbid it in public space. IHMO.

Also I'd say lets only tax undesirable behaviour!

So not tax:

* wages

* having a house

* adding value (VAT)

But so tax:

* land use

* polluting

* packaging (could be part of polluting)

* accumulating profits at the top

This idea has some similarities to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism
by crazygringo | 2025-04-08 13:00:35+00:00
If the goal is to reduce advertising, I don't see this being effective.

Businesses will just continue to advertise, and pay the tax. Because all their competitors have to pay the same tax, it's just a status quo. And businesses will raise the prices consumers pay to make up for the difference.

So ultimately it would wind up being a regressive tax, like tariffs, paid for by people in rising consumer prices.

Taxes can only deter behavior when there are alternatives. But there aren't alternatives to advertising. Businesses advertise because it works, because it increases their revenue.

Also, if taxes did slightly reduce demand for advertising, then the price of advertising would just decrease, that would be the main effect. There would probably be a tiny contraction in advertising space, but not enough that anyone would notice.

The main effect would be to raise prices for consumers, not to reduce ads, because there aren't substitutes for advertising.
by lynx97 | 2025-04-08 13:00:38+00:00
First of all, great that you seem to have a relatively equal situation. It reads like your wife is actually working. Good for you.

However, your accusation is totally wrong and uncalled for. I know the name, but I have never read/heard anything from the Tate brothers. In fact, my opinion about female priviledge in our society stems purely from my own experience, in particular my mother. This is something I'd like to have (make and female) feminists understand. All I need to be resentful of female priviledge is my own mother and her spite and her totally lack of humility. Much of backlash towards feminism is self-inflicted. We don't need hateful men to tell us what to think about female priviledge. All we need is our own eyes. Not all women are shining examples of rationality and empathy. Maybe feminists should start by working on/with the bad apples in their own circles.

Fact is, my mother owns way more then I do, despite actually only having worked roughly 5 years in her whole life. All she owns was built up by men in the family of my father. And she inherited everything, including the priviledge of not having to go to work. If I could, I'd step into her shoes every day. And she doesnt even realize her priviledge, which is insulting.

This is just one example of the elderly spitting on the young, sometimes without even noticing. This tension is going to increase in the future even more.
by motorest | 2025-04-08 13:00:49+00:00
> Literally no other industry except for the performing arts interviews like this.

No, not really. Take for example FANGs. Their hiring process is notorious for culminating with an on-site interview, where 4 or more interviewers grill you on all topics they find relevant.

Some FANGs are also very clear that their hiring process focuses particularly on soft-skills.

Where in the world do hope to find an engineering job where you are not evaluated on soft skills and cultural fit?
by akimbostrawman | 2025-04-08 13:00:56+00:00
>They get targeted the same and are not meaningfully different in their workings

I disagree. The Attack surface of a browser is huge compared to a local application. Browser password manager hacks only needs to exploit the browser itself (access password feature/addon) while the other needs to exploit the browser + OS +/ password manager (escape browser and access the application).

Browser sandbox escapes have historically been a lot more difficulty, rare and expensive compared to in browser exploits. A local password manager is also not always unlocked and running unlike the browser one.

Regardless, in the real world the most likely way to hack both is malware run on the device.
by ben_w | 2025-04-08 13:01:31+00:00
Mm.

The arguments about wanting copyright to be life+70 have always felt entitled, to me. Making claims about things for their kids to inherit, when the median person doesn't have the option to build up much of an inheritance anyway, and 70 years isn't just the next generation but the next 2.5 generations.

I don't know the exact duration of copyright that makes sense, the world changes too much and different media behave differently. Feels like nobody should have the right to block remakes of C64 games on copyright grounds, but I wouldn't necessarily say that about books published in the same year.

From what I've seen about the distribution of specifically book sales, where even the top-100 best sellers often don't make enough to justify the time involved, I think that one of the biggest problems with the economics of the arts is a mixture of (1) the low cost of reproduction, and (2) all the other artists.

For the former: There were political campaigns a century ago, warning about the loss of culture when cinemas shifted from live bands to recorded music[0]; Today, if I were so inclined, I can for a pittance listen to any of (I'm told) 100 million musical performances, watch any of 1.24 million movies or TV shows. Even before GenAI, there was a seemingly endless quantity of graphical art.

For the latter: For every new book by a current living author such as Charlie Stross (who is on here sometimes), my limited time is also spread between that and the huge back-catalogue of old classics like the complete works of Conan Doyle, Larry Niven, or Terry Pratchett.

[0] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/musicians-wage-war-ag...
by vayora | 2025-04-08 13:01:32+00:00
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by Mystery-Machine | 2025-04-08 13:01:42+00:00
Isn't that what any other payment system and most of the banks around the world are - a foreign company with billions of dollars in charge of payment system in a country.

VISA, Mastercard, HSBC, UnionPay, ICBC, Santander... Or is this all Brazilian technology?

The difference is that Meta is privacy data hoarder, not that it's a foreign company. And it's not "in charge of countries payment system", because that's pretty-much impossible, but "one of the payment systems in the country".
by IG_Semmelweiss | 2025-04-08 13:01:49+00:00
>>>>Without it, you’re really just a conduit for press releases.

Thats arguably what the press has been doing for the CIA in the last decade more or less.

>>> hold on, are you expecting them to name their sources? On this? Really?

Yes. edward snowden went against the security state. its not far fetched to expect more transparency over a simple govt policy related to an agency that is under the microscope (DOGE)

Particularly when trust in media is an all all time low

Particularly because of behavior just like the one displayed by reuters
by timr | 2025-04-08 13:02:21+00:00
Yeah, I know. That's all me.

> Every generation has to invent sex and politics for itself, or at least imagine for a while in its 20s and 30s that it did. Why not the same in another preparadigmatic field like computing?

Because it's not "preparadigmatic"? There was a perfectly good paradigm before it was tossed out and re-written in Javascript (and then again in some other language, apparently). There have certainly been some revolutionary paradigms in my career (e.g. the web itself), but this "reinvention" of basic front-end tech doesn't qualify.

This stuff holds back the industry. It's part of why software engineers over the age of 30 are considered "old".
by llm_nerd | 2025-04-08 13:02:28+00:00
In every situation like this, always contemplate how the reception would be if the other side did it.

Like, we know the "but her emails" thing was the greatest example of bloviated hypocrisy in human history. This government has absolutely obliterated information security norms, and suddenly all of those fake concerns dissolved. Similarly there was a week-long outrage about Biden looking at his watch during a fallen servicemember repatriation. Trump didn't even show up to four fallen soldiers -- didn't even know about them almost a day later, presumably because to him they're suckers and losers -- and went golfing instead. Not a peep.

So if the Biden admin deployed an AI sentiment analysis that flagged and then fired any civil servant anywhere in the masses of government who went against any of their decrees, would you say "well that's their employer and they're toxic"? Really?
by Lutger | 2025-04-08 13:02:40+00:00
There are several competing, and sometimes complementary perspectives on what 'nature' means. Some include humans and their activity within it, others do not.

One thing you can ask yourself: if human activity and the impact it has on its environment is included in what you call 'natural', then what even does remain of the word 'unnatural'? What do people refer to, when they use that word? If you don't have any sensible explanation for it, then the whole thing collapses, yet evidently a lot of people really want to keep using the word nature and even seem to have no problem in making themselves understood when doing so.
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-08 13:02:51+00:00
I've seen a "senior" developer who didn't recognize what VSCode was. Like, not that they hadn't heard of the specific program—they didn't recognize the sort of program it was.

Not in an interview where maybe they're flustered, this was just an ordinary day on the job. They'd been in strange little enterprise vendor-silo programming environments their entire career. This was accompanied by exactly the sort of lack of understanding of lots of other stuff that you'd expect.

The flip side of this is programmers pushing companies to let them use k8s and Rust and shit when there's not a good business case for it, for fear of having a résumé that eventually starts to look like it could belong to that guy. Not wanting to look like him is a big part of the whole résumé driven development phenomenon.
by lo_zamoyski | 2025-04-08 13:03:03+00:00
Footnote: "survival of the fittest" is circular.

Bob: It's about the survival of the fittest.

Alice: Fittest with respect to what?

Bob: Survival.

So, survival of the fittest to survive, or what survives, survives.

It is utterly banal, but in popular culture, it has been "elevated" into a deepity.
by sham1 | 2025-04-08 13:03:26+00:00
Sure (although Trump's legitimacy to be in the position to do this kind of stuff is also suspect, but that's just me looking from across the Atlantic) but that doesn't make things necessarily legitimate.

Musk being in a position to do this due to Trump appointment doesn't imply that this ought to be a case, or that this is proper. Thus critique.
by diggan | 2025-04-08 13:03:29+00:00
> Were you able to opt out of being part of the search index (and I don't mean at the site level with a robots.txt file)?

If you're in the EU, then yes, as "Right to be Forgotten" is a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten#European...

But in general I agree, the expectation of something remaining "private" and "owned by you" after you publish it on the public internet, should be just about zero. Don't publish stuff you don't want others to read/store/redistribute/archive.
by wat10000 | 2025-04-08 13:03:52+00:00
“Fair” doesn’t matter. The only consensus that matters is what is legal and profitable. The former seems to be pretty much decided in favor of AI, with some open question about whether large media companies enjoy protections that smaller artists don’t. (The legal battle when some AI company finally decides to let their model imitate Disney stuff is going to be epic.) Profitable remains to be seen, but doesn’t matter much while investors’ money is so plentiful.
by alephnerd | 2025-04-08 13:03:55+00:00
Yep! And Napas247 was co-developed by Vietnam and South Korea (edit: Only VN - confused Shinhan's support for development work)!

The point is there is a steady decoupling towards non-Visa/MC payment systems outside the US and EU, and it wouldn't be too surprising if a number of these systems begin supporting inter-operability within the next 10 years.
by inpain247 | 2025-04-08 13:03:58+00:00
You can always teach English abroad or join the air force both of which solve the environment problem. Going back home isn't a great option unless you have a high paying job lined up and can save a lot of money. The main issue with staying home is your days become monotonous and years can pass just treading water. It is also a huge hit to self confidence and mental health at least for a traditional US household. While you're away, it will be vital to keep learning new skills and trying to find better opportunities or you will get stuck.
by rich_sasha | 2025-04-08 13:04:54+00:00
I find this argument incredibly frustrating.

My view is that wide access to strong encryption carries non-obvious trade-offs, in particular with regards to organized crime. And I don't particularly mean paedophile rings, scooter gangs in London and professional burglars are organized crime too.

It's not that I have nothing to hide, therefore want the government to have unfettered access to everything. I want to ensure that properly overseen law enforcement and justice have access to normal info they need to prosecute crime, and if I have to give up a bit of privacy for it, so be it.
by bko | 2025-04-08 13:05:16+00:00
I don't know, anytime I read anything like this it's a whack a mole.

> Trump / Doge / Musk is snooping

It's pretty normal to monitor communication channels

> for anti Trump / Elon communication

It's pretty normal to have informal speech codes at work, which include don't un-constructively criticize your employer or parent company.

> using AI

Okay, it just does what humans do except more efficiently

> but the AI is not compliant to some regulation

I don't know and I don't think you know either

> but they don't "report" to him

They're still part of the federal government. Again, I don't think its unreasonable and its certainly not productive

At a certain point I realize there aren't any real objections other than [orange | rocket] man bad.

There's a lot to criticize with this administration but criticizing absolutely everything, even when its entirely reasonable, doesn't help sway people's opinions. So when people read hysterical headlines about how the federal government is spying on federal employees by accessing their pay information, they just tune out.
by simonw | 2025-04-08 13:05:34+00:00
You'd have to find a way to opt out of copy and paste. Even if you could do that someone could take a screenshot (or a photo of their screen) and use the image as input.

What's your concern here - is it not wanting LLMs to train future models on your content, or a more general dislike of the technology as a whole?

The "not train on my content" thing is unfortunately complicated. OpenAI and Anthropic don't train on content sent to their APIs but some other providers do under certain circumstances - Gemini in particular use data sent to their free tier "to improve our products" but not data sent to their paid tiers.

This has the weird result that it's rude to copy and paste other people's content into some LLMs but not others!

I've not seen anyone explicitly say "please don't share my content with LLMs that train on their input" because almost nobody will have the LLM literacy to follow that instruction!
by ryandrake | 2025-04-08 13:06:32+00:00
It would be nice if there was at least a bare bones certificate that guaranteed the candidate knows at least some absolutely minimal baseline, like what a for loop and if statement is. You’d still have to interview the candidate but you wouldn’t have to start at Hello World or FizzBuzz.

I have interviewed at least one self-described Senior Software Engineer who didn’t know how to write a function that takes an integer parameter and then prints every integer from 0 to the argument passed.
by advertenciapara | 2025-04-08 13:06:47+00:00
I've used TKW a few times and it's such a joy to use. The delayed gratification of knowing that the first two cards have arrived (a week apart) and then waiting for that last one to land is quite fun. Then it's a joy to hear from the target that they just found out it was me.

Almost everyone that receives one is on edge at first, thinking it is a scam or another "I'd like to buy your house in cash$$", so I've been working on ways to make it more personal. For example, addressing someone by a nickname or spelling variant that would only make sense to them.

My wife just tried it out too and set the whole thing up in under 4 minutes. Their friend just received the final one and came up to us to talk about it a few days ago.
Show HN: I built a tool to find devs based on code, not LinkedIn titles
by NabilChiheb | 2025-04-08 13:07:02+00:00
Hey HN

After years working in software engineering and helping with hiring, I noticed a frustrating pattern:

Companies often rely on résumés and LinkedIn titles to find developers instead of looking at what they've actually built.

So I built GitMatcher.

It analyzes GitHub profiles to surface developers based on:

Their public repos

Commit history

Originality and usefulness of code

Patterns that show consistency and real skill

No keywords. No job titles. Just code.

GitMatcher is useful if you're:

- A recruiter tired of resume roulette

- A founder looking for a technical co-founder

- An OSS maintainer searching for genuine contributors

It’s still early, so I’d love your feedback especially around what signals you’d care about most when discovering devs.
by Pooge | 2025-04-08 13:07:11+00:00
Also some anecdata, but I think it depends so much on the person: I gained 10 kilograms by living more than a year in Japan.

I ate healthily so I wasn't fat by any means (in fact, I'm really skinny), but I ate so much that I think this is the reason I gained some weight. I ate a lot of rice (my rice portion was usually more than a Japanese person's entire plate).
by jabl | 2025-04-08 13:07:22+00:00
There's even a COBOL frontend in GCC these days!

That being said, the problem isn't so much the COBOL language itself but rather that all the software written in it is connected to all kinds of database system, messaging systems(?) and whatnot, making it very hard to move to some non-mainframe platform even if a customer so chooses. Or to put it another way, it's cheaper to pay even the very high prices to IBM to keep on the mainframe track rather than to migrate.
by 3D30497420 | 2025-04-08 13:07:29+00:00
I had very similar thoughts while reading through the article. I also have found some real value in LLMs, and when used well, I think can and will be quite beneficial.

Notably, a good number the examples were just straight-up bad management, irrespective of the tools being used. I also think some of these reactions are people realizing that they work for managers or in businesses that ultimately don't really care about the quality of their work, just that it delivers monetary value at the end.
by specialsphere | 2025-04-08 13:07:40+00:00
Looks pretty cool! I actually once paid someone on Etsy to create a portrait of my grandparents’ dog that had passed away, and my granddad (who was an army general) loved that dog more than anything. I asked for the dog to be dressed as a general in the portrait. The result turned out pretty nice, but it cost me $70 and took over 10 days to get.

Definitely going to check out your site and see how the quality compares. If it’s anywhere close, I'll tell my friends. Love the idea!
by vitorsr | 2025-04-08 13:08:38+00:00
See relevant regulation for the Pix payment system and protocols:

https://www.bcb.gov.br/estabilidadefinanceira/pix?modalAbert... (Brazilian Portuguese)

See also relevant regulation for the instant payment system (SPI):

https://www.bcb.gov.br/estabilidadefinanceira/sistemapagamen... (Brazilian Portuguese)
by sidrag22 | 2025-04-08 13:08:44+00:00
>How is it not logically consistent?

i used my words to speak to the candidate, so they think its fair game to use their words to lie.

screening using AI could be a totally legitimate usage of AI depending on how its done. cheating/lying has no chance of being legitimate. just like speaking can potentially be used to lie.

most people here arent straight up vilifying the use of AI, just certain uses of it.
by bruce511 | 2025-04-08 13:08:49+00:00
I concur. At no point does the article suggest that taxing would reduce advertising, or improve existing advertising in any way.

Plus, of course, the proposal is simplified, and much hand-waving about the details. Who to tax, for what, when, how much etc are all details needing attention.

Already exceptions are proposed. Hint - the exceptions will favor big corporate, against the little guy, not the other way around.
by specproc | 2025-04-08 13:09:26+00:00
This tax was introduced as a straightforward way to actually get tax revenues out of a multi-billion dollar industry that does not come remotely close to paying its fair share of tax in the UK.

The digital services tax was a limited counter to aggressive tax avoidance by US multinationals. Unfortunately, even though it's peanuts in the grand scheme of things, it's looking like it'll get offered up as sacrifice to the King in Orange.

UK corporations are expected to pay ~20% corporation tax, individuals pay _substantially_ more on their incomes. We've got a generation that've had to endure continual cuts to public services because "there's no money left", whilst foreign corporations make money off our public virtually tax free.

Google, Facebook etc., should pay their way or get out of our market.
by bko | 2025-04-08 13:09:41+00:00
I want to feel safe at work and feel like I'm contributing to the mission of the company. Then log off and live my life.

I don't want politics discussed at work, it's annoying and a distraction. I don't want people badmouthing their job or work or company. All of these behaviors are toxic and I would guess 80% of people are like me.

That's what "feeling safe at work" means to me. Just mission focused. Happy hour is a different story, but at least with that you can choose to go and who to chat with.