MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kaycey2022 | 2025-04-27 04:59:16+00:00
Because the economy is the only thing about us that matters. It is the only thing that distinguishes us from the animals we rule over. Everything we do is in it's service (or disservice). Everything you have is because of it, and everything that is denied to you is also because of it. We aren't just modern day slaves, but biologically enslaved to it. Nothing about this is modern. It has existed every since people decided to live together and create society. To escape slavery and become absolutely "free" you need to escape society.
by eska | 2025-04-27 04:59:18+00:00
I think the opposite. The social sciences should not try to find out how to live etc, but find factual information that each person may use to answer that question for themselves. After all there is not one objective answer to those questions. Prescribing how people should live etc is in the realm of philosophy and religion. For example buddhism is part philosophy, part religion. Stoicism is also a philosophy, not a science. But they’re equally valid.
by ozbonus | 2025-04-27 04:59:26+00:00
In the back of mind I knew it wasn't so, but I had been holding onto the belief that surely I could discern between human and bot, and that bots weren't a real issue where I spent my time anyway. But no. We're at a point where any anonymous public comment is possibly an impersonation. And eventually that "possibly" will have to replaced with "most likely".

I don't know what the solution is or if there even is one.
by ChuckMcM | 2025-04-27 04:59:54+00:00
With AMD64 style chips? Probably not. Multi-core systems really need a scheduler to get the most out of them so perhaps there are some very specific applications where that would be a win but I cannot think of anything that isn't super specific. For ARM64 chips with a small number of cores, sure that is still a very viable too for appliance type (application specific) applications.
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-04-27 05:00:22+00:00
Here is an example that just happened today. I talked to my partner about me going to a city directly (via one state) or indirectly (via another state). All I said was "so you want me to go directly to X".

Boom, Illinois tourism ad shows up the next time I hit the internet. Scary thing is I didn't even say the state name, just the destination, and SOMETHING calculated that Illinois is in the middle.

This stuff has now happened far too many times in the last 10 years of my life, it is simply implausible to call it coincidence at this point. You are being listened to by your phone.

Ad firms have no ethical boundaries, and have lied about their data collection over and over.

What is really frightening is that if the ad companies know everything about you, then multiple state actors also know everything about you.
by richardw | 2025-04-27 05:01:24+00:00
How do you know you’re not an automaton that thinks it’s conscious?

Not feel. Not think. Not have a strong vibe. Proof.

I don’t have to prove anything here, because I’m not the one making an assertion. My thought experiment demonstrates a situation where an entity thinks it’s conscious but isn’t. Humans think we’re conscious but can’t prove it.
by Der_Einzige | 2025-04-27 05:02:27+00:00
The idea that multiculturalism is incompatible with a harmonious society is empirically denied by the existence of basically utopias like Singapore. All citizens have to learn 4 languages and there is a huge amount of tourists which add to the already multicutral demographics of the country. Lowest crime in the world, best education in the world. Among the best public transit in the world, etc.

What it really is is that some minorities have shittier cultures than others, and some states have handled the integration and assimilation better than others.

Even the USA, for example, is blessed that nearly all of our illegals are Catholics (or more recently evangelical protestants...). Compare this to Europe where it's often muslims who try to bring their Burkas and sharia law with them.

The mass rise of latino voters for trump indicates a very strong effort from America's latino minorities to "act white", to "integrate", and to "assimilate".

I am fine with a multicultural society, as long as it's good culture - and yes, it is quite easy to nearly objectively quantify if a culture or cultural practice is good or not. For example, Americans except for asian americans don't wash their asses with bidets after using the toilet. This leads to swampass/BO, increased toilet paper usage/resource consumption, and far more rectal related health problems. America objectively should change it's cultural practices around bathroom usage.

Unfortunately, cultural critique against bad culture has a tendency for folks to call you "racist", so we aren't allowed to have this conversations with more specificity...
by monkeyelite | 2025-04-27 05:04:19+00:00
This is about online vs retail in a space where the online version has clear advantages for the consumer.

We don’t need to prop up an inferior (worse selection, higher price) book industry.

> Which is to say that the marketplace as a whole exists for the benefit of the public.

That’s a more generous characterization than I would use. Once again, if I’m forced to use worse goods at higher prices thats not a benefit to me.
by gls2ro | 2025-04-27 05:04:56+00:00
Just a random comment:

In general when friends and family say they like something you do, they might not like that but they say they do because they like interaction with you, or are being polite, or they want to encourage action or they dont fully understand what you do but appreciate you are including them and so on. Unless you have a candid person in this group you should be skeptic when they provide feedback about a piece of tech you are building (or an AI generated image).
by YZF | 2025-04-27 05:04:57+00:00
Maybe.

I agree there is damage to US democracy but the root causes are more complex than just Trump. I also don't think anything Trump is doing is irreversible. This too shall pass. The more interesting question is what happens next. We seem to be more and more in a situation where we have two camps who are essentially saying democracy is only happening if/when my camp wins. That can't be democracy.

Due process re: US immigration has been eroding since 9/11. Public trust in government has been eroding in the US and other places. Social media and the pandemic are at least two factors I can identify.

With all the FUD there's probably still no better place in the world to start a new business. Where would you go? China? Really no comparison at all between the US and Poland or Hungary, the latter have barely gotten out of eastern europe/USSR. I'm not seeing any H1B or green card holders seeking other/better options or for that matter, US citizens seeking to immigrate somewhere better.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/07/silicon-valley-is-so-domin...
by sothatsit | 2025-04-27 05:05:42+00:00
I tried this using a photo I took with metadata removed, and the thought process initially started thinking the photo was of Adelaide. But then, the reasoning moved on to realise that some features didn't match what it expected of Adelaide, and instead came up with the correct answer of Canberra. It then narrowed it down further to the exact Suburb the photo was taken in.

When I used GPT-4o, it got the completely wrong answer. It gave the answer of Melbourne, which is quite far off.
by throwawayqqq11 | 2025-04-27 05:06:32+00:00
Maybe your characteristics are too specific. Make it a venn diagram of people buying books and people sceptical of amazon and caring for vivid suburbs.

I would match both, and i think most people on HN do too, but how many of you go out of their way (town) to avoid amazon or any large online-only distributor, like me?
by Taniwha | 2025-04-27 05:07:09+00:00
Trade imbalances typically solve themselves because they force currency changes, if I have too many Y$ because I sell more to country Y than I buy then I can't use them easily and they become worth less, that means Y's exporters get more Y$ when they sell stuff and importers pay more - trade deficits balance out.

If you have a currency that's needed for something like buying a staple like oil from other than that country then that $$ is worth more, is artificially high, and that country will tend to always have trade deficits

It's very much a case of "you can't have your cake and eat it too" - it also means that Trump's tariffs are very much an incentive for the rest of the world to get off of the US oil $
Ask HN: Is there a decent configuration format?
by xena | 2025-04-27 05:07:46+00:00
Hey all,

I'm working on bot protection software and something I've run into is that YAML landlines can and will hit you at the worst times possible. Is there a configuration format that makes it easy to use for less technically apt people and lets you write regular expressions without having to double escape backslashes in strings? I also need it to have good support in Go, ideally with a way to get the same semantics as encoding/json.

Thanks in advance!
by TekMol | 2025-04-27 05:09:53+00:00
How would the email end up in the ad system? Isn't it just a library the app developer includes and that runs in the background? Does it interact with the user and ask for their email?

And fingerprinting? Even if the fingerprint is unique - now what? They still could only target the user while the user is using apps that are complicit in this advertising scheme, right?
by 6stringmerc | 2025-04-27 05:10:47+00:00
Markets are completely erratic at this point - everything points to frayed nerves. GDP numbers incoming. Gold a traditional safe haven but let’s be honest, people are buying “funds” of gold and driving up the price, not actually stockpiling the metal itself. Total chaos and I’m here for it. Self imposed pending collapse is breeding black swans that have yet to hatch. Source: worked at an investment bank during 2008 collapse.
Show HN: I Made a Website That Turns Sketches into Thumbnails
by dragssine | 2025-04-27 05:11:57+00:00
Hi friends,

I made Scrive, a website where you can draw your thumbnail idea on a whiteboard and have AI turn it into a polished thumbnail.

I got this idea when ChatGPT-4o's image generation came out. People were sketching thumbnails on paper and feeding them into ChatGPT to create visuals. I thought, "Why not make this process easier?"

So, I built Scrive. Just sketch your idea on the website's whiteboard, and the AI will handle the rest.

It's still early, and I'd love to hear your thoughts. Any feedback or suggestions are welcome!

Thanks for checking it out!
by frizlab | 2025-04-27 05:12:06+00:00
> Let's say i want to expose an async call to a local sqlite instance on android.

I don’t know, I don’t do android dev. I just made sure my library was running on it then moved on. I know Swift is working on having bidirectional interoperability with Java[1], so I guess when they do it’ll just work? But I did not dig more on the subject.

Regarding the size I’m not sure as I never compiled a binary that is actually useful. I make sure everything runs, but as I’m building a library this goes to building the tests then running them on WASI and that’s it.

Regarding the Swift toolchain version, using swiftly[2] is recommended nowadays if you don’t need Xcode. Using the default toolchain provided by Xcode usually brings trouble when using SDKs. Using swiftly you’ll get the same experience as on Linux basically. (This will probably change, but it is like so currently.)

[1] https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-java

[2] https://www.swift.org/install/macos/#:~:text=Swiftly
by YZF | 2025-04-27 05:14:20+00:00
There is no quick decoupling from the USD. Everyone holds long term USD instruments. Nobody wants to lose their money. The US is still the world's largest economy - by a lot.

Gold isn't that much more expensive than it was in e.g. 1980. It is pretty much just saying there's risk in other places at the moment and people are nervous. You should buy gold if your prediction is a complete collapse of economies along the lines of the great depression. I think this is extremely unlikely.

Short gold ;)

I've always wanted to get some physical gold just because it's so nice and shiny. But I'll wait for the price to go a little down. Maybe Costco selling gold bars is what's pushing up the price/demand?
by Ozzie_osman | 2025-04-27 05:14:49+00:00
Agree. The book "WEIRDest" people in the world was kind of eye-opening in arguing that the Western world (especially the US) is unique (both in time, and geographically) in being so individualistic.

And it's getting worse. Decline of the local church or equivalent religious community, decline of even the workplace especially after Covid, etc. And of course, social media giving people a way to consume time and feel some (fake) version of being connected.

My wife and I moved our kids from the US back to our country of origin last year. Partly because we wanted to be closer to family. But partly because we didn't want them growing up in a society that lacks community and social fabric.
by gopalv | 2025-04-27 05:15:22+00:00
This is a great write up about a pull-style volcano SQL engine.

The IR I've used is the Calcite implementation, this looks very concept adjacent enough that it makes sense on the first read.

> tmp2/test-branch> explain plan select count() from xy join uv on x = u;

One of the helpful things we did was to build a graphviz dot export for the explains plans, which saved us days and years of work when trying to explain an optimization problem between the physical and logical layers.

My version would end up displayed as SVG like this

https://web.archive.org/web/20190724161156/http://people.apa...

But the calcite logical plans also have that dot export modes.

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-4197
Show HN: The #1 Reason Your Product Fails – Ignoring User Feedback
by kartik_malik | 2025-04-27 05:16:21+00:00
I’ve spent months researching why solo-built products stall—and time and again it comes down to one culprit: poor feedback collection. Without an easy way to capture, organize, and act on what your users are saying, insights slip through the cracks and your roadmap veers off course.

That’s why I built Feedaura, a lightweight widget you drop into your site to:

Automatically gather feedback right where users are engaging (no more chasing down emails or scattered notes)

Analyze every comment with AI, categorizing sentiment, feature requests, and bug reports on the fly

Display it all in a simple dashboard, so you can filter, search, and prioritize in seconds

Keep your team in sync, with real-time updates as new feedback rolls in

Feedaura makes it effortless for solo developers and indie makers to stay laser-focused on what users really want—so your next release hits the mark. Try it out at https://feedaura.in and let me know how it fits into your workflow!
by baazaa | 2025-04-27 05:17:59+00:00
The article is claiming that people need to put more effort into organising social events with tips on how to do it. And the tips around escalating discloure etc. are very much like workplace ice-breakers... utterly awful experiences that everyone hates.

Unless you first diagnose why people dislike socialising nowadays you're unlikely to fix the problem. Enjoining people to 'invest' in relationships is entirely missing the point, people used to hang out with their friends because they enjoyed it not because they thought it was an investment.
by tomhow | 2025-04-27 05:18:25+00:00
Other than routine moderation comments, my comments have all been focused on correcting falsehoods or misconceptions about HN moderation, including claims or insinuations about YC management’s explicit or implicit influence on HN moderation.

Can you point to a comment of mine where that's not the case? I'll happily have it pointed out so I can avoid it in future.
by IAmGraydon | 2025-04-27 05:19:08+00:00
If you're thinking about buying gold, I would advise you to exercise caution. There have been a number of high profile articles like this one in the last week or so, and several of them came from people who stand to profit from you buying gold. As an example, this is one from Peter Schiff that came out Friday:

https://investorsobserver.com/news/3500-gold-means-life-in-a...

It turns out Peter Schiff owns SchiffGold, a large gold dealer. This guy is saying we all need to own gold due to economic turmoil, and then turns around and sells it by the ton.

Also, it's worth taking a look at the Gold/USD since 1970 on a log chart. The rate of increase we're seeing right now is not at all unusual, and it has gone through periods of much faster growth. From 1970-1980, it increased 3000% in only 10 years.

It's also worth noting that gold fell sharply in the days following the tariff announcements (6.66%, oddly enough) and then took off. The immediate reaction to economic news is typically smart money because they can estimate the longer term impact faster and price it in. The delayed reaction usually comes from dumb money.

Something just feels very off about this to me.
by ArtTimeInvestor | 2025-04-27 05:19:19+00:00
Gold is cumbersome to handle and prone to inflation as more and more is mined. Just one example that recently caught my attention: Germany is currently discussing how to get back the part of their Gold reserves they have stored inside the USA. It is a pretty hard task. And afterwards it would be hard to use that Gold as a means of exchange, as it would have to be physically shipped around the world.

Bitcoin seems to solve all the problems the Dollar and Gold have as a reserve currency. It is independent of trade deficits, can be stored and transferred easily. Cannot be printed away.

What alternative future is there to Bitcoin becoming the new reserve currency?
by kortilla | 2025-04-27 05:19:25+00:00
But why is that better? If you talk to people in towns like this it turns out the locals buy everything they can online and then are generally mad about overpaying to buy from the local small shops. So they travel an hour every couple of months or so to restock everything non-perishable and freezer friendly so they don’t have to get ripped off.

This isn’t “smaller towns beating big corporations with the local government”. It’s “business owners in a small town stop competition using local government lobbying”.
by int_19h | 2025-04-27 05:20:10+00:00
You posit a false dichotomy here. The law isn't just about what is prohibited, but also about what the consequences are, and how it is enforced. One doesn't need to believe that e.g. stealing should be legal to oppose on moral grounds a law that says thieves get the death penalty.

Let me ask you directly: do you believe that people who smuggled away slaves into freedom, back when US had legalized slavery on large parts of its territory, were in the wrong and didn't "help move society in a more productive direction"?
by sterlind | 2025-04-27 05:20:11+00:00
corporate news rarely lies outright. libel is illegal. articles will spin and speculate, emphasize and elide, omit and opine, but that's not lying, it's spin, and a careful reading can extract the facts of the matter.

yes, you have to cite reliable sources on Wikipedia. yes, this means AP is considered more reliable than someone's Substack. you can, however, cite NPR or PBS, the BBC or the Guardian. if two reliable sources differ, you cite both and describe the conflict.

how do you know that "corporate" news lies all the time about everything? who told you that? why do you trust them? why should I trust them?
by YZF | 2025-04-27 05:20:12+00:00
Seems like the market is thinking this is man made so can be man fixed. Not the same systemic issues as we had with debt during 2008. Many businesses seems to be pretty healthy. AI still has ways to run in its bubble cycle- still huge investments into this space.

Really hard to predict. Confidence has eroded but emotions can switch very quickly to fear of missing the next rally.

Maybe a more fundamental question is what multiples are the new normal and where are interest rates going.
by morepedantic | 2025-04-27 05:20:12+00:00
>No, it makes it so that the outcome is more equally felt across all income levels.

Because you want to... hard stop behavior. Parking violations cause harm, so the fine should be a function of damage to society, not some weird fetish to make people feel pain.

If behavior is so unacceptable that you want to prevent it altogether, criminalize it.
by lordofgibbons | 2025-04-27 05:25:33+00:00
1) > Cannot be printed away.

Why would any government want this a feature? As far as sovereigns are concerned, this is a bug, not a feature. You and I might or might not agree with it, but no sovereign government would give away its ability to print money.

2) Bitcoin has a public and transparent ledger. Why would any government want the whole world to see their reserve amounts and movements in real time?
by Braxton1980 | 2025-04-27 05:25:40+00:00
>I am not sure what Trump has to do with this particular conversation though.

Your original comment was about the change in tone, I'm giving what I think is the main reason. He spews hateful rhetoric and insults people constantly. Tens of millions voted for him to represent them in the highest position in the world.

>. It used to be more purposeful, useful and meaningful for me

I think the articles where you'll find the highest percentage of comments you'd dislike are obvious. Just don't click on them.

>The purpose is the help understand current state of play.

This is improved if the information is accurate right? Calling out those that might be lying helps.
by esjeon | 2025-04-27 05:27:24+00:00
> Run any location experiments outside of California if you want to get an idea of how good your software performs outside of the tech bubble.

I really agree with this because I'm seeing much lower accuracy than what people claim here. I live in Korea, and GPT repeatedly falls back to Seoul almost automatically, and, when I nudge it, jumps to Busan, the second-largest city ~400KM away from Seoul. It's not working so great with other smaller cities and cultural heritages. It fat-fingers a lot if no textual information is present in the photo itself.

GPT also doesn't understand actual geography at all. I managed to get it to nail down which corner of a building is present in the photo, and yet it could never conclude that the photo was taken from a park right across from that corner. Instead, it keeps hopping around popular landmarks in the region, basically miles away from the building it correctly identified. Oh, why, why, why...

Basically it's overhyped rn. It does perform impressively well with clearly visible elements - something anyone can already do with google. It's not like it performs super-human level location tracking. I mean, people can do real crazy things based on shadow details, reflection, items, etc.
by mlhpdx | 2025-04-27 05:27:55+00:00
I’m trying to imaging learning a skill and not being glad about it. So, all of them?

Most recently I’m learning fiberglass repair and gel coat (including color matching, which is really difficult for me). Before that, I built a wooden boat. Before that, sailing (which I’m still learning and intend to master at some point).

Fundamentally, learning not to be afraid to try something and learning the patience to be slow and make mistakes.